Kirean

Depends solely on what you plan/want to do. If you're into illustration, I'd recommend Rusty Nib and/or some of the other brush packs depending on your style. Speaking of which. Fun fact: if you buy Rusty Nib via Serif, you get a lot less restrictive licence for it than if you were to buy it directly from True Grit Texture Supply (same with Retro Supply's stuff).

Might be worth hitting up customer support. So I've been going through Adobe related stuff and turns out Adobe have, in all secrecy and without any notification, ended pretty much all support for legacy software (CS5/6). They did that for things up until CS4 before, but now customer support (if you can even get a hold of a human anymore) won't be able to reset or deactivate activated licences (that are stuck behind a hardware failure for example.) This change happened already in 2023 apparently.. Supposedly manually deactivating still works, meaning the infrastructure is still there, but I haven't found any confirmation or information whether or not reactivating works anymore. Both CS5 and CS6 are still very valid & working programs on Windows at least (Apple probably broke them with OS updates ages ago.) Can't confirm really anything, other than that people are being SOL since their hardware went kaput. When they shut down the older licencing servers, CS3 received a version that didn't need an activation at all but that doesn't seem to be the case with CS5/6. The CS3 EOL version wasn't really advertised at all and the time to apply for it was really, really short. What a turd of a company.

Just learned about that few minutes ago too. Amazing stuff. Edit: I haven't But yeah. I'm perfectly fine with that situation, especially now with Adobe's BS. Adobe needs competition and people need alternatives to their software.

Not audio stuff but might interest a few folks anyway. Flash sale Includes v2 full package and upgrade from v1 to v2 at historical low prices. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/affinity-pricing/ Now I feel stupid for "wasting" 30 bucks few months back in their previous sale ?

Yeah. Absolutely no reason to buy the new stuff individually if it's gonna get added to an upgrade later. That last year's glitch sale seemed like it was aimed for people who have already bought a ticket into their ecosystem. Wish they'd repeat things like that.

Doesn't seem to work with anything fun (partners, hardware). 200 buckaroonies saved.

I'm slightly intrigued by the bundle. Too bad I think I decided to try and cut back on buying things that have their own online activation procedures set up, simply because keeping track of them is a pain in the butt. I always feel a bit wary about the longevity of smaller operators keeping those systems online (sure the price point mitigates the risk of losses a bit, but still).

Decent deal if you buy 4. Includes some of the things they released recently.

This is on their site: See what happens if you log in and put it in the basket. Check if you get a discount during checkout (before paying). Edit: just like BTP said above. Edit2: newsletter10 gives an extra 10% off on top, but not sure if it works if you've already bought from them at some point or used it before.

You can crossgrade via Lunacy's site. At least that's what an email from them advertised last week. There's also a 10% off voucher for newsletter subs that works with it to take it down to about 43 bucks.

Thoughts and prayers.

Hot dang. Which one of them? Is there a clip on Youtube?

Good for Ableton. Then again, I do wonder if it has also to do with the fact that Live 12 doesn't work on all older systems, so quite a few people might be stuck on 11.

I think that's the thing that keeps me on my toes. It's easier to stomach paying for major version updates (ie. 6.0 to 7.0) rather than pay for 12 months of updates during which you might see some substantial changes/additions or you might not.

I've got the normal Blackhole. Is there any reason to even consider the Immersive versions if I won't be doing surround stuff anytime soon? Considering Micropitch (since I don't have that one yet in any form). Edit: Answering to myself. Apparently they were completely redone from ground up and at least on Gearspace people have found sound differences between the original plugins and the new ones.

I like the products I have from them but yeah, this is exactly why I basically ignore them.

I want my wife to look at me like Fleer watches reverbs.

Wonder if Dreamsynth and Quadra are worth 18 euros. Based on price alone, probably (as musicsoftwaredeals has their lowest at $24-26/each) But as synths?

Damned. They're playing with my emotions as I can't find any. Wonder if there's a prerequisite...

Has there been a new voucher after the one that ended in April?

Available wherever magazines are available at.

I don't mind iLok at all. In fact, kinda wish Virharmonic used it like Eastwest does. (In fact, didn't Virharmonic use it before?) Codemeter just seems like something one might see an energy plant use for their obscure public bathroom waste disposal control software, so that Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller could hack into it and reverse the process. My problem lies in that for the end user Codemeter takes an extra effort to teach its place and contain its shenanigans (and how managing a licence through it seems like a chore if not even impossible). Plus having the software start up webservers on your computer is kinda uh, not cool.

I'm not against installers per se. But installers have been around for a looong time and they never, ever, should need a degree in nuclear physics to figure out what the internal logic is just to install the product that one just bought. Like, whatever happened to this simple stuff: Guess I should check it out myself before ranting too much though...