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I think it's okay. A bit like Captain Plugins with the difference that you have all tracks inside one plugin rather than having to jump between Captain Chords, Captain Melody and Captain Deep. But with Captain Plugins I got better results, have more control and it can generate its own sound, with some presets using the Phase Plant engine. Plus Captain Plugins also comes with Captain Beat which is an awesome beat machine. My biggest issue with Instacomposer is that it requires a DAW that supports multi-MIDI-channel output. Ableton Live doesn't, so as an Ableton Live user I have to use a hack to route each track from Instacomposer to an individual Ableton Live MIDI track. I hoped that they'd find a workaround for that in version 2, like they did with Loop Engine, but unfortunately it doesn't seem so.

W.A. Production have released version 2 of Instacomposer. For the next 28 days (and 5 hours) you can get it for € 30,14 instead of € 100,46. Or for the upgrade price of € 9,22 if you already own Instacomposer 1. https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/instacomposer-2

That's right. They should make it more obvious that this is a monthly fee. The normal way to indicate this would be to display the price like $12.99/mo

Oh yes, I hate it when shops do that. Same on Function Loops. Why? Just why do people do that?!

Why awkward?

4.68GB even! ? I'm starting to think that Soundpaint/8Dio are just a side-business of Western Digital to sell external hard drives.

You can still get it cheaper on KnobCloud though. I got it for 38€.

I don't even know what Guitar Center is. A little google search tells me it might be guitarcenter.com which just seems to be yet another plugin shop. What about it?

Is someone abusing the system again? ?

Nice. Now I need a strategy how to get hundreds of people to use my code. ?

I'm not very familiar with Melda. Can a referral code be used more than once?

@Andrew Aversa thank you very much for taking the time to shed some light on the financial intricacies of running an audio software business. That was very insightful. I appreciate that you don't inflate your prices to make sales look more attractive, unlike many of your competitors. Your price policy sounds reasonable. You're on my good guys list.

I'm sorry to hear that you're having a hard time with your company. Once again I'm stunned to find out that one of the companies that I consider to be a big player in the music industry turns out to be a small business. In defense of this community I must say that giving people a generic 80% discount for all newsletter-unsubscribers was a desaster waiting to happen. One can't expect such a thing to remain a secret for very long. If it hadn't happened here, it would have happened elsewhere sooner or later. But I did in fact keep myself from posting it on mydealz.de as I imagined that it could be harmful to your business. Hopefully, on the bright side, you might have gotten some money from people who would normally never have spent money on your shop, like me (I don't earn money with music, I just do it for fun and my budget is quite limited). I wish you all the best. May the shock settle quickly, the financial damage not be too bad and your remaining vacation nice and enjoyable.

That's actually how I imagine Apple's target audience too ?

Plugin Alliance prices go up and down like the old Windows "remaining time" estimation. Windows: "Copying 50,363 files. Remaining time: 5 hours. No, 30 seconds. No, 10 minutes. No, wait, 10 years. Done.". Plugin Alliance: "AMEK EQ 200. Price: $399. No, $49. No, $29.99. No, $199. Here, you can have it for free". Sooner or later you can probably get every plugin from them for 29 or less. Imagine being one of those poor souls who've paid the full price for any of their plugins I wonder if that ever happens.

Damn, maybe I should have waited. I just found out that they had a summer sale with up to 50% off last year that seems to have started on the 23rd of June ?. That'd be tomorrow, if they do that again this year. If they allow to apply the 80% coupon on top of those discounts, that'd be insanely cheap.

So it is possible to combine the unsubscribe-coupon with other coupons then? ?

Good to know. I've had an eye on SH-101 ever since I saw a video by Timecop1983 where he uses it. Now I have one less synth on my wishlist.

That's one hell of a good tip/deal. Just when I decided not to buy any more plugins, but I couldn't resist. I never thought I'd be able to get Shreddage 3 Hydra for that little money. Thank you very much for posting this.

A $10 off code won't help reduce the price further, since this coupon can't be used with other coupons:

We'll see. If I do, I'm sure Google mail will quickly learn to classify them as spam after I've reported a few of them as such.

Or with Lifeline Expanse Lite or with RC-20 or with Vybz or with Lo-Fi-Af. I have all these. But none of them have a meditating monk! ? I already unsubscribed from their newsletter right after getting this, so I don't think they can do much with my email address.

I don't see the connection between that statement and Syntronik losing my favorites. Besides, you can actually tweak quite much! You can layer multiple oscillators, switch between dozens of different oscillators, you have envelopes, a modulation matrix. A preset isn't restricted to play a certain sample. And many of the samples are in fact being used by multiple presets. But I feel like we're hijacking the MixBox thread. By the way, the effects section of Syntronik is very similar to MixBox, many of the effects are actually taken from MixBox (and T-RackS).

The presets do work. And why wouldn't they work anywhere? I can tell it the path, which doesn't just contain the samples but also lots of additional information. Syntronik must have its own database for all presets, it knows which patch has which attributes (like, is it a pluck, synth, brass, ..., is it a Syntronik 1 or 2 patch, which effects does it use, what are the settings for those effects), it remembered all that. Just not my favorites. Just tested with a cheap rompler like New Nation's Tetrad Guitars: That does remember my favorites if I move and relocate the samples to a different drive.

You're the chosen one. Tell us your secrets. Just recently I had another "aha" moment. I decided to move all Syntronik files to a different drive. I then also changed the path in the plugin settings, everything was back in place and worked. BUT: All my favorites were no longer marked as such! And I've spent ages listening to them all and deciding which ones I want to mark. Luckily I had saved a clip in Ableton Live for every favorite, because each preset really only sounds great with the right notes/chords/melodies (yes, I know, sounds like a waste of time - my form of procrastinating, I guess). It took me quite a while to re-mark them as favorites.