Pat Osterday

Correct. Only the freebies are machine auth - except Polymax for some reason. Oxide, Century Tube, Galaxy Tape, LA-2A Tube, Pultec collection, Pure Plate, Verve Essentials - all machine auth. PolyMAX still cloud - probably because it was the first freebie. I'm sort of with you on the no cloud auth. Only thing I use currently that's cloud is Slate's Fresh Air. I'd do a physical iLok except that'd be a pain with my laptop. I'd probably snag the UAD Studio Classics Bundle if I could do machine auth - still pondering it though as I liked those when I had the Spark sub.

Odd that it didn't work for you. I didn't have any problems, but my cloud auth is on my paused Spark sub and I had uninstalled all the UAD plugins and added back the freebies with machine auth. Good luck with PB!

No email. Shows up in UA Connect to redeem. Might need to uninstall Pure Plate first?

Hmm... that sucks. So it doesn't show two licenses in iLok manager after claiming it?

You should be able to do that. I did that with the Pultec. Had the cloud auth license, but then got the Pultec freebie and that license was machine auth.

Yeah, I know they've done $29 in the past. Inflation? I held off on 4 and 5, but this is probably enough to jump on 6. Black Friday 2025 is so far off... 🤣

It'll be a while before FX6 since 5 just came out and the J37 is the only new one since then.

Fuse has done the $15 deal for the past few Black Friday sales.

Copied from the MPS thread... If you upgraded, you got a great deal. That's the nature of the beast. We're suckers for this stuff! Bummer that only Neutron 5 was added though. Thought Trash might be thrown in. Probably will do a 7.5 when the delay is released and squeeze some more cash out of us. 🤪 I'll see if they do a deal like that last one and maybe I'll bite on the MPS upgrade then - or not. Same thing happened with IK recently. And Arturia. And NI... just have to gauge the sales cycles and get in when you can or if you want.

Not crooked. If you upgraded, you got a great deal. That's the nature of the beast. We're suckers for this stuff! Bummer that only Neutron 5 was added though. Thought Trash might be thrown in. Probably will do a 7.5 when the delay is released and squeeze some more cash out of us. 🤪 I'll see if they do a deal like that last one and maybe I'll bite - or not.

I'm wondering if I should hold out for MPS 7 when it's around the same price. Figure they'll add the "Catalyst" series - Aurora, Plasma and the coming delay plugin - along with Neutron 5 which is in the works too. MPS4 is still working for me on Sonoma and not upgrading to Sequoia anytime soon.

As much as a really like the multi-arp stuff in this one, I'll just wait until next year's Black Friday sale on VC11. Already planning to upgrade to VC10 this BF. 🤣

Must have been. For $5 I might pick it up. But $70 - not a chance.

I don't see it for $5 at PB. Was this a time limited thing? Also, anyone using it, let me know how it works out. Years ago I bought into the original's pre-release that Rigid cancelled. At least I got a bunch of the instruments as a refund, although I still haven't used them. 🤦‍♂️

Total Studio 4 includes the products released at the time it came out. Many companies do the same. If you'd feel cheated, don't buy it. Wait for Total Studio 5 whenever that comes out - but then you'd have to wait for it to be heavily discounted. But if you bought TS4 MAX for $200 and felt cheated, I'm not sure what you'd be expecting. I spent $200 or so back during the group buy anniversary sale a few years ago and scored a lot of plugins, but then a month later they did the TS4 MAX deal for $200 - I did feel cheated. 🤣 That's the way the deals roll... always something better around the corner if you want to wait. TS4 MAX for $200 then the T-RackS 6 upgrade for $100 is a great deal if you need all of it. A lot of people felt cheated too when they bought T-RackS 5 MAX for $50 last month and didn't get a free upgrade to 6. But that's how it goes.

Sort of answered it in there already - it comes with T-Racks 5 Max. 6 would be separate and in TS 5 Max whenever that comes out.

Yes. Any paid version of T-RackS 6 will get you the T-RackS 6 version of the plugins you have.

I appreciate what you are trying to do, but Larry's posts seemed more targeted and focused not pages blasting everything that PB has to offer as a "deal".

Not certain, but looks like an affiliate link to me. Pretty sure that's against the rules of the forum. I agree - posting every single sale at PB is getting out of hand.

The new stuff doesn't show up in the Custom Shop. I have 15 left - only option at this point is one of the two AT5 mics I don't have for 10!

I was a bit grumpy this morning - guess I was expecting more. T-RackS 5 works fine and I'll keep using the few I still reach for in the bundle. I admit the new modules look cool, but none of them wow me. Have too many plugins that do the same thing. Still find it odd that "T-RackS 6 INTRO cannot load modules from past versions of T-RackS" although several of mine show up. So it can, but IK doesn't want you to.

Ok, I'll correct my previous post - a FEW of the ones I own are showing as owned. Maybe takes time to sync?

I just installed the Intro version and to my surprise NONE of my plugins I own are authorized. Looks like IK really is doing a number on loyal customers. I hope I'm just doing something wrong. I own most of T-RackS plugins - or I guess T-RackS 5 plugins. I hope this is an oversight otherwise I might be done with IK.

Suit yourself. I just read the forum. All seems pretty clear and Melda are working on an update for the manager. Surprised people have so much time to worry about these things, but to each their own! Melda seems to be one of the least nefarious developers out there. Anyway, even if someone wants to use the v16 plugins without the manager, the deal is still on for 10 hours.

As mentioned, I'm with the others on the 99.99999999999999% false positive. Melda is a responsible developer and if anything happened like a hack that put a virus into the installer, they'd have sent out a message. (Melda is a pretty small target for a hacker too.) You could just email them and mention it - probably would save you a lot of time!