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Both not my cup of tea! But YMMV. I see they still have some supporter. But not me! I detest their new site and don't like their price jumble (EU taxes: you never know if the price includes your correct VAT or not, except in the payment step).

Once they had really good freebies!

Some very good deals! But the new website is terrible. One of many sites that's got worse. I wonder why so many sites declined in the last years? (E.g: We had a really wonderful map service in Scandinavia, now it's even worse than Google map! It's a pity!)

IMHO this is the best PA deal since a long time! Regrettably I already own all of the 4 plugins! 😢 I bought 2 of them not so long ago with monthly vouchers for much more, sigh!

+1 Also, their site gets more confusing bit by bit.

It's because they want you to buy a Mac (surely they get some profit from that)! 😆 No, joke aside! Read the comments above and you will manage! I had the same problems as @Pragi above (both cases), though I could work it out myself after some tries.

This is true for me if there are only install managers, because each time I open the IM, first, it has to update itself, then I have to search the thing to install, then most of them install very slowly, then they install to locations other than I use or they install things that I don't want, i.e. I have to do changes manually, then I have to do the whole thing on my 2 other pcs, too, what a pain!

I just noticed that SSL supports now only installation with their IM (they're not the only company doing this). That's quite crazy for an iLok company IMHO! This 10-doubles the system resources (and time) required to install one single plugin. Why do the young generation university people always make our life so troublesome and elaborately? That's why I had to assemble my own zip files for installation on my offline system! Mad!

IMHO it is strange with both iZotope and NI Komplete upgrades: If you own the last or 2nd last version often you pay the same update price as someone else that has a very old version of the product! For me Komplete 14 (I have 13) had only 3 new products that I was interested in, so in the end I decided to upgrade Kontakt 7 alone. Maybe when there is Komplete 18 it will be interesting to upgrade again! 😆

Frankly, this kind of customer milking is sad. It's the same with NI (Komplete) and others. I would accept a reasonable update price from a last version. But if I look at the poor improvements and the price, I think these are ridiculous upgrades. Usually no one is interested in all the additions and for 1 or 2 small additions that you really use the price is not justified.

Yes, I have used it. IMHO it works without issue (although it's another method as usual) and it's faster than e.g. Melda's input method.

For me the possibility to enter values immediately is worth the update alone. 😉 But it's minimum the 4th method to enter values (double click on labels, double click values, left-click values and right click values). It is a real challenge to know for each plugin how to do it, a standard would be a great thing!

I think EW have very special, interesting products. That's why I have purchased another product. But what a mess with their installation/activation! With iLok it should be very easy and without trouble. Yesterday it took me almost one day to get it installed. Still it doesn't work in all my daws. Today I will try Play instead of Opus. I hope that helps! EDIT: Cool, the last version of Play works without issue! It proves that updates and new versions don't always make compatibility better (as plugin developers claim and some people believe).

What a positive surprise! I was already thinking that there are no more updates to the older PA plugins (most are dated to the end of 2023 and this was Apple/Mac stuff).

Frankly, I don't like their installation and authorization theme. It made me a lot of headache to put their stuff on my usually offline pc's. Also their intransparent installation without a target path for the sound blobs is ridiculous (you have to move them afterwards) and their installation app ... ! All in all such stuff keeps me from making music and converts me into a plugin plumber as it takes so much time and resources. Hence I guess I pass on this sale, even if it is tempting!