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Fellas, their BlackFriday deals are so great! I really like that for bundle prices they consider what you already own! First I thought it was a glitch, when I had seen the current price for the MMixingFXBundle for me! Well, it was impossible to resist! 😆

Do you still have an alternative for those 2? Frankly, the Melda install has several issues for me (though some of them concern the install not the installer): It is not transparent (a typical Melda problem also in the plugins) what happens if you update only some of your licensed plugins. The offline installation is horrible. There is no way to have different plugin versions in parallel. E.g. it was a horror installing the new MTrackAlign (beta), because I first had to update all other plugins to the newest version. Their kind of plugin folder substructure cannot be costomized (I have already a similar structure in the VST3 folder and don't want to have Melda's in addition. So it is a laborious move task => I made a script).

Frankly, for me it is exactly the contrary! The installer programs ... give me a lot of additional work to remove all quirks (aax, icons, menu entries, ...) and to move some files to other places, because I don't want to have another location for each vendor (just look at the mess on the VST3 directory, the plugin developers have quite a lot of fantasy!) or because I don't want to have huge sample directories in my drive. and each time I open such a crazy installer program it has to update itself (takes additional time) I don't like to install out into the blue, i.e. I want to know whether an update is necessary for me before I execute it (because I want to have my 3 systems synchron and it takes time to run installers on all of them. Also, if you update a bunch of plugins, you risk compatibility issues. ) They are usually not or only with additional effort runnable on offline systems Each installer has it's own workflow and configuration, often not very comprehensible Most of the time only 1 or 2 plugins of a vendor have changed, thus the installation manager is a big overhead For users that have only 1 or a few plugins of a vendor it is certainly an overhead If you have more than 1 system, then most installer managers require internet downloads again and again. and so on ... YMMV, because if you don't care what they do on your system and you leave everything as they have decided, then you maybe right.

Do you refer to the channel strip of TBProAudio or the TB_Equalizer Pro of Toneboosters?

Frankly, I admire people that hear such minor differences! My hearing is so bad these days. On the other hand it depends what you are mixing. The songs that I mix have a lot of masking issues. When they are resolved, then I think nobody could hear any differences concerning the used EQs. But maybe I'm wrong?

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.