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I have this and use it a lot. its an acquired taste thing.

Trap bundle too. https://www.ujam.com/bundle/trap-bundle/ FWIW.. I starting tinkering with the Circuits thing I got from them for free. its really cool.

the discontinuation of syntronik 2 was very odd as it wasn't that old of a product. released in 2022 i think. the discontinuation of mixbox was odd as it seems they were positioning it as one of their most well regarded and well reviewed products. it makes me think there were bugs in them that IKM didn't want to invest more into fixing them or updating to newer versions of the products. makes me wonder whether SampleTank and/or Modo Bass and Modo Drum will be next. IKM are a very big and very smart company and understand this business well. it all makes me think they may be slowly positioning themselves out of the software market and moving into just hardware. the truth is, software is a very over crowded market.

and a bunch of others at $19

thanks what is confusing me.

I am very confused by IK product now. Is there going to be a group buy this summer? If so, what is there left to buy as they seem to have killed off many products. I wonder if they are becoming just a hardware company?

damn. that would have been a good one. rotary is the only thing i want from them.

same. PM me if anyone wants mine. I wont be using it as I don't make metal.

good deal. now much disk space would all this require?

I just tired it briefly, still on the old one as my main DAW. So far I haven't seen much new but scanning and verifying plugins works much faster.

Not really. I was on the producer version for longest time. Recently upgraded to all plugins version. Most of it is you get more of their plugins which are optimized for their DAW.

i am a FL super user. Trying it out now.

No. I have never tried capturing anything in ToneX. I just use it to play guitar. I think there are quite a few recordings out there of what amps in a room sound. The Donny Hathaway is a great example of a amped guitar in a room. Cornell Dupree just plugged into an amp with a cable. No effects or anything IIRC. Anyways, my thought on ToneX are if's cool, but it's a PITA to use sometimes. My point is, so far, my only exposure to captures has been ToneX, and I don't think it's that much of a night and day difference to sims. Obviously the huge difference in output volume between captures. But also, the captures I use it for, which are mostly cleans and low to mild crunch and gain, they still sound like a sims. And then also when using it within AT5, tends to make it sound more like AT5 (duh!) which I always thought has its own particular flavor of amp sim digital. As you add more AT5 rack effects, if sounds more so. I can't quite explain it, but it just sounds like the IKM AT5 sound engine and it sounds totally different to other amp sim products. To my ears, S-gear sounds really different.

I have a number of amp sims. Amplitube, AmpRoom, Stark, and others. S-gear is very different. It's best to try demo if you are interested. I am not sim developer so i am not sure why they are different. my guess is, there might be different ways to emulate guitar amps and circuits. FWIW.. I also use ToneX and that's also different. I don't know if I would call it sounding like the real thing. The challenge with the real thing is that what does that really mean? Hearing an amp in a room or stage is very different sound than mic'ing an amp and recording that sound into a DAW. From my experience with experimenting, a sim gives me better result than my trying to record an amp using a mic in my home studio.

s-gear sounds and feels very different from tonex to me. not comparable.

i think so. (i may be wrong).

this was a steal. grabbed 'er while she was hawt

It looks like 60+ gb of space needed. They used to sell this in a box, right? now you would have to download it all. Yikes.

yup. thats what it seems like to me. hopefully no credit card info is stored on their old system.

how good is this? anyone use it on a modern M4 Mac?

its starting to look like it

49 for me.

heartbeat is buggy as hell. the rest are good.

No issues. just checking as I am sometimes worried about IK updates as they break things sometimes. What is a Cal script?