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    What's on your BLACK FRIDAY Wish List? (Not a Deal)

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    ? How Many Plugins Do You Presently Have Installed on Your Computer?

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    On 10/28/2022 at 5:03 PM, PavlovsCat said:

    My expectation is that -- unless a person is truly a plugin hoarder -- that they may purchase several plugins that serve the same function, but after trying each one, they eventually settle on one or two that provide them with what they feel is the best combination of results and workflow. 

    I have a few plugins that I tend to use for my "baseline", typically all the self-adjusting or "AI" plugins (Sonible, Neutron, Ozone, etc) and I use them quite frequently, then there's always something specific that I want to achieve for specific tracks and a gazillion plugins that I try until I find a result that I like (e.g., let me try bassmint on this track... mmm, no, let me see if I find in CLA Bass the sound I'm looking for)

    The plugin inventory tool lists 5515 plugins (linked in my signature) but many are duplicate plugin format. 2323 are 64bit VST2, which still include duplicates (multichannel/mono versions, 2out 4out 8out versions, etc). Many are freebies, many are from bundles. I do acknowledge the "collector mania"  but the raw number looks much worse than it actually is

    XILS Labs Sale!

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    If you want several Xils Labs instruments, the "buy more save more" discount at dontcrack.com can provide interesting deals, for a final price even lower than everyplugin

    • Buy a second product and get 5% extra discount off from both products
    • Buy a third product and get 10% extra discount off all 3 products
    • Buy a fourth product and get 15% extra discount off all 4 products
    • Buy five products or more and get 20% extra discount off  all products

    E.g., Xils String machines + Xils vocoders + Xils KaoX + Xils Poly KB III + Audiomodern Forms ends up at $208.79

    There are other low-priced items that can help lower your cart, e.g. Blue Cat Hot Tuna

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    XILS Labs Sale!

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    Back to the Dontcrack.com newsletter - Sounds like they (plugivery) could be on a path to absorb Xils Labs products, taking over distribution and collaborating on maintenance and development of new products

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    Today we are very excited to announce that our parent company Plugivery Distribution took over global distribution of XILS-Lab - developers of Professional Virtual Synthesizers.

    XILS-Lab and Plugivery will from now on share resources for the XILS product line to be kept right up to date and to bring exciting new products to the market. Already the pricing has been revamped, the product descriptions rewritten, the visuals updated, etc.
     

     

    Izotope Announcement that Multiple products will be discontinued

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    2 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

    It seems to me they are ditching a majority of their creative plugins and focus more on mixing, mastering and AI stuff. Their partners at Soundwide (Plugin Alliance and Native Instruments) seem to be filling in that gap nicely

    If it were a reorg within Soundwide, these plugins would have been moved to PA and/or NI. It doesn't sound like either would be reluctant to add more reverbs, more synths, etc to their lineups

    The End of My YouTube Channel

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    10 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

    Noooo... no funky business like that.  I'm not going to risk another channel

    That's not what I was suggesting.

    It should be possible to

    1) Create a new email (and configure it to forward everything received there to your main email account, so that you don't end up having to read mail from multiple places)

    2) Create a new personal adsense account using the new email address

    3) move over your existing channel to this personal adsense account https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7367146?hl=en

    Anyway, I'm not trying to convince you to stay on YouTube. Personally I've had my disappointments with putting my creations on YouTube (for a different reason, their random application of US-centric cultural standards and disregard for other countries' culture, regarding bullfighting in particular). If this is the end of your YT account but the beginning of your Rumble and/or Odysee accounts, I'll be happy to subscribe to the new ones.

    Izotope Announcement that Multiple products will be discontinued

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    6 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

    We've recently seen a good deal of plugin developers engage in deep discounting

    My theory is that we are just seeing a recession unfolding. There is a serious inflation problem and prices are going up, but people are also becoming more selective in their purchases and figuring out what items are non-essential. Some companies are finding that they don't really have pricing power because people are choosing to buy nothing and, instead of being able to raise prices and follow the pace of inflation, they have to offer discounts as the revenue streams dry up. When it's clear that the revenue from discounted products cannot sustain the business, they go into more drastic cost-cutting, reducing personnel and eliminating less profitable product lines.

    When we see "unusually good discounts" let's enjoy them as they come, but we shouldn't be surprised if the recession wipes out a few products and possibly even whole companies when they don't have a sufficiently good combination of both good products that people still need and a robust business model that allows them to weather the storm.

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    Steinberg Nuendo

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    Upgrades from cubase are not discounted but I have seen people at kvr reselling their cubase for "upgrading" at a pretty decent price (which could be a good chance too for those looking for cubase instead)

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