Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann

77% off across most of the soundpool catalog (only newly released soundpools are excluded)

https://producerplanet.com/us/audio/loops-samples-250/?salesOnly=true&sort=priority&label[]=magix

What makes this a pretty nice deal is that if you launch Magix Music Maker, in the scrolling ads at the top of the "shop" page there is a link to a survey about your use of MMM, and at the end of the survey you will get 2 vouchers for up to $10

Combined with the current sale it means that you can end up getting for free 2 "large" soundpools (or 2-part soundpool collections) with unrestricted commercial licensing. Note that you will need to change the license option when buying (don't leave it at the default non-commercial). Note that producerplanet vouchers can only be applied to the purchase of a single product, and any remaining value is lost. The vouchers are valid until 13/08/2023.

8 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said:

 Still not sure it is worth it, even at that price.

The Wedge Force products are a peculiar beast. I did see a pretty good demo at an AES convention a few years ago and that's why I became interested. Their idea is to create an instrument that is played on the keyboard (or notes entered in a MIDI editor) and sounds exactly like the unprocessed signal you'd get from a guitar on an audio interface with direct input (DI signal).

Any guitar player will tell you that the unprocessed DI signal doesn't sound great, that you will want pedals and processors (outboard or ITB vst/aax) and the same is true of the Wedge Force instruments. It is intended for a rather niche audience that wants to enjoy the tweaking of guitar pedals and processors as if they had a physical guitar. If you're just looking for an instrument to generate realistic guitar sounds using a keyboard - could you get the guitar sound that you want by using as a starting point a signal that is already processed and not DI? Most likely yes.

And, the intro price is $79.99 with code HYDRO-INTRO-7999

It's out...

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/wedge_force_hydro.html

Custom electric with a 7th string (low B)

$99

If anybody is looking for a $75 voucher, let me know...

On 7/24/2023 at 3:32 PM, Technostica said:

Yes. Buy from Melda and get 70% of the price you paid.
Buy third party and get 35% of the full price.

Right, for discounts over 50% it is preferable NOT buying from Melda. E.g., in this case

Buy from Melda, pay $27, get $18.90 discount for the bundle ($27 x 70%)

or

Buy from Audiodeluxe, pay $19, get $46 discount for the bundle ($132 x 35%)

Notes

(a) the price has gone up at Melda since the OP, but not at Audiodeluxe

(b) even if it hadn't it would still be a better deal buying from Audiodeluxe

3 hours ago, Fleer said:

Any users?

I like Sonic Maximizer as an alternative harmonic enhancer for some projects, particularly when I feel that a subtle enhancement would be preferable

ANA 2 Ultimate Presets Bundle Volume 2 is at $47.24 (and, if interested, you probably want to check if you have points/vouchers in your account, for me the total was $39.50)

Thanks Satya for the reminder!

$75 voucher available, dm me

If buying at jrrshop, don't forget to add uvi Digital Synsations 1 to the order (it shows up as $25 but adds $0 to the total if purchased with something else, total $21 for Finisher Neo + UVI DS1)

On 6/22/2023 at 1:51 PM, JT music said:

Ideal for beginners and personal game, to take into account that all the soundpool included are for "non-commercial" use old deceptive trick of Magix not to explain and inform that all the packages offered with offers and promotions are only for NON-COMMERCIAL use.

Some Bundles do include the COMMERCIAL use licenses. Quoting from the page, that's the case for this one:

"Partnering with this is 10 original Royalty-Free full music packs from Producer Planet, supplied with the standard commercial license."

In some specific cases duplicate licenses can be useful (installing in multiple systems without having to move the licenses, or when you intend to sell you could be better off upgrading and selling instead of just selling). I really think that showing a warning but allowing the purchase is the right approach

The Uniform Commercial Code needs an amendment so that whenever a company discontinues an "authorization system" for a licensed product, and it impairs in any way the existing functionality, then buyers should be entitled to use any means to retain their functionality. E.g.,, it should become 100% legal to hack such an authorization system, and publicly share the details of the hack.

16 channels of multi-band compression... Maybe there are people who can make good use of that but that doesn't sound like me! ?

I have a $75 available but I think posting the codes in the forum is against the rules (I believe DM is ok, so if you're interested you know what to do

Gone

Oh, is this why the vouchers are expiring tomorrow?

I have an unused $75 up for grabs, dm me

Gone

Numark Electronics, Alesis, ION Audio, Akai Professional, MixMeister, Alto Professional, Sonivox, Air Audio, M-Audio, Denon Professional, Denon DJ, Marantz Professional, Marq Lighting, Rane, HeadRush, SoundSwitch, ArKaos, BFD, engine DJ, Stanton, and now Moog. Almost sounds like the owner of inMusic has as much GAS as we do (or is it CAS in this case?).

4 hours ago, El Diablo said:

I would have gotten levels, but I ended up getting Waves WLM Plus at the time because Waves Audio plugins are so affordable. Then after getting Sonible Smart Limiter on a great sale, did I stop using Waves WLM Plus.  Then I got Ozone Standard from a Komplete 14 Update, and I stopped using Sonible Smart Limiter.  ?

 

I regularly use both Smart Limiter and Levels, there is some overlap on the loudness and dynamic range measurements but there is plenty of non-overlap (e.g., Smart limit doesn't measure stereo field, loudness range or true peak, and Levels of course doesn't do limiting)

There is a lot more overlap between Expose and Levels. Choosing one over the other probably depends on workflow and how you want to use it rather than on what they measure. The main difference is that Expose is standalone and Levels is a plugin. If you want to use the referencing you'll need Expose but if you want quick feedback while you are tweaking your plugin chain you probably want Levels (so that you don't need to keep bouncing to disk and reading the updated file every time you make a change)

On 6/7/2023 at 4:30 PM, PavlovsCat said:

Bandlab merely purchased the intellectual property of the dissolved company. 

To throw my hat in the ring with analogies, it's like buying a bike from a man who tells you, "I will give you free maintenance for your bike for the remainder of my life!" However, he ends up dying six months later and his son sells all of his bike maintenance tools to a neighbor. So you track down the late seller's neighbor and angrily demand that he honor the agreement of the now deceased seller of the bike.

There are many important details here - Gibson ceased active development and production of Cakewalk branded products in order to focus on their Philips brand (side note: I have vague recollections of a person remaining like a solitary hero and "keeping some lights on", although it's probably not relevant for this discussion) - Is this the same as "the company being dissolved"? In your analogy I think this would be more like the bike seller deciding that he doesn't care anymore about the Honda bike that he sold you and he is going to focus on Harleys instead, not a good reason for your not getting maintenance anymore . Was Cakewalk even an independent company at this point or was it a division of Gibson? Another detail is whether the "lifetime updates" refer to the lifetime of the company or the product. The Cakewalk acquisition included not only the source code but also the goodwill (branding and name recognition), are the promises "attached" to the goodwill and carried over?

In any case, when I say I agree that the promise should be honored, that's simply my opinion on what should be the "morally right end result". There are others in this forum who are lawyers so I'll defer to them for legal opinions, if we even have enough info. There are probably lots of details that need to be determined first - do the contracts between Gibson and Bandlab have any clauses that impact these obligations? did Gibson fail to properly disclose information at the time of the sale? If the responsibility was not transferred does it mean it is still on Gibson and they should now pay Bandlab so that they can meet their obligation? Besides, the legal aspects may well be irrelevant considering that it may be quite expensive compared to the possible payback.

1 hour ago, Byron Dickens said:

And why is that?

1 hour ago, dubdisciple said:

Please help me to understand why you think Bandlab should pay for Gibson's mistake? 

Because when you acquire something that has liabilities/debt attached to it you normally have the obligation to meet those liabilities

Note: in bankruptcy proceedings a judge may discharge some of that liability and, depending on the situation, determine if the party losing their rights should get some compensation but I don't think that happened in this case

Nowadays most DAWs come with a bundle of plugins and tools. I have purchased a few DAWs just for the included plugins, Reason is probably the best example of a product that people may want to buy for what it includes, no matter if Reason is their primary DAW or not.

I've heard newcomers sometimes regretting not having purchased Sonar when it was available, because of the bundled items that were not included in CbB (not just 3rd party but CW plugins like Dimension Pro, Rapture, etc). When Sonar gets resurrected as a paid product, maybe that will open up the doors for including a nice bundle of plugins again and e.g., reviving and revamping the CW plugins that have been languishing in limbo.

Speculation: Perhaps that would be an easier transition from free to paid, making it freemium where the bare DAW is free, but not the better versions with bundled products

oh, and I agree with the principle that lifetime subscribers to Sonar should not have to pay a new subscription (or a fixed price)

Btw, retrospective MIDI recording (but not audio) has been included in ProTools since 2018

JRR had a bad crash some time ago and "lost" a bunch of records. You may want to ask support, they may be able to reinstate the info. If you have the emails it will probably make it easier.

Nice! unlike the "no surname" ClarityVx, this time the Pro is also in Mercury!

Not bad, considering it can be 15% off on top of already discounted prices. Or use it for "small developer" products like Fathom synth https://www.kvraudio.com/marketplace/fathom-synth-by-seaweed-audio

Heads-up, the latest Samplitude is X7 and what's included in this bundle  is X6

(I'm not saying you need X7, but if you get X6 you'll get the upgrade ads from the very first launch, and for getting and older version you may want to wait for a Humble Bundle)