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I bought it since I'm a D-16 fan.  They still do things the old way. No special app and has offline activation.

Their GUIs use to be small but now they are huge

16 hours ago, User 905133 said:

So, I stopping checking to see if the website had been updated a couple of weeks ago. Then today (8/8), I get a email notice of the Summer Sale emphasizing  a CV-3 25% upgrade discount offer.  But for me, it's still $49 to upgrade my CV-1 and CV-2 to CV-3, still $49 to upgrade my EP-4 to EP-5, and still $98 to upgrade both.

Since I already upgraded to the full professional series previously, I still don't get the the $44 Professional Series Offer (nor do I get it using any other of the upgrade / offer buttons.  Guess I should have written them a month ago.  Maybe they fixed the website and I missed it?  Oh well.

NOPE THEY DIDN[T FIX IT

I'd still use a 720p if some of the software wouldn't run out at the bottom.

somehow trying to appeal to egos is not really good marketing

On 7/29/2025 at 5:17 PM, Terry Kelley said:

It’s like when the food take-out place turns the cashier display towards you so you can enter a tip.

No.

We always come up with new entitlements. Everything is a tipping industry.  There are no longer contracts but charities.

12 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

An excellent choice for people who are afraid of being held hostage economically and of having their software stop working for no good reason!

Seriously, though, I think Macs are great and I wish I could afford one.

Mac minis are probably the best value until Apple decides it's not.

I don't like to be held hostage by hardware.   It's not just Apple doing that either. MS will have to rethink their TMP requirement.  I also had to upgrade a video card just to use Kontakt 7.

I use to buy parts just in case I "ever" wanted to do 200 tracks and a bunch of libraries.  

Then there was this sense of reality called "why".  I've never gone that far.

That's the problem with hobbies.  People always buy unnecessary gear.  See how far people go who play golf for fun.  They even have golf balls that are suppose to make your game better.

I've got plenty of "game changing" plugins.

Interesting how PC hardware rarely dies if you built your own systems. 

There's a lot of bad and bloated development these days that can bring newer systems to a crawl.

A serious gamer now uses a 2tb OS drive.  So many new games now tip the 100gb scale.

meanwhile CdB still works for me so far.......

My better system I got the spinning wheel of searching for products 3 times when I open NA.  A restart fixed it.

Much older system did not have this happen.

I squirm every time I open NA. 

18 hours ago, mettelus said:

Rebelle just announced yesterday that they are going to the same model that Splat had (1-year window of updates from purchase point). The downside of that model is folks can wait for a feature they actually want before buying in and catch up to everyone else in one go. The bean counters need to get a better grasp on reality sometimes. They almost gave away Rebelle 7 Pro (even to new users) for $30 (normally $149) and seem lost about "what happened??"

A couple problems with that model is developers feel compelled to release "something" each month, and keeping track of who is on what version just becomes a  circus. We all know how that turned out with Splat...

and it's often not quality with those monthly promises

Studio One and Bitwig are annual upgrades.

Acronis went sub only and now offer perpetual again,

 I still want a fluglehorn.  They are pricey even for beginner models. 

The temptation of sample hoarding never dies.

Didn't Schecter make one of these?  I know it wasn't one of their premier guitars.  I remember seeing one at a GC years ago and it wasn't premier priced.

https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/the-software-subscription-bubble-may-be-set-to-burst

We can only hope.

8 hours ago, husker said:

One of these days, I'm going to pony up for the Omega bundle.  I'll be done buying libraries then.   Right?

Nope.  Just one more orchestra............or become a collector of brands.  VSL is out of my budget but EW...........

Like all of mine needed updates.

8 hours ago, Larry Shelby said:

WishMaster Strings is a new instrument for MSoundFactory. Free for all MSoundFactory and MSoundFactoryLE users. More info and a free 15-day trial here

$349

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSoundFactory

I didn't see anything called this on their site.  I not realized this is not a separate instrument but presets that show up in Sound Factory.

I prefer the individual GUIs instead of them being all ST.  It's still the most confusing browser.

requires iLok

On 7/12/2025 at 8:37 AM, Shane_B. said:

Uh ... I didn't know the Chinese were a capitalist nation.

Their government is but the people........not so much.  

odd that the former Sony products are not on the list 

12 hours ago, charliex said:

$79.99 for me! TS5 max just for Pianoverse. Installed!!!

How much disk space?  I think each one is 40GB.

I've only downloaded one of them but not yet installed.

3 hours ago, Vin S said:

Would anyone have a spare device key that I can use to register for this plugin? Thanks

It doesn't work that way.

Are we interested in it only because it's free?

less than the WUP

Misleading title.............

not free only with a certain purchase