That's because they are giving away the player for free. When you order these presets you will get a player added to your order. $4 for a bank and the player is really good for someone on budget.
I usually buy direct from Boz. I think small developers like this who make great stuff and have such sales is the reason why companies like Waves do the $29 deals.
I'm done with them. I agree to a point what they needed to do with vouchers. How much of that stuff you got free or for under $10 is nothing more than hard drive filler? Most of the SPL and Unfiltered is gimmick stuff. How many plugins have been updated? So much older stuff on version 1. I think they should go boutique all the way and go subscription. They could probably survive on fanboyz.
And it's still USB 2. It would be interesting what kind of buffer size one can run with stuff like Serum and Spire. Usually something in this price range does not run well under 512 samples. I doubt you would get the low latency of a Babyface or the mk4.
When someone gets one I'd like to know these things.
Optimized drivers yield round-trip latency as low as 2.5ms at 24-bit/96kHz with a 32 sample buffer.
I'm a doubting Thomas on a unit with a $169 price tag.
One of the best anti dongle arguments came from Eric Pershing the founder of Spectrasonics. He doesn't like the extra link in the chain with his users and brought up even the dongle maker gets acquired.
I prefer iLok over eLicenser if I had to choose between the 2 evils and death is not an option.
Oh that's easy. Records the note you use and put them in Kontakt. You can always dumb it down. If your audience is to impress other DAW users, dumbing down doesn't work.
Two times I actually bought what I wanted. Amazing how even the Kontakt freebies and the under $10 Kontakt instruments start accumulation over time. I have 2 systems that have over 5tb of space each and it's gotten to the point where Kontakt/Komplete are spread across 3 drives. Then you have to watch your OS drive because even with W10 that space creeps up. You have to watch that app data folder since Waves and Live will populate that and so will other plugins and DAWs. Some will still insist on installing 32 bit plugins.
Drive space is only cheap when you don't have to buy it.
I'm thinking of not continuing the Cubase chain. This is my first license. FL, Bandlab, and Reaper will not break the bank. I see more Mac users using Logic over Live. Mixcraft is another one with cheap upgrades.
At one time IK went dongle. Licensing is still my #1 factor in purchasing. More iLok stuff has went past single activation and doesn't need hardware. VSL still has the worst policy with dongles.
Melda and Image Line hasn't went under with their licensing. Nor has Izotope or IK.