Brian Walton

Also this is pretty big news assuming the thing is the garbage tuner that is in Tonex desktop app (or the AXE IO) I can't possibly see it competing with my Sonic Research Turbo Tuner, but if it is at least part of the way there that is a major convenience.

From an email:

They made tons of money. 90 person company just sold for somewhere between 400M and 1B+ There is zero indication that the pricing model wasn't working for them (and us). The only reason for subscription here is greed. The whole point of the company and model - the reason they grew the base was because they did NOT do what their competitor did. Have you read the posts in reaction to this announcement (the affinity forum, Instagram, YouTube)? This isn't a company that sold because they lacked paying customers or turning a profit on those customers.

Yamaha didn't kill off Steinberg - but they are also still have "old school" pricing model and just discontinued VST2. I personally wouldn't view them as a customer friendly company. Image Line hasn't killed those off, but in what way are they better now? Melda is the only one that I really use (but own products from the other two) and I haven't seen any material improvement whatsoever. The positive is simply that they don't feel like they have changed but that doesn't make them "better" now. Melda thus far as least isn't a case of another company stepping in and ruining everything thus far which normally happens.

Terrible news for everyone other than Affinity leadership that had an equity stake in the deal (whom can now afford an Adobe Subscription)

Link to video? While I'm aware Reaper has tons of customizations, I have yet to find anything that wouldn't take a Full time job to make work as easily as Cakewalk in addition to looking as pleasing (I use a custom Cakewalk theme - not the default)

I'm sure it was sarcasm as Bandlab has been able to pull stats for YEARS now on end users using Cakewalk and having to re-authenticate every 6 months.

Nope, haven't tried VST2 yet as I always avoid installing both when there is a VST3 option. Given that Steinberg Discontinued VST2, I figure the emphasis from devs should be VST3 (even though it can have some "quirks")

They gave v1 away for a while years ago. It was the introduction to the brand for most of us I'd imagine.

Well Tape MKII has been out for a while now and certainly wouldn't recommend dragging a corner on it These are not special routing functions, with basic VST3 compatibility they should all work fine in Cakewalk.

Sadly the last few releases I've purchased had issues with Cakewalk....this being one of them. Hope it gets sorted out. I don't really have such issues with other devs.

Its nice that I qualify, considering I already own multiple serial numbers for both TONEX and Amplitude

Well it is a 4 GIG program. But TONEX is far less resource intensive than something like Amplitube used to be. (check CPU hits below). I'm not noticing any deal breaking glitches. There are some occasional UI things, but this is also the best sounding Amp in the box (and pedal) out there, competing and beating boxes that cost 3-4x the price.

This might be pretty good but with only 2 Forever 29's left I'm hoping we will see another Three Body Technology release that once again makes other plugins obsolete. These, "another saturator" plugins don't move the needle at a $31 price point. YMMV.

No. Own most of them and the only use they got was seeing how much better tonex is if you have good captures.

That is pretty normal if you own v1 of the bundle. That is the upgrade price. Now if you don't own v1, then it is an error.

I never use it because I had some VST3 issues with it in Cakewalk that never got resolved. Hopefully he re-writes it for a V2 with resizable UI and gives an update for free on it.

Yes, sometimes that happened and they would course correct, but those low cost UA ones they were well aware of being offered for free 1 at a time. When they would reset the vouchers it became common for people to get all of those within a year for free. They did this many many times and therefore was not a mistake. I considered these the entry point to buy their other products that never were free, of which I do have a few. And good luck getting anyone to actually pay the $20 transfer fee for them even if you gave away the license, let alone try to sell them

Well other than the Lo-Fi one the rest listed could be picked up one at a time for free when they did $20 coupons with no min spend. They knew people would utilize the coupons for the free-bees.

At this price, I can't imagine going this route over TONEX. Granted there are not that many Eden specific captures, but there are other brands out there:

It is useful if you have dialing and a music/sound track separately. make sure the DAW or NLE you use is compatible with the routing it requires to function properly. Give it a trial, pretty sure they run fully functional ones for a few days or similar.

Looks like a MAAG EQ4 emulation with a decent UI. Wonder what band they set the high air one at.

I think I got additional authorizations for it for not that much more. $20 is still a good deal and frankly makes lots of other PA plugins obsolete.

Well those of you complaining about being able to get Amex9099 for $20 are simply off base. I get that lots of the deals are crap, but there are a few in there that are worth it.

Yeah, exactly I do use lower level clipping, saturation, emulators, etc. But I'm not someone pulling out an Tonebender MKII and slapping it on a vocal track, etc which some people who use "distortion" do. I didn't find anything in Trash to be pleasing saturation, which I do use a lot -so in my tool box it was "harsh digital distortion" tool, which I don't tend to use.