Brian Walton

Same!

I'd be shocked if they haven't hit the number already - but haven't seen anything and agree they likely won't rush to change the wording or to send it out - as that will certainly get posted in a variety of places the extra deal is off. I grabbed it in less than a hour of the OP with hopes to get Galaxy as that is likely of more appeal to me than this one knob, 3 flavor saturator is.

This is now live

Yes, as do I. However - most of those other ones I've bought into were not like the, let me grab that extra channel strip that is crippled or virtually the same as what I have because it is only $15 for the next 2 days purchases. Thus for my own spending, I think I bought more from PA in particular that is rotting away. Having virtually all of the amp sims is a great example. TONEX literally made them obsolete in one go.

Yeah, Melda has a replacement for Metric AB. Streamliner I only find as a fascination, I'm not concerned with the different codecs of platforms I don't care about handle things. But understand those that do need to cater to the masses.

Yeah, but I'm starting to envy those that didn't spend close to a grand on $7 - $30 deals during the heyday only to get a bunch of plugins realistically we never use and don't need. All of which have no resale value. At least right now there is no temptation. At this point, I only value about 5 of them or so. Cenozoix Comp (not available during the extreme discounts) Amek 9099 Kirchhoff-EQ (not available during the extreme discounts) And I use some others of course, but could be replaced by other things I have. All those amp sims replaced by TONEX.

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.