Brian Walton

We want Sonar to be inexpensive. The in person store stuff wouldn't be well attended, it wasn't a packed house back in the day and far less likely to get people to show up unless they are also giving away the software. Virtual is the only way to do it these days at a minimal cost. That said, now that YouTube is a thing, I'm not sure I get the point of some sort of paid attendance as these things never end up being all that interactive. And questions could be handled via live stream if that is the goal.

Yeah I usually do this some but since we have no idea what the biggest driver for these deals continuing it is hard to know how to best adjust it.

It is legit but not DRM free, allows 2 installs at a time I think and done through Corel. Full version.

That is what I thought too and a smart move to bring people in as the hardware market is a lot larger for guitar players. And other companies beat them to market, have to do something to entice users

I haven't used it, but I interpret that as the capture tech is done in the cloud instead of locally. Something like TONEX capturing is a barrier due to the computing specs it needs to do advanced captures, but the playback after capture is rather low. Letting cloud servers do the number crunching in the short term sounds like a plus.

At this point I even consider new amp sims outdated upon release given TONEX is on the market (and has hit $40 or less price points).

Based on the EQ, this might actually have Forever29 potential. May have to actually give this a test spin. Wonder why that didn't go crazy with the MSRP here.

Not sure about that product, but the ones I do have require no additional authorization so even if they go belly up then there is a decent chance they have a number of years of viablelaty on Windows.

I got both during the last sale. The cloning and some of the auto brushing features made me grab Painter too otherwise Rebelle would have been fine and even preferable for me. It certainly has a more generous authentication system that I appreciate.

Not sure but the standalone equipment it uses under the hood is also high consumption. I'm sure they just reused code and with more functions in one plugin it adds up. Too bad as it seems nice.

No more generic and even the $25 is based on recent purchase history. The glory days are gone. Not that I need or want one but..Last month was my last voucher and I spent a stupid amount in 2022...don't remember how much in 2023 but a lot less than before. I have some forever 29 that I've been waiting for something amazing to use but nothing has drawn me in. The new Amek Console would have done it if it wasn't a resource hog...unlike the Amek 9099

On my machine simply removing ".vst3" on the folder was not adequate. Even after multiple attempts, reinstalls, full scans, etc I had to rename the folder and move the VST3 file itself into the parent folder. (where other VST3 plugins go from various developers if they are not put in their own subfolder. That worked for me

Did you test on Cakewalk Bandlab by any chance? (seemed to work in Reaper but not Bandlab for me)

My experience installing new versions and after a VST rescan:

This. While I'd like to keep seeing more, the reality is there is a lot there as long as they don't kill off the platform. It remains an impressive free collection that could be a gateway to the brand.

Big fan of the fact it actually does work as a plugin in affinity photo. As for the main raw program they sell, it is frustrating that the version that comes with the plugin option costs dramatically more than the version with all those tools and more in a standalone form. Great way to get some of that functionality for free here.

That is it. It used to be something like $299 retail if I remember correctly. I own it other than the Sunset sound and tape module but my price is the same $99 (and I have the vast majority of IKM products also)

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/upgradeforall/

wonder what the CPU hit is like, NAM is pretty high. (also curious what circuit is modeled/captured, seemed pretty vague in the post)

Yeah, I started out the same when TONEX came out, but as time has passed on, as much as I appreciate these other developers - I find it doesn't make sense for me to buy products I simply will not use. Funds are limited and I've shifted that spending to those buying and capturing high end amps. There is no reason why these other makers couldn't do the same and add packs to their lineup, they choose not to. There are plenty of packs out there I want but don't have yet and frankly take some of this approach now with the tonex pack creators buying some packs when cheap enough even though I know they will get less use than other packs. $50 is a lot of money for something I won't use. Price needs to be far less than that to simply "support" the developer.

ToneX user here (with quite a few after market packs) These $50 plugins are an easy pass. I'd find far more value putting that money towards more packs. Also when I'm looking for Laney tones, I'm thinking more along the lines of Tony Iommi, Billy Corgan, or even the Lionheart (vintage tone and dynamics instead of a modern voice like the Ironheart)

Different Laney model but these Lionheart captures from FunkyBot (for free) are on par with other paid packs of different amps that are out there, and formatted in a similar way giving a good range of the amp. https://www.tone.net/tonex/search/?q=laney+lionheart+l5t&search_filters=

Clearly he had early access to the release. He is doing good stuff though I also think it is odd having content creators getting all this early access as though IKM is passing off the job of updating customers.

I'm sure you have plenty of feedback that $169 is a tough pill to swallow for many of us that just fiddle around with opening some VSTs with low latency outside a DAW I'm glad I got v3 and v4 at a heavy discount, but personally wouldn't pay any more for it due to the value I personally get out of the product. Thankfully TONEX now has a pedal form (in addition to the ITB) and for me this dramatically decreases the need for a real time VST loader.

I was curious about the changes, this seems to cover some (if not all) of it.