Brian Walton

That is how I've done it. I've also seen where someone marks it as a liked/favorite then goes into the App to find them. Haven't tried that yet myself.

MSoundFactoryLE at $26 deserves its own thread.

This is a bit unique. There are two amps that justify this kind of outlay. 1) Trainwreck 2) Dumble - with a caveat - the good ones If you factor in the rarity and difficulty in obtaining access to one (or more) plus the time to do advanced captures - $49 while a bit annoying isn't totally insane. The Trainwreck Amp I helped profile, no question I would have paid that for it - but then again it also makes an ODS look like a common amp. Outside of this Dumble set, I'm expecting they will do a Joe Bonamassa set - after that they are going to have some difficulty getting something with the same interest / rarity outside of doing artist collaborations where say Slash brings in the "I recorded AFD with this" which obviously would open the wallet of quite a few people. If they go the Trainwreck route they are going to have a difficult time getting the most desirable model, and I'm sure they would have to settle for an Express or maybe a Liverpool.

Usually this is the time of year they offer one of the EZKeys MIDI packs down to a reasonable level, surprised they don't seem to even be doing that (yet)

Installed but likely won't get much use. UI is small and not resizable as far as I can tell.

Nope it is 20 total downloads which will of course make you want more and the paid version. Love this product (especially with the pedal) but it also encourages addon purchases as that is where I've found the most useful stuff, outside of my own captures of things no one else has access to. But the capture process on advanced isn't for the faint of heart. Unless you have an Nvidia graphics card you are looking at an entire work day for a single capture

You click the Download Arrow to download them to use when ever you want. That said, but careful as you only get 20 of them if you have the free version. I was thinking that until you hit the download button you would be getting white noise every 10 seconds - seems odd if you are not experience this and have 20 left.

Don't think the codes stack (as the 30% off requires a code). The top tier discounts usually are gone within 2 minutes of email release. I've been in the checkout process a few times in the past with code applied and by the time I enter my MFA code they are all gone and can't be applied to my purchase. I've got everything released on the Tonex, NAM and IR front. Just waiting for more releases at this point. His new Marshall Astoria pack surprised me in a good way. Didn't have great hopes for the amp but found it to be a bit of a gem.

Interesting, I had read the first line before and thought the transfer was effectivly moving the entire liscence system when you select it. Regarding the "it can't be retrieved" I wonder if this means if your ilok breaks they don't care and won't let ilok issue another license to you.

I thought once you put it on a physical ilok you only get one auth and the machine option goes away. It is two without ilok involved that I'm sure about. I need to look this up again as I was surprised it wasn't giving me 2 ilok authorizations.

If you have Kontakt then the question is why would you buy/pay for yet another piano library? With his own - it has value to those that haven't paid for the Kontakt overhead, investment cost = $20. It makes sense to simply add to his offerings getting out of just effects and is a logical leap from the Clap, Stomp, etc that was an instrument. I'm also curious about the size, while he says it isn't a 40-60 GIG library, just how small is it exactly?

He has some Dumble "clones" that I'm sure he will eventually release. He has a massive Kemper pack with them (around 100 profiles if I remember correctly), but hasn't done ToneX yet. I wonder if this release will impact his timetable on that.

Well if used on 8 out of 20 that seems like a complete waste - given how many they are including in the pack. I've played real Dumbles before - some of them sound good - others are frankly rubbish and then of course there is the question of how well it is recorded even if it is a good one. But good to hear you are finding them inspirational. May need to try to test tonight if they are part of the trial products. Sadly I have 2 tonex pedals but was hoping not to need to authorize the 2nd one, to get these models - seems lame they are offering it as free to new people. The problem is if I authorize the 2nd in my account - it isn't like they give me any extra authorizations.

Apparently not this one. They are asking money from max users

Can you confirm this thing only has 20 tone models across 4 amps (and 2 pedals they included for no particular reason?) And how does it sound/feel for the clean to edge of break up stuff compared to the Two-Rock stuff I'm sure you have from Amalgam, etc.

Very. I've got quite a few an my login price still makes them $20 a pop for each I don't have. Not even a little tempted.

Wondering why it isn't on PA, was thinking they would have struck a deal after the eq release.

Last year they had tiers based on what you own (to a degree). Not this year. An unreasonable $900 for everyone!

Started demo. Pulled it into Gig Performer to look at CPU usage in a more isolated environment than a DAW. Getting 4-5% CPU usage compared to MAutoDynamicEQ and Kirchhoff (both of those hover between 0-1%)...Measured with MNoiseGenerator going through them as Melda plugins are smart enough to bypass when nothing is being played. Amex EQ200 is around 9% CPU usage. Also white noise in the Demo is quite frequent and annoying - given the demo seems to say 29 days left in the trial, honestly that seems really poor. If the trial is unlimited time, then it is at least more forgivable.

This has been around for a while, but too rich for me - so never tried it https://www.soundradix.com/products/surfer-eq/

Idea has been around for years, just never seen anyone actually attempt to implement it in an easy and intuitive way. There have been some options that treat things statically or dynamically (to an extent) but following based on key (instead of just a note or something of that nature, hasn't been intrinsic in the functionality of anything I've seen though I've seen people ask for it over the years. Wish this one was a bit cheaper to make it a no-brainer with all the other super power EQs I have. At $50, might give it a demo then wait. Also super curious about the CPU hit. Some other heavy hitters are pretty light on the resources - kirchhoff eq, toneboosters EQ4, Melda MAutodynamicEQ, etc I'm going to be a little surprised if this is competitive to Kirchhoff's consumption.

I always wonder how many units these companies can even sell at that price point.

New Amek Console was what I've waited all year to use a Forever29 on, and come to find out it is likely a massive resource hog. (Yet to be tested myself). Where the 9099 on the other hand is quite efficient. Making it even easier to pass on some of this stuff. Glad I got in when the getting was good though there is a ton of stuff I bought that I haven't used and don't need.

TBD Given the fact they have already said the UI won't load our custom Themes, those us of that view those custom themes as the UI we know and love - switching back to Mercury or Tungston feels like a major step back and I'm not expecting them to have something like what I use out of the box. I'm sure other features will be excellent, but there is a pretty important piece that is up in the air.

it is missing some of the more coveted verbs from the 500. Given it is at the same price tier at the TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 x4, I'd say it has some competition. Though one of the main selling points here would be the form factor to functionality ratio.