Brian Walton

JamPoints = real discount on ToneX pedal

Given UMG seems to have the most aggressive anti-fair use practices this could be interesting....

I'm aware, was simply calling into question the thread title. I've had this for years.

New product? I thought this has been on the market for at least a decade.

I have a coupe of the other "fire" plugins, didn't even realize this one was another one. Might deserve it's own thread so it doesn't get lost in the mix here. Seems like more people would be likely to have this as buying something from Melda in the past to get it is probably more common than buying from United Plugins (though I've done both as I appreciate the authorization system and not treating customers like a threat to the business).

Take a look a Melda's Superlooper if you are looking to do "live looping" style stuff with a VST inside a DAW. Frequently goes on sale for 50% off, and there is a $10 sign up for newsletter bonus and if you search for referral codes that knocks another 20% off (if you are not already a customer)

Assuming you can afford the HD space. I already had it, but pretty sure even the "free" install is going to be north of 4GB due to IKM's installer puts the whole suite on your computer and then puts everything you don't own in a trial mode.

Correct, it says this somewhere in the language but I can't find it to copy and paste. It only applies to people that have spent money in the portal not just redeemed as far as I could tell. Nice freebie (for those that supported them financially in the past)

Is the UI resizable?? ?

Guess I was right (first reply). What is the email offer? Many of these plugins used to be $2. (edit - I just got an email too - though only for 2 of the upgrade coupons - $5 each though I own more that I'm betting these things are based on). Upgrade price of $5 is assumably more than I paid for each of them other than Union which was likely a few bucks more (though they didn't send me a discount code for that cross over)

Getting some strong SoundSpot vibes here....

Yes. But it isn't perfect - IKM's own profiles are frequently a far cry from what other people are capturing (as someone that make a lot of captures, I'm still surprised by this). The install is also large and the capture process takes an extremely long time at the best settings and forget about using advanced capture unless you have a dedicated NVIDIA graphics cards. But it has low CPU usage, sounds and feels amazing, a legitimate echosystem - as the pedal is wonderful, and they kept the price at a fairly manageable level. Not only that, but the cheapest paid version lets you capture and load unlimited 3rd party captures - so you really don't need "MAX" for this product. It is far and away the best thing IKM has created, and as much hate as they seem to get - this product suggests I have more authorizations available then the completion (outside of places like Melda)

One of the best at coding an amp sim. Own most of his stuff but it all collects dust after getting ToneX and 3rd party profiles in addition to my own profiles. It was my go to in the box stuff before that.

Will see what happens, but on the bright side - this means all those plugins I bought are not quite as worthless. Maybe on day it will be possible to actually sell them if not used. The $20 transfer fee + the endless vouchers basically means any purchase from them was always a "NFR" as they were worthless on the market.

HDX sound like junk compared to my ToneX pedal (or even AXE I/O) but it does get you into the echosystem. Just want to throw that out there for anyone wondering "is this the quality everyone is praising"

Yes those are some bread and butter ones worth grabbing. Also recommend typing in "Tone Junkie TV" in the search bar when connected to Tonenet as he throws up a few captures of every pack he releases (also do the same from "Amalgam" as those are some of the best available - but he usually only posts one free capture.

You can use with free but be warned it may count against your total free count. At one time that was only 20 user captures.

Well we have to pay for that...doesn't come with the free daws.

Considering polymode is at the $1 tier, good luck getting 3.5 euros for it. ? That said for the others I was trying to figure out if it was worth anywhere close to $19 extra to get the other 3 - so breaking it up might make sense to me.

Are you seeing the performance you hoped for related to audio specifically? Is everything M1 native that you want to use? Anyone with talent can create great music using any DAW (even free GarageBand on the Mac) as long as it can record audio. But at the same time Cakewalk has ~30 years worth of updates, feature build outs, etc under the hood with dedicated paid teams. It simply is going to have more to offer for those that want it than these fly by night systems or even more limited resource houses.

It is far more updated than any of those other DAWS and will be for a while. Don't care about MAC users who spent too much money on a machine that will break the software loaded on it with the next OS update.

The Bad Cat pack covers a lot of ground. The vintage (and even more modern Gibson Goldtone series) Gibson amps have long been one of my favorites - I grabbed the Skylark within a few days of release. Not the most versatile amp, but cranked up they have something special going on. If you have ever tried to profile your own stuff you might have an appreciation for the amount of value for the money packs of that size are at this sale price - I know my time is far more valuable then the price offered. Even with a super computer specd for this stuff a single Advanced capture takes about an hour. And if you don't have a good Graphics Card with a modern CPU - one capture on the advanced setting can easily take an entire day.

Cakewalk is still better than all of those by a long shot and even though not updated any longer will continue to be better than those for quite some time.

Tonex puts them in some unknown location, you can move the files you downloaded once imported. Which ones did you grab?

No experience with Helix (I own all his TONEX packs and most of the NAM stuff) But if you have a toss away email you can get his "free - try it out" pack to test the waters