Brian Walton

See my website screen grab from yesterday and what I grabbed from the same site today. It was clearly intentional. (on top of that they also change the authorization counts in the user area - in addition to the public website I posted - the counts there were different yesterday too)

Some real BS is going on

In my online portal view it seems like I have 8 authorizations left (instead of the 3 the product manager says) But I also haven't try to deauthorize and re-authorized anything to test if it shows up and changes. I'll let someone more brave test.

Because we don't know what is behind door number 2 yet.

Well that part is just crazy talk. ?

Yeah, something changed. I'm down to 3 authorization left across all my products which is certainly inaccurate as the base used to be 10 as of the last time I ran this. Hopefully a temporary mistake on IKM part as this would be a major move in the wrong direction.

That has been the case for a number of years. Only plugins like Melodyne can justify that price point. But yes, we had dramatic market saturation with far too much buying during the pandemic and now the economy pushes plugin spending into needless or luxury spending even if they plugins are $10, as a larger whole - we just don't need more.

Nope, but only the affordable version is. I personally wouldn't even put PT on the list of options.

Honestly seem like the least interesting thing they offer The one EQ you can get a good one for free. https://www.patreon.com/posts/rarese-71320561 https://www.igniteamps.com/#pteq-x https://sonimus.com/products/soneq https://www.kiiveaudio.com/warmy-ep1a-eq and I assume the Pun is still free: https://www.acustica-audio.com/pages/plugins-installation

Melda has saturation. I agree that Kirchoff doesn't have saturation. Those that have analyzed hardware EQs, the distortion is usually pretty transparent overall.

Seems like the same promise as MautodynamicEQ and Kirchhoff EQ provide (though I don't the K-KQ has the saturation). MADWQ is on sale for about the same price point and offers more bands or a fair amount less if a new customer and also use referral discount code.

You must have forgotten the fact that it seemed like every month the updates would fail / not work properly within the App itself. It all seemed much better when they got rid of it, IMO.

Agreed, pretty poor experience here that could have easily been avoided by simply asking 2 people to try it out.

Yeah that fixed the crashing part, but all the tape decks sound like sawtooth clipping to me and far more extreme even with input really low. Tried in both Cake and Reaper with the same issue - guessing someone else can confirm the same.

ugh, same issue here. Also going to report.

Let me know when VST City comes out where we compete to buy the most plugins we will never use. That sounds a little closer to my style.

Yes, the other dinosaur costs $600.

$600 for a seat is still outside of the market

Correct

Wish this system and TECH was built into TONEX. It is the most impressive IR system on the market but also costs far too much for an IR loader even though it is fully stocked. The Free version is capable and generous though (but also a rather massive download that reminds me of IKM - download the whole thing for the 1 plugin you are getting)

Massive Blu-ray collector here, but in the computer world they are antiquated tech already. And would take a whole pile of discs to backup the IKM suite. My IKM download/backup is about 1TB that is double the space of most laptops being sold today. Completely absurd to have to buy drives to backup something of that size for a future install.

It wasn't showing up on the main page a couple of days ago, but it is today so I think the expectation now is that it should be

When you own complete, the "beta" products only say "b" on the plugin itself if the entire installer is a beta version. Something that seems more far out into the future is the MTurboFilter (alpha, last I checked), it also doesn't say anything in the plugin itself other that 16.08.

Depends on what else you already have, but yes a number of them are quite good. Baracade and the Compressor are a couple of staples. I like Morphit as someone that uses headphones frequently. MBC is feature rich for the money. The developer is basically genius level, IMO.