Brian Walton

I have 3 products left that I can pick, but at least 10 that I could choose from. But I feel crippled in my ability to do so after Larry's warning not to make selections till the very end....eventhough Peter indicated no new additions are planned... Also using a $200 tier selection on a $25 or less item is giving me anxiety. ? ?

In terms of the group buy, my understanding is it isn't an option for anything other than the smaller subsets.

Wrong forum? This is Cakewalk by Bandlab delas section.

Loving the sound of the kit in the demo videos. Requires full Kontakt is a non-starter for me currenlty.

Bought in 4 times and I'll still be missing something like 5 pieces of gear after using them all.

I believe you are correct. If you are in at the 99 tier you can grab the entire collection but the individual pieces were not added at the 49 or 79 level. What they did was add items that were in the MAX collection but not available in any other package.

Peter made this post along those lines, and he would know better than anyone else

It depends if it is part of another package, then it can happen. Overall though, with the drowndown list in a view like this, it won't let you select individual products you selected already. As mentioned in another post, it isn't fool proof though, but in terms of this particular example it could fit into an odd area. I for example have The Deluxe Upgrade, and therefore can't select it, but I can select the Cross Grade (as it is a seperate but overlapping product from what I own)

And since you can't select a product as a freebie that you already own, I'm guessing you have to sell the old one before you could actually select it, might want to check your account.

You can't fully trust the drop downs or the website. If you have say Dyna-Mu from one of the T-Racks Packages, Dyna-Mu will still show up as an option for a freebie for you in the drop down and on the website. Synths are out of control like this. So there are many potential pit falls unless you really know what you have and want.

I was there obviously mid week, mid day and saw no less than 6 staff members, and I might have been the only customer. No clue how they are still in business. The IKM filled checkout counter (both in display cases and on the wall pegs) used to host a plethora of mics and recording interfaces by numerious brands. (BTW, the website should tell you if something is avaialbe for pickup at a particular location. No need to deal with the call in hassle, just order online and wait for confirmation the item is ready to pickup).

They are $150 each for the software version.

I went to guitar center for the first time in at least 5 years to do the 4th GB buy in thanks to the hardware addition. The kiosk at the front of the store was basically all IKM products, I was shocked to see this. But the stunned look on my face only continued as I brought up the group buy to the sales associates of which none of them had a clue what I was talking about. If I worked there you can be certain I'd be selling that stuff like hot cakes with the promise of buy this and get a whole mess of software for free. I realize GC associates get a bad rap, but this makes me wonder how information is being provided at the corporate level. Point being I agree 25k should have been hit a long time ago but seems like all the available spread the word channels were perhaps underperforming.

Speaking of the Looper in Amplitube. I assume the Looper doesn't show up in the VST version for other people also and is simply a funciton of the standalone? It would be nice to experiment with that Amplitube's version itself inside a DAW providing other VST tracks one might want to use along side it.

That makes sense due to the previous purchaes. I've bought in 4 times now and I haven't done the math on the smaller items, but I'm expecting I'll actually use all of them. Before the GB started I had Modo Drum SE, Bass CE, Mirsolav SE, 670, Black, Clipper, Equal, One, OxA, Amp Metal, Amp SVX, Tape Echo, Memory V, Hitmaker, Fender 2, Tape 24, Cinematic Percussion, Art Deco. It is pretty crazy that a 4 times buy in (Nearly 100 products worth - some of which are "packages" of multiple products) along will all that previusly owned gear is what it took to get basically everything they make (before these new - not part of the GB products are released). Edit: Confirmed - I still won't have everything unless they add in more freebies beyond the stated top tier. All that "Max AT stuff" will nickel and dime selections.

Outside of the resonator and the new tape sims, I'm not aware of products they have that could be added?

Unless you have Amplitube Max, seems like there were a bunch added in there that were (MAX only) options - usually in the $10-35 range. To help with the $49 tier fill up. (Dr Z amp and cabs were worth more to me than many of those low end ST libraries at the $49 spot)

The DL4 brought lopping to a mass market and has managed to keep the popularity, but they also released those delays in the echo park which was less than $150 and regularly sold for about $80. The IK pedals are positioned more in the Strymon, Helix and Eventide market, IMO with the pricing and form

No update to the v9 others in the collectoin were updated to v10 and the ones I did not pay to update to v10 (stayed on v9 stopped working)....worked the day before the Waves Central update. But the v9s really should have just stayed as is, but simply stopped working for unknown reasons.

I've done this as well, but super annoying on mobile machines where USB ports are at a premium (and getting worse with each gen). Even good USB drives can fail, and thus a 1 seat model means you are going to have to wait for a nice rep to get you re-activated. With other plugin makers you could simply deautorize and re-authorize the "broken" seat with the extra. Not only for professional work, but even for side projects, time can be at a premium. Most USB flash drives tend to run really hot with such continued prologed use as well.

In the switch from v9 to v10 all my v9 plugins stopped working. Without WUP, Waves would not support (I manage a large fleet of computers as part of my job, so I'm not exaclty a novice related to sofware installs). To this day I gave up on all my v9s after follwing a number of tutorials on problem solving. This isn't just related to one PC either. Thought things were fine with v12 until one of my plugins (which I have multiple copies of) suddenly would no longer authorize/run across 3 different computers I tried to get it to install on. Note, it worked fine when I first got it, but some Waves Central update made that one plugin stop working (all others are fine). Again, past WUP so support is non-existant. I no longer use WAVES plugins for new projects after my experiences, outside of the occassional use of Silibance. Thankfully, PA, IK Multimedia, Melda, Audority, etc. make nice plugins.

If you use the T-Racks "suite" plugin that allows you to chain the T-Racks modules together it has been a common complaint that you can't hide what you don't own. For those that have everything, no big deal...well until a new collection comes along.

It should be able to: DeNoise 2 is a plug-in designed to reduce noise such as hiss, wind noise, buzz and camera noise. The noise can be reduced automatically in the adaptive mode or after measuring the characteristics of the noise in the noise profile mode

I don't think you will find people that say that sound like garbage, but they do not have a friendly customer model and I have personally found them to have more problems over the years than any other major developer with the authorization and install system. That said, even "mid-tier" engineers I know that you have never heard of get massive "artist" style discounts.