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I still have my old invoice for the first desktop computer I ever bought. I keep it for nostalgia sake and also as a milestone in my life. pointless useless history below -- there used to be a media mogul up here in Canada named Ted Rogers. He was a big believer in the future and the Internet. I used for work for his corporation back in the early 90s. He implemented this thing at one point for employees where you could get an interest free loan from the company to buy yourself a desktop computer and pay it back over a 12 month period. You could only use it once for your first PC. I took advantage of it. I believe it cost $1500. ?

I dont see why now. I dont think things will change that fast. But it seems to question what is the point of buying into Komplete or any of their products if they will go via some sort of subscription route. You will be able to buy into the ecosystem with a much smaller upfront investment compared to jumping into Komplete at 50% off. True, you keep paying the subscription, but you can jump off the ship and move to something else with very little hassle or investment loss.

Yup. Agreed. I personally haven't really spent much on NI in quite a few years. I didn't upgrade Komplete or bought into their new maschine+ or midi controllers or interfaces. Ever since the wierd Sounds.com fiasco and the dropping of the ball on Jam... they have become an unfocused company I would say. GR6 turned out to be a turd. No way in hell does that compete in a landscape now dominated by so many truly great guitar amp sims VSTs. not that i know what the hell i am talking about, .. but looking at this.. it's starting to all look like its all moving in the same direction as music labels. you used to have passionate fans of particular music genres and labels that were emotionally attached to certain bands, artists, labels (even label owners in some cases). that all changed and music labels sort of became "music companies" where music is just one small part of what they focus on .. their real focus is on the leisure and entertainment service industry and how to exploit all possible streams of revenue from it. it all starts to become a big blur and company X is easily interchangeable with company Y. gone are the days of passionate fans of Beggars Banquet or SubPop .. replaced by people that just like "a deal". https://www.franciscopartners.com/about https://www.franciscopartners.com/team

wow.. lots of changes in music software. i think good time to sit back on GAS and wait to see how it settles .

why would they fire?

so did NI buy Izotope?

mesa boogie is the best. use it all the time.

yup. it hard to spend the rewards money. you cant use it towards a sale item. and the stuff you can use it towards it too much.

i picked up retomod as well. .. not sure what is that great about it other than its free.

highly recommended. one of the best.

i got them. they are cool. different.. the show up as VST plugins in my DAW. good for weird ambient stuff.

wow.. thats a lot of IKM stuff in that one.. it's true.. Total Studio is truly the way to go if you want all IKM stuff

thanks. yeah, i recall the sale but just very strange that it gets bundled in Magix products. So does that mean SL 8 will get included in the next version of Samplitude maybe?

i dont get it. this comes with the same vers of Spectral Layers that Steinberg sell? Makes no sense.

I am not biting anymore. I am done with investing in IKM.

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there is nothing like a great live drummer.

@Peter - IK Multimedia thanks.. picked up the Soldano this morning. all works well.

is there a crossgrade offer? i see on another form they started getting cosy with Spitfire ... so looks like its not just for EDM and DJs anymore. tempting.. but i can't be arsed to learn a new DAW... however, cubase is sometimes a little annoying. .

looks tempting. i use izotope Vinyl but this looks pretty full featured. anyone tried it?

I am pretty happy with most of the IKM stuff I have. I use Amplitube, Larussen, T-Racks. They are decent. The syntronic stuff has not blown me away. Neither has Samplitube. I am glad I didnt buy into it. The MODO line looks really interesting. I demoed Drum and Bass. It was cool but a little heavy on CPU with my old system. I upraded recently. I might try it again if it goes on a decent sale.

yeah. thats hw it has been in the past and thats why i usually only go with x.5.

anyone did this yet? i am reluctant. did it break anything?

i guess you all have a point about Halion SE. I do use it quite a lot in Cubase for the chord track mostly. I have been reluctant to upgrade as it seems complex. I also think I have seen 50% off sales on Halion. Might wait for that.

I have not seen in yet. I was on Cubase LE for the longest time and kept upgrading for $10. Then when they had their big 30 year anniverrsary special, I bought into Pro and waited until 10.5 came out to register. My investment so far into Cubase to go from LE 6 to Pro 10.5 (excluding other expansions) has been $250 + $10 +$10.