Paul_in_wales

Not sure why people think this isn't possible - I paid $29.99 for ms office pro 2021 non-sub from macheist a few years back.

I have a 15 button mk2. I use it for fast access to folders and manuals mainly rather than DAW. Couldn't work without it as this point.

Wow, sounds like a Friday-afternoon chair and I don't blame you for thinking that way at all. You're every bit entitled to be an unhappy customer. 30,000+ hours sat in mine, many days of 10+ hours sitting and genuinely no issues at all with it, including with the lumbar support. The best compliment I can pay is that I just don't think about it anymore - it just does the job, so I can get on with mine. Other than when I first got it, I genuinely can't remember ever having to adjust anything on it - in 12 years. I get that we're all different and sometimes quality control lets a crap one through so not trying to diminish your experience in any way, this is just how it's played out for me. Maybe I've been lucky and you've been unlucky, with typical experience somewhere in the middle.

I had serious back issues back in 2012. I had tried a bunch of chairs at all price points up to the aresline x-ten (the worst chair I ever tried for my back). None helped. I bought a herman miller aeron in size c/large (I'm 6' 2") and I've sat in that for approx 8 hours a day for the 12 years since. My back issues never came back and the chair is still like new. Rock solid investment all ways around.

fwiw, it's showing the same price to crossgrade from Halion 6 or 7 to Absolute 6 for me at £297.

yeah, I should add that I'm not interested in the sample-only side - but the 8-op FM, granular, spectral and wavetable engines plus the midi/FX/modulation options are interesting at this price level.

Have to say, I'm extremely happy with my purchase of Halion for £106 as competitive crossgrade - well worth it for me.

I feel sure that when I looked at Halion 7 full the other day it didn't have additional discount for competitive crossgrades (falcon / omni / kontakt / komplete) and today it does, with an additional 29% off for me (£106 inc VAT vs £148.50 without)

Given the price, I take it this was part of JRR's 26th birthday offers, so maybe it was just a limited time/volume deal?

I do the same thing here in the UK.

quick count is around 360

Brilliant for the money imo. I have waverazor already, but I like the single page UI and easy to access audio-rate functions of this. It sounds good and does a decent job of VA beyond the expected sharper digital stuff. Couldn't justify it previously given having WR, but this was an easy insta-buy.

It's that time again for roland cloud: Ultimate @ $199 for 12 months and keep 2 (legendary / aira / srx - not galaxias or zenology) or Pro @ $99 for 12 months and keep 1 VAT is added where appropriate. (so £194 for UK) https://www.roland.com/cloud/promos/play4life The blurb

and a reminder that for people in the UK and possibly elsewhere, you can get free, legal access to beat magazine (and others like sound on sound, computer music, future music) by joining your local library (which you should be able to do online) any using libbyapp.com.

Do you not grasp the difference between the "name of the product" and the description?

The name of the product is literally just "RG": https://www.robpapen.com/rg.html

I had explorer 4 but sold that some time back. Since then I've added some plugins back when there has been a solid offer: sound design x bundle (punch 2 / blade 2 / blue 2) - punch 2 is one of my favourite drum plugins, it doesn't get the love it deserves, and I've always liked the more unusual additive sounds in blade. Blue 2 is nice enough, but I have better tools for FM. Go2 - nice little synth for the price sound design x counts as 2 products, so with RG I'm now up to the max discount of having 4 products.

Just bought from KVR at $19 - not that I have great interest in this specifically, but it's a cheap way to add another RP title to my existing, bumping up the discount for explorer to tempting levels.

I have a late 2012 27" imac that still works fine too - I run ableton live 11 suite on it with a second setup (I use m1 mac mini with main). So all those people who choose apple are just idiot drones in your mind. Seems you can't contemplate a world where people rationally weigh up the pros and cons and decide apple is the best fit for them. Either way, it's pretty sad that you seem to hold a significant slice of the membership here in contempt.

yep, I'm in UK (Wales) and have done the same for a few years now: free library card done online + free libbyapp to read. This isn't some kind of pirating or "hack", it's literally what the library is there for:

Back down to $49 - not sure for how long. A nice thing with this is can map the drum hits to whatever notes we want and use that to trigger other plugins/hardware for drums and melodic.

Bear in mind that in the UK (and some other countries I believe), beat magazine english is free with a library card (which you should be able to get for free online in minutes from your local library's web page) and libbyapp.com. That gives me access to back issues to June 2020. Also gives access to future music, sound on sound and computer music too (along with 1200 other magazine titles across all category types).

not really an upgrade as such, but it is still actively getting updates. - eg this was from just a couple of days ago

Synlenth1 has 25% off its €139 EUR ex VAT price for BF from 24th to 29th November with code BLFR2022 - https://www.lennardigital.com/store/

same story for me. I'd spent silly money on an aresline xten to try and it did nothing for long hours except aggravate my back, so I bought an aeron miller in 2012 in size C (large) which gave me the extra height I needed for my feet to rest comfortably on the ground. 10 years in and my back has been much better and this thing still looks (and feels) like new despite 8+ hours a day for 10 years. rock solid investment all ways around for me.