Amicus717 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 24 minutes ago, Matthew Sorrels said: Maximo is nice (for a phrases library). I think the first freebie will totally break their website. Yeah, I have no illusions about my chances of grabbing it, this year. I was getting gateway errors on the site within seconds of the countdown clock hitting zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antler Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I get the whole excitement of queuing for a free gift thing, but I think it's a bit weird that Sonokinetic are effectively asking to get DDoS-ed by legitimate customers hoping for a freebie. You would think they would either massively scale their web servers, or just lottery-email 500 (or however many) licenses to people who sign up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Jones Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 So when is the free thing offered? I'm following the thread but that's not clear to me. Something about the last few minutes of the countdown clock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 33 minutes ago, Christian Jones said: So when is the free thing offered? I'm following the thread but that's not clear to me. Something about the last few minutes of the countdown clock? We don't know...it could be on any one of the 12 days, or even not at all... It's a crap shoot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Sorrels Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Everyday for the next 11 days (day 1 already happened) at 11am Eastern Sonokinetic will put up a new daily offer (each good for two days, I think). https://www.sonokinetic.net/sale In the past at least one of the daily offers was for a free Kontakt Player instrument (so no need for full Kontakt). So it's very likely at least one of the 12 days will have another freebie. But the number of free licenses is limited (last year they gave out 1000) and first come, first served. The second day's offering is considered likely for the first free one -- though no guarantees. And you can count on their website being swamped. The past years free products have mostly been from the Ostinato Series and retail for around 80 euros(+vat). After the free licenses are used up, the product will be offered at a discount (so if you miss getting a free copy, you can buy it for a discount). Most of the days they will just have a 50% (or more) discount on one or more products or bundles. So if you have any interest in their products the sales for this 12 day event are usually pretty good. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin H Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 What’s bad is that to get a good chance of scoring a free library I have to wake up before 8am which totally goes against my wannabe rebel rock and roll lifestyle 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomgu Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Free Carousel in my cart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomgu Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 -> 504 Gateway Timeout 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yan Filiatrault Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Freebie claimed and in my account! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomgu Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 502 Bad Gateway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAGinz Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 In my account! Yippee! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomgu Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Kicked me out during the checkout, had to login again, but freebie in account. By the way, I don't see any mention of it being limited to a number as previous Christmas freebies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sent4th Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Same here after four tries. Yeah man! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Got it also! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Me too! ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Fuller Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Managed to get Carousel straight away, with no problems! ?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bohlen Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Now, since y'all got, I can't wait to hear your Bifoon and Viool instrumentations... ?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Sorrels Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I was 25 mins late (forgot!) and I still got it. They must not be limiting it as much as last year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) Got it as well. If this is the 10-year old Carousel at 400Mb then these freebies are getting smaller and smaller. Maybe the second coming will be huge. Edith: it seems this one’s only 147Mb. Edited December 10, 2020 by Fleer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Sorrels Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 If you try to move the library (from where it downloads to) the Sonokinetic Manager will complain it can't find it. This is because it's looking for "Ibrido Zero.nicnt" instead of "Carousel.nicnt" I just copied the Carousel file to "Ibrido Zero.nicnt" to make it happy (you need to keep the Carousel file for the instruments of course). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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