KVR Audio

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:45 pm

TWICE thus far...

f**king rip off bastard company with really bad marketing campaigns and really shite software.

caramel · Post by **caramel** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:49 pm

You love the company, don't you?

_oswald · Post by **_oswald** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:20 pm

caramel wrote:You love the company, don't you?

In one of those 'pull my hair and make me bleed' kinds of love, probably.

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:31 pm

HA! HA! I DON'T OWN A DONGLED TUBE AMP!

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:27 pm

Dongles are the product of Satan's ass!

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:30 pm

Yes I know, it was a free upgrade so I might as well have checked it out at least. Sounds very good to my ears but songs take f**king ages to load up when an instance of AT2 is used and my system hangs every now and then (too often for me to ignore it) and I *suspect* its the dongle being a c**t.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:51 pm

Amberience wrote:TWICE thus far...

f**king rip off bastard company with really bad marketing campaigns and really shite software.

that sucks man. what a bummer.

is there a knowledgebase or anything on IK that you could read to see if you can sort it? have you phoned IK?

good luck.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:52 pm

No way I'm spending money to talk to some iliterate retard working for IK during a lull in his fluffing career.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:55 pm

Amberience wrote:Yes I know, it was a free upgrade so I might as well have checked it out at least. Sounds very good to my ears but songs take f**king ages to load up when an instance of AT2 is used and my system hangs every now and then (too often for me to ignore it) and I *suspect* its the dongle being a c**t.

i was so on the fence about buying the upgrade from AT1 but my policy since cubase, the only dongled product i own, is no dongles and so i didn't buy the upgrade. i'm thankful i didn't it sounds like it would be a headache

can you go back to AT1? how long does it take to load AT2? 'f**king ages' could be 15 seconds to you but 15 minutes to me? does the dongle have any kind of activity light on it? if so is it flashing or anything during these delays?

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:00 pm

at least 15 seconds. Which isn't a long time in most contexts, but in the context of loading up a song during a bout of creativity, its really long. The dongle is always lit when the machine is powered on, I've not noticed any flashing as such.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:08 pm

Amberience wrote:No way I'm spending money to talk to some iliterate retard working for IK during a lull in his fluffing career.

ahh well, email then?

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:10 pm

Amberience wrote:at least 15 seconds. Which isn't a long time in most contexts, but in the context of loading up a song during a bout of creativity, its really long. The dongle is always lit when the machine is powered on, I've not noticed any flashing as such.

no i'm with you, that's a long time man. just 1 instance? or if not 1 how many? 1 @ 15 seconds is wayyyyyy too long for a plug to load unless it's loading memory or something with sample data - which it isn't..

Paulie Phonick · Post by **Paulie Phonick** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:03 pm

I have to confirm, AT2 takes loads of time to load - at least 15 seconds per instance in my case. I have a feeling that loading further instances gets a bit faster after the first instance opens, but not too much (percievably). And since CSR also takes a similar while to load, I strongly suspect that the fahking dongle is to blame *! We should organize a flash mob at the IK offices and shove our spare dongles up their arses!

*) Well, either that or they both decompress something to memory upon startup

Hell knows, fahk the dongles anyway

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:11 pm

Its a shame, because AT2 really is the best distortion modeller for the PC as a plugin, it does sound really f**king good on anything - vocals, drumloops, bass, guitar... you can get very useable sounds.

It's a shame that they want to cripple their software like this.. I kind of hope it'll be cracked and then I'll just use that.

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:13 pm

There will never be a amp sim or reverb I like enough to put up with a dongle. Absurd. I'd buy an outboard unit first.

Well... I gave it two days - damn AT2 dongle already crashed