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abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:25 pm

Urs wrote:
abstractcats wrote:This looks very good! I was wondering if there will be an upgrade discount from ACE to Zebra2 if I buy ACE and want to add Zebra2?
I hate to sound cheap but the fact is I'm self employed(I know many people are, including developers)and I also run a small aninal shelter in my home where I have cats and a beagle so any small discount/sale helps, I'm also working on becomimg a sound designer.

Thanks for any info, ScottAC
I'd recommend the dinosaur crossgrade. You could back a cake with the form factor of a minimoog, add some icing, some marzipan keys and some carefully placed chestnuts. Then put the retired & replaced card on top, shoot a photo and get 50$ off. Celebrate by eating the cake.

Btw. there are still about 50 "Spaghetti" early adopter promo codes for ACE left...

MMMm! I love CAKE

But the only crossgrade I could have offered was an MG 1 buy RadioShack/Moog

But I gave up this little guy years ago

I don't know about ""Spaghetti" early adopter promo codes" how does that work?

Thanks man !

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:29 pm

Oh yeah! is the ACE CPU efficiency going to be equal to Zebra2's as ACE is developed?
Thanks again.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:36 pm

abstractcats wrote:Oh yeah! is the ACE CPU efficiency going to be equal to Zebra2's as ACE is developed?
Thanks again.

Well, ACE is extremely cpu efficient for what it does. It just does a hell of a lot per sample, which makes it a bit of a cpu hog still...

xx JPRacer xx · Post by **xx JPRacer xx** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:46 pm

abstractcats wrote:I don't know about ""Spaghetti" early adopter promo codes" how does that work?

When you order ACE, before the checkout, there's a place where you can enter a promo code. Just enter "Spaghetti" and you'll receive a 10 euro discount.

There was 333 discounts in total at first but now there's only ~50 left.

penguinfromdeep · Post by **penguinfromdeep** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:48 pm

Urs wrote: Well, ACE is extremely cpu efficient for what it does. It just does a hell of a lot per sample, which makes it a bit of a cpu hog still...

As long as optimizations are not to sacrifice sound quality I'm all good

It sounds so good .. Definitely the best softsynth so far to my ears.

Breeze · Post by **Breeze** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:49 pm

Urs, I'm just curious: why are the Mac (22.9 Meg) executables so much larger than the Windows (4.9 Megs) ones? Thanks.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:51 pm

xx JPRacer xx wrote:
abstractcats wrote:I don't know about ""Spaghetti" early adopter promo codes" how does that work?
When you order ACE, before the checkout, there's a place where you can enter a promo code. Just enter "Spaghetti" and you'll receive a 10 euro discount.

There was 333 discounts in total at first but now there's only ~50 left.

Thanks for the info

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:52 pm

By the way, on the PC not the mac, I had reenter my name and serial number, was that intended behaviour?
rsp

edit: I did remove my Ace.Data folder on both machines today if that helps.

rsp

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:54 pm

Breeze wrote:Urs, I'm just curious: why are the Mac (22.9 Meg) executables so much larger than the Windows (4.9 Megs) ones? Thanks.

The Mac version contains VST, AU and RTAS in Universal Binary for PowerPC and IntelMacs. So there are 6 times the size for executables to be expected and 3 times the size for resources.

(I could optimise that a bit, but then I'd have a hilarious installation process with various shell scripts...)

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:01 pm

zvenx wrote:so far on the mac, some of the presets under contributions..Fritz through Rsmuz7 are blank. I mean if you didn't want to not hurt their feelings
rsp

that happened for me on the last beta... but not on this one... hmmm

it is a permissions problem... the directory (fritz for example) may have no read/write permissions. The presets are there. Change the permissions to everyone read/write and it will work fine

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:01 pm

Urs wrote:
abstractcats wrote:Oh yeah! is the ACE CPU efficiency going to be equal to Zebra2's as ACE is developed?
Thanks again.
Well, ACE is extremely cpu efficient for what it does. It just does a hell of a lot per sample, which makes it a bit of a cpu hog still...

AH! I understand. Which is a good excuse for me to learn track freezing in FL Studio.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:07 pm

pdxindy wrote:
zvenx wrote:so far on the mac, some of the presets under contributions..Fritz through Rsmuz7 are blank. I mean if you didn't want to not hurt their feelings
rsp
that happened for me on the last beta... but not on this one... hmmm

it is a permissions problem... the directory (fritz for example) may have no read/write permissions. The presets are there. Change the permissions to everyone read/write and it will work fine

This should be fixed now...

The post-install script didn't work in the preset packet so I moved it into the global installer. As far as I can see, permissions are nice now.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:08 pm

Urs wrote:
pdxindy wrote:
zvenx wrote:so far on the mac, some of the presets under contributions..Fritz through Rsmuz7 are blank. I mean if you didn't want to not hurt their feelings
rsp
that happened for me on the last beta... but not on this one... hmmm

it is a permissions problem... the directory (fritz for example) may have no read/write permissions. The presets are there. Change the permissions to everyone read/write and it will work fine
This should be fixed now...

The post-install script didn't work in the preset packet so I moved it into the global installer. As far as I can see, permissions are nice now.

Seems to be... installed fine and no permission problems here!!!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:17 pm

Ok... I think I'll upload the files for the website now...

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:29 pm

So here we go:

http://www.acesynth.com (press refesh if you can't see it yet)

A big thank you to everyone who contributed!!!

Need a little break now and maybe send out a newsletter today already...

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