Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[soundbylaura]

I don't know if this qualifies as a deal; someone can paste it over there if they think it's worthy.

I'm not sure I've ever gotten a 'sale' email from TC Electronics, and they make good stuff. Here's a whopping 10% off VSS3 Native Reverb.

Ends March 25 at 1 PM (GMT)

With one of the world’s best sounding reverb engines - ported from our System 6000 - VSS3 Native brings amazing versatility and realism to your music or scoring projects.
Price: $179*
PowerCore / TDM Crossgrade: $89*

https://goo.gl/DmnxvY

[Scotty]

It is the Mac users who get nailed for WUP fees. With some iterations of the Mac OS the waves plugins just stop working. Windows users don't seem to be impacted.

[dzilizzi]

I have Mercury, so there is usually two or three new things every year. But when I think about it, I don't need any of the new stuff. I have so much now I never use. But if I WUP every other year or every three years, i still get the new plugs eventually. Just have to remember to run the updater right before it runs out.

I think I just get caught up in the "It's one sale - should do it NOW!"

Off to buy the Ladies..... and maybe Poly-Ana.... I think that was all I was thinking about....

[dzilizzi]

It is the Mac users who get nailed for WUP fees. With some iterations of the Mac OS the waves plugins just stop working. Windows users don't seem to be impacted.

That really sucks. I can still run programs in compatibility mode for XP if I need to. But my main music computer is still running Windows 7. Initially, so I could still run PT 10, but mostly because I don't want to deal with the automatic updates.

[Fleer]

It is the Mac users who get nailed for WUP fees. With some iterations of the Mac OS the waves plugins just stop working. Windows users don't seem to be impacted.

Is this so? Mac OS moved to El Capitan and then to Sierra without any need for updating Waves plugins.

[KeithAdv]

More on: Bitley Fairlight/Synclav Group Buy Offer (Deadline by Monday 15.00 Central European Time)

From Patrick (the developer),

I have just now, thanks to your kind feedback, set up a Paypal link for joining in and getting the full R2 library at once.

You can share this link to anyone anywhere:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?c ... U8WX3EPSEG

Hopefully this will make people confident in that I am 100% serious about the whole thing!

I have spent years developing these sounds and they are built on my own unique samples of the Fairlight - with proper support from Fairlight as well as Peter Vogel. The other samples in the library comes from my own favourite patches of some synths or in many cases my own patches of synths like the K4, D-50, Juno series (all of them), JX8P, Prophet VS and lots more.

If people want to hear fresh demos of the sounds, this entire playlist consists of songs I made with just some of it;

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE ... 7g6uJ7wLTC

This is 17 minutes of audio in total and I think it should give a pretty good insight into what can be done. Naturally people can create music in any style; personally I am 46 years old and I have often been inspired musically by the likes of Scritti Politti, Yello, Art Of Noise, Howard Jones, Depeche Mode; the electronic music that ruled the world when I formed my taste. It might be too "vintage" for many younger musicians but rest assured, again, that these are just a minimal collection of musical sketches just to give a base overview and a proof the sounds are well made and instantly usable

To extend the generosity, if anyone instead would prefer getting the Reason 7 (and up) banks Way Beyond Fairlight and Way Beyond Synclavier 1 + 2 the Paypal link works for that as well. Please just share the info that they can email me a quick note if they want that platform instead and I'll set it up; no email needed if they want the Kontakt 5 (and up) format of "R2".

I am certain any Spectrasonics fans will find these sounds just as inspiring, and an advantage over Omnisphere II is that these libraries actually use much less CPU power. The demo tracks I made for Kontakt were cut on a 2006 Mac Pro (Model identifyer 1,1 if checking http://www.everymac.com), Motu 2408 and OS X 10.7 & Logic Pro 9, so any system above that in performance can play back more simultaneous stuff than I used - without issues.

I hope that should sort out any question marks but if people want more info they can also post questions on my Facebook page;

http://facebook.com/bitleysounds

- and I will be happy to help out right away.

All the best from Sweden! (btw, a great guy! cj58)

This wins my vote as the best intentioned/worst marketed group buy ever!

I hit that PayPal link and a few minutes later got buried in sounds. I'll be going through them for for days...

[jsp1979]

I hit that PayPal link and a few minutes later got buried in sounds. I'll be going through them for for days...

How did the links arrive? I ordered a few minutes ago and only got the Paypal confirmation. Is the email sent manually later?

[Numanoid]

I don't get the big deal about the Bitley group buy

$73 for Fairlight Kontakt lib, is it even Kontakt Player compatible?

[KeithAdv]

The website says it's for full-version Kontakt.

[KeithAdv]

I hit that PayPal link and a few minutes later got buried in sounds. I'll be going through them for for days...

How did the links arrive? I ordered a few minutes ago and only got the Paypal confirmation. Is the email sent manually later?

Yes. It appears that he processes orders manually.

[epiphaneia]

More on: Bitley Fairlight/Synclav Group Buy Offer (Deadline by Monday 15.00 Central European Time)

This wins my vote as the best intentioned/worst marketed group buy ever!

+1.000

That guy lost me when he started out charging (by percentage) more for his "group buy starter package" than what the sounds would have cost regularly, and then just blurly stated that "things will get better if more people participate".

Now I admit I´m quick to suspect "shadiness" while that proposal might just have been less-than-clever marketing

Anyway, for those who jumped right in: Are these sounds good enough (and even for someone with a big sample library: /different/ enough, from, let´s say, the UVI darklight and emulation volumes) to justify jumping on board?

[ghettosynth]

Cmon, it's a fair question

How is this question legit? It shows pure ignorance and lack of understanding. Nohing else.

Yes, definitionally, which makes it a fair question. If you think that the value is so obvious, instead of insulting other people, you could perhaps just explain why you think that it's a big deal?

I don't see the value either TBH. There are a number of Fairlight libraries out there and, comparatively, this seems overpriced. Keep in mind that I have very little interest in the Fairlight as an instrument.

I suspect that the group buy didn't go well because this ignorance of which you speak is rather widespread and people simply don't see the value that you apparently see.

[systmu]

Maag EQ 4 is $79 on PA. IF you still have your voucher your talking $50 or less. Is this a must have at this price? I hear good things

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... g_eq4.html

[c_voltage]

Folks, question about FXpansion upgrade (Geist\DCAM) - after upgrade the previous versions will still available in account ? (ie it NOT replaced ?)

[mgw38]

Folks, question about FXpansion upgrade (Geist\DCAM) - after upgrade the previous versions will still available in account ?

Yes, they are still in the account.