Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[musicalwarmth812]

Kind of annoying catch 22 with the NI e-voucher:

The e-voucher is valid on all Native Instruments software downloads available at the NI Online Shop. It is NOT valid on updates, upgrades, crossgrades, edu licenses, hardware, or products that are part of a special offer.

If I were to buy a product that is not already in Komplete (by which way I got the e-voucher), it is much more economical for me to save up to upgrade to Komplete Ultimate, but that I cannot use the e-voucher on

i had a similarly funny experience with IK-Multimedia jam points. there is a crossgrade offer for Studio Max atm., if you own one or more licenses for the price of 99.99 bucks or more. to make the deal affordable, i tried to use my jam points, but it wasn't allowed ... and i didn't buy.

Exactly the same experience with IK.

[Jus11]

i had a similarly funny experience with IK-Multimedia jam points. there is a crossgrade offer for Studio Max atm., if you own one or more licenses for the price of 99.99 bucks or more. to make the deal affordable, i tried to use my jam points, but it wasn't allowed ... and i didn't buy.

Exactly the same experience with IK.[/quote]

Strange, as it was allowed when I bought it two weeks ago.

[mgw38]

The Ueberschall anniversary sale is tempting. Any thoughts on that? I did not yet buy into the Ueberschall ecosystem but I have to admit that their elastik player looks pretty neat.

[pekbro]

Uberschall's player is very neat imho. Can't say I ever bought any libraries for it though. I'll have to take a look.

[musicalwarmth812]

i had a similarly funny experience with IK-Multimedia jam points. there is a crossgrade offer for Studio Max atm., if you own one or more licenses for the price of 99.99 bucks or more. to make the deal affordable, i tried to use my jam points, but it wasn't allowed ... and i didn't buy.

Exactly the same experience with IK.

Strange, as it was allowed when I bought it two weeks ago.[/quote]

Guessing you bought this before the promotion started? It is now, $299, if you qualify, but this promotion didn't start until Sep 14 or 15. IK won't allow you to use both jam points and a promotional coupon - it is only one or the other.

[Fleer]

During the T-RackS 5 promotion you could (can) use JamPoints, bringing the upgrade down to $70 or so.

[ghettosynth]

I would have been totally fine with NOT getting a voucher at all when upgrading to Komplete - other than getting a practicly useless one.
The NI marketing guys should really have a thorough think about it.

It is kind of a pain trying to figure out what you can actually buy with it but recently I used a voucher to buy a Maschine expansion (I don't actually have a Maschine yet) and I have used the drum sounds from the expansion in a lot of projects. Also, if they release another guitar library like Strummed Acoustic 3 or something, I will definitely use one for that.

So, it definitely has its uses, they are just really minimal and you only have 6 months to use it lol.

Do you know if many/all have usable samples, or did you just get lucky?

[musicalwarmth812]

During the T-RackS 5 promotion you could (can) use JamPoints, bringing the upgrade down to $70 or so.

This is true, but that is a fixed pre-order. With the Total Studio Max deal, you cannot use jam points in conjunction with the promotional offer. It is probably just as well, because you are not allowed to transfer individual plugins within Total Studio Max - they are all tied to Total Studio Max, so you either transfer Total Studio Max, or none at all. IK's philosophy: you'll have nothing and like it.

[Fleer]

Let them eat cake, IK said.
Just like Marie-Antoinette.
And I particularly like their panettone.

[musicalwarmth812]

Let them eat cake, IK said.
Just like Marie-Antoinette.
And I particularly like their panettone.

Haha...Nice!

[epiphaneia]

The Ueberschall anniversary sale is tempting. Any thoughts on that? I did not yet buy into the Ueberschall ecosystem but I have to admit that their elastik player looks pretty neat.

+1, it´s strange that they have a ton of libraries on offer (apparently they are selling enough of these to make it a viable business), but there´s nearly no talk on them to be found online.

I am currently digging through all the library descriptions, and a lot of the libraries seem to be construction kits for advertising, TV background music etc (Ueberschall themselves advertise many libraries like that), and the demo bank confirms that feeling ("mix", "full rhythm", "bd", "sd", "hh", etc - lego blocks for assembling pre-made songs). If that´s what´s needed, the demos largely sound very good, so when someone ever asks me for "that scene needs a bit of thrash metal, but we won´t pay to license some famous band´s song", I know where to go.

But there´s quite a few libraries that seem to be suited for regular musical use, too. I´ll probably drop $$$ on this one: https://www.ueberschall.com/de/product/149/Ambient and if it´s good, I´ll report

[10bd01]

Thank you, Uncle E, you just made it possible for me to get Vintage Vault 2!

[Touch The Universe]

Hey guys. Just a few hours left on this sale (Until Sep. 30)

Rapid Soundset $7 (214 Presets).
LuSH-101 Ultra Soundset $15 (880 Presets).
Dune 2 Soundset $14 (155 Presets).
Halion Soundset - $24 (438 Presets + 3.55GB).
Diversion Soundset $8 (270 Presets).
Hive Soundset $8 (210 Presets).
Largo Soundset $25 (570 Presets).

All soundsets are suitable for just about any electronic and ambient genres, contemporary or retro, and contain many leads, basses, plucks, and keys, in addition to many pads and evolving atmospheres.

[Numanoid]

Toraverb 2 update for just €15 Nice!

[Fleer]

Toraverb 2 update for just €15 Nice!

Not much update to it, except for the unnecessary ducker.