Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[Uncle E]

Does anyone know if Pianoteq licenses can be re-sold?

[Fleer]

Does anyone know if Pianoteq licenses can be re-sold?

IIRC they charge 29 € for a license transfer. The current licence owner needs to contact Pianoteq first and pay that fee.

[Feelshallright]

PM to me. if you need code u-he.

Just found out that coupon codes aren’t allowed for the Color Copy BETA. Makes sense, it’s already priced reasonably for its intro. Thanks though.

Would have been great to use the voucher on top of that!

[Feelshallright]

I gave in and grabbed the audioplugin.deals Frozen Plain bundle. It seemed too cool for $10 bucks a piece. Good stuff.

Same! Had my eye on Arctic Strings for awhile and didn'teven know how much I needed the other 2. What a fantastic Kontakt dev.

Yes, that's a nice little bundle.

[Feelshallright]

Hey @UncleE,
Are you carrying the upgrade version of QL Spaces II? Soundsonline has it for $149 for two days. Trying to find it cheaper....
Thanks!

If UncleE can't sell it cheaper, just wait a little while to see EastWest have a 50% off sale. For example, Hollywood Choirs was released not so long ago, and it was already recently on sale at 50% off.

[dzilizzi]

Are you carrying the upgrade version of QL Spaces II? Soundsonline has it for $149 for two days. Trying to find it cheaper....

I seem to remember being told we can't sell other EastWest Upgrades but I will ask.

Thanks, that doesn't surprise me. But I thought I would ask.

[dzilizzi]

Hey @UncleE,
Are you carrying the upgrade version of QL Spaces II? Soundsonline has it for $149 for two days. Trying to find it cheaper....
Thanks!

If UncleE can't sell it cheaper, just wait a little while to see EastWest have a 50% off sale. For example, Hollywood Choirs was released not so long ago, and it was already recently on sale at 50% off.

For 2 days they are selling it at $149 for the upgrade price, regularly $199. Full price is
$399/$299 sale price. So it isn't too bad. But I always ask.

[Uncle E]

For 2 days they are selling it at $149 for the upgrade price, regularly $199. Full price is
$399/$299 sale price. So it isn't too bad. But I always ask.

Yes, that's a very good price. EastWest sale prices are usually 50% off MSRP, meaning the full version might be $199 when it goes on sale. If Upgrades don't usually go on sale and the new impulses are as good as they seem, I'd say go for it.

-edit-

EastWest confirmed that Upgrades are only sold direct.

[machinesworking]

My comments have to do with my experiences getting into music in the early-mid 2000's. Even now, if you walk into a Guitar Center, any display computers are almost always Macs. I remember hearing from other musicians wanting to start with recording that they would instantly gravitate towards OSX because of Garage Band and Logic. Garage Band was a quick, easy, ridiculously user-friendly way to record stuff provided at no extra cost. Done and done. I think Macs and OSX have/had always been preferable in years prior because the software selection for music making and recording was better and more readily available, and a lot of developers had more of a OSX-first mentality than they do now. That's all water under the bridge at this point, and there seem to be very few OSX/AU-only developers left these days.

Again, this is just my perception and limited experience, and may not be entirely based upon verifiable facts. If anyone can cite examples to prove me wrong, I'd be be glad to hear it. (And that should probably warrant a new thread in another subform.) I also don't want this aside discussion to completely derail the thread or get into a platform war, because that's dumb sh*t.

OK I get it, yeah that's really very subjective. For me I got into Logic right before Apple bought it, and before that pretty much only Pro Tools and maybe DP were considered mac superior etc. Everyone would mention better performance on PC, and better selection of DAWs, plug ins, etc. It wasn't until it was obvious not everyone was going to get a PC who used PT and Logic started getting tagged as the de facto OSX DAW that macs got "back on track". At this point it seems for end users it's really a split 50/50 and I hope to god it stays that way, either side getting the 'upper hand' results in more obnoxious BS as we seem to have both experienced from different sides. I couldn't give a rats ass if someone occasionally feels the need to attack me or others for using macs, but the constant barrage of autists on either side gets really dull to read in forums.

Back to Sinevibes, you remind me I should pick his stuff up more often. It's cheap and effective, useful etc. Glad he's going cross platform eventually, might put a bump in development, but if either platform suffers a garbage update that makes making music on a computer a PITA it's nice to have options.

[schmerzschlag]

Has anyone tried to reach out to kiloHearts lately? I sent in a support request for a license transfer about 4 days ago and haven't heard anything.

I had a problem after an update and wrote to them. They helped me pretty quickly with a workaround (within a few hours) and came back to me when they fixed the initial problem. That was maybe two weeks ago. After four days, I'd probably contact them again.

[martinjuenke]

I gave in and grabbed the audioplugin.deals Frozen Plain bundle. It seemed too cool for $10 bucks a piece. Good stuff.

Same! Had my eye on Arctic Strings for awhile and didn'teven know how much I needed the other 2. What a fantastic Kontakt dev.

The Audioplugin deals shop is a confusing mess though - I've had $20 in rewards for ages but every time I try and spend it on something I get told 'You cannot use more than $0.00 in rewards money' so it never gets used. Wanted to use it on the Frozen Plain bundle

You can only use rewards in the shop, not on the weekly/fortnightly deals, you can find the info on the "how it works" section of their rewards page.

Their reward scheme rules are completely nuts and worth NOTHING for us customers!

[shonky]

I gave in and grabbed the audioplugin.deals Frozen Plain bundle. It seemed too cool for $10 bucks a piece. Good stuff.

Same! Had my eye on Arctic Strings for awhile and didn'teven know how much I needed the other 2. What a fantastic Kontakt dev.

The Audioplugin deals shop is a confusing mess though - I've had $20 in rewards for ages but every time I try and spend it on something I get told 'You cannot use more than $0.00 in rewards money' so it never gets used. Wanted to use it on the Frozen Plain bundle

You can only use rewards in the shop, not on the weekly/fortnightly deals, you can find the info on the "how it works" section of their rewards page.

Their reward scheme rules are completely nuts and worth NOTHING for us customers!

It's kinda sly I admit but makes sense from their perspective. They have the sale period for items, then these go to the shop but at higher, yet still discounted prices, so it gives an incentive to buy during the sale. If people could use vouchers for sale items, they'd be giving them away for free with the cheaper items. Plugin boutique also offer % reductions in exchange for reward points but these aren't valid during sales so APD aren't unique in this fashion.

[Tappistry]

Has anyone tried to reach out to kiloHearts lately? I sent in a support request for a license transfer about 4 days ago and haven't heard anything.

I had a problem after an update and wrote to them. They helped me pretty quickly with a workaround (within a few hours) and came back to me when they fixed the initial problem. That was maybe two weeks ago. After four days, I'd probably contact them again.

Yeah that's my plan. I'm thinking maybe they're all on vacation? It's definitely tourist season where I live right now!

[Tappistry]

I gave in and grabbed the audioplugin.deals Frozen Plain bundle. It seemed too cool for $10 bucks a piece. Good stuff.

Same! Had my eye on Arctic Strings for awhile and didn'teven know how much I needed the other 2. What a fantastic Kontakt dev.

The Audioplugin deals shop is a confusing mess though - I've had $20 in rewards for ages but every time I try and spend it on something I get told 'You cannot use more than $0.00 in rewards money' so it never gets used. Wanted to use it on the Frozen Plain bundle

You can only use rewards in the shop, not on the weekly/fortnightly deals, you can find the info on the "how it works" section of their rewards page.

Their reward scheme rules are completely nuts and worth NOTHING for us customers!

It's kinda sly I admit but makes sense from their perspective. They have the sale period for items, then these go to the shop but at higher, yet still discounted prices, so it gives an incentive to buy during the sale. If people could use vouchers for sale items, they'd be giving them away for free with the cheaper items. Plugin boutique also offer % reductions in exchange for reward points but these aren't valid during sales so APD aren't unique in this fashion.

The nice thing with PB is that you can exchange reward tokens for cash, which can be stacked on top of sales. So if you save up that credit for a while and time it right, you can really knock the price down on some larger purchases.

[MogwaiBoy]

I gave in and grabbed the audioplugin.deals Frozen Plain bundle. It seemed too cool for $10 bucks a piece. Good stuff.

Same! Had my eye on Arctic Strings for awhile and didn'teven know how much I needed the other 2. What a fantastic Kontakt dev.

The Audioplugin deals shop is a confusing mess though - I've had $20 in rewards for ages but every time I try and spend it on something I get told 'You cannot use more than $0.00 in rewards money' so it never gets used. Wanted to use it on the Frozen Plain bundle

You can only use rewards in the shop, not on the weekly/fortnightly deals, you can find the info on the "how it works" section of their rewards page.

Their reward scheme rules are completely nuts and worth NOTHING for us customers!

Just got these messages:

"You cannot use more than $0.00 in rewards money"

"You cannot add "BASSilicious by Gospel Musicians" to the cart because the product is out of stock."

Hell if I know how their system works - looks broken to me.