Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[peakles]

About the rack, I can imagine it eats a lot of CPU, right? And the use of the little ones are specially for a less CPU usage or they sound different from their big brothers? Thanks again.

The rack is just a host so I can't see that it eats much CPU.
I assumed that the Little versions are generally cut-down so have less features and they do cost less.
As for whether they use less CPU, I imagine they are a subset of the full version so in many cases they may use a similar load. If you crank up the full version with the extra features then in those cases it might well use more CPU.

Makes sense. Thanks for writing.

[Vleker]

No academic sale, that's interesting. It was $99 on Black Friday. Regular was $149 so if you have patience you could wait for that to happen again.

Sorry, I couldn't get it. $99 was the effect rack on Black Friday and $149 for the full bundle (both with academic discount), is it?

I'm quite sure the academic was $99 at some point

[WatchTheGuitar]

Here’s my PA $50 voucher

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Sorry! For doing this so late....
Whoever gets it first please just notify. Thanks

Here's my $25 one if it's any use to anyone

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That's fine. Means some toerag on here pinched it already and didn't bother posting to let us know.

[Uncle E]

Uncle E, Pulsar Mu "group" code doesn't work for mu anymore

Please PM me your JRR and PayPal emails, I’ll take care of it.

[Uncle E]

Im sure it did yesterday, damn, wish id bought then

Please PM me your JRR and PayPal emails, I’ll take care of it.

[Uncle E]

Yep, code doesn't work on pulsar. Audiodeluxe is giving 2.9$ on purchase...Uncle E can you match that?

Please PM me your JRR and PayPal emails, I’ll take care of it.

[tonymax]

Thanks for the offer eric, email posted to you

Im sure it did yesterday, damn, wish id bought then

Please PM me your JRR and PayPal emails, I’ll take care of it.

[Uncle E]

Uncle E

I think I noticed a pricing mistake on your blowout page https://blowout.jrrshop.com/synth-anatomy-red-diva

Edit: is this just the preset pack or the synth and preset pack bundle?

Thanks! It’s now fixed. It’s just the preset pack:

https://www.jrrshop.com/synth-anatomy-red-diva

[Uncle E]

Unless it's bundled with Diva itself $1.34 per patch seems a tad pricey

It’s $29 for 120 patches, so $.24 per patch.

[Uncle E]

ok, sorry Pulsar.
was just about to buy both of them.
no sale, that's lame

FWIW, Pulsar Audio is now being distributed by a different company. This is the new distributor’s rule. On a positive, the new distributor is responsible for the low prices of the current sale and Pulsar Audio never discounted this much when they were distributing themselves. Even without the extra discounts, I think these are the lowest prices ever for Mu and Echorec.

[Uncle E]

yeah me too.
that pretty much came to an even $100 for me here in Australia.
an extra $20 and the fact the price went up while it was in my shopping cart.
that's very frustrating for someone with next to no funds.
pisses me off enough to not buy either of them.

Please PM me your JRR and PayPal emails, I’ll fix it.

[Uncle E]

Me too, it offers nothing unique to pay too much.

Please PM me your JRR and PayPal emails, I’ll fix it.

[Uncle E]

I'm thinking about buying a soundtoys bundle. Does it worth to spend $100 more for the "little ones"?

Probably not. You’re not getting Little AlterBoy but I think that goes on sale for $29 fairly often. OTOH, the bundle might be better for upgrading later on.

[Uncle E]

Little Alterboy and Little Plate (both don't have a "big borther").

Oh, sorry, that’s right. Little Plate is quite good.

[Uncle E]

UAD would normally fall under the luxury goods area - you pay more for better quality. But their plugins may be Giffen goods. Though I'm thinking they are still well made. Just over-priced for the market. And their value is affected by companies like Waves, who used to have similar prices but realize that their 15+ year old plugins have long since paid for themselves.

Apple used to be luxury goods, but they are becoming more of a Giffen good. At least going by my husband's iPhones compared to my Samsungs.

Yes, agreed on all points. The gap between UAD and native plugins was very wide 10 years ago, now I routinely choose native plugins over UAD. They sometimes still release exceptional stuff, maybe 1 out of 5 these days.

Apple is so weird. The iMac, 13” MacBook Pro, and iPhone SE are great values, everything else is drastically, drastically overpriced.