Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[dzilizzi]

Don´t buy XLN Audio Products - these are a pure nightmare.
I´ve got the RC-20 Retro Color, the plugin itself is OK, I´d say mediocre,
the installation, and especially keeping your plugin authorized is from hell.
About 6 times a year I the plugi stops working, and claims, that computer is not registered.
(The note may tell you, that you should run the computer in the compability mode, as well, but
changing this parameter doesn´t really help).
If you have desktop and laptop, this means 12 re-authorization process yearly.
You have to first un-authorize your already authorized computer, the launch a separate XLN Audio
installer, and re-authorize you computer.
This doesn´t take very long time, but each time you try to use your plugin, you never know, if
it will run or if it will demand a re-authorization of your DAW, irritates the use, at least me.
And wasting your time with this, while you had 100 other things to do, has made me hating the XLN Audio
plugins. I have written to of this to their help desk, without any real help.

I don't have retro color, but I do have Addictive Drums, AD2, and Addictive Keys for many years and have never had this problem. I'm running Windows 10, if that matters.

[yehboy1]

I have owned AD2 (several times) and never was asked to re-authorize during the time periods that I owned them. Only did the initial authorizations. Strange.

[machinesworking]

About 6 times a year I the plugi stops working, and claims, that computer is not registered.
(The note may tell you, that you should run the computer in the compability mode, as well, but
changing this parameter doesn´t really help).
If you have desktop and laptop, this means 12 re-authorization process yearly.
You have to first un-authorize your already authorized computer, the launch a separate XLN Audio
installer, and re-authorize you computer.
This doesn´t take very long time, but each time you try to use your plugin, you never know, if
it will run or if it will demand a re-authorization of your DAW, irritates the use, at least me.

I have owned AD2 (several times) and never was asked to re-authorize during the time periods that I owned them. Only did the initial authorizations. Strange.

I'm assuming you're on Windows, and there has to be a way to de authorize and remove all traces of a plug in. In OS X if this was happening and there were multiple reports of people not having this issue, I would do a deep uninstall, erase every trace of the plug in, because it's not making any sense beyond some corrupt preference setting somewhere.

[Ou_Tis]

Don´t buy XLN Audio Products - these are a pure nightmare.
I´ve got the RC-20 Retro Color, the plugin itself is OK, I´d say mediocre,
the installation, and especially keeping your plugin authorized is from hell.
About 6 times a year I the plugi stops working, and claims, that computer is not registered.
(The note may tell you, that you should run the computer in the compability mode, as well, but
changing this parameter doesn´t really help).
If you have desktop and laptop, this means 12 re-authorization process yearly.
You have to first un-authorize your already authorized computer, the launch a separate XLN Audio
installer, and re-authorize you computer.
This doesn´t take very long time, but each time you try to use your plugin, you never know, if
it will run or if it will demand a re-authorization of your DAW, irritates the use, at least me.
And wasting your time with this, while you had 100 other things to do, has made me hating the XLN Audio
plugins. I have written to of this to their help desk, without any real help.

I don't have retro color, but I do have Addictive Drums, AD2, and Addictive Keys for many years and have never had this problem. I'm running Windows 10, if that matters.

I think I only had that issue once with AD2 (same error message), when multiple plugins and the DAW itself were failing---iirc there was also a RAM warning. The problems went away after closing unnecessary processes, deleting a large number of unnecessary plugin instances from the project, restarting my computer, and waiting a few hours.

[Double Tap]

Is Breaktweaker worth a tenner?

[GusGranite]

anyone bought Inear Display plugins before? What is their support like?
do they have sales?
cheers

I really like their plugins. Very creative. Can’t remember if I purchased them direct or via reseller but I think it was in sales. Never needed support. Sleeper plugins for sure.

[jsp1979]

Does the Soundtoys Effect Rack use ilok (either dongle and/or software)?

I seem to recall that they made some changes or made additional options at some point, but I can't recall the story there.

[agharta]

Does the Soundtoys Effect Rack use ilok (either dongle and/or software)?

Yes, software is allowed.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Is Breaktweaker worth a tenner?

IMO not for the plugin itself which is a massive CPU hog, but it comes with over 6500 one shot drum samples that are very good so worth it for that alone easily.

[Ou_Tis]

Is Breaktweaker worth a tenner?

IMO not for the plugin itself which is a massive CPU hog, but it comes with over 6500 one shot drum samples that are very good so worth it for that alone easily.

The accompanying patterns and layerings are nice too, and it has midi drag and drop.

[Ou_Tis]

Wow, the new September/October Plugin Collective freebie is a huge disappointment. Reason Plugin Pack Lite. Oh well....

[Ou_Tis]

Someone mentioned getting Addictive Drummer adpaks for free. Would it be a good idea to wait to make more of my AD2 Custom picks to see what they might give out for free in the meantime? Or is that rare/some special circumstance that person had?

[Insanelysane]

Someone mentioned getting Addictive Drummer adpaks for free. Would it be a good idea to wait to make more of my AD2 Custom picks to see what they might give out for free in the meantime? Or is that rare/some special circumstance that person had?

I havent heard of a free adpak? Havent seen them hand out a freebie ever really. Where did you hear about this?

[Ou_Tis]

Someone mentioned getting Addictive Drummer adpaks for free. Would it be a good idea to wait to make more of my AD2 Custom picks to see what they might give out for free in the meantime? Or is that rare/some special circumstance that person had?

I havent heard of a free adpak? Havent seen them hand out a freebie ever really. Where did you hear about this?

Someone on KVR was selling their XLN account, they said they didn't want to sell individual ADpaks because a lot of them were freebies and NFR iirc. Or maybe they meant they were "free" with the Custom bundle?... IDK.

[yehboy1]

freebie is a huge disappointment