Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[Kalamata Kid]

Nomad Factory Garbage for $25 at JRR worth it?

If you like this kind of plugins it's a bargain! Demo is available so if you have doubts try it out.

How does it compare to something like Tantra?

Interesting question. Garbage vs Tantra
I did a Google search and hope to read up on it.
https://www.google.com/search?ei=KlhSWs ... jrby7MIeTE

Would Fault be similar?
https://www.unfilteredaudio.com/products/fault

[Ryan99]

Interesting, when I wrote them they said that they will not explain their system. Lucky!

But I believe the reply you got, was more near the truth...

If you don’t believe me, here’s the message I got from Sade Christner from PA Support:

« Looking into your account I see you've spent $241.60 with us and in order to move up a voucher bracket, your total will need to exceed $300.

Best,
Sade
The Plugin Alliance Support Team »

[murnau]

They should make that visible in the indivudal user accounts: Would be worthwhile for both sides.

[Nobdi]

"...your total will need to exceed $300. ..."
Strange. My records show that I have around €400 spend with them ... maybe transfer fees don't count in this ?!?

[mgw38]

« Looking into your account I see you've spent $241.60 with us and in order to move up a voucher bracket, your total will need to exceed $300. »

“Voucher bracket“

Love that term. I‘d like to see a voucher reform that benefits the plugin-wealthy.

[Harry_HH]

Interesting, when I wrote them they said that they will not explain their system. Lucky!

But I believe the reply you got, was more near the truth...

If you don’t believe me, here’s the message I got from Sade Christner from PA Support:

« Looking into your account I see you've spent $241.60 with us and in order to move up a voucher bracket, your total will need to exceed $300.

Best,
Sade
The Plugin Alliance Support Team »

Ryan, Don´t get me wrong, I don´t suspect your words at all. What I ment, is that I believe that the Plugin Alliance has rationalized the explanation, in reality their system of evaluating and sending vouchers is more or less a mess. I´m basing my opinion to the feedback of different people in these sites, and the feedbac I´ve got directly from the Plugin Alliance.

[mutantdog]

The whole voucher thing has been a huge experiment for PA and they have clearly adjusted the rules over the last year (eg: no two vouchers of the same value can now be used in one month). Has it been a successful experiment? I reckon it probably has, just from the discussions in this thread alone. No doubt there are people using these codes to get free stuff, but there are also a lot of people spending a little more (even if only $4).

My feeling is that PA are probably in the process of re-assessing the how the voucher evaluation works, hence the different responses and feedback on this forum. It may be the case that making the $35 voucher tier more accessible leads to customers spending more money. If they can get enough of the $4 customers to spend $14 that will surely be a big win.

[pekbro]

IMO PA is pretty shrewd, the voucher system is smart and solves a lot of problems while avoiding the pitfalls typically associated with deeply duscounting a product line. A million years ahead of Waves and others. No doubt it will need to be fine tuned over time. Others should take note tbh.

[Shuffle34]

I just watched a video review of the Soundiron Insane Bundle currently on sale. Anyone got it? Mars looks like an amazing choir for the price.

[telecharge]

Nomad Factory Garbage for $25 at JRR worth it?

If you like this kind of plugins it's a bargain! Demo is available so if you have doubts try it out.

How does it compare to something like Tantra?

shonky answered this for me here a little while back.
viewtopic.php?f=43&t=262178&p=6952629

Bought it in a previous sale for similar price, it's much more limited than Tantra, both in terms of modulation sources and destinations and the fx (just checked and although it has two sets of LFOs and envelopes, those two combine to create Mod Source 1 and 2, so it only really has two onboard mod sources). Remember the filters being pretty good, distortion and bit-crushing fairly nondescript, never got much use out of the convolution, ring and amplitude modulation if you use those much, and there's an old school radio compressor and EQ if you like that sort of thing.

Hard pushed to think of a point where something else wouldn't suffice.

[dandezebra]

I just watched a video review of the Soundiron Insane Bundle currently on sale. Anyone got it? Mars looks like an amazing choir for the price.

Mars alone is worth it.

[waltercruz]

It was a coupon offering the full v4 at $69 to everyone with a few Arturia products. Even hardware and iOS apps counted. Didn't have any of the Collection instruments myself, but they allowed me to crossgrade from an iOS app, Spark Dubstep (I got for $1) and Minilab. Date was January 6, 2016.

Ah, that explains it then. I had already had V4 for a year at that point. However, V5 was never sold at that price IIRC. LOL@your insane deal which was better than my, already pretty good, deal!

I have one or two of their ios apps, but I don't think that they're registered with any Arturia account.

I got V-collection classics for $69 on december 2015 and updated to V Collection Update (V-4 synths with new interfaces) for $99 on june 2016.

[dzilizzi]

The whole voucher thing has been a huge experiment for PA and they have clearly adjusted the rules over the last year (eg: no two vouchers of the same value can now be used in one month). Has it been a successful experiment? I reckon it probably has, just from the discussions in this thread alone. No doubt there are people using these codes to get free stuff, but there are also a lot of people spending a little more (even if only $4).

My feeling is that PA are probably in the process of re-assessing the how the voucher evaluation works, hence the different responses and feedback on this forum. It may be the case that making the $35 voucher tier more accessible leads to customers spending more money. If they can get enough of the $4 customers to spend $14 that will surely be a big win.

This! I would probably buy $49 plug-ins more often if I got a $35 voucher. Now I mostly buy $29 ones unless something looks really good at $49. I rarely go higher because I need more plug-ins like I need another hole in my head.

[dzilizzi]

I just watched a video review of the Soundiron Insane Bundle currently on sale. Anyone got it? Mars looks like an amazing choir for the price.

I got it but haven't played with it much yet. Their stuff is good, and if you picked up the Venus bundle the last time, you pretty much have the full Olympus choir which is supposed to be one of the better ones.

[dandezebra]

I just ordered Thesys for $9.99 from Musician's Friend. An hour after order, I called to ask about why it says it will ship and ETA of what I presumed to be an E-mailed Serial for Sugar Bytes. They said that in their end it looks like it will be an actual shipment... I wonder if someone screwed up.