Roland Cloud

[Septic Underground]

unfortunately apparently they are all gone.

I do NOT believe that, it is a bait and switch for getting subs.
When I read it yesterday it was gone very fast. I cant imagine 3030 ppl on the trigger waiting for Roland mails.

Not ONE second, very lame Roland.

[Alexander_D]

unfortunately apparently they are all gone.

I do NOT believe that, it is a bait and switch for getting subs.
When I read it yesterday it was gone very fast. I cant imagine 3030 ppl on the trigger waiting for Roland mails.

Not ONE second, very lame Roland.

I think so too, honestly. It's the marketing...

[beely]

unfortunately apparently they are all gone.

I do NOT believe that, it is a bait and switch for getting subs.
When I read it yesterday it was gone very fast. I cant imagine 3030 ppl on the trigger waiting for Roland mails.

Not ONE second, very lame Roland.

What do you not believe? Note that the offer was posted to their socials, Facebook and IG, their site and possibly other places too - I had seen and claimed mine before the email showed up. And I posted the deal on a few sites, and others from there got their licence too after me.

Within about an hour or so people were reporting there were no licenses left. So sorry you missed out, but there’s no conspiracy here.

[Septic Underground]

Maybe 30 but no 3030
And I have it already, don’t use it though, ABL3 all the way here

[db3]

I contacted support because their email was missing a code for 3 months free Ultimate. They did at least respond within a few hours and update my Roland Cloud account.

[Examigan]

They are offering a 3 month subscription in place of it.
They didn't give out the code to use for it in the email that went out.

"After you’ve signed in or created an account, click the 3-Month Membership banner. You’ll be directed to a secure payment iframe. Enter your unique code in the coupon field"

They should update that webpage to show they are out of keys, instead of just letting people give them their email address. https://www.rolandcloud.com/news/happy-303-day

And most giveaways don't tell you on the sign-up page that they're out of free licenses.

I just checked, and they still haven’t changed the website to show that there are no keys left. Is that so hard to add a line of text saying the offer has ended or something similar?

[D-Fusion]

I contacted support because their email was missing a code for 3 months free Ultimate. They did at least respond within a few hours and update my Roland Cloud account.

No code in my E-Mail either.
I Only got a walkthru on how to get my 3 Months of Ultimate Sub and a note that i needed the Serial to get it which was nowhere to be found in the E-Mail.

[vulpes777]

I contacted support because their email was missing a code for 3 months free Ultimate. They did at least respond within a few hours and update my Roland Cloud account.

No code in my E-Mail either.
I Only got a walkthru on how to get my 3 Months of Ultimate Sub and a note that i needed the Serial to get it which was nowhere to be found in the E-Mail.

Same here, there seems to be a bug in the email layout. The code, however, shows up fine when I click "View Email Online" near the bottom of the email.

The question is: while I definitely appreciate the gesture, is there anything really of interest to me* in the ultimate catalog?

JD-800, maybe, if just the TVA bug was fixed
Zenology Pro...also maybe, I sure won't be downloading all the expansions after I finally got it to start up in 7 seconds

Regards,

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Marco

*besides the lifetime keys I already have, that is.

[D-Fusion]

I contacted support because their email was missing a code for 3 months free Ultimate. They did at least respond within a few hours and update my Roland Cloud account.

No code in my E-Mail either.
I Only got a walkthru on how to get my 3 Months of Ultimate Sub and a note that i needed the Serial to get it which was nowhere to be found in the E-Mail.

Same here, there seems to be a bug in the email layout. The code, however, shows up fine when I click "View Email Online" near the bottom of the email.

The question is: while I definitely appreciate the gesture, is there anything really of interest to me* in the ultimate catalog?

JD-800, maybe, if just the TVA bug was fixed
Zenology Pro...also maybe, I sure won't be downloading all the expansions after I finally got it to start up in 7 seconds

Regards,

--
Marco

*besides the lifetime keys I already have, that is.

Great and thanks for the tips
Clicked view online and there it was.

[planetearth]

They are offering a 3 month subscription in place of it.
They didn't give out the code to use for it in the email that went out.

"After you’ve signed in or created an account, click the 3-Month Membership banner. You’ll be directed to a secure payment iframe. Enter your unique code in the coupon field"

They should update that webpage to show they are out of keys, instead of just letting people give them their email address. https://www.rolandcloud.com/news/happy-303-day

And most giveaways don't tell you on the sign-up page that they're out of free licenses.

I just checked, and they still haven’t changed the website to show that there are no keys left. Is that so hard to add a line of text saying the offer has ended or something similar?

Show me a developer who posts that the offer for something they were generously giving away has ended. Waves doesn't do it. Arturia doesn't do it. Native Instruments doesn't do it. Plugin Boutique doesn't do it.

Show me one that does.

I get that Roland has made some missteps in customer service over the past couple of years. But complaining that they don't do something that no other large developer does is a bit much.

I'll bet that if Roland had updated the page to say "Sorry, we're all out of licenses," people here would have complained about the way it was phrased.

Steve

[Examigan]

I went back and click the link saying "CLICK HERE to get your free TB-303!"
and now it goes to a different page:
https://www.roland.com/global/?lang=en-JM

So at least now it's not asking for people to sign up to get it, so that's good.

[braincandy]

Aside from our complaints about RCM and the lack of new instruments, what are some of your favorite instruments?

I picked up the D-50 and JX-3P for last year's sub as I already have plenty of Juno and Jupiter emulations. I'm leaning towards the JD-800 and Jupiter-4 for this year's sub as I've had a lot of fun with both recently. I've also really liked the System 8 model and JP-8, even though I have JP-8's from TAL and Arturia.

[db3]

I've picked up a few lifetime keys, mainly classic mono & poly analogues. I one I tend to use the most is the SH-2 for its juicy tones. The free 3 months ultimate sub has at least let me try a bunch of presets across all synths — Roland should include more of these packs for free with lifetime keys.

[vulpes777]

I've picked up a few lifetime keys, mainly classic mono & poly analogues. I one I tend to use the most is the SH-2 for its juicy tones. The free 3 months ultimate sub has at least let me try a bunch of presets across all synths — Roland should include more of these packs for free with lifetime keys.

I'm mostly here for the Persing-era plugins, which unfortunately have been left:

• incomplete (missing banks, sysex import and other features),

• buggy (the display bug and especially, for me, the JD-800 TVA),

• victims of questionable marketing decisions (the separate SRX plugins, which are also an incomplete set)

• and overall abandoned (stuck with a terrible patch browser and very few expansions released since Zenology launched: XV-5080 only has one and they didn't bother to officially port the expansions they had released for the JV-1080)

for me, the rest of the offer goes from "actually fine" (Zenology, when it's debloated) to "I already have too many of those" (System-1/8), to "this has already been done to death with so many grades of accuracy and different pricetags" (Juno/J8/x0x), to "eh, nope, don't really need this" (Zenbeats and Galaxias).

I think right now the biggest appeal of the RC Ultimate catalog is if you have some recent hardware and you can carry, for instance, Zenology and the Legendary series around as hardware plug-outs, which is not my case.

Regards,

--
Marco

[IvyBirds]

I'm mostly here for the Persing-era plugins, which unfortunately have been left:

• incomplete (missing banks, sysex import and other features),

• buggy (the display bug and especially, for me, the JD-800 TVA),

• victims of questionable marketing decisions (the separate SRX plugins, which are also an incomplete set)

• and overall abandoned (stuck with a terrible patch browser and very few expansions released since Zenology launched: XV-5080 only has one and they didn't bother to officially port the expansions they had released for the JV-1080)

Regards,

--
Marco

Could not agree more Marco. Eric's legacy is huge and I am amazed that Roland hasn't bothered to actually present that in a usable way to honor that