On October 15, 2024 at 5:25 pm superabbit said
I sent email to e2genesis asking about whether the deal was legit and if so, what version(s) of the software you get, so we’ll see.

The idea of “old stock” licenses seems odd to me. Do software retailers actually buy blocks of licenses and maintain a “stock” of them?

I’ve always thought that they j…

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I did more digging (since I do not use Groupon at all and have no idea how it works) but apparently Groupon does not verify in any shape or form if the business putting up an offer is indeed the business they claim to be.

So it’s most likely a scam like larry knows it to be.

On October 15, 2024 at 4:58 pm superabbit said
I did a bit of Googlin’ about e2genesis and Groupon before I posted this (and asked Larry via PM) and couldn’t find anything evil about them.

It came up as a Google Shopping search result, all I was doing was searching for a price on Pro Q 3 to compare it with that $200 Slate Digital one.

Not tem…

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The company offering it seems to be this one: https://e2genesis.com/ (according to the Groupon page).

So there’s some weird stuff going on with the prices in this sale.

Some devs seem to have raised their prices by up to ~50% at least on Native Instrument store (and in some case, apparently also on their own site).

For example. Sonokinetic’s Orchestral Strings base price is 396 euros, on sale for 198 €

On their own site, at the same time, the b…Read More

I dread doing this so much, especially with how goddamn varied the software activation bullcrap is with music plugins.

You also never know what triggers some plugins to think you’ve got a brand new machine even though you only added a hard drive or replaced a GPU.

Had an issue with Cubase 13 loading up today due to some plugin effing up so I’ve…Read More

Does the upgrade really require 400 gigs of free space (especially when the actual thing is like ~80 gigs)?  That’s insane.

Is it just me or does this seem disappointing? Even the bundles. Most feel like they’re just 10-30% off.

C’mon. Time for an extra 10-15% sale, APD.

Nicely done! Cheers to all those involved!

On doug said
I would be willing to look at this gratis if you want. It shouldn’t be too difficult to add this feature to the thread view.

Doug Rintoul on the site which shall not be named

Yeah. I’d assume it’s just finding the right spot in the forum view template and throwing get_the_date and the_time on it (or whatever custom calls b…Read More

Seems like all the deals are available here: https://www.kirkhunterstudios.com/product-category/all-products/

https://www.kirkhunterstudios.com/

On peter said
I’m working with a tech to find out why sometimes links done a certain way are formatted like they are above in your posts cclarry and not working. I am on it. Did you just add the link in text or use the button from the editor?

Your friend who keeps the beat.

It does that when there’s no text in front of the link. If you type s…Read More

Getting slow, old timer 😛

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I had most of Kirks libraries over the years, I will write up some essentials later today, what was fab is that his libraries were focused on playing techniques and fantastic legatos in an very accessible way. He led the way with polyphonic legato technology!

Much appreciated.

On peter said
Consequently, if anyone has WordPress or similar experience — especially an IT pro, digital marketing pro, or is even just super tech savvy — and can pitch in / volunteer — to enter the free sample libraries and plugins, I’ll add the functionality. That’s really the hardest part, just entering in all of the stuff, then the community…

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On peter said
Do I have that right or am I missing something?

 

Doesn’t look like you’re missing anything. Current pro users seem to get shafted pretty hard.

Sad to see a business close down.

Do they have anything absolutely and positively mandatory in their product range though, that one should be looking out for?

If you pay ten bucks more and have Omnisphere 2, I think you get the instrument for that too on the dev’s website.

On that note. Quite like this instrument, but I did only pay ~10 bucks for it at APD last year.

Using it was a bit of a hassle when I wasn’t involved in Steinberg’s ecosystem (three different programs to manage/download/activate the…Read More

How about a cheaper upgrade price to those who are already on pro?