Dammit now I just noticed the OB-1 is on sale 
September is PluginBoutique Synth Month, so lots of them are.
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Howard, you don’t need any new toy in your toy box. 
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I absolutely do not, correct. I actually should sell some synths, I am more than covered. I’m not buying it, just laughing at the universe 
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Actually taking stock, I might be serious and really be done buying them, I am pretty much completely covered for what I want.
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I had this revelation when my colleague came for a visit, he’s a keyboardist in his local amateur band, he knows a little about music production and so, and he was absolutely blown away by the setup. He was literally running around my room like a little kid in a candy store, pushing buttons, sliding sliders, trying all possible VSTs. I am so done with acquiring new gear and software since that experience. I have literally everything I will ever need to create whatever kind of sound or music I can think of till the end of time. And so much time I save just by not following all the possible information channels related to gear and software.
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Totally. I have built up and now my innate minimalism is starting to kick in, too.
If I am honest with myself even just the Bitwig builtins are more than enough.
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Wow, the bass sounds great, and the singer is putting in a shift! Great stuff, Thump Whistle!
ok I lied
It’s really good.
Picked up their DMX from someone for $25 too because one can never get enough DMX.
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Meanwhile still selling down too, just sold my 303 emu and one of my 808’s - just not fitting with what I want to do now. A couple more left to sell.
After chatting vintage Korgs with @terb I also saw that Cherry Audio’s MS-20 emu was only $29 even new and I haven’t stopped playing with it, it’s perfect. Way better than Arturia’s was.
So now I have a complete collection of both nasty and nice for synths, a full set of great amp/cab sims, all the effects, and backup options for everything too. I’ll have to make a list of what I have finally landed on and update the OP.
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F#ck iLok & UAD!!!
I’ve had it with UAD plugins.
I cannot use them with my offline notebook, as it needs to be activated via the cloud EVERY time you use it.
And even on my online notebook it wants to reactivate several times per day. Currently the online/cloud activation does not work, so I can’t use any UAD plugin.
You cannot see that it is not activated (= not working) without opening the plugin UI. So, if you’re creating a mix, you notice something strange, cannot point your finger at it, until you decide to go through all plugin UIs for that mix, only to find that the UAD compression does not work.
Shame on you , UAD!
Soooooo … I would like to replace the following plugins with something decent, cheap and working (also offline):
- 1176LN Plug-In for UAD-2
- 1176SE Plug-In for UAD-2
- Fairchild Plug-In for UAD-2 (Legacy)
- Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection Plug-In for UAD-2
- LA2A Plug-In for UAD-2
- Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection Plug-In for UAD-2
- UA 1176 Limiter Collection Plug-In for UAD-2
Most importantly the Teletronix LA-2A (not the silver or grey one), as I use that most for daily playing.
I wish, somebody would tell UAD that it’s 2024 and cloud or USB activation are so very 90s…
Totally p#ssed off!
Sorry to hear that, man! Could you connect your laptop to your phone to get connectivity even when away from Wifi!?!
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Every fall, it’s the same for Mac users: a new OS version is about to be available, but it’s not always a good idea to update right away.
Eventide, for example, is recommending to wait as they haven’t fully tested all their plug-ins with Sequoia yet. Other plug-in manufacturer will likely issue similar statements!
Hopefully, by mid-October, it should all be good… 
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Yeah - I was thinking about that too. I would need to use “metered connection”, to reduce traffic, as I have chosen for a low traffic mobile plan.
And I don’t know how much traffic would be created nonetheless, when using this method…
(Also, abroad in non-EU countries my mobile plan would not work!)
Again, I need to reactivate several times per day - why???!
And what really made me explode today was the downtime of the UA (iLok?) activation server. I could not use the UAD plugins at all. I’m getting mad again, just writing this
Every other plugin I use works with machine-activation. Which is the way it should be.
I really hate all those offline things that need to be connected online to work (same for videogames). a big NO-NO for me. and to be honest it’s somewhat a part of my love of hardware gear.
A 30+ year old SVT is like :
Cons :
- quite expensive
- a bit heavy
- warm-up time
- burns very expensive tubes
- never 100% sure about the reliability
- expensive (very expensive) when you have to repair it
- no preset
- even no master volume
- do not sound better than a good VST
Pros :
- do not sound worse than a good VST
- actual pots to turn
- is the real thing
- works without internet
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Same here!
I should have read the fine print, but the last time I encountered something like that was many years ago … with video games! And it was obsolete even then!
The “funny” thing is that iLok allows activation per device. UAD does not allow for it. It’s not a technical issue. It’s terrorism!
- my girflfriend will kick my @ss!
maybe a crack exists ?
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Hahaha! I was in the Dutch hacker scene when I was young and stupid.
99% of all cracks are full of viruses.
That one, I don’t understand! I don’t think I have experienced that.
What I have seen though is that some plug-ins “crash” occasionally and need to be “restored”. Maybe - after having heard about your challenges - this is related to “re-activation”!?! I need to keep a log for which of my plug-ins is doing that… 
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Hmmm, my plugins never crash! Not even UAD…
Yeah, the reactivation is strange. I have it on both notebooks … even the offline one, when I use it online in hotels etc.
So it’s not device or WIFI dependent … it’s the common factor: the UAD plugins.
My guess is that UAD just implemented the iLink functionality buggy. They also don’t seem to understand it good enough to provide per device authentification (like oZone does, for example).
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iLok is a nuisance for sure!
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