Hey Mod, this should give ya a chuckle...

I saw that GC has most of their expansion packs for both EZD and SD2 on half price for the next few weeks.  Time to snag Metal Foundry I says to myself.  Moseyed on down to my local GC and said to my sales guy (and former employee of my own studio) Josh, my good man, I think I'll have me a big ol steamin cup of Toontrack Metal Foundry today as I see you have them on sale.  Sure, says he and begins to google around on his computer.  But guess what?  No, go on guess.  The local GCs didn't have anything about the sale in their computers.  No problem, says Josh, I can match any competitors price...even our own.  I'll wait a moment for that to sink in.  And this is what he did.  He just "pretended" on the computer to match a competitors price (namely GC) and rang up a reciept for 79 bucks plus tax.  OK!  Thanks Josh, ol pal.  But wait...it gets better.  Nowadays, as you might be aware, you don't get a box or a DVD, all you get is a piece of paper with your license code on it which you enter into Toons registration process, download your software, authorize it and go on your merry way.  Not so fast, Hortense!!  When my reciept printed out instead of an ordered series of five (or 6?) groups of 4 letters and numbers my little slip of paper just said "X" in the license code area.  Just the singular letter "X".  Now that can't be right says I.  So off Josh goes to talk to the boss.  And here's what he told me.  Once the reciept is printed out with ANY kind of license code on it (even "X") it can't be reprinted or returned.  And since this is a weekend we will all have to wait till Monday to sort this out...OR...I'm free to head on to Toon's site and see if "X" will unlock and download the software.  I'm waiting till Monday.  GC...don't ya just love em.
 
 
PS:  No...X doesn't work.  I couldn't resist.

I hate to say anything derogatory about any one particular TT distributor so I'll just shut up.


Did I ever tell you that they wanted to add my product to their business (we were already selling Musician's Friend)?  They basically wanted to come in and take over my product and tell me what they would pay for me to put it together.

Told them to take a hike.  (The Musician's Friend business went away.)

gustabo

craigfowler


*Every* time I've bought an EZX at GC I've had this kind of problem. The store in town never changes their printer ink, so you always end up with a half dozen characters that could be one of three or four things. Last time it took a DaVinci Code level of decrypting (seriously - working methodically through each of about 20 possible combinations) to get my NY SDX to authorize.

Try scanning your receipt with a scanner and save as a grayscale image and then invert the colors of the image. That helps me read faded print on thermal receipts. This may work for you.

Thanks for the tip - I did scan as grayscale but it didn't occur to me to invert the colors. I'll try that next time (which, let's face it - will be next month unless I go for Abbey Road 70s instead!)

I was referring to craigfowler's faded ink.
I realize that inverting an X would only give clues to the "I Am The Walrus" Beatles conspiracy so I won't even mention that!
Cool, I've been referred to as "ol pal"!!!!! (thank you, sincerely)

I had a similar problem... Couldn't decifer if it was a "D" a "0" or an "O" on my slip and there were several in the code. took about a dozen tries untill I gave up and contacted toon tech service. They helped alot on getting me going and it was a Saturday.

Beagle


crap!  nashville sdx is the only one not listed as 1/2 price!  that's the only one I wanted!

 
Do you already have the NY vol II? I think that's pretty spectacular! Definitely worth the price of admission!

Hey guys

Just jumping in on this one....

Over here in the scotland we have to buy it by the box and have our disks in our hands that day. Metal foundry has 5. (will be a big download for ya man!)

One of my disks wasnt working when I was doing a reinstall one day and when I went on to my toonaccount I couldnt download the full version only part of it.

I just wanted to ask you guys are you able to download the full versions to your accounts ? or just parts then you ge tteh disks posted to you ?

The reason I ask is I live about an hour and a half drive away from any music shop so would be better for me to just be able to download in the future but I didnt think I could?

I Hope you get your X problem sorted maybe its a sign :P do do with Sonar X1 or something haha toontrack know something we dont :P

Anyways once you are sorted you will love the metal foundry its great and I will be interested to hear how you get on

Cheers and beers

Norrie

The codes I love are the ones that use upper and lower case letters and also numbers.....


so take your best guess..>>>>. 00Ol-IIl1-0O0O... ???? just a simple combo of cap O's and the 0 zero as well as a few 1 ones a small l L and a cap I (eye) ....

those are always my favorites. And it's really, really fun if the printout is a bit faded....

.which, ironically, I spend most of my time (as did Roger Nichols) getting OUT of my drum mixes and not IN. YMMV.

I can see that. Sometimes the bleed seems.... well.... too bleedin' mush.

"yoropal"

PS:  No...X doesn't work.  I couldn't resist. 

Although I feel sorry for your misfortune, I just couldn't stop laughing. Nice humor/sarcasm combo. Entertaining post.

bitflipper

I wanted to see if I could tell a real, substantive difference in quality between this new soundpack and my original SD2 full load NYAvatar kits

Well? Could you?

I think myolpal stated above he's lazy (or some such 'scuse). So we'll probably never know.