Downloaded and installed them last evening, but haven't fired up X1 yet to test it out. Everything went smoothly.....I'm looking forward to learning some tips on T-RackS from that Groove3 video as well.

MrMook: I highly recommend the Black as you can use it on practically everything (vocals, guitars, bass, drums, busses etc...) and it does put life into these tracks. That being said, I haven't used the White yet, so I'm biased.   

Mesh


MrMook: I highly recommend the Black as you can use it on practically everything (vocals, guitars, bass, drums, busses etc...) and it does put life into these tracks. That being said, I haven't used the White yet, so I'm biased.    
  
 Mesh, thanks! After reading the descriptions I went with Black.
 
White will be next if I can find it on sale.
 
Too bad esoundz didn't do their sale on the Singles this week.

I selected the White as the freebie since the ProChanell has an "1176" comp and I had no "LA2A." So far, I've been doing pretty good with the PC76. How does it compare to the Black76?

jamesyoyo

Rain

Mesh


Downloaded and installed them last evening, but haven't fired up X1 yet to test it out. Everything went smoothly.....I'm looking forward to learning some tips on T-RackS from that Groove3 video as well.

MrMook: I highly recommend the Black as you can use it on practically everything (vocals, guitars, bass, drums, busses etc...) and it does put life into these tracks. That being said, I haven't used the White yet, so I'm biased.   

I'm also partial to the Black 76, though I own both. Of all IK's plug-ins it's probably the one I use the most. 

Yeah, that has become my go-to plug as well. I actually bought the White last month...have yet to find it's sweet spot.

I've been using it in the guitar bus for distorted/overdriven guitars. It's been working for me. Depending what I'm doing, it's nice on the drum bus as well.

I don't have X1 so I can't tell. There's a fully functional demo on IK's web site though.

Judging for my experience w/ the various virtual incarnations of the 1176 I've tested (NI, IK, BF), I'd bet you that there's more difference between 2 original hardware units than there is between any of these software models. Unless Cakewalk really screwed up (which I doubt, they make good plug-ins), it should be on par w/ any of those guys.

Hopefully someone who has them all will chime in. UAD's the one I'd expect to maybe be in a different league.

On a related note, I've spent some time messing w/ NI's VC76 and did a few quick a/b tests w/ IK's Black 76 and, even if there's the almighty Softube logo on NI's version, I didn't hear anything that made me think that I needed to replace IK's. 

The group buy appears to have been extended to March 31st.  White and Black bonuses now appear to be a sure thing. 

@mesh, sadly timing is everything. I wasn't checking the forum for a time and missed the $10 deal to go to X1 Expanded. Such is life.

Mesh


I wonder what we can get to those of us that have both the Black & White and who also got in on this GB?

I'm curious about this as well. I got excited when I got the Black at 1,000 and immediately ordered the white...
 

Thanks IK for another killer promotion! I thought the 15 year promo was outstanding (and it was), but this is really great too. We should certainly hit 2000 with both the White and the Black as incentives. ------------------ My suggestion for the 3,000 bonus is CSR! You guys would go down in history as the company with the undisputed most awesome specials.

T-Racks is basically just the shell, a proprietary host if you will. So you can use any of the components that you've bought in any version, regular or Deluxe, including the Black 76 and White 2A.


The difference is simply that Deluxe comes w/ more components.

IK Obi


There were some cool suggestions what we could do to sweeten the deal at 3,000. Any suggestions?

Or maybe one of the Amplitube versions.
Like the full version of Amplitube 3 seeing as I'm pretty sure most people have installed the free version.


(Or the Fender version would be nice too  )


Mike

Mesh

M@ B


 My suggestion for the 3,000 bonus is CSR! You guys would go down in history as the company with the undisputed most awesome specials.

Excellent suggestion M@ B!! I'd be extremely happy if IK did the CSR as the bonus.

Same here.


I don't think they'd let it go for free though. Maybe it's an impression, but it seems there's not much love anymore at IK for CSR.


I think it's a fantastic plug-in, but considering that it's a bit older, the $229 price tag seems a bit prohibitive, furthermore considering that it hasn't been updated to 64 bit. Sales and promotions might help.


And I stick to the idea, if ever IK gets back to it - go singles and pile up the emulations. I'm sure gear junkies would pay for extra models, even if the basic units already cover a lot of ground.

IK Obi


There were some cool suggestions what we could do to sweeten the deal at 3,000. Any suggestions?

Well, since I don't have the IK reverbs (I'm pretty sure I already own more IK software titles than ones I don't), that would surely be my first pick.
 
I'm under the impression that an upgrade to Sample Tank is in the works.  An advance "coupon" for a discount on that would be welcome.
 
But the reverb would make this deal one I'd sign up for in a heartbeat ... oh wait ... I already did. 

I've had CSR for about 5 years and they still find their way into every project.
I honestly thought that any one who owns an IK plug already owned CSR.

If they would update them to a newer 64bit version I'd buy it that day.

Mike