Group Buy Time at IK

IK Multimedia is having another Group Buy on the T-Racks 3 Deluxe for the month of Feb.
 
Price is $199
If 2000 registered sales are made, as the bonus you get either the Black 76 or the White 2A.
 
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/Main.html?deluxepromo/index.php
 
I already got the Fairchild 670 (which is included in this T-Racks 3 Deluxe) and also have the Black 76 (which is really fantastic).....
Although I'd like to get the White 2A, I can't see myself spending $199 "semolians" on the GB....unless IK can give an alternate offer.
 
OBI, work your charm for those us who have already invested in some of these!!

Rain or should it be iRain - very good and very accurate - WHEN is the new Sampletank going to be ready for instance?? iObi, I think you need to remind your Masters not to forget us NON iPeople before we forget  iK!!! 
Nigel

Rain, I know this is a bit OT, but have you heard anything (reviews etc..) about the new Amplitube Metal?

Black 76 is the best vst compressor I have ever used. Works so musically on just about everything.

@Mesh Thanks for helping spread the word about the Group Buy! The more people that know the easier it'll be for everyone to hit 2,000 and get a free compressor out of it too! Thats less than $20/plugin! @Rain trust me when I say we have some stuff in store for you this year. BIG stuff planned for our professional studio customers, and our guitar and bass players too. We haven't forgotten our roots and won't anytime soon. 2012 is the year of Gear at IK and I'm positive you'll start to see that in the next few months. @Jamesyoyo It really is. I LOVE it on sooo many things I can't imagine not using it on vocals or guitars or any mix really.

Thanks Obi. :) 

Personally, I'd be happy to see a few new singles. You guys already have a head start over NI in that we don't have to load a big shell to use your plug-ins - but we do have the option. Best of both world. That and maybe CSR singles. ;)

Ok Obi, THANKS!

Vintagevibe - similar situation for me, although I do still have Sampletank installed on my old  32bit  Computer  which is linked by Vienna Ensemble to my new main 64bit Computer, so I can still use it - however I decided to go a different route and have invested in Mach 5, which I am really getting into - sounds good and more importantly it is nothing to do with Native Instruments!
But we need IK to get their act together - if they don't start to update their stuff VERY soon, it will be too late. Myself for instance, because of investing in other products, any SampleTank upgrade should it ever appear will have to be very reasonably priced, otherwise I'll just stick to the old version as it is very much now a secondary product for me.

I'm in a very similar situation with Kitcore / DrumCore.
Still have them installed on my old system, but they have been totally superceded by newer products, so any upgrades will have to be good and reasonably priced for me to consider upgrading.

I just hope for both these companies the iPad route is not just some passing phase - I have an iPad and find the thing basically useless other than as a toy (thankfully I was given it - I would be grievously upset if I had had to spend money on it!) - I'm amazed people are raving about using cut down programs on it - it seems like going backward to me, but I suppose we could say that about how we have to produce music these days - MP3 etc - where have the days of having the best QUALITY music system gone - and producing the best quality music you could to be heard on it 
Nigel

Bajan Blue




I'm in a very similar situation with Kitcore / DrumCore.  Still have them installed on my old system, but they have been totally superceded by newer products, so any upgrades will have to be good and reasonably priced for me to consider upgrading.

I still use DrumCore because I can't do without their percussion plus it works great with jBridge.   SampleTank (and SonikSynth, etc) that I have don't play nice with jBridge or BitBridge so they're useless to me.

Looks like IKM have mis-judged this one. It looks doubtful that the 2000 mark will be reached by month's end. I hope enough people care about integrating their telephones into their studios to keep the company afloat until ST3.

TBH, it'd also surprise me - the 15 years Group Buy really isn't that far behind, T-Racks has already been out for a little while, and I would think that pretty much anyone interested would have bought it during that sale - or grabbed it as a freebie.

That's what I did - grabbed it as a freebie - hence my impression to have locked myself of any possible deal, until they come up w/ new plugs.

dmbaer

Rain

TBH, it'd also surprise me - the 15 years Group Buy really isn't that far behind, T-Racks has already been out for a little while, and I would think that pretty much anyone interested would have bought it during that sale - or grabbed it as a freebie.

Plus, think of all the folks that jumped on the Nomad Factory everything-for-99-bucks sale just six or so months ago.  Sheesh, how many compressors, limiterers, EQs of all varieties does the typical computer music hobbiest bapu need?

Point taken.

I had the same resolve. 

No matter which one I buy, I'm always use my bundled compressor at first. Then I sometimes make a conscious effort to replace it later w/ one of the fancy ones - but in the end, revert to my basic one 99% of the time.

I remember one time putting one the White 2A and thinking I'd stumbled onto some magic combination - instant gratification. But, a bit of time on my hands and some critical listening and sure enough, I was able to accomplish pretty much the same thing w/ my good old Logic comp in opto mode. 

So now, most of the time, that's how/why I use them - it's almost like browsing through presets: they help me quickly figure out what I'm looking for, w/o much tweaking because they all work in a specific way. But in themselves, they don't really let me do things I can't accomplish otherwise, sonically.
 
All that being said, it didn't prevent me from grabbing Focusrite's Midnight Bundle (EQ and Comp) for $49 just last week.  Pretty nice.

Still, I do allow myself to have a couple of different tools - just for the sake of not turning the whole thing into a systematic process. 

@VintageVibe/Bapu SampleTank 3 is on its way. It just takes a lot of time to make a library to the quality standard that IK holds itself to. When SampleTank 3 comes out you'll all be singing a very different tune. Err, playing a different tune! ;) @Bitflipper Not with that attitude we won't! We are pushing to hit 2,000 to give out some freebie comps!

When ever ST3 comes out I hope it's UI isn't crappy like the current synth's UIs are. Dinky letters and like colors are crappy! I usually give up and go with a different synth. It would be easier if all the presets were divided up by the synths used (Sonik Synth or even Sampletron and moog). It would less time consuming to look for the sound you want.

@Bitflipper - I remember you giving directions on how to access all the different synth through Sampletank. Since Sampletank can be made easier to see, I would love to know how to do that please.