Warning - DON'T buy Ob-tune!

I thought I'd pass on this story in case anyone is thinking of buying Oberheim's Ob-Tune. I bought it around 2 years ago. Three weeks ago I repartitioned a secondary hard drive, i.e. my OS was not on that drive. Naturally, 'cause of that #*($*(#)-ing PACE, Ob-Tune didn't start. I went to the Oberheim website and to get the new Response to my Challenge code. 1 1/2 weeks later, I still hadn't been emailed the response, so I emailed support at Musicyo (the company which distributes Ob-Tune). Needless to say, I have not heard back from them to this day (it's been a month). I just wanted to post this so people could avoid wasting their money the way I did, since PACE, combined with a piece of crap company like Oberheim, just made a piece of legally-paid-for software totally useless. I know there have a been a million PACE threads on this message board, but I wanted to share my story so other people, who maybe were thinking of buying a far more expensive product like Antares Autotune, could avoid losing a much more significant amount of money than I did.

ORIGINAL: SteveJL

Good post, thanks for sharing. Yes, anyone who buys Pace-protected crap is taking a real chance, as you are finding out, unfortunately. Hopefully they'll respond and there'll be a happy ending.


ARGGGHHH.....PACE

There's a third program by Akai called pitchright that I've been considering in place of Autotune or Obtune. Does anybody know about it? Does it contain PACE copy protection?

autotune rocks

ORIGINAL: mobamoba

I thought I'd pass on this story in case anyone is thinking of buying Oberheim's Ob-Tune. I bought it around 2 years ago. ...

Well, I've owned OB-Tune literally since it first came out. For 50 bucks it's WAY more affordable than full featured Antares and it meets my needs... for now. I have gone through 3 versions of SONAR and a move to XP Pro and OB-Tune has come along for the ride with no problems. Music Yo has been very responsive and sent me a link for the updated XP version. When I went to my new DAW and S3, Music Yo was there again with the new response that I needed to get OB-Tune running again. I use it regularly in my projects with no apparent ill effects except... (I saw this mentioned in a PACE thread today) on RARE occasions I have had SONAR just shut off, blank out, go away. I STRESS rare, I have never been able to trace this anomoly. I saw it mentioned as a potential byproduct of PACE.

My overall experience with OB-Tune has been excellent. It keeps me in tune, yunno?

I bought obtune too... pretty good for 50 bucks.
But that pace stuff stinks.... Wouldn't it be nice
if there were an "InterLok Killer" out there available
for download? This would be great for people who
bought the software but the shame is that many others
who did not buy it would abuse it...
Perhaps in longhorn, microsoft will have a special part
of the registry devoted to shareware that can be backed-up
and verified by the software companies via the internet.
This would certainly help the people who legitimately buy
the software--instead they are being punished now...

ORIGINAL: djoni

autotune rocks

Yeah AT4 is really nice... A good part of that PACE hell is going to disappear with the iLok keys. I heard Antares will offer them soon.

Erik.

Don't forget sonar4 has mpex timestretching. . . .


Kind regards

Dave Rich.

Just wanted to vent my anger, while we're on the issue of copy protection, and maybe in case someone here knows something.
I need to move my authorization of Bitheadz Unity Sampler to another *new* machine, but Bitheadz went down, so I will probably need to buy something else.
Very frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: Peter J
Well, I've owned OB-Tune literally since it first came out. ...

Peter,

Does Ob-tune handle 24-bit files and higher sample rates?

Thanks in advance,
James A. Abdo
BrokenWorks Productions
jabdo@brokenworks.com

In a word, yes. I've used OBtune for several months now. No problems, and works with 24/96 recordings. Hope that helps.
Frank