FireBird 2 - now available for free! (pc 32bit only)

After seven years of faithful service, the time has come to set the bird free. Firebird itself has become vintage and even though it's no longer profitable to remain a commercial product, we feel that more people should deserve an opportunity to enjoy this sometimes heavily underestimated synthesizer.
Which is why we decided to release one last update and turn the product into freeware (previuosly $79). We want to say a big THANK YOU to all customers who supported the development of Firebird and other Tone2 products, by purchasing our software.

Please feel free to share Firebird 2 with all your friends! We hope you'll enjoy working with Firebird for many more years.



http://www.tone2.com/html/firebird_vsti_vst_synthesizer_1.html

 

Makes me ill that companies give away products people have invested their hard earned money in.

Thanks for PAYING us.. to develop it.. so we can give it away..

Pfft.

 

With falling sales and no 64bit or mac version developed, probably their marketing bod thought it is a good way of promoting the company's other products.

By the way, when installing you have 2 choices "Firebird Only" or "Firebird + Saurus Demo" I guess they want people to buy their Newer VSTi.

 

Update - Free Preset Bank - CrashCourse

Tone2 Firebird+ bank: CrashCourse NOW FREE!


CrashCourse is a bank of 76 patches for Tone2's Firebird Synth. It takes you from the timid to brutal in

seconds and back again with ease. This bank covers a wide spectrum from glorified organs to howling

pads through to shimmiring keys and entrancing sequences.

This soundset contains both individual .fxp files and a .fxb bank file, all wrapped up in a single .zip

file .


http://eternitysound.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=57

 

This free release is also a good way for Markus Feil to sabotage any 'questionable' Tone2 stuff you may have on your machine.

This is from the NFO in a 2011 Tone2 release by AiR:

It's not everyday AiR feels the need to comment on a
release but we believe some issues about Markus Feil
need to be addressed for both legitimate users and
the warez community.

In our opinion Markus Feil's plugins are the
equivilent to MALWARE, it is with disgust we find the
elaborate (and futile!) measures he has taken within
his code.

When a developer starts dropping files and creating
empty BOGUS registry keys, writing to a users host
file etc. then they have crossed a line of ethics
that is inexcusable.

One could argue that warez users get what they
deserve, however... warez uses ALWAYS choose to take
a risk when they use warez. The legitimate user
however gets exactly the SAME codebase and IF things
go wrong they are subjected to the same MALWARE crap
undeservedly.

Furthermore, our release is BETTER than what legit
users are getting because we have disposed of the
MALWARE traps and HAVE ENABLED TWO EXTRA NEW HIDDEN
expansions that legit users DON'T have and probably
DON'T know about.

NOTE TO Markus: you are tool, ppl may debate our
ethics but WE DON'T infect and manipulate filesystems
or registries, you're no better than a virus
developer in our opinion.

Stick to what you know cause your protection schemes
are no match for us <middle finger>

Some warez users like to go legit, it's hard to see
them going legit with your plugins when the
experience you give them results in piss poor MALWARE
techniques. **** YOU!

Here are some of the techniques Markus infects your
machine with:

- Registry scanning

- Filesystem scanning

- Creating bogus registry keys

- File dropping

- Multiple \system32\drivers\etc\host file updates

- Deletion of files

- Phone home notification

- ExitWindowsEx calls (causes machine to shutdown)

- DLL unpacked checks


# Registry scanning...

Markus has coded his plugins to look for other Tone2
and reFX registry entries, if blacklisted serials are
found then his MALWARE is invoked. These include
Firebird, FilterBank, Warmverb, Gladiator, Vanguard

# Filesystem scanning...

Markus has coded his plugins to look for other
products keyfiles, if blacklisted keyfiles are found
then his MALWARE is invoked. This includes FireBird,
FilterBank, Warmverb, Gladiator

# Bogus registry entries...

Markus creates keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER

at least two NEW keys with no data (not disclosing to
protect privacy). if you have been subjected to the
MALWARE traps check your registry, the keys will be
obvious as the names are crap, make no sense and they
have no data under them.

# File dropping...

Markus creates:

twdef.sys

wvdriver.sys

r2._9X1.r

gldriver.sys

gsndrun.sys


+ about 4 other random file names (not disclosing to
protect privacy)

If your going to look for these files make sure you
have turned off 'Hide protected operating system
files' in explorer. Typically they are dropped in the
same location as the Gladiator2 dll.

# Update of hosts file...

Markus updates the users host file with a massive
list of warez, torrent and other site urls

# Deletion of files...

Markus deletes any blacklisted keyfiles from the
users machine.

 

@ gimmee - If your software can not access the interweb, don't worry, they all work

(make sure you install them into their own folders though)

 

personally I think if your a home user you should not pay for any software at all, but if your making money then you should setup as business and pay for your software as you are no longer a home user.

You see software company's make enough money just off the studios and business a round the world, I guarantee there are more home users then business's and this is where the problems lie, because the software company's are not happy with just a slice they want the cake, the plate, the room, the building, the county, the country and the world just because of that five letter word called GREED.

@ Gimmee

yes bro Markus is C*** for doing that

 

and AIR soon sorted out his little bag of tricks

I have installed the freebie version and all is well with his other vsti's , no probs here, all are working

 

they only have a PC version

 

What is this world coming to?

I don't make any profits from my clothes, so I don't have to pay for them?

 

wehhhhh you got Rayblaster to work too?

 

yep, all are working

 

I accidentally deleted my archived copy of Electrax v1.4 *_* and I cannot find it anywhere.

 

check your pm

edit: did a google search and found 1 DMCA Notice, so I click on it and found loads of links for Tone2, tried some and the links worked


scroll to bottom of search page and click on "read the DMCA complaint"

good old google, making my searches even quicker

 

me too ...

 

I was going to try the new free version but have decided to avoid anything from this company after that reminder from gimmee. I believe once someone is established as a scumbag, you can expect them to do you more harm in the future.

 

There's a version floating around the net that has all the nasties removed. Vive La Resistance.