Official 2025 Gong Thread

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  1. DonaldTwain

    DonaldTwain Producer

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    It's a long way from being full.
     
  2. HammerTiMe

    HammerTiMe Platinum Record

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    Duality Strings Complete is a stratospheric achievement. And together with the others big libraries, we're already at a good point. However, I don't think we'll see the entire VSL catalog shared, the Full Pokedex imo
     
  3. Melone Musk

    Melone Musk Ultrasonic

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    Sorry to disappoint you but Synchron Duality String Complete is NOT an achievement at all since theirs TRIALS are free to download. Same goes for the recently TRIAL-able Synchron Elite Strings.
    R2R's nfo stated:
    • All those FREE ones and TRIAL-able ones will be released (by R2R).
    • You should buy and share the products that does not have TRIAL.
    • You should buy other Orchestral libraries until the "Pokedex" is filled.
     
  4. HammerTiMe

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    Until yesterday, however, they weren't. And in any case, Duality Strings Regular and Virtuoso weren't trial-able when they were shared. So, anyway, it was a super achievement to have them with us IMO. If tomorrow the entire VSL catalog became trial-able, it would be an extraordinary feat, since the move was forced by our community's sharing. So, in my opinion, we've made a great journey so far
     
  5. clone

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    Maybe they can use these libs for the UAD keygen music.
     
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  6. it_used

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    Judging by this, more than half of their product range is free, because they sometimes open a trial for many things, and if the cracked Synchron Pianos Player were available now, would the Synchron Pianos Bundle that followed it be free, too?
    How difficult it is to understand that periodically, if you follow this, then you can take their entire range assortment for free
     
  7. Melone Musk

    Melone Musk Ultrasonic

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    Calm down; I didn't know they periodically open a trial for a product (and then close it after a while?). As far as I know, this strange marketing policy is very unique.
    Logic would dictate that once their Synchron Player had been cracked (and content protection bypassed by the "magic" R2R's files) they would withdraw all trial versions rather than adding the complete Duality range - plus the Sychron Elite Strings.
    Germanics never cease to amaze me...:rofl:
     
  8. it_used

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    The only question is, why write if you don't know? This is not the first time I've written about this, but there are still no fewer such geniuses. Before writing something, let's think with our heads, be guided by facts, not prejudices. Otherwise, you can just misinform people, is it worth it?
     
  9. Thomba

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    Austrians actually - but yes: Why on earth they did stick to that certainly way before fixed trial strategy plan goes beyond my imagination.
    But, well so be it.

    As far as my needs go - I am saturated with strings until the end of my life. Two pianos, maybe a brass element over time. Thats it for me. Already also deleted various parts, as they were sometimes way to special for my use case or simply not that good. Particularly the solo libraries kind if dissappointed me a lot.

    And the reverb vst, I would love to test :)

    Anyway - a pleasure to have tested it all.
     
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  10. Melone Musk

    Melone Musk Ultrasonic

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    Call me a "genius" if you want, but what I've done is reasoning logically. And the VSL trial policy you described seems totally illogical to me (read again my previous comment - many times if necessary - until perfect comprehension). I know it can be hard for normal people, but for genius like you, it will be easy.
    Thank you.

    Austrians are not Germans but, as I said, they are Germanics.
     
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  11. it_used

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    You put the words R2R above common sense, you can rely on them if you want, but in fact the context here is: "If you want other VSL software to come out faster, start buying their products when we have all the libraries available, then we will release the rest of the software"
    It's a byte to buy, but you didn't understand it. :rofl:
    In fact, if you take everything they give in the trial, the result will be the same, but we will take longer to fill the "Pokedex" collection.
    From the outside, it looks like you're trying to prove something to me like a naive child.
    And the most important thing is that there is no visible action on your part, everyone can talk, but who is ready to help in any way?
    So you're not helping here, and the big question is, do you have the right to criticize anyone who's trying to do anything? And you have to answer this question yourself.)
     
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