Thanks for the heads up, I got in today... got Little PrimalTap V5 Promo, did I miss out on yesterday's?

 

Little PrimalTap was the first one.

 

You're really not missing out on much. They're good plugins and tons of pros still use them, but that comes more from a place of familiarity than anything.

Back around 2011 they pretty much had a lock on the plugin market along with Waves which is where their strong reputation comes from.

Today there are dozens of plugins that can do similar things, arguably even better.

I did buy the bundle years ago and don't regret it. However Echoboy is really the only plugin that I would buy if Soundtoys was new. I never understood the crazy hype over Decapitator/their saturation algos, it's slightly above average at best. To me Softube does saturation a lot better.

 

How it works:
Starting December 8, we’ll unlock a different free plug-in every two days. Revisit this page to collect them all as they become available.

• Each offer runs from midnight to 11:59 PM (UTC/GMT-5 – New York).
• No purchase is required.
• Keep every plug-in you claim – forever!
• Redeem one of each plug-in per person.
• Free plug-ins are non-transferable.

Apropo Softube:

https://www.softube.com/eu/free-plug-ins

 

Thanks for the info. Yeah, if it was a common issue I figured I would have seen something here. Maybe it has something to do with my entire DAW being blocked from the internet.

 

You need to open the SoundToy plugin in your DAW, enter the serial number there, and then log into your SoundToy account. So, you can't use it without an internet connection to your DAW. Of course, you can install another DAW in addition.

 

I get that you dislike iLok. I dislike the software version immensely. Not the hardware version though.
I found there were several things I needed to do a really good paying job quite a while back. I did not want to have to go online every time I loaded something. That sucks.
So I bought a USB-C iLok hardware key. No online crap = NADA once on the key. A one-time addition to the key. None of the multiple verifications everyone is talking about. So every time a freebie comes in, I get it, register it, add it and is there forever on the key no matter what happens to the computer (screenshot blurred on purpose). It also doesn't interfere with any witchery either and vice-versa. I do not have to be online to use any of them. When recording I am not anyway.

 

I do this also, using little snitch. I f you have your iLok blocked, then that could cause you some issues with it hitting your firewall and trying to connect over and over. You have to look at the Little Snitch Network Monitor window and it will show you everything that has been happening at your firewall. Extra "fat" u2b plugins can also be an issue, because you can have your DAW loading both formats and running into issues with Rosetta2 translation.

I made a rather complicated script that deals with u2b slice removal correctly. I've seen a couple of GUI apps people created but they are slow and not to my liking. This is way better. It basically cuts the size of every plugin you have as U2B in half.

 

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"You can redeem a code without an iLok.com account, but you will not be able to use the license on more than one computer."

You get 2 activations if you use the code with an iLok account.

 

It's not like it is all that difficult to create an extra account, even if the other is an offline computer. 5 minutes of your time for 6 Soundtoys plugins, even if they are "lite" versions. There are better windmills to attack anyway, Don.

 

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I've never had this happen - I use Soundtoys, and UA (both native and dsp versions) in both Ableton and cubase on an M4 MBP, and haven't had any of those freezes that you've noticed.
So it might possibly be something else on your system causing the hiccup?

 

So the next plugin should be available tomorrow... Did I get this right?

 

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I did get it right! Thanks!

 

The second one is here, echoboy Jr, grab it! It's my go too delay since years, efficient, it can do most of delay tasks and i find the gui more efficient than the big brother echoboy ;)

 

Just posting an image of today's giveaway to bump the post.

 

Giveaway from one side, Gong from the other. We are being sandwiched this year.

 

Is it possible to install these later on, not just right away?

 

can this works together with AudioUTOPiA release ?

 

You need to click this every two days to get the specific plugin for that day in the calendar. So keep at it, otherwise you'll miss one.