Official 2025 Gong Thread

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  1. AMERICUH

    AMERICUH Kapellmeister

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    Guys, I'm going to laugh my ass off if it turns out like this :bleh:

    Modartt Pianoteq 9.0.2 READ NFO-R2R [PROPER]

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    NFO: You've been waiting a long time for this, but here's our Halloween surprise. The witches have been busy again and present you with this plugin, which we have now completely reverse engineered. Everyone else got stuck at point A and point B, and we're the only ones who got it right.
     
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  2. westfinch

    westfinch Platinum Record

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    Better grab hold of your ass........just in case
     
  3. Audioguydaz

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    I get it, a fair proportion of the posts are just folks speculating and shitposting. But what I'm trying to point to is a general culture of entitlement endemic in the audio scene right now. It's there and it's real and very conspicuous in this gong thread, of course.

    Lets take 'begging' posts for example. A typical begging post might be 'Please can we have X' - at which point the post is either derided or deleted, usually both. But begging posts, I suggest, are far more pervasive and wide than the obvious ones. Where a person speculates about what R2R might do, or what they ought to do (given some self-possessed righteousness) is a form of begging. It's simply "I want X" dressed up as "I imagine R2R should be doing X". It's a subtle difference but essentially what you have is a heaving mass of people all secretly wanting the thing that THEY want, and pretending to be nonchalant, somewhat removed from the begging, by playfully positing a scenario where R2R would do 'a thing' that, coincidentally, suited their world view.

    Don't you see? By doing this you are simply begging. No more, no less.
     
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  4. blakaboy

    blakaboy Noisemaker

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    We are here to serve uad proper unlock v.1 r2r style is here
    Soundtoys v.5 r2r is here
    Schwabe gold r2r is here
    MCDsp full is here
    Omnisphere 3 r2r is here
    Acustica audio full edition r2r is here but we removed all unproductive plugins in this budle release
    Due to AI our workload decreased by 90% so we finally got time to create what we call our own plugins since vst3 went open source its no coincidence ofcoarse we also r2r our software wich now loads way much faster then we initial product because we see thousands of code we decided to make 9 plugins in every major categorie that resembles a full pro studio. Apart from that we have decided to release 1 synth that is combined code of omnipshere serum and acustica. Since we are in the A.I. Era we our proud to announce that we will focus on new plugins reselbeling hardware 1 on 1 this will mean after the gong we will be back in 2026 summer when btc hits 300k.

    ps: refreshing and not seeing r2r got me in this creative space
     
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  5. muse2love

    muse2love Producer

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  6. supersharpshooter

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    That awkward moment when you get ghosted by the ghosts...
     
  7. muse2love

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    zealocy cannot eat the mana bread properly
     
  8. asm23

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    Guys, can I please get history of this “big releases”, it’s my first gong haunting, at this stage, I would like to at least have an idea of how big these releases are.

    Thanks
     
  9. saccamano

    saccamano Audiosexual

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    Unfortunately still not ready for prime time.
     
  10. Thotu

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    I always knew it was UAD. UAD Apollo emulator released.-

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  11. PulseWave

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    The last sign of life from Team R2R was on October 30, 2025 with the PreSonus Studio One 7 v7.2.3-R2R.

    News from the Team R2R (2025.09.20):

    "The halloween season is coming.
    We are very sorry to announce the death of another huge legendary monster which never showed up before."


    What monster did they post? Or will there be another surprise tomorrow, November 2nd?
     
  12. saccamano

    saccamano Audiosexual

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    There is/was/never gonna be no "gong"
     
  13. DesotoCountyDoe

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    what’d R2R gain from a prank like that?
     
  14. clone

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    I get what you mean, but I do not see it in here at all. Except from a few utter newbies, probably 99.9% of users in the thread are in absolutely no state of bewilderment which might cause them to think their little post is going to influence what R2R do in any way.

    Thinly veiled requests happen all the time, but usually they are in the "where has R2R gone!" threads that pop up each time they do not release anything since Monday of whatever week they occur in. Someone saying I hope they do UAD or Protools! No shit? Whoever thought those products would be a desirable thing to see show up on Sister Site some day? Thanks to Johnny2937, R2R are suddenly on the case! To maybe release something for people to use every single day (without any intention of buying), like UA or Protools.

    Newsflash: They are going to do whatever they damn well please. Everyone knows that already. They are certainly not reading a 45 page thread taking suggestions.

    People reading a line or two of text in an nfo file waiting for a release of something just because they said another "Kong is dead" somehow has marked their calendar as for Halloween day, down to the minute; like it is New York New Years Eve is what is unrealistic, if not more than that.

    This is the least stealthy thinly veiled batch of begging I've ever seen. I can't make any excuses for the 3 or 4 Mac users who have made comments even remotely "expecting anything". :facepalm:
     
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  15. Will Kweks

    Will Kweks Audiosexual

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    Maybe The Real Gong Was the Fr... Memes We Made Along the Way

    ...anyway, here's The Sonics:


     
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  16. HammerTiMe

    HammerTiMe Platinum Record

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    Just an info from UA on Facebook, there will be new native plugins from Universal Audio on November 4th. Probably new ports/and maybe new plugins
     
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  17. Thotu

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  18. Audioguydaz

    Audioguydaz Producer

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    You don't see it here, at all?
     
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  20. Synclavier

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    You got to pick up every stitch
    You got to pick up every stitch
    Two rabbits runnin' in the ditch
    Mmmm, must be the season of the witch
     
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