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Native Instruments - 50% Off Massive, FM8, And Razor
Posted on: 18.06.2012 by Latrina Prude
Hi Everyone,

I saw this recently on facebook and I just had to share this AMAZING deal with everyone here!!

"There’s no escape from the bass invasion. Native Instruments are proud to have helped shape bass music and dubstep with a trio of formidable synths: MASSIVE, RAZOR and FM8. Now you can pick up any of these interstellar instruments – renowned for devastating subs and laser-like leads – for half price, or get all three for only $199 / 179 €. This offer ends June 24th. Resistance is futile!"

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/...bass-invaders/

Enjoy!!
Ervin Calvery
14.07.2012
Originally Posted by RockingClub
I took Komplete 8 hoping I won't regret in near future.
For me, Session Strings Pro, Alicia's Keys and the Mouth would have been the most interesting pieces in the Komplete Ultimate Bundle but I believe Kontakt will come with some decent strings as well and the Mouth, well I will have to live without it or buy it solo. Instead of Alicia's Keys I might buy the Giant soon since it is exactly what I've always been looking for...

Passing on Razor is no problem for me. The Komplete 8 synths are high end and I never really liked the sound of Razor.
Re Alicia's Keys - The Yamaha C3 Neo, in that room, just sounds horribly bright to me. There are some other, killer piano sounds out there (and real pianos).
Chasidy Heckenbach
27.06.2012
Originally Posted by kiss-o-matic
Anywho, that's basically just saying you'll likely be left out in the cold plugin wise if you get any type of DAW on Linux. I wish that wasn't the case -- I'm on my Linux box 90% of the time and it would save me dicking around w/ my Hackintosh.
i believe there's a few ways of running windows vst's on linux, tho haven't tried any myself. worst case they can be run in wine and routed cunningly, tho that may be a PITA. this project looks interesting tho... http://www.breakfastquay.com/dssi-vst/
Horacio Stranathan
14.07.2012		I guess you have confirmed I am probably best to buy the Komplete Ultimate.
Ervin Calvery
14.07.2012
Originally Posted by RockingClub
I took Komplete 8 hoping I won't regret in near future.
For me, Session Strings Pro, Alicia's Keys and the Mouth would have been the most interesting pieces in the Komplete Ultimate Bundle but I believe Kontakt will come with some decent strings as well and the Mouth, well I will have to live without it or buy it solo. Instead of Alicia's Keys I might buy the Giant soon since it is exactly what I've always been looking for...

Passing on Razor is no problem for me. The Komplete 8 synths are high end and I never really liked the sound of Razor.
Re Alicia's Keys - The Yamaha C3 Neo, in that room, just sounds horribly bright to me. There are some other, killer piano sounds out there (and real pianos).
Sylvia Greener
14.07.2012		After nearly 5 hours of installation it's down now! My musical world is Komplete!
Sylvia Greener
14.07.2012		I took Komplete 8 hoping I won't regret in near future.
For me, Session Strings Pro, Alicia's Keys and the Mouth would have been the most interesting pieces in the Komplete Ultimate Bundle but I believe Kontakt will come with some decent strings as well and the Mouth, well I will have to live without it or buy it solo. Instead of Alicia's Keys I might buy the Giant soon since it is exactly what I've always been looking for.
The Evolve products sound fantastic as well, but I'm quite happy with the impact sounds I already own and use for my songs so I believe I won't miss anything at the moment.
Passing on Razor is no problem for me. The Komplete 8 synths are high end and I never really liked the sound of Razor.

So if you believe you might miss some of the packages if not going with Ultimate then you should probably take the chance and get Ultimate. For the price, the value is unbeatable. I personally believe I will take the money and buy some other gear. There's some pricey stuff on my wishlist
Horacio Stranathan
13.07.2012		Did you buy the Komplete 8 or Ultimate?

Wondering if I will use a few of the other pieces like 130 gb more of samples, RAZOR, EVOLVE MUTATIONS, EVOLVE MUTATIONS 2,
SESSION STRINGS PRO, SOLID BUS COMP, SOLID DYNAMICS, SOLID EQ, THE MOUTH, MACHINE DRUM SELECTION.

Wondering if I should just spend the $400 for everything and have the option to anything I want with it.

Any thoughts?
Sylvia Greener
13.07.2012		I've pushed the button! My Komplete 8 crossgrade is on the way. For the price definitely a must-have ITraditionally a new version of Komplete is released at the end of August but for me that doesn't matter. It's a killer deal as it is now.
Horacio Stranathan
13.07.2012		Wondering if I should pull the trigger on the Komplete Ultimate cross grade for my maschine. With all the packs you would definitely have any and every sound you could ever dream possible. Anyone have experience with their cross grades?
Chasidy Heckenbach
27.06.2012		wine seems pretty simple to use these days - but not sure about using it with vst's. if bitwig is at least as good as ableton and the price is right i'll go for that instead of upgrading to live8. atm my linux laptop isn't as powerful as my mac anyway so i'd be using the mac still for production. having the option to use linux tho would be great... massive doesn't seem too cpu hungry, just had 5 instances running in live5 and my macbook is sitting at about 86% idle. not bad... that free minimoog V is quite fun too
Nestor Witkowsky
27.06.2012		I tried Wine once... I just don't have the time for emulation. Wish I did, as I like dicking around w/ software, but I gotta be productive too.
Cristian Carmona
27.06.2012		btw if anyone has a Kore S/N they want to part with send me a PM
Chasidy Heckenbach
27.06.2012
Originally Posted by kiss-o-matic
Anywho, that's basically just saying you'll likely be left out in the cold plugin wise if you get any type of DAW on Linux. I wish that wasn't the case -- I'm on my Linux box 90% of the time and it would save me dicking around w/ my Hackintosh.
i believe there's a few ways of running windows vst's on linux, tho haven't tried any myself. worst case they can be run in wine and routed cunningly, tho that may be a PITA. this project looks interesting tho... http://www.breakfastquay.com/dssi-vst/
Wallace Lawmaster
27.06.2012		When I saw the sale I thought about it, but really can't believe of anything they can do that the Virus TI can't. But if you have input on this by all means express it.
Nestor Witkowsky
26.06.2012		Got it -- finally.

Non-portable means not portable between architectures which isn't entirely true. Honestly I don't know how VSTs are compiled, but it is logical that the same source code could be compiled for any compliant architecture (likely in C). However, usually they are not, and the fact that I've seen some Windows-only VSTs, I'm going to guess that some of Microsofts' development packages have some type of classes that would prevent them from easily become MAC compatible. Someone that has VB/VC++ experience can say.

PRE-EDIT: I actually Googled around, and yes, you can even write them in C#.

I'm assuming all of this, but programming is programming in general, and for the most part unless something is Java, Qt, or C, it takes some work to make it work on any system. Even with those there are gotchas.

Anywho, that's basically just saying you'll likely be left out in the cold plugin wise if you get any type of DAW on Linux. I wish that wasn't the case -- I'm on my Linux box 90% of the time and it would save me dicking around w/ my Hackintosh.
Chasidy Heckenbach
26.06.2012		i ordered just a couple of mins before making that post, so close to "06-23-2012, 05:12 PM". bitwig will support 32/64bit vst's i thought? how u mean re: "non-portable"?
Nestor Witkowsky
25.06.2012		When did you order?

>> Bitwig

That looks cool indeed, but I see a huge caveat of VST's being non-portable. Kind of a deal breaker.
Chasidy Heckenbach
25.06.2012		just got my serial numbers in an email a few seconds ago... awesome....
Chasidy Heckenbach
25.06.2012
Originally Posted by kiss-o-matic
The bundle was less than half the price if you buy them separately. I can wait a few days for it to go through...especially since there *IS* a chance I eventually hate them. From what I've seen though, I will like them for a while.
same here. for the savings i made i can afford to wait a few days... pretty sure that i'll have plenty of uses for massive and razor just looks interesting and is worth it just for the cool 3d display main thing that concerns me about razor is the cpu usage, but the sounds do seem very cool.

could well be they're going to replace with newer versions sometime, but i'm still using live5 and pretty happy with it. maybe my decision there to hold out and see what bitwig is like was worth it instead of upgrading to live8. if it's half as good as we hope and runs on linux.... with mixxx becoming far more usable (i use mixxx 1.11 instead of traktor these days) and bitwig for linux i'll be very happy...
Nestor Witkowsky
24.06.2012
That's why you don't buy sales.
The bundle was less than half the price if you buy them separately. I can wait a few days for it to go through...especially since there *IS* a chance I eventually hate them. From what I've seen though, I will like them for a while.

Also…has anyone noticed that sales only come up when stuff is about to be discontinued or replaced with a newer version?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. iOS stuff seems to be luck of the draw. I got Animoog on Bob Moog's Bday for $10. I know it's not as good as the $3 it was offered for for it's first 10 months, but it's worth it to me. Awesome synth, and it's what has gotten me looking into the so-called "different" synths.
Dorie Scelzo
24.06.2012		That's why you don't buy sales. Except for when my email address was screwed up (some weird forwarding issues tripping some of gmail's security system) the longest it's taken me to get a serial was like 5 minutes.

Also…has anyone noticed that sales only come up when stuff is about to be discontinued or replaced with a newer version?
Chasidy Heckenbach
24.06.2012		i saw a message saying it could be up to 24hrs i believe... took a couple of hours for the purchase to show up in my account and still no serials yet.
Nestor Witkowsky
24.06.2012		I pulled the trigger. They certainly are taking forever and a day to get back to me w/ the serials. :|
Chasidy Heckenbach
23.06.2012		just picked up massive+razor anyway. both sound good from what i've listened to for what i really need. i still miss having an arsenal of physical synths but these take up way less space wasn't sure about fm8, maybe made a mistake not grabbing that for an extra 60, but wasn't as impressed with it.
Dorie Scelzo
22.06.2012		FM8 and Massive have demos available. Razor doesn't AFAIK.

I don't personally like them very much, but I absolutely understand why some people do.
Sylvia Greener
22.06.2012
Originally Posted by DJ JesC
Something tells me Komplete 9 might be coming soon or Massive 2, Razor 2 & FM9 are on the FY2013 roadmap for NI.
There would be enough stuff for Komplete 9. Didn't we have a new version every year now during the last years?
Hoping for a nice deal on Komplete 8 in fall 2012 before they (probably/hopefully/maybe) announce Komplete 9
Chasidy Heckenbach
22.06.2012
Originally Posted by DJ JesC
i dont believe they have demos of those plugins, tho they have patches in the kompletes elements.
ah... ok. just reading more about them now, didn't really understand the whole plugin/free-player thing before. still don't probably with razor only costing 40usd i guess i can't go wrong really with grabbing massive+razor for 140usd...
Cristian Carmona
22.06.2012
Originally Posted by zestoi
cool cheers i'm going to download some demos if they exist of all 3. everyone seems to rave about the big sounds that massive can create and i'm impressed with what i've heard of razor so far. never been a big fan of synths like the yamaha dx7, so not sure about fm8. there again that was a long time ago



could well be the case... have to hope that upgrade prices aren't too bad tho
i dont believe they have demos of those plugins, tho they have patches in the kompletes elements.
Chasidy Heckenbach
22.06.2012
Originally Posted by DJ JesC
Razor it pretty cool. I got it with the coupon for getting Komplete 8 so it was pretty cheap.
cool cheers i'm going to download some demos if they exist of all 3. everyone seems to rave about the big sounds that massive can create and i'm impressed with what i've heard of razor so far. never been a big fan of synths like the yamaha dx7, so not sure about fm8. there again that was a long time ago

Something tells me Komplete 9 might be coming soon or Massive 2, Razor 2 & FM9 are on the FY2013 roadmap for NI.
could well be the case... have to hope that upgrade prices aren't too bad tho
Cristian Carmona
22.06.2012		Razor it pretty cool. I got it with the coupon for getting Komplete 8 so it was pretty cheap.

Something tells me Komplete 9 might be coming soon or Massive 2, Razor 2 & FM9 are on the FY2013 roadmap for NI.
Chasidy Heckenbach
22.06.2012		what do people believe of massive+fm8+razor? seems to be a pretty low price for such a lot of synths... pretty sure i'll grab a copy of massive but on the fence regarding spending another 100 and getting the other two. any thoughts? i.e: could my 200usd be better spent elsewhere? i've only played about with free vst's so far - and like the idea of getting some decent soft synths.
Nestor Witkowsky
20.06.2012		From the tutorials/intros I've looked at for the 3 items above, if you're using them in a DAW, you just load them as a VST in your DAW.

Razor looks to be the most fun. Of course I have little time to mess w/ anything, but I've found that Animoog got me back into the "tinkering" mode, as it's not a traditional synth. Much more visual, and in my experience rewarding. I can mess w/ it when I'm taking a dump, too!
Dorie Scelzo
19.06.2012		I just can't. I want to play with Reaktor, but…I just can't deal with NI's "players". In Maschine it's relatively straightforward and transparent (if you're using or starting from a preset that's saved as a Maschine sound, at least) but it's just so fucking pointless. It wastes resources and kludges up workflows.

If they dropped Reaktor and Guitar Rig for synth and effects hosting, I'd have a little respect left. Kontact makes sense because it's basically a sampler with a bunch of libraries, right? But Reaktor and GR are just stupid unless you're actually using them to build your own shit or for amp modelling.

There's way too much awesome stuff out there to bother with a company that makes it hard to use their products.

When are MPC-R and MPC-S due?
Nestor Witkowsky
19.06.2012		oops
Nestor Witkowsky
19.06.2012
Originally Posted by mostapha
Well…that helps.
Haha -- indeed! Thanks for the heads up though. I didn't realize Razor was part of Reaktor. Decisions. I believe I'm going to get it. I'm not totally in debt yet. Definitely some more space.
Dorie Scelzo
19.06.2012		Well…that helps.
Nestor Witkowsky
19.06.2012		How are these tools? Are they that much better than the other synths out there? More importantly, Analog & Operator?

>> Reaktor <-> Razor thingy
That sucks. That's kind of a deal breaker.

EDIT: Fixed as of 5.6.2?

Think I'm going to get these. Now to just use a proxy so NI doesn't make me pay 10% higher b/c I live in freakin' Japan.
Tatum Untiedt
18.06.2012		Really solid deal, been waiting for this for awhile since they do it every so often. Picked up a legit copy of massive so I hate myself less now.
Dorie Scelzo
18.06.2012
Originally Posted by Xonetacular
Yeah but they advertise Razor as working with Reaktor Player and they don't tell you you won't be able to save patches properly unless you own Reaktor.
Foot in the door phenomenon. Also known as one of the easiest ways to manipulate people into doing things they don't want to do but are vaguely related to something they'd consider.

I know a lot of companies do it…just about everybody does. But that doesn't make it okay.

I believe every day I want to ditch NI completely just a little bit more.
Romelia Stankard
19.06.2012
Originally Posted by JasonBay
Well, it is FREE. Think the idea is to try and entice you into buying the actual version
Yeah but they advertise Razor as working with Reaktor Player and they don't tell you you won't be able to save patches properly unless you own Reaktor.

"RAZOR runs in the freeREAKTOR 5 PLAYER"

sort of...

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