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hotmitts wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2019 7:21 pm i would say the thing I dislike the most about the IK activation is the 10 activations limit - why ? I can see no reason.
Why? To discourage you from giving free copies to 20 of your friends.

10 is a generous number already, and if you need more because you like to format windows 5 times a year and use it on your desktop and laptop, then contact support, explain why, and they'll give you more.

There are lots of IK policies I find strange or just don't agree with, but the 10 activations thing is not one of them.

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BTW, if you ask them for more I'm pretty sure they will do it. Seems I've read that somewhere before.

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Well I assumed can have 1 active at one time , so maybe that's wrong. yes I have heard you can ask for more when they run out , but shouldn't have to.
I once had a virus that took several wasted activations to work out where it was coming from, so it's a sore point for me. These things are not an issue -until they happen to you

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hotmitts wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:33 pm Well I assumed can have 1 active at one time , so maybe that's wrong. yes I have heard you can ask for more when they run out , but shouldn't have to.
I once had a virus that took several wasted activations to work out where it was coming from, so it's a sore point for me. These things are not an issue -until they happen to you
Yeah but I'm sure if you told them that, they'd issue more activations. It's only an issue when they say no and I'm not aware of that ever happening to anyone in any legit circumstance.

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Funny how IKMultimedia threads seem to always diverge to discussion about company policies. Musicians first or, or higer profits first?

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sellyoursoul wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:22 pm Funny how IKMultimedia threads seem to always diverge to discussion about company policies. Musicians first or, or higer profits first?
Well, it's pretty obvious is profits first. Especially being in the US (they are US right)? By US law corporations must use profits to satisify shareholders. See the 1919 Dodge v Ford lawsuit (wikipedia, et al). And, it's pretty obvious IK is operating within the law and putting profits first over musicians despite their branding. One could argue their branding a) is misleading and b) may be illegal when taken in context of the actual US law. Like all companies they want to achieve the illusion that their customers come first. :phones:

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Apparently, they're an Italian company with a US subsidiary.

Like any other company, IK needs to turn a profit to stay in business and continue to develop tools that the rest of us use. I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't get very far if all I had available were tin cans and string, LOL.

Buy their products or don't - it doesn't matter. Are these tape models good or not? That's what I'm interested in. Peace and love and all of that... :neutral:

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We explain the tagline on our About page, and have done so for many years. I know it is easy to take pot shots based on a tag line when a company doesn't do things you think are in line with your interpretation of that tag line but I do feel we listen and your comments and concerns are heard. We've made changes over the 2+ decades we've been in business based on user input but unfortunately even with those changes "you can't please all the people all the time" as the saying goes. And yes, we're in business with the goal of staying in business and creating tools that we ourselves would and do use as is stated in the quote below from our site, not with the intention to cut and run (we've probably have done so in the last 20+ years if that was the case) or to be acquired by some megacorporation or similar (again, probably would have happened by now) or similar. Anyway, here's what the tag line means:
Our company motto, "Musicians First," actually has a couple of different meanings.

First, we're musicians. And we're musicians first — engineers, software designers, business specialists, marketing and sales pros, warehouse experts, logistics managers and overall nice guys and girls second. What does that mean to you? It means we only design and create products that we would use. It's a very simple philosophy, but there's beauty in simplicity, and it actually guides our product development and production processes. And it works extremely well for us and for you.
Thanks for letting me know how that does or does not work for you, it is appreciated.

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Oh, and these tape models are good @sidrat. But please don't take that from me. I'm biased, even though I was a fan of IK products long before I worked here and I've definitely watched (and heard) the amazing improvements throughout those 10 years or so since.

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plexuss wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:50 pm I abhor workarounds especially to my workflow to accommodate laziness or stupidity in the product design process. For a plugin such as the IK Tapes, where they knew they would be very CPU intensive, there should have been a playback/render quality option. It's easy to implement and makes all the difference for users.

Thanks for suggestions but I wont be changing my workflow to accommodate IK Tape plugins. The software should be a tool to make my job easier, not anything else.

I will use them with these severe usability limitations and complain about them when appropriate. Hopefully IK will address this issue and make life easier for us as well as increase their revenue. On the other hand, they are humans, so I won't hold my breath...

Maybe one day they will end up in my plugin selling scrap heap... depends.
Perhaps we can blame the operator here. High CPU and high latency effects processors are usually for mastering.
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v1o wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:18 am Perhaps we can blame the operator here. High CPU and high latency effects processors are usually for mastering.
Might as well. Blame who ever is most convenient i guess if that's how you do what you do. :phones:

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I have a hard time believing that any musicians (musicians first) would want to sort through the custom shop mess to use purchased effects. And I think that no musicians appreciate non-scalable gui's, much less seeing scalable gui's that only come about in newer gen products while the older gen is still unusable. Maybe some of the plugins do sound good, but it tends to make customers feel tossed aside seeing new plugins being developed while the old ones never got sorted for usability.

Alot of smaller and bigger developers seem to be doing fine while simultaneously being decent to their customers, rather than treating customers like cash cows and shaping the software and policies for maximum milking.

I have to admit that I'm curious about the T-Racks Tape stuff, but I'm not going to touch it. I'll wait for a developer with decency toward customers to put out something similar.

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to each his own mate but take it from a musician for almost 51 yrs now... most all these complaints (and even i complain from time to time) are minor beefs and ALL that really matters is the end product... the sound you wish to achieve. i agree that they should at least try to make all plugins scalable... but again it can be overlooked... but then again some feel better to whine. (i do that too from time to time) but it is my opinion.. although i tend to dislike the company tremendously as a business i use a lot of their product because i simply like the sound i get from them. to my old ears they have a little bit more bite, warmth and fullness (effects wise) and i simply love the tape emulations but i grew up on tapes (after scratchy vinyl that is lol) and i know the sound. these bloody things eat up the cycles but again in my own opinion they run circles around ALL other tape sims i have used and i pretty much own everything out there. in the end nothing is or will be perfect so it is just a matter of biting the bullet. cheers
"There is no strength in numbers... have no such misconception... but when you need me be assured I won't be far away."

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I almost always come back arpund to IKM for Amplitube. There are only a few products I dont own and still want some of,those. No matter but if you dont like don't buy but don't whine

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Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2019 7:43 pm10 is a generous number already, and if you need more because you like to format windows 5 times a year and use it on your desktop and laptop, then contact support, explain why, and they'll give you more.
Shouldn't your codes still work after you format windows?
Intel Core2 Quad CPU + 4 GIG RAM

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