Great Price Alert on Lexicon bundles

[Kubi]

Well, demoing it was the straw that broke this camel's back...

I never demoed the PCM bundle before, because who needs to know that a reverb costing some two grand sounds great? As far 'regular' reverbs go, I have Valhalla Room, I have Lexicon impulses for Altiverb (both theirs and third party, plus Bricasti impulses), and I even have the Lexicon MXP. Nothing comes close to the PCM. It sounds so smooth as if it were working with a higher resolution. What a nice nice set of reverbs. And great interface - easy to use yet highly editable. And since I'm working on a score now that uses a good bit of reverb, I ain't waiting for no R2.


Deal done. Thanks Dan for the heads-up here! Wowee.

[Killahurts]

OK thanks!
Wish I hadn't just purchased the 224 from UA about a month ago...

Not the same thing Phil, it's MORE!

You won't be redundant with the UAD 224, trust me. You need it all, if you can swing the budget.

Reverb is slowly coming back into popular music, but only those who know what they're doing with it will be successful using it.

[mhschmieder]

Just to clarify, the LXP is 100% redundant if you own PCM, correct? I've seen some statements to this effect but also some contrary information. Certainly MPX is different (and I own and love that plug).

I just ordered the PCM Total Effects Bundle, and am guessing there is no reason to add LXP. Strangely though, I felt the acoustic guitar demos at Lexicon's website sounded better and smoother as well as warmer with LXP than PCM, so it makes me wonder.

I won't have a chance to download these until tomorrow as I'm booted in 64-bit mode at the moment, meaning I can't access my work email via remote desktop as that only works in 32-bit mode. Tony Belmont's payment site only accepts Google Wallet for the discounted prices offered, and Google blocks my home email so I have to resort to my work email address.

[toodamnhip]

Well, demoing it was the straw that broke this camel's back...

I never demoed the PCM bundle before, because who needs to know that a reverb costing some two grand sounds great? As far 'regular' reverbs go, I have Valhalla Room, I have Lexicon impulses for Altiverb (both theirs and third party, plus Bricasti impulses), and I even have the Lexicon MXP. Nothing comes close to the PCM. It sounds so smooth as if it were working with a higher resolution. What a nice nice set of reverbs. And great interface - easy to use yet highly editable. And since I'm working on a score now that uses a good bit of reverb, I ain't waiting for no R2.


Deal done. Thanks Dan for the heads-up here! Wowee.

Hearing the online demos did it for me too. They sound Amazing, I’m in.
Been waiting 20 min and no download link, maybe the guy’s asleep for the night.
Hmm.
Alos, darn I have to get an ilok II? bummer.

[labman]

Just to clarify, the LXP is 100% redundant if you own PCM, correct? I've seen some statements to this effect but also some contrary information. Certainly MPX is different (and I own and love that plug).

I just ordered the PCM Total Effects Bundle, and am guessing there is no reason to add LXP.

Hiya M. Do not get the LXP bundle. While you may use a patch here and there, they are no where near the PCM native bundle in terms of how they make things sit right. (And yes, we owned a bunch of LXP stuff along with our big ticket Lex 300s, and PCM outboard racks.) So you made the right choice young grasshopper!

[kgdrum]

Just to clarify, the LXP is 100% redundant if you own PCM, correct? I've seen some statements to this effect but also some contrary information. Certainly MPX is different (and I own and love that plug).

I just ordered the PCM Total Effects Bundle, and am guessing there is no reason to add LXP.

Hiya M. Do not get the LXP bundle. While you may use a patch here and there, they are no where near the PCM native bundle in terms of how they make things sit right. (And yes, we owned a bunch of LXP stuff along with our big ticket Lex 300s, and PCM outboard racks.) So you made the right choice young grasshopper!

Agreed the PCM offers more,the PCM is the better choice.

This is what Michael Carnes says in a thread on GS the other day comparing the PCM vs LXP:

I might be able to shed some light on that.

[url=http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?p=8526280]Originally Posted by Andy_bt

PCM is more or less a Lex 96

It's exactly a PCM96, except there are some small bugfixes in the plugins that never made it back to the PCM96.

LXP are less tweakable PCM algorithms minus Vintage Plate and Random Hall

That's accurate. Perhaps the biggest difference in the algorithms that remain is the fact that LXP has much less spectral control. There are fewer types of filters and less control of damping in the tail. With sufficient twiddling, you should be able to get every single LXP sound with a PCM, but it doesn't go the other way.

[Kubi]

Well, demoing it was the straw that broke this camel's back..

Hearing the online demos did it for me too. They sound Amazing, I’m in.
Been waiting 20 min and no download link, maybe the guy’s asleep for the night.
Hmm.
Alos, darn I have to get an ilok II? bummer.

Wasn't referring to the online demos (tho I'm sure they're nice.) I demoed the plug-in here in my studio, using a demo license.

Download the Native Bundle v1.36 here: http://www.lexiconpro.com/en-US/software
Here's the direct link: http://www.lexiconpro.com/en-US/softwar ... os-x-intel (This is the full version, freely available to anyone at Lexicon website through their downloads page. That's the beauty of iLok...)

Then get the demo license for your iLok 2 here: http://www.lexiconpro.com/en-US/pcm-nat ... o-download It'll give you a code to use at ilok.com

Trial is 14 days I believe, so it'll give you plenty of overlap time before you receive the permanent license code.

[toodamnhip]

Thanks Kubi but I already bought it, don’t need the demo.
I have to let the thing sit today until I can pass by guiatr center for a damn ilok II.
I’ve been avoiding getting one of those for two yrs now..lol.
I finally got caught and backed into one..bummer.
Just what I need, another dongle

[kgdrum]

Thanks Kubi but I already bought it, don’t need the demo.
I have to let the thing sit today until I can pass by guiatr center for a damn ilok II.
I’ve been avoiding getting one of those for two yrs now..lol.
I finally got caught and backed into one..bummer.
Just what I need, another dongle

TDH- if you bought any of the Slate Plugs on Cyber Monday I think you might be able to still get the ilok2 for $25,I ordered it Monday.

[Kubi]

You can transfer any iLok 1 authorizations you may have to the iLok 2 - so not another dongle, just an updated one...

[MIDI Life Crisis]

What he said... I mean, um, +1

[toodamnhip]

You can transfer any iLok 1 authorizations you may have to the iLok 2 - so not another dongle, just an updated one...

That’s good. So I suppose I go onto i lok .com and suck them all off onto the website and send them all back down to the new ilok?
Or is there a way to directly transfer from one to the other if both are hooked up?
Also, is there something better about the ilok II?

[James Steele]

You should be able to just move an authorization directly from one to another as long as they are both connected to the computer through the ilok.com site.

[kgdrum]

You should be able to just move an authorization directly from one to another as long as they are both connected to the computer through the ilok.com site.

+1
James is correct.
I'd avoid using Firefox with the iLok authorization process,Safari or Chrome is preferable.
Ilok2 holds more authorizations and I think 1st iLok has some sort of 64bit compatibility issues.

[mocker]

Better deal at JRR shop ! $359 for the PCM NAtive Reverb Bundle with code LEXICON40 towards the end of the buying process. Until Friday, then discount will drop to 30% with the code LEXICON30.

I just bought it, great !
Merry Xmas guys.