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Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:46 pm
by Tonio
http://scarbee.com/

thru monday.
:wink:
T

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:38 pm
by James Steele
Wow... this might be the time to jump for Black Bass. I'm thinking Amped 1 might be the ticket.

Also on the home page I noticed that the developer's wife is fighting breast cancer? :shock: I wish him and her both the best... that's gotta be tough.

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:00 pm
by Tonio
James, I have red bass, and based :wink: on that, you won't be sorry. Be sure to check out the demos, whole line up for BB.
I'm thinking about KGB or at least CEP.

T

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:13 pm
by beautypill
The news about his wife is profoundly sad!!

- c

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:51 am
by Pokeye
Just got the Classic EP download...awesome. I am a true snob about rhodes sounds and this one is on the money! Price is right too.

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:22 pm
by mhschmieder
I forgot to post this sale, so am glad someone else got around to it in time.

Very sad about Thomas Scarbye's wife. Not sure if it's a good idea to send a sympathy note, or if he would just be inundated with emails that way.

I have everything he sells already, except the amped versions of Black Bass. I'm still debating, since they're actually re-amped versions of the DI library vs. recordings of an amped bass, whether it's worth it vs. using amp modeling plug-ins.

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:27 pm
by James Steele
mhschmieder wrote:I have everything he sells already, except the amped versions of Black Bass. I'm still debating, since they're actually re-amped versions of the DI library vs. recordings of an amped bass, whether it's worth it vs. using amp modeling plug-ins.
Hmmm... hadn't thought of that. I listened to the demos and Amped 1 sounded like it would fit best for most of my own uses, so I ordered the download version tonight. I was hoping it was instantly downloadable, but it's not. I can't complain... it says within 24 hours on the web site, but I didn't notice it and was eagerly awaiting starting that 1.2GB rar download. :) I sure hope the instructions for what to do after unpacking that rar file are simple enough.

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:35 am
by mhschmieder
I'm wondering if there's some holiday over in Europe right now, because normally I get fast response from all of those vendors, but this weekend I have gotten no response at all from five separate vendors!

Of course, in Thomas Scarbye's case, he's got a lot to deal with right now, so that might explain your delay.

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:51 am
by James Steele
I downloaded it! I guess I'm stupid though as I thought I could open this with KontaktPlayer2 but I can't for some reason. I have VI ONE and KontaktPlayer 2.2.4 that came with it and I see VI ONE appear automatically when I open Kontakt Player 2, but it won't let me open the BlackBass nki file. I get an error when I try. I supposing I have to own Konakt in order to use Black Bass that I just bought?

It's always something... the $55 purchases tend to reveal something else I need... sigh...

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:08 am
by James Steele
Okay... it's late, I'm going to bed. Best I can tell is I screwed up. I bought the Black Bass Amped 1 for $55 thinking I could open it with KontaktPlayer2 that came with VI ONE. Wrong! So, if I want this to work it looks like I have to BUY the Kontakt3 upgrade (no mas Kontakt 2) for $279!!! So for not paying attention I have a $55 sampled bass instrument "bargain" that will cost me another $279 bucks to use. Which of course I CANNOT do right now, so I should've taken the $55 and chucked it into the street-- at least for the time being until I can afford to pop for Kontakt3.

Yeah... I'm usually so good at reading the fine print. I actually was able to open the nki file in MachFive 2 whereby I played one note that sounded odd and DP 6.01 crashed. Can't win for losing. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:34 am
by James Steele
Found a $239 crossgrade online with free shipping. Put it on plastic. Just more debt. My $55 modest treat for myself tonight ends up being an almost $300 blood-letting... LOL. I'm swearing off sample/plug-in deals for good. Any more great deals like this (where I don't pay attention) and I'll be broke! :( :D

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:28 am
by tobysan
Sorry to hear that James, but; at less a lot of us are going to learn about your experience.

Thanks

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:03 am
by kgdrum
a couple of questions:
1)does anyone know ,if you already have Red bass(as upgrade ) does that qualify for a Black bass as a crossgrade?
2)my G5 mac is in the shop my assumption ,if I want to purchase Black Bass I should be able download to my old G4 and burn to CDR and load to my G5 when I get it back from repair................is that correct?

I hope Mr. Scarbee's wife has a full recovery ,very tough dealing with family health issues as well as business at the same time.

thanks
KG

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:40 am
by beautypill
kgdrum wrote:I hope Mr. Scarbee's wife has a full recovery ,very tough dealing with family health issues as well as business at the same time.
I think we should support him during this time. Buy Scarbee stuff as a measure of support. Wife with cancer is a tragedy I hope to never experience!

[I just got married.]

- c

Re: Scarbee 44% Birthday sale !!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:37 am
by James Steele
tobysan wrote:Sorry to hear that James, but; at less a lot of us are going to learn about your experience.

Thanks
Man. I guess everybody does something stupid sometime and I sure did. My story doesn't end there though. I wrote to Scarbee on the hope that they might refund me, but I figured it unlikely since it's an uprotected sample library. I thought it was such a long shot that I had ordered the crossgrade to Kontakt 3 (which I really couldn't afford to do right now). Well.... I got an email from Thomas Skarbye himself saying that he understood and he would give me a refund and just delete the files. Now THAT is incredible. I was able to get a hold of the retailer I placed the Kontakt 3 crossgrade with and cancel that too.

So there... the details of my embarassing impulsive jump. I thought Kontakt Player could play these instruments but I guess not. And I suppose if we want reasonably priced sample instruments, it's less expensive if the company selling it doesn't have license KontaktPlayer3 from NI.