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It’s there!!  Thanks so much!!!  Much appreciated

Jarrod

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Just checked the Odd Grooves site and they also have some free samples of midi for you. I’m just checking them out now. Thanks John!

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When I have special groove needs/wants for a song I create my own using EZPlayer. You don’t HAVE to but I like doing it. I have SD2, EZ Drummer, Nashville, Latin ezx’s and I can usually find the right hit across the existing grooves to suit but can also move them anywhere in the groove build. You can piece them together, save them and recall them later to drag into your host. So, Instead of feeling like I need to buy more midi to get the flavor and feels that I want, I can build myself. Ez player also allows me to map and use the midi files that came with bfd lite that came with pro tools 8 le, thats pretty cool too. Of course I think I paid $50 for ezplayer. In my book that is money better spent than on grooves that I may or may not exactly like. With all the TT midi I have I can usually get what I exactly want pretty easy. That said, Groove Monkee lets you download a sample of 600 midifiles, which I did, for free (for now anyway) across varying genres. That’s all I can speak to……

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ORIGINAL: Markham

I think we need to remember that Toontrack may not set all these sales up. They may offer a discount to retailers for a certain month or whatever, but it’s up to individual retailers how they participate. I’m not sure of the details as to how Toontrack does this.

Very good point. So I checked with my retailer about this to see if they could or would set it up to “grandfather” those who upgraded in Jan the benefit of the further upgrade of an sdx for $50. I was told that they were only allowed to sell the bundles together as they were sent to them. Thus, this does put the ball back into Toontrack’s court. Other companies face similar situations as well. For instance, Avid did something very similar to what I am asking Toontrack to do. Here is how it went: for those who had just upgraded to version 8 of pro tools shortly before version 9 came out, Avid grandfathered them into PT 9 for an extra $100. (fyi I was not one of those who upgraded to 9). The upgrade to 8 was $150 and for the extra $100 they were able to get the new release. That is what I call making it right for your users. Toontrack could sell an SDX for $50 to those who got serial numbers for the SD2 crossgrade in Jan. It is certainly in their purview and ability. It certainly begs the question to whether they got enough people to buy the crossgrade in Jan, so they had to make it even MORE attractive to upgrade with the subsequent offer. Now i realize that I am a nobody in the music world, however, if someone asks me about Toontrack I will say that they have amazing products yet with this one significant customer service reservation. However, If they make this right, I can continue to be a huge mouthpiece for Toontrack without ANY reservations! I love my crossgrade! However, I feel that they need to make this right. Maybe they are already working out a way to make this happen, I don’t know. Maybe not. And I’m done………………

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Yes! to all the above…..

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I agree that people do lose out if they don’t take advantage of the opportunity. However, doesn’t it stand to reason to offer the BEST deal first? Then as time goes by, if people are dragging their feet they lose out on the better deal. This is the other way around. I lost out because I acted too soon! Maybe next month there will be a Superior crossgrade plus 2 SDX’s for $225. A personal example of missing out: In December I did not act on the $50 dollar EZX deal. So, now when I look at the Sweetwater website I see that they are back to the original price. I missed out. The EZ drummer and the Superior products are different and can be still used together. However, it is a little hard to swallow to get an email offer that makes you not want to miss out on this great deal (which it was) only to find out that a greater deal for the exact same product was less than a month away. Its backwards. That is why I think it very reasonable for those who took advantage of the January offer to be able to get an SDX for the extra $50 since the response was so good. Why not reward those who helped make the overwhelming response what it was? I will pay the extra $50. I agree with Baritonedan that this isn’t a deal breaker for me as far as Toontrack is concerned. I love your products, I’m struggling with the “how and why” of what you are doing.

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Tru Dat! I would have def. waited! Really bummed about this timing. It would be nice for those who took advantage of the $150 Crossgrade to have the option to add an SDX for the extra $50. Maybe others can’t do the extra $50. If this were to happen, C&V is all mine…..er wait New York Vol. 2 is all mine…….er…..Music Ci……anyway, it would be dang cool. Hope this reaches someone!

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