Mar 31, 2014. Lexicon has just released public Alpha versions of their Lexicon PCM Native Reverb and Effects Plug-ins. These now support 64-bit AAX for Pro Tools 11.

I bought the LXP Native version of these plugins for $400. It angered me to no end when they dropped the price down to $120 a couple years ago. I won't buy another Lexicon plugin because of that.that was a shot in the heart worse than IK Multimedia has ever done. For what it's worth I now own Exponential Audio R2 and PhoenixVerb. Those two plugins are being supported.Lexicon's on the other hand haven't been updated in some time. The plugins' about pages all say 'Copyright 2010-2011 and the version is still Beta 1.1.9. My gut feeling is Lexicon dropped the price of their reverbs out of spite toward Mr.

They did it just a month or two before Exponential Audio (Carnes) launched their initial products. I also like the fact that iLok 2 still hasn't been cracked so little leeches can't use the same tools I paid good money for. Just to give my two cents on the subject. The last few days I've been testing reverbs all day long, since I had to choose one as a default for my composing templates.

I've chosen to test those that are most talked about: Exponential Audio R2 / PHOENIX Softube TSAR-1 Relab LX480 Valhalla ROOM / VintageVerb Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Bundle I've been testing them mostly on PIANO / VOCALS / STRINGS (but also drums, guitars, etc), and my conclusion is that Lexicon PCM Native Bundle is still in a class of it's own. Don't get me wrong, all these plugins are OK, but none of them just sounds as smooth and as deep/wide/sweet as the Lexicon PCM, at least not on the material I tried them on. For me, piano is one of the trickiest instruments to add a reverb to (or any processing for that matter), because you can clearly hear all the anomalies, especially if you play the instrument dynamically. I've used Ivory II Steinway as the source for the test, and tried to set a similar Large Hall setting on all of the reverbs (as close as possible of course). As much as I wanted to find something that could beat the Lexicon PCM (because it's the most expensive of the lot), nothing just sounded as SWEET and as SMOOTH. Some of them were too grainy, some of them had a really narrow stereo image, some of them were just thin and others had anoying anomalies in the tail, etc.

One that I also really liked though is Valhalla - both ROOM and Vintage Verb. They are definitely a best buy if you consider the price/performance ratio.

When tweaked a bit - it got close to Lex, but not quite there. Anyway, that is just my experience based on roughly 3 days of testing, so I chose to buy the Lexicon PCM. I'm sure all of them can perform well in many different scenarios, maybe even better than the Lexicon for some purposes, but still. Would love to hear your experiences. Cheers, Oggie. Just grabbed the PCM native reverb at JJR ends up at 299.00 USD after you add it to cart.And that's exactly why I will not be purchasing any future Lexicon plugins.

I spent $400 on the LXP Native bundle. Now you can get the better version for $100 less than I spent. Thanks a lot, jerks. If I had spent $1,300 on the PCM Bundle I'd be booking a flight to Stamford, CT and confronting them about this miscarriage of justice in-person. I have done this before to companies that have screwed me over in the past and wouldn't have a problem doing it again.

Call me a lunatic but I don't enjoy being treated with disrespect, which is exactly what lowering a premium product's price by 77% is. And that's exactly why I will not be purchasing any future Lexicon plugins. I spent $400 on the LXP Native bundle. Now you can get the better version for $100 less than I spent. Thanks a lot, jerks.

If I had spent $1,300 on the PCM Bundle I'd be booking a flight to Stamford, CT and confronting them about this miscarriage of justice in-person. I have done this before to companies that have screwed me over in the past and wouldn't have a problem doing it again. Call me a lunatic but I don't enjoy being treated with disrespect, which is exactly what lowering a premium product's price by 77% is.Why? They apparently made back their R&D, and after being on the market for several years, amidst competition, they adjusted their price accordingly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's your job (the user/buyer) to make the purchase justifiable and worth the investment, not theirs.

The alternative is that all developers can start their prices high, keep them high, and deal with all the cheap musicians bitching about how their plugins should cost less than a dinner for two. They apparently made back their R&D, and after being on the market for several years, amidst competition, they adjusted their price accordingly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's your job (the user/buyer) to make the purchase justifiable and worth the investment, not theirs. The alternative is that all developers can start their prices high, keep them high, and deal with all the cheap musicians bitching about how their plugins should cost less than a dinner for two. I learned my lesson and I won't be purchasing any Lexicon products in the future. They lost me as a customer with this spit in the face so there's potentially thousands they just lost.

No doubt I'm not the only one angry about their decision to slash their prices. There are companies who keep their products at steady prices. DMG Audio keeps their prices the same, except when their plugins are first brought to market. I think that's a good idea. It keeps loyal customers happy and gives people an incentive to buy early instead of waiting for Black Friday deals or whatever.

I don't mind seeing small discounts offered on products I bought at full price. That's reasonable. But 77% is f**king ridiculous. It wasn't a gradual reduction in price either.

It went from being $1,000 one day to $300-400 2 Decembers ago. I believe they did it out of spite to Michael Carnes. Just my opinion but the price reduction timing and the release announcement from Exponential Audio was more than coincidence.again in MY opinion. The next trade show I attend I may just raise some hell at Harman's booth. Get your cell phone cameras ready.it'll be a hoot. And that's exactly why I will not be purchasing any future Lexicon plugins.

I spent $400 on the LXP Native bundle. Now you can get the better version for $100 less than I spent. Thanks a lot, jerks.

If I had spent $1,300 on the PCM Bundle I'd be booking a flight to Stamford, CT and confronting them about this miscarriage of justice in-person. I have done this before to companies that have screwed me over in the past and wouldn't have a problem doing it again. Call me a lunatic but I don't enjoy being treated with disrespect, which is exactly what lowering a premium product's price by 77% is.I got it for 250$. Wouldnt have otherwise.

So I paid my dues. And that's exactly why I will not be purchasing any future Lexicon plugins. I spent $400 on the LXP Native bundle.

Now you can get the better version for $100 less than I spent. Thanks a lot, jerks. If I had spent $1,300 on the PCM Bundle I'd be booking a flight to Stamford, CT and confronting them about this miscarriage of justice in-person. Diego De Silva Non Avevo Capito Niente Ebookers here.

I have done this before to companies that have screwed me over in the past and wouldn't have a problem doing it again. Call me a lunatic but I don't enjoy being treated with disrespect, which is exactly what lowering a premium product's price by 77% is.Personally I'd write them a polite email explaining how you feel about this. Perhaps they'll surprise you with some free upgrade. Always worth a try.

I've done this in the past with other companies and you'd be surprised what they've done for me. On everything from pro gear to auto companies. All my info was justified.sounds like yours is as well. Give it a shot. Agreed - I'd be seriously annoyed at this if I paid $1500 for this package. And it was cracked years ago as a friend of a friend has it.Whether things are cracked are not has nothing to do with the selling value. Because someone steals a Porsche, should every dealer give them away?

And anyone who bought these plugins when they dropped for full price did so knowing that they would fall in price sooner or later. I bought them soon after release, and got them for around $900. I made my money back right away. I knew they would fall in price sooner or later and didn't care. I don't run my business today on what I think will happen tomorrow. Lexicon doesn't owe anyone anything for dropping prices. Die Siedler 5 Free Download Vollversion Chip.

I can't for the life of me understand how these days, in the digital age, people feel such entitlement to forever get as good of a deal as is ever offered to anyone, regardless of the chronology. Whether things are cracked are not has nothing to do with the selling value. Because someone steals a Porsche, should every dealer give them away? And anyone who bought these plugins when they dropped for full price did so knowing that they would fall in price sooner or later. I bought them soon after release, and got them for around $900. I made my money back right away.

I knew they would fall in price sooner or later and didn't care. I don't run my business today on what I think will happen tomorrow. Lexicon doesn't owe anyone anything for dropping prices. I can't for the life of me understand how these days, in the digital age, people feel such entitlement to forever get as good of a deal as is ever offered to anyone, regardless of the chronology.I realise that just because something is cracked it shouldn't loose its value / I appreciate that and you'll get no argument from me there. It does bug when I fork out my hard earned though and then I go to a session and there's waves mercury (not that I'd ever buy it) and all these other goodies. Let em have it.

I'm sure their systems run like total crap.

Click to expand.Seeing a list like that is really awesome for somebody that wasn't around during the fabled 'olden days' and got raised (as far as audio warez are concerned) with names like Team AiR, ASSiGN, R2R and AudioUTOPiA. Sorry for anyone I might forget here that have been active during that same era considering I'm only a Windows user. Have to admit I'm kind of curious about the Arctic list of releases although I don't want to pester you about posting that because I can only imagine how many effort it takes to conjure up that list over here.

Click to expand.Yeah, some of them are definitely still useful, but they are fringe cases, in my opinion. NI - Spektral Delay is kind of in that category as there's nothing quite identical and it's no longer available commercially, but then again there was an internal version of it released fairly recently so the ancient version of it isn't necessary anymore. In other words, it's not as rare as it used to be. Ensoniq - PARIS would almost qualify too, but anyone using that now probably has the hacked updates for more modern machines, so. Again, the ancient release isn't all that useful. The biggest reason I can think of that someone may want any of these releases is because they're trying to open an old project that they've archived and the plugins used are no longer installed.

If you're working on something 'from the vaults' then you might have to find some really old programs to recall all your effects and settings 100%. The Direct-X version of Waves is the big one that comes to mind.

But the reversing legacy programs idea applies too.