This Plugin Company was Exposed Horribly by R2R

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[@Sergio-nb4hj]

R2R?... hmm... never heard of them...

[@mclovin_69_]

cute witches

[@SianaGearz]

Back in my day, we never heard of Radium.

[@myfaveyoutube]

AiR @@SianaGearz

[@TheShelflife]

... you mean that Star Wars robot? *cough*

[@fluctura]

Some mad good and likewise angry russian guys having fun with puzzle games (reverse engineering) 😂

[@Emily_M81]

when the pirated product is better than the product that's a massive problem.

[@eccentricworx]

Especially when the pirated one fixes problems you wait ages for the original company to fix...

[@chokocat9064]

Sadly this is nearly always the case. Copy protection only harms the legitimate users.

[@WyattWinters]

I just made the massive mistake of buying some waves plugins on sale. Can’t even get this shit installed with how convoluted their software containers are and has turned me off of them for good

[@chokocat9064]

@@WyattWinters They regularly give plugins away too. I don't let their code anywhere near a computer on which I want to get work done. Recordist-interuptous is all too likely to happen. See if you can return them. Who knows they may let you. If not it becomes an expensive learning lesson. While expensive the FabFilter plugins are excellent.

[@Frikoppie]

And it's surprisingly common. Overall, the music "scene" has more whoring than porn.

[@JohnWick4K]

Imagine using 10GB of shit to protect against piracy. And still people crack it. 💀 Shoutout to the R2R. You guys are the best in the game! ❤

[@Byronic19134]

I have several AA plugins and in total they do not add up to 10 GB so I dunno wtf this number came from.

[@prodmonja]

@@Byronic19134 How much Gigs are they?

[@hearmenow909]

@@Byronic19134 The number came from the Acustica Black Bundle. R2R only highlighted this one as having 10GB protection, Weaver made a mistake and said imagine 10 x 10GB, when in fact the screenshot he showed of the 10GB deduction by R2R only related to one product. Basically, every R2R cracked version is much smaller than the original software due to the bloaty protection being stripped out. They also run faster, are more stable, and have the security vulnerabilities removed. R2R versions are better.

[@MrRacecourser]

They are goated, true legends in the game.

[@Dmyra]

ze absolute Kings R2R

[@FryUps]

Once upon a time a young producer used cracked software and became great at using the software. Then, when he got older, he ended up buying all the software he used that was cracked. And he lived happily ever after. True Story *except the bit about living happily ever after

[@samkitt]

Infact there's a video of Martin garix using a cracked Sylenth when he is showing his track Animals

[@novakattila]

Except this never happens. I'm a small time plugin developer myself and the way people justify theft is pretty obnoxious. Yeah, sure only if my plugin was 10mbyte instead of 100mbyte you'd "buy it" right. I understand if somebody has no money for real hardware or an expensive plugin but guess what, you can use other things, there are free plugins, lots of very good things are available for free. Saying "I would buy it if the UI was blue but I hate red and so I hate this company" is a lot more obnoxious than saying you're a thief because its easy and available, but then do not get surprised if companies and developers try to defend their product. Like, what thief would be angry that the company he's stealing from wont let him?

[@dex7378]

@@novakattila Happens all the time.

[@Arcessitor]

​@@samkitt Yeah, he didn't end up buying it. Shameful.

[@Arcessitor]

​@@novakattila Well, I'm living proof that it does happen. I also make no apologies for my 'theft.' I didn't have money, I wanted stuff, I took it. 12 years later and I have bought over $10k worth of plugins including everything I've ever used commercially. Am I an exception? Sure. But you're kind of dumb if you think you can shame people who don't want to pay into paying anyway - meanwhile, you are actively antagonizing people that *would* eventually end up buying your stuff. Kind of a dumb move on your part.

[@glennfordsolinap8606]

it's been an honor and a pleasure to meet you, R2R.

[@LahceneBelbachir]

The funniest thing to me is the fact that Luca Pretolesi, which is a business partner of Acustica was caught using a R2R release of Stereo Savage... 😂

[@stereokuuji]

😂

[@believeinkarma939]

😂😂😂😂

[@lukeGGlee]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@captain_crunk]

Whoops.

[@LahceneBelbachir]

@@devianthousend You can clearly see in the plugin UI how the email says "reverse@revolutionize", lol, I uploaded the video to my channel, it's from one of his tutorials. 😂

[@wxaudio]

R2R cracked NANI and left me a message in the crack on how to fix it lmao

[@ENCRYPTaBIT]

Is the person in your NANI 2.0 video SoraTheTroll ? lol

[@wxaudio]

@@ENCRYPTaBIT It is ! lol

[@velazquez_7]

Oh yeah, I still remember that: "NANI uses BlowFish in wrong way. Using it like Hash functions. They encrypt fixed value "1" by BlowFish, then use encrypted 32bit value to generate final Machine ID. Encryption keys are from hardware information. What NANI really need is not BlowFish but MD5/SHA256/WHIRLPOOL (these 3 are all available in JUCE). How about this : finalComputerId = MD5(ComputerName) + "-" + MD5(UserName); Simple and compatible with WIN/MAC. No network card ON/OFF issue at all. Good luck!" I'd like to know how was your reaction after their message. It's always interesting see how devs react when a cracker team helps to improve their software protection scheme, peace!

[@teebee5026]

KZbinr Louis Rossmann said that one step to decreasing piracy is to make the legal experience more easier/better then the illegal and I think that applies here with how the paying customers have bloated gb size and slower loading times compared to the cracked.

[@crnkmnky]

💯

[@RealHomeRecording]

Louis wouldn't repair my MacBook for free though. So I just went to an Apple store and stole one.

[@synthoelectro]

overcharging for audio software has the been the #1 problem for over 20 years. That is however changing with newer DAWs that give them away free. Thankfully a new generation of musicians don't have to go through what we did years ago.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

“Louis wouldn't repair my MacBook for free though. So I just went to an Apple store and stole one. I’m dumb.”

[@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL]

I love that for the longest time they were trying to convince people it was the convolution files and models that made the files so big 😅

[@LB-yn2su]

Yeah, we remember when it was called 'gearslutz".. funny people. and i own most of their plugins.

[@allgonewrongful]

@@LB-yn2su bring back gearslutz. Dumbest feckin name change ever.

[@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL]

@@LB-yn2su ah the online music world. What a place.

[@CMak3r]

He also diagnosed White Sea Studio with a personality disorder after he published a negative review about Acustica Audio plugin 4 years ago.

[@novakattila]

That dude is a legit autist, or at least have asperger. Also just a rich guy whose parents bought him toys so he can pretend to be an engineer. He regularly says things which are simply not true, scientifically. Thats fine, not sure why he has to make it publicly and pretend he is an expert though. Do it in your room and not on youtube if you want to.

[@dirg3music]

Oh man, what did he say?

[@WheelieMix]

Giancarlo is one of the worst communicant imho. He is way too heated up. He has been quite disrespectful to me too because I raised concerns about their plugins behaving weirdly. I gave up on them a long time ago.

[@SoundScienceMediaWorks]

The perma ban is crazy. I used to use almost exclusively cracked plugins . A decade later , I don’t have a single cracked plugin in my main studio computer , tho my old system still has several old plugins I’m just too lazy to delete I only use that system for mobile sessions . People grow and as money becomes less of a problem, they invest and buy the companies that make products they love . I own thousands of dollars of legitimate software now imagine if these companies had banned me instead of just making consistently good products to keep me in the ecosystem

[@novakattila]

They only "perma ban" you as long as you have cracked plugins installed, its not a lifetime ban.

[@Rareos]

@@novakattila but isn't any kind of ban from something you already paid for theft?

[@novakattila]

But you did not pay for it. You get banned if you're using a stolen product only. Regardless if you bought anyother plugin from them. I'm pretty sure its in their terms and conditions, that is, and btw thats the same with every cloud software company that they can cancel your access any time for reasons written in the terms. Most people mindlessly click through these but for us developers these legal things really matter exactly for these kind of reasons. And once you delete the cracked plugins you get your paid plugin back.@@Rareos

[@Arcessitor]

​@@Rareos Well that's get into the murky territory of considering any online product 'owned' and any acquiring of it without paying 'theft.' It's all legally ambiguous at best. You technically 'license' products in the same way you do games. And they can discontinue that 'service.' It's complicated.

[@Rareos]

@@Arcessitor yeah it sure does, and even though there is nothing in Acustica’s terms that explicitly states how having cracked software on your system constitutes a breach of terms, their vaguely worded terms simply say.. “We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice or liability“… essentially saying they can do whatever they want, won’t give your money back, etc.. the problem is it just reveals so much about the nature of the company and people will make what they will from primarily that dynamic. Legally it can already be argued one is compelled to use cracked versions because of the act’s of Acustica themselves, as in, the unnecessarily large file sizes cost the consumer in foregone storage (how much does Apple charge for internal hard drive space?), and eventually speed and efficiency of the system they operate on, and the security concept ultimately has been proven to be ineffective anyway, the anti-piracy tactic does not even work and the code has been shown to be vulnerable. If the company makes legit use of their software a massive burden without any real benefit to the customer / an actual burden to the customer, the piracy can be argued actually a legitimate way to use the software, and if Acustica wants to just suspend people from their paid products, they should pay up 💰.

[@DavidDiMuzio]

I deleted all their plugins off my computer because of the size. The size is just ridiculous. Not possibly worth it. There’s already plenty of other great software.

[@Linguae_Music]

R2R are the Saints of the production world.

[@Byronic19134]

Devs spend their entire life on a keyboard coding plugins and they crack it to give away for free. That's a saint? Even the shxtty plugins take a ton of work to produce. How would you feel if you took years building something only for people to steal it?

[@masterofreality230]

@@Byronic19134 dont care....torrent go brrr.

[@miner4ever4]

@@Byronic19134 if that shltty plugin costs 500$, and you are boot licking them like a dog eating sh*t, you are going to buy them, and we won't. Also, coding can be easy if you know what you're doing.

[@h-dawg6462]

that depends on if i were paid to build it. if coders are paid regardless then the only ones taking a hit are the corporations....and they can take a run and jump!! what we have is a robin hood scenario, robbing the already rich to give to the poor. anyway, someone has to purchase the software in order to crack it, so the corporations are still winning in reality!

[@Allious131]

@@Byronic19134 Fuk you people that doesn't hold up anymore with you greedy sons of biatches, these companies have no soul or moral compassion for their customers piracy is justified in todays time.

[@headspacetheace]

10 GB for drm is absolutely crazy, I mean we all understand why drm exists in the first place but if you're gonna put that kind of burden and expecting the worst from your actual paying customers then all you're doing is asking your customers to start pirating your software

[@chokocat9064]

Consider, if they are that bad at writing copy protection code, just imagine how bad they are at writing DSP code. It's highly likely that it's not even worth running cracked versions of their code.

[@headspacetheace]

@@chokocat9064 I mean yeah they've never been known for optimization, even their installation app is slow and looks ugly

[@mclovin_69_]

the witches removed a lot of bloat

[@sheppo]

I'd only ever heard good things about this company, until now. I have absolutely zero interest in using a product that is intentionally bloated, especially to this extent. Red flag. Never gonna purchase.

[@JohnMarshall-NI]

Great video. Well done. The whole situation is absurd.

[@croay]

kudos for speaking about it, it personally infuriates me how some developers treat their customers as pets, "oh you cant do this bad puppy!", "if you do this youre banned!", "You need to trust my word you're stupid but I'm right trust me".

[@kesamek8537]

When a company treats you like that, steal all their jewels.

[@sp34277]

exactly, no respect for me no respect for you🫡

[@eprotz]

As a customer who has spent a lot in this plugins now I have a bad taste in my mouth. I thought the size of the plugin was because of it should have been samples, as many other users, and not anti piracy files in a ratio of 90%-80%. Another deseption is seeing how they are releasing a lot of redundant new products instead of upgrading the classics and Giancarlo blaming the loyal customers that we just want free updates. I hope that AA learn from this to be more transparent and listen to their customers.

[@MeAlexSenna]

Doing the good work, exposing the crappy companies for what they are ❤

[@HoleshotBass]

I dont advocate piracy but the company's representation is possibly the worst PR damage control I have ever seen. The proper response would have been no response and quietly remove BLOAT and tout you have improved performance in your latest released version.

[@WillTheWeirdo]

I was banned today from the Facebook AA group for giving my pro opinions, lol.

[@jaffasplaffa1]

I've been banned in the past for posting images of Plugin Doctor, asking questions about why every single band in their EQs adds low cut. Giancarlo answered me, that the low cut was introduced by their sampling software. But then he realised he exposed the company, then I was banned from the group for a few days, while they cleaned up the comments, where they exposed the low cut issue was from their sampling process and was not really part of the hardware they sampled. When I was let in again, everything was gone, everything we talked about was deleted.

[@nj1255]

R2R = Reverse to revolutionize. Fitting acronym!

[@kevinwilliams6006]

I am absolutely pissed off. I was actually in the process of purchasing a 2tb interior ssd to upgrade from my 1tb because after purchasing a bunch of Acustica Audio plugins for black Friday I found that it took up over 100 gigs on my hard drive. On top of that , I have a 2019 Imac that you have to cut open and void any warranty once you upgrade the hard drive. Acustica you are truly screwing your customers. I love their products minus the bloat Thanks for the info Weaver. I do love their products but not enough to be penetrated...

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

I would return them in a heartbeat and if they refused the refund, initiate a chargeback. Do you have to be online/connected to their servers like Universal Audio requires?

[@Sniper_T_2x]

Pause

[@novakattila]

I have cc 30 different plugins from them, including Nebula libs. I checked, my Acustica plugins are 78 Gbyte in size in total. My Nebula is another 22 Gbyte. Thats cc. a 100 Gbytes. And thats for lets say a 100 (!!) different plugins considering all the Nebula programs. I only sometimes use 80% of them, I use 20% of them on every project. Meaning if you're size sensitive you only need cc. 10-20 Gbyte of space. If you cannot afford having that in 2023 then I suggest getting a job. I good hard drive (you absolutely do not even need SSD for this, there is barely any difference) costs what like $100? People on this channel are pretty ridiculous, but yeah, you can see "beatmakers" and 16 year olds making shitty EDM arent the target audience here. No worries.

[@kevinwilliams6006]

​@therealneuraltech that may be the case but I'm not certain. They use a desktop app called Aquarius where you download their plugins and demos.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

If those plugin installations don’t include a bunch of sample libraries, then that sounds like a giant bloated mess of epic proportions. Your description averages about a GB per plugin… wtf, that’s nuts if they don’t include samples. Either trashy coding, or intentional DRM bloat. Either way, that nonsense is for the birds. This Acoustica company sounds like a shitty bunch… reminds me of Universal Audio and all their pretentious crap coupled with atrocious Windows support and fraudulent claims for said OS compatibility.

[@Cynical_Finch]

I always giggle when someones message to the world, or response to controversy, is posted on a Facebook group.

[@SwimnBird]

This makes sense, I really like how some of their plugins sound but the amount of CPU was just insane for my system. Had to request a refund despite liking the plugins.

[@gavmurray7398]

i would have been a paying customer of Acoustica many years ago if their software didnt take up my entire latoptop hard drive and one instance of their plug ins didnt make my laptop burst into flames. i am amazed they didnt go broke years ago

[@RufusRoss]

I need some Air after this

[@crnkmnky]

Might I interest you in a Fūm™?

[@Music-tg5is]

Remember to take plenty of H2o after.

[@RufusRoss]

@@Music-tg5is 🤣

[@DashGlitch]

Weaver doing the lords work, I used the acustica stuff for a bit, paid for a fair amount of their products, after a while I noticed the stuff was hella bloaty and pretty bad in terms of performance, deleted all of it after the honeymoon period 🤣

[@wallyslow]

lords? lords of metal?

[@AVDRE]

They are laggy and take up waayy too much space, also alot of latency

[@Byronic19134]

​@@AVDREThis is spot on. But at the same time they sound amazing. Like all of them do.

[@alx9889]

If you paid for them, you are morally allowed to use cracked versions of plugins to make sure you dont deal with laggy bloated vsts

[@moskva-kassiopeya]

Same!

[@lowrater]

My biggest problem with software today is that the one i like and want to use, do not have a demo. I've wasted too much on something i now never use.

[@dooshnukem32]

My general rule is this: if it's as good as the marketing implies, it comes with a fully functional demo. It should sell itself just by you using it a little bit. If there's no demo, it's almost always just hype and not worth investigating. All the best of the best stuff comes with a good demo, I have yet to find an exception to this.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Or they tell you it's a free trial but you have to sighn up to there subscription.

[@novakattila]

But they have 30 day demo of all of their plugins

[@AsherBKNY]

Thank you for the info! Respect to R2R team 👍

[@nikku1166]

I remember this shit happening with Cubase back in the day. Their stupid anti-piracy code took up clock cycles and slowed down the program so much even people that had a purchased versions of Cubase would run the pirated one because it ran faster and more stable.

[@guthriejenkins]

Thanks for the heads up.

[@exhumus]

I had no idea the ridiculous storage of my Acustika plugins was blown out by 10x by DRM, I just assumed it was the huge number of convolution samples involved. I think I'll be reclaiming some disk space. I like the way they sound but I hate their plugin manager and they're a CPU hog.

[@halcyon__r3289]

So acustica sounds good or not?

[@beatskool101]

Thank God I've never felt the need for this line of plug-ins.

[@IamtheI]

not to mention the insanse spikes of 200db that almost fried my ears......whenever i would put suggestion to new buyers of their plugs to use something like ice 9 to mute the spikes they would delete my comment and i eventually got banned from the group...

[@Djardjo]

you missed the part where people are saying that the arm software they use is basically spyware and the AA support team sends people SCREESHOTS of their machines

[@ilikemyrealname]

WHAT?!? Where's that? I'd love to see that. Wild..

[@Djardjo]

In the forums people are talking about that @@ilikemyrealname

[@claudianreyn4529]

😂 How to not get new clients ever.

[@suitandtieguy]

This reminds me of the time Audio Damage deleted my customer account because i told Chris Randall he was being a jerk on his blog. I never used plugins that didn't come with Digital Performer ever again.

[@crnkmnky]

MOTU Performer, now there's a DAW you don't hear about these days. All I know is it's what Wendy Carlos uses.

[@janetkirby2448]

Still an awesome DAW😎

[@suitandtieguy]

@@janetkirby2448 I'm still using DP7. 2011 gave me everything I needed.

[@jj454]

The account banning is so stupid. They could be getting new users trying the cracks but now unable to purchase anything as their legit account would get instantly banned. I’ve also sold off my account as I was wanting to use the lighter crack versions instead of the bloat but I can’t have both at the same time time. Acustica really going after the wrong people.

[@claudianreyn4529]

It's almost like they don't as t out money when we have enough to buy their plugins 😅🤦‍♂️

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

whoever is defending acoustica isnt a programmer

[@Etienne.6329]

or a sound engineer. Or with any hint of common sense.

[@bighousemusic628]

Even common computer builder like us have knowledge or common sense

[@livertiny]

Great reporting. This shit important yo!

[@dealloc]

Blows my mind, as a software engineer, that it's even possible to make DRM protection take up 10GB. What the F did they put in the libraries?

[@corel965]

Most of them are copies of .dll files...which doing checks on vst for example izotope rx has 200Mb dll like vst and comes with 5x dll's so one GB of waste space. .. R2R knows the job :D

[@kristianTV1974]

Love the background music about 3 mins in. I haven't heard it before because I'd never use R2R cracks.

[@crnkmnky]

That's not crack music. 😭

[@venericanone]

I hate acustica and deleted everything off my PC a week ago.(and there was a bunch of residual files) Now I feel even better about it.

[@andivax]

It's interesting how r2r version compared with the legit version in terms of CPU consumption.

[@eprotz]

Have you made the comparison? I've been wondering the same.

[@andivax]

@@eprotzi am legit user. Didn't want to install r2r release. Looks like the only downside of the legit version is size. CPU consumption should be the same.

[@kevinwilliams6006]

I started with 100% cracked plugins; now I own 100% of my plugins and I have plugin acquisition syndrome to say the least. It is what it is. Long live the pirates!

[@DaFacts_Hub_]

Quick question, is there any difference in the quality of your sound when you use "cracked" plugins vs when you use paid for plugins?

[@redvivid]

​@@DaFacts_Hub_no...

[@stardy316]

@@DaFacts_Hub_ essentially no (or i don't notice it). It's just the same plugin, but was programmed by, for example, R2R for it to consider itself bought. There shouldn't be any difference, so don't worry.

[@DaFacts_Hub_]

@@stardy316 thanks👍

[@jjwhittle8873]

Yeah there's bloatware and bad interfaces but why are we not talking about how bad their manuals are. Sorry, I gotta read an essay about Dante's Inferno just to find out what an unlabelled switch on a compressor does?

[@Weaverbeats]

lmao

[@Stormchaser189]

The R2R /AA firestorm rages on ! It's a monumental moment when a very knowledgeable crack group literally fixes a tonne of bad code so they can become usable. Let's just say the developer is quite triggered by the truth revealed of whats really going on behind the Acustica curtain...

[@NickyDekker89]

To be honest, I pirate absolutely everything but I eventually buy everything that I like or use a lot. I end up buying things I would of never have bought if I didn't get to try the full version out for free.

[@Pabloesc571]

That's how everyone should behave

[@Pabloesc571]

Tbf companies should let you try the products for a month

[@synthoelectro]

Plugin Boutique has been my go to for a while now, they are pretty fair.

[@frallorfrallor3410]

honestly i see noting wrong with r2r acutally pusing this forward to make this product better 🤩

[@beatsheik]

I actually use their plugins a lot (legit) and I hope the whole R2R situation brings optimization to the actual customers. Finding out the majority of their plugins were protection just opened my eyes. I really hope this opens the door for people like Tim P, Alex B and Cupwise to get access to the Acqua architecture to expand their expertise to their own plugins with NO PROTECTION.

[@eprotz]

How can I give you 100 likes?

[@DragonBiscuit]

Yes - agreed. I own licenses for the vast majority of Acustica plugins. I would love to see TimP and AlexB get into the Acqua game - their products are TOP NOTCH

[@bighousemusic628]

Tim peterick and alex b and tim cupwise nebula programs completely destroys giancarlos offering

[@IntheDAW]

The issue is acoustica has always treated customers like unimportant ants. I doubt this will do much until it hits there wallet.

[@djduncanjames]

Great video bro, subbed

[@suitandtieguy]

This is why I'm in the hardware business.

[@nebhetep2254]

Ahhh, its the Man himself. Love your modules Sir.

[@suitandtieguy]

@@nebhetep2254 thank you!

[@RealHomeRecording]

If everyone could steal hardware as easily as they steal software, you would be out of business.

[@suitandtieguy]

@@RealHomeRecording you're new to this aren't you?

[@averyintelligence]

If this is the actual reason you're in the hardware business then that's kinda a sad reason.

[@George-oldskool]

lovin' it! go on!!!

[@nnctnlav]

thanks man, finally people are talking about this

[@tweaked7025]

Giancarlo is a loose cannon. always running his mouth off when saying nothing would be much less damaging. Think about this before patronizing a company that treats it's paying customers so poorly

[@sfisodlamini54]

Man, I miss those keygen bangers.

[@Laughadaffadil]

Amazing vid as always ❤

[@mantaproject]

That makes me want to remove all my legitimate plugs from Acoustica! Don't use them that much anyway 🤭

[@1UPMuzic]

I thought I was the only one who had a problem with acoustica audio’s user interfaces

[@pham4925]

I know it might not be optimized for new Macs but I’ve never managed to run a song without lags on a M1 Max or my i9 9900k with Acustica Audio plugins. I hated the plugs for how big and laggy they were. And I heard opinions they gotta be this way and I thought I was crazy.

[@ilikemyrealname]

Same. I have an overclocked i7 Coffee Lake Hackintosh and an M1 Pro MBP. Both struggle when I have full 48k mix sessions with just one TimP SSL Comp on my master buss. It's wild how much just that one plugin destroys the CPU's on both machines. Such a shame because I do love the sound of that compressor.

[@ShawnThuris]

This is the perfect rate of memes, good job, don't go faster memes than this I am old.

[@Ra_Sharpness_]

Rules for me not for thee. You will own nothing and be happy. Rrrreeeeeee!!! And great video today bro i hope this stays up 🤞

[@JoeySokol]

Killer video! I stopped using Acustica plugins a while ago when it hogged all my CPU for no reason. Now, I’m starting to see why ✌️🤠

[@lance134679]

This is actually old news in PC games. Lots of people report having trouble running the legit version, then downloading a pirated version and it performs much better.

[@Beatsbasteln]

I'll tell my kids this was the news

[@ApexLunatic]

I like this guy. Subscribed

[@moskva-kassiopeya]

Oh boy, I always wondered why TF their plugins are SO huge and demanding. I recently installed some of their plugins on my M1 MacBook Pro and it started to lagging! It’s the first time my Mac can’t handle a plugin! Now it all makes sense.

[@infinitedurr]

1- Need a link to that wonky dub tune in the background 2- I love acustica’s plugins, they sounds amazing and I own a bunch of their legit software, but this really is lame of them.

[@CaptainProton1]

Left a bad taste in my mouth after having half my Mac's hard drive filled up with copy protection. Went and bought SSL subscription and SSL controller. I'll keep Acustica for the Lemon Delay though as nothing touches this...just use Ilock or something as making us pay for more HD and CPU for this copy protection is not fair.

[@prosmack]

The contradictions in the statements of the CEO are mind-boggling. Hire a decent PR guy or something.

[@warlanefam]

😂 man everytime I come home from a depressing day at work, you manage to put a smile on my face

[@DavidMorley]

Some companies make plug ins a royal pain in the ass. They tend to often also be the more expensive ones. Luckily there are so many excellent affordable or free plugins. Actually no real reason to use cracked ones either. But just don't buy from annoying companies.

[@jaffasplaffa1]

Today I actually use mostly free/open source plugins. I do have some Acustica plugins, but rarely use them and haven't bought one in years, cause I think they are generally too expensive and take up too much space.

[@TheCruisinCrew]

I pirate nothing and have not have warez on my machines since the early 2000s... but thanks for the info - I will not buy or use any of their products!

[@xradical89x]

they also have the worst customer support ever on the planet as far as I'm concerned

[@mikeblack622]

Deleted ALL of their stuff last month. None of which was cracked but it was all Freeware.. It still clogged up far too much space.

[@MustacheVerra]

Damn! Did not expect that.

[@eduwhan1]

lol Is that final Fantasy 3 BMG playing in the background @ 3min?

[@albertvankrieg5548]

Thank you for making this video. Didn't had idea of such practices. Also, where can I find that pic of Jesus wearing the big ass pair of jeans?

[@Morales-nt6vi]

A lot of these companies need to get over it. Hit them in the pockets and ignore them. They ll be sorry when they go broke. They need to know if it weren't for us they would fall. Ps don't pirate if u don't have to. People need to make a living.

[@Etienne.6329]

Additionally : acustica audio is 100% pure snake oil shite. And you have hundreds of alternatives if you like

[@kesamek8537]

If companies need their staff to make a living, then maybe those companies should ... act like it?

[@sebastiann9279]

Any company that requires their consent that you can even use bought program does not deserve a buy in my books. Im not paying 50-100$ plus for a RENTAL.

[@Morales-nt6vi]

You Sir are right rentals and subscriptions can go kick rocks.@@sebastiann9279

[@prodmonja]

Your channel is pure genius

[@neoillogic]

acustica helping with my too many plugins problem! thanks!

[@allgonewrongful]

I never thought i would see the letters R2R on utube. I wish they would update the softube stuff.

[@honestaussie5064]

Imagine if Acustica put as much effort into creating a good product as they did with those posts 🤣

[@ash_bordeaux]

i pirated ableton for years and loved it, so i saved up and bought it

[@kassemir]

this is sadly something that only gets more and more common, i.e. paying customers getting a worse experience than pirates. it's an issue and something any business that respects their customers should address and remedy immiditaly.

[@novakattila]

And what is your suggestion?

[@crnkmnky]

@@novakattila I think finding solutions is _your_ job.

[@novakattila]

@@crnkmnky I think you dont understand how math works and how encryptions work. There are no “easy, small and unbreakable” solutions unless you have physical tokens like a dongle. I MUCH prefer not having those as a customer. And again, theft is theft. Thats like saying “I can steal this BMW because it has a shitty transmittion only if they did have a better one I wouldnt steal it” is dumb af logic if you really believe that. For years people biched about AA plugins being expensive yet they had demos and you could already decide what if any of the plugins you actually wanted and buy only those. For “beatmakers” and 16 year old cracked plugin hoarders (everyone been there) it doesnt even matter because they cant tell API or SSL apart anyway, and AA plugins are not aimed at them, they are aimed at people who might have even use the original hw side by side, many professional engineers praise these plugins for a reason and the do not care about “file size” which is a literal non-issue in this day and age.

[@crnkmnky]

​@@novakattila I dunno which is more annoying, piracy addicts or bloatware apologists. I don't even disagree with you, I'm just tired of seeing the same reply under half of these comments. "Professionals don't care about CPU performance." 😐

[@novakattila]

Professionals can afford machines where CPU performance dont matter OR learn to commit their stuff to audio (which because of platform incompatibility, like when you have the project mixed and mastered on another system etc. or for archiving is a very good deal). Thats how the industry works professionally. 16 year old kids hoard plugins and put 32 saturation shit on their channels because they either dont have high quality tools/inputs (cant blame them for that) or because they dont know what they are doing (more likely). If you take AA, in MOST cases I use a single channel strip of either a Neve, an API or an SSL kind of a single channel, which then I freeze and bounce. Thats all it, thats how people had been mixing records before "plugins" become a thing forever. You can mimick mixing on a $100.000 console with these plugins and the sound is 90% there, I can tell you as somebody who mixed on real SSL. You have 1 or 2 plugins per channel which do the heavy lifting, filtering, EQ and dynamics, and you're done. Good plugins can achieve this, like AA. Not 334 compressors and shiturators and EQ's on a single channel because you dont hear what they're doing because you lack room treatment or good headphones and thus throw everything at it because you dont know how to achieve good results. As a guy who gets projects from other people to mix this is how I tell somebody is a beginner or a professional or an advanced producer. Advanced producers might sound design with many weird ways with many plugins and outboards but when I get the project to mix its already cleaned, everything is named and hardware and a lot of things bounced on audio and they still have 12db headroom on the main. If you max out CPU with like a simple beat or song, unless you're doing some crazy stuff like music for movies or video games etc. you're most likely doing something wrong. And as I said there is always the way to commit to audio. @@crnkmnky

[@stoneweather]

got panicked briefly thinking it was aCOUSTica and not aCUSTica, i like mixcraft 😖

[@acoustica222]

Yes, this has nothing to do with us. Acustica Audio ≠ Acoustica, or our Mixcraft DAW.

[@LilAngL]

The desktop blowing up 😂

[@F4xP4s]

So.. in order for Acustica to read the R2R messages, they would need to have pirated the software!

[@h-dawg6462]

and for it to be cracked, someone has to buy the software!

[@ElectroPanPipes]

No, they publish their release notes

[@mqx3888]

@@ElectroPanPipes what? where? is there a new audiowarez release listing site with nfo accessible without having to download the cracked software? well, seems like AA is a member in one of the world biggest audiowarez releated forums even. maybe even downloaded it to get the nfo. lol

[@bighousemusic628]

No r2r used a ai to decrypt everything from their server and repacage them in other words r2r send their ai to grab the exe files

[@Linguae_Music]

I did not expect to see furry inflation in this video... Good man!

[@crnkmnky]

ikr

[@MarcoTorrance]

Never bought or used on of their plugins, but for now I won't change it.

[@esongsore]

I almost dropped a lot of money on their plugins for the first time ever. Thanks for this. Sheesh....

[@PermissionToMeow]

Yo dog I got a lil side note to add, that you might appreciate: baby powder. Hear me out lol.. Dab a very light amount onto your face and it will soak up all oils and give you a clean matte finish that really adds to the analog warmth of your visuals so they’re not clipping. 👹

[@AndreasR86]

My mentor used to swear by Acustica. Good thing I didn't follow his example.

[@mikehunt576]

How do you un install acustica audio plugs on m1 mac samona? and central installer, aqua whatever ?

[@ash_bordeaux]

this convinced me to delete all their shit that i never use anyway.

[@profonicstudios]

I’ve got loads of acoustica audio plugins and when I recently upgraded my setup, I didn’t install any of them!! The fact it’s also been brought to their attention and still haven’t resolved it is brazy! 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@tiffanyanthony]

Woah - how did you make the like button do that colorful effect when you mentioned it?

[@UnsavedTrash]

Found out about the vid from furry memes circulating about the image at 2:32 stayed for the informative and great coverage of an interesting topic and problem!

[@DodgaOfficial]

I think ethically, its perfectly fine to buy software, and then use pirated versions to avoid all the bs. I do it with several plugins, particularly ones that use ilok, im not gonna use ilok, i fucking hate that shit, its pointless and does nothing to prevent piracy.