IK Multimedia Group Buy 2025

[mpexus]

Thank you

 

[laxu]

Picked up the Tonex One and currently redeeming stuff.

The "upgrade" versions seem to upgrade whatever version you have, so the Tonex SE included with the Tonex One became the regular Tonex for me.

The implementation of the group buy redeem system is pretty painful. It's like nobody even considered "Hey, what if we get a shitload of group buys and people have to redeem 50 products?"

My approach is to open the redeem sites in separate tabs, where it will always first through some ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED issue until it loads the site. IK, something is seriously wrong with the way your website is setup for it to have this big routing problems for literally every page, including product pages.

 

[IK Multimedia]

Our IT team is looking into an issue that is unrelated to load but is related to a possible issue with our provider (architecture, DNS, routing, etc all being looked into right now to see what is causing issues even when the site is not under load).

Also upgrade is only a pricing indication. TONEX Upgrade means the standard mid-tier TONEX product, it won't upgrade that to MAX or specifically SE to TONEX. Your SE version is a qualifier for that upgrade-priced version, but it is just that - a qualifier. To upgrade to TONEX (I called it "TONEX standard" personally, to avoid confusion and have pointed out we could do similar publicly) you can have any of the following for example:

TONEX SE
AmpliTube 5 MAX
AmpliTube 5 MAX Upgrade
AmplITube 5 SE
AmpliTube 5
AmpliTube 5 Upgrade
AmpliTube 5 MAX v1
AmpliTube 5 MAX v1 Upgrade
AmpliTube 5 MAX v2
AmpliTube 5 MAX v2 Upgrade
AXE I/O Solo + AmpliTube 5 Bundle

 

[EOengineer]

I sincerely think this group buy may have been one of the best cost/value propositions I’ve experienced ever. An incredible piece of hardware (TXO) and like 50 very high quality plugins for $150 is laughably outrageous.

I’ve pretty much run out of stuff I want from them, though I wish Amplitube 5 Max was in there.

 

[AlbertA]

Well damn you guys got me - I have a ToneX one incoming.

I was an early adopter of the first pedal 3 years ago - ultimately sold it as I had my Axe-Fx III at the time - though it was clear capture tech and entry price was forever changed since I did that first "chug palm mute" with some of the ToneX captures and went "oh yeah this took Fractal quite a bit of time to get right and now neural nets are doing it just fine"

 

[CBHScott]

This is an incredible value, but as weird as it may sound, I'll skip it because there is nothing there that I need. And I don't want to install things that I'll never use anyway.

Am I the only one skipping on the GP? Am I insane, doc ?

Not at all. I’m right with you - the deal is incredible, BUT I don’t think I would end up using any of this stuff in any meaningful way myself. I have the big ToneX pedal that is collecting dust. Not because it’s bad - to the contrary, but I just don’t have the time to really dig into it. When I play, I pretty much want to just plug into an amp and turn it on.

These days, I try to avoid great deals for the sake of a great deal as opposed to a great deal that I will actually take advantage of - and this applies to everything, not just hobby-related.






The M2M 335 at nearly half price at my local GC that I am drooling over is excluded from the above comments.

 

[Deadpan]

Not at all. I’m right with you - the deal is incredible, BUT I don’t think I would end up using any of this stuff in any meaningful way myself. I have the big ToneX pedal that is collecting dust. Not because it’s bad - to the contrary, but I just don’t have the time to really dig into it. When I play, I pretty much want to just plug into an amp and turn it on.

These days, I try to avoid great deals for the sake of a great deal as opposed to a great deal that I will actually take advantage of - and this applies to everything, not just hobby-related.






The M2M 335 at nearly half price at my local GC that I am drooling over is excluded from the above comments.

Understand, though IMO this is something different and the value of captures and T Racks is one that would be a missed opportunity.