See http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/minimoogv/minimoogv-original. html

It appears to be a cut-down version of their commercial synth, but probably worth checking out.

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See http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/minimoogv/minimoogv-original. html

It appears to be a cut-down version of their commercial synth, but probably worth checking out.

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'Server overloaded, go to Facebook'

No surprises there then, and there is no way I am becoming a FaceAche unit

Set up a temporary email account, create a fake Facebook account, wait for the activation email, deactivate fake Facebook account, remove temporary email account.

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Set up a temporary email account, create a fake Facebook account, wait for the activation email, deactivate fake Facebook account, remove temporary email account.

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Right thanks and I'll call the account FakeBook lol

Another company requiring people to have Facebook accounts to do X.
Well done, Arturia.

FB? FU!

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Another company requiring people to have Facebook accounts to do X.

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No, just an alternative means while their servers were inundated.

Fab giveaway :-)

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Well done, Arturia.

FB? FU!

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I don't believe that server overloaded guff either. If being a customer of Arturia means you have to get sucked into the FB regime then I'll do without their products

Wow, people are really cynical these days. eh? So many complaints in so many forums over this "PR Disaster" as some have called it. So many getting so annoyed that a company might want to give you something for free...

Initially, there were two ways to get the freebie - one directly from Arturia, and one from Facebook. Within the hour before the download became active, Arturia's site slowed to a crawl, and for the first hour had difficulty serving any pages at all. That continued for quite some hours, and at some point they presumably made the decision that this was crazy, their own servers couldn't handle it and people were getting annoyed, so they removed the option to do it directly (Facebook can handle that level of load much more gracefully).

I hate Facebook too, and wouldn't have registered to get a freebie, but it seems rather silly to complain. If you don't like the terms of their offer, no one's forcing anyone to take part in it.

It seems to have been quite a PR success - the freebie was advertised on pretty much all music sites, and Arturia have been overloaded with the response. Plenty of people who didn't have, or wouldn't consider an Arturia synth now have one on their system and can evaluate it to see whether they like it, and Arturia have a bunch of exposure, good will, Facebook props and email addresses as a result. TANSTAAFL and all...

Seems to have worked out well for everyone, except perhaps some other manufacturers of competitive software who might feel a bit miffed...

server now back up - it was down all of yesterday in my experience

Have to say I'm still waiting for my confirmation e-mail, but to be fair, they did say it could take 48 hours.

Looking forward to messing with it, though!

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I managed to get through on the site yesterday afternoon, got the email instantly, but had a small problem downloading. I got it downloaded eventually.

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It'll end up on the web before too long with a quick click and download setup without all the fossicking about with Fabo

Downloading from the ftp site right now. It's working, slowly. Glad I'm not on dial-up like the old days.

Wonder if I can trade in my broadband router for a pigeon loft

Andy

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Sh** the giveaway finished

Can anybody send me a copy? I think it's legal to ask for one since it was a free give a way!
Thanks! please send me a message.

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Although the download links or torrent file is freely available if you search around (it's not a secret), you need to register with Arturia and get a username and reg code to actually use it... it's against the TOU to distribute the software and/or your own reg details, unfortunately...

Edited by desmond (22/06/12 07:17 PM)

just dling mine. nothing inconvenient in the whole process.

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I think it was a pretty successful promotion, myself. I've been looking at Arturia stuff before, but never really pulled the trigger. The free Mini synth turns out to be a really good-sounding softsynth, and I am now seriously considering buying some of their products.

Karl