Just sitting here watching the count down on the spectrasonics site

[Craftmaster]

FREAKING OUT! Omnisphere 2!!!!! ugh i need it lol

 

[Fade]

That's like some spacecraft sounds!

 

[Craftmaster]

yeah its gonna be dope...i cant wait to upload my own samples and use em like wavetables...The site has been crashed all day though...like did they NOT know people would want to update today after having a counter on the site for a month?!?!?!

 

[Craftmaster]

so we killed the spectrasonics site...The have to increase their bandwith before releasing the omni 2 update

 

[Fade]

That's crazy, but they should be ready for something like this. I can't see the Propellerhead or NI sites going down like that.

 

[thedreampolice]

ha, I have seen both of those sites going down. Scaling web sites for this type of traffic is insanely difficult, even when working with the Amazing S3 back end service.