Old 11-21-2018, 03:03 AM   #1
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Let's collect them here. An upfront reminder :
Gear and Tools don't make music.
You do.
Ok, that's out of the way, let's see what up.

Black Friday Deals at Audiodeluxe

This is great to get a fast overview on deals. Many of the manufacturers are on this page with big price slashes.

These guys have pretty good prices anyway. Make an account and get a quote when you add stuff to your shopping cart to get even lower prices.


DontCrack have a bunch of deals too.
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Old 11-21-2018, 04:46 AM   #2
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Let's collect them here. An upfront reminder :
Gear and Tools don't make music.
You do.

However there are many tools with gear making music!


https://www.eventideaudio.com/specials/holiday-sale

https://www.liquidsonics.com/store/?...ck-friday-2018

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Old 11-21-2018, 06:56 AM   #3
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Hooray! haven`t seen a single offer that got my credit card twitching so far...
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Hooray! haven`t seen a single offer that got my credit card twitching so far...

Me neither, so far. Guess it's because we've got what we want though...
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Old 11-21-2018, 07:48 AM   #5
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Sweetwater has a few things for sale.

https://www.sweetwater.com/
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50-90% off all plugins:

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Old 11-21-2018, 11:38 AM   #7
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I was hoping Arturia would reduce their Buchla Easel V ... instead you have to buy the whole V collection.
People don't seem so hyped about the sales this year; maybe we're getting to saturation point. Speaking of which, I was disappointed that Soundtoys haven't reduced Decapitator - their only other one I might be interested in is EchoBoy, but I don't really want to pay €79. I don't feel I really need any of them.

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I've spent enough on new tools then its Black Friday.

*Don't look*
*Don't look*

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Old 11-21-2018, 12:41 PM   #10
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Melodyne essential 50%.
Is that good? I was hoping for assistant or editor.
You can buy the essential and then upgrade to editor of a total of $198
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Oeksound announced a sale Nov 23-30

Hoping to get soothe for 99$
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Old 11-21-2018, 01:15 PM   #13
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Synthmaster 50% off

East West 60% off a lot of their products
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https://overloud.com/shop has 60% off
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Old 11-21-2018, 02:13 PM   #15
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The most comprehensive overview of the 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals:

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewt...?f=43&t=514622
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Hybrid 3 by AIR on sale for $1 (Black Friday). I have it, really nice soft synth, especially if you like EDM.
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Old 11-21-2018, 04:12 PM   #17
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meh

this year seems underwhelming ...

maybe coz I already got Fathom and Synthmaster at an earlier sale.....and those two kinda took care of the itch I had since camel snuffpimped their beautiful lovely daughter Alchemy to crapple.

seen nothing new in drums that hasn't been done before, often better.
the other day I played drumasonic luxury on my alesis pads after a while, and man that kit still smokes everything that came after.


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Old 11-21-2018, 05:03 PM   #18
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So far I've only grabbed McDSP Fuzzbox and Audiodamage Filterstation. Fuzzbox is a nice automatable smashbox and convolver with a bunch of useful IRs, with low CPU use. I've already put it to good use on a series today. Audio Damage stuff is always smoothly automatable. Perfect for me. A sidechainable filter.


I kinda have all I need. It's just flavours for me now.


Btw, the Harrison AVA plugins are all $29 each iirc. That's good stuff too.
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they have 40% off selected items from Friday.
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Just bought this interesting drum plug. 35$ until 19 dec.

https://secure.shareit.com/shareit/p...tml%23drumsssx
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I am a big fan of Audio Damage, they have a 35% off sale and $10 updates for already installed products. Recommended.

https://www.audiodamage.com/

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Just bought this interesting drum plug. 35$ until 19 dec.

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I just grabbed it - thanks
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You're welcome.
It also renders multichannel outputs ...
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XLN 50% on everything.
For the swedish: It's cheaper at emusic.se
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30% off Pianoteq Pro upgrades, sadly not the instrument packs though:

https://www.pianoteq.com/buy
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Ai. There goes my budget...

40% off Berlin main-series.
http://orchestraltools.com/
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Black Friday Deals at Audiodeluxe

This is great to get a fast overview on deals. Many of the manufacturers are on this page with big price slashes.

Airon, big thanks for the link - I've been after FL Harmor for a while but wasn't exactly blown away by IL's black friday offering (40% off, then tax added back on....hmmm.)


Anyways, I just picked it up for $59 at AudioDeluxe. Sweet as...
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Me neither, so far. Guess it's because we've got what we want though...
Or we already bought everything! I got to the point I bought something twice after forgeting I already had it.

I went nuts last year working my ass off, money to spend but no time for music ! I compensate by buying shiny plugins !
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Or we already bought everything! I got to the point I bought something twice after forgeting I already had it.

I went nuts last year working my ass off, money to spend but no time for music ! I compensate by buying shiny plugins !
Heh heh, no I've never repeated a single plugin purchase yet!
I have bought Komplete and sold off a couple of previous NI plugin licenses that were duplicated in that though. To be fair that's a big plus with NI plugins.

I haven't got that "get 'em all" bug thankfully. I won't pretend that I don't have almost redundant plugins though. 1st world problems...
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https://www.audio-assault.com

Every plugin $5 each
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..especially if you like EDM.
I don't think anyone admits to liking EDM..
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Airon, big thanks for the link - I've been after FL Harmor for a while but wasn't exactly blown away by IL's black friday offering (40% off, then tax added back on....hmmm.)


Anyways, I just picked it up for $59 at AudioDeluxe. Sweet as...
After reading this I watched a few tutorials on Harmor and decided to buy it in the sale.
(Cheers Airon, RobU )

Just wondering if Edison is worth buying too, or is there a better (or free ) plugin that does the same? ie - a wave editor from which Harmor would recognise markers?

(They guy in the tutorial had assigned individual piano keys to each marker, and was triggering those points of the sample in Harmor, iirc).

Maybe Audacity does the same? Or is Edison better? I've never used any external editor - the only time I use my own samples is in Tal Sampler.

Cheers.
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After reading this I watched a few tutorials on Harmor and decided to buy it in the sale.
(Cheers Airon, RobU )

Just wondering if Edison is worth buying too, or is there a better (or free ) plugin that does the same? ie - a wave editor from which Harmor would recognise markers?

(They guy in the tutorial had assigned individual piano keys to each marker, and was triggering those points of the sample in Harmor, iirc).

Maybe Audacity does the same? Or is Edison better? I've never used any external editor - the only time I use my own samples is in Tal Sampler.

Cheers.
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I have Acon Acoustica, and while it supports setting a loop region for use in a sampler, it doesn't do slicing / beat markers (as far as I can tell!). I don't think Audacity supports slicing either.

I didn't even notice Edison on the AudioDeluxe page, but it looks pretty neat - off to watch some YouTube...
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Hi All

Long time user but first time poster

I’ve been looking for a good orchestral library for a while, but can’t afford the big boys out the which undoubtedly offer quality but at a price that’s beyond me.

I note that Halion Symphonic Orchestra is on sale for BF at $100.

What’s the view on this library? I’m particularly interested in:

1) sample quality
2) flexibility - particularly in terms of articulation
3) compatibility with reaper - I seem to remember some general Halion compatibility issues with reaper but that was a while ago and may no longer apply.

I’ve looked at reviews on the product and they generally seem to be quite positive, but it looks like it’s been around for a while and am a bit concerned that those reviews are of their time and won’t stack up against what’s available now.

Any feedback greatly appreciated

Cheers

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....

I’ve looked at reviews on the product and they generally seem to be quite positive, but it looks like it’s been around for a while and am a bit concerned that those reviews are of their time and won’t stack up against what’s available now.

Any feedback greatly appreciated

Cheers

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If you have been looking at the best pro packages you are going to be disappointed in the older budget software, if you don't have realistic expectations regarding their limitations.
Suggest instead NI Kontakt 6 in the sale. That opens up a world of other sample libraries at a later date, and also provides a lot of orchestral sounds in the library too.

Many affordable libraries use the Kontakt format.
Get Drum Mica first.
Full free Kontakt product that only needs Kontakt player but qualified users to upgrade to full Kontakt via "crossgrade" after registering it with NI*:

http://sennheiser.us/drummica.html

*Hopefully they still honour this.
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If you have been looking at the best pro packages you are going to be disappointed in the older budget software, if you don't have realistic expectations regarding their limitations.
Suggest instead NI Kontakt 6 in the sale. That opens up a world of other sample libraries at a later date, and also provides a lot of orchestral sounds in the library too.

Many affordable libraries use the Kontakt format.
Get Drum Mica first.
Full free Kontakt product that only needs Kontakt player but qualified users to upgrade to full Kontakt via "crossgrade" after registering it with NI*:

http://sennheiser.us/drummica.html

*Hopefully they still honour this.
Hi Softsynth,

Thanks for the reply.

Yep, that’s what I was worried about.

I have full Kontakt 5, but any orchestral instruments in the base package don’t give me what I need in terms of sample and articulation variability. I like the 8dio stuff but - again - it’s expensive to get the range I’m looking for. You get what you pay for I guess.

Coming to conclusion i’ll Just need to save up and get them one piece at time.

Cheers
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I note that Halion Symphonic Orchestra is on sale for BF at $100.
$100 pff!,
Halion Orchestra is just £34 from Steinberg themselves in B.Friday. It might be worth adding for that price (modest expectations).

Use code:
BLACKFRIDAY18
https://www.steinberg.net/en/promoti...EN-DE-ES-FR-JP

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Hi All

Long time user but first time poster

I’ve been looking for a good orchestral library for a while, but can’t afford the big boys out the which undoubtedly offer quality but at a price that’s beyond me.

I note that Halion Symphonic Orchestra is on sale for BF at $100.

What’s the view on this library? I’m particularly interested in:

1) sample quality
2) flexibility - particularly in terms of articulation
3) compatibility with reaper - I seem to remember some general Halion compatibility issues with reaper but that was a while ago and may no longer apply.

I’ve looked at reviews on the product and they generally seem to be quite positive, but it looks like it’s been around for a while and am a bit concerned that those reviews are of their time and won’t stack up against what’s available now.

Any feedback greatly appreciated

Cheers

Cuddy
LASS Lite 2 and LASS First Chair 2 are on big discount: https://audiobro.com/ab-store/

I've got First Chair (only interested in ensemble, and not orchestral music), and it sounds really good. The legato is incredible.
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My mixing classes are on sale for $19 each or $57 for all 3.

And the ReaperWRB (web remote builder) web app and training is $8.

https://reaperblog.net/2018/11/black-friday-sale-2018/
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Softsynth,

Cheers, missed the bit about the code - I think i’ll save the cash towards something better

Judders, thank you - first chair does sound good, but looking for ensembles - may have a dig into some of their other libs
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