Leaderboard

No one--including me tbh--cares about what plugins I bought, but I got a great deal on a thick NY strip steak which I brought home and made the perfect medium rare steak. I seasoned it perfectly, too, since I finally put down the pre-made steak seasonings and just went w/ course kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. I got the perfect sear and it was the best steak I've made. I also finally found the perfect percale queen flat sheet after trying several very expensive flat sheets that were not up to my standard but should have been at over $100 for a sheet. Percale is hard to come by as everything is sateen these days, but Amazon's own house brand hooked up a great queen percale sheet for $23. And I got a food saver, a nice one but you shoulda seen that steak.

Pianobook Advent Calendar has started today. With a free instrument each day for the next 25 days. Starting today with the Notebook (great little video for it). https://www.pianobook.co.uk/

I went way overboard this year with: Spitfire BBCSO Pro upgrade (still downloading on day 3) Spitfire Harpsichord and Orchestral Grand Piano ... and now I can get Spitfire Aperture 3 Scaler 2 + reMIDI + instruction videos w/free Orb and AAS soundbank Several GOG games SmartScore PDF -> MusicXML converter (never on sale, but got the Finale User $200 discount) Best Service accordion bundle w/free Oud Strings 8DIO Misfit Bundle <- been disappointed with 8DIO but couldn't resist this strange mix. Embertone Intimate Solo String bundle, Mountain Dulcimer, and Whistler Ensemble Indiginus Resonator, Lap Steel, Mountain Dulcimer, Delta Blues Acoustic Slide Guitar (never on sale) AAS soundbanks <- completed my collection. I know there is probably a free one coming but it only cost me $4. Xperimenta Harpsichord, Kantele, Xvibe, and Psaltery Renewed subscription to Taxi.com Pianotekk C-series piano Orchestration Recipes 1 & 2 IK Total Studio 3.5 Max

I thought this would be the first BF in seven years that I didn’t buy anything music related. However, late last Sunday I found a boxed version of Steinberg HALion Sonic 2 for just over $30 at a local reseller. My guess is that they had found a single dusty item on the floor in a corner somewhere. I know that it’s antediluvian and that HALion Sonic 3 was released more than four years ago, but should I ever want to upgrade, this license ought to be my ticket to a great price. Oh, and I bought a new TV. OLED. Black is back.

Here’s some certainties in life: - Death - Taxes - Bapu buying and installing any Toontrack new products as soon as it’s released - The annual Band-in-a-box sale and new version in December https://www.pgmusic.com

29 or nothing lol

The same developer had a bunch of other GREAT freebies which can now be found here: http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2016/01/jasper-blunk.html?m=1 The ones on the first paragraph are not available anymore but if you send me a PM I can give you a link from my Google Drive (be patient since I’m at work).

Izotope MPS 4.1 upgrade from Tonal Balance Melodyne Studio upgrade from Editor Native instruments Picked Nylon Smooth Operator Fluid Pitch Ujam VB Mellow Mix Checker Pro Couple of dirt cheap SoundSpot plugins and misc freebies ... and IK 25 group buy.

A good watch...if you like The Beatles...

Get it here https://www.performancesamples.com/chamberviolins-classicalshorts/ Requires Full Kontakt

Now THAT is a good Black Friday!

GIVEAWAY from Jonny of RealHomeStudio: WIN Ample Guitar Semi-Hollow!!!!!!! To enter this week's countdown to Christmas giveaway simply make sure you're SUBSCRIBED and drop a comment below (From Youtube Link) to log your entry. The winner will be drawn live on Real Home Studio on Monday Dec 6th at 10am GMT. Best of luck!

Great freebie. Performance Samples rock.

Week 1 is Eventide SplitEQ https://www.kvraudio.com/giveaways/kvr-end-of-year-countdown-week-1-giveaway-with-eventide-audio-52

My spending during Thanksgiving-Black Friday-Cyber Monday Deals Riffendium Softube Modular + Model 72 Magix Independence SSL Flexverb Harrison 32C-VIP Synthmaster One expansions Second chances for the "I regret I didn't get this earlier when it was on sale" Realivox Blue F.'em Deep Remix Sonible Smart:comp Sound Particles Panner Collection Upgrades/crossgrades Arturia Fx collection 2 Ayaicware ProMix Cherry Audio Synth Stack Beatmaker idol & odd-time library Regular sales & Bargain Bin Metric A/B Elysia nvelope Producer Loops Bundle (Fanatical) Harmonal binaurics Elkatwin 61 JRR Sounds - Many inexpensive soundsets Patreon & coffee for supporting favorite creators & artists Cclarry The Daily Doug White Sea Studios Andrei Cerbu & Beatrice Florea Many Freebies My DD is starting college next year and I indulged a little, anticipating a coming drought. With the IK GB, all of the above, and a couple of deals that I reserved for Christmas, I should have plenty, even if the "fun money" budget goes to zero in 2022.

I had set aside $1,000,000 to buy plugins, . . . but only bought TC tuner for 9, SWAM brass collection for 390, Softube Tape echoes 45, bohemian cello 149. Point is, I saved $999, 407 dollars.

My Dad's name, may he continue to RIP, was Dearl...but pronounced the same...

Dude, you're our official ring leader. No one even needs for you to confess you're a plug-aholic, all you have to say is "Hi, it's Larry." Everyone knows the rest!

So it appears that our rampant consumerism has significantly slowed down this year. Either that or we've all reached the point where there's hardly anything left that we don't already own. Or, perhaps, a lot of us are more broke this year than in past years?

ASIO4ALL is known problematic. That's your issue right there. Why in God's name would anyone use it when their interface's manufacturer supplies a proper ASIO driver?

Anyone posts a picture of their full "moon"....I kill you! So, now that the dust is settling...tell us about the wonderful goodies you bought, and the duds also, should you be so inclined! BBC Core...which I have been after since BBC Discover (don't let the size of Discover fool you...it's a lovely freebie!) I honestly didn't think I'd ever be able to get it...and that's only thanx to the annual "Coffee Clatch"! Melodyne Editor also "appeared"...and Softube Amp Room! So again, my deepest, and humblest, gratitude to you all for making this old geezer's Black Friday a little brighter!!! Oh yeah...and ACTUAL COFFEE! I LOVE COFFEE!!!

Another year I start to figure out the cheapest way to buy an old mac version of this, then upgrade, then eventually just bored and give up till next year....

Pianobook is a great community. It can be hit or miss to find a truly good library there, but wow, when you do. There's some really sweet little libraries and all of them are free (and some work with a free sample player). I think I'll check back later and post the names of some of my favorites for those who have yet to delve deeply into Pianobook.

8 Dio sales = the Waves of orchestral sampling.

Silly me forgot to download it...I already had it...

Probably because AAS is going to give us one as a Christmas gift this month, if the past years are any indication

Full Kontakt required

I got TDR Koletnikov and SlickEQ mastering for $9.99 each and SSL FlexVerb! Not a whole lot, but after getting all the stuff from IK's group buy, I have so much stuff to play with already.

Focusrite have announced savings of 50% on their FAST Bundle plugin suite, as well as all individual plugins including FAST Verb, FAST Reveal, FAST Compressor and FAST Equalizer. Enter code BF50 at check-out to receive 50% discount. The code can be used once per order on either 15-month payment plan or one-time payment to purchase FAST Bundle or individual FAST Plug- ins. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers or discounts. The offer ends 8am GMT on December 6th 2021. https://collective.focusrite.com/products/

Just the sounds have a time limit. The programs themselves are always available.

Setting workspaces to None effectively disables the feature. Settings persist across sessions like they did in versions of SONAR Platinum prior to the introduction of Lenses (the original name for workspaces). At the time of their introduction Lenses defaulted to None. The release notes for 2019.11 contain the first mention of the Basic workspace as the default.

I think Steinberg grants you an automatic upgrade to the version that is current at the time of registration (that's what I got when I registered a cheap, old copy of Dorico 1.0 that I found and they gave me a free upgrade to 3.5)

$7.56 with code GROUP at JRR https://www.jrrshop.com/psp-stereopack

$19.99 at KVR Marketplace! (not Pro) https://www.kvraudio.com/marketplace/ceilings-of-sound-v2-by-ayaic

Thread count! Give us the thread count!!!!! Asking for a friend.

Did that first thing this morning...about 25 total...so I now have doubles of just about every "single" offering...LOL

Just a note, that the instruments on Pianobook are all free (and a great resource I need to spend more time with). This advent calendar is for featuring the samplists who create the instruments.

Discovered this guy if i recall from the good camel AudioAchemy dayz ...

I'm already making an inventory of disposable internal organs I can sell, as I'm really tempted by this AND Hollywood Choirs Diamond for $201.26. Edit: Yes, brain is on the list since I obviously don't use it that much.

To have best experience with audio under Windows, the computer should not be "put together", but constructed specially for audio by people which know how to do this. That is major difference between "PC" and "Apple", the first can be constructed by anyone... the result is unpredictable. On Windows there is RME Audio interfaces and "other" audio interfaces. Again, if great result (in flexibility, latency, etc.) is expected out of the box and the user has "no time" for tweaking, especially on not "audio special" computer, the interfaces has to be RME. Apple lovers should understand that situation.

Darn it Fleer…uhhhh….. Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Diamond at jrr with code GROUP, $419 out the door… https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-hollywood-orchestra-opus-edition-diamond

I have been trying to resist BFdeals, but 2 have caught me: Expotencial audio R4 And I couldn't pass the Nux mg 30 . The Ik's GB with 25 Plugins was imo a half , but big BF deal.

*Pfft!!!* The stage doesn't frighten me at all! But the lunatics out in the audience are a totally different thing!!! 😲 😜

Shimmer Shake Strike Liquidsonics total bundle and then both the ReverbFoundry reverbs XILS Oxium TC Icon Series Ugritone Cab IR bundle, a couple of midi packs, and their Drums plugin Fat Lazy Cabs IR pack TrueFire 1 year sub Groove3 1 year sub At that point I thought I was done. But OH NO! Cyber Monday!!! Audiority Solidus VS8100 Mercuriall SS-11X AuroraDSP Rhino and Mammoth bundle

Nowt - as we say in Yorkshire 🙂 Though I did get Syntronik CS at a good Yorkshire price!

https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/blog/ VoS has released the updated version of Tessla SE (64bit) analog saturation

Nevertheless a lot of people joke about us, that do not want to be online all the time! But I am 100% sure the best way to have no malware is to be offline and not to have the latest software (even with W7)! That's why I prefer software that can be easily offline activated!

I stopped using it , not that it's not good , but i try to use less tools and concentrate on one , here now studio one but my mind on cubase , i feel it more solid ...difficult to explain , S1 being more fun ....