Craig Fowler

Unless I'm missing something none of those prices are anything like 45% off.

My guess is that it's not so much that they aren't starving for business as they just don't care anymore. 

Goldplate is $39!! CPU heavy but sounds absolutely gorgeous.

I'm loving some of the demos of the Canterbury suitcase, and it will someday be mine. For now, I will have to do make do with some of the marginally less glorious-sounding Rhodes VIs I already have.

50% off Vienna Imperial is tempting, but I'm going to hold firm. I've got my Moonkits, and that will have to be my BF buy (unless BF stretches into December!)

1 hour ago, Scott H said:

I've got Moonkits and the library does sound really good. There is a ton of variety to be had in the various kits and presets. This library oozes uniqueness and character. There aren't nearly as many high hat and cymbal articulations as say a Superior Drummer kit, but many of the Moon kits come with a whopping 45 different brush articulations. Some of the more oddball Moon kits come with much fewer articulations. The one serious drawback to Moonkits is that there is no internal midi mapping  tool. I can see this being a deal breaker for many.  If you own a copy of full Kontakt,  Soniccouture does share a link to a half-baked and somewhat painful midi mapping work around located here:

https://www.soniccouture.com/blog/moonkits-how-to-re-map-for-e-drums/

Good to know - it's the brush swirls I really want!

48 minutes ago, cclarry said:

But you didn't include the voucher and discount information....

What. A. Jerk.

(j/k!)

5 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

I have my eye on this, so thought I would post for awareness.

It looks like they will publish the sales Nov 18th.

"BLACK FRIDAY 18TH - 27TH"

https://www.soniccouture.com/en/

I got my sights on their drums.

😉

 

 

Me too! I want moonkits!

Kinda regretting not going for the deal Christian mentioned. I ummed and ahhed too long on it.

I find Kontakt incredibly user-unfriendly, and a pain on my eyes. All the same, I'd be loathe to give up the access it grants, especially to the straightaheadsamples libraries!

And doesn't this mean losing the Bechstein you like so much, Fleer?

Thanks Craig! I really like the Skybox Acoustic bundle - would be keen to add some of the others at some point!

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

Well, I suppose the choice just got easier (the dev eliminated the "Wurlie" library). I just never heard demos of a Wurlie sample library that sounded that good.

I didn't mention it here before, but I did find this new developer, Skybox  -- whose demos of everything sound really, really nice -- has a Wurli library too that sounds good, but it's part of a package that's priced beyond my range (it's $129 USD). 
 

FWIW, Skybox have pretty regular 40% off sales. And now that APD have done 60% off the acoustic package (which would have suited you great for a character upright BTW), maybe they'll  go to town on the other packages too!

Good price on Ascend!

2 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

BTW, if 8Dio puts their piano sample libraries on sale for the same kind of price as their drum libraries ($20 USD), that would be impossible for me to resist. I think I only I've only bought two of their piano libraries in their SoundPaint format, and they're nice. As they don't require sophisticated KONTAKT scripting -- which, IMO, 8Dio isn't very good at; it simply doesn't invest the effort in creating intuitive scripts for the string libraries  -- it's less of a concern for piano libraries, so I wouldn't hesitate. I'd love to pick up their upright piano library. So, I suppose, that would be on my BF wish list, as would Toontrack libraries that I can use in SD2 and the solo cell library I already mentioned.  There are still 4 or 5 AD2 drum libraries I don't own, so possibly those too. Yeah, I'm one of the sample/plugin hoarders for sure. Larry is my Sam from Cheers or Walter White, you pick the preferred analogy!   

I'd save your dough and buy one good upright piano. Specifically, VI Labs modern U. A good piano library *does* require good scripting, and it doesn't get better than VI labs. Per the comment above re buying cheap and buying twice, you'll literally never need another upright library (or potentially any piano library) with VI Labs.

I'm hoping for a nice discount on Fluffy Audio's jazz drums and/or Soniccouture's Moonkits. I'd really like to update EZD2 to EZD3, but would get more use at the moment out of more targeted libraries that are great for swirls and brushes.

I'm not optimistic, but a 3 for 2 deal on Indiginus libraries would be sweet!

Damnit! Wanted this to be a deal 🙂

Kuassa amp sims are my faves. The effects are great if you use their 360 ecosystem.

7 hours ago, Craig N said:

 

I can confirm it is a free upgrade if you already own LX480 -- it continues to work with my existing iLok license with no upgrade fee required. 

There was an email from Relab back in June 2021 about migrating your account from the old system to the new. I assume it still works. You just fill in the form to migrate. The form still works, so I assume the migration function still works. I have copy pasted from the email below:

 

Our Checkout System Is Changing -
You'll Need To Migrate Your Relab Account...

Hey everyone!

We've been working hard at Relab to improve our customer experience.

One of those improvements includes a new Relab checkout system that will help us bring all our Relab products and offers "under one roof"

If you have recently grabbed a copy of LX480 Essentials (in the last 4 weeks) - you already have an account on this new system.

You may have noticed that your past purchases are not yet in this new account.

Not to fear, as we now have a solution to automatically import your past purchases.

If you'd like to import your past purchases into this new account, click the link to start an onboarding flow so you can import your past license history.

Don't yet have a new account on this system? No problem, you will be prompted to create a new account if one does not yet exist.

Start your account migration here: https://shop.relabdevelopment.com/legacy

PLEASE NOTE:

·         Your past purchases will show in the new systems as a "prepaid" order for $0 under "Legacy" on your account page.

·         It will not show past or current Gobbler subscription purchases (Yet) but it will import your past single product and bundle purchases.

·         Goldplate will NOT import at this time - this is technically a Kush product and makes for some hoops we need to jump through - so we'll look at that later.

·         Migrating your account will not affect any licenses or subscriptions - this is merely importing your history to our new system.

Should you encounter any issues during your account migration - please start a ticket at support and someone will be happy to help.

https://shop.relabdevelopment.com/legacy

Thanks Craig! This sorted it for me!

Craig

Gotta say, the demo didn't sell me. I mean, yeah, it's shreddy per the title, but kinda sounds like a bunch of other amp sims from that.

Welp. Went to see if it's a free upgrade and they seem to have no record of me having an account with them (despite me owning everything they've made!). A mite worrying.

*All* the free VSL libraries are well worth having. So are all the paid ones I've got, but that's another story.

Their support has always been excellent, btw - When it comes to getting a refund on a library you decide isn't for you, they're very responsive and easy to deal with.

Bought this and spent some time yesterday playing with it. Fantastic presets, and (once I'd read the manual) very sculptable main sounds.

I have literally dozens of piano VIs, but will get lots of use out of this. For anyone without much in the way of pianos, this could give you everything you need with a nice grand, nice upright, and nice old upright!

Definitely a worthy rival to Noire and Ascend in the sound design/cinematic stakes as well!

Wow! I've been waiting for this!

Pulse has always worked really smoothly for me. It's one of the better downloaders/installers...and pretty much everything StraightAheadSamples make is gold, so well worth it!

8 hours ago, fret_man said:

Really? I thought the strums sounded artificial, especially the pick stroke. IMHO, OT and AS sound better (and may be more expensive).

If I understand correctly, this isn't intended as a strumming library - It's called 'fingerstyle' after all! (though I was hoping it would have some sort of strum engine anyway).

FWIW It was the Edelweiss demo that caught my ear as being really expressive.

The demos sound amazing but I can't spring for this atm. Especially now I've just discovered the delights of the Indiginus libraries.

1 hour ago, Lionel said:

Thanks for that info.  I’m probably going to get the limiter

Every tokyodawn plugin I've got has been worth many times what I paid for it!