Technostica

MSoundFactory is £100 for UK buyers and don't forget the choice of freebie. A hundred quid is about 2 days of heating bills currently in the UK.

I nearly bought Bioscape a couple of times, but I have a few Soniccouture libraries which overlap with it so I passed. I had a code from signing up for a newsletter I think and it stacked with sale pricing which made it tempting. There are quite a few tools which use 4 layers and can import samples. I think the difference with SP is that you can incorporate complex multisamples from very detailed libraries. That's a rarity, although Sine may offer something similar! Not sure as I only started demoing it in the last few days as interested in Drones. OT came back to my query with this: "You can also switch and morph freely between different articulations on the same instrument with the polymap feature in SINE." I need to check this out, although it suggests that it only works within a single instrument which is much more limited than SP. OT are of course expensive though. The Creative Soundpacks bundle looks intriguing, but €499 + VAT is a kick in the ******. Whereas, as I have a lot of 8Dio stuff and they are offering crossgrades so it's a cheaper platform. They sent me crossgrade vouchers for the two new instruments, so I could buy both for a combined $25.

Thanks. I am aware of that but not the finer details. SP allows you to use samples from various libraries at a very low level which couldn't be achieved via external methods. You can have samples from up to four libraries in one patch and even morph between them.

The bundle is also at Audio Deluxe and there's a freebie assuming you haven't already claimed it. At least it was yesterday.

Maybe no posting threads about software updates and most other non deal threads until after Cyber Monday?

They've been 30% off the last 3 or 4 years. Links at the top of this page: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/live-now-november-black-friday-cyber-monday-deals-2022-edition.131829/

Do you have to show proof that you are a partner in a legal or accountancy firm before they will sell it to you? 😄 Just send them a shot of your lounge with multiple Fender Custom Shop guitars hanging on the walls and you are good to go. They don't want people to actually play these! Stick it in a glass presentation case in the lobby.

They also have them at Best Service which might be cheaper for some based on tax. There have been some good used deals recently, probably people selling duplicate libraries after the big bundle deals earlier this year.

Unfortunately, the soundpacks are not on sale unless you buy the bundle of all 13 of them for €499 + tax. That's a good deal but too many I don't want.

Pro is $251 at JRR with code group.

I might go for the Black MEGA All You Can Eat All Day WAV Buffet with the Extra Cheese Sample Pack with MIDI Mega Dressing.

I'm not that bothered about the size of the libraries with 4TB SATA and PCIe M.2 drives available for ~$300 right now. So a 50GB library is costing less than $4 of disk space. Considering how cheap the libraries are, even if they are twice as large as the competition, that's only an extra $2 for storage for a 50GB library, so overall they are still cheap. They do have the benefit of allowing you to create patches using multiple PARTS from multiple SP libraries. This is what is exciting some people due to the potential for creating hybrid patches from a wide range of sources. I'm not a fan of sampled synths generally, but in this case they make sense as building blocks for hybrid patches. I tend to keep away from new platforms so haven't dived in yet. They have released a ton of libraries in their first year. So even though they are cheap individually, they add up already to well over $2k and they still haven't released the large orchestral libraries. Those will seemingly be very large in size.

That was a fun video. The workflow looked very intuitive and quick.

I have seen them closer to £250 inc tax. Right now in the UK, there are deals for 4TB PCIe drives for £300 and a bit under. Harder to incorporate four of those for most systems.

Yes, I wish I'd bought it when it was 50% or so off.

I am going to watch the walkthrough on YouTube later, but it would take a lot for me to buy another hybrid keyboard.

I do wonder at times whether Larry tells the developers when it’s an appropriate time for them to have a sale. They are all waiting for the nod.

Klavier is cheap too and a few others.

There are legato patches also, so you can compose your own melodies.

I think you are right that it's an upgrade price. The Producer Bundle is £65 for a full license for those that are starting out.

You don't need a code if you use the link from the earlier deal. But it won't tell you what the full price is. But this is PA so that's rarely relevant.

The code YNY23 or maybe YN23 used to work. It even worked on heavily discounted deals.

I like Troels as a person but I find that he talks way too much in the walkthrough videos for my liking. I'm glad that SP use different presenters on YT.

I upgraded to V Collection 9 very recently at a stupidly low price (via a trade) and checked my account and there's a Crossgrade to FX Collection for $49. I also have Tape MELLO-FI which was a freebie, so maybe that brought the price down! So if you don't have Tape MELLO-FI and your crossgrade is higher, it might be worth buying it from KVR etc to bring it down! Not guaranteed to work. There's also a Pigments crossgrade for $49 but I'll probably pass. Glad I didn't wait for the BF sale as I've upgraded to V9 and added FX3 for ~$75 in total.

The downside was that they became NFR, which is not usually the case for them. At those prices I can't blame them as the used market might have got flooded.