Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann

Is there some way to use the GROUP discount and get Inspirata Lite or is it a "choose either discount or freebie"?

My suggestion for Arturia bundle upgrades (and other upgrades, e.g., WUP for Mercury):

1. Make list of what has been added compared to what you have
2. Assign a "no brainer" price to each addition (e.g., "yes, I'd definitely buy it for $25", "I'm not terribly interested but, if it were on sale for $10...". If it's something I'd really get only if it were a freebie, then assign zero)
3. Add them up and compare to the price of the upgrade.
4. If the price is good then buy, otherwise wait for the next version or the next sale and do the numbers again.

3 days left

https://producerplanet.com/us/article/black-weeks-bundle-29447/

Soundpool collection for $29.99:

• The Phonk Phenomena
• French House - Part 2
• Indie Rock
• Organic Soul
• Metal Machine
• Up North
• Infinity
• Trance International - Part 2
• High School Rock - Part 2
• Time and Space
• Midnight Chill
• Nostalgia Drive
• Homecoming
• Dilogy: Cathastrophe
• Burning Sun
• A Fantasy Tale
• 90s R'n'B
• Good ol' Trap
• EDM Bangerz - Part 2
• Action Cuts

Commercial (royalty free) licensing only (maybe Magix is starting to move away from their non-commercial licensing practices? Kudos to them if this is the case)

Over 1000 unique loops, most of them with ABCDEFG pitch variations (that's how they get to "over 7000 loops"). If you have any of the editions of MusicMaker that include Songmaker AI, these soundpools can provide a good amount of of musicmaking entertainment

For this BF, I first sold a few PA F29 codes, which gave me some money to use on other plugins

• Melda MComplete Bundle (I added a few individual plugins and then simply wow! for upgrade prices)
• Zynaptiq Unfilter
• Chickensys Translator
• Xils
  • LX122 Premium
  • De-esser
• WA Production
  • Loop Engine 2 Upgrade
  • Instacomposer 2 upgrade
• United Plugins QuickMuse
• Magix
  • White Sands Beach House Soundpool
  • Quest for Skillz Soundpool
  • Hard Rock Heroes Soundpool
• Bagpipe by Image Sounds
• Ghosthack MIDI Construction Kits Volume 4
• Roundel Sounds Guitar Massive Bundle
• Cartel Loops Ultimate Guitar Bundle

For those cases where the non-MB is not free, if you buy the MB version, does it include the license for the non-MB version?

I crossed off this company from my purchases list when they forcibly converted "perpetual" licenses into subscriptions ("Sorry, we are turning off the servers that the product depends on. Your xtract stems  version will no longer function. As compensation we have added a 1-year subscription to your account").

8 minutes ago, GoncaloL said:

Producer edition is $134.98 right now on Audiodeluxe with FRIDAY coupon.

So it is something to be aware of if you are getting the bundle to get FL producer edition

Good point, I was just looking at image-line's website and didn't check other stores, it would be $24 for "the rest" then (which may still be a deal, but not as good)

Note that with FL upgrades being on sale, this could be a good deal if you're considering larger editions of FL (and are interested in some of the other items in the bundle)

E.g.,

Bundle $35

Fruity Edition - $99 - 25% = $74

Producer Edition Upgrade $50

Total $159, you get "the rest of the bundle" for $9

It's included in Mercury, Pro Show and the Vocal Production bundle. If you have one of them you probably don't want to register the code they'll send. Use the "Get Latest Version" option instead (and then resell or give away the code)

Oooh, I don't have enough compressors yet! Installed.

3 hours ago, asprog said:

Yes, the best place currently is http://www.dontcrack.com/

(Buy 5 products or more and get 20% EXTRA DISCOUNT off all products!)

In addition to dontcrack (which is great if you want to use the Melda plugins as a way to get to the 20% tier for something else, like xils products), pluginboutique has them already at 20% off from the 1st one and you have 5 potential freebies to choose from (if you haven't already). I also find it quite easy eyeing the top deals at the pluginboutique website, with the discount in a big circle

https://www.pluginboutique.com/manufacturers/16-MeldaProduction?s=price_asc

5 hours ago, Toffo said:

If they want to credit people as a gesture of goodwill then fine, but this move shouldn't need to cost IK anything in refunds.

If the IK people responsible for the (great) move would be negatively impacted by cash refunds, alternatively they could issue some form of store credit.

(and that's really an "if", quite possibly it is a tiny amount of people with pre-purchased downloads)

For me, ElliptiQ is one of those "just add it to every project" type of plugins (add at the end of the mastering chain, right before the "safety" True Peak limiter)

If buying multiple expansions, the "automatic bundle discounts" at dontcrack may be a good option

https://store.dontcrack.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=bfd

3 hours ago, Bapu said:

Even if all three went on sale at 50% off that would be $336, so $300 for the year is the next best alternative to my stupidly stopping my F29 sub at the end of life for it.

You can buy F29's at the usual marketplaces. They will be more than $29 but, if you only need 3 they will be much cheaper than $300 for the lot

It worked for me. The first email address I entered didn't work (and it was an email I had used previously with serialcenter.de) but then I changed to a different email address and it was fine (and I received the email). I used Firefox.

12 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

I'm getting the whole your account doesn't exist deal even though I have quite a few emails from them over the years about orders, etc.

 

and while I see this on the website - any emails that look like activation stuff from a long time ago are not invalid.  Put me down for another - they have issues responses.

I was going through the same problem, then I created a new account using the "old" email that I had registered with them before. When I logged on and went to the products page, everything that I had was present in the account.

Of course, I cannot guarantee it will work for everyone, but you may want to give it a try

Any discounts available? Or something for those of us who have purchased a few Beastsamples sample packs and/or plugins? 😉

(after all, this is the deals forum...)

Actually, Solaria in a lower range no longer sounds very feminine (to my ears), you may want to give it a try if you're looking for "ambiguity"

I thought that with the exception of some orchestral and niche sounds, sample libraries were already at a low price point not far from plugins, often lower (e.g., see the sampletekk libraries when they're on sale). Subscription mopdels for sample libraries can be tricky: if you let a subscription lapse for a plugin, you can print or freeze the track before you lose access. If you let a subscription lapse for a sample and you lose your rights to use the sounds then you completely lose your work (probably a good reason for never using subscriptions). If you retain the rights to usage of the sound (but e.g., lose the convenience of the virtual instrument), then it becomes very difficult preventing you from just resampling the instrument and unsubscribing, although, if the subscription service regularly release interesting products, that could keep you renewing the subscription

VirtualAudioStream is one of those that requires reading the manual but it can be handy if you want to add vst's to apps without support for it (e.g., if you ever wanted to add volume taming to Netflix movies, or pitch shift YouTube karaoke videos, etc.)

If someone is getting the Samplitude Suite but isn't interested in the Soundforge16, I'd trade a PA F29 voucher for it...

For windows, the vst2 and vst3 files are in the zip files released at

https://github.com/Torsion-Audio/Scyclone/releases

(and I suppose the mac version is in the dmg)

Stem separation is a lot more common nowadays (although it's still rare doing it as a realtime plugin), but I remember seeing Denis Goekdag, the CEO of Zynaptiq, demoing UNMIX::DRUMS at the AES convention several years ago and my jaw dropping at how impressive it sounded