Carl Ewing

Surprised by the love for this. I was very disappointed by this library - even for the price. But got it for $20 with that $10 voucher. Thought it might be a quick sketch tool for choir before finalizing ideas with more extensive libraries. But it's not even fun / inspiring to write with. Just bland and uninspiring. Compared to say, the Originals string libraries, this choir doesn't even remotely come close to the quality expected by this series. IMO of course.

I just wait until the next version comes out and the update schedule for previous version is complete. Not interested in beta testing new features while on deadlines, even if those features are appealing. Seems like madness to me.

Well - had about $4K set aside for BF, and bought basically nothing. Sales don't last long enough to make an informed decision. Too many vendors, too many products, weird things bundled together, weird / confusing crossgrades and product overlaps, really old and brand new things bundled together to inflate prices, and having to scour Youtube for (usually terrible) walkthroughs of expensive libraries. Very frustrated. The one purchase I'll probably regret not making is OT Ark bundle - but just can't justify the enormous drive space for what looks like a ton of overlapping content that would take weeks (months?) to sort through. One thing is clear right now - this market is oversaturated af and vendors really don't understand how difficult it is is parse through content. Sales seem to geared to impulse buys before consumers really understand what they are buying. Luckily, have a line on a used Gibson and an RME interface I've wanted for a while. Will buy those instead. I think others here have a smarter approach - spend time really getting to know what you need to buy, then wait for sales. Don't wait till November 25th to cram in a month of research to make a decision lol. Me dumb.

Haven't pulled the trigger on almost anything yet. Luckily many of these sales go till tomorrow / Thursday. Still deciding on: 1) Audio Imperia Lite bundle + upgrade to Nucleus Full + crossgrade to Jaeger + grabbing Cerebrus. 2) Orchestral Tools Ark 0-5 bundle. 3) Spitfire Audio ==> looking at various libraries to qualify for Cassette Symphony. Likely Polaris + a couple of Originals I don't own. 4) East West Opus upgrade from prior orchestra. 5) Performance Samples Con Moto Basses to qualify for Pacific Strings intro offer. Will potentially spend a TON of money in the next 6 hours. Or nothing at all. I can't decide. Fffffffffff. Clock is ticking.... Did pick up Total Max 3.5 upgrade for $70, and a couple small plugins and libraries. But can't decide on big orchestral purchases, and I haven't upgraded orchestra stuff in years. Which is why I'm tempted to wait on Pacific Strings.

Ya - trying to figure out how this is supposed to work. I own nothing. But looking at picking up Lite bundle ($150), which should give me $149 credit for upgrade to full Nucleus. Which then gives me crossgrade option to Jaeger for $199. Just not sure if that credit covers 100% of the upgrade. However - if I buy Jaeger ($299) it gives me crossgrade to full Nucleus for $125, but without the Areia Lite / Chorus Lite. So first route seems better if the credit covers 100% of Nucleus upgrade. As that's $350 for Nucleus (full), Jaeger (full), Chorus Lite and Areia Lite. That's pretty spectacular. But gotta check with AI if I have that right - unless somewhere here has tried this path.

Oh - instruments / sample libraries too?? 6 TB (stripped down). 350 sample libraries, synths, etc. If I installed all of Creative Cloud, Komplete CE & Spitfire I'd need to go back to mechanical drives.

I own 441 plugins. But a lot of that is collections / bundles like Waves bundles, Komplete CE, Total Max, UAD collections, etc., where it was cheaper to get bundles on group buy / mega sales. And at least 1/4 of those were freebies (like the bundles you get with hardware) over the years that are on my studio inventory but aren't installed. With subscriptions & DAW stock plugins I could theoretically have 580 installed lol. I only have about 200 installed. That's about 5-10 plugins per category (eg. 10 comps, 10 reverbs, 10 delays, 10 EQs, 10 mastering, 20 distortions / amps, etc.)

$399 / $39.99mo for me. Currently on legacy Mix & Master subscription and own about 71 plugins. Not interested in this, but was curious to see the discount.

Not even Black Friday yet!

Awesome! Thanks. Fingers crossed that it's a decent discount. There are 13 plugins in Horizon I want, and I already have 50 of the 80 from another bundle (many that I don't use, but many that are critical.) Makes it a PITA to get those 13 without buying a bigger bundle with tons of duplicates and unneeded stuff. But $130 for 13 plugins isn't too bad, and renews WUP on a bunch. Again - thanks for the links!

Ya - just noticed that. My upgrade price is almost the same as the everyplugin sale price. Sadness.

Hoping waves.com runs this - curious what upgrade price will be for those who own many of the plugins in this bundle. They've been running a lot of bundles at big discounts this month (Platinum, Abbey Road, etc.) so guessing they'll get around to it. NVM - didn't realize this was advertising the waves.com sale: https://www.waves.com/bundles/horizon#raw-to-radio-ready-vocals-horizon-bundle My upgrade price at waves's site is $132, so a bit cheaper than everplugin. I own like 30 of the 50+ in Horizon via another bundle, so not a great upgrade price.

Doesn't SoS give 5/5 to everything? Music software reviews are almost as corrupt a racket as gaming reviews. Walk through video sounds pretty average. Much better Taikos on the market - for traditional and processed / epic. Probably worth $40 though!

Ya, nothing on their site. If I remember right, the FX bundle was on sale last BF, and it was one of the better sales of the season. I didn't buy it, but I remember it being a very popular thread. I'd personally wait till Black Friday if they haven't done an official "black friday" announcement.

Don't use Reaper, but this is a separate wet / dry from the one within the plugin? (Eg. a distortions wet / dry). Or is it connected directly to the plugin wet / dry? That sounds like it could be a bit of a nightmare for effects that rely on gain staging.

Cassette is one of my favorite tape cassette emulation plugins. There are tons on the market, and most do the same thing. I just like the sound of it. Lots of features in the plugin's back panel. Also like Sketch Cassette (Aberrant Audio), for more wobbly / lofi cassette effects, which has a bundle sale at Plugin Boutique.

Might be just Windows 10 / Cubase, but I've used a few of their plugins A LOT without any issues. Vybz, Tape Piano 2 especially. And received some good support regarding VST3 when I picked these up. I got the total bundle (at the time) during Black Friday last year for like $30. Worth it for me.

Been on the same subscription for 3 years. They still renew it under the same legacy terms, despite the new subscriptions. Easy. Now own (or received for free) 71 of their plugins with the subscription vouchers, from $600 invested in subscription and one additional purchase of Soundwide bundle. So about $10 / plugin over 3 years. Those original subscriptions were fantastic, especially using those vouchers during megasales. It's really too bad they got rid of them.

Missing quite a bit - but there's very few I actually want. But the ones I do want would likely cost more than the $69.99 which makes this bundle price very appealing. But ya, I have an elaborate Excel sheet to keep track of plugins and instruments for the studio lol. This shit gets totally out of hand.

Very good points. Those new reverbs are very interesting as well but will wait for 4.

Interesting. I don't have any Max products but I'm also getting the $99 price. But I also own a ton of products / Amplitube collections from all the group buys + the original Modo series, so there must be a threshold where you own enough to qualify.

Tough one. Have a lot from the Group Buys, but really want Modo Drum 1.5 (have 1.0), Modo Bass 2.0 (have 1), and those updates aren't included. But might be worth it for quite a few of those T-Racks plugins (especially the reverbs) and to finish off Amplitube collection (missing 2 collections) and 2 missing X-Pedals. The instruments is where I'm not sure - never liked IK virtual instruments. Can get Total Max 3.5 for 69.99 with Jam Points, and I guess could sell everything I've bought individually. Hmm. Curious if Total Max 4 will have a similar upgrade price next year and should just wait for Modo Drum / Modo Bass updates to be added. Hmm.

I'll be looking at that based on your recommendation. I hadn't even tried the demo yet. I also like XO, so curious about Playbeat.

Pacific Strings (hopefully released soon, likely not on sale.) Audiothing - Wires Waves Abbey Road Collection Ben Osterhouse (various) Eventide Physion Wavesfactory Cassette Arturia FX (various) Keepforest - Devastator Breakout Pro IK Mesa Boogie v1 & 2 IK iLoud MTM RME UCX II New 88-Key Controller (debating) Spitfire Audio (various - curious what Black Friday brings) NI Komplete CE update 13 to 14 Lifeline Console Full Orchestral Tools (various - depends on sales) I usually only buy stuff during Novemeber / December sales season, so hoping for some deals.

Was waiting to see what the CSS black friday sale would be. It had to be good enough to get me away from Pacific Strings upcoming release. 25% is not good enough, so Pacific Strings it is. Hopefully it's released before end of the year, absolutely love the demo patches.