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Possibly lowest prices for EU/UK customers, since as of last month the listed prices are now VAT-inclusive. https://neuraldsp.com/news/pricing-update-for-eu-uk-customers-inclusive-vat-for-transparent-pricing

5 effects: shimmerverb, tricerachorus, omnipressor, crushstation, eq45 parametric eq

wishing them the best for the next years, and hoping the "new era" is not a subscription model

I received an email earlier today, before the Green Ultra announcement. Loyalty Discount plus 10%. A free Green 5 update was released too; it looks like Ultra is considered a separate product. Edit for addition: there's a thread over on another forum including the company: https://gearspace.com/board/new-product-alert/1425631-acustica-intros-green5-ultra-us-crafted-suite-interactive-eq-display.html

Oh, nice. I hadn't installed Trash 2 on a new machine since IIRC it wasn't going to be updated for Apple M1 and would eventually stop working. Glad they're updating it... but I haven't even watched the product video yet. $25 is a good upgrade offer too. But I know that in of six months or a year it's likely to be bundled in an MPS bundle upgrade or similar... upgrade pricing is tough I suppose. For YouTube recommendations, I might suggest the reason for suddenly suggesting the v1 video might be that 1) Trash 2.0 was some of the biggest audio news on Monday, 2) other people who watch music production videos watched that v1 video, and it was highly-rated from before, so 3) YouTube will quickly start suggesting it to others who watch music production videos

after promotional period it goes to $15/month or $149/year

UAD Signature upgrade. It was an interesting road to get there - those $49 pultec, la2a, 1167 collections plus a couple single plugins, discount upgrade to the short-lived diamond bundle, then the black friday piece was the $150 "users are complaining" upgrade offer. A small sting that I could have gone "free LA2A then signature upgrade" but overall I'm happy and almost surprised to have 44 UAD plugins with perpetual native licenses at around $12 per. I liked their work but never invested into their DSP hardware. Upgraded the Fabfilter bundle to pick up Twin3 and R2, maybe one more I am forgetting Redeemed a serial for toontrack's new Area 33 Origin SDX. Considering Musio 1 which has introductory pricing through end of year.

over on the official forums they announced what the bundle to bundle upgrade offer will be edit: this is only bundle to bundle, not anything like "complete your bundle" it should show up sometime in the future, no date yet

thanks for mentioning Larry, I received a code unique for Ash as well, and it's a little higher than the loyalty discount level I am at.

I have gotten some good deals from PA this year but think this sort of marketing can be funny - both definitions of the word. "Up to 90% off" means a single plugin is 90% off and everything else is less than 90% off, right? Yes, that seems to be the case here unless I missed one. I expected it to be the distortion pedals but the winner is crispytuner, sale price $39.99, MSRP... $399.99?! Pre-PA the developer had their MSRP at $69.99 and discounted off that.

thanks! yes it's a very large space and I left plenty out, the three I mentioned are sort of the "skeumorphic eurorack-inspired modular synthesizers with third-party module extensions" subgenre.

that's a good point especially for bass For users who want more presets the MAX versions of IK Tonex or Amplitube 5 are each on sale for 79.99 this month. The Neural stuff sounds good but gets expensive if you start collecting.

What type of music does your friend play? These are good tools but target modern, heavy rock and metal sounds. If your friend is mostly into jazz, pop/rock, or singer/songwriter stuff they may want to look into something like an Ampeg amp emulation. I was going to suggest a free one from Plugin Alliance but it's no longer free. I'm sure we'll see an excellent deal on one of the several on the market this month, maybe even see one for free. For Neural: Parallax is probably more versatile and more powerful, especially if the goal is to make it easier to get to finished tracks. It performs the 3-band split signal, distorted mids and distorted highs bass processing commonly used in harder modern music, inside one plugin. The Darkglass plugin emulates the analog B7K pedal, which definitely "has a sound." It's a unique and good sound, but make sure it's one they want. Edit: the plugin actually cleans up pretty well. So if they're using it to practice or record demos etc. it's fairly versatile and simpler than the Parallax. I might still recommend an Ampeg sim or Tonex as Brian suggests below for versatility. It looks like Neural themselves made a video comparing the two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfX2DUjLaZ0

searching around on google results (UAD forum, gearspace, etc) it sounds like they will give a "generous" offer to users who already had bundles. No specifics yet.

did a clear winner emerge among Voltage Modular, VCV Rack, Softube Modular, something else?