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likely stating the obvious but the first 1992 amp looks like a 5150 model.

@Kal - I don't want to answer for Filo but I believe the short version is vouchers are not "dynamic discounts." "Dynamic discounts" refers to PA's normal single-purchase bulk discount setup, where, like for example if you buy 3 plugins at normal price they take 30% off your cart total, up to buy 5 get 50%. Here is the link to their help center about it. The text you quote just means that they don't apply this system to the plugins on sale, so you can't buy five amp sims and save 50% off the already-reduced $40 price.

jokes aside, the voucher puts a lot of stuff into very good deal territory so long as you don't need their very latest releases. All pre-voucher prices that should be able to be reduced by $20: SSL G (official) or Neve (unofficial) consoles, or townhouse bus comp for $30, Byome, DSM v3, Focusrite Console, or Elysia Alpha comp for $40. Most/all of the newer amp sims are $40. If it really is no lower limit, it might be possible to get some effects pedals or effects plugins like Fault, Sandman Pro, or Dent for free.

"Code can only be used 1x (once)" So, who's betting on 2 versus 3 refreshes?

Congratulations to the team and hope everyone can get a well-deserved end-of-the-year break! re Cecelius2: comparisons vs. Neural and S-Gear, need more time with all products but very early impressions are for certain core amp sounds I give a slight edge to the Archetype plugins - I purchased the set at black friday - and maybe even S-Gear. However those sounds are hosted across a few plugins. AT5 (even 4) sounds quite good and is certainly ahead in range and flexibility... and that's all before talking about effects and routing. AT5 will likely replace AT4 in my DAW template for default guitar tracks, and will often stay there.

From the great unofficial list curated by doom64 on another forum, this contains Tube-Tech models: "SMC 2B Multiband Compressor" and the 1C Program EQ.

yes, 15 fx! 3 each of: compressors, delays, reverbs, preamps, and filters

This was helpfully answered, but as a followup I hear you should be careful using gear credits, because it will become NFR.

superdan, just doubly calling out from Larry's forwarding of the Waves terms and conditions that you must register the serials purchased from a reseller with Waves before the end of the promotion. It's not enough to have just made a purchase, and if you register after the window closes and everyone's discussing freebies here it might not work.

yeah, I imagine even with the 25-euro fee,there's a lot of room for someone with maximized personalized discount to load up and then sell a bunch of things as a group. Especially if they allow duplicate licenses. Hopefully people behave, but it's the internet... Thanks for the cyber monday heads-up. I only get the personal loyalty discount coupons. There's a newsletter button in the account area but I'm unable to get it to stick.

Thanks again, picked up Magenta (Manley), Veridian (Helios/PIE, 60s flavor), and Amethyst (Amek), considering a couple others but there will be more sales. On other places on the internet this seems to be overshadowed by an improved or new Acustica resale process - everyone gets five free license transfers, beyond that it's 25 (euro?), but what's nice is each transaction of a SET of plugins counts as one transfer, so you don't get into silly situations of spending $20+ to give someone an IK or Ilok plugin worth $30. As a result of that I imagine now might be a time where people are selling Acustica stuff they got then never got into.

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Waves product page is up with another video. Registering at http://www.waves.com/free said email would arrive within 4 hours https://www.waves.com/plugins/cla-echosphere

It's not out quite yet, but it looks like Production Expert jumped the gun a little bit with their intro video. "CLA EchoSphere" - and everyone who guessed it's in the realm of delay+reverb wins a prize! That is the plugin, for free. Everyone who guessed something different or who did not guess also wins the prize. And you may have to WUP it eventually.

Hi Zo, You have a solid collection sound-wise that covers clean and creative effects. Is it a mix of sound quality, flexibility, and ease of use that nothing has hit so far? For the ones you inquired about: Vahallla - I really like this one, the company, their no-nonsense pricing, etc. and when I get around to reworking my DAW template it'll be the one on the buses. It has a clean, consistent interface, makes it easy to switch between modes and adjust important parameters, has intuitive tooltips for the params that differ between modes, and IMO fits your "simple but deep" request. Have you been able to try the demo? Hopefully nothing's wrong there because it doesn't involve any DRM or anything. Arturia: I don't have this one but if you're looking for one delay that does it all with a single interface, keep in mind these are separate, purpose-built plugins (memoryman, roland space echo, more general modern delay) and sound-wise there will be overlap with other modeled delays like SoundToys. Upsell: note that while this is $99 for three delays, their new FX collection is on sale for $199 and includes the delays, plus the three-packs of filters, pres, reverbs, and comps too--15 total plugins. JRRShop has everything on one page, but no further discount https://www.jrrshop.com/arturia-fx-collection McDsp Delays - I don't have it, looks interesting, again there might be overlap with SoundToys as a modeling delay. Some that I haven't used but might fit into Russ mentioned Melda MTurboDelay - I technically have this one courtesy of a lifetime-updating fx bundle, but haven't tried it. I like Melda stuff and appreciate their functional and consistent GUI but a lot of people really, really seem to dislike their GUI, so if that's been a sticking point for you on other delays, this may not be better . But I agree with Russ that it's really wide-ranging. If you like the approach of Waves SuperTap but not some of the implementation, there are delays like PSP 608 which let you do things per-tap. https://www.jrrshop.com/psp-608-md You mentioned Timeless by FabFilter and say the interface was a blocker; my understanding is FabFilter does have unique-looking interfaces but their fans say they are very well thought-out in terms of balancing power and ease-of-use once you get past a short, but present, learning curve. I'm really only familiar with Pro-Q and that's the case there. Surprisingly I don't hear too much about this one as much as their EQ and Limiter. I generally use Valhalla, H-Delay, Soundtoys, and even stock plugins.

Thanks! It looks to cover almost all the products. The free upgrades when they have a revision, and loyalty discount are nice. Some of the higher discounts that beat last year's, and this is likely missing some: Amethyst 80% off like Tom mentioned Emerald 80% Lime 75% Magenta 75% Viridian 80% Ultramarine 75% Water 75% Diamond Lift - 60% now, was 50% last year Scarlet - 65% off, was 55% last year Many of the products (a little over half?) were of a higher discount last year. That's probably the wrong way to think about things; the right way is to pick the modules you want given the current price. There's no guarantee the previous prices will be met or beat. But it's something I was curious about. In case anyone else was curious: Last year, many more products were 70% off. Talking about 60% vs 70% seems cheap, and it probably is, but it means we're paying 40% vs 30% of the original price, which means 33% over last year's sale price. On the other hand, if something is 80% now and 70% last year that means it's 1/3 off last year's sale. Prices are in Euros; for people in the US, the exchange rate is worse than last year. This is silly to complain about and is out of Acustica's control, but it means that in dollars things went up 8%. On the other hand, for people who get paid in euros, are still fortunate to have a stable job that pays the same through the pandemic etc., this means they have more US$ than last year for other, US-based, sales. Some price increases over the last year, for example on Amber (189->199) and Green (119->219). Sometimes it might also happen with a new revision? As an example that hits multiple points, Green3 was €35 last year and Green4 is €78 this year. I think the loyalty discount I started getting after last year makes up for some or all of this though. And I'm not complaining -- in the other direction, nothing was over 70% last year and now there's at least those 7 at 75-80%. Thanks for posting, Larry! I'll pick up a couple but this also gave me a chance to look through what they model again. Edit to add: here's the community list of what includes which models. My understanding is this is maintained by user Doom64 over at GS? https://justpaste.it/AcusticaAudioAcquaMasterList

Looks live now, but I didn't try to check out https://store.tcelectronic.com/ You are all correct of course. There is one product that is 80% off. It is the 6000 Integration plugin, reduced from $500 to $99. To use it you'll need a System 6000, which is $13,000-$16,000 depending if you want the remote. the rest of the plugins are on sale for 40%-60%. Maybe still some good stuff there.

Thanks! It looks like the exclusions list is the same as halloween, plus dearVR PRO and dearVR MONITOR. So any time spent thinking about the promotion last month pays off this month

Unfortunately there's not much left, so the robots will replace the musicians, then the producers, then the listeners.

Thanks Larry! Redeeming this deal also deposits a 50% off single-plugin purchase in the D16 store.

Thanks Frank! It's a little frustrating that Korg seems to be one of the companies that excludes upgrades from sales. I know that marketers like to attract new customers, but it would be nice to have a little bit off for existing customers :(. Regardless it's a good deal for new purchases, and they released the Triton emulation this year.

Around a year ago I started to watch several of the "learn from the pros"-style tutorials and interview videos, which are more "watch this person mix an actual session" than "enhanced instruction manual" that tends to be the focus of Groove3 (those videos do what they do well though!). It struck me that while several big-name engineers had hundreds of thousands of dollars in outboard gear, often the compressors and reverbs were frozen to a single favorite setting. Sort of like your preset case except in $2000 form. I keep trying to remind myself that a tool that can take away a parameter without affecting the overall product quality is beneficial, and "20,000 preset patches over 100GB!" isn't necessarily a good thing. I will probably forget this during Black Friday. As a side note, another thing that struck me with those pro videos is that many of them were on fairly basic plugins. Stock plugins and Waves Gold-era stuff was more common than the latest and greatest from the last couple years.

software-wise, supposedly Logic Pro X can load in either ARM or Intel mode, and existing plugins load in Intel mode, but you can't mix the two architectures. Back to the bad days of bridges? I'm also not sure about ilok or more serious copy protection. it's nice the compatibility layer seems good, but I worry software manufacturers will hide behind it for a year or two. I'm probably being too grumpy but expect lots of "we encourage users on ARM to load in x86 mode" like the dozen "don't upgrade" mails that arrive with every OS upgrade. edit: not to be grumpy about the whole thing. It's a big change and best wishes to Apple for it, and probably preferable to the case where Apple seemed to be ignoring the mac 2 years ago. These aren't the systems professionals that need lots of tracks will get, and it's generally suggested to avoid the first revision of major products: new computer platform, new car platform, etc.

Plus upgrading from 8GB to 16GB is $200. It makes a little sense technically since the RAM is on the same chip as CPU/GPU but certainly something they'll need to change for the "real" pro machines.

on the right-hand side of the product page, it should say "Download" for mailed products perhaps? Above the price? SSD has, or used to have, their own registration system, outside of the slate subscription one but it works out ok. Not-important story: I had a copy of SSD2 or 3, and it was physical media, a mass-produced DVD but then there was some wording manually written in sharpie, like "Watermark Copy Protection Unique ID 49151X-2622HQWL" and there was a note in the manual saying each disc is uniquely coded. Like, sure thing, Steve . Was always curious if the file hashes would match everyone else's and that the "watermarking" was snake oil (almost certainly yes) but didn't want to ruin it for them if it was working as casual antipiracy.