Craig N

1 hour ago, overbit said:

seems the code with KVR points is the lowest price of this anniversary sale though you need enough KVR points.

e.g.

Timeless 3 is $68.85

Essentials Bundle is $191.25

If you're not too keen on holding points against a future buy at $1 per point, EveryPlugin is now beating the basic KVR & JRR Shop price at $526.81 for the Total Bundle. 

The competition is fierce!

Well that was good enough for me, EveryPlugin sent the license code after about 10 minutes, and it's now all registered and working. 

JRRshop came to the party with coupon code GROUP, same discount as KVR I think

Actually if you're not already a customer of PluginFox, a slightly better price than EveryPlugin can be had by using a referral code that grants a one time 10% discount e.g. my referral code 

https://i.refs.cc/9ptlIXfy?smile_ref=eyJzbWlsZV9zb3VyY2UiOiJzbWlsZV91aSIsInNtaWxlX21lZGl1bSI6IiIsInNtaWxlX2NhbXBhaWduIjoicmVmZXJyYWxfcHJvZ3JhbSIsInNtaWxlX2N1c3RvbWVyX2lkIjo1Mzg3Njk0NTJ9

The referrer gets nothing for it, it would take 10 people to sign up with that code for me to get 10% off a purchase but at least others may benefit. 

OK the best price so far is now EveryPlugin 

Wallace you beat me to it 🙂

So far the best price is plugin boutique with virtual cash https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/11578

Paging JRR Shop

Finally! Haha I think I checked 20 times. 

Shame it's not 40% tho. 

3 hours ago, JT music said:

I don't see anything good for the owners of version 1.X, they haven't even released a test demo. The update is very expensive, just like the XP. I personally will not update, I refuse to fall again into this type of commercial maneuvers where one never owns the plugin...

Give it time. I figure they'll eventually offer a discounted upgrade via Plugin Boutique. 

If not, it's their loss, not ours. It's not like there's a shortage of synths 🤣

Total bargain for what you're getting, at $119.

As jngnz points out, it's not all super deeply sampled.

It's all slathered with fx which I usually pare back to hear the actual instruments.

I am one of the people who really like the digital library... you get a lot here, and it's pretty usable, although it all feels a bit opaque. 

Nowadays I always reach for Keyscape because it's so much more deeply sampled, but I liked having this until I was willing to stump up for Keyscape. 

I normally use PayPal for everything but in this instance I used direct credit card payment to ensure the transaction went through, which it did. PayPal knows too much. 

Sup dawg, I heard you like drums. Well, BestService is beating their own prices on these beats. Get it on. Bang a gong. 

SD3 and all SDX have dropped in price from when the deal was first posted by trager at the start of March. I'd kept the tabs open the past few days after the Easter codes came out and I refreshed the page earlier, just in case, only to be rewarded with some extra sweet last minute price drops. I'm not sure how long these prices will last, but I'm guessing it won't be long. 

Superior Drummer 3 was $276 now $251.26 and use #CHICK20 code to get it down to $231.26 with 8.97 BestCoin towards your next order

SDX Orchestral Percussion now $234, I didn't manage to capture exactly what it was previously but it was at least $20 more. After #CHICK20 and BestCoin from SD3 I got it for $205.48. 

SDX Value Pack was $322 down to $293 and use the #CHICK20 code to get it down to $273 minus whatever BestCoin you have. As I bought this after Orchestral Percussion, it brought the avg price for Rooms of Hansa, Hitmaker and Death&Darkness to $88 each, for a total of $264.91 and left me with 10.47 BestCoin for my next purchase. 

https://www.bestservice.com/en/sdx_value_pack.html

https://www.bestservice.com/en/sdx_orchestral_percussion.html

https://www.bestservice.com/en/superior_drummer_3.html

24 minutes ago, Zo said:

Did ya tried the east west thing , way more limited but from demos i heard some great tones .... on uvi , are you talking string machine from vintage vault ?

I haven't tried the East West one. Between GForce, UVI, the XILS ones, Waldorf Streichfett I though it'd start looking like the same kind of overkill as my synth, reverb and delay collections if I picked that up... Lol. 

Yeah String Machine 2 in Vintage Vault. I find the presets are more produced whereas VSM 3 presets are all very basic like you're using the string machine directly with only the most basic envelopes and hardly any effects. There's a lot of samples but it's like a million variations on the same thing. 

VSM 4 seems like it might have a lot wider range with the new effects, but with only 200 new presets it seems they took a bit of a shortcut with this upgrade. 

I really liked VSM when I first got it, but I found I strongly preferred the sound of the string machines in UVI Vintage Vault. 

People complain about WUP but D16 wants upgrades for every product I've purchased from them. And when the products go on sale, the upgrade pricing doesn't. I guess if I'd bought them back in 2016 it might seem fine but since I've only picked them up gradually since 2020 it seems a bit rich. Just my 10c.

1 hour ago, SmokeyJ628 said:

The video below shows them sounding bad. 

However, in the comments below the video, someone says that the default sounds on another product sounded bad and it was because so much mix was going through the room, overhead, and ambient mics. Maybe try some changes there?

 

Yeah I saw that and have tried playing with those, but with no reference to check against its impossible to know what it should sound like, which really limits the effectiveness. I probably should follow up with support - and see if there is any available under InMusic 🙂

If anyone has and uses 8 bit kit, I'd love it if you could explain how to get it not to sound like hot garbage. I bought it during the last sale, along with Dark Farm, and its just... wrong. Only 3 presets, and they didn't even show up until I messed around with the location of files. And when I load any of the kits its just set up so poorly, with levels flat across the board, distorted as all hell, just sounds bizarre. There's no info online about how it should sound, so I have no idea if it's meant to sound like someone with a microphone who went insane made a bunch of weird sounding drum sounds and only half got them to work in BFD before deciding screw it, I'm done, let's put this up for sale. 

Was going to get 4 plugins. Demoed them first. Have no need for the transient fertiliser as yet. And the noise reduction one ended up adding weird artifacts.

Ended up buying Skaka and Reamp though. Looking forward to having more of a play with them. 

5 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

I suppose they can call that a sale...

This high Softube pricing has Overstayed its welcome, amirite?

Hey folks, I've been testing this in comparison with the AudioRealism ReDominator, which is ostensibly an emulation of the same synth. Compared to this new TAL synth, the aging ReDominator looks its age and sounds... like a Cherry Audio Juno compared to the Softube version, in other words the AudioRealism lacks mojo! This new TAL looks and sounds great, and I'm going to struggle not to buy it, even though my synth coffers are already bulging. But, as the saying goes, there's always room at the top, and I'll happily make room amongst my VST folders for this one, even if I have to delete a few temp files. 

Here's what TAL has to say about it:

https://tal-software.com/products/tal-pha

TAL-Pha Release 15.02.2024

We are proud to announce the release of TAL-Pha. A very authentic Alpha Juno emulation with a lot of powerful additions. It's been a lot of work, but it's finally here.

20% intro discount!

TAL-Pha

TAL-Pha is an instrument plug-in that emulates the sound of the analog 80's synthesizer Alpha Juno II (MKS-50 is the rack version).
The plug-in produces the classic analog sound, combined with modern flexibility and many additional functions. The plug-in can read and convert sysex information from the hardware and can also be used as a controller.

• Authentic emulation of the 80's hardware synthesizer.
• Resonance boost for filter self-oscillation.
• The possibility to detune, modulate, and sync the pulse part of the DCO.
• Simple but powerful FX section with delay, reverb, and a bell-eq.
• Arpeggiator with different modes.
• Stereo UNISON mode with up to seven voices.
• Aftertouch and MPE support.
• Microtuning support (tun file import and MTS Client).
• Original factory banks included.
• More than 380 fresh presets by Electric Himalaya, The Unfinished, Saif Sameer, emptyvessel and TAL.
• Individual tuning for every voice converts the synths DCO into a VCO.
• Reads Sysex files and Sysex MIDI from the hardware device.
• Can also control a hardware device. If enabled, it sends Sysex through the plug-in MIDI output (only possible when supported by the DAW).

Requirements:
Windows: Windows 7 or higher (64 bit host)

macOS: 10.9 or higher (64 bit host). Universal Binary 2 with native Intel and Apple silicon support (M1, M2, M3...).

AAX: Pro Tools 10.3.6 or higher (64 bit). LINUX: 64 bit / Ubuntu 18 or similar.

Demo restrictions:

The plug-in produces a rising white noise sound every minute.

instead of wanting you to buy the whole thing again, check your upgrade price

I have all but one of the amps, and I lack the cabinet collection, and my upgrade price is now only $39. Previously it was something silly like $149. Finally they listened! Nice work Softube.

At that price I'm happy to buy it, even though I have the TAL, because I want to encourage Softube to do more of these kind of deals 😊

I have arguably way too many delays. I'm a preset surfer and if they add something new to my toolbox I'm happy. MTurboDelay definitely added some new options. Way more weird creative out-there delays than I expected. 

First time it's been possible to get MTurboDelay this cheaply I think...

I don't have any of the big plugins in this bundle (surprisingly). Great deal! 

Here's hoping they see the light and open it up for direct native sales ala Korg and UAD. 

23 hours ago, David Baay said:

I found at least one of the new "voicings" to be 2.5-3dB louder.

 Was that the New York Steinway D? It's the one I noticed sounded the most different, but I only compared 5 of the 11.

I liked the new classical guitar voicing. It sounded more alive / authentic.