Craig N

Seems the upgrade pricing to Synth Anthology 4 is no longer available. Thought it might have been possible to upgrade a little cheaper. Probably for the best, I don't really use SA3 anyway.

There's also a new offer of UAD complete for $1499 in my offers section. But I don't have hardware. Or that kinda loose change haha.

Except the Tuesday prices are no longer available. Still some bargains but not the ones I wanted to buy.

Got a thank you added and the Tuesday coupon is back for the moment. Maybe just for me? But might be worth checking

Officially its 99$/Euro but it gets discounted and at launch it was the lowest I've seen it, at something like $57 on bestservice. After that it went up to something like $78. Via Rob Papen direct with coupon it's $74. I've been waiting for it to go back down to $57 so hopefully that will happen again at the launch of 9. I think the grace period was something like 3 months. I'd bought it in February of that year so I wasn't eligible.

There is but it's not as long as you might like. I bought Explorer 7 and skipped 8 but I'll upgrade to 9 for sure. Thankfully the upgrades so far have been the same price from any Explorer version.

Sweet, hopefully they'll come through with an extra thank you voucher before then!

This might be a silly question, but did you sign up for LoopCloud or whatever the subscription was that was giving away Polymax for free, or did you just use the plugin boutique coupon code to get it for free?

And then when I heard that worked for Fleer I did the same and got it too.

Thanks, that's really helpful. It mirrors my own thinking, although the $25 and $50 coupons are going to expire in October and that's motivating me to use them haha. The Diamond Edition doesn't even include all the native plugins presently available so it's definitely only going to be a stepping stone, but the price per plugin is a lot better than buying any of this stuff piecemeal.

Damn. What do you think is the best move? Get some cheap solo UAD2 hardware and wait for ultimate in one hit, or bite the bullet at $244 (319 - 50 personal coupon to make up for Labor day coupon disappearing - 25 thank you)? I guess you bit the bullet facing that same choice... Any regrets?

Does anyone know if the price of Ultimate comes down further than 799 if you own the Diamond Edition?

Did you get an email with a personal code included? If not, have you registered the code for the plugin in UA Connect? I hadn't gotten around to doing that when the first set of emails went out, but I registered it a few days ago in UA Connect and got this latest email from UA with the personal code.

I picked it up for $99 last night. Diamond is now offered at $319, which, oddly enough, is less than they want for Mix edition ($339). I guess it's priced as a proportion of the products you own in the bundle. Ultimate 11 is $799 as Fleer mentioned earlier.

I doubt it'd be backwards compatible but would love to be wrong!

Can anyone with Synth Anthology 1 or 2 share their upgrade price? I have 3 and the 49 upgrade price but given I haven't really used it much I'm tempted to wait for a future upgrade. Assuming the upgrade from 1 or 2 is 49 as well. Much closer to the intro price of 89 and it wouldn't look much like an upgrade price at all.

Thanks for the heads up! Gonna have to check it out. Also gonna have to eat my words if Steve Jobs was right about taking the headphone jack out of the phone...

https://www.audioreviews.org/apple-audio-adapter-review/

After purchase the webpage shows a long list of download links that will expire in 31 days. You will also receive an email with the same download links.

I've been thinking about buying Keyscape, funnily enough, and I have most of the EPs out there already since I kinda went overboard collecting things and apparently I'm not done yet 😂 I'm not sure which I would happily part with, and this is the whole issue... each additional library adds something unique. But it does start to get ridiculous having so many flavours. In terms of one's that are broadly capable to try to replace Keyscape, Acoustic Samples modelled EPs VReeds and VTines Mk1 for UVI Workstation/Falcon are both great but don't have many presets. Sonic Couture's Broken Wurli and Canterbury Suitcase are also both great and have a bigger range of presets based on famous songs. Gospel Musicians Neo Soul Keys is pretty broadly capable too although I suspect there'll be more upgrades involved than the other options. E Instruments Session Keys Electric bundle is pretty good too although the Kontakt UI has some bugs. On the topic of Pianotek I had an aha moment recently when I realised the Rhodes mk2 is not an improved model of a Rhodes by Modartt compared to their first attempt (like I first thought), but more likely refers to a model of a mk2 stage piano, explaining why I didn't really like that Pianoteq model and why I preferred the mk1. I like the EPs in Pianoteq more when I dial back all the fx.

It definitely makes different kinds of sweeps to Air The Riser, so I guess it's a good tool to have in the arsenal if you want to be able to add that kind of thing to your projects. If you make EDM or ambient type music, or soundtrack type stuff. It has a surprising number of types of noise sound sources, and unique ways to tweak the sound beyond what a typical super synth would offer.

Sorry folks I was mistaken! It's not part of VV. I figured out why own it ... I bought it separately in January to get the best price possible from AudioDeluxe's UVI Buy More promotion. I had totally forgotten about that. No wonder I went so far above and beyond my planned spend subsequent to Black Friday 2022. It was a helluva deal. Apologies for any confusion I caused. It was nominally $27 in January but after discounts I effectively paid $15 for it. So $9 is a great price if anyone has a need for whooshes.

Correction: If you have UVI's Vintage Vault you would not necessarily have this... I was about to pull the trigger when I thought to double check if I already had it. It would have been my first accidental double purchase. So I'm glad I avoided that shameful milestone for a little while longer 🙂

That's how I bought the bundle originally back in 2020. Got a free M1 LE Key with a miniature midi keyboard, and waited for the sale and upgraded for $199. Since then the collection has grown twice and I've paid $49 twice to upgrade it. So total outlay has been $298. To put that into perspective in that time I also bought Arturia's V Collection for $299 and upgraded it twice for $129 and $99. Total outlay $527. V Collection had been $249 to buy in the year before I first bought it, so it has gone up by $50 in a similar timeframe. Unlike many other companies in this business, Korg only charges for the new products they've added to the bundle. Updates to existing products are free. And on sale the upgrade price is quite reasonable. That's the kind of business model I'm happy to get on board with and to support.

Its more expensive the older your Korg Collection is. I am happy to keep mine up to date at $49 each time. 3 new synths for $49 seems good value to me. As usual it's a bit tricky to do the upgrade: Login to your Korg ID https://id.korg.com/ Then go to the Offers page. Copy the code provided and visit the link they provide to buy the relevant upgrade product. Add it to your cart and add the coupon you copied. Then checkout. After checking out, get the product serial from the order details and add that to the Korg Software Pass app with the Register New Product button at the top. If you want to check out the details the upgrade products are here: https://korg.shop/software/korg-collection/upgrade-products.html