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Also bear in mind you'll get $8.94 in Deluxe Bucks so you're actually saving $30.85 With regard to the loyalty vouchers, here's my experience: I bought Falcon last year directly from UVI for $194 (I paid someone on KnobCloud 22 Euro for a $50 Falcon discount code) and with the $100 coupon you get after buying Falcon, bought Plate and a Falcon expansion, spending an extra $17 at the time, so total spend of $211 with them last year. At the start of January I received a $40 loyalty coupon from UVI that's valid for this month only. I believe you get the $100 coupon regardless of whether you buy Falcon from a reseller or directly, but the yearly loyalty vouchers are only for money spent directly with UVI.

The prices listed are already discounted 30% from full retail price. Eg Vintage Vault retails for $599 or you can upgrade for $499 if you own any of the modules already. Whereas it's listed for $419 in this sale which is 70% of 599.

A "lucky sale" indeed

They must be selling like hotcakes, because downloads have slowed to a halt lol. Direct downloads from the website still work, but I don't think I can be bothered.

Thanks for pointing this out. There were indeed some good deals to be had. It'd go up and down sometimes significantly depending on how many items were in the cart. I probably spent 3 solid hours last night until 1am adding things to the cart then removing them to figure out what the best deal I could get was, and debating how much I could reasonably put on the credit card without regretting it later 🙂 Ended up picking up the following: Vintage Vault 4, Keysuite Bundle, Synth Anthology 3, Sweep Machine and a Falcon Expansion called Hypnotic Dive from AudioDeluxe for $465 (adding $41 deluxe bucks to my account). Then using my UVI voucher I picked up 3 more Falcon expansions for only $18 from UVI. After all is said and done I paid 35% of the regular retail price, so I'm pretty happy with that considering that UVI never normally goes that low! However due to my befuddled 1am brain I ended up paying for it out of our main savings account instead of putting it on the credit card I use for my spending money, so I had to explain this sordid tale to the missus this morning rather than wait for a "please explain" 😅 I was tempted to also pick up World Suite 2, Toy Suite and Ircam Solo Instruments 2 into the bargain from AudioDeluxe (it was going to be < $800 including 5 Falcon expansions), but I thought there was a chance they might not honor the sale if I pushed my luck too much! Now I just need to install all of this stuff. Looks like it's going to take a while!

If only they had a way to deeply sample the filters and envelopes. Acustica figured out a way to do it, using further gigabytes... so maybe all is not yet lost. They could call that Mega Ultra Sampled Technology ... it's a MUST. Just don't call it Brilliant Ultra Sampled Technology...

Plugin alliance will allow you to add to the cart a code that has already been used, giving false hope. They check when you go to pay and then tell you the code has been used. I've had this happen previously. If you came across the code online somewhere, or someone else gave you the code for the $29.99 price (rather than PA themselves) you're too late, it's been used. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Happy New Year everyone! Here's wishing the year ahead is the very best one yet!

CD Project Red (witcher dev) on GOG used to be known for no copy protection vs one game running at a time per Steam acct. Not sure if that's still the case.

They emailed them to people as two kinds of voucher codes. A one-off purchase, or a rent-to-own version of 10 payments of 1/10th the price of the single purchase. Eg I have a personal offer of $399 or $39.95 x 10 but when I login I just see 799 unless I input the applicable voucher code.

Happy Birthday Larry! I hope you have a great day!

Merry Christmas everyone, from Brisbane, Australia 🙂

UVI's EDU Program for Students and Teachers offers 30% off, although they state that it cannot be combined with any discounts or sales

Me too. That would be 30% off somehow.

I can't either at this point in my journey but next year I could see myself buying it. Admittedly I am particularly fond of a couple of tracks featuring toy sounds, Magic Toys by The Zap! (trance) which is a bit of an intro to a series of great songs on the album Big Bang Toy Box by Insane Clown Posse (killer clown rap... not for the faint of heart or easily offended!) Old influences to be sure, I'm much more mature now... honest 😉

Was the December voucher personalised or something everyone gets? I bought Falcon through a reseller and if I login there's nothing in my vouchers section. I saw on reddit that this current HOLIDAY30/50 promotion stacks with a further $20 off SNOW voucher. I tried it and confirmed that works. I never received an email about the SNOW voucher though.

U-He are really good in terms of demos, it's well worth giving these a demo if you have any doubts. I bought the bundle through Native Instruments in December 2020 and have not regretted it for a moment. These are all quality instruments & effects.

I tried that and then found One no longer worked, so wonder if it used common code that is now incompatible, hence the need for the legacy installer. I was able to download the kHz one installer at the time. This was 2 days ago.

At that price it'd be a crime not to go!

Wow that really is a great price. We were looking at more than that for a single night near here this weekend past (Gold Coast, Australia). Suffice to say we did a day trip instead.

I know they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but I wonder what was the best deal you got in Vegas @cclarry? Was it the enormous room or did you manage to top that? 😊

Safe travels and I hope you have a fabulous birthday in Vegas, Larry!

OK I've gone back and done a bit more of a deep dive... turns out Tai Chi (full version) does sound wonderful with the right combination of program to material. The Rhodes Spark preset is just magical on a Rhodes electric piano for instance. It has a really surprising range of tones from clean to colour to downright dirty.

Lots of people praise TaiChi but I'm not a fan just personally. Hard to be sure if it's the ugly brown UI psychologically influencing my opinion but it seems to produce a tone I don't ever desire. I have Falcon with Sparkverb in it (it can't be used as an external effect) and I think it's a pretty high quality reverb for bread and butter stuff but it doesn't strike me as particularly unique in terms of the tone it produces. So these are two pretty different reverbs. You might like both, or neither. I'd demo them first.

Pluginfox is definitely trustworthy.