Craig N

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.

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

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.

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 🙂