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  1. The Boom, she returns. The Boom Library Lucky Wheel is back up and prepared to spin. Log in and check your user area menu to find the link. (Or prepare to take the many spins you accumulated if you kept the inactive page in a tab for weeks and checked every day to see if it was working. OCD is a bitch, yo.)
  2. Man, not only that -- it looks like the mad rush for the freebie knocked a whole day out of whack. According to the advent calendar right now, December 6th doesn't even exist. That's some serious mojo.
  3. A few of these are really handy/interesting, and the KVR page is definitely helpful, as are the archived release announcements on Rekkerd in some cases: https://rekkerd.org/tag/wok/ At any rate, I think it's unlikely the site will be reorganized now. This thread's a nice reminder, but the plugins were set free seven and a half years ago: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2016/06/29/wokwave-vst/
  4. Yeah, I can vouch (as a one-time winner and a part-time math nerd) for the tombola drawing. Not only were your odds quite reasonable with that one -- around 1.5% of winning something, if you'd scored one of each color ticket -- they were also calculable. (Or estimable, in the sense of "able to be estimated", as the pool of tickets was 6000 total for ~30 giveaway prizes and holding one or more tickets makes you eligible for all.) If the spinnywheel rules are the same as last time, it's much more of a crapshoot. If I understand correctly: Every two hours, there's a "magic time"; whoever spins closest (and presumably prior to, unless Spitfire has an accurate-to-the-millisecond time machine handy) the magic time wins that time slot. But you can only spin once a day (i.e., every 12 "contests"), you don't know how many (thousands of?) people are participating each round (without access to the server logs) and you can't know whether the magic time for your current spin already happened half an hour ago, and you're well and truly oozing out your lifeforce watching the pixels go 'round. Which is perhaps less estimable, in the sense of "worthy of great respect". On the other hand, it is probably more "democratic", in the sense that a greater pool of people has some (small) chance to win, rather than just obsessive clickhounds setting alarms for half-four in the gloaming to Pokemon up their precious e-tix for a chance at some free bitcrushed bow scrapes recorded in a coffin in the back of a lorry speeding down the M1. As such a clickhound myself, I miss the tombola. Also, I resent the characterization. Also also, the bow scrapes are divine.
  5. My understanding is that there's now a single edition of Hollywood Orchestra on sale. There used to be "Gold" and "Diamond" (and perhaps other) versions, and I think since Diamond was the highest tier -- and the content that's carried forward to the "Opus Edition" (I think) -- the "Diamond" label is still used sometimes. But basically, if you're buying new (and EW doesn't allow second-hand sales, so new is usually the only option), it's the Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition, or HOOPUS. The "Diamond" bit is sometimes tacked on -- the KVR product page calls it "Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition Diamond" repeatedly -- but there's just the one version, unless you happen to have a perpetual license already for one of the legacy versions. EastWest themselves don't seem to use the "Diamond" designation anywhere and don't explain the history anywhere, as far as I can tell. But the above fits what I've seen at various stores and forum discussions.
  6. Sadly, I've heard that ZeroG closed the loophole on the "penny upgrade" deal. Still, if their sale is still on, the upgrade may be lower than usual. The tabs (which don't look particularly like tabs, true) are on this page, just under the "Click here to find out what our customers think of Ethera Gold 2.5" text: https://zero-g.co.uk/collections/ethera/products/ethera-gold-2-5 In the "Versions" text, under the Vocal Edition, you should see this text (or just copy the code from here; it's generic and public):
  7. If it helps -- or hurts, depending how painful the stretching is -- Skaka's $25 at Plugin Boutique, same as via Klevgrand (plus a freebie with purchase, plus loyalty points earned): https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/7-Drum-Machine/8721-Skaka I'm mulling over Tomofon, which is also the same price both places -- but it's not at all clear that you'd get the two free expansion packs if you buy it at PB. I don't think Skaka has that situation, though.
  8. I sprang (sprung? springeded?) for HOOPUS at JRR, and Forbidden Planet showed up in the EW Installation Manager with the orchestral bits, once I'd registered on the East West site.
  9. I know I'm biased because EW named their browser after my avatar, but these are Uncle E's words (From JRRShop, via KVR), not mine: Also available directly from the Opus' mouth, if you prefer (and likely anywhere else HW Orchestra bits are sold): https://www.soundsonline.com/orchestral/hollywood-orchestra-opus-edition Edited to add: As one might expect, though, coupon FORUM at JRR whacks another $30+ off. (No love with coupon GROUP, but still, wow.)
  10. The (relative) bad for me this BF: I paid $25 for Dawesome Love on November 1st. Honestly, I've used it a couple of times since then, and it's pretty great. I don't feel bad at all for the price, even if it's FWAP at PB now. On the good side, going back a month into the "preseason" sales, and with several bits of good luck/timing/circumstance, an additional $250 has turned into: NativeInstruments Razor ImpactSW Javanese Gamelan and 5 Ventus Winds Arturia DIST Coldfire and EFX Fragments HY Slicer 2 Toybox Audio Nano Pack 3 Sonuscore Origins 1-5 Plugin Boutique Scaler EQ Sound Dust Dust Engine #2 Strix Pripyat Pianos 4 RigidAudio Kontakt doodads Puremagnetik Stages MinimalAudio Impulse sample pack 2 Punkademic Jason Allen online classes HoRNet Harmonics Pro PulseSetter Epic Babies Updates: Glitchmachines Cataract 1->2, AAS VS-1 -> VS-3, Soundiron Iron Pack 10 update Freebies including: Immense Audio Legendary, Toybox Tangle Pack Lite, TDR Prism, Inear Bref, Aberrant Lofi Oddity, BPB Dirty VHS, UJAM Mellow 2, Excite Vision 4X Lite, Slate Heatwave, a new Unify lib, 3 HoRNet plugins, 2 Thenatan plugs, VST3 updates to free Valhalla plugs (had forgotten to update these earlier) and assorted other Pianobook/Reaktor User Lib/vendor goodies. I had a few more pennies saved up for the season, but dammit, I'm tired. And I've got a lot of new stuff to learn. Maybe I'll buy the dog some squeaky toys and call it a year.
  11. Possibly! Though I was very happy to get a String Studio VS-1 to VS-3 upgrade for $35, if that's anywhere close. If you wind up biting (I'm thinking the same, but with Riffer), my understanding is that (a) JRRShop has the best price ($27 in the "Blowout" section) and (2) though it's not mentioned there, Uncle E suggests licenses bought there are also eligible for the Freezr freebie when registered on Audiomodern's site. (If there's any worry about getting Freezr that way, Loot Audio is also sub-$30 for ChordJam, explicitly offers the freebie and offers up to five freebies with purchase [though you'd have to pad the basket a bit to get the last two, which kick in around ~$32 and ~$44 in the cart].)
  12. Just in case anyone else is in the same boat I was (or perhaps similar boats also floated substantially): I had bought the Ethera Gold Vocal version a while back, with the option (via a code provided on the Ethera Gold "Versions" tab on the product page) to upgrade to the full version for $26 at any time. With the initial Ethera discounts a few days ago, that was reduced to $21. With the "boosted" discounts: $0.01. Worth a check if you're eligible for any Ethera loyalty or upgrade disounts at Zero G.
  13. For me, the counter (with the label "Time Left Until The November Deal Ends") looks like it started counting down from 5 days around the time Larry posted. Hard to say whether this is the only November discount, but it may be, just as a taster for future goodies.
  14. Nah, Larry's just keeping all the deal dishes fresh. That first thread went stale pretty quickly.
  15. Nice! Looks like the same deals are up on Plugin Boutique now, through November 30th, if the freebies/cash back there are of interest: https://www.pluginboutique.com/manufacturers/13-Kilohearts On the Kilohearts site, my plugin bundle completion is usually 25% off the full price of the remaining plugins, but is 50% off now, though the individual plugins aren't currently on sale. I'm not sure it gets better than that when the plugins are on sale, so it may be time for me to bite.
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