husker 985 Posted March 6 58 minutes ago, abacab said: My loyalty price is $49. It would be an instant buy at $29, so think I'll wait for now... Hmmm... FX Collection 2 + Fragments (free) is only $119 for me. May be a better deal, but I already have Rev PLATE-140, Chorus JUN-6, Filter MINI, and Tape MELLOW-FI. Are there any "must have" plugins in the Arturia FX collection? I believe that I already have the others covered by 3rd party plugins. Got quite a few from Eventide, Exponential, Kilohearts, iZotope, Waves, plus just about all of IK Multimedia, and some others too numerous to list... But I do like Fragments! Haven't seen anything quite like that yet! So, you basically have the freebies? $119 for the collection + EFX is a great deal. I really do specially like the delays and the reverbs. (But I'm a delay and reverb kind of guy). Delay Eternity is one of my favorites. I have the $29 deal, but I haven't jumped yet, but I will. I just wonder if there is going to me a couple more "EFX" effects, which will then be bundled. I really do like Arturia - their products are good, their licensing customer friendly, and their product rollouts are really smooth. (Unlike IK and Steinberg). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Bradley 278 Posted March 6 1 hour ago, abacab said: My loyalty price is $49. It would be an instant buy at $29, so think I'll wait for now... Hmmm... FX Collection 2 + Fragments (free) is only $119 for me. Same here. I bought "3 Delays You'll Actually Use" and "3 Filters You'll Actually Use" before the FX Collection was a thing. Upgrade pricing to FX Collection was always more than I wanted to spend. Especially as I had no desire for any more compressors or preamps. That, and I never actually use the 3 Delays or the 3 Filters, so yeah. Would buy this new thing at $29... and then probably never use it either. Luckily, at $49 I don't have to find out! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abacab 5,538 Posted March 6 17 minutes ago, husker said: So, you basically have the freebies? $119 for the collection + EFX is a great deal. I really do specially like the delays and the reverbs. (But I'm a delay and reverb kind of guy). Delay Eternity is one of my favorites. That's correct, just the Arturia Freebies. But I do have about 100 other reverbs, delays, compressors, etc. Around 1,000 plugins total. Not sure I need to collect another reverb or delay at this point, unless there is something just really spectacular that one of these does that nobody else's can do. But I am a big fan of Aturia! Have their V-Collection, Pigments 3.5 with over 2,100 presets, and a KeyLab 61 MKii. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abacab 5,538 Posted March 6 2 minutes ago, John Bradley said: Would buy this new thing at $29... and then probably never use it either. Luckily, at $49 I don't have to find out! Actually, this type of effect is right up my alley! $49 seems a bit steep for one effect though these days... However, I only use synths and keys, and do not play guitar. I love anything that morphs a sound musically to create something new. Similar to the way that many guitarists love their stomp boxes! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Release 11 Posted March 6 (edited) 2 hours ago, abacab said: My loyalty price is $49. It would be an instant buy at $29, so think I'll wait for now... Hmmm... FX Collection 2 + Fragments (free) is only $119 for me. May be a better deal, but I already have Rev PLATE-140, Chorus JUN-6, Filter MINI, and Tape MELLOW-FI. Are there any "must have" plugins in the Arturia FX collection? I believe that I already have the others covered by 3rd party plugins. Got quite a few from Eventide, Exponential, Kilohearts, iZotope, Waves, plus just about all of IK Multimedia, and some others too numerous to list... But I do like Fragments! Haven't seen anything quite like that yet! See if you can demo them first but I absolutely LOVE the Intensity Reverb and the three Delays (I'm a big fan of massive reverb). I played with Bus Force yesterday a little more and really liked it on a drum bus (it does take up quite a but of CPU though). I've had it for months now and haven't gotten too far with the others but everything I've tried have been really nice. More toys isn't a bad thing, and I'm sure you'd like having the options, but you seem pretty covered. Like the rest of us here, it's probably more of a "want" than a "need"? LOL! Edited March 6 by Release 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abacab 5,538 Posted March 6 1 hour ago, Release said: More toys isn't a bad thing, and I'm sure you'd like having the options, but you seem pretty covered. Like the rest of us here, it's probably more of a "want" than a "need"? LOL! Thanks for the feedback! I want Fragments, but $49 for a single plugin is not budget friendly enough for me at the moment, and thankfully I can ignore the $119 crossgrade for stuff that I might (not) use. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anxiousmofo 299 Posted March 6 Curious how this compares to Output Portal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marc Cormier 871 Posted March 6 1 hour ago, Release said: See if you can demo them first but I absolutely LOVE the Intensity Reverb and the three Delays (I'm a big fan of massive reverb). I played with Bus Force yesterday a little more and really liked it on a drum bus (it does take up quite a but of CPU though). I've had it for months now and haven't gotten too far with the others but everything I've tried have been really nice. More toys isn't a bad thing, and I'm sure you'd like having the options, but you seem pretty covered. Like the rest of us here, it's probably more of a "want" than a "need"? LOL! I have FX Collection 1 and stopped there - I wouldn't get around to using some of the new plugins in FX2 but Intensity Reverb is one of my favorite go-to reverbs. It's transparent and lush but at the same time has lots of ways to morph tails, add drive, stutter and LFO effects, etc. Not too bad on CPU - pretty much along the lines of FF Pro-R. Lots of good presets to give you a head start. I do like their compressors, too - really solid emulations. I haven't looked at TRacks since getting them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
simon 2,453 Posted March 6 12 minutes ago, Anxiousmofo said: Curious how this compares to Output Portal. I think EFX Fragments is a bit more 'musical' - if that makes any sense ? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abacab 5,538 Posted March 6 1 hour ago, Anxiousmofo said: Curious how this compares to Output Portal. There is a thread that discusses this in the effects forum at KVR. A user posted a video comparison by Databroth of Silo, Fragments, and Portal: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=578680&start=45 For those that wish to avoid KVR, here's a direct link. 😂 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abacab 5,538 Posted March 6 See what Skippy can do with just a sine wave and Fragments! From yesterday's Unify live stream. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pwalpwal 2,647 Posted March 7 i get a €29 offer but i'm not keeping up with what i already have so i'll be giving it a miss i think Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
