Jump to content

The "loot" thread


Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann

Recommended Posts

5 hours ago, husker said:

Ooo..  What's coming up?

I have 3 things on my wishlist, but one just got itself off it because of the advertising price without tax thing. The Microcosm is off. Perhaps second hand but it's not that common. That leaves the PWM Malevolent and the SOMA Lyra-8.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said:

That's a great price, where did you find it?

It was under my Nugen upgrade offers** for a Modern Mastering bundle upgrade.

I owned Visualizer v1 and ISL v1 and the latest version of Master Check.
It was an upgrade to Visualizer v2 and ISL v2 (didn't end up with a 2nd copy of Master Check).

**you need a treasure map to find 'em.

Here's a copy of that map...

  • Login to your account
  • you get taken to the Downloads page - click on the hamburger (what web designers call the item with 3 horizontal lines) above the word 'Demos'
  • In the popup menu that opens select 'My offers and upgrades'
    Here's the list of all the upgrades you qualify for. Click on one of the "Upgrade to XXXXXX" labels to see what your upgrade offer is.
     
  • When done triple right click on the hamburger again to locate the secret tunnel under Nugen headquarters that takes you behind Disney's It's a Small World ride.  This is where they secretly test their plugins on unsuspecting Disney customers. 

One of the above steps may be a fake - 4chan says otherwise...

Edited by TheSteven
  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This BF I didn’t think I would buy anything, but managed to find an old boxed version of Steinberg Groove Agent 4 at a local reseller for around $30. It got automatically upgraded to the current version Groove Agent 5 when activated (MRP: $179).

If this sounds familiar, I had a similar experience BF 2021 buying a boxed version of Steinberg HALion Sonic 2 for around $30 (at the same reseller) which upon activation was automatically upgraded to HALion Sonic 3 (MRP: $249).

Hell Yeah!

An important bonus to me is that they both run under Cakewalk, whereas Grove Agent SE and HALion Sonic SE, which both came included with Cubase Pro, apart from being meager in comparison are restricted to Cubase.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

you need a treasure map to find 'em.

<...treasure map here...>

Thank you very much for the info! I did get to the upgrades page but I only have the ISLv1 to ISL2 for $99  🙁 (I don't have any of the other Modern Mastering Bundle products, and right now the upgrade is more expensive than a straight purchase of the ISLst and ISL2 bundle for $75).

Oh well, I cannot complain. I already got a few good upgrades this year!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I didn't want to know this, but here goes...

Audiomodern Atom
BFD3 + 5 extensions
Cherry Audio DCO-106
Cherry Audio Dreamsynth
Cherry Audio Eight Voice
Cherry Audio GX-80
Cherry Audio Memorymode
Cherry Audio Miniverse
Dawesome Abyss
Dawesome Novum
DDMF PluginDoctor
Evolution Series Erhu
Evolution Series Harmonium
Evolution Series Suona
Evolution Series World Percussion
FXpansion Cypher
FXpansion Strobe
GForce Imposcar2
IK Multimedia Tape Collection
inSession Shimmer Shake Strike 2
Klevgrand Fosfat
Klevgrand Skaka
Madrona Labs Aalto
Madrona Labs Aaltoverb
Madrona Labs Kaivo
Madrona Labs Virta
Nembrini IR Loader
Newfangled Equivocate
Newfangled Generate
Newfangled Invigorate
Newfangled Saturate
Physical Audio Derailer
Physical Audio Preparation
PSound Vintage Accordion
Rhizomatic Plasmonic
Softube Model 84
Softube Modular
Softube Parallels
Sonic Academy ANA2
Soniccouture Hammersmith Pro Upgrade
Soniccouture Sun Drums Crossgrade
Spitfire Originals Cimbalom
Spitfire Originals Cinematic Soft Piano
Spitfire Originals Jangle Box Piano
Spitfire Originals Mrs Mills Piano
Spitfire Percussion Swarm
Taqs.im SOLO
TBTECH Kirchhoff EQ
Tone Projects Kelvin
u-he Diva
u-he Repro
XILS KaoX
XILS PolyKB
XILS PolyM

Really gotta put a leash on myself next year.

  • Like 3
  • Haha 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

19 minutes ago, Philip G Hunt said:

@Jan SchmitzSchmitzSchmitzSchmitz 😳

If you've got that much lolly to burn, feel free to throw some of it my way. 🙏

I've been sweating over whether to get a 23 dollar plugin or not. 😰

 

Me, too. Left out a 15 dollar purchase yesterday because it was already too much. 

 

By the way, have fun with the new software. This will keep you occupied for a year, I think. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I'm still kinda dizzy from somehow having snagged the iZotope Music Production Suite 5 for $149.

The only other sales I took advantage of were cashing in some Meldaproduction referral credits for MFreeformEqualizer, and using someone else's referral credit to get Soundpaint's Supercluster for $5.

Considering the individual components in the MPS5 acquisition, that's probably the most plug-ins I've ever bought in one season. Due to the great cabal, it also included some nice PA FX.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 minutes ago, ralfrobert said:

By the way, have fun with the new software. This will keep you occupied for a year, I think. 

Yeah, the plan is not to buy anything except for maybe new releases until next BF. I truly have multiple extremely high quality options for absolutely everything now.

I've got a Seaboard Rise 2 coming in January so it should be loads of fun.

  • Like 2
  • Great Idea 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 minute ago, Jan Schmitz said:

Yeah, the plan is not to buy anything except for maybe new releases until next BF. I truly have multiple extremely high quality options for absolutely everything now.

I've got a Seaboard Rise 2 coming in January so it should be loads of fun.

Do you also think that the offers this year were really good?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Still debating whether to get Speedrum. I was looking at Tal Drum, but for me Speedrum has better workflow and send outputs so I don't need an output for each drum hit. I already have Falcon which has incredible onboard effects where I don't even need any extra tracks, and I can have a preset that sets everything up for me where I can just drag one shots in, but despite setting Falcon to use the One Shot mode in the preferences it won't remember it when I change the sample and also I wasn't able to figure out how to find the keygroup of the currently visible sample easily on the tree view. Little things like that.

Edited by Milan
Link to comment
Share on other sites

22 minutes ago, ralfrobert said:

Do you also think that the offers this year were really good?

Ridiculously good. I got everything from my list and then some. I see people on VI-C complaining about sales being lame this year and it's puzzling to me. Then again, I’m apparently the only person in the world who isn't a film composer.

I‘m literally terrified of the rest of the holiday deals to come, because this shit doesn't end until early January if we're being honest.

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 8 Dio Intimate Studio Brass, Strings, Woodwinds
  • Dorico 4 Elements
  • Finished out my Metropolis Ark Collection
  • Ethera Atlantis 2
  • BBC Symphony Pro upgrade from Core
  • Sample From Mars (2022 Collection)
  • Melodyne Upgrade to Editor (which I actually feel pretty good about.  I got Melodyne Essential for free somewhere, I had a $20 coupon at the Celemony store which I used to upgrade to Assistant, then used Everyplugin to upgrade to Editor.  So, I have a grand total of $132 to go from nothing to Melodyne Editor. )

And as @Nick Blanc says, the hardware comes next month.

  • Like 2
  • Great Idea 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I enjoyed the bargain hunting this year...

  • Audiofier Tetrality 2
  • Impact Soundworks Massive World Bundle (7 instruments)
  • Kirk Hunter Kinetic Strings
  • Zero G Ethera Gold Atlantis 2
  • Toontrack SDX New York Studios Vols 1, 2, and 3
  • Melody Sauce 2 Upgrade
  • 1999 Soprano Sax Moonlight from 8DIO
  • Kilohearts Phaseplant
  • Zebra Legacy
  • Fallout Music Hybrid Studio Taiko
  • Dronar Bundle (4 Dronar Instruments)
  • Dark Intervals Artefact


And although it wasn't a deal the item I'm most excited about... A handpan in C Minor from PanAmor handpans  (https://www.panamorhandpans.com/). This is the one I got, except I ordered mine in 440 (enjoy this guy's playing - it's fantastic!):

 

Edited by smallstonefan
  • Like 2
  • Great Idea 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

No software but this PC with £100 off from Chillblast 

1x Chillblast Fusion Custom PC
1x Intel Core i7-12700 CPU, 12 Cores* / 20 Threads, 2.1 -4.9GHz
1x 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2 x 16GB Sticks)
1x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Graphics Card
1x 1TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive
1x Corsair RM850X 80 PLUS Gold 850W PSU
1x Windows 11 Home
1x 5 Years Warranty (3 Years Onsite & 2 Years Labour) UK Mainland Only*
2x Noctua NF-A14 PWM Chromax Black 140mm Fan
1x Noctua NF-S12A PWM Chromax Black 120mm Fan
1x Noctua NH-D15S Chromax Black CPU Cooler
1x 2TB Samsung 870 QVO Solid State Drive
1x Fractal Design Pop Air Case- Black
1x ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 Motherboard
1x 24x DVD-RW Drive
1x 2TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2 PCIe Gen 4 Solid State Drive
 

Oh and four Michelin tyres for the Berlingo which were 10% off on Friday but then, infuriatingly 20% off on Monday! 

 

 

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Please sign in to comment

You will be able to leave a comment after signing in



Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...