MusicMan

Is this their actual Black Friday sale though? I would've expected a banner on the site, or something to at least indicate they had a sale on!

V9 crossgrade is $149 for me.. I am a little tempted..

Score! Gotta love a good pricing mistake ?

Great prices! Where was that from?

Thanks Marc! That explains why I had a bit of trouble finding a price and info for it. I haven't jumped into TH-U yet. I do like the Overloud Gems though, which is what made me curious.

What's Essentials normally worth and are there any other real standout rigs?

Yeah same.. something definitely seems broken on their end..

Agreed on that as well.. sometimes it's the duplicate post that I actually see that helps me get the deal.. that's not to say I don't feel bad posting dupes personally though, but that's different ?

Plugin Alliance: DS Audio TANTRA 2 ($14.99 with $25 monthly voucher or $39.99) https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/ds_tantra_2.html

Thanks Heath, that's a really handy comparison. Nice to see you still praise it as a good product, even though it's not quite in the same league. I might still give it a demo, but a compressor has to be pretty damn good, or unique these days for it to tempt me!

Maybe they intended on releasing this little sooner, or otherwise it's looking like about a 12 month intro ? I am a little intrigued how their Chandler stacks up against Softube, etc

Pretty amazing deal.... I scored big in the Group Buys so have pretty much everything, but if I was starting out I'd be all over this one.

That's always a tricky one.. awesome generosity to make it available free, but I can somewhat understand how people feel in those situations. Still I'd rather companies give away stuff for free as much as possible! I'd bought some of the Kilohearts plugins which are now all free and paid for a couple of others than ended up on promo/giveaways. But at least I got to have fun with them a little sooner than I would've otherwise ?

IK Multimedia: Total Studio 3.5 MAX ($199.99 @ JRRShop | RRP $999.99) https://www.jrrshop.com/ik-multimedia-total-studio-max

If that's true that's a really shady thing to do.. I don't use FL, but always thought that was a really cool benefit.

Yeah when I first saw the price of them I was dumbfounded!

Now that I would like! You keep an eye on out for discount code, or pricing mistake to buy them and I'm in ?

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I don't personally use Mac, but yes, it's definitely more of an issue there. But it's quite plausible that it could still come up with Windows, albeit it doesn't seem to be anywhere as bad as with Apple. But a DAW change in a few years could require an update and therefore WUP to be paid. And while many do charge for updates, they generally add new features and functionality, whereas for the most part, Waves WUP just gets you back to using what you had. But a tonne of great developers keep releasing new versions for free as well, so I'd rather be aiming for the best, instead of accepting the lower end of that. The other thing I didn't mention, was that I like to be able to run a copy of the same plugins on a laptop and DAW and unless you want to mess around with USB keys, which aren't great with laptops due to the limited number of ports, or transferring licenses whenever you want to work on the laptop, you need active WUP. That's a funny point about support.. that can definitely be a mixed bag and I would agree many of the companies suck for that, so maybe from Waves it's a moot point! haha.... I do like to boycott them as much as possible though, purely because I don't like their business practices and I don't want to reward and encourage them for that behaviour. But I have bought a couple of their plugins and this offer did tempt me more than most of theirs. Still haven't completely ruled it out! But I have a feeling this Black Friday is going to be bigger than ever with lots of great options, so I'm good either way. If they dropped WUP and made them 2 or 3 seats, this would be pretty close to no brainer territory ?

That's certainly one hell of a different looking thing! Not sure about that it personally, but an interesting concept having everything in one.

Quite a good price and almost tempting.. I know if I bought it and needed to move to a new OS/Machine, or require support, or anything and have to pay WUP I'd be kicking myself! I really wish Waves would drop WUP. I don't think these would replace anything I have, but there are still a few in there I wouldn't minding messing around with.

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That's an insane price. If that happens again can someone please tag, or message me! ?