MusicMan

It gets cheaper, but still totally worth it even at this price. Great samples. And a lot of them for that price!

If they're barely going to discount, then they should probably be at the forefront of updates and innovation. In comparison to some of the others mentioned in the thread, Valhalla doesn't discount, but there are very regular updates and he releases new features for free. Fuse is a small developer and has a sale of 78%+ for his plugins making them all $14.90 right now. Massive is the same vintage and it's been in bundles for under $49. I see no real reason to pay Sylenth's asking price even at 25% when there have been a heap of more innovative and feature rich synths made since. I would say it's a competent synth and I do like the sound though ?

Are Slate still physical iLok key only for perpetual licenses?

Awesome sounding strip and swiss army knife, so very versatile. The built in clipper / limiter sounds great too. Up their with my favourite channel strips from them.

I would agree that it does seem like it might be a bit harder for them all at the moment too. Not necessarily across the board, some are barely discounting, but there are some exceptions to the rule where this BF has seen some of the deepest discounts yet. And enjoy, that's what it's all about! ? I need to get back to testing out the rest of the Kush plugins to decide which ones I'm going to buy. Gotta love this time of year.. so much new music stuff to paly with ?

Very pleasantly surprised seeing this pricing!

Yes, but this goes at least up to 78% off and I think higher for some plugins, which I've never seen from Fuse, ever. Not in a Black Friday sale, or any other sale that I've seen. Entirely possible I've missed it, but I don't recall anything. For me Soundwide wasn't a judgment... if Plugin Alliance, NI, iZotope, Three Body Tech, or Fuse if they were to join, make good products and the price is right, I'll still buy from them. It's more just wondering if there's anything else behind these sale prices which are a little more out of character and like I mentioned, they're already responsible for a truckload of plugins being sold in Soundwide now, so there's potential dots to be joined.

Deep to $14.90 levels? The link to Soundwide is that Fuse is the developer that coded a lot of the Plugin Alliance plugins including Brainworx, Elysia, Neold and more, so he's already responsible for a plethora of products in Soundwide. It's not much of a jump to enter Soundwide from there.

That does seem pretty unique! VCS I demoed a while ago and like it, but it's very clean. I think I would use my SSL strips over that one for clean and I have too many channel strips, but it is a nice option if I didn't have them. I've been giving some of them a test run and so far VCL-864U is the front runner.. it seems to handle a LOT of gain reduction. Flywheel I've heard lots of great things about. On the default settings it doesn't wow me, but I just got Overloud Tapedesk, which I do really rate so I'm A->B testing against that. When you start pushing Flywheel though, dial in some hysteresis and enable crosstalk it starts getting a bit more of a vibe. It's not an instabuy for me yet, but I'm going to spend a bit more time with it.. price is definitely right! I'm kind of wondering if this is a last hurrah sale and they might get gobbled up by Soundwide with PA/NI/iZo.. these prices aren't common for Fuse at all..

I just saw the email and was actually surprised! The majority of sale prices are boringly predictable... they're real sale prices! What are everyone's favourites?

Unless their new Magma collection doesn't involve WUP it's unlikely that I'll buy any of their collection, but I'm onboard for this freebie so far ?

I expected to much more underwhelmed... I'm somewhat intrigued by this now ?

Glad it helped and I'm a little the same with the lowest price like that too! I had thought I might get Effectrix at some stage, but I find using this is a little more creative and likely to come up with things that might not come to mind in Effectrix. This has all of the main effects that I wanted for that anyway and in some senses I prefer this as it's easier to hold an effect on for a longer amount of time.

Thanks Zo, awesome points and very useful! I do have the IK Distressor, but I had been hearing a few things around their version too. But it seems like everyone is jumping on that bandwagon at the moment, so it might be good to see some of the newer Distressor clones as well before jumping in. Out of curiosity, how would you rate the IK against this one? Electra I haven't tried at all, but I'm going to give it a demo just in case. Out of all your EQ plugins, what would be your top 3 and why? Looking Clariphonic for mastering duties, so in that same kind of area.

I'm pretty anti subscription, as I like to know that if I want to stop paying, or open a project years down the track I don't need to re subscribe, or pay extra, but their subscription does get some praise.

Yes, that's right and that's how I found them. But sometimes they go on sale and they forget to remove them from there, so you get a double dip on discounts, which I suspect is what's happened with this one ?

Thanks Fleer and these are pretty much definite now for me after trying them too. Goldplate has moved to a maybe.. I do like it, but given it's by Relab, I thought I'd try the Relab Essentials and in some settings I think I almost preferred that. I still want to spend some more time with it first though. I'm also trying the Hammer DSP and thinking of giving Blyss a go as well.

Now that is a solid freebie... I really like that thing.. I already owned it and just picked up the Cherry Audio Year Two collection which includes the Voltage Modular version too!

ANA can definitely be used for some great and analogue movement type sounds. It was literally updated to 2.5 which is a major release (free update) in the last few weeks too ? I find often that presets suck and don't show what a synth can do. Not always, sometimes they're the easiest way to test and they sound great, but some synths I would've passed on if I judged them by the presets alone. Some of the onboard effects are really good as well.

Resistance is futile ??

$4 in August and full price ($43) in May. I didn't check any other dates ? http://web.archive.org/web/20220521084856/https://splashsound.org/oldschoolkeys.html I have seen it free for maybe 3 or 4 times I think though.

I was really surprised by the IK version.. their instruments can be a bit hit and miss sometimes, but that was a hit. I got that and the SampleTron2 for free in the group buys and these things are both cool.

I think it's done a few rounds of freebies, but I'm pretty sure I bought it for less than $5 or so a number of years ago and it's been available to buy in between. From memory it's actually not bad!

Sugar Bytes: Artillery 2 ($29.50 in cart @JRRShop)(Maybe pricing mistake and it's taking 50% off the sales price in cart. Audio Deluxe has it for $59.00 on sale from $119.00 https://www.jrrshop.com/sugar-bytes-artillery Same with this one too: SUGAR BYTES THESYS MIDI STEP SEQUENCER ($24.50 in cart instead of the $49.00 sale price it's listed at. https://www.jrrshop.com/sugar-bytes-thesys

Have you tried the Hammond B3 from IK? I reckon that could probably sit in a rock mix pretty well.