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United Plugins: UniChannel Upgrade Offer from FrontDAW (BlackFriday 22 + Upgrade 67%)(Was €149 now €49)

You can use referral coupon UP9198165 for an extra 20% off AND it will add €10+ to your account to use towards your next purchase with them if you haven't brought from them before (Note: link isn't referral link)

UniChannel
by Soundevice Digital
Inspiration in variety
Having a vintage gear collection in the studio is nice and inspirational but unfortunately, it is also time-consuming and expensive. SounDevice Studio's owner, Boris Carloff, knows this very well, as he has been collecting vintage gear for more than 20 years:

"There is always something not working. From tubes to scratchy pots, from meters to noisy caps. And the units are so rare that you can hardly ever use them on multiple channels simultaneously." To avoid these limitations, we were inspired to create a solution that included the best of these devices into one plugin. The result is UniChannel.

https://unitedplugins.com/UniChannel/

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14 minutes ago, Barrie said:

You mean like this? ?

In typical Arturia fashion their servers are late to the party as always ? I checked their homepage before and it wasn't up there, so at least this confirms it now. Very tempting.. I might have to bite.. 

I have held off, but I don't think I'm going to see it for $99 as a crossgrade or anything, so now is probably as good as any time to get it ?

5 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Yep, V Collection 9 is absolutely worth it. 

It certainly is a lot of bang for buck. I do love Pigments and FX3 has some great inclusions as well.

13 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:

Ya, nothing on their site. If I remember right, the FX bundle was on sale last BF, and it was one of the better sales of the season. I didn't buy it, but I remember it being a very popular thread. I'd personally wait till Black Friday if they haven't done an official "black friday" announcement.

Thanks Carl and it wouldn't surprise me if they dropped something to sweeten it for the actual sale. Could go either way with this one, but the $149 has popped up a few times so I might hold out for a little while just in case.

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.. 

17 minutes ago, Jan Schmitz said:

A pricing error on Plugin Boutique when Quadra was released in January.

Score! Gotta love a good pricing mistake ?

49 minutes ago, Jan Schmitz said:

 

Good times were had in January.

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..

35 minutes ago, pseudopop said:

I don't consider this a duplicate deal / double post, since Zolton's post was in a thread about Minipol Pro. I would have completely missed this offer if you hadn't made a new topic, so thank you, Peter.

Since the topics sometimes drop out of sight faster than the end credits of an average tv soap, I don't mind if some deals get posted twice. If I've seen it before, I can just ignore it. If not, I thank the poster for double posting and bringing it to my attention.

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)

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2 hours ago, heath row said:

I have both, been giving AC/DC1(that's what I call it, every time I looked at the name I saw AC?DC, so . . . ) a good working through since release and for me the Softube comes out on top, it has more balls, and you can coax to be more 'aggressive' in a nice way, it has character where for me AC/DC1 is bland and pretty much characterless. It seems to have a 'very' narrow sweet spot, not as easy to dial in. A lot depends on what you are feeding it, I feed my stuff 90% Hard/Heavy Rock, 10% a mellower rock diet.

There seems to be issues with certain things like fine control using a modifier key. Gain reduction metering is useless, seems to be just eye candy.

Problems with the headroom control affecting the dry signal with the wet/dry mix.

It has issues, still a quality product all in all, but for me not keeping pace with Softube.

I'll use it now and then, there's probably places it will shine.

just IMO, YMMV etc etc etc.

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!

21 hours ago, cclarry said:

Voucher ends Nov 1st, 11:59 PM EST

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

10 minutes ago, fitzroy said:

Forget about Black Friday. For someone just starting out, this is the best value package on the market. For many/most people, it won't even be close. 

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.

6 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

I'd find it hard to believe unless FL Loops was the basic sequencer.  If you bought a boxed version of any FL product you paid $29 for LT updates.

Funny that we are on a DAW forum where some of us forked out $199 that is now freeware.

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)

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3 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

FL Studio (previously known as FruityLoops before 2003)

I went for the lifetime  FruityLoops update 2002. Soon after, they discontinued FruityLoops and all updates were stopped. They changed the program name to FL Studio. Everyone that bought the "Lifetime" version was screwed. It is the same program just renamed. A technicality use to get out of the "Lifetime" updates.

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.

1 minute ago, telecode 101 said:

holy crap. the plugins are as much as upgrade to  Nuendo.

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

1 hour ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

So there will be a time when @MusicMan owns United Plugins

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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20 minutes ago, simon said:

obviously any Waves thread will come down to WUP  

You can move to a new Machine without problem without WUP 

I assume you when you say 'new OS' you mean Mac ? - ultimately this  is a problem for all software - and lots of times developers make you 'pay' for the upgrade anyway.

Support - well I'm not sure how you put a value on that - I find most developer support useless - I've only ever logged one support request with Waves and it's still unresolved a couple of years later.  Plus you get a years support when you purchase - hopefully most issues will be resolved for you by then ?

TLDR: don't let WUP-fear stop you buying waves (IMO!)

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.