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Thenatan Bells & Brass (Free with purchase @ ADSR Sounds)

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Thenatan Bells & Brass

Trap Bells & Multi-Layered brass VSTs
Thenatan are proud to introduce you to Bells & Brass - Easy-to-use but extremely powerful instruments that can be programmed and tweaked quickly, for instant jaw dropping results. Gloriously thicc, tight, and authentic sounds. Whether you need deep and sinister horn stabs for your hip hop beat or a bells lead line for your trap beat - this bundle has you covered.

United Plugins: 50% Off for Cyber Monday

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)

The offers on our site are extended for one more week. You can get all plugins and all bundles with a 50% discount until the 4th of December. 

https://unitedplugins.com/

Also lots of bundles on sale as well:

https://unitedplugins.com/bundles

Ended up going for:

• VCL-864U
• VCL-373
• VCL-4
• Flywheel

I quite like them all, especially the first 3. I have lots of tapes and Flywheel is just another flavour / option to have.

373 surprised me and does something really cool with hats and cymbals. and 864 can get pretty punchy with snappy transients and VCL-4 works great on vocals and adds some nice warmth. Easily worth the price of admission.

The sale is still on too ? 

7 hours ago, User 905133 said:

I got the "its in stock" e-mail that says "Special price: $125.00."  So the $62.50 must be with the 50% off discount.

I need to check to see if they will be giving me it for the price I paid before they corrected the error ($4.99), if they have given me a credit for the ($4.99),  or if they took an additional $121.01 from me without my permission.  I doubt they made a mistake and gave me back $499.

Since it says the order was completed but I was never sent the actual serial number from I might just be out the $4.99.  

They normally seem pretty good with pricing mistakes and honoring them. I've never seen, or heard of them not doing that and providing the goods. It's quite possible they have, but it doesn't seem the norm, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if you got the bundle at that price.

8 hours ago, abacab said:

Pricing error on the first go-around ($4.99). You gotta be fast around here, LOL!!! ?

You sure do!! Some pricing errors barely last half an hour.. sometimes you might not even have chance to do a full demo! ?

2 hours ago, mibby said:

Haha!  Yes.  Timezone difference maybe? I'm in the US...

I saw it this morning but thought I'd wait.

Looks like the gig is up Mibby... I'm not sure what their normal loyalty offers are in their common sales, but it did seem like a good price. In many cases waiting is not always a good option if it's something you want!

I also watched this one before as well and he goes quite deep into the options and examples too:

18 minutes ago, ZincT said:

I like sonible stuff in general as I find their UIs to be pretty well designed. They can also get you close to the settings you want quickly often needing only minor manual tweaks. 

I have Trackspacer so will be interested to see how the unmasking capabilities compare with it.

This video piqued my interest when Smart Comp 2 was introduced so I kept it on my radar waiting for a decent upgrade price.

 

That makes total sense and thanks for sharing the video too. I just watched this one now.

Will be very interesting to hear how you find it in comparison to Trackspacer.

Do you find their plugins heavy on the CPU?

1 minute ago, simon said:

I didn't know this did the trackspacer thing

now I'm interested

I was surprised at that one as well. I had very little interest until that too!

4 minutes ago, Jan Schmitz said:

It excels at unmasking. Better than Trackspacer.

Thanks Jan, I'm hearing that a lot. I had thought I might get Trackspacer at some stage, but I'd been waiting for it to go on sale.

But when it finally did, I'd just found out about SmartComp instead.

So many great plugins. I have the Anthology bundle and some of the effects are simply awesome.

20 minutes ago, ZincT said:

Same for me on Sonible website. I have Smart Limit (and other Sonible stuff) which is now in my default template.
I was waiting for Smart Comp 2 ??

They seem to do a pretty decent loyalty discount. Not sure if it increases with the more you have though, or whether it's just a set loyalty, but it's still nice to see.

What particular functionality are you looking for from SmartComp?

Just now, tom said:

Damn was really hoping for Smart Limit to go on sale over this weekend

I reckon there are probably quite a lot of people that were hoping the same!

Sonible Smart Comp 2 ($61.98 @ AudioDeluxe) with free Melda Transient shaper plugin

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/sonible-smartcomp-2

Check your discount directly on Sonible first. Showing $35 for me ?

A lot of people seem to say it's better than Trackspacer. 

15 hours ago, abacab said:

I see that the Super Synth Pack is still out of stock. But they are still selling Loom 2 for $20, no coupons available.

https://www.jrrshop.com/air-music-tech-loom

19 hours ago, stony said:

Availability: Out of stock   ?

Good news.. it's back in stock.. bad news... it's now $62.50!

8 minutes ago, stony said:

Availability: Out of stock   ?

Oh that sucks, it didn't last long then! I wonder if it will become available again or whether that's it now..

Air Music Tech Air Super Synth Pack: Loom II | Hybrid 2020 | The Riser ($4.99 in cart for the bundle @JRRhop)

https://www.jrrshop.com/air-music-tech-air-super-synth-pack

They are kind of abandonware in ways, but not a bad price!

3 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

You come off really butthurt over this not much of a deal.  I'm like that a lot with so much stuff.  It's a synth and there's not a logical reason to go in this big tirade over it. Either buy it or don't.   We can't change how people do business. I like it for dance genres and had to buy a second license for a 3rd machine,  

 I don't always evaluate a product by its updates.  I've had updates ever since I've had a license.

That's pretty hilarious if it comes across that way, as it really couldn't be further from the truth and I've been laughing the whole time ?

I could easily buy the synth if I chose too, so there's nothing to get hurt about. I'm only commenting on principle and pointing out to anyone considering it, that there are alternatives with all of those additional benefits I mentioned.

Audio tech and pricing has evolved, so what once was good value, may not be today, so hopefully that helps someone who is looking at buying a synth when weighing up options.

In terms of how people do business, we absolutely can though. Customers choices to an extent can dictate businesses in many ways.

Like Steven said though, it's all been covered and I've got a bunch of new synths and plugins I've bought to  have fun with so all good ?

Just now, cclarry said:

This video is Private is all this says

The screen was showing before, so I wonder if they changed it to private. I didn't watch it, but the preview imagine in this thread showed the picture.

It doesn't actually sound terrible.. I've heard worse from Waves for sure ?

13 minutes ago, Niky Serrano said:

I think the same

Just came through via email 

1 minute ago, Niky Serrano said:

Review your user profile too, there you should find the product and serial (in the My Products section)
Something like Lil Tube V14.0.0

I just checked that too figuring the email might be slow! No go for me... no real hurry though.. it will get there soon enough I'm sure.

In case it helps anyone else, after testing,  I ended up going with:

• Novatron
  • I actually didn't test this now, as I'd given it a demo previously and decided to buy it. Very versatile as it covers different compressor types.
• Blyss
  • Wasn't on my list at all. But I love the saturation, and the EQ is quite capable with some light glue from the compressor for good mix.
• Omega 4 Pack
  • I'd heard great things and I do like these. It made sense to just get them all at that price.
• Clariphonic
  • I have Maag from PA but this is just nice and add some clarity to the top end effortlessly and opens up a mix.

I skipped these:

• AR-1
  • I actually quite liked this, but it didn't wow me as much. Nice on some material though and if I hadn't bought the others, I may have considered it. It just wasn't unique enough, or add to what I already had.
• UBK-1
  • I like this one! But it's tiny on screen and no VST3. It's a bit of a shame and maybe an update is in the pipeline, but I had to look at now.
• Pusher
  • This thing could be fun! But much like UBK-1 it's tiny and no VST3.
• Goldplate
  • It's a nice plate reverb and I get the praise. It's just too heavy on the CPU and I've got plenty of reverbs. LX480 essentials also had some nice plates and I think I'd upgrade to LX480 full instead. Given Relab is more versatile and they coded it, I think that could be a better option.
• Silika
  • Oddball compressor, but I can see how this would have some good uses. I just preferred the others I got.
• Electra DSP and Hammer DSP
  • They're fine.. they just didn't wow me, or be unique enough, so they didn't make the cut.

If you're thinking of any of these, sign up for the newsletter if you haven't purchased them before and you get an extra 20% off. My welcome newsletter didn't include it, but I waited and the next day I got the discount offer ?

On 11/24/2022 at 10:14 AM, Zo said:

The ik is exellent , if i had to keep on distressor nativelay , i would go arousor , i m fast on it and it never dissapoint , the uad one is imho the closes to hw ..

Elysia mpressor is the same still of beast and higly capable , anyway the ik is enougth imho ... it solid.  Sounds great and the intereface is way easier on the eyes than kush until greg proposes resize ... in a lot of it s plugins you have big gui small knobs , i do think bliss was the exeption with novatron..

For the eq ...mmm this might be a whole video subject ... the reall question is more what eq for what scenario 

several actegories like chirugical , dynamic , color ect. ...

That's funny you mention mpressor. I always love that and it's like an unsung hero! Although I did go through a project disabling all my plugins trying to track down noise floor and it ended up being that one.. but I normally turn off that in the plugin mostly now and happy days.

I did end up testing the Deflector and it's pretty decent. Definitely not as versatile as the IK, but still quite nice and if I didn't have the IK I'd consider it.

1 hour ago, TheSteven said:

I'll agree to disagree and retract my claws (or at least switch to decaf for now).
Though the horse is dead the audience would probably appreciate that we'd stop beating on it.

Thanks Steven and I didn't mind the claws being out. I'm always open to hearing and appreciate other perspectives.

Please don't decaf on my account though.. nothing compares to real coffee for analogue warmth! ?