MusicMan

2 minutes ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

already got it coz of Larry 

Yeah they get pretty lazy at times just rolling out repeats of freebies too. They just don't seem to make an effort these days.. must be selling way too many plugins.

I actually quite like the plugin though. It's just that I'm sure a lot of people already had it.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/53-Multi-Effect-/8019-Lifeline-Expanse-Lite

They're certainly not being shy about blatantly split/A->B testing on us to work out which ones extract the most profits from us!

But I'm still glad to see all these vouchers and deals back anyway ?

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

I just bought this library last week. It was only the second time I've ever bought a sample library from a person reselling a library (Larry was previous person I bought a library from). It was only ten bucks. But I like it. It's not great, but it's nice. 

Thanks for sharing the feedback on it Peter. UVI tends to make some pretty good things, but I wasn't familiar with this one in particular. 

Hopefully across the month there's some good deals that it helps to sweeten and I might end up with it too ?

AudioDeluxe: Free with purchase UVI Model D German Concert Grand Piano (RRP $49)

UVI Model D

German concert grand

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/virtual-instruments/uvi-model-d

ADSR Sounds: Free with purchase Darksichord 3 by ESL

https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/electronik-sound-lab-darksichord-3-dark-harpsichord-instrument/

1 hour ago, antler said:

And also a pain that some plugin installers install ProTools formats to clutter up my drive.

I really can't stress enough how much this annoys me! Even damn Softube who should know better have installers that don't give you that choice.. I will never use AAX plugins.. or Protools for that matter ?

Then sometimes I delete AAX plugins and then various developer's installers tell me that there's issues and I need to fix them before being able to install updates!

They're like a virus ?

8 hours ago, RSMcGuitar said:

I'm still going to hold out for the they pay me to use it version.

I'm the same, but I'd want to charge them a annual subscription fee just so they know how it feels to get shafted each year like they try and push on their customers victims ?

In saying that, there's no way they could pay me enough to use Protools! Cakewalk wins over this crippled free edition hands down in my opinion as well.

It's always been funny that the so called "Industry Standard" DAW never supported the "Industry Standard" plugin format, aka VST Plugins!

There really are much better DAWs out there these days, with much better pricing and licensing options, along with being more open with plugin standards, so I'm surprised they've held on as long as they have.

21 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Sheesh, I tried entering the code for "any plug-in $29.99" and it spit it back saying that I needed a certain number of products in my cart or something.

Whatever, I snagged the B15N for free and it is definitely ALL THAT as bass amps go. Got me much closer to the War B.B. Dickerson growl.

Clicking on the plexi glow panel is a nice surprise, a noise gate and power soak, choice of cabs.

Very impressed and surprised by the B15N. That now ranks as one of my favourite bass sims which for free is pretty epic!

23 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

Thanks! I get Plugin Alliance emails, but by the time I look at my non personal emails, most of the sales have expired! 

Welcome Peter and glad it helped ? This forum has saved me from that on more than one occasion too! Especially if it's from a smaller dev where I use a secondary email address I don't check as much too. It's also faster to weed out the repetitive Waves like standard price sales by coming here instead of my email as well ?

On 9/30/2022 at 8:24 AM, Starship Krupa said:

True.

Stratus seems to be a surround reverb?

When I got my first Exponential reverbs Phoenix and R2 were the only ones available at $9.99 a pop. Single-seaters, so 2 of each. Then a while later PB put Nimbus and R4 on sale for $9.99, and I couldn't resist those modulated tails. 2 of each again.

Of course, now my 2 licenses apiece for Phoenix and R2 are superfluous and due to the iLok transfer fees, it doesn't even make sense to give them away.

Since the only reverb I've heard that can touch the Exponential stuff is MturboReverble, I don't mind the licensing stuff. It is what it is, and the fact that they're single-seaters that require an iLok 2 probably contributes to the peanuts prices.

Stratus is, but also a great on stereo tracks as well.

Your journey with Exponential is pretty similar to mine. I picked up Phoenix for dirt cheap with a freebie at Plugin Boutique and then bought another copy so it could be used on multiple machines. Then ended up getting Nimbus and R4 along the way. Still not bad for you to keep to open up old projects, especially as like you mentioned, they're hard to sell once they're registered.

I recently got Symphony 3D and Stratus 3D in a bundle and so I've been giving them a demo before regsitering. I haven't decided if I'll keep them yet and might sell, or swap them. Not because they're not amazing reverbs, they definitely are and are up there with my favourites, it's just that I have so many great reverbs already! But I'm still struggling with the idea of not keeping them as I really like them anyway.. the G.A.S. is real ?

 I just checked out that MTurboReverb and that looks pretty cool too. I can imagine that being a good one as well and to rate alongside Exponential is quite the achievement.

The Exponentials support machine activation and iLok 2 or 3 from memory, so apart from the diehard iLok haters, it should keep most people moderately happy ?

That's a really great price. I almost thought it was a pricing mistake at first ?

Have been reading some interesting things about phase issues that sound a bit concerning.

https://community.futureaudioworkshop.com/t/sublab-potential-phase-issue/1016/19

2 hours ago, Sander Verstraten said:

They're soundwide, they are combining their sensibilities with Izotope's and NI's ?

That certainly does explain some things up until now ?

Just now, Brian Walton said:

Hopefully you didn't sleep on yesterday.  Lots of good free options and some all time low prices if you were willing to spend $10.

Not just the PA stuff but getting iZotope Neo for $10 as long as you had the basic everyone gets it loyalty voucher.

Yesterday was like the old days for PA, but better! I hope they sold lots as well as a reward and keep it up ?

 Plugin Alliance: MEGA-25-OFF2 ($25 off with $39 Minimum Spend) ?

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Use code MEGA-25-OFF2 to save $25 extra today!

- Code is valid for one (1) order per user
- $39 minimum spend

Copy/paste voucher code during checkout! Yesterday's BOOM-20-OFF voucher has now expired and is no longer valid!

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25 minutes ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

it was free initally, its still free if u buy apogee audio interface . 

You're right, it does say free for a limited time.

I wonder if The form still works to get it for free ?

https://apogeedigital.com/products/plugins/soft-limit

Isn't that always free though? Or was it just free initially? I have it, but seem to be one of the few people that don't particularly like the sound of it!

16 hours ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

ADA Flanger ?

I don't think I've ever tried this one! What are your thoughts on it?

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Phoenix leveled my mixes up so much that I wound up buying about $80 in $10 PB licenses for R2, R4, Nimbus....I get that the algos are probably the same, because, y'know, it would be very difficult to improve on them.

The way it works is that the designer has two streams of reverbs (Phoenix, Nimbus, Stratos) and (R2, R4, Symphony), one set is transparent, the other is more coloured /character reverb.

So R4 is newer than R2 and Stratos is newer again, expanded and I think most seem to include the main presets of the previous version.

So you probably don't need all of them, just the latest one. In saying that, sometimes you might prefer the interface and given the older versions are much cheaper it doesn't hurt to pick them up anyway. I personally wouldn't pay full price for any of them.

Neoverb sits outside of those streams and is a completely different approach really and has interesting controls for blending between plate, hall, spring, or something like that.

Exponential reverbs definitely sound good to me. Neoverb I need to spend more time with to say. It didn't grab me as much at first, but it's different to dial in so I probably need to get used to it. I expect it will be half decent at minimum though ?

8 hours ago, LittleStudios said:

Just snagged the Ampeg B-15N... soooo nice.

That's what I got as a freebie as well. I was just about to pull the trigger on one of the other bass amps and then demoed B-15N and it was an instabuy. Damn that thing sounds good!

The others were good options too, but there was just something about that tone and also how it sounded when driving the gain sold me on it ?

14 minutes ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

What about bx hybrid, if it's not good i go for opto

I would say no personally. I do own it, but it doesn't see much use.

The bx_digital V3 on the other hand I love and would always use that EQ in preference. I guess if I didn't have that, then the Hybrid might be OK, but I'd rate that Opto compressor higher out of my other compressors than what I would BX Hybrid in all my EQs.

8 minutes ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

what should i buy 

delay 2500

bx opto

stage

chop shop

drum xchanger

spec ops

bass mint

Another vote for BX Opto as well. Highly underrated compressor and I'm sure if they released it with a flashy GUI then people would rave about it. Can be super transparent and sounds great.

Bass Mint would be the other choice. Quite versatile for shaping bass and has some nice options for saturation, synthesis, harmonics, etc.

I didn't rate delay 2500, but I might give it another shot at some stage. The other two options I mentioned are way better though.

1 hour ago, Niky Serrano said:

PA things

Applying the Loyalty Voucher, I pay more!!! ?

 

I tried that as well ?

I may have even used the previous voucher, but adding another plugin less than the $29 screwed up all the combos!

BOOM! $20 off
No Minimum Spend

Deserves it's own post ?

Use code BOOM-20-OFF to save $20 extra today!

- Code is valid for 1 order per user
- NO Minimum Spend!

Copy/paste voucher code during checkout! Yesterday's MEGA-25-OFF voucher has now expired and is no longer valid!

Stacks with loyalty vouchers too.

Nice to see PA back with some no minimum spend vouchers again so we can get some free plugins.

Lots of free guitar and bass sims for free that are actually very good. Well done PA!

On 9/25/2022 at 11:10 AM, Peter Woods said:

They call the free library a DEMO, but it's one full drum kit with two snares, a wood (mahogany) snare and a brass snare. As a former semi-pro drummer, I'm very picky about drum libraries and this is easily one of the best free drum libraries I know of (the competition, off hand, for a very high quality free detailed, multisampled drum kit libraries include Steven Slate Drums and the Sennheiser Kit for KONTAKT -- both are are worth having. I don't love the toms on this kit, but for a freebie, they're still nice.

Given it states demo as opposed to free/freebie, do you happen to know if it's royalty free to use? I have seen quite a few things where demo versions aren't allowed to be used commercially and it only states royalty free on the product page for the full kit.

I know they're drums and many people won't care and will just use them, but I try and abide by that side of things anyway.

Hopefully they are, as I didn't mind some of the sounds in there when I tried them.