MusicMan

VERY generous offer by them! I though it was only the Zampler packs at first, but it also included their VST instruments and their books. The books are really short, but I'm sure there will be at least a few useful bits of info and tips ? Same with the sound packs. I have found them to be a bit hit and miss, but I'm sure there are some gems too. Thanks for posting it?

Thanks Lars. That definitely helped knowing that and made it worth buying them as I didn't have time to download right then ?

I picked up the PSP Ultimate collection as well as upgrading from Ignite to Core + Elecro Drums. Pretty great deal as Ignite only cost me $10 earlier in the year, then under $25 for the upgrade, plus about $27 for PSP ? I really enjoy creating patches in this setup.. I'm certain I'm going to lose hours / days / weeks messing around in there though ?

Do you have to download them all now, or can you download them later?

Thanks Lars, I picked this one up as I liked the SSL Bus Compressor and strip bundle and this one is a good one too ?

Those two are really quite interesting plugins. Physion in particular. I've got a few transient focused plugins that I want to spend some more time with and really put through their paces and see what I might need, but I'll keep these two in mind for one of their next sales. Adaptiverb looks very nice and I've heard good things about that one, so I'm sure I probably would.. especially as it's 11 times more expensive than what I just spent! I'll skip trying that one just for now, as I've got a heap of reverbs.. the price on the Blackhole was I think almost intro price and I saw a walkthrough after that sale had passed and kind of kicked myself for not getting it. I'm sure I'll end up demoing Adaptiverb sooner or later too though! Luckily I moved quick while the Groove3 discount was still working and snagged Blackhole ? I demoed that and it was an instabuy.. I was also giving TriceraChorus a demo too, but before buying I wanted to go through my existing Chorus plugins and see what it offered that was different... NI Choral gets me somewhat near and OSL's free Chorus is surprisingly good too. I think I do prefer TriceraChorus though.. I probably should've pulled the trigger on that one as well ?

I picked up their Blackhole reverb which I'm loving and is quite a different sounding reverb and good for sound design. Any other standouts, or recommendations?

That's what I'm doing these days. The Product Manager doesn't even check to see if the files were downloaded correctly.. surprised it doesn't even do simple checksums, like SHA256,MD5, etc.. I had low disk space at one stage when I was moving files around and the Product Manager said it downloaded to files and installed correctly. It did throw an error on one failed install, but everything showed as installed. Even though half the presets wouldn't work for those Syntronik synths. That's how I noticed it. The weird thing with Syntronik 2 is that it says all the sounds are downloaded, but that's when only demo sounds are... I stopped trusting it after that...

Yeah I'd been thinking I'd hold off from buying any Softube until V6. Thought it might already be out by now, so might be soon.

I've never even really looked at it, or given it a demo. Will have to check that one out at some stage by the sounds ?

I get the feeling that a few of these companies are selling tonnes of plugins and they don't even need to really try with freebies at the moment.. Most of the free with purchase from Plugin Boutique or ADSR have been either underwhelming, or previously free, for a while now. I already got it free when it was released, but I would agree, this is a nice plugin ?

I almost though it was as Unfiltered Audio by that title. It's a bit of a mash between them and United Plugins ?

Some good points in there, although I'm VERY discerning with my purchases personally. I regularly pass up ridiculously good discounts on stuff, even if they're only $10 or whatever, purely because they're not the top contenders in each category, or add something very unique. So for me, the deep discounts are very valuable, as I only really buy the cream of the crop, so those discounts allow me to get a heap more plugins for the same amount of money. I do think PA ranks quite highly, but I still prefer plenty of other companies, as they're superior in some categories for sure. For example, while I do like the XL V2 limiter, as it's got some unique features and options, I don't rate their limiters in general. The Amek 200 is good, but I've got no real interest in trying the others you mentioned. Not that they're bad, I'm sure they're at least decent, but I'm well covered. But in terms of having more time for trials, PA happily extends trials and even resets everyone's expired trials at times, so if we can't decide in that amount of time, then the plugin probably isn't worth it ?

It's good to have as an option, as long people don't do it thinking they're getting the best deal. If you could partially spend the vouchers, then it might be closer to a no brainer, but given you need to spend all at once and all the plugins are never all on the deepest sale at the same time (intentionally by PA of course) then the subscription is the worst value option financially in the long term. It makes no sense for me, or anyone that already has a number of plugins from them, as I'll barely spend much with them in the next 12 months at all, but still get to keep using everything perpetually.

Yeah the intro bundle is great for newbies and I think that's Soundwise's target market for now. The bundle wasn't really of any interest for me as I already had the things I wanted from it, or didn't care enough about the others to spend the money on it. A couple I considered, but no doubt they will be free, or pennies within the next year or so. Same with these last two memorial Day offers. I already either own one or more, or don't really feel driven to get multiple plugins to meet the higher minimum spend. Again, for newbies, these offers are still OK. And if there's a particular plugin that I really had to have, then at $30.99 sure, it's ok for not waiting, but if the old vouchers were there, I may have picked up something opportunistically. So far I haven't really been tempted to even use my voucher or buy anything in their sales since their merger and I'm definitely not alone. Across a number of engineers I know and in most of the forums, the vouchers haven't been well received at all... But I pickup everything PA for $0 to $15 normally, sometimes $20. A few rare gems, I've extended to $25.. and have everything I really wanted. For me the vouchers are dead for now, but that has been a blessing. I've picked up a few things on sale that hadn't quite been enough for me to pull the trigger and they've been really good ?

They were kind of already dead really after the latest changes with them.. I'll sit everything PA out for a while until they get their act together again. If they lose enough sales/customers they'll reevaluate, or another smarter company will seize that space. There's nothing I really feel I need from them for now, so all good either way ?

It would be great to see IK improve their upgrade options and actually look at what products you already own when upgrading instead of just one. They do miss the mark there, which is a shame.

They're not particularly bad prices, but given all the great deals I've previously seen from PA, I'm really feeling no urge to pull the trigger on any of these.. I get for some people that might want all 3, with the loyalty voucher they're ok deals.. But PA has turned into a bit of a yawn fest for me lately.. They're more an IgnoreWare developer than anything else for right now, mainly interested in structuring sales only aimed and useful to newbies.. Fingers crossed for a mega sale that actually has deals again.. I miss the old days where PA deals were epic and didn't suck!

I totally get the disk space concern as well, but the way I look at it, is even if I just installed the new Syn2 synths now, or even just the best of them, I will still own all the others anyway from the group buy and can install them later, whenever suits. Hard drive capacities always increase, so in a few years or so, that extra space probably doesn't matter as much.

Yeah I'm intrigued by this one as well and will definitely give it a demo. There's also Acustica Audio Magenta as well which is based in the Manley Massive Passive EQs I believe. I do find some of the Pulsar plugs heavy on CPU, but if it's lighter than Magenta then it still could be a good option too.

IK has been pretty good with extensions before AND... It's much better publicity for them if it goes all the way, so there may still be hope. People talk about those sales for many months, or even years after the event for really great group buys, which generates more sales, but customers are not going to rave about it to the same extent unless they get all of them! ??

I already bought Syntronik Deluxe previously, but decided to jump in on the group buy to pick up the 11 new instruments and add some support ? For approximately $34 with jampoints, that's a pretty crazy price to get a whole heap, or maybe all of the Syntronik 2 synths!

it's generally a fairly safe assumption ?

I'm optimistic.. I like to think that he's made me spend more money on deals I didn't know about, but saved me money on the things I was going to buy anyway, so the poverty ratio is about the same, but I have more plugins and instruments ? With the time saving of not having to read my emails I'm hoping puts me just in front! I fear the figures may not reflect that.. but I'm going with it anyway ?

I always assumed you must have been fed through an intravenous drip so you didn't have to stop posting deals ?