MusicMan

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?

1 minute ago, Niky Serrano said:

Well,... it seems that is part of the new Magma collection and I suppose that is a promotional plugin about the collection

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 ?

36 minutes ago, Niky Serrano said:

Someone revealed the plugin... ?

 

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

4 minutes ago, Sergio said:

I always wanted Thesys. It's a simple sequencer but I can imagine many ways to use it, specially with external hardware synths.

It was sold years ago for $12 at Musiciansfriend (I think) but only in physical media and only in the USA.

I have a rule that I always register the lowest sale price I find for a plugin and I set that as the top price I'm willing to pay for it in the future (if I cannot get the plugin during that sale, of course).

But in this case I'll break that rule because I never saw this plugin for so low before. And I'm waiting that for some years now.

Thanks for MusicMan  and Doug Rintol for mentioning this JRR sale. If it ccame before I didn't noticed and would let it Lars... I mean... pass!!!

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.

57 minutes ago, Zo said:

Fleer is right ... while i love AR-1 , novatron is imho conjuging saturation and compression styles like a chief !!

AR- 1 is superior in compression , but sat sweat spot is narrowerer ...novatron has this ability to fatten things (thks to it's transient smashin with saturation and sidechain) that is great .

Clariphonic is smooth but very limited and does one things , i do think the HW makes sens but for digital made production , this isn't a tool in the "must have " team ....

Electra eq is imho a better all arounder , but eq wise i would go elsewhere ... if you really need an all around eq .

Goldplate is the one i didn't get , don't know if i even demoed it , already have too many reverbs ...

UBK1 is the precursor and still exellent ( i think novatron was the modern take on it) , Bliss is superb also but limited to one type of job .(it does it well ) 

Don't undersestimate the distressor emulation it has also (Deflector) , if you don't own the IK , check this one out !!!

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.

4 hours ago, mibby said:

This is the one subscription where I've actually considered because it's so low. Their prices are generally pretty steep so I have never really bought much, but I do have all of the Omegas (now) and the REDDI which is also great.  Now if they had a rent-to-own subscription, it would be pretty much a no-brainer for me.

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.

5 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Both of these are part of JRRShop's 50% off in cart campaign: https://www.jrrshop.com/add-to-cart-for-50-off.

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 ?

7 hours ago, Fleer said:

Novatron and Clariphonic. 

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.

2 minutes ago, Jan Schmitz said:

They just added Cherry Audio CA2600 to the freebie picks! Wish I didn't own it already!

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!

4 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said:

https://www.sonicacademy.com

Thinking of getting ANA2. I keep reading it's one of the most "analog" sounding soft synths, but judging from the presets, I can't see that at all. It sounds generic. Also, I've read it barely ever gets updated and I'm a Mac user.

Someone convince me either way.

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.

27 minutes ago, Nick Blanc said:

I'm competing against Larry here.

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.

Just now, Vernon Barnes said:

I think IK is as good as it gets. The rotary speakers are very good. There are plenty of distortion and amp options that make it good for rock. Check out the Jordan Rudess presets for Deep Purple.

VB3 used to be the gold standard but IK surpassed it IMHO.  But still worth considering.

https://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=showproduct&b=44

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.

1 minute ago, cclarry said:

This has been free for as long as I can remember

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.

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What are everyone's favourites?

I was thinking maybe out of (or all!) Novatron, Clariphonic, Gold Plates and Omega bundle.

There isn't a heap of reviews on a lot of the Kush plugins. It pops up from time to time, but not super common.

I'd probably not buy any more of these as they're not really developing / supporting them. But I don't mind some of their old ones.

14 hours ago, pseudopop said:

Which ones do you recommend I should take out for a spin?

For the Overloud GEMS, I started with the COMP LA mainly for the 3A to replace the Waves version, but I really quite like the 2A which is included as well. You can switch between both versions inside the plugin. It has Mid/Side and saturation can be dialed in so you get a little, or as much as you like.

From the 5 Gem bundle I just got:

• COMP670 COMPRESSOR LIMITER
  • It's simply better than any of my Fairchild 670 emulations and like the LA, it's Mid/Side and can dial in harmonics as needed.
  • It also includes 3 different studios you can select that they've emulated.
• TAPEDESK
  • I have plenty of tapes and I like the others too. This does respond a little differently and I like how it sounds. It's light on CPU compared to some of my other favourites as well. It also has 3 different pres it emulates that you can select from and they sound quite different to each other (S4000,N80,T88) . It seems to do that tape saturation thing well where it gives it a bit more body.
• DOPAMINE
  • I thought it was a gimmick, but people rave about it so I tried it. It works in a similar fashion to exciters and I did wonder if I could just recreate it with EQ, but it does seem to add a little something more. It's selectable between 361 and 180 models.
• EQ495 - SUPER-MUSICAL EQ
  • Actually their summary is pretty good. It's just a really nice EQ with curves that work on a lot of material.
• VOICE
  • This was a last minute inclusion and I don't like all in ones normally. But it includes a lot of different analog emulations and there's nothing that says it can only be used on voice. But the presets are really good jumping off spots and the de-box are simple and effective. It is more expensive to buy which makes sense as it includes, tape, de-ess/de-box, EQ, delay and other emulations but it is included in the GEM bundles, so it's no more expensive.

I'd already been demoing the first 3 a lot, some with the EQ495 and then voice I just started giving a run in the Black Friday sale, so I don't have quite as much time with that one. I've added some notes about some things that stood out.

They all have a certain level of decent analogue emulation. They're not analogue of course, but they're closer to that sound and response than many others that try. They also sound nice and wide, but natural.

The others are probably amazing too, but I have lots of the others in different developers and I'm 100% happy with my choice after using these ones ?

3 minutes ago, Grem said:

That's where I am leaning right now.

Very impressed by the Overlouds. I love all of the ones I grabbed. I picked up the 5 GEMS from JRRShop for $209.16. They're pretty expensive when not on sale, but that worked out around $42 each which gets them in the ballpark of a lot of the competition. But the sound... ☺️

1 hour ago, Jan Schmitz said:

Same. I went through the rest of the plugins and had a look at which ones I would actually install and how much I would pay for them in reality. Came up to $240. Pass.

The thing that I have in mind as well, is that it's better to cover some different developers that add some new ideas, sounds, etc. I love a heap of PA stuff, but I'm getting more inspired by some of the plugins from other companies that just sound different. I picked up some of the Overloud plugins today and I would say they add a flavour I don't get from PA. PA do have some new cool plugins and I'm probably going to end up with Kirchhoff-EQ, but overall this feels like I'd just be getting more of the same.

I think there's probably a sweet spot too.. I suspect I own too many of the plugins, but if someone was starting, or owns a lot less of them, I think this deal could even be quite good.

32 minutes ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

I received a discount code to buy it at 299$ or 10 X 29,99$

Yeah I've got the same offer. It's not instabuy territory for me, because I've already got most of the main ones I wanted. It is an interesting offer though, so I'll give them points for being a bit more creative.

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46 minutes ago, Nick Blanc said:

I've been looking for the Omega bundle for quite a while now. Are there any opinions on those?

I've heard great things about them. Normally you can get an extra discount for signing up to their newsletter, but I'm not sure that the newsletter is coming with the discount code at the moment.