Craig Fowler

Well, I held out as long as I could ?

They sure do! Incredible instruments, especially the cfx and bosie upright.

I is excited

Yup; you can usually save on VSL via BestService, and often it's a pretty decent discount. I have the VI series upright bass and want to upgrade to the Synchronized plucked instruments. It's $129.63 direct from VSL, and $108.12 from Best Service!

Noire covers a lot of ground and is top notch, but I've never much cared for the other pianos in K13. I'd definitely pick up WGII (I think that's the most recent combo of White Grand/Sister) and Rain Piano.

The White Grand/White Sister combo is awesome.

I stayed at the Paris way back when, Larry - hope you had fun! There were lots of bf deals that caught my eye, but not many I bit on. I ended up buying Soniccouture's Moonkits Fluffy Audio's Jazz brushes Soniccouture's Canterbury suitcase (rhodes) Things I put in my cart but didn't follow through on... Skybox audio's electric bundle (+ their new Wurli 145...sounded great but I have at least 3 Rhodes VIs that I really like) Softube Vocoder (was *really* tempted at $38, but the demos were...crap, IMO) Soniccouture's Broken Wurli (next year it will be back in my cart) VSL Vienna Imperial (I already have both the Synchron Bosendorfer grands + various Bosies. I couldn't justify this even at 50% off) StraightAheadSamples Flugelhorn (sounds beautiful and I love the mellow tone, but I wouldn't use it enough for it to be worthwhile Was sorta hoping for a reduced upgrade to EZD3 and a huge discount off some different VSL instruments, but I'm kinda glad that I can do a better job getting to grips with a smaller number of instruments.

When they gonna do T-verb for $29!!?

This is the one I've been waiting for!!!

I'd definitely get Bohemian cello over Tina Guo. I only have Joshua Bell Essentials, but I'd pick Bohemian violin over that - I just like the uber-expressive sound and it's fun to play...JB(e) is still great, though, and a steal at $50

I think so. I bought both during the promotion/phase out and the idea was you could just get the Gorilla version when it came out. I'd assume that holds true even if you bought before the promo.

Acoustic bundle is outstanding!

If you need an upright in the foreseeable, get Modern U now. I wouldn't buy Ravenscroft again (it's great, just a distinctive timbre that isn't for me), and I don't have True Keys, so can't comment.

Unless I'm missing something none of those prices are anything like 45% off. My guess is that it's not so much that they aren't starving for business as they just don't care anymore.

Goldplate is $39!! CPU heavy but sounds absolutely gorgeous.

I'm loving some of the demos of the Canterbury suitcase, and it will someday be mine. For now, I will have to do make do with some of the marginally less glorious-sounding Rhodes VIs I already have.

50% off Vienna Imperial is tempting, but I'm going to hold firm. I've got my Moonkits, and that will have to be my BF buy (unless BF stretches into December!)

Good to know - it's the brush swirls I really want!

What. A. Jerk. (j/k!)

Me too! I want moonkits! Kinda regretting not going for the deal Christian mentioned. I ummed and ahhed too long on it.

I find Kontakt incredibly user-unfriendly, and a pain on my eyes. All the same, I'd be loathe to give up the access it grants, especially to the straightaheadsamples libraries! And doesn't this mean losing the Bechstein you like so much, Fleer?

Thanks Craig! I really like the Skybox Acoustic bundle - would be keen to add some of the others at some point!

FWIW, Skybox have pretty regular 40% off sales. And now that APD have done 60% off the acoustic package (which would have suited you great for a character upright BTW), maybe they'll go to town on the other packages too!

Good price on Ascend!

I'd save your dough and buy one good upright piano. Specifically, VI Labs modern U. A good piano library *does* require good scripting, and it doesn't get better than VI labs. Per the comment above re buying cheap and buying twice, you'll literally never need another upright library (or potentially any piano library) with VI Labs.