Craig Fowler

What is it about Swedes that makes them able to create perfect pop songs? I remember when Almost Unreal came out as a single and I thought it was three minutes of exactly what a pop song should sound like.

Thought this was a really great arrangement - loved the way everything fit together. It sounded like a band feeding off each other, not just a one-man dude! Really well mixed, too.

Alas, can't use the BestService code on Vienna vouchers (that was my first thought, too!)

Happy Christmas from Auckland, New Zealand! (I guess I'm the 'other' Antipodean Craig on the forum!)

There was a thread on VI:control earlier in the year wondering if Embertone were still an 'active' developer - I'm in the minority who hates the Walker D (admittedly I only have the lite version) but the Bell and Blakus are lovely! As you say, really good to see them doing new things.

I really want to get their Pedal Steel...the stacked codes bring it down to $72! But as I just took advantage of the Audio Ollie stacked glitch to get Nashville Scoring Strings, I'm tapped out. Here's hoping this will still be working come January!

I was going to ask the same thing!

I thought the uad version *was* the softube version, just ported over

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!)