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Ordered. Now please excuse me while I contemplate quitting this hell hole of a forum for at least a year.

Do you know how much the upgrade from Essential is?

They are surprisingly good, especially AR and Studio.

Amazing purchases. Congrats.

That Wurli is atrocious. Good job on SD3 though, I'm jealous.

Fair points. Admittedly, my recommendations and, more importantly, my disapprovals of things, are always to be taken with two or three grains of salt because I have an unjustified and sometimes borderline baseless aversion against products I think are not worth it. I used to be into films a lot and was known around a small online community for writing seething hate reviews of often universally beloved films (wish I still had my review of Touch of Evil. What a piece of **** that movie is. Don't get me started.) Whenever I don't like something, its existence is a personal affront to me. I think I might need some help, really, but it's the way I've always functioned. But more to the point, I got SSD5 for $49 and it was still one of my worst purchases ever. Its samples and presets are below AD2 level, IMO, and playing it on my e-drums felt lifeless and uninspiring. Of course, YMMV. I would also like to point out that the person asked which was "better" and not which was "easier", but I guess for me "better" is "more advanced" and for you "better" is a lot about being more "user friendly". Hope that didn't sound disrespectful, because it genuinely wasn't meant to. Different strokes and all.

Count this as another Black Friday where virtually everyone is like "meh" and I'm like CAN. NOT. STOP. BUYING THINGS. HEEEEELP.

This is honestly surprising coming from someone who considers themselves a former semi-pro drummer. To me, SSD5 feels like a toy compared to BFD. It's like having a sampler with a bunch of half-decent one-shots available vs. having actual drum kits available. Sure, this can come with the "disadvantage" of actually having to mix a drum kit from scratch, but I guess I've never understood that factor at all. I'm still a beginner mixer (an audio engineering student, in fact), and mixing drums has always been the easiest and most fun AND most rewarding thing to me. It's the foundation of every song. And I don't want someone else to decide for me what the foundation of my song sounds like. And even if you can't or don't want to mix drums, even if you can't be bothered to mix and match kit pieces and make everything your own, BFD3 also comes with "mix ready" presets that still feel and sound a million times better than anything in SSD5.

The Syntronik code is generic: LOYAL10-W9GPYHFT

I'd do it if it were APD-NWVBBYY9-50-OFF

Also, I imagine at least all the returning deals have been cheaper before because they had base price + 20% off a bunch of times.

WTF is that fantasy MSRP

Wait, 83% off the Acousticsamples Guitar Bundle? Really? That would be like $40 for a whole bunch of quality guitars. Guess we’ll wait and see.

Lucky man.

Can't say anything about EZ Drum but there's about 13 moons between BFD3 and SSD5. You can make songs with BFD. You can barely make demos with SSD.

Free for 12 months, you mean.

No. No no no no no. I am done for this year. NO! ?

This company is so well beloved, but I feel like Mu in particular is quite underrated regardless. I saw HCL Islander being on sale at an all time low recently and people on GS including some I respect deeply act like it’s the holy grail of vari-mu, so I had to do another blind test. Mu held its own against HCL and the vari-mu modes/presets of P11, Presswerk and Compassion and was consisently in the top 3, making #1 3 out of 5 times. Islander is quite good I have to say, but Mu is simply the best IMO. The Massive & Mu bundle is some of the best value you will ever find.

https://oeksound.com/ soothe2 139€ spiff 99€

Looks like it!

No, but now I own everything. Followed the path withe highest discount. The coupons stacked with my EDU discount so I paid $300ish for the whole lot.

Don't listen to me. I seem to dislike any synth made in or anywhere around the 1980s. Same goes for my taste in music. It's either <1977 or >1992.

Why do I feel insulted and caught at the same time?

It's based on the v1 versions of sonible's tech. The EQ is v3 and has been MASSIVELY improved. IIRC, smart:comp2 added spectral ducking which is basically TrackSpacer on steroids. This bundle is a joke compared to the full versions.

This one is hardly worth $3.50.