Jason Neudorf

If you need IK now and will actually use it to make music, buy it now. If you are trying to game the system and have fun playing the pricing game, wait until Black Friday.

I didn't mean "B Tier" as an insult; My understanding is that AAS isn't legendary like the U-He synths, Omnisphere, Serum, Sylenth, or even pigments. Its a step above quite a few others -- Cherry Audio DCO106, WA Imperfect, VirtualCZ, Soundspot Union don't have great reps at all. There are SO MANY SYNTHS though, it'd be nice to have some sort of accepted classification. I don't even know where someone would put Phase Plant, MSoundFactory, Falcon. A- ? Kontakt 5 might be a A+, but Kontakt 7 might be A-? AAAHHHHH VA-3 isn't on the same level as Omnisphere or Diva, but it's still a decent product.

AAS is interesting, set in Montreal. If you pay a buck or so, you can get a sample at https://www.humblebundle.com/software/music-producer-pro-pack-synths-sounds-software I'm not really a good reviewer, but, maybe a solid reputable B tier company? I'm sure that someone who's competent within the genres they make might pay $19 for a pack, if they actually want that genre.

I think my personal threshold might be somewhere around $5 (5EUR?). If it costs less than an instrument in V Collection, it's probably worth a try. Not necessarily for using the VST, but presets can be fun.

https://www.hermannseib.com/english/savihost.htm is the lightweight host I use. Is digital brain's better?

This is one of the first times I've seen the Mark I (Santana's snake one). Anyone else know of other examples?

Sold out. Sigh.

Arturia is being hammered SO HARD right now, it's impossible to even look at it. My offer is $19.99, but I have no idea if it is 32 presets / pack or 150. Or if the presets are any good or just more of the same. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgV1BjEecY8 says that it's 450 presets. Time to watch.

Clicked, then it crashed each time I tried to access a preset. After a couple fails, it finally worked. Voodoo or something, i dunno.

One thing I like about the strum-gs expansions is the midi packs. Can anyone comment on how they compare to EZKEYS (which I still sort of want)?

Not much overlap here; if you haven't already got CA2600, it's available in the $1 tier, with a bunch of packs that are different from before.

Anyplace to get this other than syntorial itself or the app store? I was hoping for freebees.

Isn't Sakura fairly respected, in the Chromaphone line of physical modelling? Other than that, yeah, meh.

If you're going to buy something like noteperformer or syntorial anyways, having a copy of mixbox or Orchestra Essentials to give to a friend is a nice bonus.

The iOS player factory presets for $3.99 also allows you to use the other presets you've bought for PC/Mac, which is nice.