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Now that I have the Everything Bundle I've only tested a tiny fraction of all the new presets, but so far I like quite a lot of the presets. I added almost every preset from Bluffmunkey's expansions for Synthmaster 1 to my favs. Big Tone's Analog Basics 1 and 2 for Synthmaster 2 has plenty of gems. So true. The demo tracks and descriptions give quite a good impression of the expansions, since they're only made of those presets, except for the drums usually. What I like about the expansion demo tracks that they have on Soundcloud is that quite a lot of them have the names of the presets that were used in the track comments, assigned to the track timeline where they're used. That's astonishingly little. Have you really tested all presets? After having read what you wrote I had another look at the factory presets and actually found quite a lot usable. There's a Soundcloud playlist and a YouTube playlist with demos of the factory presets that they've made for Synthmaster 2, with tracks demonstrating their use across various genres: Expansion playlist on Soundcloud for Synthmaster 2: Expansion playlist on Soundcloud for Synthmaster 1:

$9.99 at thenatan.store with TAWUS999 But might still be worth getting it at ADSR Sounds for the Melda Production freebie.

Oh. Of course. ? Seems so obvious, now that you mention it.

But that's not even their best offer. I've got 24 of those plugins that are in the $29 list and have paid roughly $6.50 per plugin in average. It's best to wait for their Megasales, make use of dynamic discounts with 6 or more products, wait for their no-minimum spend vouchers.

All the Samples is currently on sale for $59. You can get 10% off with the coupon code "SNACKS". If someone has one of those upgrade coupon codes and doesn't need it, I'd love to have it.

Ooooh! ?

Those prices are 70% off?! ? Money must be funny in a rich man's world.

Crazy. I just realized that as an owner of Synthmaster 1 + 2 I could use the Upgrade to the Everything Bundle for $99 and with the coupon code YMLP10OFF I could even reduce it to $79.20. Holymoly. $79.20 for 52 expansions plus an upcoming new version of the synth and apparently also all future expansions, that's not bad, I would say.

At https://www.dharmaworldwide.com/, the official shop from KSHMR, everything is currently at half the price, templates even 60% off. From the newsletter: Summer is in full swing, and to celebrate we're kicking off our 2023 summer sale Get 50% off all KSHMR sound packs & plug-ins, and 60% off all Dharma Studio sound packs & templates. For a limited time, enjoy: 50% off Sounds of KSHMR Volume 4 Complete Edition [now $49.99] 50% off KSHMR Reverb [now $24.99] 50% off KSHMR Essentials [now $19.99] 50% off all other KSHMR products 60% off all Dharma Studio sound packs & templates

Currently the best coupon code for the producer bundle seems to be PRODUCER30. It gives you a 30€ discount.

They seem to have removed the coupon code. It worked when I wrote my post but I guess it was a mistake on their side and when they noticed that the coupon code is still available they've disabled it.

It's actually a bundle that consists of 43 packs. One shots, loops, MIDI patterns. Tons of them. So it's like a quarter Euro per pack now. What I like about some of them is that they've categorised the drum loops/MIDI patterns into song sections like intro, chorus, break. Great help for a noob like me who has no clue how a drummer would play certain song sections.

Now even less! The sale price has been lowered to €45,95, so now it's €11,49 with MT75. That's a crazy good deal. Too bad I already bought it for €23. ? But it's okay, I still got a whole lot for my money, so I can't complain.

I can't answer that question but I would like to use it as an opportunity to praise Arturia's feature that allows you to test expansions that you don't even own yet from inside your DAW by going to "Store" and clicking on any expansion that you're interested in. I just recently discovered it and it blew my mind. I wish other synths offered that too. Hearing a preset as a single note like in Synthmaster's preset browser that they offer on their website doesn't give you a real impression of the preset compared to being able to test it with your own keyboard or MIDI tracks.

Good to know. I wasn't aware of that. I didn't see that information on their page. However, for people who don't want to spend $89 on presets, I think it's a nice option to get 10 packs for $24. Also, with Synthmaster 3 coming soon they might not create a lot of new expansions for Synthmaster 2 in the future.

https://www.synthmaster.com/index.aspx Currently all Synthmaster expansions are reduced to $6. Regardless if the regular price of the expansion pack is $19 or $39. On top of that you get 50% off if you buy five and use the code EXP5PACK or 60% off if you buy ten and apply the code EXP10PACK. And you get the SynthMaster 2 Player for free with those offers too, so you don't even need to own Synthmaster 2 to use its expansions. The player already comes with 2000 factory presets. Keep in mind that some expansion packs have more presets than others, so you might want to take that into consideration when selecting the expansion packs. It's usually the ones with a higher regular price that have 100+ presets. Since they're all $6 now, those are even a better bargain, if you like the presets of that expansion, that is. You can also buy the bundle, of course, but it wouldn't even be that much cheaper per expansion: The Synthmaster 2 expansion bundle has 38 expansions for $89, that makes it $2.34 per pack, whereas if you buy 10 you get them for $24 which is $2.4 per pack. The synths themselves are also on sale, but I've seen better prices for them. But $24 for 10 expansions - I believe that's rare.

I like how they named all their plugins with the word "Ohm" in it ?

Has anyone tried them yet? I can't at the moment. I have a bunch of Vicious Antelope presets for Pigments that I also got for free, but I wasn't very impressed by them. But to be fair, I didn't spend much time with them. If I remember it correctly, the sounds were mostly experimental and soundscape, drone and ambient presets, nothing that I would usually use that much, personally. Might be good for others, depending on the genres you're into. I didn't like that most presets had generic names, I think it was like Desert 1 to Desert 20 and such. By the way, I've also given a link to a free Dune preset pack in another thread, I'll post it here too, since it fits: I'm not making a post for it, since it's not a deal but a freebie that's free forever.

I found this free synthwave preset pack for Dune 2 and 3 on YouTube, for anyone who's interested:

Slight topic change: I bought Dune 3 now and I love how you can import MIDI files for the Arp. That reminded me that I once bought Synthmaster which has that feature too. But I just couldn't get it to work. Does anyone else have that problem with Synthmaster? (Sorry for hijacking the topic)

Well, here I go again, spending more money than I should in order to "save money" on sales. ?

Tested it yet? Is it good?

I know that feeling. And I realize more and more that GAS is truly a bad addiction. I personally have so many plugins for everything. It's totally unproportional to the time I actually spend making music. Since today you can no longer resell Cherry Audio plugins, by the way.

Awesome. Thanks! I didn't realize that your website could also be used to sort a shop's items by price. I now figured out how to get there. For anyone who's interested, here's the link: https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?jsf=jet-engine:main&tax=source_websites:525&sort=orderby%3Ameta_value_num%3Border%3AASC%3Bmeta_key%3Aprice What I find really awkward is that ADSR's site itself (like many others) isn't even able to sort their products by price properly.

Add this as a bookmark: javascript:function show(){$('.hoverBlock').each((a, b) => {b.style.opacity='1';});};show(); Clicking on that bookmark will make all prices visible on the page.