Carl Ewing

Missing quite a bit - but there's very few I actually want. But the ones I do want would likely cost more than the $69.99 which makes this bundle price very appealing. But ya, I have an elaborate Excel sheet to keep track of plugins and instruments for the studio lol. This shit gets totally out of hand.

Very good points. Those new reverbs are very interesting as well but will wait for 4.

Interesting. I don't have any Max products but I'm also getting the $99 price. But I also own a ton of products / Amplitube collections from all the group buys + the original Modo series, so there must be a threshold where you own enough to qualify.

Tough one. Have a lot from the Group Buys, but really want Modo Drum 1.5 (have 1.0), Modo Bass 2.0 (have 1), and those updates aren't included. But might be worth it for quite a few of those T-Racks plugins (especially the reverbs) and to finish off Amplitube collection (missing 2 collections) and 2 missing X-Pedals. The instruments is where I'm not sure - never liked IK virtual instruments. Can get Total Max 3.5 for 69.99 with Jam Points, and I guess could sell everything I've bought individually. Hmm. Curious if Total Max 4 will have a similar upgrade price next year and should just wait for Modo Drum / Modo Bass updates to be added. Hmm.

I'll be looking at that based on your recommendation. I hadn't even tried the demo yet. I also like XO, so curious about Playbeat.

Pacific Strings (hopefully released soon, likely not on sale.) Audiothing - Wires Waves Abbey Road Collection Ben Osterhouse (various) Eventide Physion Wavesfactory Cassette Arturia FX (various) Keepforest - Devastator Breakout Pro IK Mesa Boogie v1 & 2 IK iLoud MTM RME UCX II New 88-Key Controller (debating) Spitfire Audio (various - curious what Black Friday brings) NI Komplete CE update 13 to 14 Lifeline Console Full Orchestral Tools (various - depends on sales) I usually only buy stuff during Novemeber / December sales season, so hoping for some deals.

Was waiting to see what the CSS black friday sale would be. It had to be good enough to get me away from Pacific Strings upcoming release. 25% is not good enough, so Pacific Strings it is. Hopefully it's released before end of the year, absolutely love the demo patches.

Ya - I own A LOT of their stuff - bought many of their libraries / sample packs over the last 5 years+ 'cause I always loved their sound. (Lots of glitchy weird ambient stuff.) So already own Atom, Opacity, Paths series, Shift series, Sync series, Discrete Energy, etc. But when I do the "Complete my Suite" it gives me the same €149 price, since I don't own stuff like Playbeat, Riffer. They used to offer an "everything" type bundle that included all sample-type libraries and instruments, etc. But definitely seems like they're moving away from that older stuff. Which is odd, because it's solid content and would likely continue to generate revenue - and it's not like they have to update it.

What a mess. Managed to get so many of the bundle products for dirt cheap over the last 2 years (Neoverb, Vocal Synth 2, Melodyne 5 Editor update, iZotope 9 Advanced update, Soundwide bundle (bx bundle, iZotope Elements bundle, etc.), while also having Music Production Suite 3, that it makes it the Music Production Suite upgrade almost redundant. Will have so many duplicates. But would also like to have full updates of stuff like Ozone and especially RX. But it's more expensive to upgrade these 2 separetely than it is to upgrade the whole bundle. This is the problem with so many company mergers and bundle mergers. If you've been updating / buying these products already (eg. Melodyne, BX / NI plugins), etc. then suddenly the bundles become a total mess. And then you gotta figure that if you upgrade the MPS bundle now, they will most definitely merge more stuff from NI, PA and Celemony over the next year making it even messier if you already own Komplete Collectors Edition and have a PA subscription. Decisions, decisions. This is one reason I like subscriptions sometimes. It simplifies a lot of this mess - especially with so many products scattered across multiple companies that are all offering their own bundle combinations. EDIT: And just realized that if I upgrade Komplete Collectors Edition from 13 to 14, I then get Ozone 10 Standard. But want advanced, which I would get with MPS upgrade. Ayiyi. Are they just trying to mess with my brain?

There have been many plugins attempting to do this over the years. It's often the same story - 3rd party plugin looks to make your daw more "efficient". Plugin is either buggy, redundant, breaks with DAW updates or gets abandoned / continually updates versions making older projects unopenable. Most of the supported daws can do exactly what this plugin does (macros, etc.). Just RTFM.

Okay. I'll buy it damnit! Haha.

Yes it does. It has an entire panning section in the center of the plugin that can pan globally or left / right separately, or mid-side separately. Testing it - if the mono-maker is set to a crossover of, for example, 1khz, then the panning of either left / right is not affected below this 1khz threshold (depending on how you set up the panning section). Comparing this to the Boz plugin, I can get exactly the same result, but can also go further as I have more control over the stereo field, as well as splitting mid-side if I want. Also - once my panning choices are made, I have EQ control over both the mono & stereo field individually, which makes it far more powerful. Pro-Q 3 also gives me this exact same control, with addition of dynamic EQ - although it takes longer to get the same result. Actually, Digital V3 also has dynamics control in addition to pre/post switching.

Wouldn't any stereo EQ with mono-maker frequency adjustment do the same thing? Like Brainworx Digital V3? Or Pro Q 3? I don't see how this is special. Everything I'm seeing in the Youtube demos can be done with Pro Q 3. No? Actually, messing with Brainworx Pan EQ it seems you get much more interesting results, as it's 3-bands. Although it lacks a mono-maker setting unfortunately. Maybe I'm missing something.

Mega sale season is just around the corner. Buy nothing in October!

Have they ever done Lifeline Console Lite as a freebie? Maybe it's too new. I think a lot of people that have Expanse are probably waiting for Console to be promo'd.

Minimum spend $34? They are really trying to sharpen this algorithm for maximum engagement. Soon it will be "MEGA-$26.77665-SALE voucher. Minimum spend $33.87654"

You can tell they are catering this 7 update to people who never do much else other than click on library defaults. See pretty picture, click on instrument you like and move along. The endless UI / UX problems with Kontakt for anyone who goes beyond this (scripting, sampling, mixer, routing, etc.) look untouched. Which is incredible, because they've been awful for 10+ years and still haven't improved. It's unfortunate, as their have been some excellent UI / UX improvements to Reaktor and other NI synths that have never made it over to Kontakt. Uggh. Looks like they made Quickload of non licensed libraries even more convoluted. Yay. At least we get enormous high DPI instrument panels with 90% wasted space, while doing complex drum routing will still use the 8pt font and teeny pull down menus.

If you have Ultimate CE13, here's what's new: Kontakt 7 Choir - Omnia Action Strings 2 Ashlight Lores Playbox Sequis Piano Colors Session Guitarist - Electric Vintage Session Bassist - Prime Bass World Series - East Asia Session Guitarist - Picked Nylon Session Guitarist - Electric Mint 40s Very Own Drums 40s Very Keys Ignition Keys Play Series - Soul Sessions Play Series - Empire Breaks Play Series - Glaze Play Series - Deft Lines (i think is new) Play Series - Melted Vibes Knifonium Ozone 10 Standard BX_Console N BX_Limiter True Peak BX_Console Focusrite SC BX_CrispyTuner Unfiltered Audio LO-FI-AF And about 30 new / additional expansions (103 total) Ain't nobody should be complaining about this lol. That is an absolutely enormous update, especially for $250 when it's eventually on sale.

Have extensive UAD collection. Been without my Octo card for a while due to working mobile, and lack of non-Thunderbolt support on their Apollo interfaces. Have replaced almost everything I had on the UAD platform...for like 1/10th of the price I original purchased the UAD plugins. There is almost no reason to stay in that ecosystem unless you're invested in the hardware. Even the Spark sub isn't appealing, considering the PA sub is the similar price, has a far more diverse / extensive collection (many of which are in UAD collection), and they give a bunch of free plugins with sub. Having said that, if I can access my UAD plugins that I already own for free via Spark - and not need a subscription - then it'll be nice to get the LA2A collection back, as it's my favorite emulation. Everything else has been replaced.

VST3 seems to be buggy. The Flip EQ was not displaying EQ changes in the graph. Installed VST2 and it works correctly. Not sure if it's the whole bundle, but found UI issues for VST3 in a couple of them. (Cubase - Windows 10)

Yep. Love it. Much more versatile than many low end plugins like Waves Submarine, Subsynth, Bassador, etc. In my opinion anyway. Although they all have their uses...BassMint just has a few more features that are great for fx work. Although it doesn't replace Submarine for me, as Submarine does some exceptionally cool stuff in the 20hz range.

Really too bad. Absynth has never been eclipsed in terms of modulation / envelope control over audio source material. It's probably one of the best samplers (and granular sample engines) and sound design tools ever built, and still used extensively in film sound design and scoring. It's a great example of very very high level experimental synthesis and software engineering. Such a great companion to Reaktor too. Sad day. I know many people that will keep running that synth for a very very long time.

Will definitely check them out. Very very curious to hear the Precious MTMs. I will buy them on the spot if they live up to the claims. Maybe they'll do a promo where you buy a pair and they throw in Total Studio.

"Beats sound at three times the price." So that's $2400 pair for Precision MTM. So at 3x, we're talking superior to the Ocean Way HR4 8"s, or Pro3 7s, ATC SCM20 pros, or Genelec S360 SAM 10s, and the Focal Trio11 Be 10s. I'm going to say....I don't believe you're marketing people. Lol.

Same. It's a much needed improvement to v1.