Carl Ewing

I feel that exclusion list is just trolling at this point. They just want to keep reminding us that we can't have the things we want.

All good. I'm an idiot. It was actually telling me how much free space I had, not how big the library was. Haha. Apparently I can't read.

Anyone know why download is saying 219GB download? Site says 70GB for Total Bundle (7 libraries), but Pulse Downloader is telling me 219GB. Holy cow. Maybe they threw some Orchestral Tools libraries in for free.

Yes! Every time they do a survey I say "REVERB!" for every answer. And I think they are underrated for lofi stuff. Those Unfiltered Audio plugins are incredible, and beat out a lot of companies that specialize in that stuff.

I work in genres where sampling and loops are part of the art. I wouldn't use loops on a violin concerto - but will absolutely use them in rap. Because messing with loops / samples to create totally new ideas - especially smashing genres and production styles together - is fun as hell. But if I need to write a concerto, I can do that too.

This is why I like Plugin Alliance subscription. A whole year to try stuff out, and that huge voucher that covers the cost of the subscription - I wish more companies did this.

Totally. After cleaning everything up, I kinda forgot, and the first project I worked on I was scrolling through sounds and thinking "holy shit, I love all these sounds. What library is this??" Haha. So. Much. Time. Saved. Although the first time purging everything took about a week (purged stuff from Kontakt library patches and synth presets too), but workflow improved like 500%.

I always go through these big libraries and delete everything I don't want, and put what's left into an organized-by-genre sample library database. Took about 1.5 hours, but in the end, I only have the stuff I like, trashed the rest, and got it down to 3GB from 22GB And now I know the only thing going on the drive is stuff I can use...which I know will save me time down the road. Don't even want to know how many days I've spent scrolling through sample libraries over the last 20 years (I don't know how anyone could buy that Samples From Mars everything pack - that seems like a total nightmare) - finally decided to always filter through new purchases right away, and get rid of the crap.

Tried the Retro Fi demo. It's a HUGE miss imo. Much better alternatives in Sketch Cassette or RC-20. And do they have an AI program spitting out all these artist / producer testimonial quotes? It's sad how many of these artist will just shill literally anything on the market, even if they're giving terrible advice...likely influencing people with not a lot of money, who likely trust some of these names. It's shameful. Watch that Focus video of him trying to use it. He knows it's awful, and 100% he tossed in the trash can once cameras were off. This is straight out of a Chappelle Show skit: "These were clean drums that I programmed myself." Other guy is like "Maybe you could hire a guy for that?"

Man - the vocals in that Shymer Youtube demo are super pitchy. Might be a decent sounding library with a week of Melodyne work.

Objective is to create a list of $25,000 worth of software I want, then spend $100 on something I don't want (omg, 60GB of ambient drones for $5.99! That's ten cents a drone! Amazing deal!), and then next week realize I should have bought something I needed, cause now I need it and it's full price.

This might be the worst reverb I've ever heard. I like it.

Babelson Bogo? Okay - I don't believe half of these sales are real anymore. Goba Babble Boozles (3 mic positions) 30% off. Free boozle vintage valves with purchase over $45

Those Omnisphere extensions are absurdly over priced. Might have been reasonably priced in 2005 when there was less competition. As they are priced now, they are asking the price of Komplete 13....for a pack of essentially 4 Omnisphere preset packs. Most of which will be so overused in a year they'll have to release even more expansions. I would pay $99 for all 4. Maybe. Also seems like a cash grab. Should have just updated Omnisphere to a new version which included those packs with a reasonable upgrade price. Noticed they are now offering "exclusive" FX with those extensions, so good to see they are following the gaming business model of developing core features and offloading them to "expansions".

So curious if this means the Lass 3.0 upgrades will be reduced tomorrow as well? Currently says: ...on this page: https://www.audiobro.com/la-scoring-strings-3/

Okay - that's a crazy deal. There's some very good stuff in those packs. $20 for all 20 is insane.

Totally agree. I want that Collection, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Learned my lesson overpaying for Spitfire libraries that I end up not using as much as I thought I would. I could upgrade my Komplete 12 CE for $400 and get WAY more usable stuff (Noir, Cremona, Mysteria, Raum, Play Series, Pharlight, Straylight and on and on.) Seems a bit absurd.

Like I said - IF you specifically want those libraries. Even with all of them individually on sale, it's still $250 cheaper as a bundle. So when are you going to get all of them on sale at the same time, with the freebie, which will be $200+ after Black Friday? So you'd be waiting for all 4 to be discounted. You'd basically have to wait till each of them individually went on super sale, or wait for an even better overall discount. OP asked for once a year deals, and this would be it. Again, if you want these specific libraries. Could be argued they are all over priced in the first place, but hey, I'm just going by the regular price vs. waiting an eternity for Spitfire to discount all of them even further in the future.

The only deal (so far) that I think is exceptional is Arturia's FX Collection 2 for $100 or less. But you only get that price IF you already own something of theirs. I only own one thing (Rev Plate 140) and qualified. That's like 30 quality plugins for $100. Everything else so far seems like the usual bi-annual sale that we'll see again in the spring. Although that Spitfire Black Weekend Collection (Albion Neo, Bernard Hermann, Alternative Strings and Aperture) for $700 seems quite good in my opinion, IF you want those specific instruments. I wish their was a steeper discount for those that already own other Albion stuff though.

I own all the Albions except Neo, and I also get 699. Actually, it's the same price logged in or logged out, so they aren't giving any discounts to owners of any Albion products...even though I get a decent discount buying Neo separately ("complete your collection"). And, when checking "how is this price calculated" on the Black Friday Collection it mentions that 'complete you collection' discounts are also applied to Black Friday bundles, even when it's bundles of unrelated products - the bundle only has to include a product that will help you 'complete a collection'. Weird! Also - the "sold separately" price of $1247 is without everything in the bundle also on sale. But since they are all on sale individually, the total would actually be $934. So the savings are $234, not $548.

Uggh. I predict at least 4 dudes in black turtlenecks yammering on about felt pianos and atmospheric cello harmonics. Just brings on the sale ffs.

Everything?? Holy moses. Some very cool libraries from this company. Especially if you want to make a Tarantino-spaghetti-western-dub-jazz-fusion-surf-action-movie soundtrack.

Yep. Got the big voucher from subscription - just sitting and waiting for the big sale. I believe someone asked about Black Friday sale on Twitter and they responded "It's not Black Friday yet."

This is a pretty good deal if you're into electronic stuff. VYBZ, Tape Piano 2 and Brain are pretty fun and would be worth the $40 I think. Not much experience with the other 3, although 'Underwater' seems like something easily done with stock plugins. X-Eight seems to be reviewed well by some trap / hip-hop guys on Youtube. But for $40, this bundle seems like a no brainer. EDIT: I often prefer VYBZ over RC-20 for lo-fi stuff.

Did you register it? I bought outside of that date too, but had not registered the serial. Registered today and got the bundle.