Brian Walton

This is interesting as it was recently a PA Pop up store at $ 69.99 which has this as a footnote: How does PA_EXT work? PA_EXT is the 1st pop-up store. We will offer you plugins from our new EXTernal brands with a best price guarantee. I wonder if they will refund the difference plus a penny? ?

It isn't just Windows 11, looks like it is realated to basically any fairly recent Win10 machine. The article is just written to suggest that even being on the latest and "greatest" there isn't an official patch yet to save you. But since almost no-one is on Win11 - the article would be much more impactful if it spelled it out that it is also a Win10 issue.

I'd think that might be pretty close to doable with the right sale if the stars align. EQ 200 has hit $100 and is the top tier piece of the puzzle Passeq is a $30-40 one depending on sale Big AL hit $50 Warble is a tough one as it was just released Crispy Tuner has been $80 already a few times now. This is one that despite the $400 "msrp" I think they will continue to come down on quickly. Before they aquired the IP and made some enhancements it seems like it sold frequently for $50 from the previous owners. Dynamic discounts if they apply on a particular sale could make that work. Problem is they sometimes catch that and don't allow things to apply during the deeper sales, or they end up excluding one or two of your must haves from a sale where the vast majority are discounted.

I'd tend to expect March for the next one they actually call "Mega Sale" that is the one they do a couple times a year it seems where they put just about everything on sale at the same time. The price is usualy done in tiers, $20, 30 , 40, 80, 100 depending on the product. The newest stuff like the Amek console won't be that low (or at least unlikley, IMO). Chance we will see something for Christmas/New Years time frame, but those are more likley to be like this where you can get one nice deal at a time usually sale item plus a voucher for everyone. When using the giant voucher, most likely the Mega Sales are the best, but also be watchful if they do sales that don't require a voucher and allow dynamic discounts. When you purchase a bunch of stuff in one transaction depending on the situation that can have a compound discount effect that could be just as good of a deal.

Running the demo on True Peak, is this GUI really not resizable? Please tell me I'm missing something. One of the video demos shows this: But my UI look like this: And the installer says we are still on v1.0 (so no actual updates to the product since release, so this seems odd to me.

Agree. If they are willing to budge on the specs (such as tube) then something like this would likley be promising paired with a 12 inch cab https://www.guitarcenter.com/Diezel/VH-Micro-30W-Guitar-Amplifier-Head-Black-1500000361598.gc?cntry=us&source=4WWRWXGP&gclid=CjwKCAiA4veMBhAMEiwAU4XRr9VHk-ahvQanM8HW7VU7TJ1-803WnDUpjajY2tImOKsdY93NpeSEWRoC1fcQAvD_BwE

Yep, to my point above. ?

Unlikely since we all own everything they make. Seriously though, rarely do these things benefit the customer in a field where there is a rush to $0 (software side of the business) and the owner only cares about a return. I'm sure they will take a look at the prices though, I have to imagine sales at "retail" prices are sparce. And IK is big enough and been around long enough that having the investment for the sake of real expansion in the market is a bit unlikely. Will see, certainly want the company to thrive as they have good products with a fair authorization system.

Yeah I was surprised to see this also. Personally wish the sale was for other plugins. Note they also just released a De-Esser style plugin this month.

Scaler is honestly one of the only plugins I've ever bought that was actually worth the asking price and has no other free/virtual give away product that comes close to what it does. Every EQ, Compressor, Reverb, Saturation, limiter etc there is something I got for free or dirt cheap that makes such replacement purchase a bit questionable. Scaler actually helps me create music and for a price that is fair and they use a very generous authorization system so I don't have to buy more seats to use it on various computers I own. I'm not suggesting the moral high ground, but I will say that it is a purchase I didn't regret slapping down the cash for and that is pretty rare for anything that costs $50 in my world and I get the impression a lot of other people think the same way. Davie isn't just a small developer, the guy seems like a total class act and had the vision to create a product that has opened up a much larger musical door to someone like myself that has played guitar for decades but never did anything other than fiddle around with a keyboard.

Audiority also has one with purchase of Computer Music Magazine.

I own Transgressor but only demoed SPL a while back. Transgressor is powerful but frequently feels like I'm having to figure out how to set the thing up before I can start actually adjusting anything. The beauty of SPL is that while you have way less control on an average source like drums where you just want traditional transient control it just takes a few seconds as all the "setup" is predetermined. I've thought about it but want to demo the Elysia one and the Full Audiority one before I buy another transient tool, which isn't something I use all the time.

I'm sure it will go in sale too. For like $225 or so. They can't afford to drop it too low as I hear it cures gear aquision syndrome instantly and thus would kill any future purchases they hope to milk us for.

650 in my mind, closer to a marshal Plexi but more modern sounding.

Note to anyone intersted in the offer "AI" product will not see feature updates, it might see fixes and camera compatiblity updates but Luminar stated the product is a dead end/end of life (though just released a year ago). Luminar Neo is what they plan to continue to develop though not released yet suposidly has much of the AI product in it.

I'm betting there will be, but with this one just dropping I'd say we are a number of months away from a 3.0 kind of update, and last time we all did this from v1 to v2. v1 was on sale and then v2 had a reduced buy in price that combined with the previous sale was as good or better than anyone buying in for the first time. If the trend continues, I'd expect Scaler 3 to be more than $50-60 as a list price and the scale just moves up for what the product costs. As such I expect Scaler 3 to have a decent upgrade path which they will put on sale at time of release. Scaler hasn't operated with a Toontrack kind of model thats for sure.

Based on the listed sale dates, I'd honestly expect this to be "it" for BF. Which at $49 is worth it, and I would't say that about many plugins.

Based on the video outro, I think that is what we can expect. Hopefully it will be as reasonable as the last upgrade from 1 to 2.0 New Guitar stuff is cool, but I think not having a clean, non-amped electric (i.e. a DI) option is a missed opportunity. I haven't fully tested this update yet, but while Scaler is my favorite single plugin, stability has long been a weakness which I hope they contine to address. One of the few plugins that seems to be in my projects when Cakewalk crashes.

Check your Plugin Bouttique user area Feature overview here:

Mcharm reverb by melda deserves a spot on any free verb list too.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/8077-Bloom Audiority Echoes is cpu hungry but my personal favorite sounding delay. It really oozes analog unlike many other delays I have. I personally prefer it over pulsar and has better licesne but both are high quality options. Audiority is newly fully resizable.

Grabbed Polycomp for $3 (puchased some Konkat insturment I'll never use) before they change their minds. Always down for an insane Audiority deal and this one I never expected to get that low.

Got these for $34 shipped. No doubt worth that for tracking and letting others hear in the studio. At $50, I'd be a bit more reluctant though decent options new at that price are not exactly commonplace. But I'm also a firm believer that for $130-150 you can get a pair of cans that you don't need to upgrade and are a worthy investment as few things are as important to music creators than what you hear.

Ends Nov 21 https://www.audiodeluxe.com/hot-deals I already got this one as a freebie from (ADSR??) a few months back. But option for those that don't have it. Cheapest thing I see is $9 Either Synthmaster Player or Audio Things Valves

Any of these not require full NI hosts?