Paul_in_wales

worth checking on the eventide site ( https://www.eventideaudio.com ) if you already have some of their plugins - giving me an upgrade to anthology xi for $299 there.

I was on V5 and not a particular fan of their old analog emulations, but the newer stuff they've added recently is interesting in pure synthesis terms and sounds good to my ears regardless of how accurate it is to the original. $99 to add dx7, cmi (especially the additive side), cz, synthi, buchla and mellotron is one of the best bargains I've had in recent times.

got to love the fake "# of users" ticker at the top of the wusik.com site.

Can't say I was looking for more plugins, but can't argue with £13 for the hatefish rhygenerator euclidean sequencer, CLMS (automatically adjusts gain at the receive plugin to bring the level back to the send plugin's value - reducing the "louder=better" effect of processing), and thenormalizer. Very pleased with all 3.

I love this thing: a retro drum machine that uses synthesized rather than sampled sounds. Simple to use, sounds good and it's all of $12: https://synsonic-instruments.com/apollon/

Could you use someone else's omni 2 usb drive to do the install and then just use the upgrade serial to register it?

Brilliant. I've been using manalyzer and moscilloscope for a long time, and recently started using fabfilter q3 - but this looks like it will do what I need in one.

I'll give those videos a watch - thanks. I'm familiar with the general operation as I use mxxx quite a bit which has helped with orientation - but there's a ton of new stuff in here that looks crazy powerful. I've played around mpowersynth before and not been overly blown away as it always sounded a bit too "digital" to me, but just strapping a distortion effect between oscillator and filter in msoundfactory is giving me a much more satisfactory starting point.

I saw Larry mentioned this in the melda update thread, but I think it's worth bringing this out in its own thread as this is looks like a real bargain at €99 beta/intro imo. It has a shed-load of synthesis options in there and look at the attached pic to see all the FX modules (inc mpowersynth too). https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSoundFactory

if you have ff stuff already, don't forget to check the personal upgrade offers in your account there

wasn't it supposed to be based on actual spend in a rolling 12 month window?

plus buying specops for $9 now should give ongoing access to upgrade to byome for $69 (that's what it shows in my account) - handy if you have an unused monthly voucher in the future

I must have imagined it, but I could swear I read Dirk had told someone that the vouchers were coming out after this sale.

dunno larry, the voucher ends on the 7th - that's the same day I got my voucher last month.

I'm a fan of their sundog song studio, so got quite excited when I saw this, but I didn't see any way to send the top, chords, bass and extra patterns to different output channels - which left it feeling like a souped-up chord chopper-upper. I guess I was hoping for something like NDLR as a plugin. https://conductivelabs.com/

Not sure - I've only ever used it to do one patch at a time.

I have sample robot, and chickensys constructor - but personally I prefer the "auto-sampler" feature of apple mainstage for creating multisamples . I mainly use that for hardware synths, but as mainstage can also host audio unit plugins, it works just fine sampling software instruments too. And it's cheap at $30.

yeah, but if you buy mcomplete in a 50% sale you get those free updates and free new plugins for life too. So it just boils down to how you fund that 50% difference.

That's okay for dipping in and out, but the idea of paying full price for mcomplete vs 50% in a sale (maybe less if resellers are honoring the sale price too) makes that very expensive financing.

mcomplete would technically work as that gives everything including mxxx, but that's not really just upgrading to mxxx and it's a hella different pricepoint. mtotalfx doesn't work as it doesn't include mdrummer or mpowersynth which are in mxxx. Even if both of those bundles were at 50% plus my discount for the stuff I already own, it'd still be cheaper to buy mxxx full during a 50% offer. Same deal if I bought/upgraded the other bundles I'd need to complete mxxx as it stands right now - I own mxxx core/mcreative bundle/mdynamiceq /mturboreverb/mturbocomp. I also have the paid version of mfreefxbundle - but that doesn't count for anything in mxxx-land. The big advantage of going full mxxx is that it's cheaper than doing the bundles way and you get new modules when they release new stuff. I asked Luke at melda about it before and he confirmed that it's only mxxx core than counts towards the upgrade to mxxx itself. Not to do down mxxx core though - it's a riot if you put in the time to get into the "melda way of doing things". I genuinely love the way their stuff works - but the lack of an upgrade path makes me not want to spend any more money with them now unless there's a silly deal like the mturboreverb+mturbocomp for $99 one. I can't even sell what I have at a sensible price to fund an upgrade to mxxx full given the melda transfer fee is 20% of current FULL price.

mxxx core is great value for €50. Even with just the included modules, you can create all kinds of great stuff as it includes a delay tap, compressor, a filter module with over 100 filter types, wave folder etc, and the mxxx framework allows for things like feedback and extensive modulation inc envelopes, lfos etc. Makes a good playground for building interesting and unusual delays etc. It also includes a very powerful oscillator module - like the ones found in mpowersynth, so it can do subtractive/additive and even resynthesis where you can pick a single cycle from a sample. So you can combine multiple oscillator modules with the powerful filter modules and use mxxx's built in midi functionality, which includes a sweet little arpeggiator, to make a cracking monosynth. BUT - I have an issue with mxxx core and the way it's presented as being a way to buy the bits of mxxx that you want - and that's that there's no upgrade path from mxxx core + other purchased plugins/modules to mxxx full. The only purchase that counts towards an upgrade to mxxx full is mxxx core.

Cherry Audio Voltage Modular Core + Electro Drums Bundle - $70 at JRR with code FORUM https://www.jrrshop.com/cherry-audio-voltage-modular-core-electro-drums-bundle Great value for money here imo - over 100 modules including decent moog style oscillator+filter, polyphonic modules (plus it's easy to create poly synths using the mono modules thanks to the fast workflow), and a X0X style drum sequencer with 808/909 drum modules. Also includes a third-party-plugin host, with easy routing to parameters, and a sweet little sample playback module. I find myself using this standalone as a fast way to do plugin hosting and midi/audio routings for hardware synths. Standalone, VST 2/3, AU, AAX - Mac/Windows. There's also a free designer so you can roll your own modules. Here's a vid of the drum+synth modules in action:

particularly interesting with phase plant coming soon - https://kilohearts.com/products/phase_plant

They're both single use vouchers - changing hands just makes it more likely that both parties will spend with PA (at least $19 in total). Or there's the legitimate route of thorn upgrade voucher used to purchase for $19, thorn sold, buyer uses monthly voucher to cover the transfer fee. PA gets $19 - or nothing if the thorn purchase price was legitimately covered with a monthly voucher too. Deals ain't getting "ruined" in a voucher swap.

You owe me a new irony meter, you just broke mine.