Carl Ewing Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) Haven't pulled the trigger on almost anything yet. Luckily many of these sales go till tomorrow / Thursday. Still deciding on: 1) Audio Imperia Lite bundle + upgrade to Nucleus Full + crossgrade to Jaeger + grabbing Cerebrus. 2) Orchestral Tools Ark 0-5 bundle. 3) Spitfire Audio ==> looking at various libraries to qualify for Cassette Symphony. Likely Polaris + a couple of Originals I don't own. 4) East West Opus upgrade from prior orchestra. 5) Performance Samples Con Moto Basses to qualify for Pacific Strings intro offer. Will potentially spend a TON of money in the next 6 hours. Or nothing at all. I can't decide. Fffffffffff. Clock is ticking.... Did pick up Total Max 3.5 upgrade for $70, and a couple small plugins and libraries. But can't decide on big orchestral purchases, and I haven't upgraded orchestra stuff in years. Which is why I'm tempted to wait on Pacific Strings. Edited November 29, 2022 by Carl Ewing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Carpenter Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I did WUP In October.. and I am being very good all around, other than hardware :)). I only did an update (at LONG last) TO Soundtoys 5.3 from just having Little Alter Boy. They finally up-graded me for a really good price, unlike previous silliness. I feel like a scrooge compared to others here LOL. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Lawler Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I am not listing prices because it messes with my denial. Reveal Sound Spire synth + 500 preset bundle Synapse Audio Dune 3 Dawsome Novum UJAM Synth bundle Completed patch lib for AAS 3 Unify packs Audio Imperia Nucleus + free Lite series Nucleus/Areia/Chorus Audio Imperia Solo Audiofier Pragmabeat Cable Guys Shaper Bundle Upgrade Devious Machines Infiltrator 2 Reason+ sub Audiothing Bubbles, Melda Mtransient and some other freebies 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locrian Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 This year my focus was vocals: Synthesizer V Studio Pro (love it!) Dreamtronics Natalie (love it!) Eclipsed Sounds Solaria (love it!) Zero-G Ethera Gold Atlantis 2 (hate it!) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravEllerZero Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 39 minutes ago, locrian said: This year my focus was vocals: Synthesizer V Studio Pro (love it!) Dreamtronics Natalie (love it!) Eclipsed Sounds Solaria (love it!) Zero-G Ethera Gold Atlantis 2 (hate it!) Can I ask what you hate about Atlantis 2? Did you have the previous version and if so, did you like it? Just curious because I haven't upgraded yet and Ethera is usually pretty quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) My big purchase this year was: Arturia V Collection 8 upgrade to VC9 Others: BrainWorx Knifonium Cherry Audio GX-80 Cherry Audio Miniverse Dorico Elements 4 PlugInGuru Unify Library - Absynth Power Pack Toontrack Fusion EZbass MIDI Toontrack Folk EZkeys MIDI Toontrack drum MIDI Contemporary R&B Grooves Tracktion Waveform 12 MIDI Producer Pack Udemy courses Left in cart: KORG Wavestate Native Studio One 6 Pro update Tone 2 Icarus 2 Valhalla Shimmer WA Prod Instachord 2 Zebra Legacy Edited November 29, 2022 by abacab 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locrian Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 29 minutes ago, Steve Madden said: Can I ask what you hate about Atlantis 2? Did you have the previous version and if so, did you like it? Just curious because I haven't upgraded yet and Ethera is usually pretty quality. Short answer: I find the GUI to be extremely frustrating to use, especially the controls which are very fiddly, counter-intuitive, and often poorly labeled. There are huge differences in sound level among the instruments (as much as 15-20dB). And the library is not nearly as versatile as I had hoped (which is truly disappointing given my only expectation was to use it as 'melody support' where I'd layer it under certain vocal melodies to produce a fuller sound). Long answer: Atlantis 2 was the first Kontakt library I bought a la carte (I have many others, but they're part of Komplete 13 UCE). I don't care for Kontakt and, up until now, I'd just load a library, select an instrument, close the GUI and never even think about making any adjustments; I would do all that in Cubase. However with Atlantis 2 it does seem that to get what you want you do have to interact with the GUI a bit. And as I mentioned above, it's very difficult given the way the controls are set up. I also had hoped there'd be more 'playable' instruments vs fixed vocal lines/phrases. And much of the playable content is somewhat timbrally homogenous. To be clear, the three voices are hauntingly beautiful, and that makes it even more frustrating because I don't feel I can get them to do what I want. Of all the vocal libraries I own (some of which are Kontakt-based), this one is the most unresponsive and inconsistently responsive; and this is only exacerbated by the huge variation in sound level among the instruments/patches. Bottom line, if I knew everything I mentioned above before purchasing the library, I would have passed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Blanc Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 9 hours ago, husker said: OO! Love that thing. I played with one several times at Perfect Circuit in LA. I'd love to get one some day. Yeah I'm really excited about it. It's a crazy haunting machine. I'm planning on the white version. And what about you. Your hardware plans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhonoBrainer Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 16 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said: I didn't want to know this, but here goes... Audiomodern Atom BFD3 + 5 extensions Cherry Audio DCO-106 Cherry Audio Dreamsynth Cherry Audio Eight Voice Cherry Audio GX-80 Cherry Audio Memorymode Cherry Audio Miniverse Dawesome Abyss Dawesome Novum DDMF PluginDoctor Evolution Series Erhu Evolution Series Harmonium Evolution Series Suona Evolution Series World Percussion FXpansion Cypher FXpansion Strobe GForce Imposcar2 IK Multimedia Tape Collection inSession Shimmer Shake Strike 2 Klevgrand Fosfat Klevgrand Skaka Madrona Labs Aalto Madrona Labs Aaltoverb Madrona Labs Kaivo Madrona Labs Virta Nembrini IR Loader Newfangled Equivocate Newfangled Generate Newfangled Invigorate Newfangled Saturate Physical Audio Derailer Physical Audio Preparation PSound Vintage Accordion Rhizomatic Plasmonic Softube Model 84 Softube Modular Softube Parallels Sonic Academy ANA2 Soniccouture Hammersmith Pro Upgrade Soniccouture Sun Drums Crossgrade Spitfire Originals Cimbalom Spitfire Originals Cinematic Soft Piano Spitfire Originals Jangle Box Piano Spitfire Originals Mrs Mills Piano Spitfire Percussion Swarm Taqs.im SOLO TBTECH Kirchhoff EQ Tone Projects Kelvin u-he Diva u-he Repro XILS KaoX XILS PolyKB XILS PolyM Really gotta put a leash on myself next year. Did you sleep? It was only a week. ? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husker Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 4 hours ago, Nick Blanc said: Yeah I'm really excited about it. It's a crazy haunting machine. I'm planning on the white version. And what about you. Your hardware plans? I think a Cobalt 8m to join my Argon 8m. Then one of two others: 1. A Guitar Center about an hour away from me has a pristine Fractal Axe FM III Mk. II that they've had in their used rack for a few months. I've been bickering with them on the price for two months. I think they are about to cave. (or) 2. An Elektron Analog RTM 2. I've got plenty of hardware synths, but I don't really have a good drum machine. I've been researching them for quite awhile, and have about settled on this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I just want to thank everyone for participating in BF/CM, thus continuing to making it profitable for vendors. I say this because it keeps alive my eternal - albeit naïve - hope that maybe next year there'll be a great deal on something I actually want/need. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Talking’ ‘bout wantin’ and needin’ … got myself an Apogee Duet 3 interface and two Arturia MiniLab 3 keyboard controllers, one black, one white. There, I said it. Now come and get me, Edith. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Ewing Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) Well - had about $4K set aside for BF, and bought basically nothing. Sales don't last long enough to make an informed decision. Too many vendors, too many products, weird things bundled together, weird / confusing crossgrades and product overlaps, really old and brand new things bundled together to inflate prices, and having to scour Youtube for (usually terrible) walkthroughs of expensive libraries. Very frustrated. The one purchase I'll probably regret not making is OT Ark bundle - but just can't justify the enormous drive space for what looks like a ton of overlapping content that would take weeks (months?) to sort through. One thing is clear right now - this market is oversaturated af and vendors really don't understand how difficult it is is parse through content. Sales seem to geared to impulse buys before consumers really understand what they are buying. Luckily, have a line on a used Gibson and an RME interface I've wanted for a while. Will buy those instead. I think others here have a smarter approach - spend time really getting to know what you need to buy, then wait for sales. Don't wait till November 25th to cram in a month of research to make a decision lol. Me dumb. Edited November 30, 2022 by Carl Ewing 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husker Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 7 hours ago, Carl Ewing said: Well - had about $4K set aside for BF, and bought basically nothing. Sales don't last long enough to make an informed decision. Too many vendors, too many products, weird things bundled together, weird / confusing crossgrades and product overlaps, really old and brand new things bundled together to inflate prices, and having to scour Youtube for (usually terrible) walkthroughs of expensive libraries. Very frustrated. The one purchase I'll probably regret not making is OT Ark bundle - but just can't justify the enormous drive space for what looks like a ton of overlapping content that would take weeks (months?) to sort through. One thing is clear right now - this market is oversaturated af and vendors really don't understand how difficult it is is parse through content. Sales seem to geared to impulse buys before consumers really understand what they are buying. Luckily, have a line on a used Gibson and an RME interface I've wanted for a while. Will buy those instead. I think others here have a smarter approach - spend time really getting to know what you need to buy, then wait for sales. Don't wait till November 25th to cram in a month of research to make a decision lol. Me dumb. I know how you feel. I was kind of in the same boat a couple of years ago. This is my problem - I love researching things as much as I love playing with them. FWIW, that is what they now call "non sustainable." I've gotten so much more "picky" about what I get. I keep a spreadsheet of things that I know I will pick up at some point, and the price I am willing to pay. All that info comes from research, reading manuals, and this forum. Members here are so helpful in that regard. Shoot, a couple of years ago, I was looking at keeping my Gothic Dronar collection moving along. I posted what I was planning, and @cclarry sent back this super complex process in like 87 steps (slight exaggeration), that actually got me more libraries at a lower cost. I still can't believe he went to the trouble to figure that all out for me. That list keeps shrinking every year, and at some point I'll be like @bitflipper and a couple of other sage members who just don't buy anything. There are only a couple of instant buys for me. Any new Ethera library. I know I'll pick up the year's collection from Samples From Mars. Past that, I'm now super picky about what hits Paypal. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 10 hours ago, Fleer said: got myself an Apogee Duet 3 interface and two Arturia MiniLab 3 keyboard controllers, one black, one white. Are they native Mac silicon compatible? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 2 hours ago, abacab said: Are they native Mac silicon compatible? Yeah baby! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reid Rosefelt Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 I hate to say this, but this is premature. Every year some big deals come out in December. It has driven me nuts because I wouldn't have bought A if I had any idea that a sale on B was coming. But my $$$ was gone. For example, I did know that there would be the yearly BIAB sale, and was expecting that. But I didn't remember how expensive it would be to buy the upgrade, plus $49 pack and a few Xtra Styles paks. By the time I get through studying this, I'll probably be out close to $200 or even more. Who knows what tasty additional products they are selling this year? And to think I almost bought OPUS/Hollywood Orchestra on impulse for $249! So don't be so sure that you have reached the end of your spendage. One year there was a big OT sale on the Inspires and the Arks. That's a pretty common thing these days, but not then. Nobody saw that coming. There is also always a big NI partner sale in December. Last year was a whole set of Evolution Series instruments that I bought and use all the time. And the Sonokinetic 12 Days will soon come a caroling. Hide your money!! ?? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locrian Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 19 minutes ago, Reid Rosefelt said: So don't be so sure that you have reached the end of your spendage. I don't think anyone on this forum would ever actually think such a crazy thought! ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Screed Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 5 hours ago, locrian said: I don't think anyone on this forum would ever actually think such a crazy thought! ? Have you ever seen a UFO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locrian Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Jesse Screed said: Have you ever seen a UFO? Yes. From inside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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