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Larry Shelby

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Still on the fence about MIKKO2; the demo is pretty convincing in terms of ease of use and flexibility but with a hard drive full of IRs finding new life in Cabinetron, I'm not sure I need it or would neglect one or the other. 

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This year, I was hoping to pick up a good 25 key midi controller with semi weighted keys for a good price, but I haven't seen any worthwhile discounts. Some have even been fake discounts. For example: Amazon offers AKAI Professional MPK Mini Play MK3 at 8% discount for 119 Euro. Thomann offers the same model undiscounted for less and free delivery. I might as well just wait. 

Black Friday Shmyday - mah

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I've bought a few small things, but nothing huge (thank goodness).

  • Boz Labs NY Steinway L Bundle ($22 after BestService coins)
  • Melda Soundfactory ($14 after coupon for signing up for newsletter)
  • Melodyne upgrade from essential to assistant ($49)
  • Klevgrand Borsta + Black Friday bundle ($89)
  • ToneX Max ($54-ish after Jampoint glitch)
  • Several ToneJunkie capture packs for ToneX at $3-4 each. The Mars Astra is an unexpected gem, and the BadCat/Matchless packs have some absolutely killer sounds in them.

Still a little more than I'd intended to spend because the NZ dollar is weak, but I feel very virtuous for not springing for the UAD upgrade to the Signature bundle when that was available for $150. Fortunately, their 2 for $99 offer runs until Dec 1st, which means I can get SoundCity studios and something else (maybe the Neve 1073 preamp/eq) with my Dec allowance ? (a sad thing to say for a guy closer to 50 than 40, I know!).

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I do most annual purchase in November / December, and although I had a large budget, I've been pretty conservative (yes, this is conservative lol):

Audio Imperia: Talos, Aeria Lite, Nucleus, Cerberus, Jaeger. Considering Solo. The reg. discounts, loyalty discounts, and crossgrades made this releatively cheap.

Cinesamples Musio: just the annual sub ($90 for 12 month). I'll probably grab the whole non-sub deal for $299 before end of year as I'm quite impressed with what's already there.

8Dio: Majestica Ultra (upgrade), Silka Choir (they gave me $30 deal for owning Insolidus)

Excite Audio: Motion Harmonic (love this developer, use Console & Expanse a lot.)

Kiloheart: Phase Plant. (Now convinced it's the best granular synthesis engine around, even eclipsing Absynth, Quanta 2. Maybe not Kaivo.) 

Audio Ollie: LA Modern Percussion

Skybox Audio: Hammer + Waves collection + expansion.

Presets: A few preset packs for Omnisphere. Looking at a couple more from String Audio / Unfinished.

Cherry Audio Polymode: Got it for $6!

Hardware: New flight cases for mobile rig.

**Still to come:

Choir purchase. Still can't decide between Audio Imperia Chorus + Performance Samples Oceania I & 2....or....AudioBro's Eternity Complete. Both Chorus & Oceania set come to the same price as Eternity Complete. And I've used Chorus & Oceania before at various studios and more than capable. Hmm. I can't decide yet.

New solo orchestra library: Can't decide. I'm not inspired by anything I currently have except Tina Guo cello from Cinesamples and the solo brass in Cinebrass Core / Cinebrass Pro. I really don't like the scripting in most solo stuff I have, or find them dated sounding. (Cremona, East West, Joshua Bell, Orchestral Tools, stuff, etc.) Maybe Audio Imperia Solo, but there's solo stuff in the other AI libraries I just bought, and more in Musio, so probably unnecessary....for now.

**Abandoned purchases that were on the list: 

Project Sam: Pandora

KeepForest: Devastator Bundle

Various boutique  experimental libraries: Sonic Coutour, Ben Osterhouse, Silence + Other Sounds, Sound Dust, etc. Last year I focused on experimental stuff, this year wanted some mainstream generic stuff. 

Soundiron: Mimi Page

Zero-G: Ethera Gold (3.0): still deciding on this.

Orchestral Tools: Salu, Modus, and some of the Fabrik / misc. libraries. No sale, no buy. Maybe they'll do a proper sale at Christmas.

Spitfire Audio: Albion complete. I own most, was considering getting Neo and Solstice individually, but only want a few patches from each so not worth it.

Liquid Sonics: Was thinking of picking up another one of their reverbs. I still might.

No plugins this year except one that was dirt cheap! It's a miracle.

Really had self control this year. But the year ain't over. 

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For this BF, I first sold a few PA F29 codes, which gave me some money to use on other plugins

  • Melda MComplete Bundle (I added a few individual plugins and then simply wow! for upgrade prices)
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    • De-esser
  • WA Production
    • Loop Engine 2 Upgrade
    • Instacomposer 2 upgrade
  • United Plugins QuickMuse
  • Magix
    • White Sands Beach House Soundpool
    • Quest for Skillz Soundpool
    • Hard Rock Heroes Soundpool
  • Bagpipe by Image Sounds
  • Ghosthack MIDI Construction Kits Volume 4
  • Roundel Sounds Guitar Massive Bundle
  • Cartel Loops Ultimate Guitar Bundle
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2 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

New solo orchestra library: Can't decide. I'm not inspired by anything I currently have except Tina Guo cello from Cinesamples and the solo brass in Cinebrass Core / Cinebrass Pro. I really don't like the scripting in most solo stuff I have, or find them dated sounding.

Just a thought - have you considered the AudioModeling SWAM instruments?

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