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I'm a little bit ashamed, but I have a feeling some of y'all are underreporting. So here's everything I bought in the enitre month of november (if I went with BF itself I would have bought nothing). I've marked everything I planned with a (P).

Cableguys Reverbshaper
Orchestral Tools Conduit
TheNatan Xeight2
D16 Repeater (P)
Minimal Audio soundpacks
Universal Audio LA2A (P)
Universal Audio Signature Edition
Safari Pedals Gorilla Drive (P)
Kingsway Music Aaron Paris Vol 1 (P)
Retrohandzmusic Essential Afro house
Navie D Boom Bap Box (P)
Basicwavez Bass Lab vol 2 (P)
Audioreakt Solid Techno Kicks 2 (P)
Imaginando VS (P)
Devious Machines upgrade all (P)
Fabfilter Pro-R 2 
PML Everything 2023 (P)
Waves Clarity vx, Vocal Bender & Soundshifter (P)
Goodhertz Trem Control (P)
Teletone Audio Le Gibet (P)
Teletone Tympo (P)
The Drum Broker samples BF 2023 (P)
Tracktion F'em

So about 65% was planned. In my defense, some of the unplanned stuff are new releases (Reverbshaper, Xeight2, Conduit, Pro-R2), so they have nothing to do with BF. If they were launched in january I would have gotten them then.

And roughly 30% of what I bought are sample packs. The single most expensive thing on the list (PML Everything 2023) was €196 and is almost entirely samples. Couple of preset packs also. The UA Signature edition is the largest unplanned purchase at €145. But I think no-one is denying that's a great bargain. In total I spent little under €1250.

I also spent around €700 on hardware. No discount, so not BF related. But it is the time of the year for bonusses / 13th month etc. So I had some room.

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1 hour ago, Kiloteq said:

It must have been a Grace Period period. I am still in K13 CE because it was a few months before that period. I envy you!?

It's been out for over a year. There was some mix up and I think they wrongly told me that it would register as 14 as NI had done something behind the scenes. It registered as 13 and I didn't complain as it seemed hard to believe to get 14 at that price. But I told them so that they wouldn't tell others and they phoned and said they'd email a  free update to 14.
Mind blown.

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18 minutes ago, Technostica said:

It's been out for over a year. There was some mix up and I think they wrongly told me that it would register as 14 as NI had done something behind the scenes. It registered as 13 and I didn't complain as it seemed hard to believe to get 14 at that price. But I told them so that they wouldn't tell others and they phoned and said they'd email a  free update to 14.
Mind blown.

Sorry I must have misunderstood, this was the thread talking about the BF duration.
I am amazed at NI's excellent response as well.?

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1 hour ago, Nick Blanc said:


Orchestral Tools Conduit

Have you tried this out yet? I hesitated last second, and sale ended. Thought the demos sounded great - and in a particular noise style that I love - but also found it difficult to tell how playable it was. Some of these type libraries seem better suited to .wav file sample packs than instruments. Could not tell from the walkthroughs.

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1 hour ago, Nick Blanc said:

I'm a little bit ashamed, but I have a feeling some of y'all are underreporting. So here's everything I bought in the enitre month of november (if I went with BF itself I would have bought nothing). I've marked everything I planned with a (P).

Cableguys Reverbshaper
Orchestral Tools Conduit
TheNatan Xeight2
D16 Repeater (P)
Minimal Audio soundpacks
Universal Audio LA2A (P)
Universal Audio Signature Edition
Safari Pedals Gorilla Drive (P)
Kingsway Music Aaron Paris Vol 1 (P)
Retrohandzmusic Essential Afro house
Navie D Boom Bap Box (P)
Basicwavez Bass Lab vol 2 (P)
Audioreakt Solid Techno Kicks 2 (P)
Imaginando VS (P)
Devious Machines upgrade all (P)
Fabfilter Pro-R 2 
PML Everything 2023 (P)
Waves Clarity vx, Vocal Bender & Soundshifter (P)
Goodhertz Trem Control (P)
Teletone Audio Le Gibet (P)
Teletone Tympo (P)
The Drum Broker samples BF 2023 (P)
Tracktion F'em

So about 65% was planned. In my defense, some of the unplanned stuff are new releases (Reverbshaper, Xeight2, Conduit, Pro-R2), so they have nothing to do with BF. If they were launched in january I would have gotten them then.

And roughly 30% of what I bought are sample packs. The single most expensive thing on the list (PML Everything 2023) was €196 and is almost entirely samples. Couple of preset packs also. The UA Signature edition is the largest unplanned purchase at €145. But I think no-one is denying that's a great bargain. In total I spent little under €1250.

I also spent around €700 on hardware. No discount, so not BF related. But it is the time of the year for bonusses / 13th month etc. So I had some room.

Nick, you clearly don't have a kid in college. For those of us who do, we have a much more modest list! Also, as Carl was asking about Conduit, I vote for a video of you playing including Conduit. I think most people here would be into your playing and gear. 

For those who haven't seen it, Nick makes some very cool videos of him playing a ton of cool synths and drum machines with enough cool gear it will make most of us envious (me included in that group).

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1 hour ago, Carl Ewing said:

Have you tried this out yet? I hesitated last second, and sale ended. Thought the demos sounded great - and in a particular noise style that I love - but also found it difficult to tell how playable it was. Some of these type libraries seem better suited to .wav file sample packs than instruments. Could not tell from the walkthroughs.

Yes I have, it's a bit of a mixed bag where you can do some melodic work with some patches and more of a drone atmosphere with others. But they are lively patches with a lot of movement. Quick demo of a couple of presets.

 

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1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

Nick, you clearly don't have a kid in college. For those of us who do, we have a much more modest list! Also, as Carl was asking about Conduit, I vote for a video of you playing including Conduit. I think most people here would be into your playing and gear. 

For those who haven't seen it, Nick makes some very cool videos of him playing a ton of cool synths and drum machines with enough cool gear it will make most of us envious (me included in that group).

Haha no video yet. I have some plans to record a longer set where some time is reserved for some droning techno. But I need a new camera for that because it won't fit on my phone (and another old phone I use will never make it for a longer time than 10 minutes).

But indeed, no kids. I was pretty lucky to buy my house at it's absolute lowest in the market. Add an ok paying job with public transport compensation (so, I have the smallest cheapest car) and I can save a lot of money each month. 

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4 hours ago, Kiloteq said:

Sorry I must have misunderstood, this was the thread talking about the BF duration.
I am amazed at NI's excellent response as well.?

To clarify.
I bought 13 last week so we are over a year since release of 14 and I don't think NI even have a grace period.
The free 14 update was purely at the discretion of a UK based retailer and was a one off.
They made a mistake and I wasn't bothered or complained and they gifted me the Update.

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November purchases.

 

Pre-Planned:

Fab Filter Total Bundle

Steinberg Absolute 6

FL Studio All Plug-ins (from Signature)

Zynaptic Pitchmap/Colors/Vocoder bundle

Groove 3 sub/renew

 

Strategic opportunistic acquisitions  /  FOMO:

Image-Line FL Cloud one year sub

VPS Avenger upgrade to V2

U-He Diva

Cableguys Shaper-verb (completes Shaper Bundle)

Indiginus upgrade for classical Guitar

Reason Fricktion synth and Chord gadget ($8 after credits)

Probably the Mixed-in-Key Pilot update/library

 

 

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1 hour ago, Technostica said:

To clarify.
I bought 13 last week so we are over a year since release of 14 and I don't think NI even have a grace period.
The free 14 update was purely at the discretion of a UK based retailer and was a one off.
They made a mistake and I wasn't bothered or complained and they gifted me the Update.

I am sorry if I am misleading you in any way. That was not my intention.

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The (relative) bad for me this BF: I paid $25 for Dawesome Love on November 1st.

Honestly, I've used it a couple of times since then, and it's pretty great. I don't feel bad at all for the price, even if it's FWAP at PB now.

On the good side, going back a month into the "preseason" sales, and with several bits of good luck/timing/circumstance, an additional $250 has turned into:

NativeInstruments Razor
ImpactSW Javanese Gamelan and 5 Ventus Winds
Arturia DIST Coldfire and EFX Fragments
HY Slicer 2
Toybox Audio Nano Pack 3
Sonuscore Origins 1-5
Plugin Boutique Scaler EQ
Sound Dust Dust Engine #2
Strix Pripyat Pianos
4 RigidAudio Kontakt doodads
Puremagnetik Stages
MinimalAudio Impulse sample pack
2 Punkademic Jason Allen online classes
HoRNet Harmonics Pro
PulseSetter Epic Babies
Updates: Glitchmachines Cataract 1->2, AAS VS-1 -> VS-3, Soundiron Iron Pack 10 update

Freebies including: Immense Audio Legendary, Toybox Tangle Pack Lite, TDR Prism, Inear Bref, Aberrant Lofi Oddity, BPB Dirty VHS, UJAM Mellow 2, Excite Vision 4X Lite, Slate Heatwave, a new Unify lib, 3 HoRNet plugins, 2 Thenatan plugs, VST3 updates to free Valhalla plugs (had forgotten to update these earlier) and assorted other Pianobook/Reaktor User Lib/vendor goodies.

I had a few more pennies saved up for the season, but dammit, I'm tired. And I've got a lot of new stuff to learn. Maybe I'll buy the dog some squeaky toys and call it a year.

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My purchases this year:

  • Melodyne Assistent Upgrade from Essentials (to have a 2nd iLok activation)
  • D16 Group.Spacerek
  • Wavesfactory.Suspended Cymbals
  • Steven Slate.Trigger 2.0 Platinum
  • Fuse Audio Labs.VCS-1 Channel Strip

Though I am satisfied with my loot in general (except for Trigger 2 that has only 1 iLok activation), I have been astonished that a lot of prices were not so good compared to usual deals before Black Friday!

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I see I'm in good company.

My purchases this November:
Software:

  • Apeshyt Rampage €0,00
  • Waves - Silk Vocal €0,00
  • Splash Sound - Indie Voices €0,00
  • Thenatan - Tape FX €0,00
  • Tracktion - Dawesome LOVE €0,00
  • Meat Beats- HERA-ONE €0,00
  • Cymatics- Vortex €0,00
  • Phil Speiser - THE_BUILD €0,00
  • HoRNet - ElliptiQ €0,00
  • 2B Played - QFX Color €0,00
  • Yum Audio - Flux Machine Light €0,00
  • Yum Audio - Crispy Clip Light €0,00
  • Red Sounds - Vox Engine 2 €0,00
  • Karanyi Sounds - Electric Keys €0,00
  • 8Dio - Ambient Guitar €0,00
  • 8Dio - Hybrid Rhythms €0,00
  • 8Dio - 1928 Steinway Piano €0,00
  • Audiomodern - Freezr €0,00
  • Izotope - Ozone 11 EQ €0,00
  • Soundtoys - Little Plate €0,00
  • Air Music Tech - Bassline €0,00
  • Ujam - Virtual Bassist Mellow 2 €0,00
  • SampleScience - Virtual Handpan €0,00
  • GForce - ImpOSCar 2 €1,99 (for Computer Music digitial issue)
  • Sonivox - Harpsichord €2,51
  • Audio Tech Hub - Custom Tone €3,21
  • United Plugins - Quickmuse €7,00
  • Audio Assault - ReAmp2 (Upgrade from ReAmp1) €9,80
  • WA Production - Loop Engine 2 Upgrade from 1 €10,90
  • Ujam - Beatmaker Dope €14,44 (via KnobCloud)
  • Melda Production - MSoundFactory LE €19,00
  • Polydigm - Klimper €29,90
  • SoundToys - Little Alterboy €41,95
  • Mixed in Key - Pilot Plugins Futurism + Pop Foundation €58,00
  • SoundToys - Effect Rack 5 €127,00

Total: €325,70

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Samples and Presets:

  • Cymatics - Guitar Loop Bundle €0,00
  • Diginoiz - The Modern Soul €0,00
  • Diginoiz - Acoustic Divine €0,00
  • Apeshyt - Rebellion Loops €0,00
  • WA Production - Loud EDM €0,00
  • Cymatics - Weekday €0,00
  • WA Production - Progressive House Mega Pack 2 €0,00
  • Industry Kits - Drip Guitars €0,00
  • Cymatics - Phoenix Secret Expansion €0,00
  • OST Audio - Synthwave For Spire €0,00
  • OST Audio - Glitch Synthwave €0,00
  • OST Audio - Crunchy Lo-Fi House €0,00
  • OST Audio - Cybertron €0,00
  • Waveshaper - KR-55 €0,00
  • Roundel Sounds - Make Me - Freebie €0,00
  • Smemo Sounds - Travis €0,00
  • Cymatics - Dynasty - Trap MIDI Collection €2,00
  • Wave Alchemy - Synth Drums €2,04
  • Audiomodern - Cosmic - Playbeat Expansion €3,28
  • Plugin Boutique - Synthwave for Hive €3,82
  • Jungle Loops - End Of Year Loot €3,98
  • TCustomz Production - Vox Sample Kit Vol.3 €5,30
  • We are Magonia - Synthesized Terror for TAL-U-NO-LX €7,37
  • Mitch Murder - Hive 2 Soundbank by Mitch Murder €8,99
  • Musicomplit - Extreme MIDI Drums Bundle €12,96
  • F9 Audio - Electric Disco II: Beats €13,65
  • F9 Audio - Electric Disco II: Nuggets Vol. 1 €13,65

Total: €77,04

Altogether: €402,74 ???

And I was tempted to buy yet so much more. Black Friday Month is killing me ?

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54 minutes ago, audioschmaudio said:

I see I'm in good company.

My purchases this November:
Software:

  • Apeshyt Rampage €0,00
  • Waves - Silk Vocal €0,00
  • Splash Sound - Indie Voices €0,00
  • Thenatan - Tape FX €0,00
  • Tracktion - Dawesome LOVE €0,00
  • Meat Beats- HERA-ONE €0,00
  • Cymatics- Vortex €0,00
  • Phil Speiser - THE_BUILD €0,00
  • HoRNet - ElliptiQ €0,00
  • 2B Played - QFX Color €0,00
  • Yum Audio - Flux Machine Light €0,00
  • Yum Audio - Crispy Clip Light €0,00
  • Red Sounds - Vox Engine 2 €0,00
  • Karanyi Sounds - Electric Keys €0,00
  • 8Dio - Ambient Guitar €0,00
  • 8Dio - Hybrid Rhythms €0,00
  • 8Dio - 1928 Steinway Piano €0,00
  • Audiomodern - Freezr €0,00
  • Izotope - Ozone 11 EQ €0,00
  • Soundtoys - Little Plate €0,00
  • Air Music Tech - Bassline €0,00
  • Ujam - Virtual Bassist Mellow 2 €0,00
  • SampleScience - Virtual Handpan €0,00
  • GForce - ImpOSCar 2 €1,99 (for Computer Music digitial issue)
  • Sonivox - Harpsichord €2,51
  • Audio Tech Hub - Custom Tone €3,21
  • United Plugins - Quickmuse €7,00
  • Audio Assault - ReAmp2 (Upgrade from ReAmp1) €9,80
  • WA Production - Loop Engine 2 Upgrade from 1 €10,90
  • Ujam - Beatmaker Dope €14,44 (via KnobCloud)
  • Melda Production - MSoundFactory LE €19,00
  • Polydigm - Klimper €29,90
  • SoundToys - Little Alterboy €41,95
  • Mixed in Key - Pilot Plugins Futurism + Pop Foundation €58,00
  • SoundToys - Effect Rack 5 €127,00

Total: €325,70

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Samples and Presets:

  • Cymatics - Guitar Loop Bundle €0,00
  • Diginoiz - The Modern Soul €0,00
  • Diginoiz - Acoustic Divine €0,00
  • Apeshyt - Rebellion Loops €0,00
  • WA Production - Loud EDM €0,00
  • Cymatics - Weekday €0,00
  • WA Production - Progressive House Mega Pack 2 €0,00
  • Industry Kits - Drip Guitars €0,00
  • Cymatics - Phoenix Secret Expansion €0,00
  • OST Audio - Synthwave For Spire €0,00
  • OST Audio - Glitch Synthwave €0,00
  • OST Audio - Crunchy Lo-Fi House €0,00
  • OST Audio - Cybertron €0,00
  • Waveshaper - KR-55 €0,00
  • Roundel Sounds - Make Me - Freebie €0,00
  • Smemo Sounds - Travis €0,00
  • Cymatics - Dynasty - Trap MIDI Collection €2,00
  • Wave Alchemy - Synth Drums €2,04
  • Audiomodern - Cosmic - Playbeat Expansion €3,28
  • Plugin Boutique - Synthwave for Hive €3,82
  • Jungle Loops - End Of Year Loot €3,98
  • TCustomz Production - Vox Sample Kit Vol.3 €5,30
  • We are Magonia - Synthesized Terror for TAL-U-NO-LX €7,37
  • Mitch Murder - Hive 2 Soundbank by Mitch Murder €8,99
  • Musicomplit - Extreme MIDI Drums Bundle €12,96
  • F9 Audio - Electric Disco II: Beats €13,65
  • F9 Audio - Electric Disco II: Nuggets Vol. 1 €13,65

Total: €77,04

Altogether: €402,74 ???

And I was tempted to buy yet so much more. Black Friday Month is killing me ?

Great haul for the price. ?

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17 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

Yes I have, it's a bit of a mixed bag where you can do some melodic work with some patches and more of a drone atmosphere with others. But they are lively patches with a lot of movement. Quick demo of a couple of presets.

 

Awesome - thank you! This confirms what I thought from the official demos - it has a really great tone. A lot of synths try to emulate this kind of modular tone (really love Bazille / Reaktor for this kinda of thing), but everything I've heard from Konduit sounds gorgeous and much deeper than the VST counterparts. Should have bought it when it was on sale! Uggh.

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Okay - bought more ****. Pulled the trigger on a few vocal things.  The list is now:

8Dio: Majestica Ultra (upgrade)
8Dio: Silka Choir (bundle upgrade from Insolidus)

AudioBro: Eternity Adult Choir
AudioBro: Eternity Adult Choir Expanded

Audio Imperia: Talos
Audio Imperia: Aeria Lite
Audio Imperia: Nucleus
Audio Imperia: Cerberus
Audio Imperia: Jaeger

Audio Ollie: LA Modern Percussion

Cherry Audio: Polymode

Cinesamples: Musio: $90 12 month sub. 

Excite Audio: Motion Harmonic

Fab-Filter: Pro-R 2: Crossgrade from Total Bundle. 

Kilohearts: Phase Plant
Kilohearts: Convolver

Presets: Various Unfinished, String Audio, Leap Into Void

Skybox Audio: Hammer + Waves Collection + Expansions

Zero-G: Ethera Gold 2.5
Zero-G: Ethera Gold Intimate Voices
Zero-G: Ethera Atlantis 3

 

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Still deciding on: Audio Imperia Solo, Zero-G Ethera Gold Prometheus, Orchestral Tools Konduit, a new LiquidSonics reverb and Cubase 13 Pro (will probably wait for 50% sale next year).

Will be happy when this madness is over. Gotta move some hard drives around lol. I ain't buying nothing again until....boxing day! 

 

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