Sooo.... What did everyone get? (Not A Deal, Full Kontakt Not Required)

[husker]

So, what has everyone got this season?

I used to go pretty crazy during the BF sales,  but I've really pared back the last few.   Too much stuff as it is.

This year, I picked up:

• UVI SonicBundle - upgraded all my ancillary UVI products to the full bundle - total $279
• Updated to Cubase 15 and Dorico 6 - $178
• 2025 Samples From Mars - $27
• EastWest Lofi/Voices of Passion - $39

So, I did pretty good this year.   I also sold a hardware synth to fund a new Motu 16A audio interface.  For big hardware setups, AVB is awesome!

[locrian]

I bought:

• UVI SonicBundle / Augmented Choirs
• EastWest Lofi / Voices of Passion
• Heavyocity Vocalise 3
• GForce Halogen FM
• Sugar Bytes Factory
• Archie voicebank for Synthesizer V
• Upgrade to BioTek 3

[Wookiee]

Nothing!

[kitekrazy]

6 minutes ago, Wookiee said:

Nothing!

You win!!! Post of the week while the rest of us will be our post of the weak

[Nati]

Unify 2.0

https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify2/

Video:

 

[Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann]

My list

• New
  • SoundTheory Kraftur
  • JPS Harmonic Synthesizer
  • Xils Ondes Martenot Diffusers
• Content
  • Synthesizer V Custom Voice Bundle (Asterian, NineZero, Felicia)
  • Ujam Usynth Next Gen
  • Ghosthack UPB 2024
  • Nine Volt Audio 30k loops
• Upgrades
  • Band-in-a-box 2025 Plus Pak
  • Kontakt 8
  • AAS Multiphonics CV-3
  • Headrush Revalver Suite

Plus a couple of freebies (and near-freebies like VSTBuzz Shummer & Shake)

[billy c]

I was also curious of what other people got so I will share mine as well.

Roland sound pack SDZ 1-100 from Jrrshop for $88
Bernard Herrmann's Toolkit - $247 
Harmony Bloom $10 
Slate and Ash Cycles off knobcloud for $180

Ramen noodles and for me until Christmas lol.

Deals I really thought hard about but ended up not pulling the trigger.

EastWest Opus - $125
Musio 1 - $119
Albion Solstice - $180
Gforce - Upgrade to M-Tron pro - 19 quid
Roland - juno 106 + TR808 + TR909 - $99
Softube - Model 77 - $30
Audio Imperia Nucleus - $249
UAD - Pick 3 +3 from - $62

Well, there's always next Black Friday since im noticing every year plugins and libraries only get cheaper.
Let the digital hoarding continue.

Edited 6 hours ago by billy c

[Pragi]

Bandlab membership for 1 year 61 Euro

UAD 10 Plugs for 99,00 Euro

Free safari chorus

Free Waves vst 

and a kalimba (hardware) 

Edited 6 hours ago by Pragi

[PhonoBrainer]

Nothing but shame, and

 

Cherry audio Trident $57

Vi labs Model D, $159

UA waterfall organ, Leslie, and 1176 compressor bundled for $49

Neural Dsp Morgan, 49 euro and Matteo, 59 euro

 

 

But I received and spent time reading a million emails, and spent many many hours pouring over and analyzing different third party vendors, all so I could save about $300. So not too shabby I suppose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Thomas Helle]

Nudistort - Nudist Audio 

Soundtoys upgrade

Beam 2.0 upgrade 

Transfigured orchestra 2 for soundbox 

Ujam - NextGen Usynth

Various freebies naturally 

Paid off the rest of my Ableton Suite Rent to own (you know, when one is in a money spending mood already lol)

Plus some random cheap stuff, that i will find in my DAW eventually and play around with (surely) 

Edited 5 hours ago by Kingsbay

[Marc Cormier]

It was a relatively light year:

• Upgrade to Seventh Heaven Pro
• Softube ENGL Suite
• MIDI Remap
• Toontrack MIDI packs
• EastWest Voices of Passion
• Animation Station 2.0

Still on the fence between Hive 2 and Pigments but one of them will be mine this week.

 

[Craig Fowler]

I held back on some things that I wanted but don't have an immediate need for (e.g., updating from Korg Collection 5 -->6, a Roland synth, SY85 emulation from Gospel Musicians, StraightAheadSamples Soprano sax).

The things I bought were:

• Softube Atlantis Chambers ($41). With the extra 25% code, it came down to a price which is *way* lower than I've seen it before.
• UAD's Ocean Way Studios ($49). I've used the DSP version for years, and the native update has quite a number of new features.
• Embertone Honky Tonk Harmonica ($29). I'm finding lots of uses for instruments I think of as 'seasonings' to be used sparingly (e.g., Xperimenta's accordians) so I'm looking forward to playing with this.
• FabFilter Multiband compressor ($129). I had been considering getting Softube's Drawmer or TubeTech MBC, but neither were on sale, and I had a loyalty discount with Fabfilter on top of the 25% BF price. Plus, FF stuff is just ridiculously flexible and their tutorials are great.
• Plugin Alliance ProAudioDSP DSM V3. ($6 after virtual cash). It got me
• IK Mixbox (free) - I must be the only person not to have already had a copy.
• SSL saturator ($8). Bought purely as a means to getting...
• EW Voices of passion (free). 

So, $262 USD all in. I feel quite virtuous compared to some of the big spenders on VI-Control, but at this point anything else I buy is really just because I like shiny new things, not because I have anything missing. Toontrack midi packs for SD/EZD might be the exception!

[MusicMan]

38 minutes ago, Marc Cormier said:

It was a relatively light year:

• Upgrade to Seventh Heaven Pro
• Softube ENGL Suite
• MIDI Remap
• Toontrack MIDI packs
• EastWest Voices of Passion
• Animation Station 2.0

Still on the fence between Hive 2 and Pigments but one of them will be mine this week.

If you use the inbuilt effects, or mainly presets, then Pigments for sure as their effects are way better than Hive. But I really love Hive too and as soon as you use other plugins as effects it really shines.

Pigments is more feature rich though..if I had to pick one, I'd go that first based on capability.

That said, everything is really accessible and simple for programming Hive on the flipside.

Its not a bad problem to have either way, as they're both fun 🤣

[Cookie Jarvis]

Update to Total Studio 5 Max and bought Pluralis from United Plugins...to get EW Voices of Passion for free

Edited 1 hour ago by Cookie Jarvis
Oopsie!

[husker]

2 hours ago, Marc Cormier said:

Still on the fence between Hive 2 and Pigments but one of them will be mine this week.

 

Both great choices - I have them both.  Between the two, I would choose Pigments.  SO much in that synth.