Black Friday 2019 Deals

[Benoni]

Originally Posted by Stephen Bond

Yeah I was considering it again. That said I went from KU 9 to 11 last time and it might be prudent to wait till V13?

In similar fashion, I went from Arturia V Collection 4 to 6 so I am wondering it waiting for V8 is a good idea.

One thing for sure, both these companies offer no addition saving to those upgrading from more recent versions.

Stephen

Yeah it depends on what you need and what you already have. I want the full Symphony Series and it's cheaper to upgrade to K12UCE than buying them alone or buying another string, horn, and percussion bundle.

I'm curious to see what comes of Collectors Edition in a couple years when 13 is due. Will there be a 13UCE? Will there be something ABOVE that? Like Komplete 13 Ultimate Collectors Edition and the Temple of Doom?

I've been thinking NI might be going subscription. Since their layoffs and restructuring and the integration to sounds.com, along with their statements...

...the aim of focusing on a unified platform strategy is to create an expandable commercial and technological basis for future growth in the digital music production area. For that, a new platform is currently being developed with the goal of offering new ways of accessing the company's core products and services...

Customers today are expecting a seamlessly integrated experience when consuming and accessing creative goods and services. We are confident that we can offer music producers worldwide a unique and premium experience by connecting our existing ecosystem of award-winning software and hardware to a centralized online service

So, with that, and the price being reasonable ($299 even at Sweetwater) it's a good deal for my needs.

I almost wonder if it was called "Collector's Edition" because it's going to be the last version? At least the last version delivered this way.

With subs becoming common, and NI's catalog being so large and out of the reach of many not already in the NI world ($1,599 is a lot of money to drop on VI's) I can see them doing what East/West has done with Composer Cloud. $29 a month, you get ALL the libraries.

In a "perfect world" I don't really mind a sub IF IT HAS VALUE! I like the PA sub. For me it's only $16 a month and it generates more than that, so it works. But I don't want a bunch of different subs.

If a couple of these companies would merge and provide all of their plugins at one price, it would be huge.

If you take Waves, Plugin Alliance, Slate, and iZotope, they have bundles with pretty much all the mixing tools you need (eq, comp/limiters, fx, etc...)

If you take NI or East/West, they have bundles with almost all the virtual instruments you would need.

If we got a Waves + NI sub option or a Plugin Alliance + NI sub option for $29 a month it would take over the world, because you would finally have a single sub that would provide 95% of what most people would ever need.

[amagras]

Izotope Braktweaker $19 at Audiodeluxe
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products...eid=a067cd7138

[Stephen Bond]

Some good deals currently at Greg's house.

https://www.thehouseofkush.com/store

Stephen

[Stephen Bond]

Usual epic deals over at https://www.soundtoys.com on purchases and upgrades.

Stephen

[Kris75]

Space Cabin Audio has 50% off the entire store.

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by Southsidemusic

Why are these developers starting to use the Black Friday wording a week or more before the actual blackfriday??? november 29th ??? Stupid and takes away from everything exciting and devalues the plugins even more !!

#stoppedbuyingpluginsandonlyusehardware

I fully agree.

[Stephen Bond]

Bargain at $15!

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products...ks-saturator-x

Stephen

[Southsidemusic]

Originally Posted by Stephen Bond

Bargain at $15!

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products...ks-saturator-x

Stephen

Come on IKM

When doing a demo of a product like this yellow thing you have to GAINSTAGE it and make sure the volumes are THE SAME as they are when in bypass as all that demo does is raise the volume when you bypass and it is not how this works.

Same with a lot of other companies with compressors and EQ’s ... all that happens is the output signal gets louder and not ”better” ... so we can replicate that saturation plugin just by adding more gain on our SSL console and its not a lie what you do but IMNSHO it is not honest demos.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Southsidemusic

Come on IKM

When doing a demo of a product like this yellow thing you have to GAINSTAGE it and make sure the volumes are THE SAME as they are when in bypass as all that demo does is raise the volume when you bypass and it is not how this works.

Same with a lot of other companies with compressors and EQ’s ... all that happens is the output signal gets louder and not ”better” ... so we can replicate that saturation plugin just by adding more gain on our SSL console and its not a lie what you do but IMNSHO it is not honest demos.

IK should hire Dan Worrall to do their demo videos. He's excellent at explaining things and doing a video right. Another fellow that's good is the guy that does the Mixing with Mike videos. He goes to great pains to gain stage correctly.

[Southsidemusic]

Originally Posted by musicman691

IK should hire Dan Worrall to do their demo videos. He's excellent at explaining things and doing a video right. Another fellow that's good is the guy that does the Mixing with Mike videos. He goes to great pains to gain stage correctly.

Agree!

Those videos we see too often is doing nothing as long as the volumes aren’t the same how are we supposed to know what a certain plugin actually do other than raise the overall output gain?!