Plug-in Sales and Special Deals Sticky Topic

[Michael Canavan]

The IK sale hit 25 for the price of 1. There really isn't any better deal out there.

Ends in two days.

[toodamnhip]

I found the deal kind of confusing and wonder if others did too. For many of us that have bought various bundles,‘it’s confusing what we have or don’t have. I really dislike IK‘s overlapping bundling.

[monkey man]

... and I dislike their ecosystem and have therefore somehow managed to ignore this entire affair, documented blow-by-blow as the numbers rose and deal got ever-better.

I have zero IK stuff installed (or bought).

Probably should mention that Soundpaint, just out yesterday, can be downloaded for free as well as a half-decent piano to go with it.

[HCMarkus]

I do like MODO Bass; use it a lot!

[mikehalloran]

I found the deal kind of confusing and wonder if others did too. For many of us that have bought various bundles,‘it’s confusing what we have or don’t have. I really dislike IK‘s overlapping bundling.

I know what you mean. By taking advantage of bundled sales over the years, I have almost everything with a lot of overlap and didn't pay that much $ for it. When SampleTank 3 gave me major grief over Mojave, I downloaded SampleTank 4 CS, the free version, and everything worked again.

I do like MODO Bass; use it a lot!

As do I and my wife really likes the Alan Parsons Imperial Piano and the harps are great. I use some of the organs in my church work and so on…

My issue is that I really don't want to spend the time trying to figure out if there's anything I want but don't already have — then figure out what 24 things to bundle if there are 24 such libraries. I see they have a TASCAM tape emulator — ok, I have many hours of sessions done on TASCAM machines but do I want a plugin that emulates that? Ok, it beats hauling the machines out of the Basement Where Analog Goes to Die but I was never going to do that.

[stubbsonic]

Probably should mention that Soundpaint, just out yesterday, can be downloaded for free as well as a half-decent piano to go with it.

Just a word of caution about the Soundpaint piano. I hit the mono button on my Totalmix and the Soundpaint piano mostly disappeared (except for a distant room ambience). Really bad mono compatibility, IMHO. I've had those "feels-like-sitting-at-a-piano" moments with Pianoteq and Grandeur. It just takes some adjust of the velocity curve and a good listening setup.

Sounds like their version of a Kontakt kind of environment.

[bayswater]

The demos for Eventide Split EQ looked pretty impressive. On sale for $99 as an intro price. But it looks like it depends only on separating transients from the rest of the signal. Couldn’t you do this with parallel compression, some invert and cancel,etc? Not that it would make sense to do this to save $99 but it seems possible.

https://www.eventideaudio.com/plug-ins/spliteq/

[stubbsonic]

The impression I got was that by integrating this transient/sustain processor with an EQ you could see how they all relate and not worry about unintended damage. I could very much see how this would be a very useful thing.

I've gotten so much mileage out of Wave Arts MultiDynamics when it comes to this kind of work. But yea, that Split EQ (weird name) seems better.

[Oleg Vostyakov]

... and I dislike their ecosystem and have therefore somehow managed to ignore this entire affair, documented blow-by-blow as the numbers rose and deal got ever-better.

I have zero IK stuff installed (or bought).

Probably should mention that Soundpaint, just out yesterday, can be downloaded for free as well as a half-decent piano to go with it.

And worst thing is that IK team don't want to change anything about that!

[monkey man]

Their loss, brother, 'cause there'd be many like me who're allergic to unnecessary complication.

When I hear about all the tiers, points system and whatnot I'm just out.

[Rick Cornish]

Hey gang.......
While this isn't a plugin deal, hopefully James won't mind that I stuck this in here.

AZ Studio Workstations makes the best purpose-built studio desks I've found. I've been driving one for 8 years and it's been solid as heck. He will do custom colors (at least, he did for me).

I've never seen a sale from them, but right now there's a $150 discount on their site until 11/29 with the code "SAVE150" at checkout. If you need one, it would be worth checking out.

https://azstudioworkstations.com/

(Note that the shipping cost might be prohibitive for people outside the continental U.S.)

[Phil O]

iZotope Tonal Balance Bundle - regular price $699, sale price $299, my upgrade price from Ozone standard was $149 (yours may vary). I picked it up today.

includes:
Ozone 9 Advanced
Neutron 3 Advanced
Nectar 3 Plus
Tonal Balance Control 2
My upgrade deal included Celemony's Melodyne Essential. I don't know if they all do.


Your friendly neighborhood Phil

[Michael Canavan]

Their loss, brother, 'cause there'd be many like me who're allergic to unnecessary complication.

When I hear about all the tiers, points system and whatnot I'm just out.

I don't particularly like their system for upgrading or authorization, but I really like Amplitube. T Racks plug ins also have some stand outs as well. In the end through gaming their system you're not paying too much for their products. I just picked up nearly everything they make plus an acoustic guitar mic for around $250, roughly 75 products, plus hardware. They don't deprecate things like NI, they don't do subscriptions or decide not to upgrade plug ins to Apple Silicon like iZotope, so IMO as far as major players in the plug in game, they're nowhere near the top of the list in terms of annoying.

I might eat my words here, but because they mostly have modern resizable GUIs and use their three hosts or engines for their products (SampleTank, T-Racks, and Amplitube), it shouldn't be a nightmare for them to go Apple Silicon. MODO Drums already is native anyway. The sale is over, but I think people forget what really matters sometimes, and that's IMO development for current hardware and software.

[mikehalloran]

iZotope Tonal Balance Bundle - regular price $699, sale price $299, my upgrade price from Ozone standard was $149 (yours may vary). I picked it up today.

includes:
Ozone 9 Advanced
Neutron 3 Advanced
Nectar 3 Plus
Tonal Balance Control 2
My upgrade deal included Celemony's Melodyne Essential. I don't know if they all do.


Your friendly neighborhood Phil

Melodyne 5 Essential is part of the Nectar 3 package. I liked Nectar's old pitch tool — was great for "set it and forget it" but will agree that Melodyne is better.

The (IK) sale is over

IK sales are never really over. They have new one good for a few more days. If ever looking at ST Max or TotalStudio, now's the time—again.
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/

Problem is that, to get the best pricing for iZotope or IK (SampleTank, TotalStudio, Miroslav et al) is that you need a spread sheet and/or a lot of time so you can figure, "Ok, if I buy this, then I'm eligible for…"

[labman]

IK sales are never really over. truer words!!! Like Waves.