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monkey man wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:17 pm
Best as I can remember, this is absolutely the craziest deal I've ever seen...
... unless I'm missing something...
I went ahead and did it. Word is that if you write to UVI and politely mention the fact that you own a bunch of their stuff already (if you do) and politely ask if you can get a bit better price, they may accommodate you. I wrote support and they gave me a coupon code for $50, dropping it to $349. At which point, I decided to go for it. Especially since I can break it up into four no-interest payments with PayPal Pay in 4. I'm promising myself THIS TIME, I'm done buy VIs or expansions for now!
Awesome James; well-done mate.
Honoured to have been the one to break the deal to ya!
I actually stuffed up and opted to pay in Euros, costing me an extra $150+ AU. I didn't work out the exact discrepancy 'cause I was so-peeved. I didn't even realise it made a difference. Should've opted for U$D.
Not gonna whinge to them or ask for a discount coupon or whatever; I'm more-than-happy 'cause let's face it, it's an outstanding deal.
Have managed to avoid NI so far so hopefully this covers me well-enough.
Re: UVI SonicBundle for Super-cheap!
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:55 pm
by James Steele
monkey man wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:50 pmAwesome James; well-done mate.
Honoured to have been the one to break the deal to ya!
I actually heard about it on Gearspace, or an email I got from them, but you helped talk me into it. It was VI-Control where word spread about hitting them up for an extra discount. Anyway... here I am STILL downloading and installing all this stuff, as well as downloading manuals and adding them to the Books app. It's a TON of stuff. I will never use a fraction of it, but oh well.
They're pretty much a one man operation based in Oz run by a nice fellow named Jason. Having the ability to go through these, hear audio previews, and tag favorites, not to mention navigate them via my Komplete Kontrol Mk2 keyboard is a boon when you start to get this much content.
I have heard some speculation that perhaps UVI is going to introduce a similar keyboard of their own, but who knows?
Re: UVI SonicBundle for Super-cheap!
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:35 pm
by monkey man
James Steele wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:55 pm... Anyway... here I am STILL downloading and installing all this stuff, as well as downloading manuals and adding them to the Books app. It's a TON of stuff.
Well I won't know 'til I eventually get my audio stuff installed on a new computer, but I'm guessing the DL's gonna take me days, so FWIMBW it could be worse for you.
Peak speed I get is 5mb/s and that's only if all conditions are perfect.
I'm not complaining 'though; I lived with 5kbps-max dialup for some years.
James Steele wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:55 pm... Anyway... here I am STILL downloading and installing all this stuff, as well as downloading manuals and adding them to the Books app. It's a TON of stuff.
Well I won't know 'til I eventually get my audio stuff installed on a new computer, but I'm guessing the DL's gonna take me days, so FWIMBW it could be worse for you.
Peak speed I get is 5mb/s and that's only if all conditions are perfect.
I'm not complaining 'though; I lived with 5kbps-max dialup for some years.
Wow... Days is right. I have cable... not too bad a connection. I'm getting about 23MB/s from the UVI server right now.
Re: UVI SonicBundle for Super-cheap!
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:41 am
by James Steele
I'm calling it quits for the nite. I still have a ways to go. My "UVI SoundBank Sounds" folder on my 4TB NVMe Sample Libraries drive has swollen to 528GB and I'm not done yet. I have 797GB free. Yikes... this is a MONSTER! I will NEVER get through all this stuff. Kinda silly I went for it, since I'm really a guitar player and a singer, but oh well. I have massive redundancy here. So much overlap!
I guess the good thing about the UVI libraries is if you decide you're not really using a particular library much, it's a very simple thing to just delete the .ufs file. I may archive them and put them on a spinner and free up space on my Sample Libraries NVMe drive if I feel I need it. I also Time Machine backup my Sample Libraries drive too.
James Steele wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:55 pm... Anyway... here I am STILL downloading and installing all this stuff, as well as downloading manuals and adding them to the Books app. It's a TON of stuff.
Well I won't know 'til I eventually get my audio stuff installed on a new computer, but I'm guessing the DL's gonna take me days, so FWIMBW it could be worse for you.
Peak speed I get is 5mb/s and that's only if all conditions are perfect.
I'm not complaining 'though; I lived with 5kbps-max dialup for some years.
Wow... Days is right. I have cable... not too bad a connection. I'm getting about 23MB/s from the UVI server right now.
Bro'. That'd be like greased lightning to me.
I can't even imagine it.
Acon Digital Verberate - $28.90 (70% off)
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:58 pm
by James Steele
Acon Digital Verberate - $28.90 (70% off)
I was familiar with these guys because of their Digital Restoration Suite. Fairly useful but there may be better things out there now. I happened across this sale on their reverb plugin. There is a demo, but I just dove in and bought it. So far it doesn't sound too bad. I think I've dialed in a nice small "amp room" for putting on rhythm guitar bus. They're based in Norway.
With over 75 instruments and sound sources plus years in the making, Terra Incognita is by far the most ambitious sample library from Marcos Ciscar Sampled Instruments. Here, you enter a world of its own with a blend of both rare and more traditional instruments all performed with a pre-hispanic touch inspired by ancient civilizations and the rainforest. Native flutes, world music instruments, stones, drums, human voices, ambient synths and ethereal sounds complemented with nature sounds from French Guiana, Costa Rica and Europe.
Many of the instruments here are rare, hand built and not often sampled, if at all.
UPDATE:
Added it to my cart and looks like Loot Audio is tossing a bunch of "free crap" in as well. Already have Sparkle 2. Maybe some of this other stuff will be useful. Too much junk on my drive already! LOL
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With over 75 instruments and sound sources plus years in the making, Terra Incognita is by far the most ambitious sample library from Marcos Ciscar Sampled Instruments. Here, you enter a world of its own with a blend of both rare and more traditional instruments all performed with a pre-hispanic touch inspired by ancient civilizations and the rainforest. Native flutes, world music instruments, stones, drums, human voices, ambient synths and ethereal sounds complemented with nature sounds from French Guiana, Costa Rica and Europe.
Many of the instruments here are rare, hand built and not often sampled, if at all.
UPDATE:
Added it to my cart and looks like Loot Audio is tossing a bunch of "free crap" in as well. Already have Sparkle 2. Maybe some of this other stuff will be useful. …
freecrapfromloot.jpg
I played the 20 minute demo video. I probably have versions of most sounds through UVI World, Fluffy Audio etc. but I heard a few cool sounds. If I use one of them in a project, the $24 will pay for itself.
