Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[sqigls]

Has PA confirmed they will be repeating the sales on everything at the end of the month? I know they usually do.

i emailed and asked them, no answer yet, but i presume so.

[sqigls]

These soundcloud links in the bargains thread is a bit too much to put it nicely. Widgets everywhere

[MogwaiBoy]

T-Racks 5 Max Upgrade around $125 in cart at JRRshop... is this the cheapest it's been?

[Ryan99]

Do you want another example to show why Uncle E is one of the best, if not the best online retailer?

During the Black Friday period, I ordered some stuff from his shop, and my order qualified to get the free Galaxy X-FX. But for a reason unknown, I couldn’t added it for free in my cart. So, I wrote to him about it.

Not only did he gave me Galaxy X-FX, but he also added Roomer for free. That’s customer service above and beyond.

Thanks Eric!!

[mutantdog]

Fault did it for me this month. I'm gonna hold out on Vocal Enhancer and maybe demo it when i get some time. Hopefully PA will have another of their in-cart vouchers and everything on sale again at the end, if they do i might have to pick up a selection.

[mutantdog]

loopmasters ultimate vocals are on offer - £3.95/$5.35 instead of the usual £45/$60:

https://www.loopmasters.com/genres/57-V ... ate-Vocals

3.31Gb of content comprising of 2000 individual 24 Bit samples

Anybody got this? Seems like a good price for a diverse range of vocals.

[shonky]

loopmasters ultimate vocals are on offer - £3.95/$5.35 instead of the usual £45/$60:

https://www.loopmasters.com/genres/57-V ... ate-Vocals

3.31Gb of content comprising of 2000 individual 24 Bit samples

Anybody got this? Seems like a good price for a diverse range of vocals.

Bought it, haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Currently messing around with Form so will check a few out and see what occurs and report back

[OneOfManyPauls]

T-Racks 5 Max Upgrade around $125 in cart at JRRshop... is this the cheapest it's been?

I think so - great price if you're coming up from a something that just edges over the €99/$99 product qualifier.

Checking my emails, I can't see where IKM did this 50% promo for T-R5 Max - Weirdly IKM's December promo explicitly excludes T-Racks Max, which I guess explains why it's not at the other resellers or IKM's own site (maybe it's coming tomorrow and Uncle E has the drop on it):

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/news.php?id=947

Products excluded from this promotion include Ampeg SVX 2, Ampeg SVX 2 Power Duo, T-RackS 5, T-RackS 5 Deluxe, T-RackS 5 MAX & new T-RackS 5 processors.

When they did the pre-order, Peter @ IKM recommended just buying the standard version of T-Racks 5 for existing owners of Max V4+Saturator X (not included in Max V4) as that 5-ified all the v4 plugins (inc rack) and included the 4 new plugins. That was €99 EUR + VAT direct with IKM at the time.

TR-5 standard doesn't seem discounted at the mo, so I guess that could go lower at some point if that's your best route into Max 5, whereas it'd be a bigger push to discount the max 5 crossgrade/upgrade more than they have right now.

[martinjuenke]

Do you want another example to show why Uncle E is one of the best, if not the best online retailer?

During the Black Friday period, I ordered some stuff from his shop, and my order qualified to get the free Galaxy X-FX. But for a reason unknown, I couldn’t added it for free in my cart. So, I wrote to him about it.

Not only did he gave me Galaxy X-FX, but he also added Roomer for free. That’s customer service above and beyond.

Thanks Eric!!

Me too!

[telecharge]

When they did the pre-order, Peter @ IKM recommended just buying the standard version of T-Racks 5 for existing owners of Max V4+Saturator X (not included in Max V4) as that 5-ified all the v4 plugins (inc rack) and included the 4 new plugins. That was €99 EUR + VAT direct with IKM at the time.

It seems to me if you can upgrade to Max now for $125, waiting would have been the better move, assuming you can live with depriving yourself of a few months of working with those 4 new plug-ins and the updated interface.

Please correct me, if I'm wrong.

[OneOfManyPauls]

I had some IK virtual cash/tokens hanging around, so the pre-order, even with vat, actually cost me less than it would have done with this offer at jrr.

[dzilizzi]

Do you want another example to show why Uncle E is one of the best, if not the best online retailer?

During the Black Friday period, I ordered some stuff from his shop, and my order qualified to get the free Galaxy X-FX. But for a reason unknown, I couldn’t added it for free in my cart. So, I wrote to him about it.

Not only did he gave me Galaxy X-FX, but he also added Roomer for free. That’s customer service above and beyond.

Thanks Eric!!

Me too!

Eric fixed a bunch of stuff for me as well - It is always a pleasure to do business with JRR Shop!

[Fleer]

JRR Shop rocks. Thanks to the Uncle!

[Tappistry]

Looks like I have about a month left to decide on something to grab with my u-he survey coupon.

Figure I should get something that can only be purchased through u-he directly ... maybe one of their commercial synth soundsets? Which ones are some favorites around here?

The Dark Zebra is considered a soundset (the patches are very useful and instructional), and you happen to get a Zebra with Diva filters. And if you have Zebra + that, you get Zebra 3 for free.

If you already have The Dark Zebra, you can't go wrong with Howard Scarr's soundsets if you want a functional and educational set of presets. If you want something unconventional, check out Khyon's Deform.

Otherwise, listen to the demos, read the descriptions, and get whatever you need/jives with your type of music or skill level needs. Also grab the free Tarot soundset while you're there, it's great.

Yeah I was fortunate enough to get Zebra2HZ on the FS forum here for a good deal. I'll check out the Howard Scarr and Khyon soundsets. Thanks for the recommendation!

That Performer soundset by Scarr sounds pretty excellent.

[Tappistry]

Which is why I decided to use my 15% discount from u-he to buy the dark Zebra

That was gonna be my plan too ... until I bought 3 u-he synths here on the FS forum inside of a week for a killer deal.