Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[escalona]

DM me and I'll fling it at the first person who doesn't seem like a twat

I truly love the 2020 low expectations for everything. As it should be.

[Insanelysane]

So I guess Im wondering still what we are downvoting here? Some people are having a laugh, that must be it. Again I dont care so much but its interesting how with the bargain thread perhaps people have come to expect margins they havent seen before otherwise its not a real bargain anymore?

$29 or less or GTFO!

[Insanelysane]

Its an odd deal, basically the loyal subscribers miss out on a free plugin!

It's even more odd when they specifically email the offer to users who are ineligible, unless they just want to troll everyone with a "look what you could have got if you had not signed up with us earlier"

I got a voucher for Bassmaster a couple of days ago, and I am a subscriber to Loopcloud. The email I received yelled loud and clear that it was a free plugin for being a "loyal" subscriber.

Mystery solved then, thanks for that info.

[WatchTheGuitar]

DM me and I'll fling it at the first person who doesn't seem like a twat

I truly love the 2020 low expectations for everything. As it should be.

First time lucky as it turned out. If anyone else was wondering about doing the same the Drumazon serials are fine for passing on and not tied to your email or PB account (though it will obviously keep the details against your login on the account page).

[Uncle E]

$29 or less or GTFO!

I still remember the first time I saw Waves do a $29 sale. It was 4 of their oldest (literally from the last century), most worthless plugins (far below stock Studio One and Logic plugins) and people lost their minds. Now they put their best plugins on sale for $29 and we sell 2 of them.

[Uncle E]

I truly love the 2020 low expectations for everything. As it should be.

Seriously! I can't believe 2020 figured out a way to get even crazier. Well played, 2020, well played...

[WasteLand]

Hit 'n Mix Infinity via jrrshop (welcome back Uncle E, in full capacity!), is a great deal, with GROUP..
but this is the first time, i am confused, that temptation let's me down...

i only have my eye on one BF deal.. that me thinks starts next week.. but the end is not near, so...

[telecode]

$29 or less or GTFO!

I still remember the first time I saw Waves do a $29 sale. It was 4 of their oldest (literally from the last century), most worthless plugins (far below stock Studio One and Logic plugins) and people lost their minds. Now they put their best plugins on sale for $29 and we sell 2 of them.

Please do share your thoughts on which Waves plugins you think are their best and newer plugins. There are just so many of them. Some of us less experienced folks may not know how to differentiate.

[LoveEnigma18]

Kaleidoscopes is probably the best Waves plugin recently. I did not buy it only because I have NI Mod Pack, but Kaleidoscopes is a one-stop-shop for phasor/flanger/chorus/tremolo.

[chrisstiles]

Personally I think F6 is decent, but it was on offer a few months ago at a lower price than it is currently.

[martinjuenke]

I still like the PuigChild compressor. Lots of character, easy to deal with and to get musically pleasing results.

[SirKen]

Right now, the bundle price is $583, but my price is $379. That's a way bigger reduction than I recall seeing in the past. Am I just mis-remembering?

It's a bigger reduction in the past. Also, Output has a history of raising prices (fixing pricing errors) after a few days, you might want to jump on it ASAP.

Ended up going for the full Output bundle yesterday. Those are some resource hogging products!! Minimum CPU usage is around 15% to 20% and I saw my RAM usage go up to 10GB on a single Kontakt instrument. Very inefficient use of resources for the sounds you can get elsewhere. Not to mention, the GUI was laggy even when I wasn't playing anything. Granted, my computer is an older build but I can play Orchestral Tools libraries just fine and the coding in their Kontakt instruments are notorious for being resource heavy.

[Muresan]

Guys, do you know if/when Liquidsonics have sales?

[thagreatbelow]

Right now, the bundle price is $583, but my price is $379. That's a way bigger reduction than I recall seeing in the past. Am I just mis-remembering?

It's a bigger reduction in the past. Also, Output has a history of raising prices (fixing pricing errors) after a few days, you might want to jump on it ASAP.

Ended up going for the full Output bundle yesterday. Those are some resource hogging products!! Minimum CPU usage is around 15% to 20% and I saw my RAM usage go up to 10GB on a single Kontakt instrument. Very inefficient use of resources for the sounds you can get elsewhere. Not to mention, the GUI was laggy even when I wasn't playing anything. Granted, my computer is an older build but I can play Orchestral Tools libraries just fine and the coding in their Kontakt instruments are notorious for being resource heavy.

I only use their effects, but I think hardware makes a BIG difference. I was on a 2012 2.6Ghz 4 core Core i7, 16GB RAM MacBook Pro Retina and 1 instance of output movement brought it to a crawl. Now I'm on a 2019 2.4Ghz 8 core Core i9 32GB RAM, and movement barely moves the needle. I don't quite connect that dot, but it is what it is.

I'm wondering if this has anything to do with it https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... rview.html

[NickBlanc]

What do you guys think about the currect Soundtoys sale? Yes it's good, especially when you buy with Audiodeluxe (code BF2020), the whole bundle for $217. I own several of their plugins, but upgrades are not in included in this sale. So that would leave me with some doubles and thus 'wasted' money (yes I know I can resell). Their website now says: "Upgrades are not on sale during our Black Friday Sale while we revamp our upgrade ordering system. Stay tuned for future promotions!".

What do you think, worth the wait for christmas?