Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[ATS]

D16 Decimort 2 Bit Crusher - Crossgrade from ANY D16 product, $19
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... 16-Product

The only registered D16 product I had was the free Frontier limiter. I was a little skeptical, but paid for the $19 crossgrade for Decimort 2 and the registration process worked seamlessly.

To make it even sweeter you can choose MTurboCompLE for free with purchase. $19 for both of these in the best Black Friday deal I came across.

[Ceej]

D16 Decimort 2 Bit Crusher - Crossgrade from ANY D16 product, $19
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... 16-Product

The only registered D16 product I had was the free Frontier limiter. I was a little skeptical, but paid for the $19 crossgrade for Decimort 2 and the registration process worked seamlessly.

To make it even sweeter you can choose MTurboCompLE for free with purchase. $19 for both of these in the best Black Friday deal I came across.

And as an extra bonus, that will qualify you for a discounted upgrade to the full MTurboComp. That's showing up as $79 in my account right now (presumably that will go up after Melda's current 50% off sale ends in 3 days).

[telecode]

Beware, don't buy Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V. It's completely useless abandonware. Presets are garbage and boring.
There're NKS presets but... are not working at all.
Worst spent money for softsynth ever.

really? I was sort of looking at is as I really like Largo.

[Ou_Tis]

To make it even sweeter you can choose MTurboCompLE for free with purchase. $19 for both of these in the best Black Friday deal I came across.

Would MTurboCompLE be preferable over Royal Compressor (one of the other freebie options) because of higher sound quality or just more variety?

[mgw38]

Beware, don't buy Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V. It's completely useless abandonware. Presets are garbage and boring.
There're NKS presets but... are not working at all.
Worst spent money for softsynth ever.

really? I was sort of looking at is as I really like Largo.

Largo is a good one. PPG Wave 3.V on the other hand is more of an acquired taste. I have to admit that I never got it either. Was the first synth I ever uninstalled. You probably need to have a certain tolerance towards the quirks of the of the original hardware in order to be able to appreciate it.

[WatchTheGuitar]

It’s certainly not for everyone. The raw sound is very dry and a little inorganic, but takes effects really well and can provide some really interesting texture to tracks even if you’re not using the sounds as the most prominent in the mix. If you’re after a modern wavetable synth though this ain’t it.

[telecode]

Beware, don't buy Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V. It's completely useless abandonware. Presets are garbage and boring.
There're NKS presets but... are not working at all.
Worst spent money for softsynth ever.

really? I was sort of looking at is as I really like Largo.

Largo is a good one. PPG Wave 3.V on the other hand is more of an acquired taste. I have to admit that I never got it either. Was the first synth I ever uninstalled. You probably need to have a certain tolerance towards the quirks of the of the original hardware in order to be able to appreciate it.

Hmm. maybe I might skip PPG then. I wound up checking the Lector demo while looking at that site today. Lector sounds amazing. Hope that goes of sale. I aint paying $100 for it.

https://audioplugin.deals/lector-a-trem ... y-waldorf/

[leeleema]

Beware, don't buy Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V. It's completely useless abandonware. Presets are garbage and boring.
There're NKS presets but... are not working at all.
Worst spent money for softsynth ever.

really? I was sort of looking at is as I really like Largo.

Largo is a good one. PPG Wave 3.V on the other hand is more of an acquired taste. I have to admit that I never got it either. Was the first synth I ever uninstalled. You probably need to have a certain tolerance towards the quirks of the of the original hardware in order to be able to appreciate it.

Hmm. maybe I might skip PPG then. I wound up checking the Lector demo while looking at that site today. Lector sounds amazing. Hope that goes of sale. I aint paying $100 for it.

https://audioplugin.deals/lector-a-trem ... y-waldorf/

It was on sale for $35 in September so I'm sure it will come around again

[Insanelysane]

To make it even sweeter you can choose MTurboCompLE for free with purchase. $19 for both of these in the best Black Friday deal I came across.

Would MTurboCompLE be preferable over Royal Compressor (one of the other freebie options) because of higher sound quality or just more variety?

I chose Royal Compressor and its been a really nice easy use case compressor, there is a Saturation knob on it which instantly gives a thicker fatter sound, or turn it all the way down if you dont want more of that for the source, very nice tool and no real guesswork to overthink.

[kelvyn]

Beware, don't buy Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V. It's completely useless abandonware. Presets are garbage and boring.
There're NKS presets but... are not working at all.
Worst spent money for softsynth ever.

really? I was sort of looking at is as I really like Largo.

Largo is a good one. PPG Wave 3.V on the other hand is more of an acquired taste. I have to admit that I never got it either. Was the first synth I ever uninstalled. You probably need to have a certain tolerance towards the quirks of the of the original hardware in order to be able to appreciate it.

Hmm. maybe I might skip PPG then. I wound up checking the Lector demo while looking at that site today. Lector sounds amazing. Hope that goes of sale. I aint paying $100 for it.

https://audioplugin.deals/lector-a-trem ... y-waldorf/

It was on sale for $35 in September so I'm sure it will come around again

Yup! An acquired taste indeed. But it has the PPG sound which is old school digital. I worked with it in the eighties and there are most definitely some of those sounds in this box. If that is what you are after then it's a really good deal.
It's based on a classic so why would you call it abandonware when there's nothing to change?

[simmo75]

To make it even sweeter you can choose MTurboCompLE for free with purchase. $19 for both of these in the best Black Friday deal I came across.

Would MTurboCompLE be preferable over Royal Compressor (one of the other freebie options) because of higher sound quality or just more variety?

I chose Royal Compressor and its been a really nice easy use case compressor, there is a Saturation knob on it which instantly gives a thicker fatter sound, or turn it all the way down if you dont want more of that for the source, very nice tool and no real guesswork to overthink.

I don’t like the lack of a high pass filter, the saturation is ok though.

[Roman Wisniak]

Beware, don't buy Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V. It's completely useless abandonware. Presets are garbage and boring.
There're NKS presets but... are not working at all.
Worst spent money for softsynth ever.

really? I was sort of looking at is as I really like Largo.

Largo is a good one. PPG Wave 3.V on the other hand is more of an acquired taste. I have to admit that I never got it either. Was the first synth I ever uninstalled. You probably need to have a certain tolerance towards the quirks of the of the original hardware in order to be able to appreciate it.

Hmm. maybe I might skip PPG then. I wound up checking the Lector demo while looking at that site today. Lector sounds amazing. Hope that goes of sale. I aint paying $100 for it.

https://audioplugin.deals/lector-a-trem ... y-waldorf/

It was on sale for $35 in September so I'm sure it will come around again

Yup! An acquired taste indeed. But it has the PPG sound which is old school digital. I worked with it in the eighties and there are most definitely some of those sounds in this box. If that is what you are after then it's a really good deal.
It's based on a classic so why would you call it abandonware when there's nothing to change?

Why abandonware? Because it's bugged piece of software. NKS just don't work propertly and there are no updates for long time for PC version.
On the other way, Largo is a fine synth and works flowlessly.

[paolostylo]

Newfangled Audio's Generate for $39 at Best Service. This was a price error by Eventide and has been corrected elsewhere.

https://www.bestservice.de/generate.html

Insane Deal!
Grabbed it!
Thanks for the info!

[ChamomileShark]

Does the PPG WAVE 3.V sound at all close to a PPG Wave? Could be useful to me for 80s sounds but ehhhh, I could probably use the money on Audiothing's "Outer Space" or put it towards getting a the Korg Wavestation and M1.

Yes it is. It has a number of the original 2.3 presets included.

With some help I was able to get the dead spit of the wave choir sound used by Robert Schroder.

If you want the closest thing to a PPG I think it's it. Generally I've been able to get closer to that sound than using say the Microwave 1.

[ir99]

Newfangled Audio's Generate for $39 at Best Service. This was a price error by Eventide and has been corrected elsewhere.

https://www.bestservice.de/generate.html

Insane Deal!
Grabbed it!
Thanks for the info!

I was lucky enough to get it for a similar low price the other day. For me, it's great at any price. But, at this price, my humble advice would be to get it straight away before it goes up again. It's too good to miss!