Year in Software 2024 (what you've bought in 2024)

[Choikdoi]

Highlights for me this year have been Dawesome Myth and Arturia MiniBrute for synths, and Polyverse Filterverse, Aberrant DSP Lair and Zynaptiq MORPH 3 PRO for effects.

[runagate]

I included only things I bought, not freeware or freebies I incidentally happened to get from buying something else that I'll never use

AAS - Multiphonics CV-2
Audio Damage - Axon 3 upgrade
Audio Thing - Dials
Audio Thing - Frostbite 2
Audio Thing - Gong Amp
Audio Thing - Lines
Audio Thing - Megaphone
Audio Thing - Moon Echo
Audio Thing - Motor
Audio Thing - Noises
Audio Thing - Reels
Audio Thing - Speakers
Audio Thing - The Orb
Audio Thing - Things Texture
Audio Thing - Voice
Audio Thing - Wave Box
Audio Thing - Wires
Autotonic - modal midi tuner
Baby Audio - Atoms (MPE)
Chord Prism
davidsonaudio - Lyrihorn-2 PM wind synth
DAWSOME - Myth (MPE, MTS-ESP)
expressive e - Noisy 2 (MPE)
FKFX - Sylab
Imaginando - K7D Tape Delay
Imaginando - VS - Visual Synthesizer
Kilohearts MPE expansion from Expressive E
Madrona Labs - Sumu (MPE, microtonal)
Newfangled Audio - Recirculate
nusofting - glitch pad
Physical Audio - Preparation (scala/MPE)
Pitch Innovations - Rhythm Box
Polyverse - Filterverse
StageCraft - Beat Rebuilder
Sinevibes - Dispersion
Sound Particles - Motion Controller
Sound Particles - inDelay 3D
Synthmaster 3
Tracktion - Biotek 2 (MPE)
ujam - amber
ujam - Iron 2
ujam - Royal2
ujam - Solid2
ujam - Sparkle2
W.A. Prouctions - Deres

[spacepluk]

So far in 2024 I've sold most of my software and bought some hardware

[foosnark]

To catch up:

RJ Studios Sideminder Max
Minimal Audio Ripple Phaser
Brainworx bx_aura
Impact Soundworks Gameverb

[DMG68]

Not much for me, I’m fairly happy with what I have - not chasing the elusive magic plugin anymore.
GForce DMX
FabFilter Pro R3 upgrade
Softube FET mkii upgrade

[BBFG#]

Ha! Woke up this morning and decided to buy a couple of things I added to carts a few days ago. But one that is on sale until the 18th suddenly said it now required a coupon and the other that was supposed to be on sale until Sept. 1st went back to regular price. I let the Organteq pass because it wasn't the discount I expected from them historically and had decided to buy these two instead. Now all three are null and void. Maybe there's a higher power at play here...

[kraster]

Too many to mention but the highlights have been

Myth
Sumu
Wavesfactory Spectre
UA Battallion
Tonex
Synthmaster 3
Sloom
Lair
Delay Cat
The Legend HZ
Harmony Bloom
Oxy meteor
Rando
Speedrum 2
Effectrix 2.

[JonSolo]

Purchased a lot of sample libraries and hardware and software effects. But here are the software synths only:

Modo Max
Cherry CR-78
TAL-pha
Drumazone 2
Tone2 Updates all soft synths
GForce DMX
The Legend HZ
Imposcar3
Martinic Planet T
OB-1
UJAM Complete Bundle

[pekbro]

I did pick up the Korg Arp 2600 as it's very cool imo, cpu seems perfectly fine 'so far' on my core i5.
The software pass was a bit of a pain to get working, little tip there for win 11 users at least, don't
try to install the SW pass anywhere besides the default if you want the thing to work.

Anyway, worth a demo for anyone interested in the Arp 2600 in software definitely. I bought it
after basically only confirming it would work. Didn't want to spring for the entire collection
for now, hopefully there will be some kind of upgrade path, if not no biggie really, only seriously
interested in a couple items from the collection personally.

Good stuff!

*Tomorrow is the last day for the sale I believe... I got it direct, tho I prob should have bought it
at plugin boutique and got some points and a buck or two off. Oh well, the process of buying it
played heavily in my efforts to get the SW pass working.

[ChanceB]

Sold stuff and bought other stuffs.Standouts are
Bitwig
Current,Rift and most of the other Minimal stuff
Spire
Serum
ANA 2
Chromaphone
Icarus 3
Limiter 6
UAD opal
Triaz
Razor
Form
Loom
Rounds
Twin 3

[swilow11]

Synth wise, I've picked up Spire, Falcon 3, Synthmaster 2&3 and recently Avenger. Bunch of FX, Valhalla Shimmer, Specops, Soundtoys Phase Mistress, bx_clipper and limiter, Infiltrator, Harmony Bloom. Think that's it...

[swilow11]

Oh shit, and Bitwig as well! And some Cherry Audio stuff via Humble Bundle.

[Stirner]

I stopped music making and sold most my plugins some years ago , because of tinnitus, but it got better. So this year I reinstalled my Reaper (that I bought 5-6 years ago and I still get the newest version!) but had not many plugins anymore. So I choose:

Komplete Standard (Massive X and Kontakt are my most important instruments). Very cheap, I think I payed 160€, because of price reductions and I had an older Komplete Select. Incredible value for the price.

Arturia FX Collection 4 (used here on the forum). Only 50€, very good quality, I use them a lot, but I would not pay the full price for this. But I will maybe upgrade to the newest version, if the new plugins will be like the great new EFX line.

Eventide H9 collection for 100€ on sale. Generate for 25€. Very good.

I spent under 100€ on Plugin Alliance plugins. They are good, but not essential. I don't like hardware emulations anymore I think. These I would not buy again.

TDR plugins on sale - Nova, Kotelnikov, Slick M and Molot. Very good.

Some cheaper Kontakt libraries and MIDI stuff (Scaler, Phrasebox and HY-SeqCollection).

I wanted to buy Bitwig and Musio collection, but after demoing I choose not to. Same for Kilohearts and UVI subscriptions.

Now I have enough FX and mixing plugins. I need an additional synth, so I will wait for Zebra 3, I think. Maybe I will upgrade to the next Kontakt Ultimate, if I get a good price. And I want Pianoteq and some Kontakt libraries

[sin night]

I didn’t buy much software this year.

I upgraded to Arturia FX Collection 4 and - I think it was this year? - I bought the “Alicia Keys” Kontakt library. And I upgraded to Live 12 and crossgraded to Spectralayers 10. I don’t remember anything else.

The fact is… I already have tons of software, probably more than needed. Purchases are usually limited to updates/upgrades or the odd thing missing, but it’s hard to excite me with a new piece of software, because I don’t want “one more option to choose from” when I already have too many.
I think this comes naturally once you’ve been making music for years and you’ve managed to accumulate enough software. Also, my preference goes towards hardware nowadays, but I’m slowing down on that side, too (lack of space, overall cost, many needs already covered…)

[trusampler]

emptyvessel sample libraries for Tal Sampler , have been the best tools I’ve bought this year I’ve learned so much more about sound design by just digging into his work vs buying more vsts