Year in Software 2025 (what you've bought in 2025)

[Examigan]

Since it’s almost July, I thought I’d start this:
What you’ve bought or plan to buy this year.

Here’s what I have so far:

BFD 3
XILS - The Eighty
Battery 4
Ircam Solo Instruments 2
Pigments 6
MassiveX
Kontakt 8
Relab QuantX Essentials reverb (I know, it's an effect... but still got it this year)
NI's Session Guitarist - Electric Vintage
Hive 2
Filterscape
Eventide Crushstation (actually this one was a freebie)
Purafied Collection
Softube Model 77

[KBSoundSmith]

I've been focusing mostly on updates, plus I managed a few deals that filled in some areas of need:

Steinberg

• Spectralayers 11 (holding serial for update to 12, just a few more days)
• Iconica Opus (got an amazing deal for this one)

Native Instruments

• Symphony Series Collection (for layering with Iconica + extra articulations; plus, I'm considering some Audiobro libraries, so the NI SSC Strings developed with Audiobro will partially serve as a demo of that workflow)

Arturia

• Pigments 6
• SQ80 V

Xfer

• Serum 2 (free upgrade, but still...)

Cycling74

• Max 9
• RNBO

I haven't used Max in years, but I've had enough distance from it and have learned so much else in the meantime that I believe I'll get substantially more out of it at this point and be able to work faster. I plan to dig deep into gen~ and rnbo~ especially. For other plans, I will pickup up the upgrade to Dorico 6 whenever that goes on sale.

EDIT: Forgot, Wavelab update.

[IvyBirds]

So far

Microwave Plugin
Blofeld Plugin
Audiothing Sx1000

Awaiting the release of the following which will be insta buys

TX81Z emulation by Plogue
SWAY

[KBSoundSmith]

So far

Microwave Plugin
Blofeld Plugin
Audiothing Sx1000

Awaiting the release of the following which will be insta buys

TX81Z emulation by Plogue
SWAY

How are you liking the Blofeld plugin? I haven't had time to check it out myself, but the hardware has seemed to get plenty of love over the years, so I was a bit curious how it has translated over into software.

[KBSoundSmith]

Since it’s almost July, I thought I’d start this:
What you’ve bought or plan to buy this year.

Here’s what I have so far:

BFD 3
XILS - The Eighty
Battery 4
Ircam Solo Instruments 2
Pigments 6
MassiveX
Kontakt 8

Have you had much chance to play with Ircam Solo Instr 2?

[whassup]

Synthmaster 3, sounds great, tons of good presets!
Invader 2, impulse buy. Was unnecessary. Sounds good though.
Serum2 NOT! Wanted to buy it but it didn't convince me.
Rediscovered Vital instead.
And Synth1 because I listened to some cool vids with great presets for it. 1000s of presets, many really good.
Beat Scholar. Cooool interface for step sequencing drums.

[IvyBirds]

So far

Microwave Plugin
Blofeld Plugin
Audiothing Sx1000

Awaiting the release of the following which will be insta buys

TX81Z emulation by Plogue
SWAY

How are you liking the Blofeld plugin? I haven't had time to check it out myself, but the hardware has seemed to get plenty of love over the years, so I was a bit curious how it has translated over into software.

I love it, I have had the desktop hardware version forever. I still do but it's packed away I will probably sell it off at some point as I probably will never use it again because I have the plugin. The plugin really nails the sound of the hardware with the exception of the reverb being different but it's much improved

It essentially marries really good VA, Wavetables, and samples but in a clean modern sounding instrument

There is also basically a PPG Wave in there also as all of the Wavetables are there and the filter is modeled as well but it's way cleaner and not as grungey as the original early 1980s PPG Wave hardware

I highly recommend it

The Microwave plugin is awesome as well. It has a 1980s grungy digital sound

[solvni_music]

FF pro Q4 ; L2 ; Timeless 3 ; Saturn 2 ; Volcano 3 ; Pro R2 .
DMGaudio Compassion ; Equilibrium.
Live 12 Standard.
Baby Audio BA1 ; Atoms
Minimal Audio Current 2 .
Nusofting Sinmad.
Sample From Mars Complete Drums....

[Examigan]

Since it’s almost July, I thought I’d start this:
What you’ve bought or plan to buy this year.

Here’s what I have so far:

BFD 3
XILS - The Eighty
Battery 4
Ircam Solo Instruments 2
Pigments 6
MassiveX
Kontakt 8

Have you had much chance to play with Ircam Solo Instr 2?

Just a little, not really in-depth yet. it sounds really good though.
I mainly was getting use to The Eighty and BFD. I still need to dive more into Pigments and MassiveX.

[felis]

I thought I didn't get much, but after checking, it looks like:

GForce -
Axxess
Bass Station
TVS - Pro
OB-DMX

Applied Acoustics Systems:
CV3

Moog:
Mariana
Moogerfooger fx bundle

Air:
Loom 2

so far.

[KBSoundSmith]

Since it’s almost July, I thought I’d start this:
What you’ve bought or plan to buy this year.

Here’s what I have so far:

BFD 3
XILS - The Eighty
Battery 4
Ircam Solo Instruments 2
Pigments 6
MassiveX
Kontakt 8

Have you had much chance to play with Ircam Solo Instr 2?

Just a little, not really in-depth yet. it sounds really good though.
I mainly was getting use to The Eighty and BFD. I still need to dive more into Pigments and MassiveX.

Well you definitely have your plate full with those; and both pigments and MassiveX are great. I'll have to look more into the solo instruments -- I'll be interested in your thoughts once you've had a chance to explore them more in depth.

[e@rs]

ABL3;
Saurus 4;
Manipulator;
Harmony Bloom;
Pro-Q 4 upgrade.

[emef]

Glitchmachines Skein and Gforce Halogen FM

[pdxindy]

I pretty much only update existing stuff at this point.

Zebra 3 is the big one for this year.
I also upgraded to Scaler 3.

[kvotchin]

Instruments only, this year so far, I’ve bought Pianoteq.