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

[Ben H]

Omnisphere 3 upgrade
Kontakt 8 upgrade
Unify 2 upgrade

Acousticsamples - VHorns Extended Brass & VBrass French Horns
Best Service - Ethno World 7 upgrade
East West - Ancient Kingdom
Fluffy Audio - Ancient Cultures Bundle
Joel Blanco Berg - Saxophones Phase Plant preset pack
Marcos Ciscar - Terra Incognita (V2) upgrade
Xperimenta Audio - Chalumeau

Also misc. Omnisphere presets from Luftrum, Rocky Mountain Sounds, Tom Wolfe & Triple Spiral Audio

[billinder33]

Looking back at 2025, acquired more than I expected...

Updated:


A-tier:
Serum 2 free upgrade - incredible update
Nexus 5 - amazing
Omnisphere 3 upgrade
Beatsurfing LOW - amazing sub maker
Triaz - primary drum machine
Noiseworks DynAssist
Vertigo VSS-2 - excellent glue compressor for busses
Specops - lots of fun
Visu - nice spectral visualizer
ADAPTR Utopia - my go-to verb

B-tier:
Melda MTurboDelay and MTurboReverb - time domain rompler devices
bx AMEK Mastering Compressor - unique
ReVoice Pro - not sure it's better than Melodyne
UVI Shade - the Pro-Q of of resonant filters, lots of fun
Wave Shifter & Ripple Phaser - keeping the Minimal Audio FX bundle complete
RipplerX - awesome free physical modeler

C-tier:
Dawesome Myth - nice change of pace synth
Beatsurfing CHEatCode, Random, Random Metal - found a bundle sale price too good to pass up, will use for niche applications

Probably going to grab Serato Sample before the year is out. Looks like around $2k spent on the year. No money doesn't on hardware this year... Though next year I'll blow out the hardware budget with new monitors and stands.

[thecontrolcentre]

Too many to mention ... it's been an extravagant year.
So many sales with ridiculous discounts.
No idea how much I've spent

It needs to stop

[DCrown]

Bought everything but Omnisphere,
so many presets are crazy, I remember organizing many HZ Zebra presets, it took me some days.
Zebra is the maximum of presets I can bear haha

[wagtunes]

Just added Serato Sample today. That thing is one cool beat slicer.

[E_Anderson]

New toys for SFX design

Oeksound Soothe, Spiff
Minimal Audio Fuse Compressor, Wave Shifter
Unfiltered Audio Silo, SpecOps
United Plugins BitPunk
UVI Shade
LHI ST4B
Tonsturm Traveler
U-He Zebra3

[Teezdalien]

B-tier:
Melda MTurboDelay and MTurboReverb - time domain rompler devices

Eh?

[Examigan]

B-tier:
Melda MTurboDelay and MTurboReverb - time domain rompler devices

Eh?

Yeah I was a bit confused also…rompler?

[billinder33]

B-tier:
Melda MTurboDelay and MTurboReverb - time domain rompler devices

Eh?

Yeah I was a bit confused also…rompler?

Yeah this is how I use them. If I want to sound design a reverb, I'll use ADPTR Utopia. Got other nice tools for building custom delays as well. But if I just want to 'romple' through a bunch of presets, then the Melda devices are great for that. Massive number and variety of presets in these devices.

But despite the insane amount of configuration options in the Meldas, I don't find them all that much that fun to do actual design in. Seriously, how many people are writing code just to create a reverb? Who can memorize all the novel delay devices in MTurboDelay and what they do? It's cool that they give you all these options, but I've realized over the years that spending a bunch of time configuring novel verbs and delays isn't a practical use of time. So I bought these specifically for the massive preset libs so I can use them as romplers.

[S4410]

Too many to mention, most of them upgrades, mostly synths

[wagtunes]

B-tier:
Melda MTurboDelay and MTurboReverb - time domain rompler devices

Eh?

Yeah I was a bit confused also…rompler?

Yeah this is how I use them. If I want to sound design a reverb, I'll use ADPTR Utopia. Got other nice tools for building custom delays as well. But if I just want to 'romple' through a bunch of presets, then the Melda devices are great for that. Massive number and variety of presets in these devices.

But despite the insane amount of configuration options in the Meldas, I don't find them all that much that fun to do actual design in. Seriously, how many people are writing code just to create a reverb? Who can memorize all the novel delay devices in MTurboDelay and what they do? It's cool that they give you all these options, but I've realized over the years that spending a bunch of time configuring novel verbs and delays isn't a practical use of time. So I bought these specifically for the massive preset libs so I can use them as romplers.

What are some great custom delays?

[Ben H]

What are some great custom delays?

Raising a ticket with Steinberg... or IKM

[Examigan]

What are some great custom delays?

Raising a ticket with Steinberg... or IKM

Or Roland Cloud support….

One time my question sat there for 6 months or so. Then when they finally wrote me back, they said sorry we didn’t get back to you and if you still need help, etc., to reply back. So I did, and they never answered me. I replied again a couple months later, still no answer.

[wagtunes]

What are some great custom delays?

Raising a ticket with Steinberg... or IKM

Ha, ha. Very funny Ben. Very funny. How's life in Boston these days? Cold enough up there?

[emef]

Fors - Junior