Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[soundbylaura]

FYI PhoenixVerb folks (and others) who need an iLok2, they're on sale on Amazon for $38.95.

[ghettosynth]

Update:

For those interested in the outcome of the Eventide Anthology X "Any" 4 plugins upgrade offer for $99 ($84 with discount in cart). It's been confirmed that it is now true. Eventide has updated their policy and I am now successfully registered.

Updated the thread here on it: viewtopic.php?f=43&t=473913&p=6625229#p6625229

Special thanks to Uncle E for coming through as always. I'll never doubt you again.

Hope this helps. Upgrade while you can for cheap!

Thanks everyone.

https://www.jrrshop.com/eventide-anthol ... thology-ii

That makes this the hands down discount winner for this season. I already had four plugins from them, two were free and you can pry the other two from my cold dead hands. That means I bought no duplicates and got the anthology for $84.

Whenever my serial gets here, of course.

But, who cares, I have a 30 day demo, holy shit Eventide, you know how to do it right.

[Keppada]

Still lost in this plugin / sample-pack sea. Any Black-Friday recommendations for beginner who tries to get better 24/7 at producing. I have Ableton Suite, Omnisphere 2 and Kick 2. I dont have any reverbs / eq's /compressors other than from ableton. Also no sample packs.

Was hoping to find good quality sample packs for fx / vocals /fills. also kicks / claps / snares. About mixing plugins i have no idea which ones are good. People have been recommending me waves gold bundle but i see many are hyped by eventide deals or soundtools deals.

Also would like to have a plugin for vocal editing like little alterboy but is it really that good or should i go for something like melodyne? Please help a plugin newbie in need . Thanks!

[Kalamata Kid]

was this mentioned?
Is this a BF sale?

Liquid Music $99 was $149
https://www.wavedna.com/liquid-music/
was is ever at $149?

Liquid Rhythm $49
https://www.wavedna.com/liquid-rhythm/

Mostly interested in Liquid Music
Please critique if you can.

Also Liquid Rhythm may be good to help with
adding rhythm to my drone tracks.
Comment please.

[mgw38]

Still lost in this plugin / sample-pack sea. Any Black-Friday recommendations for beginner who tries to get better 24/7 at producing. I have Ableton Suite, Omnisphere 2 and Kick 2. I dont have any reverbs / eq's /compressors other than from ableton. Also no sample packs.

Was hoping to find good quality sample packs for fx / vocals /fills. also kicks / claps / snares. About mixing plugins i have no idea which ones are good. People have been recommending me waves gold bundle but i see many are hyped by eventide deals or soundtools deals.

Also would like to have a plugin for vocal editing like little alterboy but is it really that good or should i go for something like melodyne? Please help a plugin newbie in need . Thanks!

That is a bit a matter of personal preference. But when it comes to sample packs and Black Friday deals, I would check out the Levithian sample pack by Black Octopus:
http://www.loopmasters.com/products/3190-Leviathan

Or simply go with a Splice subscription. At the cheapest tier it comes with 100 sample downloads a month. You can audition a huge selection from all kinds of developers and then just download the ones you like.

[Keppada]

Thanks. Yeah i know, but still there seems to be general consensus at which reverbs or compressors are better than others. These things feel most overwhelming as a "ex" classical musician while trying to learn producing edm.

[Musical Gym]

Liquid Music now contains Liquid Rhythm and they're great, though I haven't scratched the surface using them.
Dev is helpful and answers email.
You could give demo a quick try and decide. Program lets you build songs in numerous ways and provides a slew of options choices and templates which you can mix and match.
Very inspirational, especially if you're in a rut.

[ghettosynth]

Still lost in this plugin / sample-pack sea. Any Black-Friday recommendations for beginner who tries to get better 24/7 at producing. I have Ableton Suite, Omnisphere 2 and Kick 2. I dont have any reverbs / eq's /compressors other than from ableton. Also no sample packs.

Was hoping to find good quality sample packs for fx / vocals /fills. also kicks / claps / snares. About mixing plugins i have no idea which ones are good. People have been recommending me waves gold bundle but i see many are hyped by eventide deals or soundtools deals.

Also would like to have a plugin for vocal editing like little alterboy but is it really that good or should i go for something like melodyne? Please help a plugin newbie in need . Thanks!

Little Alterboy is just an effect, it's not a pitch correction package. The Eventide deal is interesting to a lot of people because it has some cool effects. It's not that cheap if you don't have any eventide plugins to begin with.

There are a lot of decent plugins in gold, but there are a lot of old plugins in gold. For me, that's not the thing to get from Waves. What I like from Waves are their more precise modeling plugs like the abbey road stuff, but, it's expensive and it's not really something you need when you're getting started. I wouldn't buy something just to get stuff if you don't know that you need at least some of that stuff.

[Keppada]

Thanks for the advice! Yeah. on black friday its easy to feel like you need to buy NOW all u could possibly need because its gonna be much more expensive for the next year . So you would recommend staying with the Ableton reverbs and learning more before getting anything else even its much more cheaper now?

[Scotty]

Liquid Rhythm is very slow responding on my Cubase 8.5 rig. The interface stutters. I don't have issues with any of my other plugins except for Tantra which only misbehaves when I have 3 instances of it displayed at the same time (easily fixed by closing a window). I have lots of RAM (32 gigs) and I7 clocked at 4.5 ghz for 12 threads.

Apart from the sluggish interface I had a hell of a time getting used to the interface but persevered and did get some interesting results out of it for electronic and experimental material but I can't say I use it for more traditional drum programming. For $49.00 you might be happy with it. I give it is a "meh". Hardly a ringing endorsement.

was this mentioned?
Is this a BF sale?

Liquid Music $99 was $149
https://www.wavedna.com/liquid-music/
was is ever at $149?

Liquid Rhythm $49
https://www.wavedna.com/liquid-rhythm/

Mostly interested in Liquid Music
Please critique if you can.

Also Liquid Rhythm may be good to help with
adding rhythm to my drone tracks.
Comment please.

[Numanoid]

So you would recommend staying with the Ableton reverbs and learning more before getting anything else even its much more cheaper now?

I vote for that

[Kalamata Kid]

Liquid Music now contains Liquid Rhythm and they're great, though I haven't scratched the surface using them.
Dev is helpful and answers email.
You could give demo a quick try and decide. Program lets you build songs in numerous ways and provides a slew of options choices and templates which you can mix and match.
Very inspirational, especially if you're in a rut.

Liquid music I thought contained only some of Liquid rhythm.
Your reply got me closer to pulling the trigger
thanks.

Do not have LIVE. Is that ok?

[Kalamata Kid]

Liquid Rhythm is very slow responding on my Cubase 8.5 rig. The interface stutters. I don't have issues with any of my other plugins except for Tantra which only misbehaves when I have 3 instances of it displayed at the same time (easily fixed by closing a window). I have lots of RAM (32 gigs) and I7 clocked at 4.5 ghz for 12 threads.

Apart from the sluggish interface I had a hell of a time getting used to the interface but persevered and did get some interesting results out of it for electronic and experimental material but I can't say I use it for more traditional drum programming. For $49.00 you might be happy with it. I give it is a "meh". Hardly a ringing endorsement.

was this mentioned?
Is this a BF sale?

Liquid Music $99 was $149
https://www.wavedna.com/liquid-music/
was is ever at $149?

Liquid Rhythm $49
https://www.wavedna.com/liquid-rhythm/

Mostly interested in Liquid Music
Please critique if you can.

Also Liquid Rhythm may be good to help with
adding rhythm to my drone tracks.
Comment please.

I checked out the Liquid Rhythm video and re-read your post.
No Go for LR for me.
Thanks for your input.

[counterparty]

Still lost in this plugin / sample-pack sea. Any Black-Friday recommendations for beginner who tries to get better 24/7 at producing.

You don't say exactly what style you're producing, but it sounds like it's a dance genre. If you want to get better at producing, the first thing I would recommend would be tutorials from dancemusicproduction.com (especially the fundamentals series - start with drums II). It's not as immediately satisfying as getting a new toy, but they'll teach you how to use the plugins that you already have and the plugins you're going to get better - they teach production itself. I haven't found any other tutorials that can match them for depth or quality.

I have Ableton Suite, Omnisphere 2 and Kick 2. I dont have any reverbs / eq's /compressors other than from ableton.

PhoenixVerb is very nice, and it's currently $49. I like Slate compressors and eqs a lot - you can get everything they make on subscription for $150 a year right now, $14.99 a month if you don't want to pay yearly, or you could pay $99 for a perpetual license for Virtual Mix Rack (on sale right now) which has 2 compressors and 2 eqs. For both PhoenixVerb and the Slate plugins you would need a physical iLok dongle, but you should be able to buy the licenses now and order an iLok whenever. Some people don't like the iLok software/hardware/drivers though.

Also no sample packs.Was hoping to find good quality sample packs for fx / vocals /fills. also kicks / claps / snares.

It's going to depend on the exact genre - try loopmasters for your genre. I like to pick up big packs of drum one-shots that contain only the drum samples from lots of other packs that the particular sample company have put out. Like this pack of 12000 EDM one-shots http://www.loopmasters.com/genres/95-ED ... -One-Shots.

As far as Melodyne goes, you can pick up Melodyne Essential very cheap second-hand in the Sell & Buy forum, or you could get Waves Tune (which has more features than Melodyne Essential and is on offer for $59 IIRC right now).

Make sure you're getting the best price when you buy plugins - try audiodeluxe, plugindiscounts, jrr shop, everyplugin, etc - they're often cheaper than manufacturers themselves.

[Keppada]

Thank you very much Counterparty. This helps a lot! : )