What's On Your Black Friday/Cyber Monday Shopping List?

[EnGee]

Trying to decide upgrade Live 10 to Suite for $267 or buy Komplete 12 for $249 from my ka6 audio interface deal and Thanksgiving ? I'm leaning to Suite upgrade .

Komplete 12 is fantastic! I'm using it everyday! Massive X, Reaktor and Kontakt are higher quality than Ableton's synths/instruments IMO.
Live Standard also already has the most important from Suite. You can sell also whatever you have from leftover of NI synths if you have one and maybe purchase Super 8 instead (It is fantastic synth and my favourite these days )

[V0RT3X]

Just picked up the TDR bundle and got
TDR Limiter 6 GE
TDR Nova GE
TDR Kotelnikov GE
TDR VOS SlickEQ GE

For 100 euros


Thats it right now for me, I’m pretty content with this. Next on the list of upgrades is a few Valhalla plugs and a few others.

[V0RT3X]

Trying to decide upgrade Live 10 to Suite for $267 or buy Komplete 12 for $249 from my ka6 audio interface deal and Thanksgiving ? I'm leaning to Suite upgrade .

Komplete 12 gives you a lot of sounds. Suite is nice for Max4live, Wavetable, Operator, Sampler. The AAS stuff is a bit out dated And overpriced in my opinion but still useful.

With Komplete 12 you get

- Massive X (More powerful than Ableton Wavetable imo)

- FM8 which is pretty great and can cover a lot of great FM sounds.

- Kontakt 6 (Industry standard sample player system with a decent included library)

- Reaktor 6 (Easily covers your maxforlive stuff, and ships with a lot of great immediately useable stuff)

- Absynth covers a lot of experimental ambient style sounds.

- Massive 1 (got you covered with the past decade of EDM sounds)

- Battery is a great sample library and adds a ton of new sounds to the included Live standard library.


Honestly with the suite upgrade you’re just getting more Instruments/FX and not really anything important that will change your ableton workflow as the core DAW components dont change.

[fedexnman]

Yeah I think I'm gonna go for Komplete 12 , unbelievable I buy an KA6 Komplete audiointeface and I get this discount for Thanksgiving Black Friday Weekend crazy ...

[BONES]

I just grabbed Glitch Bitch for $27.50 and I am about to have a play with the Audio Damage Qanta trial and see if I want that. I've had my eye on it for a while but didn't trust myself to download the trial while it was full price. If I end up with it, that will take me just over the Au$400 I put aside, I think.

[yellowmix]

Grabbed XLN XO in the pre-BF deal, it was on sale for the first time, been waiting for the right price. It's improved my workflow instantly.
Scratch Master Pro was also at the right price for a couple ideas I have.
Samples From Mars 2019 update, easy to support that labor of love.
Translator 7 update. I've been using the autosampler functionality in it a lot lately and it's saved so much time.
Bored Brain Splix was on sale so I grabbed a Patchulator 8000 to share the shipping. Had been wanting one for a while and it came back in stock.
LVC Audio Toned-MAX. Fantastic price, would've bought more but I already own them.

Macrium Reflect 7 Home, it's saved my ass a few times and I'm planning a redeployment on new hardware.
Paprika Recipe Manager, it's made my cooking a lot more organized. Got dishes for every manner of guest possible (except fruititarians).

[werp]

bought a novation circuit mono station for $480AUD...I’ve been on the fence on that thing for two years.
It’ll talk to my Eurorack system so that’s a bonus.

[BONES]

Man, that's a great price! Good work.

[codec_spurt]

Grabbed XLN XO in the pre-BF deal, it was on sale for the first time, been waiting for the right price. It's improved my workflow instantly.
Scratch Master Pro was also at the right price for a couple ideas I have.
Samples From Mars 2019 update, easy to support that labor of love.
Translator 7 update. I've been using the autosampler functionality in it a lot lately and it's saved so much time.
Bored Brain Splix was on sale so I grabbed a Patchulator 8000 to share the shipping. Had been wanting one for a while and it came back in stock.
LVC Audio Toned-MAX. Fantastic price, would've bought more but I already own them.

Macrium Reflect 7 Home, it's saved my ass a few times and I'm planning a redeployment on new hardware.
Paprika Recipe Manager, it's made my cooking a lot more organized. Got dishes for every manner of guest possible (except fruititarians).

Grabbed XLN XO in the pre-BF deal, it was on sale for the first time, been waiting for the right price. It's improved my workflow instantly.

That looked good. Love it in fact. But no way at that price. Just not needed for what is a toy to me. Others might find it handy. But at twice the price and nearly a hundred quid? Nah, dream on. I have other ways to find my samples and piss about with them thanks.

I plumped for the far more useful Sononym sample browser.

Don't try googling it, you won't find it. They could not have picked a worse name. Here it is for you:

https://www.sononym.net/

Here it is in the KVR database:

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/sononym-by-sononym



There is no way in hell I was paying full price for that software either. I think they just doubled the price knowing most people would find it ok to buy at half price. It's not revolutionary but hey LoopCloud didn't want my money so Sononym have 40 quid or wtf it was.

Same with ooooh what's their name. Gonna have to search. Brainchild? Is that it? No. Starts with a 'B'. f**k it. Who cares. Costs silly money. Is iLok. And no one has ever heard of it. I think they do it on PC now though. Whatever it is. It's like a super-duper souped up version of Foobar2000.

Anyway, Sononym looks nice. It's pushing it to say it's worth 40 quid or so, but we'll see. I'm going to be brutal on this one. But the devs seem responsive and intelligent, so I'm looking forward to 'working with them'.


Scratch Master Pro was also at the right price for a couple ideas I have.

Is that the same thing as that Serato thing I just bought?

https://www.jrrshop.com/serato-sample-plugin

$39 - no discount on this one. Fair enough. Very nice. Got a few good tricks. Something else that is priced at double price as to what it is worth so mugs like me can buy it on Black Friday. Ok, we can play that game if you like. You probably lose much more sales through the year for charging so much, and don't make as many sales as you would if it was at a cheaper price. But what do I know.

The Serato thing has a good sample browser and it also has the best time-stretching and warping shit in the biznezz apparently, so, might be good...

I'm looking more now for sample based and browser tools.

f**king BASEHEAD. That was it, doh!

Basehead. Shithead more like at that price and with that attitude. f**k you and your shitty f**king iLok. Just kidding, not triggered. Aren't we allowed to have a bit of fun anymore?

Anyway it looked good, but nah. I don't need to scroll through foley and 3000 million samples to find what I need. I just need a half decent sample browser and I'm not paying a few hundred quid for that. Thanks for the offer though.


Samples From Mars 2019 update, easy to support that labor of love.

Was it an update? They did not make it very clear. I gave up after an hour of studying their site. Very vague. I nearly bought for the hell of it, then thought: I have no idea if this stuff is the same stuff I bought last year, or an updated version of it or a totally different version of it. Very poor representation so I put my money elsewhere. I was being brutal this year though. TBF I only downloaded the stuff I bought last year a few weeks ago and I'll probably be dead before I use them. So bandwidth should not be affected. Good stuff. But please make a bit more effort with what you have to offer when some of us have their wallets in their hand. You probably won't get me in that position again. A lost customer.


Translator 7 update. I've been using the autosampler functionality in it a lot lately and it's saved so much time.


I've heard varying reports as to the efficacy of this software in general. Another company that puts little effort in to explaining its product. I was almost going to buy the ensoniq disk tools thing having difficulty trying to buy the Giebler enterprises one that I think does the job more effectively. This stuff just seems for ASR samplers and the old EPS samplers - sampler orientated - no surprise there - but it would have been good. Not a criticism by the way. Just my misunderstanding.

The tools and conversions it provides seem great and I would have bought it. But they do a cut down version and it is so vague as to what it does. I just can not invest 50 quid in a company that has such a shitty and arrogant attitude to marketing their products. Pretty sure I could have made use of some of that stuff, but I guess it's more for hardware bods.

Also the iLok thing was a passion killer for me. So, nah, probably never now.


LVC Audio Toned-MAX. Fantastic price, would've bought more but I already own them.

I know that lad! Does great plugs. Let me see -

http://lvcaudio.com/purchase/

Damn, gonna have to chuck a few quid in there to get some stuff!

Thanks for the heads up!

What the hell. Just bought these at 75% off:

http://lvcaudio.com/plugins/clipped-max/

http://lvcaudio.com/plugins/transector/


I remember when the clipper plugin first came out years ago and it was very good then, sure it's great now! Looking forward to trying transector too. Thanks.

LVC-Audio for the win!

Need to grab 'em quick though - they are 75 percent off now and will only be 50 percent off tomorrow. I wish I had studied the repertoire more than I probably would have bought more. Still, good stuff!


Macrium Reflect 7 Home, it's saved my ass a few times and I'm planning a redeployment on new hardware.

Macrium is good. Lots of good alternatives in this department. I'm going a bit more bare metal on drives these days and machines and getting in deep to virtualisation (so I'm trying). TeraByte Unlimited is where it's at for me. Does Linux and multi-boot setups. One of the reasons I like the TeraByte stuff is its myriad of options if you know what you are doing (I don't - but I can work it out). Also it has an option for restoring to dissimilar hardware which means it can resize and strip space and put an image back on to a drive that is a different size. I'll admit, it took a few goes with a few drives, but there was nothing it could not do. Plus it can work with virtual drives and images as well. Probably never goes on sale. Only costs 40 bucks or so though.


Paprika Recipe Manager, it's made my cooking a lot more organized.

I think now would probably be a good time to stop.

[codec_spurt]

I guess we find out on BONES' 9000th post whether he has me on block or not!

[GearNostalgia]

Sonuscore The Orchestra, maybe some VSL and Samplelogic... Considering Orb Composer...

[yellowmix]

I plumped for the far more useful Sononym sample browser.

I have Sononym, same concept of machine classification, but a general sample classifier. Fantastic utility and definitely useable for percussion if you narrow the categories down. XO is focused purely on percussion auditioning and sequencing. Atlas on sale for $49 is classification and a drum rack. I've got 1M+ samples and it's a huge help. But yeah when I had under 20k I knew what samples I wanted and which folder they were in, knew filenames by heart. I still have a couple favorites but the way I can pick out fresh sounds with XO makes things a lot less stale.

Scratch Master Pro was also at the right price for a couple ideas I have.
Is that the same thing as that Serato thing I just bought?

While you may be able to create scratching sounds with Serato Sample the workflow doesn't seem tuned specifically for it. For reference I was using Cableguys TimeShaper for forward-reverse duties and Volume Shaper for the gating. SMP is a hyperfocused utility that lets you play at variable speed forwards and backwards while controlling amplitude gate as well. You can play it like a live instrument or program a sequence. I'm having lots of fun playing it live.

Basehead. Shithead more like at that price and with that attitude.

Yeah, anything involving the film industry inflates software prices. To be fair, multichannel, timecode, and metadata are extra requirements you don't always find in music, but it's still relatively inflated. I was at a trade show and the Krotos rep was showing me Dehumaniser and Reformer. Really cool tools, you perform with your voice and it transforms it to animals and creatures. I told the rep it's priced for film but I'm a musician and it has relatively fewer use cases for that market segment and he hinted there would be better prices around now. There's a significant discount but I still can't justify what would be a one-off gimmick in a song. But not sure how they would hobble it to segregate the sales. Stereo/multichannel is one of the more common differentiators but these sounds would be upmixed from mono anyway.

Samples From Mars 2019 update, easy to support that labor of love.
Was it an update?

Yes, just the new stuff released in 2019. OB From Mars, MPC1 From Mars, Jupiter Drums From Mars, SP 909 From Mars, Lindrum From Mars.

Translator 7 update. I've been using the autosampler functionality in it a lot lately and it's saved so much time.
The tools and conversions it provides seem great and I would have bought it. But they do a cut down version and it is so vague as to what it does. I just can not invest 50 quid in a company that has such a shitty and arrogant attitude to marketing their products. Pretty sure I could have made use of some of that stuff, but I guess it's more for hardware bods.

The cut-down version allows only specific conversion sources and targets. The full version allows conversion between any source and target. I can't speak to hardware conversion, I use it purely for software samplers and the occasional ancient AKAI CD I can find. Yeah, the UI on Windows is like something from 2000 at best but I don't care as long as it's functional. It saves me from a lot of tedium. Reverse engineering this stuff can be a pain and I am gladly paying someone else to do it for me.

Thanks for the heads up!
What the hell. Just bought these at 75% off:
http://lvcaudio.com/plugins/clipped-max/
http://lvcaudio.com/plugins/transector/

You're welcome. I contributed a preset for Clipped-MAX. It's great on vocals, lots of precise control.

Macrium is good. Lots of good alternatives in this department. I'm going a bit more bare metal on drives these days and machines and getting in deep to virtualisation (so I'm trying). TeraByte Unlimited is where it's at for me.

Thanks for the tip. If I work with Linux again for desktop it looks attractive. My Debian server's running fine with an rsync script though.

[werp]

Just found a demo Winter Modular Eloquencer for $500 AUD.
Yay Me!

[e@rs]

Just picked up the TDR bundle and got
TDR Limiter 6 GE
TDR Nova GE
TDR Kotelnikov GE
TDR VOS SlickEQ GE

Me too. You forgot to mention SlickEQ M...

[LoveEnigma18]

Plugin Boutique: Scaler
XLN Audio: XO
Steinberg: Padshop 2, Retrologue 2
UVI: PX P10, UVX670, Kroma 1.5, Synth Anthology II
Soundtoys: Bundle Upgrade
Arturia: V Collection 7 Upgrade
Polyverse: Comet
Waves: F6, Smack Attack, Kramer Master Tape, Tune Real-Time, Infected Mushroom Pusher, Abbey Road Saturator + MDMX Distortion Modules (free H-Reverb and CLA-Mixdown)
Groove3: 1 year subscription
Computer Music Magazine: 1 year digital subscription
Mastering the Mix: Never Get Stuck Again ebook

I am done for a long time to come, except some cheap stuff/trades.