What's on your Black Friday radar?

[ghettosynth]

But a 303, no, I f**king don't need that. Don't get me wrong, I love me a 303, but my B.303 gets the job done for me.

Acid V was the last one I tried. I didn't figure I was likely to want to use it in my music anyway, but to me something about it just didn't sound very authentic. Like it's trying but it never really gets there. I'm not a connoisseur though.

For me it fundamentally comes down to I don't like tweaking the software in real time. I've made plenty of software clones myself over the years of varying degrees of success. As much as I like the 303, I'm not sure that I'm a connoisseur either. I think that I can get what I want out of a 303 in various hardware configurations, but, it's just not convenient. It's like the SH101 in a sense. There's not much unique sonically about the synth, it's just CEM chips and a Roland filter, but the hardware itself is what makes the difference in terms of use. I know folks will disagree but, well, I disagree with those that disagree.

[dayjob]

Very interested in Forever 89 Visco.

https://forever89.studio/

[himalaya]

Polyphonic aftertouch constitutes only one part of MPE. Can you play polyphonic pitch bend gestures on your Montage M8X?

But we were never talking about Polyphonic Pitch Bend as that has nothing specifically to do with either the DX7 engine or FM Synthesis in general

We were talking about poly-pitch bend under the 'MPE' moniker. That is the whole point, MPE encompasses 5 different poly-modulation controllers, not just polyphonic aftertouch which you have fixated on with your Montage M8X. And yes, for me it is a joy to use all five at the same time in real time, as I play, not when editing in a DAW. And it relates to the Arturia DX7 plugin as it can't do it apparently, and a user has remarked that it would be great if it could (going round in circles with this). Perhaps they own this particular plugin from Arturia and they wish for MPE compatibility not wanting to spend more money getting Halion, or anything else. This is not an unreasonable wish if all other Arturia plugins are MPE compatible. All of this should be really easy to understand. /end of this topic.

[himalaya]

Does Plasmonic ever go on sale? It's been on my wish list ever since it came out....I kind of missed the boat on this one.
https://rhizomatic.fr/

[davidka]

I'm keeping my eyees open for a possible Plogue sale which might happen in the next weeks. Anyone knows more, is it worth to subscribe their newsletter to get informed?

[Download SOphist]

Does Plasmonic ever go on sale? It's been on my wish list ever since it came out....I kind of missed the boat on this one.
https://rhizomatic.fr/

I don't know how often, but I bought it while on sale. maybe about 100 eur, can't recall.

[zahush76]

I'm eyeing Polyverse music. Specifically Filterverse and Supermodal (as i already have manipulator, i wish and gatekeeper)

[e@rs]

Filterverse won't be cheaper on BF than it is today, the developer said it again in the latest YT stream. I'm eyeing Supermodal too.

[dayjob]

Very interested in Forever 89 Visco.

https://forever89.studio/

well, that's nice. black friday sale is on

[cryophonik]

A deal on the new Pianoteq Kawai model.

Pianoteq has always seemed like a great instrument, but it's pretty expensive and I've already got a bunch of pianos (Kontakt, TruePianos, Keyscape, etc), but that Kawai does sound amazing. Maybe a BF deal will finally push me over the edge.

The stage version gives you 2 instruments and should be around 100 for Black Friday. Still not cheap, and not customisable but I could live with just the Bosendorfer and the Kawai or Petroff. I rarely take advantage of the pro version extras.
Sorry for the off topic, guys.

I downloaded the demo and have been using it for the past 4-5 days and I finally see/hear what all the fuss is about. The Standard version and a few expansions are definitely on my BF sale radar now.

In other BF radar news, it turns out I still hate Cubase as much as I always have (no offense, Cubase users, it was my first DAW and I continue to upgrade it every so often, but it just doesn't jive with me). Somewhat ironically, it prompted me to look elsewhere and I ended up taking advantage of Avid's BF sale and upgraded my Pro Tools instead, which I haven't used in years. I spent the weekend perfecting a vocal tracking/editing template and it's exactly what I wanted.

[enCiphered]

Very interested in Forever 89 Visco.

https://forever89.studio/

well, that's nice. black friday sale is on

This looks fantastic for sound design! While I don’t personally need drum plugins, has anyone tried using it with non-percussive material? How well does it handle longer samples?

[EnGee]

Filterverse won't be cheaper on BF than it is today, the developer said it again in the latest YT stream. I'm eyeing Supermodal too.

I read it "I'm eyeing a super model"! I thought, "Oh that would be very expensive even on BF"!

[dayjob]

Very interested in Forever 89 Visco.

https://forever89.studio/

well, that's nice. black friday sale is on

This looks fantastic for sound design! While I don’t personally need drum plugins, has anyone tried using it with non-percussive material? How well does it handle longer samples?

the demo is unrestricted. you should try it to see if it meets your needs in some way. it does interesting things.

[enCiphered]

Very interested in Forever 89 Visco.

https://forever89.studio/

well, that's nice. black friday sale is on

This looks fantastic for sound design! While I don’t personally need drum plugins, has anyone tried using it with non-percussive material? How well does it handle longer samples?

the demo is unrestricted. you should try it to see if it meets your needs in some way. it does interesting things.

Yes, that’s exactly what I did. I just finished a 30-minute demo session, testing all kinds of sample mangling I’m interested in, and it’s definitely not performing well for what I had in mind.

[liquidsound]

Maybe this time I’ll get Massive X if the deal is below $80 (upgrade)