Black Friday - the essential guide

[mickeyl]

Does anyone have SoundIron's Temple Drums? The demos sound really good and at $32 it looks like a real bargain.

Aah, very tempting... tough sound.

[Aesthete]

Universal Audio End Of Year Hardware Sale. Buy a Apollo and Get a Satellite Free

http://www.uaudio.com/apollo-satellite-promo

[Guy Rowland]

Ta, added.

[playz123]

Does Spitfire Audio do Black Friday sales on any of their products? Specifically I'm looking at Albion One.

Only Spitfire knows for sure, but since Albion One is so 'new', I would guess it may not be on sale just yet. Perhaps they may do a % of ALL products though, so we'll just have to wait and see.

EDIT: Spitfire have now posted that they are having a Black Friday sale starting Nov. 26 and they state: "Oh, and we'll also be discounting our entire individual product range by 25% off. WE NEVER DO THIS, so grab these bargains whilst you can!" So to me, "entire" suggests that will include Albion One. Hope that helps.

[playz123]

Does anyone have SoundIron's Temple Drums? The demos sound really good and at $32 it looks like a real bargain.

Aah, very tempting... tough sound.

Very happy with Temple Drums; they aren't the run-of-the-mill instruments, and are well recorded and produced. Great bargain at that price.

[Nominder]

There is a list here
http://rekkerd.org/deals-deals-deals/

[Guy Rowland]

There is a list here
http://rekkerd.org/deals-deals-deals/

And KVR here - http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... a3a59a7183 - both worth a scan for a more comprehensive list.

The purpose of this thread is to highlight those likely to be the most important to the folks here. There can be literally hundreds of deals, and it's easy to go snowblind - hopefully this is clear and (relatively) brief.

[devastat]

Does anyone know if Slate Digital tends to do Black Friday sales?

[jneebz]

@devastat - I guess there's no guarantee for 2015, but this is from their Facebook Page last year:




in case you're not on Facebook:

[Guy Rowland]

Added Impact Soundworks - 33% off Bravura Brass, 50% off Rhapsody Percussion

[Aesthete]

Spitfire Black Friday Sale Details Now Here

[jneebz]

EastWest Composer Cloud: http://www.soundsonline.com/composercloud

Discounted to $299/year (reg. $29.99/month) plus extras.

[Ashermusic]

Oops, somebody beat me to it so nevermind.

[Aesthete]

Universal Audio UAD Black Friday Sale Countdown...
http://www.uaudio.com/black-friday-is-coming

[Guy Rowland]

Various new deals up from Heavyocity, Impact Soundworks, East West, Arturia and Softube.

[Aesthete]

Moog Black Friday Sale
20% off Select Gear
10% off Merch & Accessories

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=66c ... a43eaa0a3e

[Ashermusic]

For what it's worth, I haven't bought into the UAD hype and I don't miss it yet. The idea of offloading processing for minimal latency and conserving resources is the biggest selling point, I think, more than the plugins themselves. But now that computers are so powerful...it's less compelling, at least to me.

I could not disagree more. The plug-ins quality are the biggest selling point these days and for good reason. I would buy a UAD card just to have the EMT Plate 140, Ampex, Precision Multiband, and Roland Dimension D. The extra offload of processing power is a bonus

[Lawrence]

I really do love the quality of my UAD plugs, but the bonus for others is more of a need for me, as I have an aged DAW computer.

[Aesthete]

Agreed, the UAD is quality. Your selling yourself short if you think it's hype Marius. When you start assigning quality EQ's or channel strips to each channel, sub, stem, etc. in a mix, and or have a Shadow Hills and Massive Passive on your master buss and strings having those offline Sharc chips comes in real handy. You can see the UAD Instance chart here for ie. http://www.uaudio.com/support/uad/compa ... chart.html

Then comes the versatility of a unit like the Apollo, which literally took the place of 8 boxes in my system (8 analog input, 8 analog output, 4 Mic Pres, Digital I/O, A/D-D/A conversion, Master Clock, Master control and its Thunderbolt connection which allows maximum bandwidth.

There is also the legacy of Putnam family and the involvement in musical recording history that is carried on which you can read here: http://www.uaudio.com/about/our-story

The only bad thing I can say about UA is the recent end of licensing agreement with Roland making those plugins not available any longer (but fine if you have them already).

Anyone tested the new tape plugin yet and how it differs sonically from the Studer and Apex ?
I am hoping to grab the Eventide this month. James

[Raymond_Kemp]

I've had this discussion in another place with Jay over UAD EMT140 compared to Altiverb EMT140. Having never owned or used UAD hardware/software I obviously can not make up my own mind on the similarity or difference and it doesn't bother me at all.
If I add Altiverb EMT140 to a track I'm working on, I listen and decide if it improves or detracts from the sound I'm hoping to achieve.
'same with every other effects plugin I own. I either have the craft to create a pleasing sound or I don't, changing plugins will not alter that fact.
I surely have learned this lesson at great expense. One day soon I'll get into the plugin folder and remove all that never get use.

[mickeyl]

I either have the craft to create a pleasing sound or I don't, changing plugins will not alter that fact.
I surely have learned this lesson at great expense. One day soon I'll get into the plugin folder and remove all that never get use.

Mmh, brutal honest wise words... I'm not there yet for this insight, but working on it

[Yasin Yavuz]

Evolution Series End of Year Sale
Save 40% on World Percussion 2.0, Individual regions (including Taiko), World Strings Guzheng and Upgrades.
And 35% off the already discounted Bundles
http://www.evolutionseries.com

[Aesthete]

Kush Audio UBK 40-50% Off Black Friday Sale
http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=998 ... b1e0b8120f

OWC-Mac Sales Black Friday SSD Sale
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search ... ast15Nov25

8Dio Sale
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=795 ... 72c4533239

Moog Theremini is on sale for $240 u.s at ThinkGeek.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1be6/? ... AlUC8P8HAQ

ps Good reminder Raymond about cleaning up unused plugins, going to do this along with organizing plugin folders when I get back home.

[jneebz]

FREE "Little Alter Boy" from SoundToys! I picked up Little MicroShift as a freebie and it's fantastic...FWIW

https://www.soundtoys.com/product/little-alterboy/

[Guy Rowland]

Thanks all - work-slammed right now but updated the main stuff and added several more. Worth a rescan of the main list before posting to make sure it's not already up.