Am I right in saying UVI and NI have never had a cross-promotion before? None of these products are Kontakt / NI based after all.
This does look a very good deal, a few of these products are interesting to me:
Augmented Orchestra
Emulation II+
FM Suite
IRCAM Prepared Piano
Meteor
Nagoya Harp
Quadra - Muted and Harmonica
Shade
Synth Anthology 4
Whoosh
8 Bit Synth
It does look like a good deal, even if you only want a couple of them. Heck it's worth it just for the prepared piano (I am a sucker for prepared pianos!)
And that's where I am right now, I'd like to pick up synth anthology 4, Ircam Prepared Piano, & Emu II, I think they'll get some use.
I do tend to think about Kontakt libraries first, probably because I just have more of them?
i do use most of the UVI libraries I've purchased. Out of 17 libraries 7 are duds, which isn't entirely fair, there are at least a couple of those that might be better than I gave them a chance to show.
My favorites:
JP Legacy - no, won't replace a Roland J anything, but it sounds great, and definitely has the J series vibe.
Kroma - I've only played a Chroma once, really wanted one, never got it. Not I do, sort of.
PX V8 - Ah the Voyetra 8 something or other, I had use of one for several months, almost bought one when I had to return the loaner.
PX Guitar Syn - Roland again, I am a fan of all things guitar-synth, and this makes some pretty cool noises that are very reminiscent of my junkers.
USQ-1 - I still have an ESQ-1 in the rack. Just love it. Love having one in the computer even more. They did a real good job on this one.
WaveFrame Sound Collection - believe it or not I did get to play around with an early Waveframe system. It was amazing. Almost a poor man's Synclavier, except for the price, and some post production features.
Darklight IIx - I got this free with some other purchase years ago. Set it aside. When I finally auditioned it I was very glad I had it, lots of cool sounds.
EGP - I think we were talking about the Yamaha Electric Grand recently. I do not use this often, mostly when I need to accent a Rhodes or Wurli, but they really captured the vibe.
Gypsy Jazzy - I'll be candid, I didn't expect much from this, but my curiosity got the better of me. I still haven't used it for anything productive/profitable, but it is fun, and I'm learning a little bit about Gypsy Jazz!
Xtreme FX - just your basic sound effects library, wrapped in a Kontakt wrapper, the sounds are good to very good, and using Kontakt to place SFX is a very smart approach. There are other tools that do the same, they tend to be on the pricey side.
UVI Workstation is a good, solid platform. I have my quibbles with the UI, but I can get over it,
I think I'm going pass, but it came close. The one that impressed me most listening to the demos was Nagoya Harp, which is a genuinely unique tone I don't have.
I personally don't use prepared piano much / at all, and I do have a few already. Both Augmented Orchestra and Quadra sounds quite good, but not quite good enough to pull a trigger, and most of the rest I feel covered. So I might keep my eye open for a Nagoya deal in future.
I’ve been using Synth Anthology since the beginning. I wasn’t aware it had been upgrade to version 4, so I’m weighing upgrading for $49 vs buying it new with the bundle.
Back when I first bought its predecessor, Ultra Focus, computer processors weren’t up to the task of hosting quality soft synths. Ultra Focus contained top quality samples of a wide variety of the best hardware synths in existence. Synth Anthology expanded the collection more and more with each iteration.
It’s a great library of well sampled synths; but these days, it faces stiff competition from both soft synths and other sampled synth collections. I still use it from time to time, but it long ago stopped being my go-to. Nonetheless, it’s worth the upgrade price for the improved browsing. It is a massive collection.
I’m tempted by about half of the titles in this bundle, but most of it would be redundant for me. Fortunately, there’s plenty of time to decide.
