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Continuing the tradition of tracking all things Black Friday, today I present to you, the essential buyer guide | 2016 edition.
A condensed quick at-a-glance guide. These threads can get unwieldy, so let's not feel the need to update with every last tiny thing. I'll update this OP as needed.

INSTRUMENTS & LIBRARIES

8Dio - save up to 70% on 8Dio Instruments and Bundles!

Auddict - Auddict are offering a huge 50% discount on ALL products in our store for the next few weeks' sale period.

AudioBro - Use Coupon Code BLACKFRIDAY_25%_OFF for 25% off

Audio Imperia - Up to 35% off Storewide

Audio Thing - Save 50% Off Bundles.

Best Service - Various deals throughout the week

Chocolate Audio - Up to 55% off

Cinematic Strings - 25% off Sale Nov. 25-28. $225

Cinematic Studio Series - Nov 25-28th. CSS:$349, CSP: $55

Cinesamples - up to 40% off

Drumdrops - 35% off everything

EastWest - No mention of the sale on the main site, but a sale none the less. Up to 60% off

Embertone - 8 exciting offers, one each day from Monday Nov. 21 - Monday Nov. 28. Check their website each morning for the latest Deal.

Fluffy Audio - Up to 50% off Storewide

Ilya Efimov - up to 75% off

Ilio - Begins Nov. 21. New deal every day

Native Instruments - 50% off selected items

New Sonic Arts - Granite | Nuance | Vice on sale

Orchestral Tools - Metropolis Ark I on sale Nov. 25-30

Orange Tree Samples - 35% off use Code: OrangeFriday2016

Realitone - RealiDrums additional $50 off

Sonokinetic - Orchestral Woodwinds Ensembles 40% off.

Sonic couture - Up to 60% off Nov. 25-28

Soundiron - 40% off Storewide.

Spitfire Audio - 25-50% off

Strezov Sampling - Up to 50% off all products released more than one year ago to this date and bundles.

Toontrack - Save up to 70%

Tracktion - $99 T7 Ultimate Upgrade Sale!

u-he - Diva 30% off

Umlaut Audio - 35% off sale

UVI - 30% off Store Wide

XLN Audio - 50% off everything

Xtant Audio - 30% off starting Nov 23


EFFECTS

Boz Digital Labs - 50% off all Plugins

Eventide - Save up to 80%

Flux - 60% discount on Pure Dynamic and Epure

Goodhertz - 25% off using coupon code TWOYEARS25

Isotope - Every two weeks we’ll have new products on sale.
Keep checking back to take advantage of these great holiday savings!

Kush Audio - Up to 50% off

MeterPlugs - 40% off with discount code: MPLGBLACK

Metric Halo - Save until Nov. 28

Quite Art - 40% off

Sknote - Buy two plugins within the “Black Friday” offer week and get one “MotorTown” drumkit license for free

Sly-Fi Digital - 40% off

Soundtoys - Sale Nov. 24-30. More details to come

UAD Sales until Nov. 30th

Zynaptiq - Sale price on PitchMap

HARDWARE

Apogee - Up to 55% off - Sale ends Nov 28th

OTHER

Ask•Audio - Library Pass on Sale

Avid - Check the site for offers as they become available.

GIK Acoustics - Save 20% Use Coupon Code CORNERBOGO (for corner treatments) or GOBOBOGO (for PIBs)

Groove3 - month long sale - 50% off One-Year All Access Pass

iOS Deals (various) Thanks to Marius for these!

PlugIn Boutique - Nov. 25-28 Various Deals up to 80% off

PreSonus - Studio One 50% off and other sales too. *But there is a better deal to be had at JRRshop if you are so inclined - involving buying V2 and upgrading.

pureMix - 50% off Subscriptions.

RSPE Audio Studio Monitors and more on sale

SkiSwitcher - Use discount code BLACKFRIDAY

Sweetwater - Various Deals being posted throughout the week

Many additions since the thread started. I will keep updating as things come in. Let me know if I am missing anything!

Thanks, Kayle, for doing this. Great work!

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You're welcome, Piet - my pleasure to give a little something back.

Also, not really musical related, but Adobe is offering a discount on their cloud service in case anyone is interested.

My thanks too Kayle. Nothing leaping out at me yet - the Eventide deal had me wavering for a while though, and must remember to keep checking the Embertone site.

Hello Kayle, please add us if you like :-)
http://fluffyaudio.com

paoling wrote:Hello Kayle, please add us if you like :-)
http://fluffyaudio.com

More than happy to!!

Thanks Kayle, very useful (although I haven't seen any thing I really need).

So far, I've picked up the Arturia V Collection 5 (because apparently I need MORE bloody softsynths!) and also the Eventide compressor, because I liked its snappiness.

Have one eye on Metropolis Ark, but am not sure yet.

Soniccouture are starting a sale on the 25th, definitely worth adding!

Haven't seen a compelling deal yet on the V collection, where did you find that, Matt?

Speaking of MORE bloody soft synths, the Air collection is a ridiculous $75 (including a $1 Xpand2 to upgrade from). God help me it's hard to resit - Transfuser looks sort of interesting as a Stylus alternate (?) https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/ai ... te-upgrade

For anyone interested I found the Parallels Black Friday deal to be worth!

http://www.parallels.com

Also let's monitor Amazon (com, and co.uk) to see if, as usual, they put some Samsung SSD on a great discount price.

TheUnfinished wrote:So far, I've picked up the Arturia V Collection 5 (because apparently I need MORE bloody softsynths!) and also the Eventide compressor, because I liked its snappiness.

Have one eye on Metropolis Ark, but am not sure yet.

Soniccouture are starting a sale on the 25th, definitely worth adding!

Matt - is Arturia having a Black Friday Sale? I looked on the website and didn't see anything. I added Soniccouture as well - thanks for the heads up.

kpc wrote:Matt - is Arturia having a Black Friday Sale? I looked on the website and didn't see anything. I added Soniccouture as well - thanks for the heads up.

They're having some kind of sale. Not sure it's Black Friday specific though.

Most of the NI range of individual products half price - https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... ial-offer/

UVI just started a 30% deal through Nov 29.

http://www.uvi.net/en/store

Been holding off getting Relayer but thinking now's the time.

Also worth updating the list to include Spitfire which is offering discounts ranging between 25-50%.

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/the-black-weekend/

Thanks for the updates - I think I got them all, plus a couple more I found.

Thanks for maintaining this, Kayle. This consolidated list is far more useful than fragmented, individual posts that we see over at VI-C.

You're Welcome, Jason. Glad to be of help.

I haven't found anything yet that I can't live without, Although the Fluffy Audio stuff is very tempting.

Nothing is overwhelming my ability to resist temptation yet either. But then I've bought a lot this year so maybe I've worked it out of my system by now.

Just got an update from Ilya Efimov in my inbox on their Black Friday sale:

http://www.ilyaefimov.com/products.html

...and another worth mentioning, U-he's Diva is 30% off (first ever sale from them, I think?)

Guy Rowland wrote:...and another worth mentioning, U-he's Diva is 30% off (first ever sale from them, I think?)

Thanks Guy -

I listed SoundToys already, more details: they have a free Tremolator Plugin until the 30th. Plus deals on their other efx.

..And another, Audiodeluxe offering a "very limited quantity" of Arturia V Collection V4 bundles at $139.99. It says it will be the latest versions of the included plugins - can anyone confirm that? Tempting... https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/ar ... llection-4

Ravenscroft 275 from VI Labs is on sale at Best Service, as are the other VI Labs pianos.