Black Friday Plugin Sales

I've bought a bunch of FX & VI plugins so far, most of them with a 50% or more discount:

- Arturia Pigments & Preset Packs
- Celemony Melodyne Editor Upgrade
- DDMF Plugindoctor
- Korg Collection 6
- Neural DSP Misha & Nolly
- Softube Echoes
- Sonible smart:gate
- Steinberg Halion 7 Crossgrade

Also considering to buy more orchestral libraries from Best Service / Chris Hein. And I'm curious to see what other offers Softube will have over the next two weeks. In addition, I am currently on the lookout for a good, affordable Strat, which I would like to equip with an EMG David Gilmour set. Perhaps I will find some tempting offers in this regard as well.
 
TheTrueZoltan! said:
I've bought a bunch of FX & VI plugins so far, most of them with a 50% or more discount:

- Arturia Pigments & Preset Packs
- Celemony Melodyne Editor Upgrade
- DDMF Plugindoctor
- Korg Collection 6
- Neural DSP Misha & Nolly
- Softube Echoes
- Sonible smart:gate
- Steinberg Halion 7 Crossgrade

Also considering to buy more orchestral libraries from Best Service / Chris Hein. And I'm curious to see what other offers Softube will have over the next two weeks. In addition, I am currently on the lookout for a good, affordable Strat, which I would like to equip with an EMG David Gilmour set. Perhaps I will find some tempting offers in this regard as well.
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I just got a Strat with the EMG David Gilmour pickups and absolutely love it. Been a high gain humbucker player forever and I hate noise. Gigged our first set with it last night and it was stellar.

I don’t have much to spend at the moment, but will most likely be looking into some Neural DSP amp plugins for when I wanna do some quick scratch tracks without firing up an amp.
 
dbagchee said:
Free UAD plugin - pick one:

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Holiday Freebie

You’re on the nice list! Grab a free UAD plug-in of your choice and add a little holiday shine to your mixes. Use this code at checkout. One time use only. Ends December 31.
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dbagchee said:
Free UAD plugin - pick one:

www.uaudio.com

Holiday Freebie

You’re on the nice list! Grab a free UAD plug-in of your choice and add a little holiday shine to your mixes. Use this code at checkout. One time use only. Ends December 31.
www.uaudio.com www.uaudio.com
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Loads of great stuff here. All of these have been offered for free at various points recently but a good chance to grab anything that might have been missed.
 
Mercuriall has like 50% off going on for their ampbox selections, you can demo them first. The Jose Marshall is pretty nice as are several others.
 
Hey, EZ Drummer 3 upgrade is down to $69 (nice). Gonna sleep on that one. I'd need to get an expansion to get a more modern/aggressive sound but really thinking about that.

Just starting to remix my old band's album, original vocals are solid and I can salvage some of the electric tracks but will likely re-record a bunch. But the drum sounds are really mediocre and the playing is too busy and off time (I was the drummer). So I need to program new tracks. Gotta find a software that isn't a nightmare to do that in but doesn't take up 300GB of space on my disk.
 
Dimiguitar said:
Anyone familiar with hertz drums 2? They're running deals also, but information on the plugins is quite scarce. I'll test.

Hertz Drums best drum Plugin - Black November Deals!

Black November Deals! Hertz Drums has everything you need in a home-recording and professional studio for realistic virtual drums experience.
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I have Hertz Drums with the blue, red and white packs. It‘s a great sounding software for metal and rock drums, but not as streamlined and feature-packed as the Toontrack stuff. I am also heaving some performance issues with the plugin. Key to getting good results with Hertz Drums is to keep the MIDI velocity much lower than with most other drum libraries.
 
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@Dimiguitar As an alternative, I would highly recommend ML Drums, which is also currently 50% off and an additional 25% off with the voucher code ‘SNARERING’. In my opinion, ML Drums is one of the best-sounding virtual drum plugins available. And it’s extremely easy to use - you can pretty much max out the velocity of the entire MIDI track, activate the „Humanize“ feature and it will sound great out of the box. The “Essentials” and ‘Dwell’ expansions cover the entire rock and metal spectrum. I highly recommend purchasing it! At just 29,99 EUR for both expansions, you can't go wrong.
 
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TheTrueZoltan! said:
@Dimiguitar As an alternative, I would highly recommend ML Drums, which is also currently 50% off and an additional 25% off with the voucher code ‘SNARERING’. In my opinion, ML Drums is one of the best-sounding virtual drum plugins available. And it’s extremely easy to use - you can pretty much max out the velocity of the entire MIDI track, activate the „Humanize“ feature and it will sound great out of the box. The “Essentials” and ‘Dwell’ expansions cover the entire rock and metal spectrum. I highly recommend purchasing it! At just 29,99 EUR for both expansions, you can't go wrong.
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Spent quite a while comparing sound clips and testing trial versions of drum plugins. I really liked how Hertz drums 2 sounded on the Djent and Doom presets.

Much better to me than the default preset on ML drums.

But then I found a clip where "Paratera" ML Drums add on sounded great, so got that for 3.75 euros (thank you for sharing the discount code).

Spent a while comparing that to the Hertz presets mentioned above. Preferred the Paratera. Clear, so clear, not too much low end, cutting, etc. Miles more fitting for me than the default preset.

I don't know how the Hertz expansions would sound in my daw, but I'll probably stick with ML drums. Was not expecting them to be as good. And Yamz add-on may also be a good fit for me.
 
Dimiguitar said:
[...] I don't know how the Hertz expansions would sound in my daw, but I'll probably stick with ML drums. Was not expecting them to be as good. And Yamz add-on may also be a good fit for me.
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Well, I would say, at the current price, just buy them all ;-) For metal, however, Dwell is definitely my favourite one. Yamz is a litte bit darker and softer sounding.

If you want to hear Hertz in action as well, you could send me a MIDI file and I could run it through the plugin for you.
 
TheTrueZoltan! said:
Well, I would say, at the current price, just buy them all ;-) For metal, however, Dwell is definitely my favourite one. Yamz is a litte bit darker and softer sounding.

If you want to hear Hertz in action as well, you could send me a MIDI file and I could run it through the plugin for you.
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Got the Yamz and it lacks a bit of cut. I think I'll probably try to make a mix of Yamz and Dwell.

Thank you for the Hertz offer. You are very kind.

I think I'm ok with ML for the time being, as not looking to spend more money :)
 
Pulled the trigger on the EZ Drummer 3 upgrade with a few expansion packs for $200. Been on my wish list for years and I actually have a project to use it on. Superior Drummer 3 would be sweet but would have run more than twice that much. Maybe I'll upgrade down the road when I get a new computer with more space and power.

Picked up the Bob Rock pack, Metal Machine (John Tempesta using Tama Starclassics, which was my primary kit back in my drumming days), and the Andy Sneap metal kit as his samples are a high standard.

EZD3 has a grid editor now with a humanize function, and I think that's how I want to build these out. I know exactly how I'd want to play the parts but I don't want to sit and build them all on the piano roll and tweak velocity. Previously what I'd do is have Logic drummer generate a track, convert to MIDI, then tweak. But here I know what I'm trying to (re)create which requires a different approach. And Logic drums just don't work for modern heavy music for me.

Maybe I'm old but it's still kind of wild I can purchase, download, and fully install 20GB of software in about 10 minutes!
 
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