PLUGIN SALES THREAD

10 UAD plugins for $99 is a steal. You can get the amp sims in this if you don’t have them yet. Not great for someone like me who already has 29 of the 30 available 🤷‍♂️


I believe I already have all of them - but the amp sims alone, with some reverbs and some compressors added is an incredible deal!
 
10 UAD plugins for $99 is a steal. You can get the amp sims in this if you don’t have them yet. Not great for someone like me who already has 29 of the 30 available 🤷‍♂️

Yeah this with the SORRYPOLYMAX further discount was a great price. Picked up all the amp sims, the Minimoog, Lexicon, and some compressor and channel strip plugins.
 
Superior Drummer 3 is $300 (usually $400) at Guitar Center. Am I crazy, or does that rarely, rarely ever go on sale? I know they do SDX bundles, but I don’t know if I’ve seen a straight price reduction in a while. (I may be crazy. Correct me if I’m wrong.)
 
Missed the SORRYPOLYMAX code window but you can use FORUM for 11% discount

I also picked up all the amp sims, Lexicon reverb, compressor, Ravel piano, compressors and a channel strip EQ.
 
I can highly recommend this plugin. It's from Kazrog, who do a truly good job with their emulations. It's based on famed mixer and producer Michael Brauer's tube compressor that was taken off an Australian WWII military vessel's ship-to-shore radio. It's the only one left in the world, and he had it modded for modern fidelity.

The thing sounds wonderful on vocals, lead guitar, drums...just about everything you put it on. His original use for it was vocals, and I've never heard a better plugin compressor for that application. As with UA's LA-2A emulation that is very useful, this one's on that quality level. In other words, you don't think, 'the hardware sounds so much better'. In the LA-2A's case, I had the hardware for years.

Guitar solos are also in the vocal range, with lots of midrange energy, and it works very well to bring them right up front and center, just as it does with vocals.

It's pretty darn inexpensive. I have literally thousands of plugin licenses and 'everything packages' from all the usual suspects; I've become addicted to using it. $49.

As an aside I also have their licensed Retro Sta-Level plugin and it's also great, but this one's stellar.

 
Oops, I forgot to mention this one: Audiomovers' Listento.

This you have to subscribe to because it's a connection to a service that lets you do remote sessions at full fidelity, or send clients a link to listen in on a session or mix so they don't have to own the software, etc.

The basic version is about $13 a month. If you're doing any professional production or collaboration at all, this is pretty amazing stuff and did I mention, it's inexpensive?

I was used to Evercast - that does allow HD video in synch - but it's $700 a month and doesn't handle remote recording. So it's different; Evercast is really just useful for audio postproduction for films, TV and ads. I was doing quite a bit of audio and music postproduction for Ford's previous ad agency for quite a while, and the budgets justified it.

Long story short, I got Listento recently to use for a remote vocal session for an ad. I was here in the Detroit area, and my vocal arranger and singer were in LA. It worked perfectly. I even had a link go out to the client so she could listen in on the session and offer suggestions.

Having the client right on the "spot" to approve takes and arrangements took a lot of the anxiety out of it for everyone. The whole thing went off without a glitch or a hitch.

I'm using it now for lots of sessions and mixes.

13 bucks a month is a no-brainer, but I got the deluxe version that will handle I think 150 channels at once, and let me synch to my video, collaborate with and even record non-subscribers, and much more for an extra 12 bucks a month. Check it out.

 
Oops, I forgot to mention this one: Audiomovers' Listento.

This you have to subscribe to because it's a connection to a service that lets you do remote sessions at full fidelity, or send clients a link to listen in on a session or mix so they don't have to own the software, etc.

The basic version is about $13 a month. If you're doing any professional production or collaboration at all, this is pretty amazing stuff and did I mention, it's inexpensive?

I was used to Evercast - that does allow HD video in synch - but it's $700 a month and doesn't handle remote recording. So it's different; Evercast is really just useful for audio postproduction for films, TV and ads. I was doing quite a bit of audio and music postproduction for Ford's previous ad agency for quite a while, and the budgets justified it.

Long story short, I got Listento recently to use for a remote vocal session for an ad. I was here in the Detroit area, and my vocal arranger and singer were in LA. It worked perfectly. I even had a link go out to the client so she could listen in on the session and offer suggestions.

Having the client right on the "spot" to approve takes and arrangements took a lot of the anxiety out of it for everyone. The whole thing went off without a glitch or a hitch.

I'm using it now for lots of sessions and mixes.

13 bucks a month is a no-brainer, but I got the deluxe version that will handle I think 150 channels at once, and let me synch to my video, collaborate with and even record non-subscribers, and much more for an extra 12 bucks a month. Check it out.

Audiomovers is excellent. I switched to Muse a few years ago and never looked back - for a while their free tier did everything I needed, and even now it’s pretty useable. Compared to audiomovers, it makes it a lot easier to video call with clients and manage different inputs at once. I’m not sure if it’s changed now but when I was using Audiomovers before, I’d have to run Zoom/facetime/whatsapp separately to chat with the client.

It’s worth a look.

 
Audiomovers is excellent. I switched to Muse a few years ago and never looked back - for a while their free tier did everything I needed, and even now it’s pretty useable. Compared to audiomovers, it makes it a lot easier to video call with clients and manage different inputs at once. I’m not sure if it’s changed now but when I was using Audiomovers before, I’d have to run Zoom/facetime/whatsapp separately to chat with the client.

It’s worth a look.

Thanks for the tip - that looks very good indeed!!

I previously used a service that syncs hi-res audio with video so clients can listen in and communicate via audio and video via a single app during an audio post or mix session, called Evercast.

This made it possible to mix to fully synced video in HD resolution and high sample rates without ever switching apps - clients were onscreen in the same app and I could also share my screen with them - but it didn't do remote recording and cost $400 or so a month for an annual subscription.

It was great for what it is, mostly an audio post thing, but it got a little costly to maintain an annual subscription when a lot of what I was interested in was remote recording.

Listento was recommended by my son, who's a producer in LA with some gold records to his credit; apparently it's popular there, so I just took his recommendation as gospel and didn't look into other things. Now I will - who knows? Maybe Muse will be the way to go henceforth!
 
40% discount on Cubase 14 until October 1st.

Not a plugin, but still a fantastic deal. Probably the DAW with the most comprehensive feature set on the market right now. I switched from Logic to Cubase a few years ago and haven't looked back since.

 
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40% discount on Cubase 14 until October 1st.

Not a plugin, but still a fantastic deal. Probably the DAW with the most comprehensive feature set on the market right now. I switched from Logic to Cubase a few years ago and haven't looked back since.

Just be aware that the next version 15 will probably be released in November.
Still a great deal to get into Cubase and you can of course upgrade later or even wait to upgrade until the next sale.
 
40% discount on Cubase 14 until October 1st.

Not a plugin, but still a fantastic deal. Probably the DAW with the most comprehensive feature set on the market right now. I switched from Logic to Cubase a few years ago and haven't looked back since.


A guy I partnered with for a decade is a Cubase user. It's an extremely good DAW. I've used it at his studio.

The reason he uses it (along with Pro Tools when tracks come in that way) is that as primarily an audio postproduction mixer, there's an associated audio post DAW he also uses by Steinberg, called Nuendo. The two work together well, and his workflow gets to be similar whether he's producing tracks or mixing post.

That's a nice advantage if you're doing audio post, and well worth the investment.

I used Performer (later, Digital Performer) from 1987 when I got into MIDI composition, until about 2012 or so. I switched to Logic only because I wanted to look at a different interface - but I fell in love with it, and gradually transitioned completely over to Logic after a few months.

Most of the film, ad and TV composers I know and often work with (both here in the Detroit area and in LA) are Logic users. This doesn't mean Logic is somehow superior or the only thing to use. But for this type of work, it's a lingua franca - kind of like Pro Tools is in commercial studios.

If you're working with another composer it smooths the workflow not to have to translate stuff from one DAW to another.

There doesn't seem to be a reason to reinvent the wheel, create new orchestral templates, and tear what's left of our hair out suffering with a learning curve.

I've also used Luna for a few years, and recently bought Harrison Mixbus to try (Harrison is now an SSL company).

Both have features that sound great; Luna has a nice summing bus approximation in a couple of flavors (that you don't have to use but why would you operate Luna and not use that stuff?), and Mixbus sounds very much like a Harrison console, a sound I'm fairly familiar with. With Mixbus, you can also turn off the built-in console emulation.

The problem with both Luna and Mixbus is that their MIDI track setup, workflow, and implementation operate like DAWs did in the mid-1980s, when even Opcode (RIP) and MOTU solved those problems.

Luna doesn't offer video, and Mixbus requires a clunky second app to run with it to do video. That doesn't work at all for folks who compose to picture, like me.

For a MIDI based composer the sound of those DAWs is terrific, but useless. I took both off my hard drive. the experiments were fun, but ultimately didn't bear fruit.

The only DAWs that would potentially work for me these days are Logic, Cubase, and DP. All have what I think are great workflows for pros who compose to picture.

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If you purchase anything at Plugin Boutique, you'll get a free copy of UVI's Relayer delay. Just grabbed it (bought a stupid synth from UJAM for 5 bucks), and boy-oh-boy, that's every bit a delay fan's (*check*) wet dream!

Snagged this tonight after buying the same $5 UJAM synth haha. Relayer is indeed really cool. I probably wouldn't use it for delays at all but more of a resonator. You're right—it's absolutely killer on drum loops.

Thanks, Sascha!
 
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