🔥🔥 EastWest Future Bundle $143.10 reg. $497 + Get Voices of Passion FREE!

[LinkedMusicians]

NOTE: This seems better than EastWest’s Black Friday deals and even better when you add in EW Voices of Passion. It beats out JRR’s price when you factor in Deluxe Bucks earned on the purchase are equivalent to $4.77, compared to JRR Shop’s roughly $2 lower price PLUS Audio Deluxe offers a free plugin with purchase, which allows you to choose from Voices of Passion, UVI Model D (Steinway Grand Piano Plugin), or WA Production Fundamental Bass.

EDIT: I just realized that the 10% discount code expires Dec 5, 2025, so after that date, the price on this bundle will be 10% higher.

EastWest Future Bundle:
Included in this bundle: ICONIC, Forbidden Planet, LO-FI and String Machine

Use the code  BFCM10

Get EastWest Voices of Passion or UVI Model D FREE with purchase.

https://audiodeluxe.com/products/eastwest-future-bundle?sca_ref=9905602.8KvuZSaQ9x

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[LinkedMusicians]

The 10% coupon code expires Dec 5, 2025, so the price on this will increase by 10% after that.

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[Yan]

On LinkedMusicians said

The 10% coupon code expires Dec 5, 2025, so the price on this will increase by 10% after that.

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I already have Voices of passion, so JRRShop has it around 141$ with FORUM code

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On Yan said

On LinkedMusicians said

The 10% coupon code expires Dec 5, 2025, so the price on this will increase by 10% after that.

The official LinkedMusicians account

I already have Voices of passion, so JRRShop has it around 141$ with FORUM code

Before you pick it up, I’d recommend that you look deeper, beyond the $2 lower price point. Audio Deluxe Bucks — their loyalty program — alone makes up more than that difference. This purchase earns the equivalent of a $4.77 on your next purchase (this purchase earns 477 Deluxe Bucks and 100 Deluxe Bucks = $1 discount on purchases), more than twice the cash savings from using JRR PLUS . Plus, beyond Voices of Passion, there are two other plugin-freebie choices (neither of them are even close to as compelling; that’s why I didn’t mention them in the original post): UVI Model D and WA Fundamental Bass, which even though they’re nowhere close to as good Voices of Passion, are easily worth more than the $2 cost difference.

I used to buy a lot of stuff at JRR Shop before I discovered Audio Deluxe. Both stores often have the lowest prices after using codes — and they’re commonly the same or within 1-2% of one another, but JRR Shop doesn’t have a loyalty program or freebies with purchase, so I’ve consistently found that when you factor those two things in, Audio Deluxe has the better deals and when we add the price comparison section, I think I’m going to have Plugin Boutique, Best Service, Audio Deluxe and possibly Thomann and Gears4Music. (It’s a lot of work and custom programming costs to add each retailer, so I’m going to be strategic about which ones are included and use the experience I’ve gained from handling two Black Friday sales here at LM).

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[pseudopop]

Plugin Boutique and Best Service are rarely the cheapest option for people outside the US, unless they have an exclusive deal.

AudioDeluxe gives you back 3 times the amount of your purchase in DeluxeCoins, and you need at least 100 DC to get a $1 discount. They almost always have a 10% discount code available, so if you count the DeluxeCoins as a discount, in the long run you get a 12.7% discount on average. A little less, actually, because the DC you use reduces the amount of DC you gain, and the discount is realized only on future purchases.

JRR, on the other hand, can give you a 15% discount straight up, though not always.

The value that the AudioDeluxe freebies have is subjective. I now have two licenses for Voices of Passion, and I think everyone and their mother has a UVI Model D license by now. I doubt they have much resale value.

Personally, I use both stores, but mostly JRR.

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On pseudopop said

Plugin Boutique and Best Service are rarely the cheapest option for people outside the US, unless they have an exclusive deal.

AudioDeluxe gives you back 3 times the amount of your purchase in DeluxeCoins, and you need at least 100 DC to get a $1 discount. They almost always have a 10% discount code available, so if you count the DeluxeCoins as a discount, in the long run you get a 12.7% discount on average. A little less, actually, because the DC you use reduces the amount of DC you gain, and the discount is realized only on future purchases.

JRR, on the other hand, can give you a 15% discount straight up, though not always.

The value that the AudioDeluxe freebies have is subjective. I now have two licenses for Voices of Passion, and I think everyone and their mother has a UVI Model D license by now. I doubt they have much resale value.

Personally, I use both stores, but mostly JRR.

It’s a nerdy little discussion, but it’s important to me, because I have to choose which retailers will go into the shopping comparison engine I’m going to be working on soon.

So EastWest Voices of Passion DID allow the discount code at JRR Shop earlier this month, but it no longer works. I don’t have a record of what it was, so going by Yan’s post, it was around $141 and some change, whereas it’s $143.10 at Audio Deluxe, which to be fair, we’ll call $143 and the difference between the two retailers before JRR Shop stopped the code at $2; that is, JRR Shop WAS $2 cheaper before they pulled away the coupon code. It’s now $159, which is approximately $16 ($15.90 if we want to be precise) more expensive than the Audio Deluxe price.

Then you add in that Audio Deluxe has a loyalty program. Of course, to your point, loyalty programs usually work by giving you discounts on future purchases (with Best Service Instant Best Coin being an exception — that I think will confuse the heck out  of consumers).  Each Deluxe Bucks point is equivalent to a US cent (a penny); 100 points = 1 USD. Voices of Passion earns 477 points, which you could consider $4.77 in price reductions for future purchases. If you plan on buying anything from Audio Deluxe in the future, it made the net savings over JRR Shop’s price nearly $3 PLUS you add that Audio Deluxe added in a free plugin, which, to your point, may or may not be to your liking. But the Voices of Passion freebie seems quite well received and I find that Audio Deluxe has some pretty compelling freebies  — but, of course, that’s completely subjective.

Anyhow that example fits with what I’ve witnessed MOST of the time comparing JRR Shop to Audio Deluxe. Now, every so often JRR Shop beats everybody, just as once in a while Plugin Boutique, Best Service, Gears4Music, Thomann, and much more rarely, Sweetwater have a price that beats every other store. But those are rarities. Subsequently, when I choose the retailers for the shopping comparison engine, I’m going to include the retailers that are normally the most competitive — not the ones that have the best price once in a while — which our forum is always going to be better at leading people to.

So, I wrote this into response to PsuedoPop, but please, I want everyone who is interested in this to chime in too. I want to make this tool super useful. It isn’t intended to replace the fourm, but to suppliment it. But I also need to manage the number of retailers in this, and some small ones also may present technical challenges to get in there — and I don’t know which ones at this point. But my list of retailers I want in their, based on my experience posting deals over this past year is:

– Audio Deluxe
– Plugin Boutique
– Best Service

@pseudopop You made a comment from a European perspective and I could use more insights from that perspective. No doubt, my being an American does mean that I can learn A LOT from your perspective and our other members from all around the globe. I think you know that I want you to share those insights. This community is and will always be global.

Stores I’m contemplating adding:

– Gears4Music  — they’re pretty new to me and brought to my attention by @lamia6, who has had good experiences with them. They occasionally have an unbeatable price.
– Thomann – as I mentioned, occasionally, this store will have a great, unbeatable price on stuff.
– Sweetwater – Most of the time, their prices are higher than Audio Deluxe, Plugin Boutique, and Best Service. But once in a while, they have unbeatable, exclusive deals.

This is, unquestionably, a software-centric list of stores (I haven’t thought about hardware, but I may in the future). I will probably do another post just on this topic, but as pseudopop started a conversation here that’s really timely considering what I’m soon going to be working on, I can really use pseudopop’s and everyone else’s input on this and the stores you like best. Because I can’t code any of this, it’s easily going to cost me over $1,000 to add this functionality. But I think it can add a ton of value to our community and fund LinkedMusicians into the future too.

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[LinkedMusicians]

The bundle at JRR Shop stopped accepting the coupon code, but has been reset and accepts the code FORUM to reduce the final price to $141.51, which represents a savings of $1.51 from Audio Deluxe’s sale price after using the coupon code BFCM10. However, as I mentioned earlier, the purchase earns the equivalent of $4.77 in Deluxe Bucks towards your next purchase PLUS you get your choice of a free plugin. As JRR Shop does not have a loyalty program or freebies with purchase, this clearly makes Audio Deluxe the better deal in both terms of cash and the free plugin. If you look at your purchases over the year — depending on the size of your spending — the loyalty cash adds up and if you have $5, $10, or $30 in loyalty cash (Deluxe Bucks), you can further reduce the price.

Now, the prices in this example are very consistent with what I’ve observed between the two retailers over the past year. Again, if you factor in the loyalty program (Deluxe Bucks) you will easily save more money over the course of a year with Audio Deluxe. I think those two retailers are too close in price 90% of the time for me to spend money having both of them in the shopping comparison engine.

I’ve also excluded Plugin Fox, as they haven’t had the best prices or a loyalty program over the year plus I’ve been monitoring them. I haven’t even found them having exclusives like Plugin Boutique and Best Service regularly have. Again though, we have the forum, where when anyone of us find a store that normally doesn’t have the lowest price has the lowest price, it can easily be shared in a thread in this forum.

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