I sold two (2) of the EZXs, noted in the original post.  But there’s still  a bunch of sample libraries and EZXs available.

Alicia’s Keys has been sold and I’m currently discussing the potential sale of two of the EZDrummer libraries.

I never posted this elsewhere, yet! So, if anyone is interested in anything on the list, you can PM me.

RIP, Jack DeJohnette, one of my all-time favorite drummers and from my hometown of Chicago. I had the opportunity to see Jack perform many years ago and even to talk with him for a bit and let him know how much his drumming inspired me. I even shared with him that when I was 16, I got to hang out with Buddy Rich, but meeting him was a greater…Read More

Ha! I posted mine a couple of minutes after you. I hit submit and immediately saw your post for the same instrument! But I did include this nifty video, so I’ll post it here. Here was my post:

UJAM Black Friday Early Access Sale – Virtual Pianist Vogue Grand Piano with 30 Styles with 180 Phrases and 150 Fills and Add-Ins $9 (reg. $129) through 4…Read More

When this thing started, it was my understanding that the $29.99 deal for Amplitube at Plugin Boutique didn’t qualify for the Group Buy, but now Bedroom Producers Blog, which is mainly just a hyper monetized advertising outlet, is promoting their affiliate link to the deal as qualifying for the Group Buy on their site, in emails (I’ve received two…Read More

@zargg I just listened to the new song and thought you guys did a great job! I urge everyone to check it out! These guys play and sing at a very high level and recently earned praise from Warren Huart.

Andromeda Refrain by Citizen Regen

Very cool!!! And that’s our own @Zargg!!!

I especially enjoyed the guitar and vocals at 4:20 the guitar tone and the vocal melody is very cool. The harp at the end is a very nice touch too.

I recognize Bitfliipper from Cakewalk Forums — he always seemed very cool. Of course, he’d be welcome here if he ever wants to join us! Tell him that we’re…Read More

I can’t read anything, but the graphics look like fun and the music fits it well. Great job, Patrick!

On October 23, 2025 at 11:53 pm bapu said

On October 23, 2025 at 5:35 pm peter said

On October 23, 2025 at 3:04 pm bapu said
How do I imbed vimeo here?

 

Otherwise, Ed, as expected from Fizzy Pickle, the song sounds excellent. That singer has a great voice, the band sounds superb, and the mix is top notch! Really, kudos to all of you. It very…

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@bapu Okay, Vimeo normally does autoembed — so you just need to post the link. After looking into this, I think what happened is that I was doing some troubleshooting on the site when you posted the link originally and it didn’t auto-embed (once the post is made, it won’t update it to embed). Consequently, I just went into your original post as a…Read More

Okay, someone posting this in the wrong forum and I just caught it. Now, I don’t want to point fingers at who it was, let’s just say it was one of the two Peters that are frequent LM posters. I’m not going to say which one. 😉

On October 23, 2025 at 3:04 pm bapu said
How do I imbed vimeo here?

I thought that Vimeo auto-embeds. But clearly, that didn’t happen. If Vimeo gives you embed code for videos, if so, use the tab that reads “Code” above your post and insert it where you like. @lamia6 — she’s our technical expert on everything! — I could swear that Vimeo…Read More

While, if you pick up Temperence Lite as a freebie recently (posted on LinkedMusicians, of course), you can get this for $78.76 direct from Eventide or an even $79 from Plugin Boutique plus get a Beatsurfing plugin free and use and earn their loyalty cash to reduce the cost and help with the operating costs for…Read More

On October 21, 2025 at 1:00 pm doug said
I tried to install using the InMusic Software Center. I am on a PC but the software center downloaded the MAC version. So I cannot install it.

I’m not sure what happened, but the URL for the Windows installer is here and it worked fine for me, and i’m also on Windows and installing Transient as I post…Read More

NOTE: Okay, I realize IK has been all over this site this month with their group buy and their new headphones monitoring system, but I just realized that I missed a fantastic giveway that I haven’t seen posted at any of the big forums, subreddits, or Facebook Groups that I monitor for deals. And this is excellent digital gear, all free. To make it…Read More

There is a ridiculous amount of deep discounted sample libraries, plugins, and music production software on sale right now. Valhalla Plugins, SoundPaint, and FabFiler are the only major developers I can think of that aren’t presently and probably won’t be doing deep discounts this season (Valhalla and SoundPaint don’t have sales, and FabFilter’s…Read More

I would gladly take on the vocals, but bass guitar, guitar, piano, synth, you name it — if you want to collaborate on these tracks, just let me know.

Imagine  – John Lennon

I’m Losing You  – John Lennon

Cold Tur…Read More

My family would be very unhappy if I turned speakers on or even attempted to play my drums or percussion — I suppose with the exception of my glockenspiel. So, consequently, it’s all MIDI controllers, electronic (MIDI) drums, and headphones for me from start to finish. And my hearing isn’t great, so I need everything loud to hear the various…Read More

This totally appeals to me. I’d be interested in what others are doing regarding mixing. Are you mixing on monitor speakers or using headphones?

Last year CHATGPT literally wrote my eulogy, claiming that I had made significant contributions to the field of marketing and cause for better ethics for the profession, but that I had died. Today, I was looking at the analytics reports for LinkedMusicians and fond that there’s a page that actually links from Cakewalk Forum to LinkedMusicians –…Read More

I really like this developer and have been posting about him for years. He’s really talented. I see that Sound on Sound recently gave this a stellar, 5/5 review and even used the phrase genius when referring to the developer. It was cool to see him get some well deserved recognition.

The IK Group Buy is presently at 30 products for the price of 1 with 1,594 new participants needed to reach the next level and 18 days to go.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/allingb2025/

On October 11, 2025 at 8:02 pm musicman said

On October 11, 2025 at 6:34 pm peter said
So now I’m caught in between the Elysia Karacter and the Vertigo VSS-2. I’d love to hear from anyone who has either. Also, if those vouchers are transferable, feel free to PM me a spare one guys! 🙂

Here’s a review from Mix magaz…

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So now I’m caught in between the Elysia Karacter and the Vertigo VSS-2. I’d love to hear from anyone who has either. Also, if those vouchers are transferable, feel free to PM me a spare one guys! 🙂

Here’s a review from Mix magazine.

https://www.mixonline.com/technology/reviews/plug-ins/vertigo-vss-2-plug-in-a-mix-real-world-review

Thanks @mira! You rock!!!

On October 11, 2025 at 7:03 am psionx said
If you use the $25 monthly voucher you can buy all 4 for $15.

I haven’t bought anything from them in a while and haven’t seen one of those vouchers in a while. I actually wasn’t sure that they still sent those out until your post. Darn! Now I’m jealous. I was doing a little research on the  Elysia…Read More

On October 11, 2025 at 6:50 am pseudopop said
Also available for free from the Focusrite Collective. As a result, you can get it from KnobCloud for ~$10.

Is it currently available from Focusrite Collective? I own two Focusrite devices. If it is available, could you post the link, please? I’d love to grab it for free. Thanks!

I’ve been looking at the Elysia Karacter for 10 bucks. Any opinions on it from people who use it or demoed it?

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/elysia_karacter.html

Cool! AudioThing rocks, an awesome indie dev.  And I realy enjoy the composer / musician in the video above, who’se done some other demos for them too. I can’t recall his name, but I’ve enjoyed every demo that he’s done and watch them from start to finish.

This (and “Won’t Get Fooled Again”) were the songs that I heard at a kids party with my youngest sister when I was 7 that made me decide that I wanted to be a rock drummer. I never played the song with a band, so I thought I’d do a quick jam version cover of it. It’s around 2 minutes, so it’s not the entire song.  I just wanted to see what I…Read More

On October 9, 2025 at 3:07 pm doug said
$12.60 at JRRSHOP with the GROUP coupon. Of course, if you want one of the PluginBoutique freebies and want to support LM, PB would be the better choice. @peter, do you have an affiliate link for JRRSHOP?

Nope. I don’t think they have an affiliate program. But I love it when our members better a deal…Read More

My favorite sample libraries, my go-tos:

PIANO
– NI Noire
– Orange Tree Samples Evolution Rosewood
– 8Dio The 1928 Piano (yes, 8Dio gives this away free, but I love it)
– Emertone Walker 1955 Concert D Lite (I feel guilty because I love this library I bought for $10 and never upgraded, because I’m really happy with the lite version)
– EZKEYS Stan…Read More

On October 6, 2025 at 8:39 pm Luiz Pedroso said
Hello, everyone.

I would like to clarify it. There is NO 75% discount for new accounts.

There is a discount for those who already have the old M1 LE. Here is the official link:

https://www.korg.com/us/news/2025/0918/

If you read the text in the last paragraph of the page you linked it reads:

“In…Read More

If anyone wants to connect on Facebook, you can find me (okay, my pseudonym from my musician days) here. I am contemplating building up the social media channels for LinkedMusicians in the future:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/859652520856500/user/61576318105878

Log in or sign up to view

See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

www.facebook.com

Yay! I love Fracture Sounds freebies! Their Blueprint series is outstanding. Looking forward to playing with this one. Thanks, @frank !

On October 6, 2025 at 10:42 am Brian said
Allow me to advocate for the Devil.  Are the folks who can’t get the freebie registered users of Safari Pedals as noted in the OP?  I didn’t get the deal either, but I also don’t have (or want) a Safari Pedals account.

Okay, so allow me to play God’s advocate. 😉  I kid, I kid, I couldn’t resist!…Read More

SSL X-Saturator is still on sale for $7.99, probably the lowest price ever on the plugin. Unsurprisingly, I own a bunch of saturator plugins such as Waves Abbey Road Saturator (or whatever it’s called — that’s from memory), and saturators from UAD, XLN and small developers, but this one has received a lot of praise over the years and that price…Read More

On October 5, 2025 at 2:30 am Vst0nE said
its not sending any serials unfortunately, seems lots of people same issue

I completed the offer and never saw a response from @karanyi either. I checked my spam folder too to make sure that their email didn’t end up there. Dani Karanyi is a member of LinkedMusicians. Hopefully, he’ll see this and have…Read More

Well, one thing I’ve seen this week, as website traffic has more than doubled over the last week, registrations are starting to pick up and SPAMMERS are registering at a rate of around 5-7 per day. I have been impressed at how well our software has been doing at catching them. Only one got through and made a SPAM topic, which I deleted within 30…Read More

On October 2, 2025 at 2:42 pm mira said
Good evening guys 🙂  i try to purchase this all day – but have fastspring error order cannot be procesed, im alone or anyone else? many thanks  for ansver – good night /day depend on your time zone

It worked fine for me last night. I’m in the US.

Very cool and it’s a total drumming workout! I think my wrists would be in pain from tendinitis after 4 to 8 bars on that song!

I actually tried to come up with a song for LinkedMusicians too! But I couldn’t pull it off! So congratulations, you did it!

Thanks so much for the song — and the lyrics — and just being a great help and a friend,…Read More

If you own a Launchkey MK4, Novation Play is already waiting for you in your customer portal. Click the link below to log in and download it.

https://id.focusritegroup.com/en/my-hardware

On October 1, 2025 at 12:30 pm Zargg said
I’ll start off with a boring one.
I don’t have a wishlist this year. I got a TONEX pedal and Total Studio Max 5 (on sale) earlier this year, plus upgraded to Soundtoys 5 from the Effect Rack (also on sale) so that was my money spent for the rest of the year.

I don’t feel like I’m missing anything either.…

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On September 30, 2025 at 7:24 pm dsteinschneider said
I usually just use a dried out 🙂 Legacy of Rock Jet Black kit so I listened to the No Doubt songs based on that SDX. Sounded good – will probably buy a bundle of 5 or 10 at some point.

I asked the developer if he’s open to recommendations for new drum kit presets and he said that he was.

I t…Read More

First, welcome to LinkedMusicians @doriangray! I’m the guy who started it. It’s great to have you here!

@mira You’re on a roll today! A $1 deal for a UJAM synth and UVI ReLayer and now a free Amp from UAD — how long can you keep this up? I hope all week!

A video on the amp sim:

This is such a phenominal deal, I’m going to bump it!

I would have loved to see Ben Folds! I loved the Ben Folds 5 — they were a great 3-piece band (people who aren’t Ben Fold fans are wondering if my math is bad; but yes, the Ben Folds 5 only had 5 members). Unfortunately, I have not seen any major bands this year. I tried with my family, but couldn’t get them on board for anything but sporting events.

What are the BEST and WORST sample library and instrument plugin purchases that you’ve made and why do you find that to be so?
(We’ll do another thread to cover effects and DAWs.)