Nice. Didn’t have it.

I hope if crap hits the fan with NI, that 8dio offers a really cheap way to move to Soundpaint. In the past the crossgrade prices haven’t been too enticing.

Apparently Plugin Alliance posted this on some Facebook page:

“As of today, Plugin Alliance entities are not part of the insolvency filing. Our operations in Langenfeld and the US remain outside these proceedings. For now – It’s business as usual. We continue to operate normally – product releases, support, installers and all other activities…

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swijaya is absolutely correct. Pulse’s Vivid Strings started out strong but as was mentioned, there’s a few bugs lingering and I have no faith that the current owners will iron them out. Doesn’t seem to be in their MO or DNA to do so. As people discuss on VI Control, the issues are mainly with few vibratos. There might be some other quirks as…Read More

Vivid Strings bundle at $49 + discount is a good deal.

On November 27, 2025 at 11:11 am pseudopop said
No bundles this year.

Spitfire Symphony Orchestra is €272.80 for me with the discount. Hmm…

That’s the only one I’m wondering about as well.

On November 26, 2025 at 5:53 pm bselack said
I waited all year (didn’t buy any new ones), so my upgrade from the last synth stack is $125

Cheers. I have the same price.

Those that have a good chunk of Cherry plugins, how much is your Synth Stack loyalty price (ballpark)?

Cherry teased an eight for a week and today they released Mercury-8: their rendition of Jupiter-8.

https://cherryaudio.com/products/mercury-8

https://cherryaudio.com/news/cherry-audio-unveils-mercury-8-the-ultimate-emulation-of-the-legendary-jupiter-8

They also released Synth Stack 6 which includes the Mercury-8, Trident Mk III, Crumar Spirit,…Read More

Should be named “Most Strings Bundle” since it doesn’t feature all the strings.

You thought the “last ever sale” was a good deal? How about that the new historical lows were low?

Well, VSTBuzz has all the following for $99 now:

Concert Strings Adaptive
Chamber Strings Adaptive
Kinetic Solo & Chamber Strings
Kinetic Strings Plus
Lyric Series…Read More

Insane deal.

Really wonder how the website is coded, because different browsers/machines/locations all bring $129. Except if I choose eurozone, then the price is ~58 eur (or ~65 usd)

Unfortunately still shows $129 in the cart / checkout.

On November 19, 2025 at 4:12 am lamia6 said
How’s Spire for $54.80 for an attention grabber? LOL. So much for me figuring 69 was a hell of a deal.

https://www.gear4music.com/us/en/Recording-and-Computers/Reveal-Sound-Spire/3NUS

Dammit. Back to 129. Would have bit instantly.

And yeah. Gears4Music is legit. Bought from them many times without issues.

These are quite a bit cheaper at Gears4Music https://www.gear4music.com/us/en/u-he

I wonder if their customer support has gotten better after the acquisition.

Never replied my somewhat simple and easy emails.

How about…

No.

I think they were asking about VSL’s involvement.

On November 15, 2025 at 1:34 am pseudopop said
Remember to calculate the total money spent for that little extra sting!

Yeah. No. Never. No way. I’d like to maintain my ability to sleep.

https://www.audioimperia.com/shop/

Up to 75% off

For example:

Nucleus – $249 (was $449)

Chorus – $349 (was $499)

Dolce – $299 (was $499)

Jaeger – $299 (was $599)

and so forth…

Crossgrade pricing available when you log in (and register products if you bought them from 3rd party vendors).

On November 14, 2025 at 3:37 pm LinkedMusicians said
↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ The sad reality is that I think most of us — including me — can completely relate to this! I’ve done this a bunch of times and bought stuff twice. That’s why I’ve always appreciated Plugin Boutique having a function that shows me when I bought something from them before that I jus…

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I was waiting for my Softube newsletter 25% voucher to arrive and was contemplating on Model 84 for $39.

Then I realized I already had that with some bundle of theirs that included it and a bunch of others for a total of $39. I only remembered buying Model 82 for ~20 bucks.

Lesson of the day: Don’t press “buy” just yet! You might already own it!

Based on the title, I was hoping to receive $89.10 with a code…

Sonnox was definitely cheaper around August for sure when they had some kind of celebration with ~90% discount. At least when it comes down to individual plugins. For example: Claro $12, Inflator $13 etc.

But you’re right. Late December / early January has often had some good deals not seen on BF/CM and a lot of companies have yet to start their…Read More

On November 12, 2025 at 10:32 pm LinkedMusicians said
Because I’ve been immersed in deal posting this year, I have to respond to that one! There are literally dozens of developers doing deep discounts right now (technically, anything 40% or more is considered deep discounts, but we’re seeing A LOT of developers discounting far over 50%). UAD, IK,…

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It’s been somewhat easy thus far. Aside from some smaller plugins, I don’t think there’s been any real deep discounts (maybe EastWest and Musio are the only ones that have shown how it’s done?)

A lot of companies seem to run the same discounts as last year making fomo really easy to deal with. Also if your BF discount isn’t really different than…Read More

Yeah. It never seizes to amaze me how much more effort some companies put into driving customers away instead of getting the free PR and good word of mouth for relatively little to no effort. But when the message is practically “Your investment is not safe with us” it’s kind of really easy to skip buying from such vendors.

On November 5, 2025 at 11:21 am William Heins said
“VST 2 is not officially supported. VST 2 plug-ins may be loaded (excluding on Native Apple Silicon) when the VST 2 plug-in scanner is enabled in the VST Plug-in Manager. However, Steinberg does not provide support for any issues related to VST 2.”

From the Notes section 🙂

A lot of demo stu…

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Cubase 15 apparently also drops VST2 support completely, if that’s something one cares about.

Story continued:

Video could be about quite a few plugin developers, including some that have had their cases talked about earlier on this forum.

On November 3, 2025 at 9:19 am fretman said
The problem with bundles like these is I find I already have 3 out of 4 of the items.

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

From what I’ve heard, EastWest allows you to exchange some duplicates in bundles for items that have the same price. Or at least have for some people online.

Didn’t expect music plugins to get the spotlight treatment from Louis Rossmann right before Black Friday, but here we are.

Seems like Hauptwerk decided that they don’t want good publicity, and instead would rather redefine words “downloads expire: never”.

If I was looking for an organ VST, I think I’d…Read More

Tracktion released a new version of their Collective plugin set.

Intro price $29.40, normally $49

https://www.tracktion.com/products/collective

$139 – Ancient Bundle

• Ra
• Ancient Kingdom
• Silk
• Gypsy

https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-ancient-bundle.html

$159 – Future Bundle

• Iconic
• Lo-Fi
• Forbidden Planet
• String Machine

https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-future-bundle.html

$339 – Hollywood Bundle

• Hollywood Orchestra Opus
• Fantasy Orchestra
• Hollywood Strings 2

…

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Was kinda looking to buy maybe something, but none of the bundles take into account the things you already own.

Singular products seem to be the exact same prices I think that they ran last year.

Canva just released (Serif’s old) Affinity product suite for free: https://www.affinity.studio/

If you’ve got V1 or V2, you can still access and download those with your current account. Affinity Studio needs a Canva account though.

Free seems free, but has a sub for AI related features.

Haven’t found a breakdown of new features compared to V2…Read More

That’s an amazing development.

Seems to be some historical lows in there, I think (at least Sines, P-10, Mercury 6 I think).

Cherry Audio has a Pick 3 or 6 packages that make the individual item price between $33 and $25, which I think works as an accepted price reference for the newer fully fledged synths (effects and such not withstanding since those might be more in the…Read More

On October 10, 2025 at 12:45 pm MrFigg said
I’ve got 12 of the synths. That took the price of Synthstack from $349 to $323.

Nah!!!

Weird. Sorry for the false alarm.

Cherry Audio has a sale up again for Pick 3 ($99) or Pick 6 ($149) bundles. You can pick the latest releases as well, like freshly released Trident or the month or two old Crumar Spirit.

At least for me, Synth Stack 5 appeared to be on a really good sale as well, if you’ve got some of the older plugins and are looking to complete your line-up up…Read More

It redirects me to Hive 2 🙁

Satyrus | Saturation & Distortion FX Plugin

Hey there,

 

We’ve got something special for the BVKER community: for a limited time, you can claim W. A. Production’s Satyrus plugin (regularly $39.90 USD) completely free — and it’s yours to keep forever.

Satyrus is a powerful distortion/saturation tool designed to add warmth, grit, and edge to your sounds—p…

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Code “forum” works at JRRShop, bringing it down to $105.91

https://www.jrrshop.com/eastwest-ancient-kingdom.html

Should be available at other places as well.

If it’s a ‘limited type deal’ in normal circumstances I really do not mind if other people get in on it after.

Thus, the only time I feel like it becomes an actual issue is that if there is an exceptional time limited deal, and it comes back soon-ish for even a better deal “too soon.”

Generally I really dislike FOMO-tactics.

Buying Musio during…Read More

On September 19, 2025 at 10:01 am zoukiman said
Great! But… What is included in this All Cinematic Alpha package?
Is it me? I can not see that, sorry… Thx!

There’s some definite overlap between Kontakt and Soundbox items. Also with Vital, but since Vital (as far as I know) doesn’t use samples, it might be that the items that overlap in name mig…Read More

How does multi/poly compare to Diva or Dune3?

https://heavyocity.com/product-category/sale/

Code EOS25 takes it down to ~37 bucks on Sonible’s site.

However, I saw this in case you already have the plugins from Focusrite (posted by Sonible):

That said, since FAST was distributed exclusively by Focusrite, we don’t have access to any customer data and can’t offer a direct cross-grade. However, if you previously owned one or more FAST plu…

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On September 9, 2025 at 9:04 am Nitrate Audio said
I probably know the answer to this, but will throw it out there anyway. Anyone who has this, do you prefer the Roland or the d16 version?

I only have the d16 version as well, but from what I read elsewhere the difference basically comes down to the d16 having a bit different sound profile…Read More

But I just recently got the 808 😐