On December 24, 2025 at 4:13 am Magic Pill Music said
Brian Auger

Bill Payne

Chuck Leavell

Bob Mayo

This may surprise you from my doing so many Beatles covers (that’s because I love their music and it’s super easy to play) and my picks being very prog-y, but I was mulling over whether or not to put Billy Powell on the list. My tastes in music…Read More

@patrickwichrowski I’ve seen every keyboardist on your list except for Vangelis.

I liked the first version of Rosewood Grand, but it wasn’t one of my top favorite grand piano sample libraries.

The second version, which is literally two new sample libraries, the regular piano samples plus a new felt piano library, tied with my longtime favorite grand piano sample library, NI Noire. And it does what Noire doesn’t. It cuts…Read More

I installed this and tried it out last night and really like it. There are straight tongue drum samples, there are sound design patches, there are synth pads they made, and there are arps. It’s a great freebie and it would easily have been worthwhile if they charged for it too.

Just a reminder, it works with the free Kontakt Player, so you don’t…Read More

I picked up solo harp. I fell in love with the tremolo swells and immediately thought of how they would work well in a song I wrote long ago that I have half-recorded.

https://www.orchestraltools.com/salu?t=instruments

Darn.I was hoping that they’d have something I really wanted in this sale. They really focus hard on metal, and seem to do a great job with it. But as a rock guy, I didn’t find the EZXs in the sale very appealing. @pseudopop knows why I didn’t find today’s EZX of interest (I sold him my license for Funkmaster’s last night month).

Hopefully,…Read More

@bluescat and @fleer When you guys get it, please post your thoughts. As hard as it is for me to do for a Wurly, I’m not going to get it until I see a killer deal.

1. Keith Emerson – While Emerson’s chops were clearly rooted in classical piano, he was clearly a genius rock keybardist. d.

2. Rick Wakeman – Yes, Elton John, David Bowie, solo, The Srawbs, Cat Stevens… I saw Rick with his solo band twice. He is a rock keyboardist master.

3. David Sancious – He is as tasteful as it gets. He has the ability to…Read More

I do own an Ignite series Hofner. I’ve used it most recently on the last Fizzy Pickle song (Thrilllller).

Since I do more metal than pop, a real/true Hofner is financially impractical at this time.

On December 18, 2025 at 3:55 am lastcall said
I can’t even create an account.

What’s the problem?

It appears that this is a restructuring of the company’s debt, basically like the US equivalent of a Chapt 11. Do you know anything more, @Bapu? I’d hate to see them go under.

I LOVE the Hofner 500/1 bass (of course, that’s due to growing up a huge fan of Paul McCartney and The Beatles). It has an absolutely beautiful tone. I’m guessing that you…Read More

On December 17, 2025 at 12:01 pm Brian said
Great deal.  I got the Charango a while back and it is certainly worth the $9 by itself.

Thanks for weighing in (AKA enabling my sample library hoarding!), @bluescat. That’s good enough for me for $9! I have contemplated buying this developer’s libraries before, as the demos sound really good to my…Read More

I pinned this thread and added the free Synthmaster One freebie to the Best 2025 Holiday Deals and Freebies Roundup thread. I own all of the Synthmaster synths and highly recommend them. I especially love Synthmaster 3.

Years of speech therapy as a kid and still, it sounds like I sang, “lead me to your DAW.”

Well, just know that the idea of time-limited email alerts is just an idea I have. It would not be easy to execute. But the daily email digest is coming soon. As far as subscribing to email alerts as they are today, you just need to go to the top of any thread you want to subscribe to and press subscribe or you can go to the top level of the deals…Read More

Hi @swijaya. Your post made me think about something I’ve contemplated since I first built the site. I would greatly appreciate your honest thoughts on an idea I have — whether or not you would find this feature I’m proposing useful or not.

Right now, email alerts were sent out for this deal to everyone who subscribes to the Deals Forum right…Read More

I think you know @pseudopop that SD3 is my go-to for acoustic drum samples. But Toontrack rarely has the SDXs that interest me on deep discounts like this. Rock Warehouse SDX is one that I have been interested in. I don’t recall my take on the two Roots SDXs — I need to check those out. I already own Custom & Vintage, which I find kind of meh…Read More