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As every year, a few keen brands have already started discounting their DAWs and VST plugins from the end of October. Here is our current top deals based on our Black Friday 5-Star Rating.
Our top deal this year is from Loopmasters: First of all you can get 2 months access for only $2, and get 50% off annual access to this top sample library (Using Coupon Code: BF50). Included are also our 4* rated Loopcloud sample manager, and the excellent Future Audio Workshop SubLab* for free (priced normally $79).
Sonnox offer cracking plugins, with the Oxford range Inflator and Limiter home in many studios. With 75% off, you can get your hands on the plugins from $39.
Ableton disappointed us this year by lowering their Black Friday discount from 25% to 20%. That's why we only awarded a 3 star deal rating to Ableton. However, we discovered you can buy Ableton Live 11 for up to 45% off. Thomann* has been consistently the cheapest official retailer selling Ableton Live, as our extensive research showed over the last years*. We award the Ableton deals at Thomann 5 stars.
Image Line have increased their deals this year. 25% off FL Studio Producer Edition, 20% off FL Studio All Plugins Edition, plus Free Plugins & Sample Packs.
FabFilter sales have a predictable pattern, when we studied what discounts the company offered from 2018 to 2021. FabFilter have always offered 25% off, for a few days only. The FabFilter 25% off sale runs from 21 to 28 November 2022 this year, a few days longer than in 2021.
Waves are on sale every day but still leave their biggest discounts reserved to Black Friday*. 160 of their most popular plugins are now reduced to what Waves claims is their "biggest sale ever":
In addition you will get free plugins when you spend over $50: 1 free plugin when you spend $50, 2 free plugins when you spend over $60, and 4 free plugins when you spend over $100.
Soundtoys is a table stake for many producer, with tasty analog emulations that add that extra dirt, spark and character to productions. Distressor, Echo Boy and Alter Boy are just a few of the ever green producer favourites. For Black Friday 2022, Soundtoys offer up to 80% discount. Highlights are Crystallizer* and Filter Freak for $29* (80% off), Decapitator for $49* (75% off) and the full Soundtoys 5 bundle for $229* (54% off).
Predictably, Arturia repeats their Black Friday deals from the last years, with 50% off V Collection, FX Collection 3, and Pigments.
iZotope started to discount a few of their plugins and bundles from early November, and have now increased their discounts further. Neoverb is 74% off* (now $25), Nectar 3 Plus up to 80% off* (from $49), Music Production Suite 5 is up to 85% off* (from $149), Ozone 10 is up to 70% off* (from $149), RX 10 is up to 75% off* (from $99), Neutron 4 is up to 75% off* (from $99)*
This Black Friday season, Native Instruments offer 50% off 250 individual plugins and expansions, and up to $300 cashback when you buy Maschine or Komplete Kontrol hardware.
Wavesfactory have some top specialised plugins which found their niche and shine through. Cassette, Trackspacer, Spectre and Quantam all bring their own flavour to the table, and are well worth checking out. Even better, Wavesfactory have increased their discounts from last year for Black Friday 2022 from 40% to 50% across the range. So now you can pick up many Wavesfactory plugins from $29.
Baby Audio have increased their discounts from 2021, and shared an additional 10% discount code with their email subscribers.
Imagine and Noisy are innovative instruments from Expressive E which you can buy for 50% off for a limited time.
20% off Ableton Live is disappointing, much lower than 45% off you can get at Thomann*, and lower than 25% off Ableton offered in 2021. However if you are after Ableton Push, 20% off is a decent deal, and Ableton extended the deal length this year from 5 days to 2 months.
The Protools Black Friday deal AVID offers is a bit disappointing in our view, with 25 to 33% off Protools annual subscriptions. The discount is lower than up to 50% offered in 2021, and only applies for the first year.
We have many more Black Friday deals that are live now, and predictions for deals we think are still to come.
Black Friday doesn't necessarily mean you have to spend your hard earned cash. Some brands are generous and offer a free plugin. We predict Waves, Plugin Alliance, and Baby Audio to release new free VST plugins, like in the last few years. The good news is that many free plugins from previous Black Friday are still available.
So far, this is the free Black Friday plugin for 2022. Soundtoys are giving away the mic preamp Little Radiator for free during from November 2022 to 2 January 2023. This is an excellent little plugin that warms up and saturates audio signals, and works nicely on bass guitar, drums, or even buses. Little Radiator is normally sold for $79, and getting this quality for free is generous from Soundtoys. Thank you.
iZotope released a new free referencing application ahead of Black Friday 2022. Audiolens* is a desktop app for macOS and Windows which makes track referencing and comparison easy. It works by analysing audio from any streaming platform or audio source. The application will collect data on key sonic characteristics, helping you to visualise, compare, and match your favourite reference tracks and sounds.
While this is useful to visualise the frequency curve of your references, iZotope Audiolens* increases value when you combine it with iZotope Ozone or Neutron. The integration of enables you to match your tracks or masters with the imaging, frequency, and dynamics of your reference tracks.
Referencing from Audiolens* operates with the following products:
For the last few years, Waves Audio has released one plugin for free during Black Friday weekend. In 2021, the Waves free plugin was Lofi Space, a new delay plugin. This plugin now sells for the usual $29.99.
So for Black Friday 2022, Waves Audio released another new plugin, called Lil Tube, a tube saturator plugin. Lil Tube is the first in the new MAGMA series of Waves plugins which specialise in analog emulations. We are intrigued to test how they stand up against the flag bearer of analog emulations Soundtoys - which are on sale this Black Friday with up to 80% off. And don't forget Soundtoys Little Radiator is available for free until 2 January.
Waves Lil Tube will only be available for free from its release on Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2022. Just register your email*, and you will receive the free Lil Tube Waves plugin via email within a few hours.
An easy to use algorithmic reverb VST plugin derived from Baby Audio Spaced Out. At every click, Magic Dice will generate a new texture, using Spaced Out's randomisation engine – and no two results are ever the same.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are when most VST plugin and DAW software developers offer their lowest prices of the year. Some brands, such as Ableton, are on sale for only 5 days. Many others, however, start in early November, or continue to offer deals well into December, into the Holiday or Christmas season.
We analysed the best plugin and DAW deals offered by the most popular brands from Black Friday 2019 to 2021. That information helped us predict what brands are likely to offer Black Friday deals, at what discount, at for how long.
Unfortunately, we cannot gaze into the future. However, we are in contact with many companies who share upcoming promotions with us. In addition, we conducted in-depth research into what deals were offered during Black Friday 2019 to 2021, and then predict which plugin or DAW developers might offer during Black Friday 2022. In 2021, we got most of our predictions right, and just a few wrong. In any case, we update our predictions with any confirmed or live deals as soon as possible.
We rate all live and confirmed deals out of 5 from worst (1/5) to best (5/5). We arrive at our Black Friday deal ratings by rating them according to three criteria:
We also predict what deals plugin developers are likely to offer during Black Friday 2022.
How do know what Black Friday deals will be offered? Unfortunately, we cannot gaze into the future. However, we are in contact with many companies who share upcoming promotions with us. In addition, we conduct research into what deals were offered during Black Friday 2019 to 2021, and then predict which plugin or DAW developers might offer during Black Friday 2022. In 2021, we got most of our predictions right, and a just few wrong. In any case, we update our predictions with any confirmed or live deals as soon as possible.
We don't want to overwhelm you. That is why we focus on a selection of the most popular brands, but then analyse, rate and predict all the Black Friday VST deals in more detail.
I have been there and done that. Yes, I spent more than in hindsight I wanted. And I bought plugins that I ended up not using. But I also saved massively. I now want to pass on the learnings from my costly mistakes to you, the musicmanta community. That's why I wrote a 5 step guide to help you prepare, plan, and purchase plugins at plunged prices (phew!).
Ableton Live is one of the most popular DAWs for music production. But it is not cheap, in particular when you want to go for the bigger bundle Ableton Live Suite.
From 2019 to 2021, Ableton offered 25% off for 5 days, from the day before Black Friday, to Cyber Monday. All Ableton Live versions were included, from Ableton Live 11 Intro, to Ableton Live 11 Standard, up to the top of the range Ableton Live 11 Suite. The 25% discount applied to both new purchases and upgrades.
Contrary to our prediction that Ableton will repeat this regular pattern in 2022, Ableton decided to cut their discount to only 20%. That is disappointing in our view, in particular as other retailer like Thomann, our lowest priced Ableton retailer, offers 35% discount all year round.
It is still possible that Ableton will increase their discount to 25% for the usual 5 days. But for now, while this is good offer, we can only advise you to buy at a lower price at Thomann.
Thomann* has been consistently the cheapest official retailer selling Ableton Live, as our extensive research showed over the last years*. So the great news is, you don't have to wait until Black Friday to buy Ableton at a great price, and can still pick Ableton up after it has ended.
(Prices last checked: 29th October 2022)
(Prices last checked: 29th October 2022)
Reverb is offering a rare and massive 35% discount on the top of the range Ableton Live 11 Suite, when you buy the DAW together with the Ableton Push 2 hardware controller. The offer started 9 November 2022 for a limited time.
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Since T Pain and Cher made Auto-Tune famous, Antares has dominated the pitch correction plugins. Antares continue to expand their range, and now include an extensive product selection.
Antares started their Black Friday sale on Auto-Tune early this year. From 14 to 20 November 2022 Antares reduces Auto-Tune by 65%.
We predicted Antares would continue its discounts from Black Friday in 2022, which were 70%. However the discount on subscriptions increased in 2022 from 50% off for the first year to now 65%, and Antares added a bigger free perpetual licence worth $179, compared to free perpetual Auto-Tune Access license worth $99 that was included in Black Friday 2022.
Full Antares Licenses: 50-70% off Auto-Key, Auto-Tune Access, Mutator and Harmony Engine
Auto-Tune Unlimited Subscription: 50% off for the first year (now $149.99), plus bonus Auto-Tune Access full license worth $99
Products included:
Products included:
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Arturia has been prolific in recent years. Not only did they continue to update its V Collection range of analog emulations, they also launched a new massive synth plugin with Pigments, and expanded into effect plugins with FX Collection. Arturia also expanded into a vast range of hardware, from controllers to analog synths and drum machines.
I can imagine last year's Black Friday sale was a roaring success for Arturia. Why? Because the French company has repeated exactly the same Black Friday promotion, which they ran in 2020 and 2021. The sale includes:
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AVID Protools has been one of the main recording tools and DAW for a long time, with Media Composer video editing and Sibelius notation software also popular. However, after switching to a subscription service, discounts have been few and far between.
AVID released its Black Friday deals on Monday 14 November 2022, and will last until 27 November. Compared to the discount on offer during Black Friday 2021, this is a disappointment, as they offered 50% discount on a first year Protools Ultimate subscription.
This Cyber Week deal from Thomann beats the $599 deal when buying Protools Ultimate from AVID.
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Baby Audio has quietly but firmly edged itself into the spotlight with its unique take on classic effect plugins. True to form, Baby Audio IHNY-2 was released a few months ago, an updated version of their parallel compression (also called New York compression) plugin. We rated the plugin 4 out of 5 stars. Let's not forget last year's Baby Audio plugin release of TAIP, a fresh take on tape saturation and distortion, derived with the help of an AI algorithm. We liked this plugin a lot, which inspired us to include a few delicious demos in our article.
Baby Audio confirmed the upcoming Black Friday deals to us early. And we are glad to hear that our predictions became reality. Here is what we predicted all year: "After the company increased their Black Friday discounts in 2021 from 40% to 44%, we would like to think they increase this further to 45% or even 50%, at least on some of their plugins."
Baby Audio will stretch their discount to 51% for one plugin, Crystalline. This is higher than they have ever done. The Black Friday sale will be live from 11th November, and continue until 5th December 2022.
Baby Audio provided a coupon code for subscribers of their email list. 10% So please, if you decide to use it, be so kind and subscribe to the Baby Audio newsletter - which automatically gives you access to three free Baby Audio plugins as well.
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The company recently introduced an update of Shaperbox 3, their modular modulation flagship loved by musicians such as David Guetta.
Dates: 24 October 2022 to 30 November 2022
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Celemony started their Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale on 18th November 2021, which will continue until 31st December 2021. Melodyne is not only one of the alternatives to the ubiquitous Antares Auto-Tune. This VST pitch correction plugin also brings a more natural pitch correction and advanced sound manipulation to the masses. While it's not free, Melodyne 5 Essential is certainly making the audio software significantly cheaper.
Celemony offer the entry level Melodyne 5 Essential for only $49, which is $50 off. In addition, Plugin Boutique has a clever "buy & upgrade" bundle. With this offer, you can buy Melodyne 5 Essential for $49, and immediately upgrade to a more fully featured Melodyne version for up to 53% off. As a result, you can buy any Melodyne 5 version (from Melodyne 5 Assistant and Editor to Melodyne 5 Studio) for around up to 52% off. That is a lot bigger discount than the maximum 40% offered in 2021.
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Devious Machines have developed an intriguing range of effect plugins in recent years, with plugins such as Infiltrator released in 2021, which morphs and mangles audio through its modulated multi-effects set up.
Devious Machines is a plugin developed that has reduced the discount year on year since 2019, from 40% in 2019, 35% in 2020, 30% in 2021 to only 25% this year. The sale started on 16 November 2022, and will continue until 11 December 2022.
25% off all Devious Machines plugins, including
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FabFilter are considered one of the most desirable plugin brands. Not surprisingly, we also rated FabFilter Pro Q 3 5 stars in our in-depth review. But with FabFilter Pro Q 3 costing $179, ratcheting up to nearly $1000 for the FabFilter Total bundle, they are far from cheap.
FabFilter sales have a predictable pattern, when we studied what discounts the company offered from 2018 to 2021. FabFilter have always offered 25% off, for a few days only. No surprise then that we predicted FabFilter will continue to offer 25% off for Black Friday 2022, on all plugins and bundles. And they did just that. The FabFilter 25% off sale runs from 21 to 28 November 2022 this year, a few days longer than in 2021.
This deal is the best of the year from FabFilter, and increased in breadth from FabFilter Summer Sale, which is also a 25% discount and ran for two weeks, but only included plugin bundles.
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Image Line rarely offers FL Studio at any discount throughout the year. However, Black Friday is different. Our research shows FL Studio offered a significant discount in the last few years.
In 2021, Image Line released its Black Friday deal early in November, which continued until 30th November 2021. The offer was limited to the All Plugins Edition. For 2022, we hoped less fully featured versions, such as the FL Studio Producer Edition, would be included in the Black Friday 2022 sale, as that move would make buying FL Studio much more accessible.
Luckily, our wishes came true.
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iZotope is recognised as one of the premier plugin developers, most famous for the ubiquitous iZotope Ozone 9* mastering suite, or the iZotope RX9* audio restoration software.
iZotope released its Black Friday deals earlier in November and will continue those deals until the end of the year. The discounts iZotope offers are massive, not just the huge discounts of up to 96%, but also including low price points from $9. So this Black Friday is a fantastic opportunity for anyone to start with iZotope plugins, or expand your iZotope selection.
The top deals iZotope offers during Black Friday 2021 include:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 15 plugins:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 8 plugins:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 2 plugins:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 4 plugins:
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This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 2 plugins:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 11 plugins:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 14 plugins:
This iZotope Black Friday special bundle includes 14 plugins:
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Native Instruments is one of the longest-established developers of electronic music-making software and hardware, which can be found in most home and professional studios. No surprise then when this massive company also wants a piece of the crazy Cyberseason action in 2021. Who doesn't like a nice Native Instruments sale, making many of their tasty VST plugins more affordable?
This year, Native Instruments decided to focus on individual plugins, rather than discounts on its Komplete flagship bundle or hardware, such as Komplete Kontrol or Maschine. This is a bit disappointing, but a repeat of the Native Instruments 2020 and 2021 sale. Discounted highlights include:
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oeksound have carved out a strong reputation as a specialist plugin creator, since it was created in 2006. First of the gates was Soothe, a dynamic resonance suppressor, which has since been updated to Soothe 2. A few years later, oeksound released its second plugin, Spiff, an adaptive transient processor.
We have received confirmation from oeksound that their Black Friday offer in 2022 will take place for 4 days, from Black Friday 25th November to Cyber Monday 28th November 2022.
oeksound is offering free trial resets for both Soothe2 and Spiff. If you’ve used a trial license for either plugin in the past and would like to give them another go, visit the oeksound plugin trial reset page and enter your iLok account.
A trial extension license will be deposited directly onto your iLok account - you won’t receive a license code via email. Log in to your iLok account in the iLok License Manager program to find and activate your new trial license, and enjoy an extra 20 days of Soothe2 and Spiff for free.
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Since it was created in 2013, Output has expanded its range of sample-based instruments to Arcade, its VST plugin subscription, and even studio hardware. Without a doubt, Output's pedigree is illustrious. Many artists have used their plugins, such as Kendrick Lamar, Bjork, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, and Drake. Output plugins have also been used to create film scores and music for shows such as Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and Black Panther.
Output in 2021 repeated pretty much the same deals as it offered in 2020 and 2019, with around 35% off. Hardware is excluded, as well as Arcade 2.0. This is a decent deal, but not spectacular. The instruments including Output Exhale, Analog Strings, and Substance are all 35% off, with Output Expansions 37% off.
Plus Portal Expansions 37% off:
Plus Movement Expansions 37% off:
Plus Analog Brass & Winds Expansions 37% off:
Plus Analog Strings Expansions 37% off:
This monster bass VST plugin was built using Native Instruments' Kontakt sample engine. It comes with 300 presets, combing analog bass, with electric and acoustic bass instruments, all run through the Output engine using layers, filters, and modulations. If that is not enough, you can expand the sonic spectrum further with Substance Expansions, which are 37% off:
Exhale is a vocal-focused VST plugin that can be heard on countless tracks. It has been a favorite for EDM and pop producers who want to sprinkle vocal chops and phrases onto their songs. 3 Exhale Expansions add even more phrases, all on sale for 37% off:
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This VST synth plugin has been in the shadows of the likes of XFer Serum, Lennar Digital Sylenth1, and Native Instruments Massive for a while. But it encouraged at least serious EDM producers like Armin Van Buuren and Morgan Page to put their names against it. The VST brings both digital and analog engines to the virtual table, which runs through 4 oscillators, and 2 filters, beefed up with 9 unison voices. Movement stems from copious amounts of modulation options, before adding 2 multi-effect units for extra sonic flavor. 900 Presets bring plenty of choices if you simply want to get going.
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British developer Sonnox has been around for many years and is most well known for its Sonnox Oxford Inflator and Limiter plugins, as well as their full Oxford range, which includes dynamics, EQ, and reverb plugins. But Sonnox plugins are certainly in the more expensive category, with most of their individual plugins costing over $200.
Like in previous years, Sonnox is one of the earliest out of the blocks in 2022, with top deals starting from the end of October. The deals will continue until 30th November 2022.
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Soundtoys have become a staple in many music producers' plugin collections. Decapitator, EchoBoy, and Little Alter Boy can be heard in numerous productions, and are well known for imparting analog flavors to your recordings.
But the full Soundtoys 5 bundle with 21 plugins is not exactly cheap, costing $499. Luckily, Soundtoys has offered tasty discounts in recent years during Black Friday, so you don't have to search for a Soundtoys mac torrent and download an illegal version. When are you getting your first soundtoy?
Soundtoys has offered what we predicted before Black Friday 2021. We have no reason to change our prediction for Soundtoys Black Friday 2022. We predict Soundtoys plugins will be on sale for about 7 days for their flagship Soundtoys bundle*, down to $229 from $499, as well as the $129 discounted price on Effect Rack (from $299)*. Discounts on individual plugins, such as the excellent Little Plate, Decapitator, EchoBoy, or Little Radiator, we think will continue, with up to 70% off*. This lowers the bar to access those excellent VST plugins, like Soundtoys Little Alterboy, to only $29.
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Waves appeared to be the original plugin creator that started decades ago, and they are still going strong. You might not like their approach to promotions, which sees all plugins constantly on sale - meaning you should never ever buy a Waves plugin at full price. But many of their plugins are still fine quality in our view, and you can always test a free demo version of any Waves plugin before you buy.
We would prefer a more straightforward pricing and promotion policy than Waves offer. Our guidance is to ignore any discounts of up to 90% off their inflated "Manufacturer Recommended Retail Price" (MRSP). In reality, Waves plugins are always on offer, throughout the year. To make this easy, as a rule of thumb, use $29.95 as the "real" price for individual plugins throughout the year. So any real discounts should come off $29.95.
When it comes to our Black Friday prediction, this has not been easy. Waves constantly change its promotions and are very creative. However, when we researched recent years, a few patterns emerged. So far, our predictions have come broadly true. Waves Audio has started repeating the Early Bird Black Friday offer again, like in 2021. This offer entails:
From Black Friday 2022 (25th November 2022) to early December: a new free plugin (similar to Lofi Space* offered for free for a limited time in 2021), and a multi-buy, reducing discounted prices further.
Waves offered various multi-buys off their already reduced "real" prices of around $29.99.
Here is an example of what discounts you could get in 2021 when you added multiple Waves plugins at the already discounted price of $29.99.
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This Spanish VST developer from Mallorca created some waves in recent years. Plugins like Trackspacer have brought innovation to the sea of sameness. I have used Trackspacer to successfully duck (or sidechain) selective frequencies between vocals and other instruments - which is not straightforward to achieve. No surprise the team has gathered a following for its character plugins, including the Echocat tape delay plugin, Cassette saturation plugin, Trackspacer dynamic ducking plugin, and more recently Quantum transient shaper and Spectre EQ plugins.
For Black Friday 2021, Wavesfactory offered up to 50% off. However, only one plugin was discounted that highly. This was a bit disappointing and substantially reduced discounts to 33% for most of its plugins, after offering 50% discounts on most of them in 2019 and 2029. So we rated this offer only 3 out of 5 in 2021.
For 2022, we hope Wavesfactory will increase this to 40% across the range.
Wavesfactory Black Friday 2021: 33% off most plugins, with one 50% off
Wavesfactory Black Friday 2020: 50% off Cassette ($29), Trackspacer ($29), Spectre ($49), Echo Cat ($39).
Wavesfactory Black Friday 2019: 50% off all plugins.
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XLN Audio* is one of the specialists in plugins which found a neat niche. The Swedish VST developer expanded Addictive Drums* into an impressive collection of realistic drum samples over the years, capturing both acoustic drum sets and electronic drum machines, all accessible through a pretty plugin interface. Not stopping there, Addictive Keys* further takes XLN Audio's sample wizardry into electric and acoustic pianos.
XLN Audio XO* then is a unique plugin that enables beat making and drum groover creation a cinch. I have been using this plugin for a year now, and I found the classy cloud-like sample manager and filters truly a pleasure to use.
With RC-20 Retrocolor*, XLN Audio has created a cult plugin with producers all across the musical spectrum rating it for the realistic character this plugin can impart. Apparently, Diplo, Finneas, Charlie Puth, Jacob Collier, and Kenny Beats are among them.
XLN Audio went for it during Black Friday 2022, repeating their discounts from 2021 and 2020. Just as we predicted all year, XLN Audio is running its promotion for 10 days from 21 to 30 November 2022, with all products 50% off.
XLN Audio Black Friday 2021: 50% off the XLN Audio range, for 10 days.
XLN Audio Black Friday 2020: 50% off the XLN Audio range, for 10 days.
XLN Audio Black Friday 2019: 45% off the XLN Audio range, for 10 days.
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Before you spend more than you can afford, you might want to consider the following top tips:
So being a bit organised and prepared is an efficient way to enjoy the jolly season - and then have more time to do what you love doing, making music!
Let us know your top tips on how you are staying sane during Black Friday, and ensure you won't spend money on music tools you cannot afford or regret later.
No, we predict Spectrasonics will not offer Omnisphere at an discount during Black Friday. However, you can buy Omnisphere at Andertons, a UK retailer, for £316 at the time of writing (29th October 2022). At current exchange rates, this is about $367 - a 26% saving over buying direct from Spectrasonics at $499.
