The Best Black Friday Plugin Deals in 2024

Sonnox offer cracking plugins, with the Oxford range Inflator and Limiter home in many studios. With up to 90% off their most popular plugins, you can get your hands on those crackers from $19, for one month. Only Plugin Boutique offer the early Black Friday sale however, with the Sonnox website not offering any discounts. If you haven't got any Sonnox plugins, try them and buy some. 5 stars.

Thomann are not just one of Europe's largest retailers of music related technology. They also ship into many countries beyond Europe, including the USA and Canada, and importantly have some of the best deals across any music tech retailers one can find.

For Black Friday 2024, Thomann is running their Cyber Week from 22 November 2024 to 2 December 2024, offering up to 70% off brands including Behringer, Positive Grid, Taylor, Rode, Beyerdynamic, Focusrite, Shure and more.

Make sure you visit often during that week, as there are Daily Deals that are only available for 24 hours.

We predict that the popular drum suite Addictive Drums, the keyboard selection Addictive Keys, the drum sample organiser and groove plugin XO, and the popular vintage character plugin RC-20 Retrocolor, are all half price for two weeks, just like XLN Audio offered in 2022 and 2023.

Waves are on sale every day but still leave their biggest discounts reserved to Black Friday*. They started their Black Friday sale on 4 November, and will extend deals at an expanding rate until Black Friday itself.

1. Plugins reduced: prices $19.99
2. Additional savings: up to 45% off in addition, if you buy 4 or more plugins

The product range included will increase week by week in the run up to Black Friday:

• Week of 4 Nov: 30 Plugins starting from $19.99
• Week of 13 Nov: 60 Plugins starting from $19.99
• Week of 20 Nov: 90 Plugins starting from $19.99

The multi-buy savings are as follows, if you buy more than one plugin together:

• 25% off your second plugin purchase
• 35% off your third plugin purchase
• 45% off your fourth and more plugin purchase

Wavesfactory Black Friday 2024 offers 50% discount on plugins like Trackspacer, Spectre, and Cassette. Perfect for enhancing mixing and sound design capabilities, those specialist plugins are more affordable for a few weeks.

Universal Audio UAD offers massive deals with up to 96% off full prices during Black Friday 2024*. This is broadly in line with discounts offered last Black Friday, and throughout the year. It is available at official retailers like Plugin Boutique. 4 Stars overall.

Universal Audio itself offers a different sale from their own website, with 12 days of UAD Deals. It includes two plugins for $79, Essentials bundle for $49, Free Pultec EQ with any purchase and more. Offers are also available on UAD hardware, including Interfaces, guitar amps and microphones.

Soundtoys increased their discount from 2023 to top out at 60% from 50%. Importantly, the increase also includes their excellent Soundtoys bundle*, increasing your savings by $30 from $229 to $199. This bundle encompasses 22 plugins including their latest release Super Plate.

Discounts on individual plugins, such as the excellent Little AlterBoy and Decapitator, are 75% off. This lowers the bar to access those fab VST plugins to start from $39.

Rhodes Music not only started producing the the hardware keyboard of the famous Rhodes keyboard again. The company also released an official plugin version alongside the extremely expensive hardware. The plugin comes at a premium price but during Black Friday has been reduced by 50%.

Plugins included in the 60% off Black Friday sale are:

• Rhodes V8: £59.95 / $69.95 / €69.95
• Rhodes V8 Pro: £99.95 / $119.95 / €109.95
• Rhodes V-Rack: £39.95 / $49.95 / €39.95
• Rhodes V-Pan: £11.95 / $15.95 / €13.95

The two recently launched plugins are 30% off:

• Rhodes Anthology: £99.95 / $99.95 / €94.95
• Rhodes Chroma:: £44.95 | $49.95 | €54.95
  

Output have a popular range of powerful effects and Kontakt based instrument plugins, including Substance, Analog Strings and Brass, and Exhale. More recently, Output introduced the Arcade instrument subscription. This plugin offers an ever-growing pool of loop-based samples, phrases, instruments, and loops for a monthly subscription.

Our research showed that Output discounted no more than 35% off from 2019 to 2022 Black Friday. After deepening the discount to 50% across the range, including Arcade, and up to 67% for an instrument bundle, for 2 months, we awarded Output a 4 stars deal rating.

Novation offer up to 30% off their extensive MIDI keyboard, controller and synth range during Black Friday 2024. Highlights include:

• Novation Peak Refurbished: $1,149.99 (instead of $1,599.99)
• Novation Summit Refurbished: $1,699.99 (instead of $2,299.99)
• Novation Circuit Track Refurbished: $289.99 (intead of $399.99)
• Novation Launchpad Pro mk3 Refurbished: $254.99 (instead of $349.99)
• Novation Launchkey Mini mk3 Refurbished: $79.99 (instead of $99.99)

The Finnish company famed for their Soothe, Spiff and Bloom plugins, confirmed they will run a short but sweet Black Friday sale in 2024. The sale includes:

• spiff 38% off: 99 EUR | 99 USD | 85 GBP (reduced from 149 EUR | 139 USD | 119 GBP)‍
• soothe2 33% off: 139 EUR | 139 USD | 119 GBP (reduced from 199 EUR | 199 USD | 169 GBP)
• bloom 33% off: 139 EUR | 139 USD | 119 GBP (reduced from 199 EUR | 199 USD | 169 GBP)

Soothe Live and Rent-to-Own are excluded from the sale.

Native Instruments Black Friday 2024/ Cyber Sale 2024 went live on 14 November and will continue until 16 December. The sale includes:

• 50% off Komplete 15: from $99*
• Up to 50% off instrument plugins: from $24*
• 50% off effect plugins: from $49*
• 50% Guitar Rig Pro 7: from $47*
• Up to 30% off Traktor Pro 4: from $56*
• 85% off Reaktor Synth Bundle: $159 (instead of $1,109 bought individually)*

Loopcloud provide a high quality sample library subscription, provided through our 5 star rated Loopcloud sample management software. For Black Friday 2024, Loopcloud excelled their excellent Black Friday deal yet again: Subscribe for up to 50% off (12 months for the price of 6). Plus get 10 free plugins to keep, even if you don't continue to subscribe after year 1. The sale prices look as follows:

• Loopcloud Artist Subscription: $47.99 for the first year (40% off $79.99)*
• Loopcloud Studio Subscription: $71.99 for the first year (40% off $119.99)*
• Loopcloud Professional Subscription: $131.99 for the first year (40% off $219.99)*

Not stopping there, Loopcloud throws in 10 plugins for you to keep, even if you don't subscribe longer than the first year. 5 stars.

FL Studio Black Friday has gone live on 4 November 2024, and continues until 6 December 2024. Image Line offers up to 30% discount this year - higher than the 25% offered in 2024. Thank you - 4 star rating.

• FL Studio Fruity Edition: $99 (no saving)
• FL Studio Producer Edition: $139 (20% off $199)
• FL Studio Signature Bundle: $199 (26% off $269)
• FL Studio All Plugins Edition: $314 (30% off $449)

iZotope is recognised as one of the premier plugin developers, most famous for the ubiquitous iZotope Ozone mastering suite, or the iZotope RX audio restoration software.

In 2023, iZotope released its Black Friday deals earlier in November and continued until the end of the year. The discounts iZotope offered were massive, and we predict for 2024 the brand will continue to offer such high discounts. Prices in 2023 started as low as $9. So this Black Friday should be a fantastic opportunity for anyone to start with iZotope plugins, or if you want to expand your iZotope selection.

LANDR is more than just an online mastering service it originally started as. Nowadays, subscriptions include a wide array of attractive plugins, it offers music distribution services, samples, courses and a lot more. With that in mind, you can save up to 50% for a limited time during Black Friday, with subscriptions starting from $7.43 a month.

• LANDR Essentials (Yearly Subscription): $7.43 a month (10% off $8.25 a month)*
• LANDR Standard (Yearly Subscription): $8.27 a month (31% off $11.99 a month)*
• LANDR Pro (Yearly Subscription): $12.50 a month (50% off $24.99 a month)*

Focusrite are offering up to 25% off in their own web store from 1 November until the end of the year. You can pick up both new items and refurbished items, starting from $74.99 for a refurbished Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen, normally selling for $99.99.

You can save even more when you buy at Thomann, the largest European retailer, who also ships internationally, including the USA. For example, the popular Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen:

• Buy at Focusrite: $124.99 (16% off $149.99)
• Buy at Thomann: $105 (30% off $149.99)*

For Black Friday 2024, FabFilter to bring a 25% discount across its entire range of plugins and bundles, including the brand-new Pro-R2 reverb. This matches last year's offer, and started a few days earlier. 4 stars overall.

Eventide enjoys an enviable reputation stemming from their long history in digital hardware, such as the H-9000 effects processor, and all of its predecessors and spin offs. This reputation has established the company as a good choice for plugins as well.

During Black Friday 2024, Eventide offer their plugins at up to 80% discount to the full price. Starting from only $25, this year could be a good opportunity to add useful reverb and effect plugins to your collection. Selected highlights include:

• Eventide H910 Harmonizer: $79 (68% off $249)
• Eventide Black Hole reverb: $49 (75% off $199)
• Eventide Anthology XII (all plugins collection): $599 (70% off $1,999)

Celemony, the maker of Melodyne, repeats their Black Friday offer from 2023.

The deals ranged from 50% to 67%*. Together with a 10 days sales period, and all Melodyne versions included in the sale, we are happy to award a 4 star deal rating this year.

If you look at the historic deals from Baby Audio, they kept on steadily increasing from 40% to 50%. As we predicted, Baby Audio did not increase this further, apart from one new 'Super Deal'. The aptly named Super VHS plugin is only $9.99, a whopping 86% off.

This year, Arturia repeats the 50% off Black Friday deal across all of its software bundles. Products included are:

• Arturia V Collection X: $299 (53% off $649)
• Arturia Analog Pro: $99 (50% off $199)
• Arturia FX Collection 5: $249 (50% off $499)
• Arturia Pigments 5: $99 (50% off $199)

Ableton improved their 20% offer from 2023, with 5 days of 25% discount. That restores the discount level Ableton offered until Black Friday 2021.

Having said that, you can save even more. Thomann, one the biggest European retailers that sells world-wide, substantially undercuts the Ableton offer, offering up to 59% off. So we recommend you buy Ableton from Thomann instead*, making this a 4 star deal.

This year, Antares started three weeks earlier, and extended to offer Black Friday discounts across all their products, both perpetual licenses and subscriptions. On the downside, the maximum discount reduced from 75% in 2023 to 50%.

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AAS participate in Black Friday 2024, offering up to 60%, with discounts across the whole Applied Acoustics Systems range of software synths and effects.

Highlights include Lounge Lizard, Chromaphone, Strum, Objeq Delay, and even their top Integral Bundle is reduced by 60%.

Reverb is one of the best places to find music instruments, software and studio gear - in particular when trying to find used and vintage items. Black Friday is a good way to get even better bargains, with many items 10-20%, peaking at 80% discount.

Sweetwater are the self acclaimed largest music instrument and studio gear retailer in the world. Top deals include:

• Avid Mbox Studio USB-C Audio Interface with Pro Tools: $499 (44% off $899)
• Gibson Les Paul Standard '50s Plain Top Electric Guitar - Cardinal Red: $1,999 (was $2,599)
• Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone: $359 (was $399)
• Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro Open-Back Studio Reference Headphones: $399 (was $499)
• Arturia Astrolab: $1,499 (was $1,599)

Spectrasonics have never offered a Black Friday deal to our knowledge directly from their website. Generally, Spectrasonics do not discount their products, so Black Friday is no exception.

However, retailers are free to set their prices, and we found one such retailer which sells Omnisphere at a substantial discount. Andertons is one of the largest UK based retailers. And if don't live in the UK, they sell and deliver to many countries abroad, including the USA, Europe, Canada, and Australia*.

• Spectrasonics Omnisphere: £319, which is about $414* (18% saving on $499 full price)

The Spitfire Audio Black Friday Sale 2024 offers discounts of up to 75% on 11 time-limited bundles and up to 50% on individual libraries. Running from November 14 to December 3, the sale includes popular collections such as THE TON, BBC Symphony Orchestra Bundles, and Cinematic Sound Design, covering everything from orchestral scoring to experimental sound design. Key bundles like AIR GREATEST HITS and Cinematic Percussion provide significant savings on high-quality tools used by award-winning composers.

This year's deal offers the best Spitfire deals of the year to our knowledge, for about two weeks, and with a high discount of up to 75%, so might well be worth investing in.

Softube is another popular software and hardware company that joins Black Friday. In 2024, they started to discount their plugins up to 70% early, starting on 1 November, and will continue until 24 November. The discount comprises of nearly 20 plugins in their range, including the Model 77 instrument, and the Weiss and Chandler partner emulations. Not all of their plugins are included, none of their Console hardware is included, and the discounts range from 40 to 70%.

Polyverse Music ran its Black Friday sales from 14 November to 4 December 2023, which included Supermodal, Manipulator, I Wish, and Gatekeeper.

You can grab yourself the highest discount on the Polyverse Comet reverb plugin with 80% off. But this top reduction will only be offered during 24h on 14 November. Whilst this is not very customer friendly, discounts are higher than in prior years, which only reached 50%.

Korg's classic and modern synth, effect and drum computer emulations have rightly an excellent reputation. During Black Friday, you can grab yourself a piece of virtual history from $49.99, and up to 50% off.

The deal is only 2 weeks long with the 50% discount reserved for a few individual plugins like the popular M1, whilst others are reduced to 32% off. The popular Korg Collection 5 is reduced by 25% to $299.

While this is decent, we have seen Korg offer this plenty of times during the year, so this Black Friday deal is not that special, compared to other brands who go the extra mile during Black Friday.

The Expressive E Black Friday 2024 sale runs from 14 November until 2 December 2024. It offers significant discounts on their flagship products and software. Customers can enjoy up to 30% off, including

• Osmose expressive keyboard, with refurbished units starting at €1,259.30, including all accessories and worldwide shipping.
• Noisy 2 plugin for $89.40 (originally $149.00)
• Hive 2 Expressive Suite for $126.65 (originally $149.00)
• Phase Plant Expressive Suite for $99.00 (originally $199.00)

The sale also features discounts on Touché accessories, software, and sound expansions, including the Touché Sounds Collection for $239.39 (originally $399.00), and individual plugins like Imagine and the Arché Collection, each priced at $89.40 (originally $149.00) and $71.40 (originally $119.00), respectively.

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 have reduced the discount every year since 2019, from 40% in 2019, 35% in 2020, 30% in 2021 to only 25% in 2022 and 2023. As predicted, Devious Machines repeated their 2023 sale with 25% across all individual plugins but not the Pro Effects bundle.

Plugins included are:

• Infiltrator 2
• Pitch Monster
• Texture
• Duck
• Multiband X6
• Bass Focus
• Ursa DSP Boost

True to form, Cableguys added a new plugin to its stable just before Black Friday, with the drum compressor Snapback. This pattern followed Black Friday 2023, when the company added ReverbShaper. Cableguys continues to offer a disappointing Black Friday deal for their flagship Shaperbox bundle, maintaing a derisory 10% or $10 off, for one month.

To their credit, at least in 2024 Cableguys increased the discount on the new Snapback plugin to 40%, bringing the full price of $49 down to $29. Therefore on the whole we increase our Black Friday rating to 3 stars.

The AVID Protools Black Friday deal AVID improved in 2024 compared to 2023. 33% discount is reasonable, and higher than what the company offered in 2023 with 20% off. The discount only applies for the first year, however, so you will go back to paying the full price for the subscription from year 2. But at least the length of the deal increased from 10 days to 3 weeks, meaning you don't have to take any rash decisions.

Guitar Center are one of the most well established music retailers in the USA, and of course participate in Black Friday as well. Discounts appear not as generous as other brands but you can still find bargains.

u-he is one of the most respected creator of high quality plugins, including DIVA and Zebra. Yet they rarely offered any discounts in recent years, apart from a rare discount as NKS partner through Native Instruments some years ago.

So we were delighted when to our surprise u-he joined the Black Friday band wagon. And we were even more pleased when we saw their level of discount is more than 50%. We have never seen that level of discount on this quality brand. So this has to be the deal of 2023.

SubLab by Future Audio Workshop (FAW) is currently available for only $9.95, which is 82% off full price, at Plugin Boutique. Ideal for genres like hip-hop, trap, and future bass, SubLab features X-Sub technology for consistent, deep sub-bass, a robust sample library of over 250 kick sounds, and multiple distortion types for creative sound design. A good deal, but not only for 10 days, and not on the latest SubLab XL version.