With Black Friday fast approaching and many sales from the leading music tech brands, manufacturers and music gear stores now in full swing, here is our shortlist of the deals that have really caught our attention and which we think you’d be wise to investigate!
In particular, this a great time for investing in bundles and other big-ticket items, where you can take advantage of the sales to reap the biggest savings possible on the studio essentials that will really help level up your productions.
For ideas on which are the best music production plugin bundles right now, check out our rundown of the top 20 here. Otherwise, just scroll down to get straight into the upcoming top Black Friday deals!
1. Reverb.com – Beat The Rush Sale
Find the best deals on the world’s largest selection of new, used, and vintage gear (and some software too). We’ve been using Reverb all this year to find great deals on everything from vintage Roland synths to modern analogue offerings from Arturia, Korg and Moog; Eventide FX units and Elektron drum machines, plus accessories like desktop rack stands for displaying and using stomp-boxes at ergonomic angles. If you’re not used to buying and selling second-hand gear, prepare to go down the rabbit-hole to a parallel universe of fantastic bargains on often barely-used unwanted gear, and unexpected discoveries of more obscure hardware options you previously never knew even existed…
Check it out now!
2. Waves Audio Sale: VIP Early Deals
Waves always bring the deals, and this year you can already get things like the excellent Silver bundle for $49. You can also get many of the top individual Waves plugins at huge discounts of 80-90%, so now is definitely the time to stock up.
3. iZotope Black Friday Bundle: 93% Off 7 expert tools including Ozone, Neutron and Trash 2 Expanded
Ends: December 7, 2019
Featuring: RX Elements ($129 value), Nectar Elements ($129 value), Neutron 3 Elements ($129 value), Ozone 9 Elements ($129 value), Trash 2 Expanded ($99 value), DDLY ($49 value), and Mobius Filter ($49 value).
4. Reason Studios Reason 11: 33% OFF
Ends: December 3, 2019
With the latest version of Reason now useable not just as a standalone DAW but also as a VST plugin within any other DAW, it’s the perfect time for any electronic producer to add Reason’s excellent virtual racks to their setup.
5. Arturia: 40% Off V Collection 7
Ends: December 5, 2019
24 timeless instruments lovingly recreated in software, and modernized with contemporary features. They were cutting edge in the 60s, mind-blowing in the 70s, awe-inspiring in the 80s, they’re at the heart of today’s hits, and they’ll help you shape the sound of tomorrow.
6. Eventide: 72% Off Anthology XI Bundle
Ends: December 17, 2019
Eventide’s Anthology XI bundle features several of our favourite plugin picks, from the H910 Pitch Shifter to UltraReverb and the most recent 2016 Reverb. Now you can currently get 72% off Anthology XI, which includes the incredible one-stop shop effects processor H3000 Factory, based on the famed hardware H3000 unit.
7. Softube – Modular Month – Up To 45% Off Modules
Ends: November 25, 2019
There’s never been a better time to get into virtual modular synthesis with Softubes Modular plugin range. Featuring modules from Intellijel, Mutable, Doepfer and Buchla, you can build your own custom modular rack beast all within your laptop (and save a small fortune compared to the hardware equivalents).
8. Output – 25% OFF
Ends: December 2, 2019
Outputs innovative instruments, from REV and SIGNAL to Movement and Analog Strings, all deliver a certain cinematic expressiveness and general epic-ness. Huge, complex and sophisticated sounds, in fun and streamlined packages. Must-haves for all aspiring (and actual) movie composers.
9. Wave Alchemy: Synth Drums
Ends: December 9, 2019
Wave Alchemy are undoubtedly one of the premier drum sample makers, and the Synth Drums collection doesn’t disappoint. Offering something a little different to the usual deep-sampled drum machine hits (which Wave Alchemy also do well), Synth Drums is made up of drums created from scratch on classic synthesizers like the Roland Juno 106, SH-09 and Jupiter 8, the ARP Odyssey, Korg MS-20, Oberheim OB8 and Minimoog Model D.
10. Rob Papen: 20% OFF The NEW Punch 2 Drum Plugin and XY-Transfer Filter FX Plugin
Ends: December 3, 2019
Rob Papen just released the version 2 update to his secret-weapon drum synth-sampler plugin Punch. Punch 2 is a pretty significant update, and coincides with the release of a brand new plugin, XY-Transfer, which offers a filter bank with 36 different filter types which can be used in combination with 2 other FX, all with their own XY pad which can be recorded and played back in a variety of creative ways!
