With so many Black Friday deals being announced at this time of year, it’s easy to miss or lose track of some of the very best offers out there right now.
If you’re anything like us, you’ll probably appreciate the short list we’ve put together below to highlight a few of the most exceptional deals we’ve noticed for musicians and producers this weekend in the realms of world-class software effects, synths and bundles. Whatever your budget or style, there are some real bargains to be had:
1. Soundtoys: Up To 70% OFF the bundle and individual plugins
Until: December 03, 2020
The Soundtoys bundle has become one of only a handful of true staples of every self-respecting producers plugin toolbox regardless of style or genre, and their Black Friday Sale is always the time to get it at the very lowest price of the year. What’s more, each of the individual plugins are also heavily discounted, so now is definitely the time to pick up modern classics like EchoBoy, Decapitator and Crystallizer if you don’t already have them.
2. Waves: Weekly Runup Deals, + Free New Plugin
November – December, 2020, dates vary
Waves are offering deals on all of their individual plugins and bundles in the runup to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As Waves often do, you get a greater percentage discount when you buy more plugins, with bonus discounts of 30%, 40% and 50% on each additional plugin purchased. A great time to snap up some industry-standard tools for your productions, like the API 2500 vintage modelling compressor, SSL 4000 Collection and H-Series bundles, and the excellent Ovox Vocal ReSynthesis.
Waves have even put together a Buyers Guide featuring 30 of their most popular plugins and bundles — check this out for help with navigating their extensive range to find exactly the tools you’ll get the most use and best results from.
Plus, on Black Friday itself, November 27, Waves are releasing a completely free new plugin from their CLA range in collaboration with mixer Chris Lord-Alge. Sign up here before Dec 27 to ensure you’re in line for the free download!
3. Baby Audio: 60% Off Complete Bundle, Up To 40% Off Individual Plugins
Until: December 06, 2020
Get up to 40% off all of Baby Audio’s much-loved, simple-but-addictive creative tools Super VHS, the new Parallel Aggressor. the Comeback Kid delay, and I Heart NY compressor. Or just get all four of them in the Complete Bundle and save a full 60%. Recommended!
4. Soundtheory Gullfoss EQ: 35% Off
Nov 30 – December 03, 2020
Gullfoss from Soundtheory is a leader in a new generation of smart EQs that take a huge amount of work and time out of certain mixing and mastering tasks, that previously took a lot of manual tweaking to get similar results. Gullfoss is a favourite amongst film and media sound designers, techno producers and everyone in-between who wants to milk every last drop of clarity, intelligibility and texture from their tracks and recordings.
This is the best deal Soundtheory have ever done for Gullfoss. Highly recommended!
5. iZotope: 95% Off Holiday Bundle, and More
Until: December 8, 2020
iZotope have big discounts on pretty much all of their range this year, including the Music Production Suite 4, the Tonal Balance Bundle, and all versions of mastering tool Ozone 9, but this particular Holiday Bundle has to be one of the best value offerings around. Including everybody’s favourite creative multi-band distortion/channel strip Trash2, the unique spectral synth Iris 2, and three of Exponential Audio’s reverbs (no doubt owing to the iZotope brand partnership/acquisition).
Not to mention the Elements Suite, providing the intro versions of each of iZotope’s flagship mixing, mastering and audio repair solutions.
Separately, you can also get 50% off a crossgrade from any paid iZotope or Exponential Audio plugin to iZotope’s newest cutting edge reverb, Neoverb.
6. AudioThing: Up to 67% Off
Until: December 02, 2020
Some of our favourite and most fun and characterful plugins, and also incredibly affordable – even more so right now. We recommend: the Frostbite 2 multi-effect, Phase Motion 2 phaser, and the Roland Space Echo-inspired Outer Space delay.
7. Loopcloud: 3 months for $3 plus Loopmasters Bass Master Plugin for Free
Until: December 02, 2020
Loopmasters‘ very cool and rapidly developing sample library/manager platform Loopcloud is our one-stop shop for sample organisation and shopping on the fly, putting everything right at your fingertips as you work without needing to even leave your DAW.
With their own range of sample packs covering every conceivable style and sub-genre, alongside a huge range of packs from the best boutique labels around, all under one easily browsable roof: Artisan Audio, Black Octopus, CAPSUN, Sample Magic, Wave Alchemy, ModeAudio and many, many more. 4 million sounds, apparently, but we stopped counting after the first million… 🙂 You’ll never run out of creative fodder for your productions!
If you haven’t yet clued into the magic of having your sample library fully manageable and integrated with one of the largest online collections of audio production assets that you can audition and drag straight into your project as you work, now is the time to get on board – it could radically improve your workflow, drastically cut the time you spend organising and finding the most useful samples for each project, and generally revitalise your personal sample library for the months ahead. Recommended workflow enhancer!
8. Arturia: 50% Off V Collection 7, Pigments 2 and FX Collection
Until: December 03, 2020
It’s essentially everything from Arturia at half-price. That should be enough to get your virtual wallet out, right?
These three products represent some of the very finest vintage synth emulations, with the latest version V Collection 7 including the new CZ V, Synthi V and Mellotron V; lush effects processors and saturation devices in the the full FX Collection modeled on some of the most celebrated classic hardware units from the Electro‑Harmonix Memory Man delay pedal to warm old analog desk preamps; and then there’s Pigments 2, an untypically forward-looking killer analog-wavetable-hybrid synth with incredibly powerful modulation options.
Whatever your style, you can’t go wrong with any of these.
9. Creative Intent: 50% Off Tantrum, Remnant and the Deformation Bundle
21 Nov – November 29, 2017
Tantrum in particular is one of the most unique, fun and easy-to-use distortion plugins around, yet has seemed to fly mostly under the radar. Check it out and buy for half as much money as usual!
Remnant is also a very inventive plugin with a killer graphic interface, guaranteed to inspire any soundscape design session with its fragmentary delay effects.
10. KV331 Audio Synthmaster: Up To 82% Off
Until: November 30, 2020
Cult favourite soft synths, the semi-modular SynthMaster 2.9 and it’s wavetable sibling Synthmaster One both have a loyal following that includes everyone from beginners to chart-topping EDM artists, because they are incredibly powerful and punch far above their modest price range.
Synthmaster has the ability to make sounds using almost any type of synthesis you can think of, including VA, Additive, Wavetable, Wavescanning, Phase Modulation, FM, Pulse Width Modulation, Ring Modulation, Amplitude Modulation, Physical Modeling and SFZ Sample Playback synthesis. This makes it, among other things, an invaluable learning tool if you’re looking to expand your synth programming skills. And with its 1800 factory presets there’s plenty of raw material for inspiration and to show you exactly how to get the most out of every synthesis combination and the extensive modulation options.
This deal includes all of the various Synthmaster versions, bundles and crossgrade options, so whatever your budget or skill level, there’s definitely something for every producer here.
You can also currently get our Ultimate Guides series of ebooks for a full 55% off the usual price – including the entire Complete Bundle for the best price we’ve ever offered!
The most thorough guides on the fundamentals of making and mixing your music to a professional standard, focusing on the key principles and concepts that you can start using in your productions right now: whether it’s the holy mixing triumvirate of Compression, EQ and Reverb, or learning to tame and maximise a powerful low-end for all your tracks, there’s a wealth of timeless knowledge right here.
Head over to the Ebook Store for details of what’s included in each guide, and simply enter the coupon code “BF2020” at the checkout to activate your savings!