You thought the special offers were over for this month, did you? Zplane is doing a summer special as well, selling their vielklang for €199/$219.

I have yet to try vielklang myself so any opinions on it are welcome.

Pick your poison. We’re flooded with offers which makes me wonder if one should every buy plug-ins at a regular price.

Yesterday I reported that Native Instruments, McDSP, Waves and and Ableton tried to convince us to buy their products, today it’s time for Arturia and IK Multimedia.

Arturia is celebrating 10 years in the biz by compiling the 10 year suite consisting of the plug-ins Minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP2600 V, Jupiter-8V ,Prophet V and Prophet VS, Brass and Analog Factory for the price of $699.00 / €549.00.

From July 1st to August 31st 2009, IK Multimedia is running a group buy on T-Racks 3 singles. It’s a 2-for-1 promotion from the get go, but if the group reaches 500 participants it becomes a 3-for-1, and if it reaches 1000 participants it becomes a 4-for-1.

URS has announced a new EQ plug-in in their N series that supposedly recreates the sound of a vintage British Six Band Equalizer (4 bands plus HP/LP Filters). My question is, do we need another? Maybe…

From URS:

It has a hi-pass filter with four frequencies- 27Hz, 47Hz, 82Hz, 150Hz and 270Hz.
It has a lo-pass filter with five frequencies- 3.9k, 5.6k, 8.2k, 10k, 12k, and 18k.
The Low Band is selectable peak or shelving and is selectable with five frequencies- 33 Hz, 56 Hz, 100 Hz, 180 Hz, and 330 Hz.
The Low Mid band has ten frequencies - 220Hz, 270Hz, 330Hz, 390Hz, 470Hz, 560 Hz, 680 Hz, 820 Hz, 1k and 1.2k.
The High Mid band has ten frequencies - 1.5k, 1.8k, 2.2k, 2.7k, 3.3k, 3.9k, 4.7k, 5.6k. 6.8k and 8.2k.
The “Hi-Q” button on the mid bands selects a narrower bandwidth.
The High band is selectable peak or shelving and is selectable with six frequencies- 10k, 3.3k, 4.7k, 6.8k,10k, and 15k.

TDM: $399.99. Introductory offer price $199.99 til 7/15/09

Native: $199.99. Introductory offer price $99.99 til 7/15/09

URS

Waves has obviously been working on an online installer called WOLI that’s now ready for public beta. So far it’s for Mac only.

From Waves:

WOLI is a small download engine that lets you pick exactly the plug-ins or bundles you need to install. Whether you need a single plug-in, the entire Mercury bundle, or anything in between, WOLI makes downloading your Waves easier than ever.

Here’s how it works: Download WOLI (only 1 MB), and select the bundles or plug-ins you need to install. WOLI will download and install only the bundles or plug-ins you have selected.

Check it out at Waves

If you get a ‘divide by zero’ error after installing the cs3 update on Windows, there’s now a registry fix script that supposedly solves the problem.

Go grab it

Native Instruments has just announced the “Kompletely Insane” offer, allowing you to purchase Komplete 5 for $399/€399. Despite Native Instruments are Berlin-based, they seem to forget that $1 does not equal €1.

Still a good deal though if you want the NI stuff. Komplete 5 includes Kontakt 3, Reaktor 5, B4 II, Guitar Rig 3, Akoustik Piano. Elektrik Piano, Battery 3, Massive, Absynth 4, FM8, and Pro-53

The offer is valid only throughout July 2009.

More on Komplete 5 at NI’s website.

VirSyn has updated Reflect to version 2.0. Reflect is actually one of the very few software reverbs I can stand so I’m looking forward to try it. Reflect is a rare breed of different types reverbs in that the early reflections are made with convolution but the tail is algorithmic.

From the VirSyn press release:

Version 2.0 of REFLECT comes with a new RealIR Engine using direct convolution of the critical early reflections without compromising the flexibility of the algorithmic reverb tail generation. The resulting density and smoothness rivals those of the most expensive hardware reverbs.

Features

- RealIR combines convolution of early reflections with algorithmic tail generation.
- Backward compatible to 1.x
- New presets.
- New User interface.

The upgrade is free.

VirSyn

Making Sounds with Sampler

Three emails with offers just hit my inbox.

Ableton lets every customer who buys Live 8 before August 31st get Sampler for free. This includes users who upgrade from Live Lite.

Waves lets you buy the Tony Maserati Collection and the Silver Bundle with a 20% discount of the regular price.

A similar offer from McDSP is extended from the month of June, allowing you to purchase Emerald Pack or Classic Pack with a 20% discount. Their offer to purchase individual LE plug-ins for the price of $79 is also extended. Keep in mind that ‘LE’ in this case doesn’t mean ‘native’, they are lightweight versions of the regular products.

We had some downtime and for once it was actually all my fault. Sorry about that. Now we’re back and cookin’,

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