IK Multimedia 13:1 sale

Sorry for being a knucklehead…but you paid $139 but all these other things for $299 were available as freebies?

Crossgrade pricing is available on a lot of the more expensive packages if you have something from IK that cost $99+. You can see the crossgrade prices when you log in.

I bought Sampletron 2 for $112 (200 gear credits for $160, discounted $48 with Jam Points) at cross grade pricing from owning a bunch of stuff before. monkeyxx had the tip of getting the $200 tier stuff down to $112 real money.

Some of the items which I qualified for at the $200 cross grade price: Amplitube 5, Modo Bass, Modo Drum, Sampletank.

I was hesitant to get into the group buy, but I got sucked into it in the end.

OK - I see. Very cool. I'm following now.

That's right. If you bought it today, you'd get whatever you bought plus 17 freebies (same or lesser value) right now.

Then, if it hits 20,000 registrants by the end of the month, it'll get extended another month and that pretty much guarantees it'll go all the way to 25.

If you can get the AT5 collection in Custom Shop with the credits you have, that may be the best way to do it. Then, you should be able to pick up the Hammond and any other freebies you want from the 'promotions' page in your IK user area.

Choose wisely, though. I was going to get Syntronik and add the additional synths as some of my freebies. However, the upgrade to Syntronik Deluxe showed up in my available titles so I just chose it and saved the free slots for other things. Let us know if you have any questions. Good luck!

That's great! Take your time in choosing your freebies and you'll make out like a bandit.

I loaded up on instruments and the few T-Racks / Amplitube titles I was missing. Are you looking for effects or instruments or both? Lots of good stuff to be had - some better than others.

I know the tape machine plugin was really in the wind a little while ago. How'd it age? 

IK Tape Machines are tops for me, they eat CPU so I bounce (to tape?) through them.

I bought into the group buy with the Comprexxor, it's excellent.

Already had Sunset Sound, which is in my top 5 reverbs, but number one for short ambience on instruments recorded too close or direct.

In T-Racks, Stealth Limiter is excellent, the Sontec 432 EQ is great, I generally use the mastering oriented stuff the most, bus processing like the Neve and SSL stereo comps a bit less, and their API/Neve/SSL channel strip and mono compressor models the least. As much a workflow thing as anything.

I picked up the rest of the AmpliTube packs I didn't have as freebies, I already use the Fender Collection 2 and MESA/Boogie as my top reamp choices for those tones.

Used the rest of the freebies for ST4 expansions, not a KB player but I pretty much own everything else they make and had just added a new 1TB SSD external so was feeling storage flush... I dig the Hammond, Electromagnetik and drum expansions, Modo Drum is cool as well.

I guess that's subjective but here are the ones I'd get if I were starting over from scratch:

T-Racks: Tapes, Sunset Sound, Space Delay, Leslie, Stealth Limiter, Bus Compressor, Comprexxor, Dyna-Mu, 670, Precision Comp, Master EQ 432, ARC, Lurssen

Instruments: Modo Bass, SampleTron 2, Hammond B3-X, SampleTank, Syntronik Deluxe, Electromagnetik, Cinekinetik, Clavitube, Cinematic Percussion, Alternate Keys, Hugh Padgham Drums

Amplitube collections: Fender 1&2, Mesa/Boogie, Brian May, SVX 2

I did the T-racks group buy a few christmases ago. I think it was 5 for the price of one. I have the Sontec, but haven't used it in a while. I really only use the Pultec, which I think really imparts a tone and color, and the De-esser is really useful. I don't even remember the other two.

Though, as mentioned the whole install thing is goofy and there are a ton of their things listed when I open an insert that I don't have, but have tried to not be on my plugin list.

I'm also woefully behind the times with PT and OS upgrades...

Does anyone understand why Elektromagnetic shows up on the group buy landing page only to say it's not eligible as a free item? That's one I think I'd use, assuming the sounds are good. Sidebar, are the sounds good? I own Reason 9 and I can only stomach a small fraction of the included sounds. But a minority of them totally work for me. Not so much the Wurli or the Rhodes.

You can buy into the group buy with either of the collections, Electromagnetik or Cinekinetik, but when you go to select freebies the 4 individual packs that comprise each collection are all that’s available, not the collection itself. I picked up all 8 individually as freebies, I dig the Yamaha EP and the portable Wulrly, little different than the Rhodes and 200A everybody else samples. I didn’t have a Piano Bass, but I don’t play a lot of Doors either.
I dig the Clavitube expansion as well.