Add to the heap, here's at least $100 worth of great plugins

Thanks for the effort here! How did you get Warble to be $79.99 in the first image?

There was no trick to it, that's just what the price was yesterday/last night, maybe this morning?

The deals are a little different today, you probably missed Warble, some of the codes have been redacted, prices have changed

they took away the bundle deal briefly, then they reinstated it

To quote the PA sales page "Cheat our System! ;-D"

I know they mean it but not sure if they mean it mean it. Somewhere between the two is where it sits.

I would keep an eye on the site from day to day if you're interested, who knows.

I'm a heavily invested PA buyer, so "all I got" out of this was Black Box, AND Black Box MS for 9 cents myself...not bad, I wanted them anyway.

It's really great for people who are new to this kind of thing. "Creatives" Dirk calls them. People you know, so many, that make music, record, but they're not super-nerds like the people on the forums, maybe they ask you questions about how things work, what's good to buy and so on.

PA is not the developer. They are the aggregator / distributor / sales team. This type of gaming the system cannot possibly work for the actual developers.

In other news, DrBill might be right, the mad dash might be over. It makes me laugh. Fun times.

yep. i am trying to stay with my 10 or so most used plugins and get work done. no sub, no plugin collection for me. and if there will be no plugin update or mantainance, i will move on to another plugin. after all they are just tools and one equals the other.
but if those 5 plugins are free i will take them and see how much usage i can get out of them.

SVT is great... I'm a big fan of that Shadow Hills compressor too.

There's more to life than plugins.  That statement almost makes me cringe, how obvious it is.

thx: just went for the basic free stuff, the rest seemed very complimicated.  

Dirk lost a couple million dollars in real estate and gear from the German flooding last year. Maybe PA just go too big to handle. They never succeeded in replacing Waves or Slate like they’ve been trying to do. Waves struck back hard with the SSL 4000 EV2 and CLA mix hub and a lot of good utility plugins like Sibilance. And updates their plugs if you pay. PA has tried to get the Slate plastic metal crowd but it hasn’t worked that well because the Slate sub is basically made for those guys. And PA isn’t U-he, Goodhertz, Tokyo Dawn, or Sound Radix making radically useful plugs. What I use the most from them is Pro Audio DSP DSM and SPL De-reverber

And the Apple Silicon updates for the non-Brainworx plugs aren’t even out yet. The Lindell api and Neve strips and the Neolds are on version 1.01. Honestly man, I don’t even see Plugin Alliance stuff used that much outside of the stuff they give away for free if you own any Focusrite gear or a lot of pro tools licenses or you can get for free from the sales with a voucher.

Like I’ve been using the Neold v76u73 as a mastering compressor a lot. If my windows computers broke, I would just go to the Apple store and get some Mac Mini or MacBook Air if I had work that needed to be done. But Neold hasn’t been updated to support Apple Silicon so it would just get replaced by the slightly less clean MJUC mk1. And I would probably never use the Neold u73 again because I would be used to the MJUC again.

Izotope has been trying to move people into the subscription for a while. If you didn’t already own it, the sub per year is cheaper. And I use it for spoken word and dudes pointing a mic at the band stuff all the time. I only use RX, Neoverb, and Excalibur through though. I have better stuff than Ozone.

You don’t make plastic metal and modern rock. The Slate stuff is not your bread and butter. Like Slate is seriously meant for that whole style of production. Slate knows their market niche very well.

PA has tried for that plastic market with certain plugs like the Lindell 50, Black Box, the Purple MC77 to get that bluey distressory distortion, the SSL bx_consoles to replace the waves SSL, the distorting limiter, etc. they haven’t really succeeded in dominating it because that type of production is covered by what’s already out there, there’s a ton of competition, and what’s out there is proven to work for that modern production style

Unlike Slate though, PA also has a lot of utility plugs like the SPL plugs, Pro Audio DSP, the low cpu amp sims, the synths, the Neold stuff for more classic productions. They just don’t focus on any of it 100%. They’re not Sonnox, Overloud, or U-he who know their market niches.

It’s not an insult. The most common PA plugs are the freely available stuff and they’re giving away a lot of their most unique plugs and one of the best digital reverbs. I hope this deal allows PA to get their act together for updates to the non-Brainworx plugs but now they’re under the same management as Izotope, Izotope stopped updates to their non key products, and Plugin Alliance has a crap ton of products made and maintained by contracted out programmers or third party companies created just to make plugs for their sales platform. And several of the more recent popular plugs were made by Lindell/LSR Audio, Neold, and ADPTR and these have not been updated.

Most stuff on Nuclear Blast and Century Media just sounds like Slate drums with some Ez drummer and then some other kits that attempt to copy the Stephen Slate Drums. Jrock/kpop just copied that aesthetic. It's pretty funny that that aesthetic took over most of metal and modern rock. It's kinda like how glam metal took over arena rock and then country copied those aesthetics VERBATIM. Then you just have totaly weirdness like a bunch of mainstream artists in the 90s using the same Alesis kick sample as Megadeth and Dissection. That was Slate before Slate but distressors hadn't been invented then so it's not as distorted.

Hey Guitar did I read somewhere that you picked up an extra copy of the PSP 2245? I meant to snag that last night, but I fell asleep putting my kids to bed. Doh! I'm happy to send you some dollars for it! No biggie though.