Our favourites now are the plugins like generative synthesis engine Obscurium, arpeggiator Consequence and step sequencer Thesys, which can also give other synths in your collection a whole new lease of life. Overall, the bundle is an excellent sound designers toolbox, and an opportunity to save over 50% on the individual plugins.
KORG Legacy Collection Special Bundle STANDALONE VST 53
For quite some time Propellerhead Reason was my "Preferred Weapon of Choice" (and before that Cubase), but many times I had looked at Ableton Live and especially when I came at their site at a time they had a 33% discount I was close to buying it. But it wasn't until the release of their Push 2 hardware controller I actually did decide to get a bundle of Push 2 along with Ableton Live Suite.
Having worked for years with Propellerhead Record/Reason I had gone used to working with their virtual implementation of the SSL (Solid State Logic) 9000 mixer, so once I moved to Ableton Live I kept missing my SSL channel-strips and the master-compressor. So when Waves had their Black-Friday sale in 2015 I had to get their Gold-bundle along with their SSL 4000 Collection. This collection includes a G-model Channel strip modeled on the SSL 4000 (along with a E-model) and it also includes the master channel-Compressor. Since then I have purchased many more Waves plug-ins. E.g. in my office/studio I cannot produce 100% noise-free microphone recordings, as there will always be the (low) noise of PSU-fans in the background, so I went for their X/Z-Noise (removal) plug-ins.To be honest I have bought "too many" of their plug-ins (in the day to day life, I only use a handful of them). More is not better. If I started out today I would buy fewer plug-ins and they really learn how to use those few.
The French company Arturia has specialized making virtual/software-editions of old analog synthesizers (using what they call "True Analog Emulation"). These products comes as VST-, RTAS-, AU-Instruments (they also comes as "stand-alone" programs, that can be run on their own - without a DAW). Each of Arturias virtual synthesizers can be purchased separately, however if you plan to get 2 or more you should instead look at their V-Collection bundle. This bundle contains virtual editions of some of the most loved, legendary synthesizers of all times. I started using the V-Collection at version 2, and have since upgraded through the various version. At the time of writing this, the V-Collection contains:
Arturia plugins: were up to 599, now from 79 (opens in new tab)Arturia has some of the best software bundles around and Thomann has big discounts on several titles. Analog Lab V is a great way to quickly experience a huge variety of Arturia plugins and sounds and is currently just 88, reduced from 199 and even cheaper than Arturia is selling it. The award-winning V Collection bundle of 33 synths and keyboards is also massively discounted at just 249 (from 599), while FX Collection 3 - a huge collection of effects processors - is discounted to 169 from 399. Finally the excellent Pigments 3 synth can be yours for just 79, reduced from 199, a saving of over 60%!
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