Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Black Week – with so many to choose from, here are our favorite tech deals for music makers.
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Well, first from us – deals on the synth hardware and record label side projects of CDM!
MeeBlip geode synthesizers are $129 plus free shipping, anywhere. Through Monday.
MeeBlip thru5 kits are $9.99 (50% off!) – while supplies last. We expect to sell out before the deal ends end of day Monday. Yep, they sold out! So –
MeeBlip cubit go USB MIDI interfaces now also have free shipping through Monday. Enter code GOFREE.
Establishment Records on Bandcamp. All albums in our catalog are now 70% off through Monday evening. Plus look forward to new stuff from our spin-off record label in 2020 – some exciting plans in the works now. Enter code wearblack.
Software
Everything at Reason Studios is on sale for what they call “Rack Friday,” with discounts on Reason (now with AU support on Mac!) and lots of Rack Extensions – up to 90% off. https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/deals/ – through December 2.
Ableton have 25% off Live 10, upgrades, and packs, meaning if you put off upgrading, now is the sign.
Arturia’s V Collection 7, full of basically every software recreation of classic electronic instruments you could imagine, is down to 299 $/EUR, along with other upcoming Arturia deals to watch. Also, even something like this sounds cooler in French. Behold: Obtiens la V Collection pour une prix exclusif Jusqu’au 5 décembre 2019. Ne rate pas cette occasion. Obtiens-la pour 299$/EUR. Ah, we sounds so crass in English, by comparison. Touché . https://www.arturia.com/black-friday-19
iZotope has discounts on software plus their Spire Studio hardware. Probably best of these is the $49 bundle of Elements Suite, DDLY, Mobius Filter, and Trash 2. Everything is on sale, though. Also great – the Music Production site (with Ozone 9 Advanced, Neutron 3 Advanced, etc.) for $399 and the bargain-basement-priced, awesome-sounding, light-on-CPU PhoenixVerb for $39. Through 12/6.
Output’s instruments have an extra 25% off – meaning the bundle of everything is now $/EUR 599.
puremagnetik’s unique collections of sounds and instruments are 50% through November 30, including some wonderful plugin instruments. Enter code BLACKFRIDAY19. Get a little granular after Thanksgiving dinner.
Eventide’s Anthology XI – the equivalent of a studio full of Eventide gear – is a full 75% off, for $499. That compares well to getting it via subscription, and it’s an outstanding deal. There’s also the excellent Elevate suite for 50% off. See the holiday sale page. Full disclosure: I live off the Anthology. The Eventide folder if it lived in the real world would have had its name worn off by now.
Time + Space have a rotating set of deals from a whole host of vendors. It may even be worth checking some of these deals versus the original developers.
On the same lines, pluginboutique.com have a bunch of deals on various vendors, and some of these discounts are exclusive, so comparison-shop if you’re stocking up. 50% off Softube or a stunning 80% off Soundtoys looks brilliant. On the Softube side, you can’t go wrong with the company’s amp simulations, for instance, and Modular add-ons are discounted, too. For Soundtoys, LittlePlate and EchoBoy Jr. are secret sauce for me, so I would absolutely endorse those two as they’re indispensible (or full EchoBoy for a little more).
Waves are letting you stock up with code BF50 at checkout, plus free plug-ins to choose when you spend more than $50.
Harrison’s new AVA plug-ins are 4-for-the-price-of-1, at $89 for the lot. See the AVA product page. These plug-ins I don’t know yet, but Harrison’s stuff typically sounds great.
Tracktion’s software is up to 65% off. That includes their DAWs, but also things like the MOK Waverazor and SpaceCraft instruments. Tons of inspiring stuff – code MIX2019 – through end of day December 4. https://www.tracktion.com
Cableguys do great stuff and they have their only sale of the year as this – “Until Cyber Monday, 2nd December 2019, the ShaperBox 2 Bundle of five powerful Cableguys effects – TimeShaper 2, VolumeShaper 6, FilterShaper Core 2, PanShaper 3, and WidthShaper 2 – is only €79 / $89. That’s a 50% saving compared to buying all five Shapers individually (€155 / $180).” https://www.cableguys.com/shaperbox.html
Kilohearts has deep discounts on their stuff through December 9 – https://kilohearts.com.
Metric Halo’s indispensible software, including SpectraFoo and the like, is on a sale up to 70%. https://www.mhsecure.com/mhdirect/home.php?cat=26 They’ve also got early access pricing on their hardware.
[Updated!] All the official VCV plug-ins for VCV Rack are now 25-33% off through Dec 4. Rack itself is free, so this is a great buy – especially as tools like the Console (a mixer/router) and Scalar (quantizer with tuning support) I find really essential. https://vcvrack.com
[Updated!] The excellent K-Devices with all their unique modulation and sequencing and sound tools are a full 50% off. No codes, through November 29 only – so properly Black Friday (if starting a bit early, as it’s still Thursday). k-devices.com/products/
[Updated!] Spitfire Audio have 25% off of individual products and 40% off Hans Zimmer Strings, making this one of the best times to buy from this excellent sample house. https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/
[Updated!] Riemann Kollektion have a massive 26GB (!) pack of 24-bit samples and loops and one-shots for techno producers, now 199EUR (instead of the usual 1300EUR!)
Mobile apps
cykle is a really cool step sequencer for iOS; it’s now 40%.
All of the superb Bram Bos iOS apps are on sale for $3.99 (or local equivalent), for some excellent synths, drum machines, MIDI tools, and more. See his developer page on the App Store.
The Atom piano roll (looper/sequencer, AUv3) is on sale for 50% off for iOS. It’s maybe your best bet for AUv3-compatible sequencing at the moment.
Some of our favorite synths/effects, Elastic Drums and Elastic FX, are 40% off until the end of the week. Check https://mominstruments.com.
Imaginando’s controller apps are the ones I’ve been using most lately on iOS, and they’re right now all 40% off. Through December 2.
[Updated!] KORG have their annual sale on both desktop software and mobile apps, including their popular Gadget for iOS and in-app purchases (like all those Gadget devices). 50% off now – see details explained at KORG USA.
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Hardware
Erica Synths’ have 20% some of our favorite modules – the Fusion Series. https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/eurorack-modules/by-series/fusion-series/ Through Saturday.
Also over in Riga, there’s the wonderful, independently-operated Gamechanger Audio. Their exceptionally unique Plus and Plasma pedals are 20% off, which is about as good a way to spend money as I can imagine. Check out their shop – https://www.gamechangeraudio.com/shop – through December 2. It’s a pretty big deal to do this as an independent maker, too – they admit they’re working 14-hour shifts to get the gear out – so do reward them!
Arturia hardware is on sale, so head into your local store (or order from them). That’s up to 50% off MiniBrute (and its rackable 2S sibling) and the unique DrumBrute. DrumBrute for 349 $/EUR is pretty astonishing and maybe reason to overlook even those remakes everyone else might be grabbing.
ROLI is running an insane discount of up to 50% off a lot of their Seaboard and Blocks hardware plus plug-ins. https://roli.com/black-friday-deals
Sweetwater has $300 off that Solid State Logic SiX we’ve all been coveting. It’s still the most expensive compact mixer you can buy, but … well, it’s a little more tempting, and come on, it’s still a chance to own your own little SSL.
Sweetwater also has a bunch of Universal Audio bundles and deals on their site. But maybe best is –
Perfect Circuit also has a bunch of hardware for up to 40% off. That includes Moog DFAM for $100 off.
[Updated!] Ready for a new PC? pcaudiolabs has Black Friday code BLKFRI2019 at checkout on PCAudioLabs.com to get $150 off Rok Box PCs, plus free Warranty, and OS Drive upgrades (plus a service and training deal too):
Visualist tools
Learning TouchDesigner? Stanislav Glazov has his superb tutorials on sale. 30 % Discount for all TouchDesigner Courses till 3rd of December. Use promocode 3DOFF at https://lichtpfad.selz.com/
garageCube are again celebrating “Mad Week” with 20% off software and 10% off hardware. Head to https://www.garagecube.com/product/ through December 2. This includes upgrade discounts, so it’s worth checking even if you’re already a customer.
[Updated!] ArKaos has up to 50% off their software (like GrandVJ) and hardware (like Kling-Force LED controller), plus as with the other visual makers here – upgrades are covered, too. https://www.arkaos.com/online-shop
[Updated!] Vidvox has $100 off everything – including educational discounts (meaning VDMX5 is $99). And there’s also a “starving artist” discount. Definitely some of the best Mac visual software; all details at their site. Through Monday.
Music labels
Big Semantica Records fan, and they’re 30% off with code blackfriday2019 on Bandcamp.
Florian Meindl as I said is doing some of the finest quality techno production out there, and now you can get all his tracks for 9EUR (really). Just go to an album page like this one – https://florianmeindl.bandcamp.com/album/nonlinear-times-remixes-black-asteroid-jeroen-search – and you’ll see the option.
Total Black records in Berlin obviously needs a Black Friday discount; they’re 70% off. Use code blackfriday.
Beautiful Seoul-based Oslated Records is 70% off, with code blackfriday.
I know a lot of indie labels must be doing Bandcamp sales, so do get in touch.
That covers Bandcamp, but see also Beatport for some deals – code CYBERSALE nets you as much as 50%, and you can use it twice before it expires on December 3.
Updated – there’s too much Bandcamp goodness! Here’s a separate guide:
Feature photo (the shopping cart) (CC-BY-SA-ND) Wim Bollen.