If you didn’t get the chance to grab Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals and were hoping to stock up, there’s still a chance on some music gear, software, and plug-ins (with a couple I missed that expire tonight). Here are a few of the best options.
Hardware
First, Reverb has up to 80% off their whole marketplace of some 300,000+ listings (internationally):
Don’t want used? They have Arturia MicroFreak new for $349 for the US.
There are also some deals on their Ableton shops, which I added a bit late to the last round-up:
Ableton EU Shop
Ableton US Shop
Ableton UK Shop
Oh, my, Modal Electronics’ Cobalt8 synth is at $499 — that’s $370 off. Not a typo; that’s from Sweetwater. Check the full Modal Electronics line; it’s all on sale. (For a competing entry, check the ASM Hydrasynth Explorer at $599.)
Opsix mk II, KORG’s excellent FM synth, is $599 at Sweetwater. From Thomann, KORG Opsix mk II is 568 € in Europe — and there’s b-stock available, even. (Thomann’s prices will look a bit lower for the USA, but check that what you’re buying isn’t subject to additional tariffs first!)
Roland’s P-6 sampler is one of my favorite pocket-able toys ever, and it’s down to $166
or 167 € at Thomann. I also love that that’s, like, actual gift-buying range. In the USA, that’s $219 at Sweetwater or $219 from Perfect Circuit.
KORG microKORG 2 is now $599 — $100 off — at Sweetwater. That’s especially sweet because of the ability to run Sinevibes’ stuff and work with slice-to-keyboard mode, plus a bunch of other 2.0 features and updated UI and achievements(!) It’s a great deal in Europe, too: 568 € from Thomann.
Want the full enchilada? Ableton Push 3 Standalone with the full Live 12 Suite Edition (including Max for Live) is $2199, a US exclusive at Sweetwater.
Buchla 266t Source of Uncertainty from Tiptop Audio is $314 at Perfect Circuit. Sure, you’ve probably had enough sources of uncertainty in 2025, but this is the cool Buchla kind!
BiG SiX 18-Channel Desktop Mixer from SSL is pretty much my ideal desktop mixer — I’ve used this one before. $2799 is $500 off its usual price, right now at Perfect Circuit.
Bastl Instruments is running a 40% off sale in their store through December 13 — via the retailer only! And I think that’s a good excuse to run this video of Oliver Torr. PS, if you’re in the USA, you can get the everyday affordable prices of Bastl stuff and you won’t have to worry about import tariffs or shipping delays.
Software
Expiring today December 5 — sorry I was late to this one — Rhodes’ superior emulations are up to 63% off.
Some big sales are still going — Soundtoys, for instance, has their sale of up to 66% off running through the end of the month. Black Friday just morphed into “the holidays.” And that includes the 5.5 update I covered in summer:
AAS has 50% off everything for their holiday sale. See my piece recently:
Arturia’s half-price sale runs through December 9. KORG’s Cyber Week sale (up to 55% off) runs through December 8. Softube (up to 75% off) expires December 7.
The App Store, same — if you’re thinking of an app, odds are it might be on sale right now!
I think I forgot to mention AudioThing has a ton of stuff on sale, including the B00GA drum machine I just reviewed:
Plugin Boutique has a bunch of Cyber Week gifts running, too: with your purchase, choose one of Moog MoogerFooger MF-103S, Lunacy Time, UAD Galaxy Tape Echo, IK Multimedia MixBox, Native Instrument Massive or Excite Audio’s Bloom Vocal Edit Lite.
Check their latest deals:
If you like bundles, they have exclusive bundles with 91-96% off — running you around 30-70 bucks.
Channel strips are on bargain-basement pricing for some reason:
Sonnox Producer Power Bundle – Oxford Inflator & Oxford Limiter is 91% off its usual price, so around 40 bucks instead of over 400.
SSL Native Channel Strip 2 is 87% off, so around 20 bucks.
MNTRA’s stuff is creative, unusual, truly something different — like an abandoned silo or ancient geometry. Their Black Friday/Cyber Week sale runs through December 9. I wrote a deep dive on El Jaguar earlier this year:
And Image Line is running their Black Friday sale for up to 30% off FL Studio and the like.
Generally, as a lot of these are still running, check the previous software round-up:
And some of the hardware is also still on sale:
Now I’m calling it a weekend! I will not be shopping, just music making. But enjoy!