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How not to miss sales

By R. S. OG Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:02 am
Hi guys,

since Op-x4 was on sale for under 20$ for just a few hours some days ago:

What is the best way to not miss any sales?

Do you know any groups or threads specific to this?

I have signed up for alarms on musicsoftwaredeals.com but it seems to me they don't really track all offers always reliably...
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Re: How not to miss sales

By MPC-Tutor Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:22 am
The site that was selling it at $20 has admitted it was done in error hence it was pulled after a couple of hours. Akai regularly sell their plugins at discounts, it's done in rotation so just sign up to the Akai newsletter and maybe some of the sites like pluginboutique etc.

Or Akai could just sell their plugins at reasonable prices all year round?
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Oscar South Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:29 pm
kaydigi wrote:And not to derail the thread fully

Ring the Alarm is on sale at audio deluxe and JRRshop

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/au ... ring-alarm

https://www.jrrshop.com/akai-ring-the-alarm


Oh nice, a few of the plugins I've wanted to pick up (AIR Delay, AIR Flavor Pro) are on sale on those sites. I'll be grabbing them to use on an currently ongoing project. Looking forward to when multitimbral MIDI and MIDI MMC input is fixed on the latest MPC release so that I can use them :lol:

Can anyone tell me if the Flex Beat plugin is good? Only spotted it the other day, if it's decent and I can find it on sale in the future then I might grab it.
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Mike Boogie Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:09 pm
R. S. OG wrote:Hi guys,

since Op-x4 was on sale for under 20$ for just a few hours some days ago:

What is the best way to not miss any sales?

Do you know any groups or threads specific to this?

I have signed up for alarms on musicsoftwaredeals.com but it seems to me they don't really track all offers always reliably...


I usually just wait... and wait... until Black Friday. There always HUGE sales and I have a whole year to prepare my wallet. I have almost all the MPC plugins except for a few and I paid less than $500 for them all.
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Re: How not to miss sales

By MPC-Tutor Fri Aug 09, 2024 6:47 pm
Oscar South wrote:Anyone know if this includes standalone? It's not specified

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... ge-nosto-3


I believe Flex beat is multi platform like Jura, mini-d etc, so one purchase covers VST, mpc software and standalone etc:

https://www.thempcstore.com/mpc-plugin- ... -beat.html
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Oscar South Fri Aug 09, 2024 7:06 pm
MPC-Tutor wrote:
Oscar South wrote:Anyone know if this includes standalone? It's not specified

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... ge-nosto-3


I believe Flex beat is multi platform like Jura, mini-d etc, so one purchase covers VST, mpc software and standalone etc:

https://www.thempcstore.com/mpc-plugin- ... -beat.html


That's my understanding too. Logic says no problem and it's an omission in the description, what's making me doubt myself is that other MPC Standalone plugins specify "Purchase unlocks Plugin on three devices: including PC, Mac (VST, AU, AAX) and Standalone (MPC & FORCE)". For example:

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/au ... flavor-pro
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Re: How not to miss sales

By 83dude Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:17 pm
A lecturer of ours made this:
https://pluginplug.io/

EDIT: Not quite what you are looking for, but nice anyway!
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Oscar South Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:38 pm
Oscar South wrote:
MPC-Tutor wrote:I believe Flex beat is multi platform like Jura, mini-d etc, so one purchase covers VST, mpc software and standalone etc:

https://www.thempcstore.com/mpc-plugin- ... -beat.html


That's my understanding too. Logic says no problem and it's an omission in the description, what's making me doubt myself is that other MPC Standalone plugins specify "Purchase unlocks Plugin on three devices: including PC, Mac (VST, AU, AAX) and Standalone (MPC & FORCE)". For example:

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/au ... flavor-pro


I can confirm that as logic dictates, this licence works for standalone.

83dude wrote:A lecturer of ours made this:
https://pluginplug.io/

EDIT: Not quite what you are looking for, but nice anyway!


This is awesome, thanks and favourited.
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Lampdog Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:15 pm
Oscar South wrote:Oh nice, a few of the plugins I've wanted to pick up (AIR Delay, AIR Flavor Pro) are on sale on those sites.

Air Delay Pro is a MUST imo!
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Oscar South Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:39 pm
Lampdog wrote:
Oscar South wrote:Oh nice, a few of the plugins I've wanted to pick up (AIR Delay, AIR Flavor Pro) are on sale on those sites.

Air Delay Pro is a MUST imo!


Oh yeah, I knew that on sight :) the default delays in the MPC get the job done and covered functional needs, but there wasn't one in particular that inspired me.

I'm not usually the kind of musician that goes with 'vibe based' tools (give me a compressor, delay, reverb, some gain staging, a large folder of samples I've recorded myself and a couple of oscillators please). That said, from the demos I've seen I can really hear the value of that specific plugin for bringing different moods, textures and blends from a sample. A style of production I'm looking forward to doing more work with.

And as for Flex Beat -- well I like cool musical toys and this looks like a great addition to the toybox.
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Neodymium Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:06 am
About 15 weeks until Black Friday Sales kick in. We should have a post listing all the sites and deals.
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Neodymium Sat Aug 10, 2024 8:09 am
Posting this info twice as relevant to both threads. Subfactory is currently 39.99 from Akai

If you buy from Audio Deluxe for 39.99, you'll get $1.99 Deluxe points and this for free.
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/vi ... a-obie-one

From Pluginboputique for 39.99 you get £1.57 Virtual cash and .6 tokens, and a choice of these for free.
https://www.pluginboutique.com/products ... t-Giveaway (probably need iLok)
https://www.pluginboutique.com/products ... Tape-Delay
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Re: How not to miss sales

By Oscar South Sat Aug 10, 2024 8:50 am
Lampdog wrote:
Oscar South wrote:Oh nice, a few of the plugins I've wanted to pick up (AIR Delay, AIR Flavor Pro) are on sale on those sites.

Air Delay Pro is a MUST imo!


after spending a few hours with it -- THIS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT
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