Roland TR-909, Antares AutoTune, tc electronic: 3 Strong Plugin Deals for Fat Drums, Vocal Tuning, and Mastering
The Most Influential Drum Machine in Music History and the Best-Known Vocal Plugin, on Sale
Roland TR-909, Antares AutoTune, tc electronic: 3 Strong Plugin Deals for Fat Drums, Vocal Tuning, and Mastering · Source: GEARNEWS
Roland kicks off this week’s software deals with the legendary TR-909 in plugin form, the drum machine that shaped techno and house more than almost anything else. Next up is Antares with AutoTune Pro 11, the plugin that lets you perfect your vocal recordings. Rounding things out is tc electronic Master X HD Multiband Dynamics, an award-winning 3-band processor for mastering and mixing that still sits at the top of the pile years after release. Here are this week’s software deals.
Software Deals of the Week
Roland Cloud TR-909: Now 65% Off
Roland introduced the TR-909 in 1983 as the successor to the TR-808, a commercial flop at first but one of the most influential drum machines ever built today. Unlike the fully analog TR-808, the 909 combined analog-generated sounds for kick, snare, and toms with digital samples for the cymbals, a hybrid approach that Roland recreates exactly in the plugin. And of course through their own ACB technology for the analog parts and original ROM samples for the digital side. Through September 30th, the Roland Cloud TR-909 is available for just €59.
Eleven different drum sounds are on board. That includes kick, snare, low, mid, and high tom, plus closed and open hi-hat. The Roland Cloud TR-909 expands the hardware with modern features: individual gain knobs per instrument for overdrive effects, a reworked sequencer with separate lanes per instrument, eight pattern variations, and adjustable flams, sub-steps, and soft hits for detailed fills. Every instrument also gets its own last-step and shuffle parameter, which makes complex time signatures and tightly locked grooves possible.
In practice, the Roland Cloud TR-909 works as the backbone of countless techno and house productions, exactly where the original earned its reputation. Drag-and-drop export of audio or MIDI patterns straight into your DAW speeds up your workflow considerably. If you run Roland’s TR-8S or TR-09, you can pair the plugin with the hardware seamlessly, which makes the TR-909 interesting for live sets too. Really cool! 128 memory slots per bank plus the ability to build your own user banks give you plenty of room for your own patterns.
Through September 30, 2026, grab the Roland Cloud TR-909 here at Thomann* for €59.00 instead of €169.00 with 65% off.
Antares AutoTune Pro 11: Now 36% Off
Antares AutoTune is the plugin that pretty much reshaped pop music. Not just as the obvious effect you hear on T-Pain and Cher records, but as the quiet workhorse running in countless professional mix sessions where nobody’s supposed to notice anything was done at all. Version 11 brings both sides of that personality into one package: Auto Mode for transparent real-time correction and Graph Mode for surgical note-level editing. And it even comes with ARA support for much tighter DAW integration. Through September 24th, you can grab AutoTune Pro 11 for €289.
Antares packed version 11 with features that genuinely make your day-to-day work easier. Graph Mode now supports MIDI note input, transposition, and detailed vibrato control directly inside the plugin, without ever leaving your DAW. Multiple AutoTune tracks can be edited across a project in a single window, which saves real time on productions with heavy vocal stacking. Flex-Tune handles natural real-time correction, Throat Modeling lets you reshape the resonant space, and a built-in Harmony Player adds up to four voices. Classic Mode brings back the AutoTune 5 algorithm on request, with latency so low it’s barely worth mentioning.
Want to run AutoTune Pro 11 in the studio? You’ll figure out fast that this plugin thinks in two distinct modes. For quick correction passes, Auto Mode with the right scale profile gets you transparent results that disappear into the mix. Want to go deeper? Open Graph Mode and work note by note. ARA integration in compatible DAWs like Logic, Studio One, or Cubase makes switching between the two completely seamless, since the plugin taps directly into the DAW’s audio tracks instead of working through a separate clip. Doesn’t get much better than that. Antares delivers a complete vocal processing package that covers everything from invisible tuning to obvious effect.
Through September 24, 2026, grab Antares AutoTune Pro 11 here at Thomann* for €289.00 instead of €450.00 with 36% off.
tc electronic Master X HD Multiband Dynamics: Now 48% Off
tc electronic built the Master X HD as a 3-band dynamics processor that combines technology from the award-winning Master X for Pro Tools and the legendary Powercore platform with the company’s current dynamics algorithms. The plugin offers separate expansion, compression, and limiting for each of the three frequency bands, which keeps dense mixes from turning muddy because compression only kicks in where it’s actually needed. Through October 4th, tc electronic Master X HD Multiband Dynamics is on sale for €75.
So-called Target Curves make operation considerably easier: Flat, Bass-Emphasising, Air-Adding, or the classic smiley curve serve as global starting points across all bands at once, instead of dialing in every band from scratch. Soft clipping adds analog character wherever you want it, and custom signature presets from well-known producers give you a fast way in. Full DAW automation and project recall are on board too, which makes the plugin equally suited to professional mastering workflows.
In practice, the Master X HD works just as well on single tracks, buses, and full mastering chains. Want a fast, musical starting point for compression? Pick one of the Target Curves and fine-tune from there. Want to dig deeper? Open the individual bands and set expansion, compression, and limiting separately. Paired with the Brickwall HD limiter from the same company, you get a complete mastering chain that plenty of engineers call one of the strongest duos in the plugin world. For this price, this tool absolutely belongs in every plugin collection.
Through October 4, 2026, grab tc electronic Master X HD Multiband Dynamics here at Thomann* for €75.00 instead of €145.00 with 48% off.
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