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Several Avid Pro Tools upgrades and subscriptions are on sale until September 30. For a limited time, you can save big when you upgrade to the latest version of Pro Tools.
For USD 250 a year, the Mega Bundle gives you full and unrestricted access to every current and future product on Plugin Alliance. Numbering over 100 plug-ins by the likes of SSL, Focusrite...
The Slate Digital Everything Bundle is now the All Access Pass. The subscription includes all of Slate's plug-ins and many new additions, like the Kilohearts bundle and ANA 2 software synthesizer.
Roland brings some high-end professional sounds into the Roland Cloud subscription with a virtual instrument version of the classic SRX Studio expansion card.
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Black Friday is nearly upon us and Fender want to get in on the action early. Play subscribers can get 10% off any Fender gear ordered on the company's online store.
You can now try out some of the top-selling Reason Rack Extensions for only $9.99 a month. Cancel or pause anytime and once you've paid the price of the plug-in the license is yours to keep - Rent-to-Own!
SSL describes FlexVerb as a versatile reverb that's intuitive. Of note is the split early-late reflection interface, which lets you dial in the natural body and tone of different early room reflections.
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Finally all you Pro Tools users can get access to the wealth of instruments and classic synthesizer emulations from the RolandCloud as they introduce support for AAX.
Currently in beta for Windows, with an upcoming Mac release planned, PluginPlay promises "access to the world's best plug-ins, when you need them, for as long as you need them." Watch out, Splice!
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Arcade is subscription based, looks fabulous, sounds awesome and has a wonderfully intuitive synthesizer engine to manipulate loops. You'll get new content every day, forever provided you keep paying your $10.
Following in the steps of Slate Digital, Eventide, SSL, and many others, Waves debuted an interesting subscription system that also incorporates a rent-to-own option. The plan is called Wave FLEX.
Emulator 2 customisable touch-screen MIDI controller software is now available at a regular pay-once price after they killed off the "unpopular" subscription model.
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Shock news! Gibson has pulled the plug on Sonar and all other Cakewalk products. User support will continue as well as access to online assets but it's all over for Sonar users.
Not content to own the streaming rights to all our music Spotify wants to own the tools that create the music. SoundTrap is a cool online DAW that runs on everything - I can see why they like it.
Roland Cloud's latest update brings us an orchestral library from the days when it all had to fit on an 8MB expansion card. Anthology Orchestra brings back a classic JV-80 sound set.
Puremagnetik release Console Y, an expanded library of the Ensoniq ARS-X across Ableton, Logic and Kontakt formats, but only in their Spark subscription service. Does $8 a month work for you?
