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Hear the words “Black Friday”, and you’ll no doubt imagine an annual retail destruction derby, accompanied by visceral scenes of storefront carnage and near looting on the high street. However, in the music software world, Black Friday – and Cyber Monday, for that matter – are much more sedate affairs. 

 

Unlike physical commodities, downloads are unlimited in stock, and although products aren’t likely to sell out, time-limited discounts mean you don’t want to stall on a purchase for too long. For frugal producers, the key to a successful spree is to know exactly what you’re looking for.  With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the best cash-saving Black Friday deals that we at Loopmasters and Plugin Boutique have on offer in 2024.

 

 

Three Huge Black Friday Bundles at Plugin Boutique

 

Some amazing deals are ready and waiting at our sister site Plugin Boutique this November. What’s more, these three land at different price points, so you can choose which one suits you best or spring for multiple bundles. 

 

Our $29 Black Friday Bundle gives you 14 products, splitting into six sample and preset packs, and seven plugins: Excite Audio Lifeline Mod, Plugin Boutique ShapeMod, AudioThing Things - Texture, United Plugins Plamen, MeldaProduction MWobbler, W.A. Production Screamo, and Karanyi Sounds Poly Space. You also get a month’s free subscription to Loopcloud’s Artist tier with this bundle. Pretty amazing for $29.

 

Next, the $49 Black Friday Bundle brings you plugins and more, adding up to an eyewatering £1,206 when bought individually, including Aberrant DSP Tectonic, Synchro Arts RePitch Elements, Pitch Innovations Rhythm Box, MNTRA Instruments Orakle, AAS Ultra Analog Session, Denise Audio Noize 2, 510k SEQUND Lite, Karanyi Sounds Vapor Keys, Baby Audio Parallel Aggressor, Hertz Instruments Gainstage Pro, Audiority Pre X7, Iceberg Audio Beatgrader, Glitchmachines Cryogen, UJAM Finisher NEO, Audio Blast Blast Delay, SINGOMAKERS Phat Booster, Acon Digital Verberate 2 PLUS the plugins mentioned in the $29 bundle. You also get the Producertech Music Mixing Fundamentals course.

 

And then there’s the $69 Black Friday Bundle, Hold onto your hats as we reel off £1,939’s worth of music software when bought individually for a comparatively incredible price. As well as the items mentioned in the other bundles, let’s take a deep breath as we welcome… Tuned Plugins Vocal Chain, BEATSURFING LunchTable – The 1$t Pen Tapping Plugin, Diginoiz SubDivine, Minimal Audio Hybrid Filter, Mastering The Mix ANIMATE, Audiomodern Riffer, Capsule Audio Neon, Kiive Audio Distinct!, BeatSkillz Ramp, Tone Empire Black Q v3, ZAK Sound Endless Clouds 2, Klevgrand Kuvert, Sampleson Wursy, Lese Strum, Inphonik RX950 Classic AD/DA Converter, Sonnox VoxDoubler and Surreal Machines Diffuse. Are you not entertained? 

 

 

 

Two Mindblowing Universal Audio Bundles

 

Universal Audio made their debut at Plugin Boutique this year, and this Black Friday season we can find some great deals to celebrate.

 

The exclusive UAD Studio Classics Bundle comes in at £59 and is exclusive to Plugin Boutique. It features UA’s Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection, LA-6176 Signature Channel Strip, Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb, Ampex ATR-102 Mastering Tape Recorder, and 175B & 176 Tube Compressor Collection. This represents a very low entry price into the Universal Audio world.

 

How about the UAD Producer Edition, though? At £79 for 23 plugins, that’s just over £3 for each, beating the previous bundle hands down. We won’t list every plugin in this bundle, but you can find them at the link. So that’s it then. What could possibly represent more value for Universal Audio plugins than this bundle. Oh, hold on…

 

There’s this UAD Signature Edition Version 2, the bundle of 56 top UA plugins, currently available for just £299. Now this may not be the biggest value per individual plugin, but if you’ve been eyeing up the UAD collection, there’s probably never been a better way to pick it up for cheap. The choice between all three bundles is yours.

 

At £79, the UAD Producer Edition represents a tiny price per plugin

 

 

74% - 90% off Sonnox, Exclusively

 

If you look for Sonnox Plugins on Plugin Boutique right now, you’ll find a lot of deals. And if you look on the Sonnox website, these will be absent. It’s only from our sister site that you get to buy everything from old classics like Oxford Inflator and Oxford Dynamics; to new and innovative products like Voca and VoxDoubler.

 

 

FabFilter’s Annual Understated Sale.

 

It’s not in the same category as some of the 90th-percentile discount barnstormers in this list, but FabFilter’s 25% Black Friday sale is still worth mentioning. Most of their plugins are currently 25% off, or approximately.

 

Why? Because the Dutch plugin company is often seen as the purveyor of the world’s finest plugins, and any fans will know that the chance to save money on these plugins only comes once a year. We’re doing our public service in reminding you all that the time has come around once again!

 

 

Six Months of Loopcloud Free, Plus 10 Plugins??

 

What? 

 

No really, 

 

Checking out one of Loopcloud’s Annual Plans? You can get six months free with the current deal, but as if that wasn’t enough, you also get 10 free plugins to keep forever, including from the likes of Sonible, Dawesome, IK Multimedia and Lunacy Audio.

 

The offer lasts until December 8th, so bag yourself some sounds and some free plugins while you can!

 

 

The Best Ever Waves Bundle?

 

Waves were unlikely to forget to put their plugins on sale for Black Friday, and there are plenty of deals on individual plugins – our hearty recommendations include Sheps Omnichannel 2 and Renaissance Bass, which are on at just £28. What’s even more epic, though, are the savings on Waves Bundles. 

The Waves Platinum Bundle of mixing and mastering effects is available for £119 – that’s a staggering 93% off. And then there’s the Waves Horizon Bundle, which packs 93 plugins into a single bundle for just £186, and for the eagle-eyed amongst you, that’s £2 a plugin. Quite literally cheap as chips!

 

All IK Multimedia Plugins for $149

 

With Total Studio 4 MAX, you get practically every IK Multimedia plugin, from the comprehensive mixing and mastering effects collection T-RackS; through creative instruments like SampleTank, Miroslav Philharmonik and Syntronik; to legendary packages like AmpliTube for guitarists. All that for $149 is, to put it simply, quite a ludicrous deal. If you’ve ever had your eyes on a particular piece of IK Multimedia kit, then how about this for a deal sweetener: every other plugin the company sells!