I'm busy with the garden, family, friends, gigs, and some time to play with the Kontakt stuff I have been accumulating.
Of course, the big news is to upade, upgrade, or crossgrade your NI stuff before the June Sale expires, which is rapidly approaching.
Don't forget to check out VSTbuzz, AudioPlugin.deals, BedroomProducersBlog, SampleLibraryReview.com, SampleCast, KVR, PluginBoutique, AudioDeluxe, SampleRadar, Reverb SYNC, etc, yadda-yadda-yadda. SoundScore's The Orchestra is getting good reviews, and Audiofier updated Vesper and Abstrung.
HomegrownSounds has restructured its Motion Group Buy to three levels, ending August 1st. It looks like the bonuses will be additional instruments (Cassetto, Kosmology, Multiverse, and Airwaves) sharing the Motion waveforms with their own presets. Level 2 is just five purchases away, and it will provide otherwise unavailable Kosmology/Multiverse capabilities to the Motion library; Level 3 will incorporate the Airwaves instrument. Not as outrageous a bargain as the Casetto Group Buy but still an outstanding deal, as to be expected from HGS.
Motion for Kontakt 5.6 Group Buy | Homegrown Sounds
At KontaktHub, RigidAudio is 60% off, SoundIron (up to 55% off), BigWerks and AriaSounds are 50% off (with even nicer string and instrument bundles), Hephaestus is 40% off, AudioThing 30% (more for the All-Kontakt Bundle), RhythmicRobot 20%, and on and on. Lots of deals but, besides the Aria and AudioThing bundles, three bundle deals stood out:
Composers Tools ABC Bundle:
ABC Bundle | Kontakt Instruments | Kontakt Hub
California Keys Producers Collection (90% off individual prices total):
California Keys Producers Collection
ChannelRobot Slice Bundle (60% off):
Slice Bundle - Kontakt Hub
The bundle prices for the Calfornia Keys collection is so low I thought it was a misprint. The ComposersTools ABC bundle price is so low that, even if you already have one of the three packages, the price would still be a bargain for the other two. The ChannelRobot Slice Bundle presents six of the (at least) twelve Slice Machine libraries that I'm aware of, and ChannelRobot has a celebratory one (Slice-IDM) available as a free download, so you can check out if this type of instrument is for you:
FREE STUFF – channelrobot.com
HandheldSound is having a 50% flash sale on FlyingHand Percussion. Use coupon code FHP5072HRS.
http://www.handheldsound.com/instruments/fhp/#*
Umlaut Audio is having a 50% sale, generally available at most vendors, but one package that I haven't seen availabe except at MusiciansFriend and GuitarCenter is Jungle Loops ($29):
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/umlaut-audio-jungle-loops?rNtt=Umlaut&index=5
Enjoy your summer, you upper-latitudinals.
Paj
8^)