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The Best Black Friday Plugin Deals in 2024

We list, predict and rate the best Black Friday deals for plugins, DAW, synth, bass, guitar, studio and drums

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1. The Summary: Quick guide to the best Black Friday live deals, predictions, free plugins, and retailer deals

⚡️ Top LIVE Black Friday 2024 Plugin Deals from brands

For this summary, we only selected the top 20 live Black Friday deals so far, based on our 5 star rating. For a full list of all live deals in our database, jump to the full deal section below.

For a full list of all live deals in our database, jump to the full deal section below.

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⚡️ Top PREDICTED Black Friday 2024 Plugin Deals

For this summary, we determined the top 10 most popular brands, based on the amount of internet searches in November 2023 for black friday. We then used our extensive research of Black Friday deals offered since 2019, to make predictions for 2024.

For a full list of all predicted deals in our database, jump to the full predictions section below.

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Thomann Black Friday 2024: deals and discounts on drums, synths, pianos, keyboards, studio gear, live sound
14 Nov
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Ableton Live Black Friday 2024: 20% off
17 Nov
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Soundtoys Black Friday 2024: up to 80% discount
18 Nov
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Celemony Black Friday 2024: up to 52% off Melodyne (from $49), up to 70% off upgrades and updates
22 Nov
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iZotope Black Friday 2024: up to 96% off
20 Nov
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u-he Black Friday 2024: up to 54% discount
25 Nov
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Wavesfactory Black Friday 2024: up to 50% discount
18 Nov
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XLN Audio Black Friday 2024: 50% off Addictive Drums, Addictive Keys, and XO, and RC-20 Retrocolor
11 Nov
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Polyverse Black Friday 2024: up to 80% off
10 Nov
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Baby Audio Black Friday 2024: bundles up to 76% off, individual plugins up to 51% off

🆓️ Top FREE Black Friday 2024 Plugins

There are so many great free plugins available, so why look out for them during Black Friday? Well, a few brands offer free plugins for a limited period of time during Black Friday. We researched the patterns across recent years from the likes of Baby Audio, Waves and Soundtoys, so bring you predicted and live free plugins in our guide.

For details on the free plugin deals, including what plugins were offered before, and what plugins we predict this year, jump to the full section below.

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FREE
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Free Baby Audio Plugin: PREDICTING the fifth free Black Friday plugin from Baby Audio in 2024
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Free Soundtoys Plugins: FREE Soundtoys PhaseMistress plugin worth $99 until 15 Nov 2024
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Free Waves Plugin: Sign up for a new free plugin from Waves during Black Friday 2024
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2. The Top Deals: The best Black Friday 2024 deals you can buy right now

As every year, a few keen brands have already started discounting their DAWs and VST plugins from the end of October, with some stretching their deals into January. Now whilst you can buy audio software and hardware in a sale at any time of year, we have so far not picked up any that are called Black Friday.

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Sonnox Black Friday 2024: up to 90% off
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Sonnox offer cracking plugins, with the Oxford range Inflator and Limiter home in many studios. With up to 90% off their most popular plugins, you can get your hands on those crackers from $19, for one month. Only Plugin Boutique offer the early Black Friday sale however, with the Sonnox website not offering any discounts. If you haven't got any Sonnox plugins, try them and buy some. 5 stars.

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Sonnox is one of the earliest brands offering Black Friday offers and keeps them running until after Cyber Monday.
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All Sonnox plugins are included.
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90% is on the higher range of discounts compared to other brands, and compared to 75% offered in recent years by Sonnox.
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Antares Auto-Tune Black Friday 2024: 50% off all perpetual licenses, and 50% off subscriptions (for one year)
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This year, Antares started three weeks earlier, and extended to offer Black Friday discounts across all their products, both perpetual licenses and subscriptions. On the downside, the maximum discount reduced from 75% in 2023 to 50%.

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Antares started about 3 weeks earlier than last year, jumping up to 4 stars for this.
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Vastly increased in breadth, now all perpetual licenses and subscriptions are 50% off.
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This is a step backwards from 2023 when we got Auto-Tune up to 75% off. Downgrade from 4 to 3 stars.
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Arturia Black Friday 2024: 50% off Arturia V Collection, FX Collection and Pigments
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This year, Arturia repeats the 50% off Black Friday deal across all of its software bundles. Products included are:

  • Arturia V Collection X: $299 (53% off $649)
  • Arturia Analog Pro: $99 (50% off $199)
  • Arturia FX Collection 5: $249 (50% off $499)
  • Arturia Pigments 5: $99 (50% off $199)
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Starting on 5 November 2024 is slightly earlier in prior years.
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Only Pigments, Analog Lab, and the two bundles V Collection and FX Collection are included - not individual plugins or their popular hardware.
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50% is in line with prior years and a healthy saving for a quality, established brand such as Arturia.
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Eventide Black Friday 2024: up to 80% discount
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Eventide enjoys an enviable reputation stemming from their long history in digital hardware, such as the H-9000 effects processor, and all of its predecessors and spin offs. This reputation has established the company as a good choice for plugins as well.

During Black Friday 2024, Eventide offer their plugins at up to 80% discount to the full price. Starting from only $25, this year could be a good opportunity to add useful reverb and effect plugins to your collection. Selected highlights include:

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Four weeks is a generous length of time.
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Most of Eventide's plugins are included, but none of the excellent effect pedals or rack-mounted hardware.
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Up to 80% is a fat discount, and many popular plugins are 70% off or more, bringing prices down to an affordable $29 to $49 for many plugins.
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FabFilter Black Friday 2024: 25% off all plugins and bundles
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For Black Friday 2024, FabFilter to bring a 25% discount across its entire range of plugins and bundles, including the brand-new Pro-R2 reverb. This matches last year's offer, and started a few days earlier. 4 stars overall.

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FabFilter extended their Black Friday sale window from 5 to 8 days. Good to see this extending but could be longer. 3 stars.
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All plugins and bundles are included. Full marks.
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25% is a healthy amount off for such desirable, high quality plugins.
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Focusrite Black Friday 2024: up to 25% discount
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Focusrite are offering up to 25% off in their own web store from 1 November until the end of the year. You can pick up both new items and refurbished items, starting from $74.99 for a refurbished Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen, normally selling for $99.99.

You can save even more when you buy at Thomann, the largest European retailer, who also ships internationally, including the USA. For example, the popular Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen:

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LANDR Black Friday 2024: 50% off
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LANDR is more than just an online mastering service it originally started as. Nowadays, subscriptions include a wide array of attractive plugins, it offers music distribution services, samples, courses and a lot more. With that in mind, you can save up to 50% for a limited time during Black Friday, with subscriptions starting from $7.43 a month.

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Four weeks is a good amount of time to choose.
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All subscriptions are included.
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Only the top Ultimate subscription attracts the 50% headline discount, with the Essentials subscription only 10% off. Discounts apply only for year one.
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Image Line FL Studio Black Friday 2024: up to 30% discount
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FL Studio Black Friday has gone live on 4 November 2024, and continues until 6 December 2024. Image Line offers up to 30% discount this year - higher than the 25% offered in 2024. Thank you - 4 star rating.

  • FL Studio Fruity Edition: $99 (no saving)
  • FL Studio Producer Edition: $139 (20% off $199)
  • FL Studio Signature Bundle: $199 (26% off $269)
  • FL Studio All Plugins Edition: $314 (30% off $449)
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Four weeks (4 Nov to 6 Dec 2024) is plenty of time, even though one month shorter than 2023.
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Apart from the cheapest Fruity Edition, all other editions are included.
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The highest discount ever for FL Studio, exceeding the 25% in 2023.
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Loopcloud Black Friday 2024: 12 months for the price of 6 + 10 FREE plugins to keep
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Loopcloud provide a high quality sample library subscription, provided through our 5 star rated Loopcloud sample management software. For Black Friday 2024, Loopcloud excelled their excellent Black Friday deal yet again: Subscribe for up to 50% off (12 months for the price of 6). Plus get 10 free plugins to keep, even if you don't continue to subscribe after year 1. The sale prices look as follows:

Not stopping there, Loopcloud throws in 10 plugins for you to keep, even if you don't subscribe longer than the first year. 5 stars.

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One month is plenty of time
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All subscriptions are included, but not buying Loopmasters sample packs outright.
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This is a higher value saving than 2023 (which offered massive discount to $1 a month but for only 2 months). But the % discount has decreased.
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Novation Black Friday 2024: up to 30% discount
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Output Black Friday 2024: up to 50% off Output plugins and 50% off Output Arcade subscription
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Output have a popular range of powerful effects and Kontakt based instrument plugins, including Substance, Analog Strings and Brass, and Exhale. More recently, Output introduced the Arcade instrument subscription. This plugin offers an ever-growing pool of loop-based samples, phrases, instruments, and loops for a monthly subscription.

Our research showed that Output discounted no more than 35% off from 2019 to 2022 Black Friday. After deepening the discount to 50% across the range, including Arcade, and up to 67% for an instrument bundle, for 2 months, we awarded Output a 4 stars deal rating.

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Nearly a month is plenty of time to not feel pressured.
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All of Output's plugins, expansions, and the Arcade subscription are included - but no discount on their hardware.
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50% is a solid amount of discount, and higher than the usual 35% discount offered throughout the year.
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Rhodes Black Friday 2024: up to 60% off
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Rhodes Music not only started producing the the hardware keyboard of the famous Rhodes keyboard again. The company also released an official plugin version alongside the extremely expensive hardware. The plugin comes at a premium price but during Black Friday has been reduced by 50%.

Plugins included in the 60% off Black Friday sale are:

  • Rhodes V8: £59.95 / $69.95 / €69.95
  • Rhodes V8 Pro: £99.95 / $119.95 / €109.95
  • Rhodes V-Rack: £39.95 / $49.95 / €39.95
  • Rhodes V-Pan: £11.95 / $15.95 / €13.95

The two recently launched plugins are 30% off:

  • Rhodes Anthology: £99.95 / $99.95 / €94.95
  • Rhodes Chroma:: £44.95 | $49.95 | €54.95
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Nearly a month is a good amount of time not to feel pressured.
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The whole Rhodes software range is included.
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60% off on most plugins improves on 50% off in 2023. New plugins are 30% off.
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UAD Universal Audio Black Friday 2024: up to 96% discount
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Universal Audio UAD offers massive deals with up to 96% off full prices during Black Friday 2024*. This is broadly in line with discounts offered last Black Friday, and throughout the year. It is available at official retailers like Plugin Boutique. 4 Stars overall.

Universal Audio itself offers a different sale from their own website, with 12 days of UAD Deals. It includes two plugins for $79, Essentials bundle for $49, Free Pultec EQ with any purchase and more. Offers are also available on UAD hardware, including Interfaces, guitar amps and microphones.

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Nearly 3 weeks is a good amount of time to not feel pressured.
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Most plugins are included, and some hardware, even if limited to free plugins with purchase.
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The headline saving of up to 96% are strong, but it matches typical high discounts offered throughout the year by UAD.
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Waves Audio Black Friday 2024: plugins from $19.99, plus up to 45% off if you buy several plugins
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Waves are on sale every day but still leave their biggest discounts reserved to Black Friday*. They started their Black Friday sale on 4 November, and will extend deals at an expanding rate until Black Friday itself.

  1. Plugins reduced: prices $19.99
  2. Additional savings: up to 45% off in addition, if you buy 4 or more plugins

The product range included will increase week by week in the run up to Black Friday:

  • Week of 4 Nov: 30 Plugins starting from $19.99
  • Week of 13 Nov: 60 Plugins starting from $19.99
  • Week of 20 Nov: 90 Plugins starting from $19.99

The multi-buy savings are as follows, if you buy more than one plugin together:

  • 25% off your second plugin purchase
  • 35% off your third plugin purchase
  • 45% off your fourth and more plugin purchase
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Starting on 4 November and continuing for at least 3 weeks is a solid length.‍
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Week one, and only 30 plugins have been included - but Waves will increase this to 90 plugins in the next 2 weeks.
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The Waves Audio pricing must be one of the most confusing for musicians. They are always on sale, so you never know what is or isn't good value. From our research, $29.99 is the base price all year for individual plugins. So if you can get plugins for less than that, you are likely to make a real saving. $19.99 is a good price per plugin, compared to other sales from Waves, and you can save more when you buy more than one plugin.
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AVID Pro Tools Black Friday 2024: 33% off annual subscriptions, for the first year only
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The AVID Protools Black Friday deal AVID improved in 2024 compared to 2023. 33% discount is reasonable, and higher than what the company offered in 2023 with 20% off. The discount only applies for the first year, however, so you will go back to paying the full price for the subscription from year 2. But at least the length of the deal increased from 10 days to 3 weeks, meaning you don't have to take any rash decisions.

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Three weeks is improved from prior years, and a good length, compared to other brands.
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Only subscriptions are included, not perpetual licenses. However all packages are included, when the Ultimate subscription was excluded in prior years.
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33% discount for the first year of subscriptions is decent, but only for the first year.
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Cableguys Black Friday 2024: 40% off Snapback, 10% off Shaperbox 3
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True to form, Cableguys added a new plugin to its stable just before Black Friday, with the drum compressor Snapback. This pattern followed Black Friday 2023, when the company added ReverbShaper. Cableguys continues to offer a disappointing Black Friday deal for their flagship Shaperbox bundle, maintaing a derisory 10% or $10 off, for one month.

To their credit, at least in 2024 Cableguys increased the discount on the new Snapback plugin to 40%, bringing the full price of $49 down to $29. Therefore on the whole we increase our Black Friday rating to 3 stars.

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Disappointing again with only 10% off for the main Shaperbox bundle, slightly improved to 2023 with the Snapback plugin increased to 40% off.
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Devious Machines Black Friday 2024: 25% discount predicted*
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Devious Machines have developed an intriguing range of effect plugins in recent years, with plugins such as Infiltrator released in 2021, which morphs and mangles audio through its modulated multi-effects set up.

Devious Machines have reduced the discount every year since 2019, from 40% in 2019, 35% in 2020, 30% in 2021 to only 25% in 2022 and 2023. As predicted, Devious Machines repeated their 2023 sale with 25% across all individual plugins but not the Pro Effects bundle.

Plugins included are:

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All individual products are included, but not the Pro Effects bundle.
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25% is reduced from up to 50% offered a few years back but the same as 2023.
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Expressive E Black Friday 2024: up to 30% discount
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The Expressive E Black Friday 2024 sale runs from 14 November until 2 December 2024. It offers significant discounts on their flagship products and software. Customers can enjoy up to 30% off, including

  • Osmose expressive keyboard, with refurbished units starting at €1,259.30, including all accessories and worldwide shipping.
  • Noisy 2 plugin for $89.40 (originally $149.00)
  • Hive 2 Expressive Suite for $126.65 (originally $149.00)
  • Phase Plant Expressive Suite for $99.00 (originally $199.00)

The sale also features discounts on Touché accessories, software, and sound expansions, including the Touché Sounds Collection for $239.39 (originally $399.00), and individual plugins like Imagine and the Arché Collection, each priced at $89.40 (originally $149.00) and $71.40 (originally $119.00), respectively.

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About two weeks is decent.
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Good to see hardware included but many products are not.
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Up to 30% is not high compared to other brands but for hardware deals are often limited.
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Korg Black Friday 2024: Korg Collection 5 and individual plugins up to 59% off*
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Korg's classic and modern synth, effect and drum computer emulations have rightly an excellent reputation. During Black Friday, you can grab yourself a piece of virtual history from $49.99, and up to 50% off.

The deal is only 2 weeks long with the 50% discount reserved for a few individual plugins like the popular M1, whilst others are reduced to 32% off. The popular Korg Collection 5 is reduced by 25% to $299.

While this is decent, we have seen Korg offer this plenty of times during the year, so this Black Friday deal is not that special, compared to other brands who go the extra mile during Black Friday.

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Two weeks is OK but not a lot of time.
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Most plugins are included, but not Korg hardware.
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Up to 50% off is good but does not exceed prior years or sale periods from Korg.
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Native Instruments Black Friday 2024/ Cyber Sale 2024: 50% off plugins and sound packs, 50% Komplete 15 with S-series keys purchase, up to $200 off Maschine.
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Over one month is plenty of time.
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Not including the flagship Komplete 15 in the sale is a huge disappointment, an omission from Black Friday 2023.
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Discounts are typically 50% like in prior years, but reduced to 30% for Traktor, and 85% for a special bundle (not normally available though).
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Softube Black Friday 2024: up to 70% off
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Softube is another popular software and hardware company that joins Black Friday. In 2024, they started to discount their plugins up to 70% early, starting on 1 November, and will continue until 24 November. The discount comprises of nearly 20 plugins in their range, including the Model 77 instrument, and the Weiss and Chandler partner emulations. Not all of their plugins are included, none of their Console hardware is included, and the discounts range from 40 to 70%.

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Nearly 4 weeks is a good amount of time to save.
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Only 20 of their extensive plugin lineup are included, with few instruments, and none of their hardware.
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The discounts range from 40 to 70%.
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Spitfire Audio Black Friday 2024: up to 75% off
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The Spitfire Audio Black Friday Sale 2024 offers discounts of up to 75% on 11 time-limited bundles and up to 50% on individual libraries. Running from November 14 to December 3, the sale includes popular collections such as THE TON, BBC Symphony Orchestra Bundles, and Cinematic Sound Design, covering everything from orchestral scoring to experimental sound design. Key bundles like AIR GREATEST HITS and Cinematic Percussion provide significant savings on high-quality tools used by award-winning composers.

This year's deal offers the best Spitfire deals of the year to our knowledge, for about two weeks, and with a high discount of up to 75%, so might well be worth investing in.

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Two weeks is not bad but could be longer
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Many popular products like BBC Symphony are included. But the best savings are on special bundles not the core libraries.
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To our knowledge, the highest discount offered all year by Spitfire.
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Sweetwater Black Friday 2024: up to 60% off studio gear, synths, drums, guitars, keyboards
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Future Audio Lab FAW Black Friday 2024: up to 82% off
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SubLab by Future Audio Workshop (FAW) is currently available for only $9.95, which is 82% off full price, at Plugin Boutique. Ideal for genres like hip-hop, trap, and future bass, SubLab features X-Sub technology for consistent, deep sub-bass, a robust sample library of over 250 kick sounds, and multiple distortion types for creative sound design. A good deal, but not only for 10 days, and not on the latest SubLab XL version.

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10 days is not long.
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It's a shame only the prior SubLab version is included, not the latest, upgraded XL version.
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$9.95 is a bargain for a quality 808 bass plugin, equal to 82% off.
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Spectrasonics Omnisphere Black Friday 2024: Save 18% when you buy from one official retailer
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Spectrasonics have never offered a Black Friday deal to our knowledge directly from their website. Generally, Spectrasonics do not discount their products, so Black Friday is no exception.

However, retailers are free to set their prices, and we found one such retailer which sells Omnisphere at a substantial discount. Andertons is one of the largest UK based retailers. And if don't live in the UK, they sell and deliver to many countries abroad, including the USA, Europe, Canada, and Australia.

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Guitar Center Black Friday 2024: up to 10% off guitars, synths, pianos, drums, studio gear
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Guitar Center are one of the most well established music retailers in the USA, and of course participate in Black Friday as well. Discounts appear not as generous as other brands but you can still find bargains.

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3. The Predictions: The Black Friday 2024 deals we expect in 2024

We analysed the best plugin and DAW deals offered by the most popular brands from Black Friday 2019 to 2023. That information helped us predict what brands are likely to offer Black Friday deals, at what discount, at for how long. Unfortunately, we cannot gaze into the future. However, we are in contact with many companies who share upcoming promotions with us.

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Splice Black Friday 2024: No discount expected
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Valhalla DSP Black Friday 2024: No discount
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XFer Records Serum Black Friday 2024: No Discount
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Baby Audio Black Friday 2024: bundles up to 76% off, individual plugins up to 51% off
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Polyverse Black Friday 2024: up to 80% off
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Ableton Live Black Friday 2024: 20% off
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Soundtoys Black Friday 2024: up to 80% discount
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Celemony Black Friday 2024: up to 52% off Melodyne (from $49), up to 70% off upgrades and updates
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XLN Audio Black Friday 2024: 50% off Addictive Drums, Addictive Keys, and XO, and RC-20 Retrocolor
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u-he Black Friday 2024: up to 54% discount
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iZotope Black Friday 2024: up to 96% off
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Thomann Black Friday 2024: deals and discounts on drums, synths, pianos, keyboards, studio gear, live sound
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Sonarworks Black Friday 2024: up to 50% off
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Wavesfactory Black Friday 2024: up to 50% discount
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Oeksound Black Friday 2024: up to 38% off soothe2 and spiff
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4. The Free: Free Black Friday plugins

Many brands offer high quality plugins for free all year round. During Black Friday, we see others release plugins for free for a limited time. This year, we expect the following brands to offer free Black Friday plugins:

Free Baby Audio Plugin: PREDICTING the fifth free Black Friday plugin from Baby Audio in 2024

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We predict the Baby Audio with continue to offer a free plugin in 2024, and will include this here as soon as it is released. In the meantime, you can still download the all four free plugins Baby Audio released in prior years.

Black Friday 2023*: Free Baby Audio Beat Slammer

A punchy free compressor plugin that is not for the faint-hearted. Love smashing? Enjoy squashing? This one pumps and mangles the dynamics, whilst allowing you to set the dry/wet mix through a XY pad.

Black Friday 2022*: Free Baby Audio Pitch Drift

An simple plugin, based on the Super VHS algorithm, offering random fluctuations in the pitch of the incoming audio signal, for that vintage, tape emulation sound. Using the amount slider, you can choose from subtle variations to extreme fluctuations in pitch.

Black Friday 2021*: Free Baby Audio Magic Dice

An easy to use algorithmic reverb VST plugin derived from Baby Audio Spaced Out. At every click, Magic Dice will generate a new texture, using Spaced Out's randomisation engine – and no two results are ever the same.

Black Friday 2020*: Free Baby Audio Magic Switch

Magic Switch is a free chorus plugin from Baby Audio, based on Super VHS. First launched during Black Friday 2020, it is still available.

Black Friday 2019*: Free Baby Audio Baby Comeback

Baby Comeback is not just a play on the Baby Come Back song from Player, but first and foremost a free delay plugin from Baby Audio. It is free and available since 2019 on the Baby Audio website.

Free Waves Plugin: Sign up for a new free plugin from Waves during Black Friday 2024

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For Black Friday 2024, Waves Audio will release another new plugin for free. It will only be free on Black Friday, 26 November. But you can sign up to get the plugin* from 6 November 2024, and Waves will send the software to you.

The teaser image released by Waves Audio on the new free plugin to be released Black Friday 2024

For Black Fridya 2022, Waves Audio released a free plugin called Lil Tube, a tube saturator plugin*. Lil Tube is the first in the new MAGMA series of Waves plugins which specialise in analog emulations. The plugin is available as part of the BB Tubes plugin bundle for $39.99.

In 2023, Waves Audio introduced Silk Vocals*, and gave it away for free during Black Friday 2023 only.

Free Soundtoys Plugins: FREE Soundtoys PhaseMistress plugin worth $99 until 15 Nov 2024

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PhaseMistress is more than a simple phaser effect – its versatile saturation, modulation, and resonance controls will completely transform your tracks. A diverse set of factory presets can help you get inspired and find great sounds quickly. Plus, there’s even more power beneath the surface. Open up the Tweak menus and find unique ways to manipulate audio and loads of creative inspiration.

PREDICTION for Black Friday 2024: Free Soundtoys Microshift

We think for Black Friday 2024, Soundtoys will indulge us plugin aficionados with another nifty little plugin for free. The company gave us one month in 2022 and 2023 to download Little Radiator one year, and LIttle Plate the next year, for free.

Looking at the Soundtoys line of "Little" plugins worth $29, we think Little MicroShift might the one they choose in 2024.

Free during Black Friday 2023: Soundtoys Little Plate (6 November to 1 December 2023)

Little Plate is a nifty light plate reverb emulation from the well respected Soundtoys stable. The settings are limited to decay time, mix and low cut. But then, the original EMT 140 plate reverb Little Plate is modelled on, does not have a lot of settings either.

Normally selling at $29, for one month you could download the plugin for free.

Free during Black Friday 2022: Soundtoys Little Radiator

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5. The Buying Guide: Helping to choose the best deals for you, without overspending

Before you spend more than you can afford, you might want to consider the following top tips:

  1. Organise your plugin folder: How many plugins do you have in your folder already? How many of them do you actually use? Can you organise your plugins into folders so you can find them better? Can you delete some that you haven't used for the last years? (But be careful if you have used them in any of your projects in the past).
  2. Set a budget: How much can you invest in plugins this year? How much have you spent already this year? Have you got the money saved and ready to go, or do you need to set aside some money now to avoid credit card debt?
  3. List your plugin priorities: Which plugins and upgrades will bring something new and different to your plugin folder? Are you sure you don't already have a plugin that does the job?
  4. Estimate what you can likely afford this Black Friday: Use our guide of predicted deals to work out what discount you might expect this year, using our detailed guide.
  5. Sign up to the musicmanta newsletter: Get the top deals straight to your inbox, when signing up to our newsletter.
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6. The FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about Black Friday audio software and hardware deals answered

Can I buy Omnisphere cheaper? Will an Omnisphere Black Friday take place in 2024? Does Omnisphere offer any discounts? Will Spectrasonics offer an Omnisphere sale during Black Friday 2024?

No, we predict Spectrasonics will not offer Omnisphere at an discount during Black Friday. However, you can buy Omnisphere at Andertons, a UK retailer, for £319 at the time of writing (2 Nov 2024). At current exchange rates, this is about $412 - a 18% saving over buying direct from Spectrasonics at $499.

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