[zircon]

I'll cut right to the chase. There are some amazing deals going on right now in the world of audio that you NEED to check out, whether you've already got a ton of stuff or you're just starting off.

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Line 6 Toneport UX1 USB Recording Interface - $104.95
http://www.scitscat.com/catalog/line...ce-p-1502.html

Any guitarists here? This is an all-in-one, kickass external USB interface designed for guitar, bass, and vocal recording, which includes high quality Line 6 plugins for guitar/amp modeling and effects. These are the same models used in the hardware Pod that is highly acclaimed.



Native Instruments Battery 3 - $89
http://www.novamusik.com/search.aspx...l&keyword=2909

Want drums? Battery 3 provides some awesome kits of all kinds, from rock, to brushed jazz, pop, hip-hop, electronic, etc. VST format though you can just use the WAVs as oneshots in your sequencer. At $89, there are no comparable, quality plugins in this range. It's also a fully-featured sampler that you can load your own samples into for playback/mangling.



M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI Soundcard - $65
http://www.scitscat.com/catalog/maud...tem-p-584.html

While not the best soundcard, the audiophile is an excellent choice for home musicians. If you're just starting out and all you have is onboard sound or a basic Soundblaster card, this will be a nice upgrade. Unbeatable price.



Sennheiser HD-280 Headphones - $69.96
http://www.scitscat.com/catalog/senn...nes-p-256.html

Want good headphones? You should be paying way more for these.



Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Silver + Silver Pro XP - $195
http://www.soundsonline.com/EWQLSO-S...-161PROB1.html

An amazing collection of orchestral sounds, plus piano + choir. If you like the tone of remixes such as Shnabubula's latest "Mario Likes Thorazine", Jared Hudson's "The Frontier", Vampire Hunter Dan's "Twilight of the Millienium", Star Salzman's "Advance With Caution", or many other orchestral remixes, then you'll want the library that helped create quite a few of them.

[Lunahorum]

what would be the advantage of that soundcard over my cheesy realtek one? Mine seems to work pretty well, but maybe you know something I don't. I get about 11ms latency when running asio drivers with synths and 7ms when running samples.

[dannthr]

You'd get way better than 7ms with that card, I'm sure.


It should also be noted that Vienna Symphonic Library is closing out its entire Horizion series of libraries, many which hit below $200

VSL is some of the highest of the high quality libs, so take that into account when you look at their tag--it might not seem like a bargain, but relatively speaking, it is (listen to the demos--they'z pro quality), and all posted under $200:

Vienna Harps:
http://vsl.co.at/en-us/211/215/159.vsl
Might be a bit too specific for most low-end, project studios but you never know.

French Oboe:
http://vsl.co.at/en-us/211/215/161.vsl
Sometimes a realistic performance is a decent background with a really solid solo instrument, often times if you've got that solid solo instrument you don't need to go all out for the background. A good, solid solo oboe is the unfortunate staple of orchestral video game remixery.

Saxophones I:
http://vsl.co.at/en-us/211/215/118.vsl
Actually, there are some sexy saxes here, not too many good sax libraries around, this is one of the old ones.

Mallets:
http://vsl.co.at/en-us/211/215/109.vsl

Concert Guitar:
http://vsl.co.at/en-us/211/215/117.vsl

Overdrive:
http://vsl.co.at/en-us/211/215/110.vsl

I wouldn't touch the guitar libs if you've got some skill at the strings.


Also, if you like funk music, Scarbee has some crazy specials every once in a while:
http://www.scarbee-shop.com/index.php
(They also just released probably the best electric fingered bass library slash script I've ever heard which they're retailing at $99)


This is a great thread! Everyone should post deals on gear and software that are dropping under $200!

[zircon]

AudioMIDI has a lot of VSL stuff at an even lower price;

eg.

http://www.audiomidi.com/Overdrive--...ies-P4477.aspx

[dannthr]

Excellent, that's definitely $8 you could spend on something else!

[Lunahorum]

how much better would those headphones be compared to my shure in-ears noise isolation?

[dannthr]

I'm sure someone on this forum:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=59
would be able to compare them for you.

[Cerrax]

FUCK! I've been wanting to buy Batter 3 for a while now, burt this version is VST only! Grrrr....

Those are some WICKED deals though. I have a pair of the HD 280 Pro's and they are slick headphones.

EDIT:oh wait this has the AU version, but its also not $89, its $119

[Yoozer]

Yeah, they quickly changed the price for some reason. Native Instruments offer their plugins in almost all formats, though.

[Lunahorum]

i am getting the headphones and sound card. I might get a different sound card though, but I am definitely getting the headphones. Sorry to say I can't support ocremix on this one because I save $30 by buying off a cheap site instead of zzound.