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Black Friday Plugin Deals 2023 For Music Producers

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Black Friday 2023

Black Friday 2023 is still a few weeks away, but hundreds of deals for music producers are already live! Follow BPB’s daily Black Friday coverage for the latest deals, discounts, and freebie offers on VST plugins, soundware, Kontakt libraries, and studio gear.

We review and handpick the best Black Friday deals and freebies for music producers so you don’t get overwhelmed with thousands of unnecessary options.

Our curated Black Friday 2023 deals page is updated daily with new offers and discounts until the end of November.

You can also enter our Black Friday Giveaway with over $2,000 worth of music production prizes.

The Black Friday deals page is organized into three sections:

  • Software Deals (featuring discounted VST plugins and digital audio workstations);
  • Soundware Deals (featuring discounted sample packs and Kontakt libraries);
  • Hardware Deals (featuring discounted studio gear);
  • Freebies (featuring free plugins and sample libraries).

The no-brainer deals are highlighted in red, and deals on recommended products are highlighted in yellow. Expired deals are crossed out. Look for the 🆕 icon to find the latest Black Friday deals.

We invite you to share your favorite deals and offers in the comments below (thank you! ❤️). The best suggestions will be added to the article.

Also, we recently surveyed over 900 music producers about Black Friday. Check out the survey results on this page.

Let the Black Friday 2023 season on BPB officially begin!

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Black Friday Deals 🔥

Find the best Black Friday audio software and soundware deals in the section below.

Top 5 Best Black Friday Deals For Music Producers

If you’re in a hurry, here is the TL;DR version of our Black Friday discount list. These are the five absolutely best Black Friday music production deals in 2023.

Scroll down the page to find all the latest deals and Black Friday freebies.

$29 Black Friday Bundle Sale (95% OFF)

Get Native Instruments Super 8 FREE With A Loopcloud Subscription

Plugin Boutique offers the Black Friday Bundle with eleven individual plugins and 4.5 GB of samples. The bundle costs only $29 and comes with a free gift of your choice.

The bundle contains a variety of virtual instruments and effects, including the Super 8 synthesizer by Native Instruments and the bx_masterdesk mastering effect by Brainworx.

You also get the Lifeline Expanse Lite multi-effect, the amazing Rift Filter Lite by Minimal Audio and more.

Soundtoys Black Friday Sale (80% OFF)

Soundtoys

Soundtoys makes some of the best audio effects on the plugin market, and you can get them for 80% off during the Black Friday sale.

Prices start at $29 for legendary Soundtoys plugins like Radiator, MicroShift, and Devil-Loc Deluxe (so good on drums!).

You can also grab the entire Soundtoys collection for $249 for a limited time. It’s one of my go-to sets of audio plugins for sound design and mixing.

And don’t forget that the Little Plate reverb plugin by Soundtoys is FREE until December!

UAD Studio Edition Bundle (50% OFF)

UAD Minimoog

UAD doesn’t need an introduction. One of the leading plugin companies recently published native versions of its plugins, meaning that you don’t need UAD hardware to run them in your DAW.

So, now is the perfect time to upgrade your audio toolkit with the UAD Studio Edition bundle. The bundle costs $249.50 while on sale and includes 33 plugins (you will pay $7.50 per plugin).

Get legendary plugins like the Moog Minimoog (the UAD plugin version sounds incredibly close to the original), Lexicon 244 Digital Reverb, Teletronix LA-3A Audio Leveler, and many more.

Also, UAD recently released their LUNA DAW for free on macOS.

Emergent Drums AI Drum Plugin (80% OFF)

Get Emergent Drums For 80% Off For A Limited Time
Get 80% off the groundbreaking Emergent Drums plugin by Audialab.

Emergent Drums uses AI technology to generate unlimited new drum sounds. You can tweak and shape the generated drums and export them as WAV samples for further processing in your favorite DAW.

It’s a superb tool for developing new and unusual percussion in seconds.

Softube Black Friday Sale (80% OFF)

Softube Tape

You can get your hands on some of Softube’s top-notch plugins at unbeatable prices during the Black Friday sale.

Save up to 80% on essential tools like the Bus Processor, a must-have for your mixing needs, the Model 82 for authentic analog synth recreation, and the American Class A console mixing channel.

Softube’s renowned Tape plugin is priced at just $35 during the sale, and it’s one of the best saturation plugins on the market.

Software Deals – Black Friday 2023 💻

Soundware Deals – Black Friday 2023 🔊

Hardware Deals – Black Friday 2023 🎛️

Freebies – Black Friday 2023 🎁

  • Loopcloud offers the Super 8 plugin by Native Instruments for FREE with any subscription, starting at $2 for two months.
  • Plugin Boutique offers a free plugin with any purchase until November 20th. Get VISION 4X Lite, UAD LA-2A, or UJAM Mellow 2 for free.
  • Plugin Boutique offers Audiomodern Freezr as a free add-on when you purchase another Audiomodern product.
  • ADSR Sounds offers Animate by Mastering the Mix as a free add-on with any purchase in November.
  • VSTBuzz offers The LO.VE. Piano for Kontakt Player for free.
  • Soundtoys offers the Little Plate reverb plugin as a free download until December 1st.
  • AIR Music Tech offers the Bassline plugin for free for a limited time!
  • Native Instruments offers the Ozone 11 Mastering EQ by iZotope for free.
  • In Session Audio offers the Fruit Shake library for Kontakt Player for free until November 21st.
  • Chiqui-Audio offers free Serum presets as part of its Black Friday promotion.
  • 8DIO offers the 1928 Steinway Grand Piano for Native Instruments Kontakt for FREE!
  • Karanyi Sounds offers the Electric Keys electric piano instrument for FREE for a limited time.
  • Arturia offers the Augmented Strings Intro virtual instrument for FREE on Audio Plugin Deals!
  • Boom Library offers the Processed Impacts sound library for FREE!
  • SoundGhost offers the Space reverb plugin for FREE for a limited time.
  • DP-06+ drum machine library for Kontakt Player is FREE for a limited time.
  • Phil Speiser offers The_Build plugin for FREE until November 23rd.
  • Karanyi Sounds offers the Space reverb plugin for FREE with any purchase.
  • Decent Samples released FREE Casio PT-10 x Dictaphone sample library.
  • Splash Sound offers the Indie Voices and Old School Keys sound libraries for Kontakt Player for free until December 8th.
  • Waves Audio offers free Silk Vocal on Black Friday!

When is Black Friday 2023? 📅

Black Friday is the first Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. In recent decades, it has become a global shopping phenomenon and the time of the year with the most sales, special discounts, and limited-time product offers.

Black Friday 2023 is on November 24th. However, in the music software industry, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales start almost a month before the actual Black Friday.

You will find all the latest music production deals on this page.

Black Friday 2023 – Survey Results 📊

We recently surveyed over 900 music producers about Black Friday. Here are the most interesting findings:

  • Only 10.5% of music producers feel negatively about Black Friday in general. The majority (67.1%) feel positive about Black Friday, and less than a quarter (22.4%) are neutral.
  • When asked about Black Friday in the context of music production, only 4.7% of music producers felt negatively. The vast majority (80%) feel positive about Black Friday in the context of music production.
  • Around half (53.9%) of music producers feel the same level of excitement about Black Friday 2023 as in previous years. However, almost a third (29%) stated that they are more excited about this year’s Black Friday than previously.
  • Almost half (48.2%) of surveyed music producers are certain that they will make a music production-related purchase on Black Friday this year. Only 13.9% are certain that they won’t buy anything.
  • Interestingly, more than three quarters (76.2%) of music producers said they intentionally delayed purchasing music gear and software earlier in the year to take advantage of a Black Friday sale.
  • Less than a third (29.3%) of music producers have a specific budget for Black Friday purchases.
  • When asked about the minimum discount percentage that would entice them to make a music production-related purchase on Black Friday, the most popular answer (35.7%) was a 50-75% discount. Only 5.4% of music producers would be happy with a 10-25% discount.
  • Over two-thirds (67.8%) of surveyed music producers will primarily focus on purchasing music production software on Black Friday. Only 12.1% are planning to purchase studio gear, and 20% are planning to upgrade their soundware collection.
  • Over half (58%) of music producers said they discover Black Friday deals on websites like Bedroom Producers Blog and others. Only a small percentage (6.1%) use online forums to discover Black Friday deals. Interestingly, only 16.3% searched for Black Friday offers on social media.
  • Of those who weren’t neutral, over 99% of surveyed music producers said they were happy with Bedroom Producers Blog’s Black Friday coverage in the previous years. Thank you!
  • Only 25.6% felt that Black Friday discounts are unfair to those customers who purchase music production products at full price during the rest of the year.
  • Interestingly, most (70%) music producers said they never regretted a music production purchase made during Black Friday.
  • Lastly, less than half (43.1%) felt that Black Friday sales pressure music producers and musicians into purchasing gear they don’t necessarily need or can’t afford.

We hope you’ll enjoy Bedroom Producers Blog’s coverage of Black Friday 2023. Please share your favorite deals and offers in the comments below. We will add the best suggestions to the article.

Last Updated on November 25, 2023 by Tomislav Zlatic.

Tomislav is a music producer and sound designer from Belgrade, Serbia. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief at Bedroom Producers Blog.

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