The Plugin Boutique sales are already starting

Black Friday means serious discounts on software—no shipping costs, no stock limitations, just crazy deals on instruments, effects and bundles you’ve been eyeballing all year. Plugin Boutique is one of the best retailers to snag a software deal this season. IK Multimedia, Slate Digital, Steinberg, Sonnox, and more have discounts running on everything from individual plugins to complete production suites.

We’ve highlighted our favourite deals below, which showcase some software that’ll genuinely level up your productions. These prices won’t hang around!

Up to 83% off IK Multimedia software during November

IK is offering amazing deals on many of its software instruments and suites via Plugin Boutique through the month of November. Highlights include half off Total Studio Max – making the company’s complete collection just £299, an incredible 75% off the innovative Tonex guitar and bass modelling packages at just £49.99 and Pianoverse models at just £49.99 each, making them half price. Elsewhere, the MODO Max drum and bass instrument package is a heavily discounted £100 and offers a bunch of savings on upgrade pricing for many instruments as well.

Big savings on Steinberg products for Black Friday

Get into Steinberg’s world with significant money off some of its top tools, like 40% off Dorico Pro 6 (and upgrade versions), the powerful SpectraLayers Pro and Elements, both with 39% off, making them £175 and £45 respectively, and Wavelab Pro 12 (£209) and Elements (£42) also see steep discounts. A chance to get your hands on these excellent products and save money.

Special deals on Fabfilter’s instrument and effect family

FabFilter is known for its innovative and well-designed instruments and effects, and here’s your chance to save big on some of the best. There’s an average of 24% off almost everything, including the Creative Bundle at £210, the Mastering Bundle at £285 and the full Total Bundle at £592, giving you everything the company makes. Many individual plugs are available too, ranging from £19 to £110 depending on the model.

Up to 76% off Sonnox tools this Black Friday

​​Sonnox, leading designer of innovative, high-quality, award-winning audio processing plugins for professional audio engineers, is offering up 0to 75% discount this Black Friday. This makes for some seriously affordable software compared to their list price.

Among others, you can get the classic Oxford series of mixing and mastering plugins for between £35 and £59 each, Claro EQ for just £30 and ListenHub referencing tools plugin for only £18. It’s a rare chance to beef up your sonic arsenal at a significant discount while the deals last.

Get Slate Digital’s Mix Bundle One for £44

Until 24 November, you can get Slate’s analogue-modelled mix chain software for 44% off.

Comprising two EQ and two classic compressor/limiter modules, it lets you combine and tweak modules in your own chains to process your sound. It’s the perfect way to punch up your mixes and masters, and comes with three extra bonus modules as well.

Klevgrand has up to a whopping 81% off its powerful instrument and effect lineup

Klevgrand — a Stockholm-based audio plugin company and creative studio run by musicians, software developers, music producers and sound designers — is offering serious discounts this Black Friday.

The ElPiano instrument comes down from £149 to just £27, while the STARK amp simulator is £36, and the Grand Finale mastering suite drops from £65 to a very affordable £25. There are tons more too – compressors, enhancers, modulators and much besides, all at significant discounts.

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Playing in bands in the 90s led Hollin into the world of production, joining MusicTech on issue 2 in 2003. With several internationally published books on composition and software he is an expert in Apple and consumer tech, having written for most leading Mac publications for many years. He is also a commercial photographer with work appearing in the national press.