Software year-end accounting with the year 2021.

What was good - what was new - what surprised you - what was bad - which trends can be read off.

1.) I especially liked the Korg company, they updated everything and designed it nicely.
Even the users of 4K monitors are now looking forward to a user-friendly graphical interface.

2.) You can rely on FabFilter again and they haven't let us down.

 

Well,
I want to build a Shrine for Worship to Reason 12, Falcon and Soothe!

So, the Sound Designers and Sample Hoarders can feel less Empty in their Souls

 

VCV Rack 2 is getting most of my time at the moment, but the more time I spend with it, the more I find myself enjoying UVI Falcon. I'd always assumed it was just a big Rompler with knob twiddling, but it's actually so much better and so much more than that. It's a really powerful sound design tool.

Bitwig also going from strength to strength.

 

This year have been so incredible!!! For me Vital, Phase Plant and Parawave Rapid are the best discovery.
I haven't had time to really try Falcon deeply though. But I'm not on a hurry, as I wont pay 349,00€ for it, no matter how good it is.

 

Although not new, this year I bought Gullfoss and Omnisphere. It will take me a year to pay them off.
I'm happy Waves finally started getting bigger GUI's this year.
I'm disappointed in iZotope for going full subscription model for the full Ozone.

 

Bought Scaler 2 as I was impatient waiting for the 2.5 update to become available on the sister site.
Product goes from strength to strength and I use it on every project.

 

I am proud to finally have an original FL studio that I bought in full, the rest I am grateful to R2R for you are the reason why we are allowed to live here and now to make music, but I would be happy about small things that maybe they could still do otherwise i'm happy

 

For me of course Falcon Unveiled, and the fact that it runs flawlessly in my old W7. The best of the year.

 

Bad is quite the understatement:
https://audiosex.pro/threads/we-need-to-talk-about-plugin-marketing-part-1.61863/

 

Tone Projects Kelvin!

 

Best buy I made this year is Fircomp 2. It quickly became my go-to comp. Also bought the rest of the Tokyo Dawn Labs plug-ins that I didn't already own.

The return of Variety of Sound was definitely one of the most pleasant surprises!

Worst of this year? Hmm... there's so much to choose from I wouldn't know where to start! The "Mask off" plugin and Nani has to be somewhere close to the worst at least.

 

I purchased Omnisphere and it is definitely a beast. Designing sounds is a rabbit hole that prevents me from making actual songs, but it has been fun.
The also got the Arturia Synth collection. These were so great it allowed me to get rid of the "lesser" or boutique synths I had been using for years.
I am going to get an Arturia Keystep soon for the DAW control and integration with the Arturia plugins.

 

What dont you like about Nani? Agree with you bout Fircomp tho