Black Friday week is the best time to get plugins or even a new DAW as everything has biggest discounts: from $1 deals on Plugin Boutique to 60% off UAD plugins.
Here’s my ranking of top deals and some of the plugins I just got during sales launch.
Best offer: Plugin Deals at Plugin Boutique (plugins from $3, up to 90%
CYBER MONDAY SPECIAL OFFER FROM WAVES
Waves offer FREE Plugin and special bundle of new saturation/distortion plugins that they have released today – Abbey Road Saturation (Classic analog saturation & distortion from the legendary Abbey Road Studios) and MDMX Distortion (3 plugins based on musicians’ all-time favorites: Screamer, Overdrive, Fuzz)
DAWs on Sale
Not many DAWs have joined Black Friday so far. I expect Ableton and Bitwig to jump in but for now we have offer for Reason 11 (which now is also available as ReasonRack VST plugin):
Bitwig:
Reason Studios 11 – 30% OFF. Reason 11 is a great update that opened Reason Rack to users of other DAWs. And just few days ago they dropped an update that supported AU plugins – so you can now open Reason Rack in Logic.
Presonus Studio One 4 – 50% off (including upgrades and crossgrades). Prices start from $50 – that’s a best DAW deal of the year

VST Plugins on Sale – synths, effects (updated November 27th 2019)
Sonarworks Reference 4 – 40% off
Waves – FREE New Distortion plugin and 50% off everything
Vengeance Sound VPS Avenger Black Friday Mega Sale – 50% off! Totally inspiring, utterly absorbing, ridiculously versatile and sounding phenomenal. VPS Avenger is quite unlike any other synth out there! Don’t miss out on this Black Friday Sale.

Addictive Drums 2 and other XLN Audio plugins and AdPacks
Kilohearts Toolbox – up to 60% off. Prices start from $0 – Check it out
Soundtoys plugins up to 80% off. Most of the plugins are just $29 (inc.Crystallizer, PrimalTap, PhaseMistress, FilterFreak and others)

Arturia Collection 7 – 40% OFF – one of the most sophisticated vintage synth emulations collection from Arturia is on sale.
Sonnox plugins – 50% off. Probably not the sexiest thing but these are tools I use every day. This time I’ve got Sonnox Envolution – it is the most clear and great sounding transient shaper. Don’t miss Sonnox Limiter, a new Drum Gate, Dynamic EQ and classic Inflator saturation effect (please note there’re two different versions – VST or “native” and HDX – for ProTools hardware).
Modular Synths by Softube and Cherry Audio – up to 50% off:
- Softube Modular and Add Ons by Buchla, Intellijel, Doepfer and Mutable Instruments
- 50% off all Cherry Audio Voltage Modular and the PSP Ultimate Modular Collection (prices should be updated on Monday 25th Nov)
iZotope Black Friday Bundle Sale – 93% OFF. Great bundle of 7 tools by iZotope (not advanced versions, but advanced and pro versions are on sale too). And if you own one of the previous versions – there’re great offers for upgrades.
Serato Sample Black Friday Sale – 50% OFF. There are not so many third party samplers in VST world. But Serato one is the most powerful one.

Celemony Melodyne Studio Black Friday Sale – 50% OFF
If you work with vocals or pitch correction you know Melodyne. Upgrades are on sale too.

KHORDS by Plugin Boutique – 40% OFF – A great synth/rompler made around an idea of sampled chord transposition – great for House tracks or Drum’n’bass.
Scaler – 40% OFF – great MIDI plugin that helps you create interesting chord progressions.
Native Instruments – almost all the plugins and Maschine Extensions are 50% OFF.
Universal Audio UAD – 60 plugins 60% off
Toontrack products (EZDrummer, Superrior Drummer, EZMix, EZKeys) up to 90% off
Image-Line Plugins are 40% off

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