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I thought I'd make a thread sharing my experiences with this, as plugins can be very expensive and I've never seen this topic discussed. If your a student in college (possibly grade school applies), you can get some huge discounts on plugins if you just look for them. I was able to get the OhmForce suite of plugins for just over 100$, all I had to do was supply a student ID or other confirmation that I was enrolled. This also worked for camel audio (alchemy is the best synth ever) and sugar bytes! I have nearly 50% off on most of these companies just by being enrolled. This isn't just for music students, any student is eligible.

I should also note that these are full versions of the plugins, not educational versions. If you have a family enrolled in a college I imagine you could use their credentials to do it as well, just call in a favor.

So along with OhmForce, sugar bytes, and camel audio, what companies have you encountered that offer discounts like these? I'd like to know who I should look into Investing in plugins from before I graduate.

are these deals you find on the internet? or should i be talking to people at my school about these discounts? i never even thought of that!

Well I used Studica (Google it) to buy Cubase 5 at half-price... only paid just over £200 for my troubles

Pretty much any major plugin company does.

UAD, Waves, Fab Filter, Camel, D16, Rob Papen, Sonnox.
When I have some regular income again, I think I'll go for a Fab Filter bundle.

Ages ago I got Fruity Producer Edition for like 50 bucks. There are teacher discounts as well. I have looked into it again recently and a lot of companies have locked it down so you have to be a student or teacher in some kind of music program. But maybe I should look again.

fuck yeah I'm definitely gonna utilize this

Ableton offers some compensation if you're a student. Looks like up to 40% off at first glance. https://www.ableton.com/en/shop/education/

I got a good discount with ableton and cycling 74 (for Max/msp) while I was a student. Really recommend doing it. Meant I could afford stable decent new software despite being at uni instead of working and not using shitty cracks that crash all the time like some dick.

elyhess wrote:are these deals you find on the internet? or should i be talking to people at my school about these discounts? i never even thought of that!

Email their customer support. They will ask for some identification that you are a student. One asked for a transcript, which all I had to do was show some confirmation that I was currently enrolled through my schools website. A screenshot of that worked. For most of them all I had to do was send them a photo of my student ID and most schools should have these. They then sent me a coupon to use in the store.

AxeD wrote:Pretty much any major plugin company does.

UAD, Waves, Fab Filter, Camel, D16, Rob Papen, Sonnox.
When I have some regular income again, I think I'll go for a Fab Filter bundle.

those are some names I had not thought about, I'll have to check out UaD and fabfilter, I Love fabfilters stuff but didn't realize they offered a student discount.

They are in our student store, but it might be some exclusive deal I'm not sure.