How much have you spent on REs, refills and upgrades this year?

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TritoneAddiction
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30 Jul 2018

It's easy to get excited about new fun stuff. A purchases here and there doesn't seem like much at first but when you actually start looking into it it really adds up.
Log in to your account, check "My orders" history. Don't just guess. How much exactly have you spent on REs, refills and Reason upgrades the last 365 days? It's usually more than one like to think.

If you feel like counting VST purchases also you can, but please put it in a seperate category.


Me:

REs: €366
Reason upgrades: €258
Refills: €15

Total cost: €639. Ouch.

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aeox
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30 Jul 2018

RE: $664
No refills or upgrades.

I don't really see this as very much, considering mix and mastering bundle and getting mostly everything on sales. I feel like I got a lot for my money :P

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emilng
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30 Jul 2018

REs: $656
Upgrade: $129

Total: $785

I didn't have much before so this is all filling out most of the essentials including the mixing and mastering bundle and a lot of the CV and sequencing tools that I use. I've spent more than twice as much on modular gear and other equipment in the same amount of time.

ind3xs
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30 Jul 2018

Thats a insightfull exercise.

2018:
Refill: 129,-
Re’s: 68,-

2017:
Upgrade: 129,-
Re’s: 118,-

Total: 444,-

Note: had a relatively big peak in RE purchases in 2012/13 when the shop was Launched.

Must say. Im pleasantly surprised. Thought it was worse.

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Quiloc Lim
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30 Jul 2018

REs: $306

Refills: $9

Not too bad. I thought it was more. :-) However, If the wife knew..... then there would be trouble. :-D She'd rather I spent that money on her somehow. :-)

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xylyx
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30 Jul 2018

About £100 on REs (hard to be exact as some purchases are recorded in £ and others in €) and £89 on the v10 upgrade.

Interesting that all the new REs I got were CV or utilities - no synths or effects at all other than the new ones in v10 :shock:

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motuscott
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30 Jul 2018

I’m running in poverty mode this year, but really I have more REs than I’ll ever be able to figure out in my lifetime (and then JP’s harmonic synth goes on sale). So far $55.
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NekujaK
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30 Jul 2018

Last 365 days:
RE: $330
Refill: $33
VST: well over $5,000 :o (gulp... don't let my wife see this post!)

Here's the interesting part, during the PREVIOUS 365 days:
RE: $846
VST: $0

Draw your own conclusions.
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Faastwalker
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30 Jul 2018

Probably best I don't check! Bought a few for sure. The Noise Engineering bundle, Torsion, Nostromo (on sale), RND. That's just the recent purchases. It's going to be around the $300 I'd guess. RE's are dead? Not on my bank account they're not! :D

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Carly(Poohbear)
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30 Jul 2018

Too much....... I'll leave it at that :)

Jay Bird
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30 Jul 2018

I'm with Poohbear. Too much. I don't even want to know. I should probably quit, but I just love the buttons and knobs.

strangers
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30 Jul 2018

RE: $508
Refill: Hard to compute since I didn't buy any through the Prop Shop in the past 365 days. Bought them directly off the sound designers websites.
Upgrades: $0

All purchases were during sales so I made out really well. This all puts time and money into perspective. Going to do my best to cut back on purchases and focus on completing more music. No sense in adding to the pile of hammers if I'm not going to fully utilize them.

dustmoses
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31 Jul 2018

I don't but REs much anymore because you can't sell them (about 2/3 of my RE would be sold if I could.) At this point I only go for utility/cv stuff because it's RE exclusive.
$110 on REs (much less than past years)
Probably $100 or so on refills, most expensive was the Bitley R2X (I have every Bitley refill except WBS he is the king)

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FLVZ
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31 Jul 2018

REs: €678
R10 upgrade: €100

Total: €778

In 2018 though i've only spent €79, but in 2017 we had stuff like Vk2 coming out (possibly the sexiest analog synth in the store) and Tube Tech went on sale so that had to be done! eXpanse also bringing the total up quite a bit, needed to buy it to finish a song I started in the trial. This being before subscriptions were available. The total though is rather eye opening, thought i'd be safely below the €500 threshold!

Mr. Watts
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01 Aug 2018

$270

Upgraded the Synth Rig for Expanse, Nostromo, and Respire (and PUMP!!!)!

Got both Hyrdronexius and Aquios for $70.

And spent $100 on refills.

Was able to fund $200 worth of these purchases through beat sales so only $70 out of pocket really.

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moneykube
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01 Aug 2018

looking at last credit card bill... aaaaaaaaaaak.... way to much.... must... stop.... clicking..... buy.... on.... sales :oops: :oops: :oops: :re: :refill: :exclamation: :exclamation:
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Adabler
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01 Aug 2018

So far this year I'm at $434,-.

$283 on REs
$123 on subscription
$29 on refills.

I think that a reasonable amount spent pr month on a hobby. Still, I plan to get back to the smallest subscription tier this fall.
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Zac
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01 Aug 2018

My spending has as much to do with bad circumstances as any other factor. I have spent over £1k in some years but in the last 365:

€55 all on discounted RE

I have to say VSTs have opened my eyes some what. There are some incredible free or very inexpensive ones out there especially when on sale.

antic604

01 Aug 2018

I'm a new Reason user (since Oct '17) and since then I've spent 780EUR on REs... I wasn't expecting it's this much :o

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Ixus
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01 Aug 2018

If it was more than 1 year since synth booster pack then around 120 EUR I recon..
Otherwise add 150 :P

scratchnsnifff
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01 Aug 2018

Carly(Poohbear) wrote:
30 Jul 2018
Too much....... I'll leave it at that :)
I’m with this dude
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EdGrip
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01 Aug 2018

140 Euros, of which I reckon I might come to regret 18. What are your probable regret totals?

...however, in the last year I also bought 2 VSTs: u-he Repro and TAL Sampler, which together come to £134. (incidentally probably my two favourite plugin purchases - definitely no regrets there!)

So about £258 all together in the last year. Ouch. :( It could be worse.

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modecca
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01 Aug 2018

2018:
frame 9 bucks ( love it)
st-1 25 bucks (detest the sound, thought it would be good to use for generative combinator I was working on)

2018 total:
34 bucks

In comparison to 2017:

2 upgrades in 1 year:
r9 129
r10 100
bit crush 9 bucks (steal)
vk2 29 bucks (absolute best deal ever)
front 8 graph cv router 15 bucks ( looks really cool and you can modulate location of cv destinations)
OB upgrade 19 bucks
proton 55 (I prefer the gui/workflow of grain)

2017 total:
356 bucks
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splangie
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01 Aug 2018

REs: 9 bucks a month for the last 4 months and at least twice now I could not login to validate subscriptions and had to retry at least once so I think they owe me a couple bucks. :+)

And that is my only complaint. Except I am having trouble sampling. But I'll bring that up on another thread if I can't get it straight.

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angorapostfrosch
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Location: Rostock, Germany

02 Aug 2018

332 € on RackExtensions during the last 365 days.
129 € on Upgrades.
More than I thought.
Less than the previous years.
I don't regret spending that money.

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