Sugar Bytes Artillery2 is half-price for $100 until Nov. 1

One of my fave plugins, Sugar Bytes Artillery2, is half-price for $100 until November 1st. (I got it for $150 after discount awhile ago.) What does it do? You press a special key and it plays a little melody! Or rather, effect — PLAYABLE EFFECTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. As shown here:

Artillery II is really practical to add spice to a track without going through the cumbersome motions of loading in a separate effect for each thing you want, well, effected. It pays off in aggregate, when multiple keys are depressed and you have a very complex, warped sound that's radically different from the original… with minimal fuss. This effects-based flexibility is fundamental to some genres like glitch-hop — but I like adding an extra stutter here or a flange there for subtle sonic variety. (The kind of thing that happens only once in a track!)

Presumably part of the dropped price is to rival Tim Exile & Native Instruments' cleverly-named The Finger @ $80, which can be used with Kore 2 or loaded into Reaktor 5. As I commented in that CDM post:

Power to those who can take a foundation of deep maths and top it with controls suited for realtime performance.

I'm all for innovation, but my main beef with Kore, months on, is that despite so many great sounds, it initially loads like a slug compared to, say, the similarly-focused PLAY engine. Over the course of multiple productions, that wears thin. The Kore video tutorials are informative and make it look simple but in actual usage, it's trickier to have several instances open at once (as I don't like the internal mixer). Wish Kore would have a lighter monotimbral version.

Anyway, here's another video of me and Artillery2, which does load quickly!