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4 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:

Pigments is my most regretted purchase lately. That thing sounds like $%#@ (in my opinion of course). I don't understand the hype, and I don't understand how Arturia can make a synth that sounds so lifeless (filters, effects section, etc.) 

I respect your experience but I find it to be the opposite. Some of the filters are literally the same filters from stand alone products that are well regarded. It has become my go to. 

And another vote for scaler. Basic usage of scaler is simple, but it has so many other usages like routing other midi products like ezkeys to snap to other scales. 

6 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

Anyone has experience with version 1?

I tried to like it, but it had three big problems for me:

1) workflow. Although some complain about built in sounds in scaler, they are helpful during composition phase. Yes, I could make a kontakt template to route everything, but then i still have to jump back and forth between two plugins to flesh out basic ideas.

2) the results are random and often mid asf and mostly robotic. Getting something usable is like hitting lottery in my experience.

3) It seems to be overly geared towards EDM. I like EDM but only usable results for me were in that umbrella.

I do occasionally visit it because I have found with ALL of their midi products, their examples undersell capabilities. It took me forever to properly learn how to use instachord because apl their examples were repetitive trance songs.

2 hours ago, telecode 101 said:

wow.. that's  a weird development. Yamaha/Steinberg partnering with Arturia and pulling a NI like partner deal. I wonder what might be getting cooked up in the couldrun in the back rooms.

 

 

It gives me a bad feeling

I got it despite already owning MAutoDynamicEQ because it counts towards eventually owning complete

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

Between Bapu's potential available offer and other forum members,  I think you have a very good chance of this working out and I bet that some generous  soul will come along before the next week passes, dubdisciple.

But now that we're all invested in the story, when you get that voucher, if it happens via PM, you have to update the thread and let us know. 

Will do.

11 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Check with me on 25 July 2023 (if you have not found one by then) and if I haven't used my $75....

I prefer to wait until that time because they may introduce something new before then.

Will do

11 minutes ago, Max Arwood said:

I know what you mean!!  I’m looking for the super Bapu voucher. His are around $1000 or so I think. Lol. Good luck with the voucher. 

Don't think I haven't thought of stalking Bapu!

Soooo, maybe need is the wrong word. It's more like need in the crackhead looking for stuff definition of need. Don't judge.

Does anyone else have a PA $75 voucher? I have a need lol

18 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Early on, MeldaProduction came out with MDynamics, which was intended to be The One Dynamics Processor To Rule Them All. Get that and you'll never need another compressor, gate, limiter, expander, whatever.

Which fits with Vojtech's design philosophies. A limiter is the same thing as a compressor with an infinity ratio, so why separate them?

The answer is that there is usability value in reducing complexity (also, you can sell FX to people who don't have the budget for MDynamics). Despite the fact that their features are a subset of MDynamics', with the same underlying code, I use MCompressor and MLimiterX more often than I use MDynamics. MDynamics is just too huge for me to get my head around (for now).

Vojtech has said that he uses MLimiterX when mixing/mastering, which is a pretty good endorsement.

I often find myself overwhelmed by MAutoDynamicEQ. It's too much, yet is not that intuitive when used for more basic things.  Don't get me wrong. It's a great eq and a great budget alternative to fabfilter when on sale, but I honestly find myself using stock mequalizer for basic stuff

11 minutes ago, Sander Verstraten said:

I wasn't bored. Just a bit annoyed that they were so pushy about Dolby Atmos

 

I will say that the stream itself wasn't what i expected, but hard for me to complain about a free stream in which they are giving away a a product for free. I got paid in a sense to listen to three guys talk for an hour and a few things said were useful. 

The link was on during live stream but you didn't need chat open. In fact, for me it was the opposite. I didn't see link until i got annoyed with all the whining and closed chat. Link was on main section during live stream.

38 minutes ago, Kreveta Puket said:

I was yesterday little sad and very angry on people on chat via stream..... milions of trolls wrote about code ...... code code... without respect to stream, which was free...

fast bundle is nice software..... today when i read on kvr or knobcloud post about bundle - this is absurd... some people are not thankful for some big Freebies and want make money from that....

I was annoyed too. Nonstop whining and disrespect. People were actually complaining they were bored

18 hours ago, MusicMan said:

I had wondered about how good this one was in the recent Melda sale. I've never really heard it mentioned in any of the mastering forums or groups ever. That's not to say it's bad, it could be totally slept on, but it's unusual. I might have to give it a demo at some stage.

It was probably better for me in the bundle sale than buying it by itself I would've thought as it wasn't much more to get it with some other plugins.. that I probably didn't need either 🤣

I ended up getting it as part of a bundle or I would have never thought about it. It flies under the radar.

1 hour ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Are you trying to limit yourself on the number of limiters you own?

Hmmm..maybe waves will come out with an Unlimiter to remove these limits

I have only used this to "try" and found it to be very good. I think I just have too many limiters lol 

It really should be free to real time tune and harmony owners . Unless this has a detection algorithm light years ahead of other similar products, I can't imagine buying this. The hornet one (not to mention melodyne, crispy tuner , scaler and other products I already own) do a decent job of this.

40 minutes ago, iNate said:

Most of what Relay does is directly on the Mixer in many DAWs. The plug-in exists to enable iZotope to change those settings on tracks without having to implement a dozen (or more) DAW-specific solutions.  Without it, they cannot easily change the panning on a specific track in say, Reaper, Cakewalk, Cubase, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, etc. without some serious development work (if possible at all in some cases, due to poor/lack of automation in a specific DAW).  In order to enable this, they have to abstract the Mixer with the Relay Utility plug-in, in which case you don't really touch the mixer for those tracks for those parameters. You do everything in the Relay Plug-in (or, the plug-ins do it by changing those parameters within Relay on those specific tracks).

If you read Jacques' post, he's basically using it as iZotope intended - via their IPC workflow - because Nectar 3 cannot unmask tracks except by using Relay to adjust Track Parameters.  Without it, it doesn't work.  He has to use the Relay there even after removing Nectar, because without Relay the settings that Nectar sets for those tracks will not persist 😉  He'd have to copy all of those settings to the DAW's native MixConsole, instead.  The sidechain stuff is unremarkable.

Almost everything on Relay is on the Cubase or Samplitude Pro X mixers.  The only thing that may not be there is Stereo Width, but both of those DAWs have a stock spatial plug-in for that, which uses less resources than an instance of Relay on a track.

Most DAWs don't need a "solution" for this.  It's basic stuff in the Mixer or Inspector.  Relay exists only to abstract this in a way that makes it available for adjustment by their other IPC-enabled plug-ins.  It is actually not very useful outside of that scenario, as a result.

 

 🙂

I don't know of any stock solution that does what Izotope does.  

1 hour ago, Brian Lawler said:

Riser installed and works fine on my Win-10 PC (Ryzen processor).  It is a soft iLok license.  Looks like I I first authorized in 2016 and I built this PC in 2020. My two complaints are no VST3 and the GUI is not re-scalable.  Painful on hi-dpi.  Admittedly I don't use the Air stuff much anymore because I have tried to banish all the VST-2 stuff from my system unless that is the only option.

I never got a few usable sound out of riser.  Loom is one of my favs. I found vacuum pronto be ok but redundant 

4 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

iZotope plugins also use hardware acceleration for the GUI.

That might be why I don't seem to have issues with Izotope in that regard. 

1 hour ago, El Diablo said:

For mixing, I used Sonible Smart EQ.  It allows me to group up to six tracks, put them in 3 way layer (front, middle, back) and it automatically EQs them.  There's even auto dynamic EQ.

Is that what Nectar does?

Nectar will do that but allows for more than six. It also will account for tracks with other Izotope plugins and do the same. I haven't used Smart EQ to compare workflow and effectiveness, but I find Nectar pretty intuitive.  The Izotope system does allow for limited inclusion of non-Izotope products by using Relay plugin. What can be controlled via AI are mostly along the lines of relative gain and initial mix levels, but still a nice feature.

Chow's tape plugin is also quite nice and free.