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So, we still “never buying another Waves products again!”, or nah? Asking for a friend.

Let the $29 upgrade email campaign BEGIN! https://support.soundtoys.com

Uploaded an MP3 of Thriller as a MASTER. Here’s the reply:

so, if I run some of my top 10 mix references through it, it should say “These are perfect. No changes needed.”, right? Cause this seems like a crazy irresponsible device in the hands of A&R and even some of the producers I work for/with.

$9 for me to upgrade to the bundle so... check your accounts and all that...

excited to check this in my immersive setup... once my ears/health clear up....

they just couldn’t give us the back knob, could they....?

I’m digging into them now with the demo off their site. My hope was that this would allow me to take a stereo track, and extract stems (‘layers’ is the term they use) and use them for immersive mix work. While it’s impressive what it can pull out, I don’t think it’s good enough for that. Since, I could likely use it to isolate a track and listen to that to reverse-audio engineer any legacy work that’s being re-released in Atmos or 360RA. When you load a song it, it’s an offline process. I did a 192k file last night, and it took 18 minutes to process (honestly, still faster than me using izotope most of the time). If you are looking to grab an element for sampling purposes, I think it’s probably the best I’ve found. Other than that, I’d roll up my sleeve and turn to RX. Oh- and I’m still confused about which version I’m even using and what the difference is between each of them. These cats really need a comparison chart on their site.

oi vey.

Welp, here’s my take. $38? Cop it. Now, I own a ton of Moog hardware and software. I still have at least a pair of each of their EQs (1/3&parametric). My biggest gripe is that the “drive” knob on the plug in’s suck total crap. It does NOTHING until you crank it past 7 o clock. I contacted PSP about this and they said : It was decided that they shouldn’t distort too much. If you run more level into them, they will distort more. In the hardware, when you turn up the drive (which is technically input level), there is compensation that turns the output down by an equal amount. It’s actually a counter-wired dual pot that does this. This compensation is effective only up to a point and will distort if the input level is loud enough. This is why there is no change up to a point and then change afterward. With more input level this will happen earlier on the DRIVE pot. I feel they got this wrong IMO, and I do “get” how the hardware works. I even held on to a faulty unit that’s drive was more aggressive. Furthermore, I very, very often use the MID BAND on the parametric EQ to EQ low frequencies, and to my ears the mid and low band are exactly the same in the plug in. My hardware could be different, but they’d have to be consistently off. They do feel moogsque and at the price point, gripes aside, I suggest the purchase. I do welcome a Softube or UAD version in the future. But you won’t see those for $38 for a freakin’ bundle like this, so cop it.

PSP is a bit hit n miss with me. I consider this one a big hit. I often prefer it to the Api 550 offerings that are out there. Great find, Lar...

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/Knowledge/Pro-Tools-2023-3-Release-Notes#KnownIssues "Dolby Atmos: Tracks are not properly time-aligned by real time bounce to ADM or multi-stem wav (PT-282856)" Ridiculous that this major bug hasn’t been fixed (and almost every engineer I talk to isn’t even aware of it).

Thanks.

$80 upgrade seems steep for the feature set. At that pricepoint, I was hoping for some revolutionary Atmos feature- a boy can dream. But some of this was on the wishlist for a wrapper like this for a while so they just might get me.

KORG Gadget for Nintendo Switch 50% off $24 Kinda similar to MTV Music Generator for PS. I’m not exactly sure how to export audio other than the aux port, which would be quite limiting. Sale ends: 3/28/2023 at 08:59 AM PT

I..... I beat Larry?! Quick! Somebody name a street after me or somethin'!

And jam points...

IK Multimedia Total Studio 3.5 MAX $177 Maybe login to their site (seeing it for $199 there) and check for an update/discount... $99 for me. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/ts3/

Think this’ll show up cheaper elsewhere? The sound examples remind me vaguely of some of the stuff my TC Electronics D2 unit does rhythmically, and I dig this ole unit because it does stuff plug in’s don’t.

This or the 44TB version for my triangle samples $13.5 per TB vs $34 per TB.

Am I stupid(er than normal) or... is there no way to pass external audio through the Leslie cab, bypassing the organ? I can bypass the leslie cab, durr, but not the other way around. I suppose it’s possible they omitted this feature, but that would seem extremely short sited. booo!