marcL

Nowadays each plugin provider is selling a lot of saturators, tape plugins, exciters, etc.! 😄 I have more than 30 now! Do I really need another one? IMO, one of the best saturator and tube plugins is Klanghelm's SDRR! It has a lot of cool, well organized presets. Its handling is exemplary. It is never on sale, but for only 23 EUR regular price it's always a deal! I forgot to say that SDRR is easy to install, easy to authorize (on all of your machines) and very resource friendly!

2 days ago I tested STA Delay, as it is on sale for 10 EUR in PluginBoutique. Real disappointment, it's even not worth 10 EUR ! 👎 I think their usual prices are exorbitant compared to the quality of their plugins, but YMMV! 😄

I see your applications for it! 👍 But for most of that I use Reaper. Its plugin scanning and startup are like a flash (even if you have annoying plugin shells!) and there are many routing possibilities.

I don't have a lot of experience with their plugins, but with a short test of some, I really liked the ADverb and the Mangleverb. Maybe I also find some usage for Fluid, Liquid, PhaseTwo and Vapor (especially for fine-tuning synth sounds). The Phosphor synth is not my taste, there are better free synths IMHO.

And who needs VST3 ? 😆 ... and even AAX ?

Sorry, that I disagree! But the big difference is that you can stop anytime without losing the plugins. Your open projects will work and you're still able to use the plugins in new projects!

This is one thing I noticed with VST3, there have grown dozens of preset systems, like the Tower of Babel! The world (presets) was so well-regulated with VST2! This is a very good example for regression updates (VST2 > VST3)!

Or a sample case, a sample magazine, a sample container, sample specimen ... ?

This is exactly the reason why I use VST2 for most PA plugins! Much more convenient!

Maybe once they invent the NO knob plugin! It will be like nowadays Google search, the result will be different than expected! 😄

They never create a change log, however can you know whether the change is to your benefit? 😆

I just say: There is no Reason to waste your money! 😄

Regrettably, once I bought an Accusonus product, absolute disappointment! Thus, I would love that Rubbish unlimited would buy them! 😆

I am on Windows! Fxxx off Apple Silicon and macOS! It seems the Windows users just pay for those ones! A lot of effort in the last 2 years has been spent only for those ones! 👎

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👍 ! I know that the MIDI display setting is difficult to define for synths, because there it depends on each single patch. But for sampled, real world instruments "-2" should be correct AFAIK. Originally I had evaluated the "-2" according to the MIDI specification where C3 equals 60 ! (Some years ago I made my own MIDI programs: Sequencer, MIDI-Editor, ...).

I guess that you use the strange default value of Cakewalk for the MIDI octave display! Like that it is off for most VST instruments also. You can change the value to "-2" in "Preferences > Customization > Display > Base Octave for Pitches" ! Like that it should be okay (for most uses, I don't know for Stutter Edit, because I don't have it).

Another annoying thing is that the Hub takes so much time in each plugin scanning! That's the reason why I have only installed it on my laptop so far! I hate those plugin shells that take a lot of scanning time even if there is no new plugin of this developer! I have hundreds of usual plugins and about 3-4 shells (with maybe 10 plugins together), but the scanning for these few shell plugins takes more time than for some hundred others! 😡

More and more we need faster systems, because a lot of software gets heavier and heavier (plugins, especially from the mid and larger companies). But if I take Reaper and some older excellent plugins I can run with the same speed on a 10 years old system. Will the mix be worse than on a new potent system with "modern" plugins? I doubt!

For my taste it is a very heavy and a slow plugin. 👎 I doubt whether I ever will use it! I have fairly better ones for this task! In addition I downloaded some updates for my other Softube plugins. It was prudent that I only installed one of the updates, first (Drawmer S73). The new version was so slow (double loading time of the GUI) that I decided to go back to the previous version! 👎 A very high price for having a resizable GUI! 😆 Conclusion: I guess Softube will also get on my list of eschewed plugin developers, regrettably! 😢 Another point that formed my opinion: The documentation! First, they only deliver a single manual that includes almost all of their plugins! This alone was not so bad, if not the pdf index links were pointing completely false! 😡 And the document is really not very new (sep-20)! I checked my former manual version (much older), and even there were the links pointing wrong! I cannot trust in such a company and their software! For years they could not fix such a simple manual issue! They are like many developers preferring cool things (like resizable GUIs), instead of doing necessary fixes! And their plugins are even not cheap!

Oooh, the new version looks terrible! I don't like it! Okay I know, the appearance should not be the crucial argument. But sometimes it is! 😆

IMO this is a problem on a lot of instrument patterns (also from other vendors)! This is my major instrumentation problem, too! 😆 Often I create too many cool instrument parts that compete against each other. So I end up having almost unsolvable mixing problems!

I have Studio Session Analyzer, but I am undetermined whether I shall update! 🤔 That's because it would require to install Flux::Center on the downloading PC and on the offline machines, just for one single plugin! Honestly, I am tired of installing, configuring and learning installation managers and handle the hassles that they raise (e.g. they're more often updated than the plugins themselves)! More and more I come to the decision that I will ignore companies that make simple installations, updates and authorizations of plugins so troublesome , so time-consuming! 😡 Companies that clutter the customer systems and waste their resources ... I am no more willing to spend any money to them! The last years I have dropped some because of that, not because their plugins are bad (Waves, IK Multimedia, AAS, MAGIX, Black Rooster, HOFA, Overloud, Presonus, ...). NI and XLN are of the same kind, but currently I have excluded them, because I don't have reasonable alternatives for their stuff. 😄

Reminds me of a lot of gadgets that was available in our band(s) or that I owned myself!

For CbB offline activation you still need BLA, unfortunately!