Brian Walton

33 minutes ago, RSMcGuitar said:

I've been really happy with the packs I picked up from Tone Junkie

He has some Dumble "clones" that I'm sure he will eventually release.  He has a massive Kemper pack with them (around 100 profiles if I remember correctly), but hasn't done ToneX yet.  

I wonder if this release will impact his timetable on that.

46 minutes ago, heath row said:

  

 

Yes that seems to be correct.

For me the pedals aren't an issue thus far, but very complimentary and only used on 8 presets/patches/amps what ever you want to call them.

The 100wt Dumble sounds sweet, not that the 50 doesn't. It's hard for me to move on because they just sound so good and it's inspirational, get something started and away you go, awesome. I've been waiting for this since the 3rd party stuff started coming out.

Well if used on 8 out of 20 that seems like a complete waste - given how many they are including in the pack.  

I've played real Dumbles before - some of them sound good - others are frankly rubbish and then of course there is the question of how well it is recorded even if it is a good one.  But good to hear you are finding them inspirational.  

May need to try to test tonight if they are part of the trial products.

Sadly I have 2 tonex pedals but was hoping not to need to authorize the 2nd one, to get these models - seems lame they are offering it as free to new people.  The problem is if I authorize the 2nd in my account - it isn't like they give me any extra authorizations.

24 minutes ago, Greg said:

I haven’t followed Tonex as close as maybe I should have. Will these type of collections wind up in a Max collection? 

Apparently not this one.  They are asking money from max users

39 minutes ago, heath row said:

Yes thank you, bought and installed.

Can you confirm this thing only has 20 tone models across 4 amps (and 2 pedals they included for no particular reason?)

And how does it sound/feel for the clean to edge of break up stuff compared to the Two-Rock stuff I'm sure you have from Amalgam, etc.

2 minutes ago, MusicMan said:

I love some of their stuff... but damn that sounds expensive for it! Haha.. 

Very.

I've got quite a few an my login price still makes them $20 a pop for each I don't have.  Not even a little tempted.

Wondering why it isn't on PA, was thinking they would have struck a deal after the eq release.

12 minutes ago, Wallace Ng said:

Even having most of their plugins (bought the all bundle last year thanks to some member in this wonderful forum, literally less than 10 plugins that I don't own), PA still wants to charge me $899 for the bundle - looks like PA and UA are all the same now 😂

Last year they had tiers based on what you own (to a degree). Not this year.  An unreasonable $900 for everyone!

3 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Idea has been around for years, just never seen anyone actually attempt to implement it in an easy and intuitive way.  

There have been some options that treat things statically or dynamically (to an extent) but following based on key (instead of just a note or something of that nature, hasn't been intrinsic in the functionality of anything I've seen though I've seen people ask for it over the years.

Wish this one was a bit cheaper to make it a no-brainer with all the other super power EQs I have.  At $50, might give it a demo then wait.

Also super curious about the CPU hit.  Some other heavy hitters are pretty light on the resources - kirchhoff eq, toneboosters EQ4, Melda MAutodynamicEQ, etc  I'm going to be a little surprised if this is competitive to Kirchhoff's consumption.

Started demo.  Pulled it into Gig Performer to look at CPU usage in a more isolated environment than a DAW.

Getting 4-5% CPU usage compared to MAutoDynamicEQ and Kirchhoff (both of those hover between 0-1%)...Measured with MNoiseGenerator going through them as Melda plugins are smart enough to bypass when nothing is being played.

Amex EQ200 is around 9% CPU usage.

Also white noise in the Demo is quite frequent and annoying - given the demo seems to say 29 days left in the trial, honestly that seems really poor.  If the trial is unlimited time, then it is at least more forgivable.  

27 minutes ago, bluzdog said:

This is why I bought H-EQ.  I like this concept.

This has been around for a while, but too rich for me - so never tried it

https://www.soundradix.com/products/surfer-eq/

1 minute ago, dubdisciple said:

Interesting concept 

Idea has been around for years, just never seen anyone actually attempt to implement it in an easy and intuitive way.  

There have been some options that treat things statically or dynamically (to an extent) but following based on key (instead of just a note or something of that nature, hasn't been intrinsic in the functionality of anything I've seen though I've seen people ask for it over the years.

Wish this one was a bit cheaper to make it a no-brainer with all the other super power EQs I have.  At $50, might give it a demo then wait.

Also super curious about the CPU hit.  Some other heavy hitters are pretty light on the resources - kirchhoff eq, toneboosters EQ4, Melda MAutodynamicEQ, etc  I'm going to be a little surprised if this is competitive to Kirchhoff's consumption.

6 hours ago, audioschmaudio said:

They fixed it right now. The price is 129.99€ now.

I always wonder how many units these companies can even sell at that price point.

New Amek Console was what I've waited all year to use a Forever29 on, and come to find out it is likely a massive resource hog.

(Yet to be tested myself).  

Where the 9099 on the other hand is quite efficient.  Making it even easier to pass on some of this stuff.  Glad I got in when the getting was good though there is a ton of stuff I bought that I haven't used and don't need.

On 11/9/2023 at 6:54 AM, Michael Vogel said:

Sonar that will be released a far superior product than what we get for free now with CbB.

TBD

Given the fact they have already said the UI won't load our custom Themes, those us of that view those custom themes as the UI we know and love - switching back to Mercury or Tungston feels like a major step back and I'm not expecting them to have something like what I use out of the box.  

I'm sure other features will be excellent, but there is a pretty important piece that is up in the air.

it is missing some of the more coveted verbs from the 500.  

Given it is at the same price tier at the TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 x4, I'd say it has some competition.  Though one of the main selling points here would be the form factor to functionality ratio.

1 minute ago, PavlovsCat said:

Brian, 

I searched my email and sure enough, on May 15, 2023 I received an email from United Plugins with the text: "ANNIVERSARY SALES: 6 plugins at €19 and Anniversary bundle worth €526 for €99" At the current exchange rate  €19 which is $20.34 USD. Here's an excerpt of the email (the €129 is crossed out in the email, but the formatting got lost when I cut and pasted as text). I bought Electrum and Hyperspace in the sale and contemplated buying Bassment, but never pulled the trigger: 

"Get the anniversary prices

And because we are celebrating, you may get any of those you are possibly missing with an extreme discount. In addition, you may the guitar and bass amp solutions and the newest release Pluralis for just €19. And there are more offers available.

The celebrations end on May 31.

Hyperspace

Buy now €129/€19

FireCobra

Buy now €129/€19

Royal Compressor

Buy now €129/€19

Electrum

Buy now €149/€19

Bassment

Buy now €129/€19

Pluralis

Buy now €79/€19" 

You are right!  I overlooked that sale as I'd already gotten all of them at those prices or cheaper.

Pluralis was a new release at the time - but didn't get it.

They suspended the monthly loyalty vouchers for this??

33 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

100% sure. It's the full version. I own the full version of Electrum, I never bought Electrum Core. This is from my account, I have licenses for: 

Autoformer, Electrum, Firepresser, Front Daw, Hyperspace, MUnison, Royal Compressor and Urban Puncher

 

That is basically the deal they offered at release and I haven't seen it that low since.

Internet search isn't giving me hits on previous sales that low.

All the others on your list have been between $0 and buy anything at PB to get for free other than Hyperspace - which was on a deep sale post release one time not that long ago.

3 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

They did have a really great sale earlier this year on all of their plugins and I picked up a couple of them like Electrum and an effects plugin I can't recall at the moment for cheap. I think they were on sale for $19 USD each and someone posted an additional discount code and brought the price down to around $16 each. So my guess is that they'll probably have a big sale for Black Friday. If you can he patient,  my guess is that you'll be rewarded. 

You sure that wasn't Electrum Core you grabbed on sale?  

While that is discounted, it goes on sale all the time for $25 unlike the full version.

Seems to be working again.

+1 doesn't work.  4 hrs in and they pulled it??    

4 minutes ago, dumbquestions said:

That is probably the ideal choice but unfortunately he’s on mac osx 10.14 still, so according to the ikm website he wouldn’t be able to install it, while the ndsp sims work fine. Might tell him to just give it a shot anyway and uninstall if it doesn’t work

Ahh MAC user...I was thinking Windows which tends to actually have compatibility even if not officially in the "support list"

4 hours ago, Brian Cadoret said:

Hi 

Just wondering if anyone knows when United Plugins have super dooper deals as I'm after the InstantAudio  QuickAG acoustic guitar plugin.

Thanks 

Brian

They do super dooper deals when they release it.  After that they don't really have what I'd call super dooper deals.  If you have all the other plugins in the "guitar bundle" and where missing that one plugin - that might be an exception as that price can get pretty low that way.

8 hours ago, dumbquestions said:

@mister_tea  @Brian Walton thank you both; those are some good nuggets of wisdom—thank you for taking the route of frugality there, too many options out there making it too easy to go overboard. The friend has a couple neural dsp guitar sims, and says nothing but good things about them, so seems like they’ve got a little loyalty in that sense. They can’t use the tonex because their Operating System is too old and they can’t update it. I can probably convince them into making the amplitube work for a cheaper price. Genre wise the friend is doing everything from hard rock to indie folk to americana.  So, not the metal or djenty stuff like the NDSP typically appeals to, but they’re looking for the most realistic way to keep an actual bass cab out of their apartment if they don’t need one (although the real thing always sounds better, their neighbors aren’t the most kind).

Did they try and installing it?  Tonex has far lower cpu consumption than either amplitude of neural dsp.

Over the weekend I fired it up with my bass and just loaded a random Ampeg capture and thought it sounded better than every other modeler in the box I have (all the PA Ampeg sims, amplitude max, basement, audio assault, mguitararchitect,  nembrini, etc, I don't own NeuralDSP because I demod it after tonex and it didnt make the cut all others are wasted purchases prior to Tonex)

3 hours ago, dumbquestions said:

Lets say I have a friend who Knows nothing about bass tones, out of parallax or darkglass which is more versatile? Say if I were to suggest the one that better fits as a one trick pony bass amp emulation.

Just use the free version of Tonex and be selective with the 20 free captures you can put in it without having to pay a dime.

It can sound better than the Neural stuff with the right profile, and Bass players certainly don't need more than 20 HQ captures.

18 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

Is there a trial version out yet for the release version?  I see it mentioned in the email and web page but...
I'm not finding a link.

https://product.supertone.ai/clear

https://product.supertone.ai/download/clear