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4 hours ago, Lizzie Foster said:

What's a good starter to get?  I don't really need anything, so I'm always looking for something different, if that makes sense.  

Thanks 

Just to confirm that you need the full N4 commercial edition for these to work, not the free N4 player.
 

His compressors are the best imo even compared to all the acquas. RA6 for tons of character as well as Sum100. Opto3a and U76 for great LA2A/3A and 1176 emulations. Actually can’t go wrong with any of it, tapes are amazing and  best ITB distortion is SCS power distortion 

Pretty niche market but if anyone owns Acustica Nebula, Tim Petherick has released a new transient EQ library with intro price

https://www.timpetherick.co.uk/downloads/smteq/

2 hours ago, Fleer said:

What? Better than Gullfoss? Gotta look into this. 

I mean some people may massively disagree but I was very impressed fwiw ?

This is really good. I have gullfoss but actually preferring the extra control I have with this

just get a trial of this to work has been such a nightmare that I gave up. Even at 9.99, the trial alone pissed me off enough to sack the whole thing off

I have have MAutoDynamicEQ that has analog modelling and saturation. What is different here, just that you can draw your own curves? Not sure how needed that is really. Does this bring something else apart from that

Just now, Gnarls said:

I would suggest that Shimmer Shake Strike and Flying Hand Percussion might be complementary but are quite different. SSS provides a lot of high frequency  percussion patterns and rolls, well recorded and easy to use/insert into a track. Flying Hand Percussion has a number of comprehensively sampled low end drums, that would best suit someone who wants to play their percussion parts via a keyboard. Just my opinion but there is not much overlap in their purposes nor how they might be used.

Great, that’s exactly what I wanted to know thanks! It’s SSS that I will wait for, their pattern generator thing is great 

Need a good percussion library and been waiting for Shimmer Shake Strike to go on sale as I’ve demo’d and is perfect.  Any comparisons to this library? Anyone own and recommend?

9 minutes ago, Hidden Symmetry said:

That's why you get the additional 10% coupon for owning Cream (or Blue- Chandler Germanium Tone Control)

Oh I didn’t get that. Will email them. Thanks for heads up 

Looks like Cream interface, which I already own. Is it similar hardware? Quite expensive unfortunately, will save for unisum instead

Even sale price is crazy. So just GUI change or any change to engine as these are ancient now. Do they still stand up? Always wanted them but never saw a good price 

5 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

Lars I have a toe in the acustica waters. A user really has to get past a learning curve on those interfaces.

I'll agree that there is a slight advantage in a three dimensional quality they can give to a sound, if you figure them out.

I only have purple and gold, but I've tried a few others. Not taupe.

On the downside, in my experience anyway, acustica plugins are more buggy. They don't always play nice. And there's that inherent lag between moving a gui knob, and hearing a result, because of how they have done their modelling.

Do you have softube tape? I use that a lot, I'd be interested in a comparison.

More downside? Ok, if you have a support issue, they seem to operate on something like a helpdesk ticket system which, at least a few years ago, was not very well run.

If you have a nice fast computer, I don't think the extra CPU hit is going to be noticed.

To be fair, I don't own their latest offerings . . . but there might be a reason for that. Perhaps later iterations have solved some of those downsides.

 

Meanwhile I will dutifully download the taupe demo tonight. What the Hades. Thanks, Larry!

 

By the way they are going to run out of colors soon.

Yeah their support is one of the  downsides to Acustica. Lag is not an issues in the latest core updates for me, now it’s finally possible to sweep the EQs.

I’m a huge Acustica fan but funnily Taupe was never a big hit with me, didn’t have that option to drive it as well as IK tapes and I like all the options in the IK ones (IK tapes are a mix of algo and dynamic sampling so best of both).  Larry has inspired me to A/B them again though!

This is getting nothing but supreme praise over at gearslutz. Just a little expensive for me but sounds like an investment 

Can’t get the demo of this to run whatever I do. Ilok says redemption limit reached. Tried izotope and plugin boutique but trial serial number is same on both. I guess at this price no real need to demo

8 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

I did only for it to happen again.

 

Are you doing it on mobile? That’s where I had problem so reset password on desktop. Just a thought 

1 hour ago, kitekrazy said:

Anyone else get this?

Sorry, too many failed login attempts from your IP address. This IP address is temporarily blocked. Try again later or request a new password.

Best cure for GAS.

yeah thats what i was getting, I had to re-set my password. 

Just now, cclarry said:

No coupons apparently

Ah ok thanks Larry. 

Great, been meaning to finish the collection by getting Kotelnikov GE. For some reason I’ve been locked out of my account there, does SPRING2020 code work on it too for extra discount?

Yeah ive come around and now really like his plugins. Konsol has a great tone and transformer crunch too it.

I use them also as placeholders for my Acustica plugins which are too CPU intensive. In final mix down I reach for Acustica to replicate the sound but don’t always need to as they sound decent

43 minutes ago, iScream said:

So, I guess  after ban from    kvr William Wusik decided to create his own  forum with  Blackjack and ho*kers, and I like it   ?

He got banned? Weird. So are his apps worth going for or one to avoid?

You have to write something meaningful in the forum to be eligible (this is going to be hard, I'm shallow af) and if you participate in the forum every day for a week you get Wusik 8008 modular synth free too apparently. Pretty generous!

https://www.acustica-audio.com/pages/specials/the-pun

Not sure if already mentioned

https://www.arturia.com/make-music#en

2 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Those having trouble getting the points.  From the OP:

 

Just log into your user area to receive these automatically  (this is a specific area on the website)

Yeah it was this, thanks

weird, I didnt get any. Anything I'm supposed to do?