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Completely agreed on all those and I use and love all of them, but I don't necessarily see them as much as a direct competition to the ones I mentioned. Apart from IK. In a lot of ways, they have a large portfolio and also do lots of emulations of effects. Native does do some great effects, (or more accurately Softube did for them!), but you often see recording, mixing and mastering engineers going more heavily into and talking about UA, Plugin Alliance, Slate and Acustica. The rest do really well in their own market segment though and many of those have found their perfect niche, albeit with much smaller catalogues. And yes, they all should really.. it often really does get people hooked!

While that is generally the case and given Waves subscription only fiasco, I wouldn't 100% trust them not to do a switcharoo, these aren't being offered in the same way as normal Waves freebies: I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to take a leaf out of Plugin Alliance's book with their freebies, or even now Slate. I'd see them both as very direct competitors to Waves and both have free plugin suites to get people into the ecosystems.

I think the missing one is: https://blackoctopus-sound.com/product/batteria-campeon-by-basement-freaks/

I believe a lot of the pro community complainied and didn't like the dinosaur logo, because they said it made them look unprofessional when they would open them up in a session with clients there, as they looked more like toys. I have thought it did look a little childish, but it would never stop me using them. Changing it and marking more people happy was a good move. They listened to their customers, which is what all devs should do. They get a tick for that one in my book 🙂

I thought the same and I read in one of Dirk's comments somewhere that he justified making it standalone, as it needs to analyse the whole track/s instead of processing as it goes, or trying to analyse multiple tracks in DAW. In theory, I would think that you could just do a file import to the plugin for calculation and then simply apply those resultant changes as it goes, but maybe that's not so easy.

That wouldn't surprise me if it was related to F29 Brian. The way they talked it up and that it was going to be included in Mega and the All 2022 Bundle definitely didn't seem like they were aiming for a free version. I did think the same around the UI and their latest BX plugins, but even a single new plugin looks WAY more refined. This looks more like a simple wireframe, or mockup. They also talked about "Pro controls" and settings.. To me, the settings look pretty limited and just what I'd expect on any basic compressor, or EQ. I would've also really expected them to have slots to be able to load their own plugins into it as a minimum for some final tweaks. Ideally even third party, but I suspect they may have tried that and had challenges. Like NUGEN do. SigMod for example often crashes when scanning and they can't seem to fix it. I get the feeling they may have backpedaled features. But that also means no room / headphone correction on the output, which for a "Mastering DAW" now called "Mastering Studio" seems like a pretty big omission. I couldn't even see any controls around dithering, or automation, or much of anything that isn't already in their existing plugins. Fingers crossed it evolves.

I love a lot of PA stuff, but this has a very alpha / beta feel to it and like it's been rushed out the door as a MVP. Hopefully there will be lots of free updates, but I suspect we'll get this and then eventually it might start being something for V2 which will probably then be paid. It might just be because it's taken so long that I feel that way, as it was supposed to be included in the All 2022 bundle, that it seems a bit underwhelming. Free is probably the right price for it from an initial look, as it seems to be missing a lot of core functionality,. It's certainly no Wavelab killer..

Actually, I probably should've made that bold as well to make it stand out more easily as well. I'll try and keep that in mind for next time.

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I think I've mostly stopped buying UA plugins individually. They always work out so much better in a bundle and they don't really give you any credit for individual plugins, so you just end up buying the same ones in each bundle over and over again in each new bundle. I even passed on the Topline and Manley Mu Limiter the other day for a total of $49 for that reason. That and I already have equivalents in other brands. But I still somewhat thought they might be OK to have. But I know there will be a bundle for maybe a few hundred more and I'll get a heap of new plugins from my Signature bundle. I skipped Signature 2. It was fun picking up all the individual ones with voucher stacking when they first dropped in price, but everyone that skipped all that and just bought in at Signature 2 did way better.

For some reason I wouldn't have expected that at all. I glossed over them a little, as I'm really not sure they add anything. If they were cheaper again, which I wouldn't be surprised by at some stage, I may have been tempted though, so that's handy to know for future.

Discount codes are only valid until 7th April 2025.

I think the only thing I've bought from them in quite a while now was Tape Echoes the other day.. crossgrade was $12.. and Transient Shaper for $10, but that came with Composer Cloud 1 month free. I have what I wanted from them really, apart from some stuff I just can't make the prices seem like good value with everything else I have, or that is out there and just as good, if not better, for cheaper.

Some mixed reviews over at VI. I thought some of the Kirk Hunter stuff was OK. Some of the points relate more to installation and use, rather than sound at least though. https://vi-control.net/community/threads/kirk-hunter-diamond-symphonic-orchestra-for-49-thoughts.116557/ I haven't read through it all yet