MusicMan

I love that both of those companies do that. Even more useful considering how many plugins they sell too. It would be great if PA for example displayed them while you're browsing too without having to use that addon from Github. I bought their 2022 bundle though, so it's a bit of a moot point for me now as it's always easy to know which ones I don't own!

In a bundle it does. I got it for $41.80 in a 5 gem bundle from JRRShop. Given it's one of their more expensive, it was a perfect choice as a bundle pick. I think the 3 bundle price isn't far off $49 from memory, but otherwise I think around $80 on sale, but should be a decent step up in quality. Their stuff is really good!

This one could be quite good, but I'd rather pick up the Overloud's Gem VOICE on sale for similar money instead. I have and love Gem Voice and it even has a few IRs for the 6000 and Lexicon 480 reverbs in there which I've used on other instruments too.

Oh really?! That should've been pulled from the store sooner in my opinion. I wouldn't be too happy to buy something and then find out a few days later it was made legacy and only get updates for 3 years.

Well I held out pretty well... until I tried the demo.. it does sound nice.. for that price it had to be mine ?

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Might be worth checking to see if you already own it. I did, so I didn't grab it to save serials for others ?

Mutate I'm not so sure whether it has much value, but Spectrum could be interesting.. seems a little like IK / UVI but in a Kontakt instrument. https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/spectrum/

This is quite tempting... https://audioplugin.deals/product/kontakt-synth-bundle-by-wave-alchemy/ For as low as $34.99 (normally $162), get the massive 19GB+ Kontakt Synth Bundle featuring SPECTRUM, MUTATE and BASS PEDALS by Wave Alchemy! Can get Bass Pedals with the other two for $31.49 with coupon code: apdis6

Yeah I always found it weird that they had some really great sounding products, but then just never updated the UI for them. They can be annoying to use in some ways, so I get the point. At least the sound is good on this one!

It might just be their actual website that's incorrect, not their ecomm site they use.

It might depend on what country you're browsing from, or if you're logged in and have other products. Saurus 4 shows 50% off, whereas Icarus 2 doesn't for me for some reason. Icarus 2.5 (Was €199) €149 $169 Whereas Saurus 4 is 50% New! Saurus 4 (Was €119) €59 $69

It didn't seem to be 50% when I looked, so it might be an "up to 50% sale" . Some of the other synths are though.

In fairness I can pretty safely guarantee it's much more fun than having breakfast though isn't it?! ?

Haha.. it can get like that at times ? Would be really interesting to hear your thoughts on how they both compare.

I grabbed the Lowdown as it sounds quite different to any of the others I have from them and I really like the sound. I also stumbled across a review about Wave Alchemy Bass Pedals which is a Kontakt library and that sounded really good too, so I might even pick that up at some stage for another option.

They actually explain it quite well in their forum and why they feel it's not false advertising. Like I mentioned though, I do agree their advertising copy could be improved and they could've handled the situation better after Dan's video. Instead of being focused on artifacts found in old gear, we focused on the original work that went into voicing the EQ at the time. As mentioned above the 32C EQ predated "parametric EQs" and it was very difficult to make that EQ do a lot of work with just the two knobs per band. The feel of the knobs, the depth of the proportional -Q action, the speed of the filters relative to the knobs etc. etc. etc. was a serious trial by error. Those refined circuit designs (yes resistors, capacitors, transistors etc.) are what we included in the mathematical model. Also note, that the distortion and noise measurements of those original consoles (WHEN THEY WERE NEW) were extremely low and virtually unaffected even with the EQ in circuit. The entire point back when there were ONLY analog consoles was to make them as clean, with the lowest possible noise and distortion, lowest possible cross-talk, and as phase coherent as possible. Harrison was not alone. Every analog console manufacturer was after the same thing/s. Distortion, noise, cross-talk, phase issues etc. etc. were all the enemy. We spent many man years tweaking those console circuit designs for optimum performance. All of that... is what we built into the mathematical model of the Mixbus32C EQ and now the 32C Channel EQ. As with the original console EQ design, this was no easy task. It caused a lot of headaches and issues here because the mathematical model was built on the knob resistor values to get the tapers and behaviors correct rather than using off-the-shelf Bi-quad math. But we digress, this is a post about Bertom, so this should really be under a Harrison post, or PM ? Analog Obsession make some great plugins too though and super generous for free. I don't use them much these days, but I might have to make a point to go through some of them again. In particular the Harqules, as I don't remember that one, so thanks for sharing it!

They both sound good, but from this video alone, wow... That Moog Taurus III sounds insanely good and quite a step ahead! So warm and thick sounding.. love those bass tones from it ?

100% agreed ? The Harrison thing I think has been a little blown out of proportion though and as much as I love Dan Worrall's reviews, walk throughs and tutorials, in that particular case I think he really missed the most critical point of distinction in painting the full picture. The Channel was never intended to be non linear and have an analogue vibe, it was more just about tone from the EQ curves, compression and shaping. All the saturation and that goodness comes from the next stage in their DAW which are the busses, where you can use the Drive dial to introduce harmonics, etc to taste. Their modelling apparently was to model the curve, taking into account the analogue components for their model only from that perspective. Do I think they could've been more transparent with their marketing? Sure do! Do I think a vast proportion of developers we all like also oversell some of those analogue saturation and vibe buzzwords. Absolutely! Do I think Dan could've also been more transparent in sharing the full story and not omitting that major point? Definitely! In a nutshell I don't think either Harrison, or Dan handled that one particular well, but it did get everyone talking and I do love things like these plugins to be able to check that stuff out for ourselves. It did also send a clear message to other developers to make sure they can explain, or backup their marketing and I love that from it too ?

That's right, I do use the generous demo too. Although I think if you're getting enough use out of Plugin Doctor then for the convenience it's still worth buying it.

While Plugin Doctor has more features (and is an excellent tool), I use this frequently as a drop in alternative for DDMF's for checking out the actual EQ curves in a lot of channel strips and boutique EQs and yes it measures phase as well. Plugin Doctor is more comprehensive, but not necessarily a lot more features that everyone will use, so for many people it for sure is a free alternative IMO. This coupled with most DAWs having signal generators and oscilloscopes covers a lot of what Plugin Doctor does. For the alias police it's not and attack and decay curves for compressors and those things it won't. Although for compression there's also the free Compressor Measurement Toolbox too. I'd definitely recommend people testing this one first and seeing if there's anything extra they will regularly use beyond that and then just buy Plugin Doctor if needed.

Great sounding synth. Jump on it! ?

If that's the case he probably deserves it. This is a good free alternative to Plugin Doctor and his de-noise and other free plugins are pretty decent too.

I think most of the current freebies are all reruns and getting stale.. I get that companies don't want to give away all of their plugins which is totally fair and expected, but they do lose the benefits in that it's no new exposure for them, they don't see new usage of their other plugins and for the reseller, there's really little to no incentive to buy from them based on the freebie. This will be a surplus copy for me too.. That said.. it's not a bad plugin ?

For me I look at it two ways.. while my DAW can still use VST2 now, given that Steinberg has already dropped VST2 support for Mac and are dropping it for Windows, I like the most chance of being able to open projects on the next versions ahead and not having any plugins/instruments that could hold it back should I want to upgrade. But on top of that, I think they will do a similar thing like with Minimonsta2 and provide VST3 support, but with extra features like they added polyphony with Monsta. They were good extras, although paid so it likely makes sense to pay $10 more on intro on Imposcar3 or wait for a sale, than a higher price of this plus $25+ upgrade.