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Some great free plugins there. I love everything Valhalla pretty much and hadn't realised that NastyDLA Mk II was now 64 bit. Have just been testing that one now. Starting with the 201 tapes preset I've tweaked that to get a sound I quite like. Thanks for sharing ?

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Sounds a lot like WUP ?? I do get the peace of mind, but I can't help but think it's a case of legitimate paying customer's of software being penalized and charged further for software they already paid for which I don't like. I Googled to see what they annual charge was currently and stumbled across this old, but likely still current and somewhat humorous take explaining the costs and process even with Zero Downtime ? https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/tw594/your_ilok_zero_downtime_and_you_a_primer

That requires an annual cost for the cover though doesn't it?

I figured you likely would've, but doesn't hurt to check. Interestingly, I just signed up as well and mine ended up in spam!

You've probably covered it, but have you checked your spam folder?

Maybe they're adding TMT to the meters so there will be some variation between them too ?

I like it ? I picked it up the other day with that same voucher and it's not needed, but there's some things I really like. It's got very fine grained controls, so you can adjust the gain in very small increments which is great for mastering. The high shelf sounds really nice. It has a limiter built in, with soft clipping and saturation options including an algo from VintageWarmer and some analogue emulation controls. I'm sure it will be seeing quite a lot of use for me ?

I use a limiter frequently on bass instead of a compressor and some other melodic instruments. Sometimes even on cymbals. Drums I'll actually more often hit with a clipper and/or compressor instead, depending on the source material and sound I'm after. But I also use them at times on some of the busses, so drum buss, guitar buss, etc. I find limiting at that stage can help glue things together at the stereo buss stage a bit more. They can be handy as a quick check in production/early mixing stages on the stereo buss to see how levels might be changed by final limiting. They're really great for sound design too. So to completely smash a single element, or a dedicated FX buss for one instrument.

Very different use cases. This is zero latency for tracking, producing, instruments and busses, whereas I generally wouldn't use Pro-L for that. I normally use that more on the stereo buss. This might be more of an option for creative or vibe style limiting too. It's just another flavour ?

Yeah that's not a bad way to be. I like supporting some of the good devs like that too. What sort of things do you normally use the plugin for?

That's interesting feedback on it. Did they add more features, or is it just the way they rearranged things for the PA release?

It would be rude not to really... ?

This one is actually tempting me.. Although part of me would be then kicking myself for not picking it up for $25 with voucher including Audio Damage EOS 2 Reverb. But that aside, I've given it a quick demo and it does have some differences to some of my other tools and effects in that space.

Agreed on the $25 vouchers not having the same impact. I was more referring to the Mega Sale ones where they give everyone a few rounds of $20 vouchers with no limits. If these continue as they were, then there could be some good deals still. Like you, I waited on a couple of things for Black Friday sales and unfortunately they have increased their regular price! That is pretty uncommon though luckily. It's actually very true about having everything we need stock... but I like the other ones more.. Haha.. That Larry guy does do a pretty damn good job at that! Could almost be his slogan.. "starving families around the world, one audio deal at a time" ? We are grateful of course though!

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I'm going to do absolutely.. nothing.. ? I'd put money on all of those plugins being $25 or less in the not too distant future. Keep in mind they'll still need to do something better for Black Friday, etc too. $20 vouchers could still play a part in sales. They've also set some new all-time low prices on them, which means we're likely to see them again. I'll be happy to wait and not help encourage subscription options. But I also have plenty to use, so there's no real need, or hurry ?

In general it's much better than with Mac, but also not entirely true. If you have two PCs, or a DAW and laptop you only have two licenses with active WUP. As soon as WUP expires you only have one license. I believe you also need active WUP to be able to sell/transfer any Waves plugins. I have heard that you have no support without active WUP, although I can't say for sure as I haven't needed to contact them for support, so don't quote me on that. But if you install an update and it breaks, or want to install on another machine and hit a speed bump you might have no support. Just some things to keep in mind.

Yes, that's right. I'd noted and highlighted that in the original post as that doesn't always suit everyone.

I can't say I like the flow of their checkout, but they do make some great sounding stuff. The extra 30 seconds is totally worth it ?

Using Waves plugins ? Joking of course.. they're not all bad.. although all WUP is bad, so there is that ?

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Great to hear Brian and I was meaning to jump in and comment on your earlier post about that. You can get some really nice tones out of ReAmp and I'm glad to have it as an option. I'd say almost entirely avoid the presets and things are better, so it does take a bit more experimenting and exploring the options. I wouldn't rate all of the amps and options in there, but there are definitely some nice ones that to me made it worth it. I would also agree that they do tend to suit heavier styles more in general. You can get really nice cleans and things in between, but you can tell that's the area they focus more on. The effects aren't terrible either. It's pretty great for the sale price and just as another option. Sometimes just using another guitar sim, synth, or whatever leads to something else coming out musically, so for the creativity boost alone it's worth it ?

That's definitely not great and they should fix that up pronto... I do have to say though, they've really been quite helpful whenever I've contacted them and normally quite responsive too, so hopefully it's just something that slipped through the cracks. It does pay to check most of the resellers to know if you're actually getting the best deal. The bulk of the emails I see make it sound like it's the best deal in the world and the biggest sale, when time after time, it's either their standard "sale" price or higher than that! ?

Rock solid on Cubase and still the same on Cubase 12 Pro. I wonder if CbB support can help..