MusicMan

43 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Rather impossible to open an account as I’m not receiving their confirmation email. 

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

15 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Based on the image provided above that has "v2" written on it.  I'm curious how they are going to market this thing as it frankly looks nearly identical in both layout and features to V1.  

 

Sure V2 says True Peak on the limiter section which I'm going to guess has the same algos under the hood as True Peak Limiter (which I like - but frankly only when I control  some of the settings - so that is going to be interesting).  

But in terms of really taking it to another level, I'm a bit confused until we get more detail as I expected a little more of a visual overhaul at the least.

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

6 minutes ago, Walter Cruz said:

I don't have a 45% voucher but can get MasterQ for 23.84, even so, I don't know if I can justify another EQ to myself.

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 ?

2 hours ago, Fleer said:

True, but mostly for drums and percussion I guess. Already lot of stuff for that. Or would it be interesting for other instruments?

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.

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

I’m thinking no as FabFilter Pro-L should cover this nicely. 

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 ?

32 minutes ago, James Foxall said:

As I recall there were one or two things they added but they weren't important to me.

What I'd really like is the ability to manually retrigger the plugin. I've talked/emailed with Dmitry about it. He's a cool guy and I mostly bought v2 just to support him.

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?

3 minutes ago, James Foxall said:

I have it but still use v1. I love the interface for v1 and v2 feels like a monstrous step backwards in usability.

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... ?

1 hour ago, John Bradley said:

That's a killer price, and I highly recommend grabbing it. Picked up my copy a few months back for $54 after a $25 voucher, and have been very happy with it.

And I'm not even an EDM guy - never used the 'glitch' effect - but you never know when you'll want to animate a filter to give motion to a pad, or do a rhythmic gate effect on a guitar or what have you.

 

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.

2 hours ago, TheSteven said:

$25, and they still do, just not with the impact they use to.
Whether that with change back probably will depend on how well PA's subscription offering goes.  If it becomes a real money maker then they'll have little incentive to undercut it.

Maybe, need tends to be a subjective thing...   I've been burned waiting for BF sales before, we've had a year or two not that long ago where the audio deals were fairly meager.

BUT in reality most plugins are luxuries rather than necessities.  You could turn out master pieces just with the plugins that come with Cakewalk.  Heaven forbid I be the instrument causing you to pry the currency out of your wallet to ply your DAW with ephemeral objects of software construction causing your family to go hungry - that's Larry's job. 
I was just stating my decision and objectives.

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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Turn any sound into a complex, moving rhythmic progression with this intuitive multi-effects plugin.

This is a fixed price offer! The price for this product will not change if you add more plugins to your order. But you will get dynamic discounts of 20-60% on any additional purchase.

Use voucher code during checkout! Flash Sale offer expires 11:59 pm PST on May 11, 2022. 

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32 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

At this moment maybe the point of these sales is to encourage you to buy into a subscription.

You look at these sales and their prices and think that's 2 or 3 times what the sub price is...

PA is hoping that enough people will bite then forget or decide not to cancel their sub.

I decided to join in to round out my collection and picked up Sculpt and in the coming months will pick up 

• Black Box HG-2 MS
• bx_console AMEK 9099
• bx_crispytuner
• and maybe Suhr SE100

After that it becomes a hard sell to keep the subscription as I've been picking off the choice PA plugins as they've come up on sale over the years.
If I forget to cancel I may end up with a couple of $1 coupons to hold incase something new & interesting comes out.  Or maybe that'll be a strategy like picking a Toontrack 6 pack even though there's nothing you currently want.
But regardless - for me it's definitely going to be limited run subscription.

 

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 ?

2 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

WUP is a Mac thing, don’t need on PC for Waves plugins to continue working for years

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.

1 hour ago, Promidi said:

Built for Kontakt 6.6.0 and above – full, retail version of Kontakt required....

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

1 minute ago, Fleer said:

I bothered. And it’s absolutely worth bothering. 

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 ?

2 hours ago, Carl Ewing said:

I've paid for WUP like one time in 6 years. What am I doing wrong??

Using Waves plugins ?

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

Pacific – Solo Cello Legato by Performance Samples

A freebie built from unused Pacific recording sessions

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Pacific – Solo Cello Legato is a solo cello patch featuring slurred legato. Recorded in the same hall, with the same setup, as the forthcoming Pacific library.

• One dynamic with espressivo vibrato (the vibrato isn’t controllable)
• Three mic positions – CL (close), SC (section), and AB (spaced far pair)
• 48kHz / 24bit
• NCW-compressed, ~614 MB total
• Built for Kontakt 6.6.0 and above – full, retail version of Kontakt required
• Download via Continuata

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58 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

I caved and got ReAmp Studio.  I don't remember if I demoed GMII or ReAmp Studio when it came out.

But ran the demo (again) and though many of the amps are just throw aways that I'd never use.  There are some surprisingly decent options in such a cheap package, including some low or mid gain options.

The very low CPU usage pushed me to the purchase.  This is one of those that you need to demo to see if the "good amps" are the ones you are interested in.  And don't be afraid to try some brands you might have zero interest in the real world...use your ears and do a lot of tweaking and you might find something rather usable.  

No way I'd pay retail on this one, but at $16 for all the options it does have and low CPU usage - I'm going to suggest it was worth it.

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 ?

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

A few months ago, when Audio Modern lowered their retail price of "Atom"
I wrote to Audio Plugin Deals and informed them that their discounted BASE price was 
now HIGHER than the retail price at Audio Modern.

They NEVER replied to that email.

I just looked again, and it's STILL priced more than the retail price at Audio Modern,
So I've written them again....and most likely will NOT get a reply this time either,
which is quite telling about Customer Service at "Audio Plugin Deals"!

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! ?

17 minutes ago, pwalpwal said:

no issues in s1p ?‍♂️

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

50 minutes ago, cclarry said:

That's a heck of a deal!  You can get Reamp Studio and all of the guitar amps 
for $36 with the code!

Agreed. I don't believe I've ever seen it that cheap! I did pay a bit more when I picked it up, but still happy with the price I paid and having it to use all this time ?

I think a lot of people skip over these guys as they do have some very cheap offers so they don't expect quality, but they're actually quite reasonable.

I just picked up Hellbeast and once Ive run it through some EQ, a pre and a channel strip, it holds up quite well against some of my NeuralDSP Sims.. which is pretty crazy considering the price difference!

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10 minutes ago, cclarry said:

Enjoy!

Looking forward to it and installing it now!

Thanks ?

5 minutes ago, cclarry said:

$1.93 with Paypal conversion for White Bell, Crusher, and Bandeon.  That seems reasonable!
If anyone wants my copy of Crusher just ask! I've already got it!

I'd love that one thanks Lars ?

2 hours ago, Yan Filiatrault said:

My point was that people were complaining with the new voucher minimum spending without even knowing the offers, while you just acknowledged on another thread that someone can get 17 plugins for 60$ with the voucher.

The problem is that 16 of them are regularly free...! Slight exaggeration, but I think it conveys the sentiment of many people ?