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I have also noticed that in some situations the exclusive Solo has some issues. After some operations (I guess it were bounces) the solo setting was cleared and then the Solo got somehow confused.

I was not talking about quality impact! You are right that a single storage of a floating point number may have a very tiny difference, but I know that it can cause obvious differences after several operations/conversions! And there are so many in audio processing! I don't want to say that one result maybe better or not, I just want to explain why there maybe/are differences! ?

There is some truth in what you say, but I wouldn't claim that computers are not capable of dealing with floating point numbers! ? Sincerely, there are problems with rounding numbers converted to floating point (small differences), because the number of digits are limited! And it even depends what programming language or system/database you use (e.g. different algorithms to convert simple numbers to floating points). Thus if you make a lot of calculations the order and the choice of computer number fields used lead always to different results in calculations! And music is internally stored as numbers and most operations on it are of mathematical kind. Such things like pan law depend also on the conversion of numbers. Even if the same pan law is used in 2 DAWs the result maybe different, because one uses pan internally as integer and another DAW uses float directly and so on.

Overloud: For me it's just loud, but over! Prefer other IR players that don't involve installation and authorization problems!

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There is also no offline authorization available for this plugin!

To me the install of a simple plugin is not an "application install", vs. a real program like a DAW, an editor or the like! Most plugin installs could be a simple copy of 1 or a few files and not more, really! I appreciate the developers that still support this (Klanghelm, Toneboosters, ...).

This is also the reason why I think that a Windows installer for each little plugin is overkill! It is much overhead and many times there are things installed with it that you never use (Avid, ...). Why not just have a zip-file for simple plugins? IMHO it does not take more time for installation that way, if you have a clear organization.

+1, sadly this is also true for me! ? That's also the reason why I like plugins of some smaller developers, because they just do it right from the beginning, i.e. there's no endless update chore! I like all the possibilities you have nowadays with music software, it's amazing! But on the other hand I think I was much more productive in the good ol' time with hardware gadgets!

This is a good example that shows how difficult it is to create reasonable "AI" ! I drive both with manual and automatic transmission. On very boring flat highways I like to use auto, but on small roads that have a lot of bends and that go up and down it seems the automatic transmission is really not efficient, because it cannot act previsional. It's the same with AI in all other areas, it is limited to the imagination of the engineers! If they forget some (rare) cases, there can happen odd things, sometimes even horrible things (see airplane, rocket history)! I don't mind if AI is a great help in editing music or mixing! But even such basics like transient detection does not work reliable in any program, how else could we interpret the different results from daw to daw, tool to tool? Frankly, I am still waiting for the program/tool that can do only that with 90% accuracy!

Sometimes I wonder wether AI means something like "Almost Idiotic". Frankly, I think many that use AI for their products may think they are extraordinary ingenious! Are they really?

I think Amplitube changes are mostly about adding new contents! IMO not worth installation if you don't require them!

I don't understand that the managers of those companies don't get it! Did they not hear about the fiasco in the bank sector? Do they not understand that conglomeration in the music sector can lead to similar failures?

It's more that both of them borrowed from Accusonus ! ?

Even if Cherry Audio's synths sound quite good, their installation, authorization and update practices are very intrusive! I don't like that at all! E.g. they do some kind of after-installation during the authorization process. Like that you really don't know what's going on, how much storage is used, very shady! Also the configuration of the update policy is not quite clear. When I wanted to install a new module in Voltage Modular the product itself was updated (what I did not want)! Frankly, I distrust such companies!

Didn't work for me! I could not use it on my W7 pc, because 6.6.1 is the last version that can be installed!

Sadly, the offer is only for the whole package! I had bitten into a smaller package (they have some!) for a smaller fortune! ?

I completely agree what you say about such channel strips! But I prefer my CS-3301 channel strip from TBProAudio over the PA channel strips! It has easy value read out and value change by number input, is clearly arranged and has a definable component order. Sadly it is not available anymore, but its big brother CS-5501 is! That one has even more functionality, but it is also larger. It is very affordable and super cpu-efficient!

I'm pondering to purchase the VLA-2A Mark II. Yesterday I was doing some tests with the trial version. Together with your opinion I think I will get it. Though, I already have some great opto compressors, I like the versatility of the Mark II! (And they have real offline authorization, great)

Though I totally agree with you (or that guy) that esthetics should not be the major reason to choose a plugin, there are some things for me to be considered to choose a plugin: a clear layout (where you can find things quickly, where you don't forget to set something); IMO this improves the time to setup a plugin it should be easy to set the knobs precisely (I like to use the mouse wheel and if there is a fine tuning, e.g. Ctrl+wheel or Shift+wheel) It is very handy if it's possible to quickly enter a value as a number. E.g. for gain staging: If I know that the output is 1.7dB too loud I like to simply click on the output gain value and enter the new value numberically (though Melda supports to enter a value, it takes too many steps IMHO). legibility of the labels and values (yes I prefer if numerical values are displayed) Hence I think the GUI is still important for music software ?!

I understand that if you have a lot of plugins of one provider it maybe handy to have a single installation manager. But as you said if you own only 1 or 2 plugins of him and want to install them on more than one machine, it's totally an overkill! Melda's at least does not download. There are many things that have to be considered with installation managers and I have listed several times annoyances with them: In respect to locations it is not only relevant that you can define the VST3/VST2 top locations, but also the folders underneath. I don't like that one provider like Melda creates its own subfolder grouping like EQ, Stereo, ..., another provider stores everything under its company name, another provider uses straight your target folder, and so on. In the end there is only chaos and no organization at all, because this goes on not only with the DLL's, but also with documentation, presets, configuration, uninstall files, ... E.g. I like to have all manuals/documents in one folder with subfolders for each provider, or because I sometimes use DAWs that don't have a plugin manager (they use the plugin folder's substructure) I group all plugins in the VST3 location under EQ, Dynamics, Stereo, Modulation, etc. Another thing that annoys me is that most installation managers (and sadly also more and more plugins) do network access. Each installation manager requires you to learn how it works, how it is configured, what does it do and so on. Often a lot of it is not really documented (e.g. how you can transfer downloads to other computers). With Melda it is not really documented how you can let plugins of different versions run aside each other (sometimes I don't want to update the whole bunch). By the way I found out that with many plugins of different providers it is possible to locate manual or contents in your preferred places and just change a configuration value in the registry. I don't understand why such cool things are not used by the installation managers and why it is not documented! IMHO a good plugin provider should document all the locations where things are stored! I could list a lot more of inconveniences, but I think in respect to Melda this is enough.

What stops me the most expanding my Melda plugin collection is the installation process. I think most here on this forum may know my aversion to plugin managers. Additionally Melda adds its on under-structure for the plugins (that I always have to undo manually) and inserts a bunch of shadowy configuration files. It's an atrocity to me! The UI's are also not very inspiring for me! Other than that I agree that it is a great company ?! Yeah, indeed!

Some time ago I compared DeClick2 and DeClip2 with the ones of RX7. In most cases the results were about the same, but in some special situations I found that Acon's plugins worked even better. But as @Brian Walton said, the Restoration Suite contains only 4 modules, although DeClick2 can be used in a broader range. An absolute advantage of the Acon plugins is that the authorization is totally offline!

Frankly, I don't pay attention to someone's judgement about an amp sim! It is merely a taste thing, very individual, depends also what/how you play and how you prefer to do the setup. It is the same as it was/is with the real amps! I remember our bassist trying to convince me to buy a Mesa Boogie or a Trace Elliot, but I came back with a JCM800 2x12 combo! He was really disappointed, but I liked this sound! ?

First, I had been sceptical (it's my nature ?), because I didn't like the v2 version over v1 (it is tedious to set the frequencies with the mouse). But I really like this new version v3! Now you can enter values for all the sliders including the frequencies. Great addition!