Pat Osterday

Are you "raving about its ability to dial in natural-sounding rooms with pinpoint accuracy"? That's what the email says users are raving about! 🤣 I'm tempted, but at the same time have too many reverbs. And saturators too - to stay on topic. 😉

PA also still has a few decent bundles on sale too until the end of the month. "Perpetual" bundles: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/perpetual-bundles.html - there are some decent bundles "Custom" bundles: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/custom-bundles.html - 4 for $70 beats 4 for $80.

You can do a lot of what Shade can do with Shaperbox I think. Shade has more filter options and a different workflow. But, yeah, demo and see. I'd love to get Shade and Shaperbox (I only have Time and Drive shapers and haven't even used those yet!), but haven't used a lot of the plugins I have that do similar things - Output Movement, Reason Synchronous, Logic Phat FX, Soundtoys Filter Freak, Snapheap/Multipass, etc. Similar reason whyI passed on the Morph EQ deal. 🤦‍♂️

Shade is a little like FabFilter Pro-Q 3 and Volcano 3 merged into one. Gullfoss is a different type of EQ compared to these. Hard for me to justify spending $39 on another EQ/filter. Just got smart:eq 4 recently and have lots of morphing filter options in various other plugins. 🤔

Just a heads up to those wanting to spend less for Fuse Audio and can wait... the last two years they've done a $15 any plugin deal during Black Friday sales. I'm cheap. 🤣

Even if available at PB, you'll ultimately have to install UA Connect - pretty sure there's no other installer for UADx.

Awesome - missed this since I cancelled my Spark sub two months ago.

Lowest I've seen. https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/audio-plugins/uvi-shade Tempting. 🤪

Ah! Thanks for the heads up on both points! I'll definitely pass installing it! Now that Kush is native, only hold out for me is IK's Lurssen Mastering Console which I don't really use anymore anyway. (And Absynth of course.)

Thanks, just snagged it even though I'm an existing customer. Not sure it adds anything I don't have in Pigments and Falcon along with all the others, but maybe...

Thanks for the reminder about the Replica free edition - forgot about it. I should probably subscribe again, but free is nice!

That's dedication! Guess this is the guy: https://cmdess.com/about And second MAutoAlign! Great tool - my first and still most used Melda plugin.

Thanks for the reply! I have Tape (v1) and used it before I got Ozone, then used that, now use IK Tapes. Have Analog Stage (v1) and never used it - have Kush TWK and 458a plus several others for saturation. Never saw the need for Multicomp with all the comps I have. Have Total EQ - bought it for a few bucks to support Hornet - but use Logic's, TDR, smart:eq, etc. Heard good things about the HA2A, but have the UAD LA2A freebie, bx_opto and others. NFA Saturate for Planer, Smooth Operator/TDR Nova GE for Sleek. HarmoniQ looks interesting but not sure I "need" it. Use to use SW34EQ and Sybilla Pro years ago but use others now. I want to like them but never seem to fit my workflow or needs. Also been trimming down my list of installed plugins so there's that. But really glad that others are getting lots of use from them since Saverio seems so dedicated and generous.

Oh, I misread it - missed the "at no cost part". Guess I need more coffee - morning here for me. 🤦‍♂️ I'd be interested to know which Hornet plugins people get the most use out of. I know there was a joke about more collecting the Hornet plugins than using them. I do struggle liking the Hornet UI aesthetic on most of the plugins.

Only Battalion isn't.

Same. I don't think you can beat 85% in the current sale - unless you just wait until the 90% sale. I'd guess it's just to see who might actually do it. I have a lot of Hornet plugins, but don't have any currently installed since I have alternatives I prefer more. (ThirtyOne MK2 and Harmonics Pro tempt me to install them as they are somewhat unique.)

Just PM'd you.

I have the T-RackS EQ P1A and Logic's Vintage Tube EQ along with the UAD one - all pretty good. I snagged the freebie to get iLok Machine auth. I really like using the UAD HLF-3C that the other two don't have. I do wish UAD made a wrapper to load all three together.

When I had the Spark sub (paused for now) Capital Chambers was stunning. Sunset is really great and more versatile, but it doesn't quite have the depth Capital has nor can it do the longer lengths that Capital can.

So if you get the LUNA Pro Bundle, you get the individual plugins too? So I could use Studer, API, etc, in Logic? Odd though, the price says $199 but adding to my cart shows $299. Thought if it was $199, it would be $149 with the coupon. $249 would be a no go. Essentials + API Vision, API 2500, Studer and ATR-102 for $149 seemed pretty good.

I just bought smart:gate. Any comparison?

Doesn't seem to add anything even at $10 over stuff I have... Logic stock, Guitar Rig 6, MixBox, Arturia FX3, etc. Am I missing something?

As I mentioned... the best upgrade deal is the Black Friday sale. Pretty sure they'll continue the tradition - $99 to upgrade any V Collection to the latest and I think it's $69 to update to the latest FX Collection. If you don't think it's a good deal yet, wait a year.

I (almost) always wait for the Black Friday upgrade sales and then decide if I'll wait another year to get a better deal. Might snag a few preset packs I've been looking at though.

https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/uvi-relayer Tempting!