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13 minutes ago, MarcL said:

https://www.bestservice.com/en/cryostasis.html

Maybe it will get to other web shops, too?

Best Service seems to having the best prices on United Plugins at the moment.

https://www.bestservice.com/en/4th_anniversary_bundle.html 
$90.41 for 4 plugins.

FireCharger - Charge your sound to max: Do your tracks sound dull or tired? They need energy. They need to get charged. FireCharger can get your mix or instrument recording to the next level touching just a few knobs (or just one in most cases). FireCharger is a universal processor with an intelligent algorithm for spectral charging and instant sound improvement, including emulation of an analogue tape and advanced exciters

MorphVerb - I'm Every Reverb: What type of reverb should be used on my track? Shall I use the Chamber or Hall? What about something in between? MorphVerb is a magical tool providing a unique way to find the perfect reverb settings!

Orbitron - The Revolution in Modulation: Simple modulation can be boring and tedious. But imagine you could fluently crossfade between four various modulation effects so that each bar would sound different. Or blend the four effects together to create something unique. That is the approach only Orbitron can offer.

Verbum Entropic Hall - The Beauty Is in Chaos: The recent digital world tends to line up everything. That makes things predictable and... well, boring. The beauty of life is in chaos and randomness of unexpected. And Verbum Entropic Hall reflects that which makes it one of the most realistic reverbs out there.

Larry mentioned a sale on MorphVerb earlier but this is a good enough deal that I thought it merited separate attention.

If this deal sounds appealing you might want to consider
https://www.bestservice.com/en/4th_anniversary_bundle.html
for around an additional $12  ($90.41 total) you get 3 additional plugins:

• Orbitron - The Revolution in Modulation: Simple modulation can be boring and tedious. But imagine you could fluently crossfade between four various modulation effects so that each bar would sound different. Or blend the four effects together to create something unique. That is the approach only Orbitron can offer.
• Verbum Entropic Hall - The Beauty Is in Chaos: The recent digital world tends to line up everything. That makes things predictable and... well, boring. The beauty of life is in chaos and randomness of unexpected. And Verbum Entropic Hall reflects that which makes it one of the most realistic reverbs out there.
• FireCharger - Charge your sound to max: Do your tracks sound dull or tired? They need energy. They need to get charged. FireCharger can get your mix or instrument recording to the next level touching just a few knobs (or just one in most cases). FireCharger is a universal processor with an intelligent algorithm for spectral charging and instant sound improvement, including emulation of an analogue tape and advanced exciters.

and as mentioned includes

•  MorphVerb - I'm Every Reverb: What type of reverb should be used on my track? Shall I use the Chamber or Hall? What about something in between? MorphVerb is a magical tool providing a unique way to find the perfect reverb settings!

Slightly cheaper than the Intro deal...

On 7/11/2023 at 12:48 PM, kitekrazy said:

Biggest annoyance was PA.  If you used up 3, you had to go to the webpage and deactivate.  This was about 70 plugins.

You're going to the wrong web page.
Next time go to 
https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/view-machines.html
and you can deactivate all plugins assigned to a particular device with a click or two.
Quick & easy.

49 minutes ago, MrFigg said:

Is Garbage LSD in this bundle?

I just bought it and realize that it is NOT all their plugins.
Not that they were trying to hide that, I just didn't bother to verify what wasn't in the deal, my bad.

Looks like the Integral Studio Pack III is missing:

• BusDriver
• Garbage LSD
  (but it is on sale $19.90 @ Best Service)
• the Analog Studio Rack collection
• Drum Tools 
• E Channel - Essential Channel Strip (everything in the Essential Studio Suite is there except this).
  on sale $5.99 at Best Service
• Magma
• 80s Spaces

If is missed something on the list drop me a line and I'll edit it.

While this is still a hell of a deal it would have been nice to have gotten some of the other pieces. Not sure why they omitted the Essential Channel Strip. (though it does look horribly dated)
I already had BusDriver and the Analog Studio Rack collection so already had what I consider the 2 biggest omissions.

3 hours ago, yahho said:

https://www.nomadfactory.com/news/n229-Pulse-Tec-EQs-V2-Beta-Version/

I heard Magnetic V2 is coming too.

Thanks for info.

From web page:

Quote

 

Aug 15, 2023 by victor  Permalink 

As part of our commitment to Upgrade ALL Nomad Factory Products, we are pleased to announce the pre release of the Pulse-Tec EQs V2 (final beta version).

The official release will be in early September but users can download the final beta version as of today and post comments in our development forums.

Pulse-Tec EQs v2 features a completely rewritten DSP code, a brand new resizable UI with two skins, the new HLF-3 filter module, along with many other improvements...

*This will, as always, be a FREE Upgrade for all previous owners ???? **Pulse-Tec EQs V1 will remain in your plug-in folder (for backward compatibility)

 

To get most of their plugins for $39 (with eventual updated DSP code & resizable GUIs) and get free updates to VST3 versions?  Sounds like no brainer territory.
 

Edit: corrected 'All of their plugins', its most of them not all of them.
See following posts for more information.

How would you rate this again XLN Audio's XO?

OK seeing it now! Thanks.

All I'm seeing is the 'mark site read'  button and it marks things as read for the entire web site.

Might be nice if I had a touchscreen lying around.

Simple Monsters - current version is v1.3.0 no change log
Last year (Sept 2022) the latest version was v1.1.3 (which is what I had installed).

According to their blog in December 2022 they added Native Apple Silicon Support & VST3 in the latest Dehumaniser 2 (and probably Simple Monsters at that time as well or shortly thereafter).

So if you previously bought Simple Monsters (I got mine at a sale at PluginBoutique) download your update
from your Kroto account:
https://www.krotosaudio.com/my-account/downloads/

Note: PluginBoutique only has v1.1.1 so no point going there looking for the latest update (assuming you bought it there).

Edit: also if like me you're creeped out by tinyurl.com links here's a direct link to Krotos website:
https://www.krotosaudio.com/dehumaniser-simple-monsters/

Hi Aaron,

I've been watching your demo video.

It looks very promising (nice GUI/graphics, interesting functionality, etc.) but still in the process of wrapping my head around its capabilities and the various controls etc.  For various sections I had to keep rewinding to catch what changes you were making in the GUI so that I could relate them to what changes I was seeing or hearing.  It kind of prevented me from getting a better feel on APU.  
Note: I haven't read the manual as I wanted to first check out the video and see if this was something I'd be interested in (no offense intended).

Please consider momentarily highlighting what's being tweaked or showing the mouse cursor (for example Camtasia has the ability to highlight a circle around the mouse cursor so that it's easy to follow).

Not trying to be overly critical, just sharing some feedback.

...Steven

4 hours ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

There are some demos from other places, but it seems to be one of those softwares that you have learn to make it sound good

I get what you're saying but...
isn't that true for all DAWs and orchestration libraries?
It's only successful marketing that really make you think otherwise.

6 hours ago, Greg said:

I had a JL Cooper PPS1 I believe.  Then as now I probably had as much fun trying to get everything to work as I did actual recording.  

I had that too!  It was terrific!  I could sync my DAW (Seq +) up to a 24 track machine and add acoustic instrumentation  & vocals.

In the '80s I enhanced my engineering income by working with a number of Middle Eastern composers/arrangers.
I would have them come over to my apartment and we would record all the MIDI parts on Sequencer Plus and then take them into a 24track studio and bounce them to tape.  Then we'd record the acoustic parts (hand drums and other percussion, orchestral tracks) then finally the singer would show up and perform his or her vocals. 

I remember one time the arranger forgot to verify the key of the song with the singer and she couldn't sing it.
We had to rerecord all the pitched instruments - the MIDI stuff was easy to fix as I just transposed them in SEQ+ and we redumped them to tape, but there were no decent audio pitch transposers in those days so we had to book more studio time and redo all the strings (real violins, etc.), oud, santor, etc.

Eventually my orchestration clients realized that they could buy their own computers and software and learn how to do what I was charging them for. So I gradually transitioned into building custom computer rigs for them and training them how to use them (they were going that route anyway, might as well capture some income from it before it entirely evaporated) - that was how I ended up transitioning into computers, IT and programming. 
One of my early programs was a database program for an arranger I worked with to track his contacts and expenses.

15 hours ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

What happened to that company 

They (Voyetra) teamed up with Turtle Beach and released DOP
http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Digital_Orchestrator_Pro

I had it (still have the disks somewhere) and it was capable of recording audio.

I think Turtle Beach thought of it more as a vehicle to move their hardware (soundcards) and not as a viable product in itself.
From what I recall it never really caught on big.  Don't recall it being heavily marketed (compared to other audio products, though I recall it being advertised in the back pages of Electronic Musician and other magazines). 

I loved it.  I didn't have to buy a MAC to record audio!
Soon Cubase & Cakewalk had DAWs that could record audio** on PCs and DOP (which AFAIK never got out of v1) was just left behind. Turtle Beach never further invested in DOP or sold its interests.
**maybe they already did and I just didn't have the money to consider them...

Maybe my memory's a little murky so might be off on a detail or two, but I went from Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold to DOP to Sonar 2.x...

54 minutes ago, Hurricane said:

The entire bundle is $39 at Best Service:

https://www.bestservice.com/en/integral_studio_pack_iii.html

That's tempting even if I haven't used one in years...
(as that little voice whispers 'you could complete your collection' and another part of my brain responses 'yeah like you really wanted to')
There were a couple I had wanted to pick up at one point, sure I've got those bases covered by now...
But still... 

1 hour ago, PavlovsCat said:

A decade ago a lot of folks were praising the British and Motown bundles.  Is anyone here still using these today and find them worthy of recommendation? 

As mentioned Nomad's creations were previously praised and regarded as solid plugins.
They are maintaining their plugins - see changelog below, but no VST3 versions now and probably (AFAIK) not on the horizon.
If lack of VST3 isn't a concern and you've been lusting for a particular plugin in it might be a good time to grab it.  

Change log 

Version 5.13.6 (Build 051306) - Aug 2, 2023

• (Mac only) MacOS 10.13 or later is now required
• Pulse-Tec EQs v1 and Magnetic v1 are no longer installed by default
• Authorizer has been updated. Previous authorizers will no longer work.
• EULA has been updated
• Various fixes in installers/uninstallers

Version 5.13.5 (Build 051305) - Sep 15, 2022

• Permissions fixes in some cases

Version 5.13.4 (Build 051304) - Sep 8, 2022

• (PC only) Fixed presets install location

Version 5.13.3 (Build 051303) - Jul 21, 2022

• (Mac only) Fixed authorization on some Macs with multiple users
• (Mac only) Fixed Studio Channel SC-226 AAX not being available in Pro Tools

Version 5.13.2 (Build 051302) - Jan 10, 2022

• Fixed authorization with some email addresses

Edit:
Note if you have Nomad plugins and wish to update them
Nomad Factory Downloads
 

22 hours ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

I searched for lots of libraries and discovered that they have zero "E.PIANO" ou "E.ORGAN" sounds since 2004/2006. This is crazy because E Pianos are what people love most about the DX7.

 

I opened the rom banks 1 and 3 in DEXED and removed the dots from the presets names.

Problem solved!

There is a way that you can avoid using another program to fix corrupt patch names.
You can also use a hex editor and directly change the "." to a space (value 20) in the syx file.

I was playing with it briefly last night spot checking various syx ROM libraries and found there are other patches whose names contain periods (sorry was experimenting as opposed to deep diving & didn't note which ones) and after fixing it they will import OK.
On import
- if there is a period in the name the name is truncated at the period.
- if there are duplicate patch names the last one processed overwrites the previous (which is why there is only one 'E' patch).
Just keep a backup of the file, as it's possible to corrupt the file if you edit the wrong data.

On 8/14/2023 at 9:12 AM, MrFigg said:

Thanks for answering. Here’s the thing now. I located the VST2s and deleted them along with the standalone. Now the only file I can find is FM8 VST3. What I’m confused about is how it’s showing up as both instrument and fx even though it’s only one VST file. Can VSTs really work that way? 

Confirming (belatedly) that FM8 does show up in your DAW as both an instrument and as an effect.
There's a trick to using FM8 as an effect processor - it will have no output until you route the output as explained in this video.
 

Note from what I remember on my (Windows) system Ctrl clicking on setting didn't work, I think I had to right click...

"Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice - but to carry on"
*Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Carry On 

I wish I had spent my money on hardware instead.

5 hours ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

I searched for lots of libraries and discovered that they have zero "E.PIANO" ou "E.ORGAN" sounds since 2004/2006. This is crazy because E Pianos are what people love most about the DX7.

 

I opened the rom banks 1 and 3 in DEXED and removed the dots from the presets names.

Problem solved!
 

DX7 rom1 (FM8).zip 87.7 kB · 2 downloads DX7 rom3 (FM8).zip 88.29 kB · 2 downloads rom1a (FM7).syx 4.01 kB · 2 downloads rom1b (FM7).syx 4.01 kB · 2 downloads rom3a (FM7).syx 4.01 kB · 2 downloads rom3b (FM7).syx 4.01 kB · 2 downloads

Thanks for posting this.

The electric Pianos & Organs have been missing a lot longer than 2004.
I remember discussing this between '87 to '89 (odd memory - I don't remember who I was discussing it with only where and that locks in a time frame) that the banks had an "E" patch but not the pianos or organs with others DX7/DX7II owners and we just accepted it as a known glitch.  

So the DX hardware couldn't import the bad patch names either.

13 hours ago, Patrick Wichrowski said:

Dexed 0.96 has a better convertion from the syex files. FM8 has a problem converting the E.Piano 1 or E.ORGAN because of the "." in name.

So if you remove the "." from the file name FM8 imports them OK?

2 hours ago, MrFigg said:

Got an FM8 question if anyone can help me. When I go in on the browser and then to F8 Factory I can select Reed Instruments from Type. Under Subtype there is a whole load of Reed Instruments...oboe, clarinet, bagpipes etc. The only two presets however are Red Reed and Soft Clarinet. Is that right or should there be more instrument presets corresponding to the subtypes there? Thanks

Yes, FM8 Factory only has the 2 Reed Instruments.
If you unselect FM8 Factory from filter you may see more presets as then you'd be applying filter to your entire library.

2 hours ago, MrFigg said:

Edit: And another...I've got FM8 showing in my instruments browser and another called FM8 FX in my effects browser. Is the latter for routing audio/ other sources through? Both seem to point to the same VST3 on my system. Thanks...again. Couldn't find anything about the FM8 FX plugin in the manual.

A number of soft synths also come with an FX version. As you correctly surmised - it's so you can use the synth's FX section as an effect VST.