Brian Walton

I picked it up on some previous sale for $9. Expected it to be better, the voices of the effects where not what my guitar pedal tuned ears expected. I wouldn't pay $30 for it alone personally. Only thing in the bundle I don't have yet, that is of any interest is the Entropic Hall but certainly not something I want to pay real money for either.

I'm sure the hassle will be different depending on where you purchased from for a replacement . Once I got my replacement I haven't had any issues but it does make me wonder what the underlying issue is that caused the DOA situation. Sounds better to me than the Fender. And has a bit more flexibility especially if you play acoustic through it as well.

Anything with environmental noise (and not a static type in a certain frequency range is going to be difficult on anything other than vocals (we have seen enough AI training on vocals in particular that tools have been tailored to this). That said, I had good experience using CalrityVX to help isolate bird chirping from environmental background noise without getting into fine tune editing. I'd say run a demo of a few options and see what the results are like before investing in a tool.

Looks like it was UAD plugin related. I deleted all the files related to that. Reset the scan again but Sonar scans a bunch of plugins but then gets stuck on some random VST3 First it was AAS Lounge Lizard Session Now it is stuck on DAWsome LOVE I manually force the rescan failed plugins multiple times. Supertone Clear doesn't say it failed at any stage but still crashes Sonar. Other plugins seem fine so far and CbB still works with Supertone Clear, but Sonar does not.

Just test it. Workflow is basically the same, but I personally am having some plugin issues (select ones) that are not having problems on the same computer with CbB. Theoretically the switch should be fairly painless, but this is not the case for everyone.

I have done a rescan via the built in tool, but it continues to fail and throw this error (even after removing the steinberg path) I did not fine that file in any of the VST paths, but I'm also now searching the entire C drive to see if it shows up at all No

I removed that. Still having the issue with Supertone clear crashing Sonar every time, but not getting error.

Looks pretty normal to me: (and I'm not seeing anything that isn't a VST3 or DLL in those folders for what it is worth)

Sonar is also the only DAW giving me this: but not actual plugin name is referenced.

I actually don't see a VST version, only the VST3. I checked disabled plugs as well as unchecked the box for "hide related VST2 plugins)

Every time I try to load Supertone Clear in Sonar - Sonar freezes. The program loads fine on the same computer running CbB as well as other DAWs like Reaper. Trying to make the switch over to Sonar with CbB about to be sunset, but this is certainly going to be an issue. Anyone else have Supertone Clear (on the latest version, with success in the current Sonar build)? https://www.supertone.ai/en/clear

Not sure the history of the one in the OP but seems like a fly by night company I've never heard of before and could go belly up in less time than a well established company that made DearVR, which should have some fairly stable code for Windows users for the near future. If you are a MAC user, you can expect your plugin to only work on the current OS anyway. I wish the company in the OP success, just pointing out I've never heard of them and don't see anything in the way of a long history of support.

Can do that with DearVR for free now (used to be an expensive plugin).

Thanks, that worked. Re-mapping plugin categories manually now.

I kind of thought so too but the Themes in that folder don't show up in my actual SPLAT edit: looks like it is now actually needed in this folder instead:

You are safe with X3 Producer. But the last version of Sonar Platinum I'm not sure if there is the periodic call back to the mothership or not. It was the first move to no longer have the serial + registration key, so it needed a Cake server to authenticate in the first place (or the online portal to upload the export file and then import the response file. It isn't clear to me what that is going to look like long term.

Haven't had an error with Splat or CbB in years, but this new Sonar version seemed like it was working ok until today I get this error (even after a reinstall) Anyone else getting this?

I believe the off-line auth is possible for X3, but Platinum I thought I recall as needing to phone home (or use an offline computer plus a portal generated number - thus if they shut that down, future installs would go away). My personal concern here is that X3 did not have the theme editor, so the look I'm missing isn't available for it. So it seems X3 might be the only fall back option for those that need a real off-line - no dependency solution. Last version of X3 is in the ballpark of 10 years old now. Edit: installed Splat to see what would happen - there was no option to import themes so this provides no value to me at this time.

I think you are missing the point about these particular plugins and not a generalzation. Again back to my example, restoration and noise removal, AI has changed the game as to what is possible. That wasn't the tech used in something like this 15 years ago. Thus do these work better than the modern equivalents or specifically what I already have? Have you used Waves VX or Supertone Clear, on a vocal track to have the point of reference as a clear example of how tech in this area is worlds different than it used to be. Noise removal historically have been very far from perfect even with class leading tools. Not even close, which is the specific topic of discussion.

This was a good idea to give away as an included with purchase offering. It is odd to me that out of 50 captures they didn't grab one of their Super Reverb. Also odd that the list seems to omit any pre-rolla 30 greenbacks, which are literally "the" speaker anyone running a UK based rig is going to have as the reference by which all other speakers are judged.

CR? As for ilok, my rather expensive Drum Core 4 seats are worthless now - even with the ilok authorization in my account. Acon seems to authorize offline from what I can tell. Izotope you can do computer auth or ilok (actually both with the same seat). While Sonnox is considered a high quality company related to the plugins, these also came out 15+ years ago, correct? The tech someone like Supertone Clear is using wasn't in any kind of mass consumption product back then, thus the curiosity of how it performs by todays standards.

Curious about experience with these. I've got the Acon suite, Izotope RX and also SuperTone Clear (that I think works quite well for Dialog related tasks). I know these are rather old so I'm curious how they stack up.

I'd agree if one was stuck in that ecosystem, but if you work cross platform yourself or with bamdmates that lands right back to the Sonar situation. I guess it also depends on what you need and how you work with the DAW. Reaper is a lot less expensive even though Logic came down dramatically in price since the early days.

Hard to imagine using anything other than Reaper for that use case. Sadly so many people use Macs.