Brian Walton

I tired it but once you swtich to something like Affinty, I can't image even re-opening the program. It can do very good things, but needs refinement . Adobe is obviously capable software, but shouldn't even be mentioend in the deals thread. Affinity Photo is a far better deal for the vast majority of people. (including some full time professionals). No ads and can be installed on multiple machines .

I tried out the release before this one and thought it was very nice for transparent compression. My notes for updates I'd like to see where different models (what it came with was super clean), to add some analog flavors, etc. So this likley addressed that . I'd like to also see the option for more "bands" in the zone section. Being able to compress one frequency zone is certianly a step up from most compressors, but seems like why not give the opiton to make it a multi-band as well if and when needed. I could see this being a real workhorse and go-to. Look forward to checking out the two new modes, if they are any good I can't possibly see any reason not to use this thing as a primary.

It talks about getting it free after lettiing the trial expire....I assume this means downloading all the content and then having to keep all of it on the HD to access the small portion that is actually free?

I think it feels and looks clunky and archaic. Own but never ever use it. Strongly prefer Affinity Photo for pixel based editing. The 50% off sale ended yesterday though that put it at the same ~$25 price. However, Affinity does still have a 90 day trial as far as I know right now...I'm guessing that would tide one over until $35 -40 sale at the very least. As for the spam, Corel is terrible about it, maybe not magix level, but then again who is?

Yes, that is the only comp in the v4 (with the limiter) I was refering too, as it has both a comp section and the limiter section, but the real focus is on the limiter. Barricade CM was my go to for years. v4 was even better.

I was literally looking at the Tonebosters lineup last night and trying to figure out why the only comp in the "v4" series was the one with the limiter. Can't wait to test this one out.

Yeah, I had to unsubscribe to a previous freebie they gave away.

That is what they charge you the $300 for the plugin version for. From what I messed around with, seems like you would need to make some approximations then use this as an overlay in a NLE. Has its uses as a standalone but think the real play here is to get you hooked enough to fork out the cash. ?

agree. I usually end up freezing tracks , then pop them on the bus to reduce the load. Not the best workflow, but many times worth it.

My CPU will fully shut down Cakewalk if I use a few instances of Acoustica plugins along with other things, that is a legit issue on my systems. Never got along with any in the box amp simulations, so can't speak from experince on that.

Haven't used it, but the notion of presets doesn't sound like fully adjustable emualtion to me. Sounds like a snapshot (like with tweaks to those snapshots). That particular tool is about $90 US. As much as I loathe WAVES, Omni Channel I got for about $25. And I'd love to replace it with something like this, if it went on a nice sale. https://www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/cs5501.html but even at ~$70 that is top of market pricing. And I don't even want to know what the CPU and RAM hits on an effects process that has 10GiGs worth of content in it. Especially considering it sounds like you might need multiple instances of it to get EQ, Comp, Reverb, Tape, Preamp

Would not agree that $70 is affordable in the current landscape of VSTs on sale. Not 100% absurd, but you can get 2 -3 plugins from other makers for that layout on sale. in the Comp, EQ, Saturation type of realm.

DId you pick up the Acoustica Audio Celestial while it was free?

They do make really nice stuff. Think the coding efficiency could be improved though, they tend to be on the upper end of resource heavy. A problem for those running older machines.

Haven't had any issue myself with the Delay. VST3 of Manic Compressor, I have seen immediate shutdowns of Cakewalk. VST2 version works fine.

This is standard operating procedure for easily 99% of people that learn to play an instrument.

USB C, more forward thinking than many of the other options on the market.

No clue about the demo version, but since 2.07 the production version so far has felt good on CW to me. I don't use any of the super fancy capabilities though.

Woops, should have known Larry knew about this 20 days ago. Mods feel free to delete thread.

For those that got in on the previous deals, available now. Is this 2 months in a row where they didn't really give us a free plugin? ?

Basically looks like the updates are for MAC users and others that want to lose support. ?

WAVES is one of the leading sellers of VST plugins. Neither GUI is on the level that should dictate. I'm not suggesting it isn't an improvement it certianly is, but the old ones were horribly dated and for them to bring them "up to spec" with something like this just isn't good enough. Given other optio ns on the market for COMPs not sure who would actually buy this new as a stand alone.

Still looks terrible.

Just checking in, been in the "coming soon during quarantine" for a couple months....still making updates?

The GUI is not fully customizable. Essentially you can only change the colors and graphics/textures. The size of objects is fixed. I'd suggest learning some keyboard shortcusts (i..e play and stop is just hitting your space bar) YOu could also setup a midi controler to potentially have those large buttons you want, but that might be beyond your computer comfort level.