Brian Walton

Are you playing in the supported sandbox and saying they literally do not run? macOS 12 down to macOS 10.11 Intel, or Apple Silicon (except for AAX) architecture

Love Toneboosters. Klanghelm is cool too, but all those plugins are really old at this point. Melda - the new interfaces (released in v15??) are improved. I agree not the greatest, but the trade off is fully scalable and low CPU consumption. And I actually like the install process once I got used to it. The computer remembers what I installed and hi-lights those for me, then you can delete all the old ones in a second within the plugin and install the new and everything stays authorized. It is extremely effective. People seem to have some sort of issue with how rich Dirk is. At the same time they have offered some of the best deals on the market as long as you play the game and time it right. When has WAVES ever at a "pick our best plugins" 4 for $50. Yeah, never.

You are seriously going to compare Corel as some sort of good example of how to offer value to customers? I'm a customer (also have DRAW but never registered it) Corel has annoying startup "buy the latest version at some crazy pricing" set as a default across the product line. The updates in each version which cost an arm and a leg are usually quite small. And you certainly can't authorize it to 3 USB sticks (which could be abused by giving them out to friends and using the software mutiple times). With Corel I'm constantly having to de-authorize a computer and authorize another one. As an owner of many machines, needing to reset 7 authorizations (i.e. 7 truly different devices - when USB is an option for them - and 3 can be simultaneous) more frequently than a year would be excessive no matter how you want to look at it. You can deauthorize one computer and then reauthorize that same computer over and over again and it does not count aganst a 2nd machine in the "7 limitation." Once you understand how the system works you would have to be in a minority situation to need more than that every single year. They would simply tell you to authorize to a USB (two or 3) and to start moving that around if you are upgrading your computer 8 times in a single year. The plugins work perfectly fine on a MAC, they simply are not re-programed to utalize aditinoal capabilies of a very specifc chip set.

1). My understanding is they will rest after the 7 if it doesn't looks like you are a legit human and not abusing the system. Allowing to authorize to 3 USB sticks at the same time opens the door for misuse. I wish it was unlimited without intervention but think it is still better than the majority. 2). Most people can't even hear it and only know this because the internet tells them this is the case. 3). I'd rather they cater to Windows users who are in fact the vast majority. 4). They have great pricing throughout the year as long as you get in the mailing list. They offer the exact same plugins as UAD for a tiny fraction of the price in sale. Those that fit in your box are the minority, who other than Melda?

Amek 9099 I use a lot. Don't use ssl 4000 anymore. True Peak limiter gets use just have to be careful setting it up. Crispy Tuner I have but never used (note I have Melodyne Studio 5 which is crazy expensive). I paid $50 for the Amek only because it really can be a core plugin if you want it to be. Normally I wait for the $15 deals.

The only thing of relevance would have been the unfiltered audio sale and everyone had yesterday to jump on that. Using vouchers on any full price item is a fools game anyway. This sale also only lasts a couple days so no big deal. I won't be buying anything at this tier because I already have everything that would have made this deal "worth it" But a fine deal for those not very invested in PA already. Not exactly earth shattering if you already own all the top tier stuff already though.

Yep, as do I. But gotta give them credit when they offer multiple products on sale at the same time as a voucher that can in fact stack. Frequently we have to either get the plugin they put on sale for $40 to get it for $15 or hope there is two back to back days where they run the 48 hr deal. Given the recent "Dirk is Leaving Sale" that was announced, I'm betting we will have another opportunity to pick something else up if we really need to.

Usually you can stack, so I'd expect you could get needlepoint and bassmint for $15 with a $25 voucher and that isn't too shabby assuming they are on someone's wanted list.

I really like Nembrini amp sims....but I'm always puzzled by software releases where the retail price is a few bucks less than you can get the hardware for. Of course the into price is better, but year round at about $140 and you can grab good condition used hardware around $160 doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Here is to hoping he releases some boutique goodness (Trainwreck, Komet, TwoRock) in the next go round.

You are correct: And there are many others (just a few examples):

Shadowhills Green and "A" sound pretty different to me so that doesn't seem like only a feature change (adding the resizable interface, TMT, headroom, stereo, mix controls). Now masterdesk there are 3 of them. "Classic" was released after Masterdesk with a streamlined feature set for free (I'm cool with that try it you might like it approach). The new one "true peak" I think should have simply been an upgrade to the original (which retailed for $299 and now dropped to $149). They did offer a $20 price to get TruePeak so it isn't crazy for previous users, but still honestly think it should have been a nice included upgrade instead of an entierly new product as it seems pretty unlikley MasterDesk(the original) is going to see another actual update. Amek EQ 200 vis 250 Zo points out is the crazy one. Since people tested it and it showed it was practically the same EQ going on with different visual knobs and a slight curve adjustment type of thing going on. I forgot about Unfiltered Audio in the discussion of "innovate" even though I own most of all of them. They certainly think outside of the box and are not afraid to release something that a large percentage of the audio production population wouldn't actually use. We need developers like them to break outside of the "same old EQ and Compressor" plugins we all have way too many of at this point.

I was thinking NeuralQ was the most resourse intensitve plugin I ever tried using. Did they fix that or are you using a super computer? I uninstalled it within an hour if memory serves me correctly. Not that it didn't sound good, but computer resources are valuable.

Sounds like a buzz word in this context to me. That said, the "AI" iZotope has I think produces results worthy of the title. One of course can argue against it actually being intelligent...but it clearly is capable of altering audio to match characteristics that must have taken a very long time to compile into a set of characteristics we expect to hear as mix ready.

It has been less than a year. I honeslty didn't expect any cross platform "integrations" yet as these are small development teams and actually doing any cross platform development work is going to take time. It took them what seemed like months just to get the revised store up and running. As for ground breaking. Sure PA didn't develop it, but the Kirchhoff EQ they bought, updated a little and released feels fairly ground breaking to me. And while Izotope does tend to be cutting edge, those products are also at the very top of the market. RX Advanced alone is on sale for $800 USD. You could by every single PA plugin (100 something) for that even without owning a single PA plugin to start with.

Yeah the SPL I ran a demo on a while ago and passed on the purchase becuase of the size/UI. I have enough tools that I don't want to buy things that could end up obsolete in the near term. While I still run monitors at 1080P, I do have higher rez ones and there will likley come a time where 1080 is basically no longer the standard.

I like that one too, but it also needs a larger UI. It feels tiny and cramped like all the Elysa releases. I do like the sound and basic features it has though.

I'd expect at least a 7 month wait for the $29 tier. I'm curious if this comes with a "mix" version in addition to the mastering one. I don't have the bundle to find out. Surprised they focused on a Mastering comp, while that sounds fancy - it is also what feels like the more over represented in the PA store. Eliysa , SPL, two Shaddow Hills, (even master desk), plus a couple other bus comps a normal studio might treat as something the Mastering engineer might apply (Townhouse, and Vertigo VSC-2, Lindell SBC) Never really feel like I'm at a loss for choices in the PA lineup on this. But for a basic track compressor I frequently start thinking about and grabbing outside the PA basket. I'm also expecting higher CPU usage here like the AMEK 200, 250 EQs get.

Im talking about the everything bundle regarding out of my price range...I have quite a few in my collection.

Only way to get all future plugins at no additional future cost is the bundle though. That is the theoretical advantage of going all in. Way outside of my price range but those who got in on it many years ago saw a pretty amazing value out of it. Will be curious to see what is in the years to come. I'm betting the mixing revolution concept he is working on isn't going to be a cheap $10 plugin.

Mguitararchitect will be the all in one, amp, cab, and some effects plugin which is a beta type of installer now. I agree it was an odd move to not have any sort of cab option built in. I wonder what the resource uptick would have been to add a simple convolutionez loader in it. I own turbo amp and mcab so I wonder what the upgrade price will be. Thankfully the turboamp had a pretty reasonable intro price as it felt like it took forever to get out of beta. I didn't test guitararc yet, I hope it has a nicely featured ir loader not just the stock Mcab stuff.

Nah, cheapest I've seen is when they gave it away at launch. Big fan of the "as many computers as you personally own" license system.

Did you run this by the developer and perhpas share such a project file with them? I haven't used MAudioStereoFix but have used a bit of MAutoAlign. Any Problem I personally had were with the sources (resonances, poor room reverb, etc). I'm sure they would be curious to investigate any issues.

It helps to have a collection of Guitar Cab IRs to go along with it that are of high quality, but you can open one of the guitar presets like I've shown above, then load your own IR(s) and save it as a new preset so you get to keep that UI but using your own collection. (ML Sound Pre-Rolla 30s via the MARS PR Cab Pack - also available individually - are my go to) Melda's Convolution plugin is a bit unique in the low latency / low consumption department and tends to make it a bit more usable than some for reverb as well. If you have some good IRs it can sound quite realistic in ways that algo verbs don't.

Earlier this year I thought I remember a video where Vojtech was being interviewed by Plugin Boutique and they aluded to one of the biggest revolutions is yet to come.....literally called the mixing revolution Start watching somewhere around the 2:10:00 mark or so where they talk about the pipe line of stuff to come. (2:14 or so they talk about that one specifically)

Yes, I'm referring to getting a $50 voucher. The $32 min on the $25 voucher has been standard for what seems like years now.