Brian Walton

What is the CPU hit though? Always a consideration for reverb, imo. Also I know it wouldn't be in the 90% replacement range across music production for me even though it has plenty of "types" of verbs.

I grabed this plus 31 other plugins for a total of $80 last year during the group buy and got an HD2 interface also in the same deal. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/trspacedelay/ $30 doesn't sound like the greatest deal to me at the moment. ? My previous comment was really more about the fact that $30 on a $99 plugin in most cases these days is an every day sale kind of situation...the norm if you will. And anything limited edition I'd have to wonder what support is like in 10 years on it.

$30 for a limited edition plugin they don't think is good enough for sale year round sound like a marketing cash grab ploy to me.

Good deal on MDrummer if you are smart enough to figure out how to use it. Seems like a robust package but I haven't gotten a lot of use out of it yet as most other drum VSTs seem more intuitive.

Had a couple of the pedals in the past but got rid of them. Would love to get the Murf In a plugin if they ever drop it to the $20 or less level. ?

I'm curious about the CPU hit with this thing. I've used the Strymon Blue Sky (it is kind of clinical/hi-fi sounding). And it seems like they put emphasis the chips/processor used as being substantial. when you can get a Blue Sky pedal for $200, it seems pretty absurd to charge the same for the big brother in VST format that will be worthless in a few years where the pedal will keep its value. Good idea to put out a plugin version, but price point puts it in a place where only Strymon fanbois are going to dive in. Just look at MTurboReverb on sale and compare the features (and sound) as an example. Audiority's verb is on sale for $30 and goes lower than that every year. While I wouldn't say it is Strymon algorithm level, it is good and does have lots of the more "creative" verb styles in it.

Leaving this here in case PA decides to change their mind: Curious what changes we will see at release compared to the current demo for Kirchhoff. It seems ok on the CPU (but more hungry than MAutodynamicEQ or Toneboosters EQ4)

I've done the read up. The qeustion is what is the practical use what can it do that EQ4 can't. The fundemental dynamic EQ stuff is there across both, EQ4 has per band M/S as well as saturation controls (something DSEQ3 doesn't have, correct?). It has a clean well thought out interface. You get into something like MAutodynamicEQ and people wax poetic about the fact you can make it do anything but in practical use it can be quite difficult for the average person to set up the "advanced" features and thus provides little to no extra value to a normal person (I own it too). TBProaudio also has the geq12 which at $80 seems overpriced, IMO. DSEQ3 seems more like more of a limited use "fix it" type of tool than an essential everyday workhorse EQ to me. With that being said, what is it you are dealing with that DSEQ3 is needed above and beyond the capabilites of EQ4, etc?

I had the channel strip on my list of interests for a long time, on paper all the features are there with good flexibility, as I demo'd it, quickly came the the realization I'd never use it over something like the AMEK 9099. The problem with tbproaudio I think is actually the price, each plugin you have to ask yourself is it really worth that much more than you can get and alternative for? Is it even worth what the alternative is? The pricing doesn't seem to get discounted and until the euro fell to the USD value they felt a little high. EQ mentioned below is a good example, is it better than Toneboosters? Which costs half as much or less?

I do wish it had options to let you download only the Mic Pairs you want. But that many mic combinations with enough articulations for every note in high resolution does take up space. At least 6 sets of mics, I think most of not all are L/R so 12 mics or so worth. One man's bloat is another mans "this is the only grand piano I'll ever need" It is the best sounding Piano VST I've got that is for sure. Lower RES with only the mics I use would have been fine for me though. Also only came out of Beta recently. While it has been availabe to even LE owners for a while, they also considered it beta and in my experience it was beta with plenty of little bugs for sure. Not sure if it is rock solid yet or not.

This is the only time I've ever seen the web site work properly in the likley ~10+ years I've been using Computer Music Magazine. Time to download what you own for a change!

Note if you are buying this (i.e. you don't already have MSoundFactory LE or the full version) MSoundFactoryLE is currenlty on sale for the same price as this single instrument so buy that instead to get it plus everything else! https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSoundFactoryLE Also throwing out my referral code out there for any new user for another 20% off MELDA31209027 This one would be worth it, IMO given how good that piano sounds.

I generally like tbproaudio but must have overlooked this one as I don't remember seeing it. Looks good on paper and interface layout but no first hand experience. If you want to pin to desktop for a number of instances my first instinct would be download the demo and get a sense of the scaling options. Other plugins I've tried of theirs do have % scaling. Looks like a legit alternative without testing it.

These are at least installed (also SSL Comp not pictured), but have quite a few more NLS, Omni, SSL Channel got replaced with PA plugins (I have all the channel strips but Amek Console 9099 is the go to) H-Comp - depends on the job but (PA, Toneboosters, Melda, IKM) J-37 tape (A few options while IKM Tapes are way more recourse hungry, they also sound better to me) SSL Comp = PA options Sibilance is pretty good but Melodyne Studio is much more powerful (and expensive). I'd just use PA Lindel Desser if I didn't have Melodyne and was tyring to get away from WAVES non-sense. Berzerk Distoriton was free - lots of options to replace that one. (also note that most WAVES plugins sound fine overall. The regret is single authorization, pricing (even on sale), WUP that means no support after a year unless you buy the plugin again, no updates that are not paid ones, and treating customers poorly with the afformentioned practices and until recently none of them even resized).

Those would be at the top of my list of regrets. Only one I have I don't regret is the background noise removal for vocals that came out not long ago. All others are no longer used and take up scanning time and are worthless to resell as I'd have to pay WUP and then get someone else to pay more than that for them which is impossible.

This is one of the only ones that comes to mind. Those in the OP, I'd honestly disagree with BF pricing. Most people are not paying $150+ for a sample library these days. It isn't the early 2000s anymore. (Yes some do but there are tons of options for fairly cheap). I like Valhalla DSP but $50 no longer feels like BF pricing when you can get amazing verbs for $10-30 regularly. $50 seemed like a bargain years ago, today not so much. While not every single day, I'd say Plugin Alliance is on a every month BF schedule for those on the mailing list. We saw so many lust worthy plugins for $15 so often people got burned out. Last year's BF didn't offer much, but we had so many deals leading up to it who cared?

Yes, it is sad, I've never used the free MWavesFolder but yet keep thinking well maybe I should pay to get the "MB" version as more in my melda collection is a good thing, right? I also think that this one adds the new GUI options that the free one wouldn't have. Which in turn might make me more likely to actually use it.

Don't let me convince you it is needed. Make sure it works for your workflow. I still think the thing is annoying in the sense that this shouldn't be a plugin but built into the DAW itself. We should all be requesting it on a Cakewalk roadmap for example. Mixing by opening plugins (levels or panning) is super annoying.

@Peter - IK Multimedia I could open a support ticket on this but it seems that any profile one creates and also downloads from the "user" tone models do not sync to other machines that are also tied to my account. This seems problematic to keep things similar across machines as it would be quite labor intensive to manually match across multiple machines. Also is there a way to transfer these things manually? If I create a profile (and also have presets downloaded) from one machine and put them on another? That could at least serve as a work around until product updates are made.

Ahh you are correct. While I'm a fan of the digital v3 as an eq plugin. Forgot about the tiny pan knob. I'd argue it is a whole lot clunkier to use when you are working on a mix for placement and takes up more CPU. If this is the EQ you use on every track and you don't put anything that inadvertently puts more stereo info after it, it is an alternative and also usually more expensive unless you got it for free or part of the soundwide bundle . The point isn't that the pan knob is the only plugin capable of the technique. It seems to be the only one clean and purpose driven for it. You could pin 20 of them on your screen and actually create the stereo mix. Digital V3 you might be able to do a folk duo mix.

Yes, they are well respected and make excellent stuff. I think if they updated the UI look you would see them get a little more attention. Sonically they all punch above the price point. Also note they tend to have some stripped down versions you can get for free which gives a good taste of the sonic quality and if you will bond with the looks/interface. The UI is rather utilitarian but can also tend to be on the boring side of things visually

Uploaded a King of Tone profile (done on Default quality - Evidence Auido Lyric HG cables used with the AXE I/O and King of Tone (high gain mod version) Capture took 5 hours. GXT280 (yeah it is old) GPU onboard.

Well the easy thing to do is put a bass monizer on the bus and then send everything to it. But that doesn't give freq cut over on an individual track basis. I remember Boz's posts about alternatives (such as in reaper). But as he also points out the CPU usage is a lot lower with a PAN knob.

This is one that does have some similar overlap I think. Using the tilt knob. But I also do not recall it being as effective in wider pans. I haven't used it in a long time, but it does other things also and you have to be careful not to color the sound which isn't the intent of a Pan. The BX plugin also has far less control over the cut over for the "mono" part. 250 ceiling can be limiting depending on the intent and use.

The concept is genre neutral. When you pan an instrument left or right (to any degree) using a normal panning knob in a daw the way it places it in the stereo specturm is unnatural in headphones. it is very much "all sound is coming from that direction" once you use PanKnob it can keep some low frequeny content "in mono" in the middle and pan frequencies above that range left or right. If you mix rock, jazz, funk, pop, trying to give some natural instruments in a space feel it excels at helping that. But same concept for any genre even without traditional instruments. You don't really realize how wrong panning knobs can sound until you try it. (Again headphones are a must here)