Brian Walton

The SoundfactoryLE will depend a fair amount on the instrument loaded related to the processing needs. Even with a list of instruments it would honestly be hard to judge what you are actually getting honestly. I will say that the star of the show is the beta Meldway Grand Piano. It is a massive 40 gig download thanks to all the mic positions. And as such it can be sluggish to load, etc. That said, it a fantastic sounding piano VST. MSFLE isn't a "go to" for me personally as a VST outside of the pianos as I'm not a massive Synth sound player and while MSF does straddle both "sampler and synth" lines, it has a larger synth package today. But this is also Melda and I bought it a little while ago knowing it is going to get updates for life. The Meldway Grand once they get all the kinks out I expect to be worth the discounted admission price alone and this new drum machine model suggests the door is finally open for more attention to the platform. I also heard some things Chandler created in terms of instruments that were impressive which I hope makes it to production as an instrument so that LE users can have access to it....since as an LE user I can't follow the tutorial to make and use it myself) I don't have the MAutoEQ but do have the AudoDynamicEQ. I'm not sure how much I'd personally go for the Linear-Phase maybe that is based on previous experience with others that are resource hogs though, not sure.

Sounds great and some nice well thought out controls. That said for a "premium" drum instrument the lack of sequencer in the interface seems like an area that could use improvement.

I'm aware but all the ex store stuff has been small developers. IKM is one of the largest in the industry and don't exactly need the "marketing" the pop up store provides. Audiority is awesome but also not exactly a household name and even they are bigger than some of the others that hit the store.

Got a press release on that? Would be pretty surprised to find out that Soundwide (the PA, NI and Izotope collective) is now owned by IKM.

Alreaday have both but this is pretty shocking news having IKM in the PA store if true.

I haven't bought much in the last few months, but I still think some of the sales they had were outstanding for those just getting in and had some basic vouchers. Ask yourself if you would have jumped on some of these deals 2 years ago before you went on the pandemic sales buying sprees? 1) The economy changed 2) The amount of plugins we have changed 3) The Plugin market changed As for the $15 plugins, they recently offered Black Box MS and Mastering A at this price point. But I'm guessing most of us already bought them for more than that previously, thus we say "who cares"

Clip 2 has a more open top end and depth I'd expect with the 87. Clip 1 while impressive feels a bit more like a 57 with very impressive processing added to it to me.

It has hit $32ish before but this last sale didn't have the 50% off for that particular one. Lots of others were 50% off though. This and the Binson Echo had a smaller discount. I may pass for now though it has been on my get eventually list. When I test drive it I kept thinking but would I ever use this instead of others that I have (the CPU hungry but amazing Binson included)

I think they ran it around $45 for that sale. Xeno is what started my journey with them years ago when it was $10 at PB.

Does this come with the pro channel version of purchased above? https://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Softube-Mix-Bundle/FET-Compressor

I really like Audiority but this one has hit 32.50 ish sales quite a few times. I expected a lower guaranteed lowest price given the lack of voucher stacking this month. Sadly this also suggests we won't see it hit the $10 PB bin soon.

I won't try this new one until it is dirt cheap but as much as I respect iZotope that very old freebie(upgrade was lipstick on a pig). I never thought that one was worth more than free.

Let me guess "free" but they only give you a single authorization and it also is part of the dreaded waves shell vst scans? Or did they make this product an exception so it would be worth dealing with?

It is pretty well documented that the tracks are basically created most of the time and then it is given to MJK to come up with lyrics. Drums being "last" in the creative process wouldn't be accurate....in some cases it is pretty clear that the time signatures/drum grooves are the foundation of the idea in the first place. The other piece to the quote is also that you can't acutally trust what the band says about a lot of stuff and they are notorious for taking that kind of approach when asked about the music or creative process. I've been following their creative output for literally 30 years now. In the early days interviews were super rare and the few they would give had quotes similar to the above. While I don't agree with a lot of the lyrical content itself, the band is musically briliant. Ironically I find it feels quite emotional despite also tending to be unusually technical (especially for a band that lives in "drop-d" ). For those that don't "get it" try listening to orchestras and the like doing covers of their work. I'd tend to assume radio stations are playing the new stuff (or perhpas something like Sober) it seems fairly unlikley that a Radio Station is going to play one of the tracks most fans are really actually going to be into. Who knows though as I don't listen to the radio.

Yes, the min on the 25 loyalty voucher was 75. So best case you are spending $50 to use it. Wasn't the Class A and HG-2MS both $15 pop recently? By far an all time low.

Guitar player perspective here. the WF Matcha I found to be worthless. Didn't sound like a guitar at all and didn't work with amp sims anywhere close to as expected. One of the only PA plugins I couldn't uninstall fast enough. YMMV. Yes, the SPL plugins are basically the same type of things as the Transient designer but stripped down into a single fuction.

Nembrini (ODS, Faceman, HiVolt, MRH159, DC30, BST100, Cali Reverb, Mrh810) PA (everything other than the Mesa sims, first two ENGLs, rackrock player, SE100) Amplitube 5 (everything other than Mesa 2) Melda (MTurboAmp + MCab) Don't use but have TH-3 Positive Grid (though the pickup "change" option is nice in a pinch) Guitar Rig Audio Assault

Quick search suggests it has an UST (under saddle pickup) So I'd start off with the ones I've suggested (my Taylor 814 has one of those 1990s Fishman Prefix systems in it and I make sure it is only using the UST) On this Acoustic IR site select this box and search: In the Aura drop box site many should be geared towards Fishman systems - I know the Taylor 814 ones were. The worship tutorial ones none of them use the Fishman however you can try the files with "PZ1, PZ2, or PZ3" which were captures with various Piezo pickups most of which are likely UST. The key with all these is start with something that is likely close to the same pickup and then experiment to see which sounds best with your setup.

I'd suggest checking out these free ones: https://worshiptutorials.com/product/acoustic-ir-sample-pack/ http://acousticir.free.fr/spip.php?rubrique2 Fishman Aura IRs https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f2qdh9jtcl6s5cv/AACRlEt-UVeLAhuvV4YwMY7Wa?dl=0 I have a Taylor 814ce with a Fishman Matrix in it. THere are some Martin D28s in the acoustic ir link that make my Talyor actually sound more like a Martin, the Fishmain Aura actually has an 814ce that used my same system so that is pretty spot on (I also own an actual Fishman Aura also). And the worship tutorial with the 816 is pretty good too. It can take some experimenting but the primary factor is using a capture that used the same pickup type you use. You can use any IR loader. I actually bought a FS07 so I could easily do live shows or plug and play into a recording interface. But using something like the Audio Assault IR loader is even better as it allows longer impulse times, better gain and processing controls. But seriously night and day difference between this method and the Nembrini plugin (even using totally free IRs and IR loaders and plugins) for a natural recorded tone.

Superior Drummer 2 to 3 and the limited time deal felt pretty unreasonable to me. Thankfully I have other drum packages. EZ keys is fairly unique though.

Looks modern in a 1998 sort of way.

Long overdue but I also have no interest in their insane upgrade pricing structures.

I don't know who actually recorded that one, but it also interesting that the video has almost 3.5M views and less than 700 subscribed.

I love nembrini amp simps. But honestly I got way better results on acoustic with some IRs that matched my pickup system. I'd say test drive.

I own quite a few united plugin releases and love the licencing model that treats the customer like an actual customer. That said, outside of intro pricing the rates are quite a bit above the competition. About the only time I've got anything outside of intro pricing or a (get with purchase) was one of the bundles where because of what I already had got an amazing discount. Demos of this one are not my style nor does it really sell the plugin if it was. Crispy Tuner at PA is another option, runs on sale for $25 from time to time.