Brian Walton

Just gave it a 5 min spin (post purchase) with a live guitar and seems to be what I hoped, great for some ambient style textures. (GUI is resizable)

I grabbed Audiority Polaris for $10 https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/3441 Didn't even bother to demo it.

I got a couple of these when they were on sale on GOG...so DRM free. Would like to grab the recent Myst Remake when it eventually hits real sale discounts. Certainly don't have the time to actually play them though.

Well if you check out without the voucher and just use the $75 one that puts it at $25 which is about as good as it gets for this thus far.

Sorry this is much better than the old one, and is resizable. While I don't think it is the best looking plugin I have, it is an order of magnitue better than the old original klunker. Hopefully this is a sign that Boz is going to start making resizable updates, as the plugins are starting to feel long in the tooth without such feature sets.

I haven't played around with it yet, but will say I loved the video and the sounds he got out of that lamp he pulled out of the trash.

+1

I don't think they are going to release actual numbers, but Cakewalk staff indicated in posts that the influx of user base exceeded expecations. I'd have to imagine they had pretty high expectations when they went from "lets charge $500 for the flagship" to "we are going to give it away for free (minus some of the 3rd party stuff)" It is fair to assume there are more Cakewalk users now than there ever have been. That said, it is still a small market in general and Cakewalk is a fraction of that base. I'd imagine that if they sold the products for a low price and got some advertising around here, we would see some sales. The only reason I picked up some of the Boz plugins were because of PC compatibility. It really can't be that much development work if you already have the plugin and the controls are simple. Yes, this is what I mentioned above I did with the Boz Pan Knob. It is annoying to have to manually add it by searching in a menu for each individual track. If it was a PC module with 2 clicks I could add it to all my channels in a project, just like God intented.

This +1 I remember someone making something so some of the blue effects could run as a PC. But every time the pro channel topic comes up I can only think about how much I want the damn Boz Pan knob in there. That or just let cakewalk implement the concept in their own. I setup a Fx bin preset to host it in the PC strip but you can't add it to every track instantly on a whim like you can with actual PC modules and it is a little more clunky.

Wonder what the CPU hit is like. Love Audiority but amazing sounding plugins like Echorec are massive resource hogs, and another reverb/delay unit could fall under the same trappings. Hopeing XenoReverb is on the list for one of the new updates that adds things like the resizable interface. (it seems to be the one plugin they haven't updated in almost 2 years)

That does explain the absurd $400 retail rate justification. ?

You are basically getting Scaler for the regular price but get the multi effect thrown in. Scaler 2 itself, gets down to about $50 on sale.

The updated TurboEQ gives you the option of the old Generic Melda GUI or a GUI that switches for each EQ type/emulation. Yes, you do not have the edit screen which hides all the DSP and advance settings. I think of it a AutodynamicEQ with a limited control set on the front end and a different user interface. It basically locks you into what feels more like a hardware platform with a number of built in limitations (like hardware) but the sonic charactaristics are Melda traditional DSP in the background. I own Turbo and MADEQ, honeslty Turbo could have easily been an add on feature to MADEQ rather than selling us another plugin. I'm positive they both are basically the same backend with a customized GUI and limitations.

Cakewalk is the ultimate freebie. However, some of us using Sonar for the past 20 years (has it really been that long?) and spent a fair amount of change along the way in the development of the product to get it where it is today don't exactly think of it as free (especially after paying for lifetime updates). But anyone paying for another DAW on Windows when Cakewalk is available, I don't quite comprehend it.

In terms of instruments: Decent Sampler Spitfire LABS Melda Piano Honeslty I've gotten to the point where I don't use any free effects with any regularity. Not that there are not good ones, but are there any that are better than the paid options I have? Perhpas not, other than arguing something like Airwindows TAPE is way more CPU efficient than IK Multimedia. And something that gets used once every 50 projects like Acon Multiply for chorus. I'd put the Melda Free Effects on the list, except for the fact the "paid" version of the free ones is worth it, and therefore I consider them paid. Then there are also Computer Music effects/instruments that again are not technically free to anyone. You have to buy a magazine or get it through a library. I should be clear that I'm also only talking about truly free products. I've gotten many "free" for a limited time things or free with purchase that were worth it and get used. But the you can get this any day for free stuff, typically doensn't make it after all these pandemic timeframe hording purchases. Me 5+ years ago would use free products more often.

Perhpas with even more limited functionality. I passed on PA's Dangeous BAX for $10 last month. Of course the BaxterEQ is now 64bit and also free: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads/ Not that these are not good quality and useful, but $100+ actual asking price is a bit much these days. PA released BAX at least 5 years ago, and has been fairly cheap time and time again.

I'm curious who has the cash to spend this kind of money on a couple high/low filters. Seems absurd to me. Even $20 is a little questionable for a non-resizable interface with a couple filters. Curious against something like MBandPass which is free or a plethora of other options on the market.

Looks like it is 50% off at United Plugins https://unitedplugins.com/UrbanPuncher/?_fid=dhto But seems like full price at ADSR Great liscencing program, but too expensive for me on this product.

Considering how light those things are on the CPU as it is, I'd rather them "update" them in the sense of getting on board with the rest of the Izotope authorization systems so we are not stuck with 1 seat per liscence. Granted I have 3 copies of R4 and Nimbus thanks to recent sales, plus A couple Phoenix and Excalibur.

Perhpas you turned on the Oversampling while you were mixing? I opened up Gig Performer and loaded/comparied the 50 to 80, 4k, 9K, console N, Focusrite, and the IK Strips. 50 looked like it was at the same or less than everything other than 4K and Consle N (which were lower).

Agreed. But at Free there are some tasks it can do faster than other non-free options. Sky replacement would take me an hour or more to do at the level Luminar can do in minutes. But yes, regular develop duties are painfully slow compared to other products on the market. I used to run it as a Plugin in Affinity Photo to really only access those kinds of features. Since getting AI, I never open it any more and I hope that once the plugin for Neo comes out, that I don't have to use AI anymore as it is also quite slow. Beta testing the pre-release of NEO now.

They are just throwing their weight around letting Monster Cable know they can't be sued for trademark infringement and are more of a market leader than they are in the audio industry.

I honestly can't believe anyone would have picked anything other than the AMEK Console as the seleciton today with a $75 voucher. (unless they already paid an arm and a leg for it) (not to mention the combo you mentioned doesn't get you to the $99 tier needed to use the voucher. BX Opto was $10 for a few days straight with the anyone gets it voucher, and Big Al is $25 with the generic $25 one. These both should be pretty easy to pickup heavily discounted where a $75 voucher isn't necessary.

Don't know about this month with certainly, but in previous months I remember it was confirmed $25 was generic and the $50 and $75 were unique.

Nope, it was v4 they ran a $30 on "most plugins" sale and they failed to exclude it for part of the day (it was not in the fine print as an exclusion). Later in the day they updated the system not to include it. I had it in my cart, then came back later and the price was adjusted. A number of people reported being able to get it at $30. I ended up getting it on another sale with a voucher at a reasonable cost.