Brian Walton

It has been a mixed bag. Got lots of amazing products, but many hours of my life were wasted with stress of selections, telling people about the deal, checking every couple hours to see how the progress was coming along for more freebies, etc. Then there is the need for a new hard drive due to the monsterous size of all these products (coupled with the limited time to download everyhting before having to pay again) Still going through stress as a good friend hasn't had the time to go to the store and buy a physical product (the deal would be worthless for him without an interface) and it has gotten to the point that a shipment would be far to risky to not make the registration deadline.

Intersted to try this but also curious how the routing would actually work with Cakewalk. Have melodyne, but haven't been impressed with teh conversion for the price. JamOrigin is what I want but the $150 buy in is a little steap (used to be $99 and always hoped for a discount)

I already have that one, but not sure it contains the grouping function, and I don't remember it having an exact setting for the level you want to hit. Might need to revisit.

Looks like terrible authorization ilock cloud which requires constant internet connection or physical ikok. No local authorization. Hard pass on anything they make

I'm partial to the Autority Echoes T7e mk ii (no ilok or invasive style DRM - just a license file tied to my name - displayed on the plugin) https://www.audiority.com/shop/echoes-t7e/

Not an informed opinion, but in the little bit of research I did for reviews on this (they announced this was coming on social media a few days ago) the small consensus was pretty mixed. Not that it has all the bells and whistles, but I'm thinking about checking out Hornet's Normalizer for some of the same ideas at a $4 price point. https://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-thenormalizer/

This is what always comes to mind....yet the OP plugin doesn't replicate the Binson Echorec, it was the first thing I checked with a delay plugin called Echoes....

For those that don't know there is a also a stripped down version of this plugin via Computer Music Magazine "free" with purchase of the magazine. Audio Thing Orb CM

Outside of waiting on a future group buy where yet to be released products would be included, I'd think now is the time to jump in. Especially if you don't have the amps/cabs/effects that are only available with MAX or individual purchase. The Two Dr Z amps in that catergory get more use from me than just about anything else. Since you need the matching cabs, those 2 amps take up 4 slots and so forth (HiWatt, ENGL Blackmore amp, and the Wampler and T-Rex pedals being some more). Amps are usually in the $25-35 range and the Cabs are like $10 a piece. These "premium brand" effects are also $25 each .

The question raised isn't if it sound 100% like the guitar sampled. With all the talk in the video about the fact it is taken from a 75 Gibson branded SG with a specific set of pickups in it....don't seem nitpicky to discuss if it even really sounds like what we (some of us are guitar players not keyboard players) expect a guitar to sound like. They called the instrument a Guitar and go into detail about the specifc guitar used, etc. This thread reads the gamit of most realistic guitar sound from a keyboard to don't even sound like a guitar. This is hardly nickpicking when you have that kind of disparity.

No, it is intended design. After the trial you get to keep a version that removes access to advanced tweaks but let's you use some basic things. This isn't the first time they did this concept. Not a bad idea to add some incentive to actually install it

Yeah I don't care that I don't think it sounds like an authentic guitar. It sounds very usable, just a commenting based on a post or two suggesting it sounds like a convincing guitar. And figured it was worth a note as someone that has played an SG for around 25 years, not sure I agree, and not from the stand point of being nit picky. The sounds it is making do sound excellent. Curious the DL size Based on this synthesis idea, I certainly wasn't expecting the piano to be over 6gigs.

True, but I feel like I can't make an full blown rig with it in standalone (on a machine that is older but still capable in most respects) and run it at the latency I want either.

Considering they make a version of this application that runs on a phone....I think it is reasonable to expect that we shouldn't need a state of the art computer to run the sister application on a reasonable spec computer. Not only that but fire up a plugin alliance Amp sim that only takes up like 20megs of HD space, uses very little processing power and sounds and responds as good as anything in AT5 and we are left wondering about the efficiency of an app that takes longer to load than any other VST I have out of a couple thousand. I like AT5, big upgrade from 4, but the Amplitube Plugin which is a plugin that one REALLY needs to run at the lowest possible latency - which by nature will tax a computer, needs to be one that is efficient.

I still own one as it is one of my favorite guitars to play. (Derek Trucks is the king of SG tone) That said, I don't think this really sounds like a guitar to me....but it does share some qualities of a vintage SG recorded straight to board. For a guitar VSTi - guitar recorded straight in is what I'd want so that I can use any amp sim on it. I'll hold judgement until I hear it in that context, but the demos to me sound like interesting tone/insturment but not really a great representation of an electric guitar that someone would want to use on its own as the sound of an electric. The pickups used in a 70s era SG vs what most SGs of the 90s and 2000s (not the 62 reissue kind of stuff) are quite different. The SG sound we associate with Angus, Townshend and Clapton is more about the amp used than the guitar, in my opinion. Even Angus who is perhpas the quintessential SG player (along with Iommi) played a LP on some tracks and really the only way we know this isn't becuase of a drastic change in tone.

Confirmed, looks like it is, likley makes it eaiser for them to implement the "use once per account"

What you have never released a 96khz MP3 of a 2 minute single on floppy before? You haven't lived! (I have a box of floppy drives around, digging the computer out of a closet that could actually read them would be the trouble).

I thought the same, and oddly USB or SD cards were mysteriously missing, which I've actually seen used a couple times.

Free Pink Floyd is a worthy deal....other bands, not so much.

Anyone see any updates on this, thought today was the drop date?

Many emulations (or approximations) are built on principals surrounding replicationg circuit diagrams and what a circuit is doing. Not much different than someone making a "clone" of a guitar amp by following a schematic and using parts within a certain tollerance. It will sound similar but not 100% identical as it needs adjustment based on how the parts work together and component variations. You are correct that a little one-man shop like this isn't actually going to be doing A/B testing with the real thing but it isn't unrealistic to expect there are some documentation and diagrams to get the general idea of it.

Plus the bugs that were rather common a few years ago. My impression has been that has been sorted out and he is making some good stuff now. That said, with the other options I have and the non-resizing interfaces they don't get much use on my end either. If I didn't have a collection of plugins with reasonable authorization systems/amounts then I'd certainly be all over the AO freebies.

That doesn't sound right at all. For the freebies, I just went to this URL: And then for any that are availalbe you click the red button, takes you to a page where there is a drop down. After you make your selectiosn and confirm, go back to the Install Manager and Custom Shop and "refresh purchases" in the upper right: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/userarea/promotions/ The only time I had to enter a serial number was during the Buy In itself.

Yeah, except for the fact the post has nothing to do with a deal and started a thread about it, instead of a comment related to the actual instacomposer deal thread that is alive and well. We bring out the pitch forks for duplicate deal threads, this kind of thread shouldn't be encouraged in this area - but respectivly moved elsewhere. While it is a sub forum under the Coffee House, many of us have complained about that status and placement. King Larry and his loyal followers should have their own section.

You can eliminate Tape 440 and 99 I think. I think you will find the other two are the highest recommended options. 24 for cleaner with 80 for the bit more character - take em for a spin, I really do like the sound of both, but hate the CPU hit. Not a huge fan of the X-Distortion, but if working all in the AT platform nice to have on hand, personally expected a little more "boutique" offerings in this one that just revised versions of classics where you can buy the real thing for less than $50. But X-Space seems to be the only real option for high grade reverb within the loop in Amplitube, and to a lesser extent I'd say X-Time is the same sort of play. (though I have to say, for the in the room style reverb, adding Sunset Sound Reverb after AT5 sounds amazing - and I'd be using X-Space more for "effect" reverb. I do like X-Vibe to, but might feel redundant (though they absolutly sound different) as you do get a quite of few Modulation effects if you own AT5 with a bunch of the expansions already. I fully agree, you are in a tough choice spot.