Brian Walton

While I've got some really powerful EQs, might just have to try this one. I like having the "note" of the frequently so prominent and in an uncluttered way in the UI. Many others the text is really small hidden away having to look somewhere else on the screen.

You get unlimited downloads with the SE package too, not just MAX.

Well I'm not 100% sure that was even for modeling. But yes, under some menus there is some sort of confusing capture tech in a number of melda plugins, but honestly I do have the impression that it is designed to capture everything yet. TONEX capture tech is certainly beyond just an eq curve, etc. There are only a few IKM captures I really like (some of which are Paid like the Dumble Legends stuff). I could easily go with only SE - but would also be buying 3 party packs. Out of 150 presets I've loaded on the pedal, I think 3-4 of them were part of the IKM included packs. The rest are either paid or my own captures. I started with SE, but only went up to MAX because it came with the two TONEX "big" pedals I bought. Also got the ToneX One. Honestly my suggested entry point would be buy the Tonex One on discount as that gives you both the SE software as well as a physical pedal.

My point above is about all other amp sims are now no longer used because I have TONEX. I also have Melda Complete. I messed around with the experimental capture thing and couldn't get anything worthwhile out of it (yet). That said - it is going to take quite a bit for it to compete with TONEX due to the hardware/software integration. The only value of a Melda offering is the added effects in the same UI that are very deep. I do hope they come up with something that captures both accurately and efficiently. TONEX has some challenges with the amount of processing power it takes to grab advanced captures. A high spec GPU equipped machine can still take around an hour for a single capture unless you have a super expensive recent machine.

My personal opinion: TONEX is literally their only must have product. Everything else they make there is at least a good alternative to. Yes, I own virtually all of it - other than a few things they released in the last year (like another reverb, another tape emu, etc). Not that they don't make other good things, but TONEX is the only product they offer that is significantly better than the alternatives. Granted, I also think you have to buy a bunch of 3rd party packs or capture your own favorite gear to get the real value out of it.

If I was in the marketing dept at a company like Melda, I'd certainly have a field day pointing out once again - free updates and support for life as well as the list of actual updates that provide value to the end user.

I think that was also the intent of the other thread. As it is favorite VSTs not just VSTs that happen to be free and may or may not be worth your time

Sometimes you may want want the "center" to be at different frequencies for different sources. Yes, if you want everything above 100Hz to be panned, Mongoose on the master is fine. If you want control over the cross over on different things, then pan knob adds value. It can also change the pan law for each source where on the master you would be stuck with one way. For me the value is being able to have cross over at 100hz for one thing, and then another at 600Hz, etc

The more I've used it the more annoyed I've become that DAWS don't have the option to turn on that feature set within the DAW itself. Also disappointed that BOZ never released a Pro Channel version of it. Adding it in the fx bin of any DAW is certainly not the best workflow.

I own both the Free one and the Paid MB one. I think the control differences are far smaller than you are implying for most purposes. The ability to load 2 IRs in the MB version and even have the multi-band on them is certainly useful sometimes, but the knobs to tweak are very close to the same. Things like, EQ, Saturation, and Modulation are items that can be handled by another tool. A feature such as time (related to decay) while this is something we are used to in algo verbs, typically has a detrimental effect on an impulse. As for the libraries included, a large portion of the time, I'm importing 3rd party IRs. The efficiency and sound quality of Melda's offering make it a great option. I haven't used Convology in a while (no longer installed on my machine), but I thought I remember it being more CPU hungry than Melda when I tried it.

I wouldn't trust any consumer drive for 10 years. But it is possible it will last that long. I'd always recommend at least a backup copy of anything important when using a format that doesn't have redundancy built in.

This time last year they did 65% off all bundles and then first time buyers could get 20% off after the discount and the $10 sign up bonus was the best I remember in recent memory. For some reason I was thinking it got in the $550 range close to when they started offering it many years ago with some sales Best deal ever was submitting guitar recording for credits plus the sale at the same time last year. If you owned recording equipment and a bunch of guitars / amps could easily get it free in a weekend worth of recording.

Yep, I have MConvolutionMB - which seems pretty good at the convolution thing. But this was an interesting situation that I've never seen before with an email field not only that short but had problems viewing and copy and pasting into it with two different browsers.

Other option appears to be using a shorter email address. Agree this is crazy.

Sadly the transfer fee is ~$450 for complete.

Lots of non-millionaires also drive Toyota and Honda, and many non millionaires also drive luxury vehicles. The point I'm making is that studies have shown despite the normal person expecting the rich to drive high end cars. The majority of millionaires don't invest heavily in depreciating assets and do in fact drive Honda and Toyota and hold on to these vehicles for a long time. Judging someones net worth by the car they drive may not have the results you would expect. As for Craig's comments, yeah I would not expect DAW worker bees to have ridiculous income but also no the source is not a survey of income me above $250k a year...that also isn't an indicator of millionaire status. Only a percentage of net worth individuals make that kind of yearly income. The majority do not.

Fact check. The majority of millionaires drive Toyota and Honda not luxury vehicles and usually older ones.

Don't know a single person that uses Audition that isn't paying for the Adobe subscription related to other products. i.e. it is the Premiere Pro crowd that uses Audition as a by product instead of subscribing to Audition to only have a DAW.

This is perhaps the best resource with some threads here https://forum.scalerplugin.com/t/how-close-are-we-to-scaler-3/15297 https://forum.scalerplugin.com/t/is-scaler-3-0-available-as-a-standalone-version/15351/2

It has tool for people with more than 1 yr of music theory. Yes it can offer chord sub suggestions. Not sure about the demo but plenty of YouTube videos show what it can do.

If it was me, I'd buy 2 on the deep discount. That way you have a great program at all time low price. Who knows if Scaler 3 will have the revolutionary features at the premium price. No way the intro price is going to be $30 for a new user. We don't know what they will do this time, but as per my story below the v1 to v2 upgrade special was a wash between buying the EOL discount + upgrade and the "intro" price of v2.

I think a lot of us know how business works and are disappointed they didn't take on the liability of the company when purchased and took the easy way out now they decided a for profit strategy after indicating it wasn't a money play when they took over and they were committed to a "free model". For some of us the lifetime was very short lived before the announcement they were ceasing operations. As for the analogy, well they also kept on the mechanics that made the software, so it sure felt like a change of ownership of the business. And not just someone buying the car. Hopefully they are taking the time to add in some AI feature integration so it all heads towards the logical conclusion where we no longer make or mix the music. ?The delay is confusing given how long this has been in the works. I do think they have a tough sell given mostly a UI overhaul which isn't themeable

Or just avoid them all together. ?

Yeah, this is also what they did with Scaler 1. Price drop that that plugin had never seen before and then a few months later Scaler 2 drops (and at a reasonable upgrade costs that basically made it equal to buying the product at either time. I just hope this higher drop doesn't mean a higher upgrade cost.

Daws dont come with Tonex or MSooperlooper.