Brian Walton

Same! The Concrete Limiter (and I'm also missing the PC4K S-Type Comp and expander/gate) would be nice to see as well. Already had the PC2A but think that is a real bounus for new comers.

I started testing it last night as it is one I've been interested in. Effectivly I was scratching the surface doing A/B testing turning the cab sims on and off of PA plugins and comparing that with MCabinet (I didn't go the "MB" route yet as for testing I need to start simple). First impressions were pretty good. But it is interesting how some settings can sound great on one amp when I set it up where I like it, then switch the amp I put in front of it and it sounds like total garbage. Not "it isn't a great fit for that amp" but truly garbage, not like you woudl experience swapping out a cab in the real world. But spending time with one amp, and tweaking MCab, I could certainly get usable sounds out of it without a doubt. The question for me generally speaking is it really going to offer "better" sounds easily across the board and also worth the cost. If it was half off the sale price, I'd call it a no-brainer. At close to $60ish, it is a little pricey IMO. If I was using a hardware modeler that loads IRs, I'd imagine I wouldn't even balk at the price since you can create custom IRs with it. But as someone who only plans to use it in the box with VSTs that already have solid options built into the plugin itself (and a super handy way to preview them).....I'll be doing more testing before pulling the trigger. For an effect like this, having more than a week (duration of the sale) would be helpful. This isn't a plugin I htink you can really come to grips with in a hour.

Early access for 2021-04 is live:

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Haven't used this one yet but Tilt EQs are can be surprisngly powerful and this one looks like it includes many of my favorte "features" that Boz's T-Bone includes (my go to). High/Low Pass to help tame the effect at the extremes. A nice visual representation of the tilt. Mid/Side functionality

I don't remember exact size after install, but it is pretty easily the largest plugin I have that isn't a sample libarary.

They offer a few other freebies with Aquarius. It takes more room than I expected to. I think this is related to the convolution tech they have....and it is also installing multiple plugins the stand alone pre, eq, comp, in addtion to the strip and then double that for the fact they have "real time" versions of all those as well in the package. It does sound quite good though. High on the CPU usage side, but can add a ton of character even just put on the master bus.

I always develop tones from scratch using my guitars , so wasn't sure. Not related to IKM but most virtual guitar rigs I'm always left scratching my head who ran QC to let the presets out the door as representative of a product.

Activation limit = 1 Thanks but pass.

Interface is a lot better now. v4 was pretty dreadful, IMO. Still a bit of a resourse hog compared to say the PA stuff, but much much easier to work with on the UI side and content management than it used to be.

Yes, this feature showed up in v5 Not sure about presets, but if you are just looking for creating a rack of owned gear it is easy now.

Hmm just spent $52 with them yesterday and the bucks offer was $2.5. Doesn't equate 10%

That just doesn't even seem right....I didn't think 5 pages worth of deals had been posted in that kind of time frame. It is been slim pickings over all with a few good ones thrown in.

Yep a few times, with that massive download package. I basically gave up on it. I was perplexed when v12 Berzerk distortion stopped working (and I have mroe than one seat for it). Works on one computer but the other one with multiple installs/uninstalls still doesn't work. v9 hasnt' worked in years on any machine.

Fully agree they should....but they don't. But since I don't have support, my options are uninstall and re-install and that doesn't fix the issues. And I have the problem with more than one computer.

I keep seeing posts about "this problem is fixed in the next release" I wonder when we will see the early access pop up. ?

I have Waves v9, v10, and v12 version plugins that will not work unless I WUP and get support. I don't have this problem with any of the other over 1000 plugins I have, in fact Waves is the only one I've ever had real install and authorization issues with. I do have over 20 WAVES plugins that do still work, but there are some that don't even though they absolutly should. As for paying $19 a week for WUP, that is the most absurd nonsese I can think of. I can get everything PA has for a fraction of that and get to keep a bunch of them. They are better than WAVES in every concievable way. Even when I was under WUP the support was mediocre at best. And frandkly I shouldn't need support, I know my way around computers, if something isn't working it is a product issue.

Will see, that seems to open the door for another potential reset before the end.

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100% agree on the notion of demoing the SPL one. I will say on many Transient designers you will end up killing the tone by trying to de-verb a source in ways the SPL in some scenarios won't. I think the Sonible's Proximity EQ is a good tool for de-verb with more control. And of course Zynaptiq is next level stuff.

Ahh, the Producer days I suppose are the "good old days" then. I do recall the discussion around this fact now when Cakewalk seemed between owners.

I paid for lifetime updates. The previous program didn't have this limitation. It obviously isn't a deal breaker, but it is a step back for those of us that paid hundreds of dollars for this software back in the day. I'm thankful for where it landed, but I also noted this was the one area that isn't "improved" from a customer perspective.

Only thing I'd point out is that doesn't Melda have something like a 20% of retail transfer fee? So many of the standards would be $23 or more for a transfer. TurboComp for example would be about $47.