Brian Walton

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I'm not the poster, but I'm fairly new to them (which I'd argue was a mistake). The retail rates they had made me think, I shouldn't even try this stuff becuase I'll never buy it. I held off for years! It wasn't until last year that I realized how deep the discounts really got...then went crazy. Bought a whole mess of stuff it has helped getting away from some plugin makers that have less than idea authorization schemes and update models. Granted PA isn't the best in the business on that front, but it seems pretty reasonable.

Who can name the model of the Ampeg? Looks a bit like an SVT-CL to me, but not 100% sure.

I do the same. But even with the same settings, I actually have different experiences on different machines with Cakewalk. Once machine clearly scans everything another one seems to only search for new stuff and skims over all the old ones. Haven't figured out why. But I just disable that scan across the board, I know when I install something, then just run a manual scan.

These particular products come with a ProChannel Module/version: (I'd wait for a sale on the Hozer, great EQ, but no EQ plugin is worth $150) https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product/the-hoser-xt/ https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product/10db-bundle/ You can get the whole package here (but again these go on sale - I likley got it for $60-70) https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/product/hoserxt-and-10db-bundle/

I'll say it everytime a deal comes up. Still needs a prochannel version.

Maybe something like this as an alternative (for free)? https://www.auburnsounds.com/blog/2019-08-14_Introducing-Panagement-2.html

Probably becuase your computer is heating up due to excess resources being used. Seriously though sounds great, but unless he made some significant revisions, it is far less CPU efficient than most Tape Emus on the market.

I'm right there with you on that. That has been my #1 realistic wish for a long time. Scaler 2 came along and gave me the generate midi/chord/voicing idea to test out ideas and get a base structure quickly. But this still lacks the obvious "big chord" image in the DAW for when I'm playing over a progression. It boggles my mind this is still lacking. Using those miniscule marker points is tedious and inadequate. Hopefully soon.

Honeslty you can blame the community for not voting for it. A while ago Bandlab asked for feedback on what the community would like to see developed. Chord Track wasn't even a blip on the votes. I've thought that should be a top priority (other than stability) for a long time. It is the one feature that can help noobs make music without haven't to know much of anyting and can be of great use to very experienced users as well if done right. There is been enough chatter about it that I think it is on the roadmap finally. But there are also many different levels and layers as to what a chord track is and can do. Therefore hopefully they just release a chunk at a time as a full featred set that has the entire capabilites of Studio One and Cubase (and perhpas more) is going to be a long journey I'm sure.

A fun over the top plugin for sure. One of their free offerings And lots of respect for the no-nonse authorization/trust system on the paid plugins too.

Appreciate the feedback. I haven't tried it yet, but Reverb has to be one of the harder plugins to make a top teir one. Even iZotope when they were looking around for a developer realized the list of names out there of being at that level was super small. I honestly would have been surprised if this "AI" reverb was mindblowing as it seems to be the developers out of the gate offering. Doing something wild, not too hard but really good transparent algo verb...seems like few are up to the challenge.

Who is going to test it for viruses? ?

I would say yes. Very few of them seem to have multiple eq and compressor options. We have a ton of SSL E or G series but the comps on those are great on limited sources. Waves Omni, Infini strip, and tbaudio CS-5501 are some of the few that really bridge that gap. This new PA one seems to get in that territory too. And maybe eventually we will see $30 or less price point on it making it more desirable. Unlike the insane amount of comps and was on the market. The number of console/channel strips that I'd want to use on basically every source are fairly limited.

I don't have it yet, but I'm mostly intersted in it becuase I watched the Scaler 2 "live" video by Plugin Botique (I think it was yesterday) and if I recall correctly this was the one plugin that the Scaler 2 developer David made for plugin Boutique before he conquored the world with Scaler.

For an effect that is only going to get occassional use, I'd give this a shot instead for free https://www.wavesfactory.com/free-audio-plugins/cassette-transport/

I happened to still have a window up of the checkout process before they shut the site down. I'm not sure it required the payment piece or not:

At least on my system it doesn't seem to recognize all the "important" plugins I'd want to use for something like this. VST3 of all the Plugin Alliance Amps I have. Checked the scan path was correct and just doens't show up after the scan. YMMV.

Not even teaser money....I think Larry posted it just to keep his stats up. ?

I'd demo it. I own almost all his plugins and it is the one I basically don't use. Also consider demoing Tone boosters Baracade 4 at the same time. And if you had Sonar Platinum the Adaptive Limiter.

Yep, big fan of the United Plugins Model on licensing. Not sure I need this particular one, but that model makes me far more likley to buy.

Fully understand, and thus why I indicated you might dive deeper into the ins and outs of how it works if you do.

My initial post say "quality is good enough" it had no bearing on the price. I've used $15K Genelac speakers so I know they can reveal tiny differences in music and the upper frequency specturm, dynamics and detail that no $10 headphone can. I've heard tons of speakers and mixed on over a $250,000 system in a terrible room that didn't sound as good as some cheap studio monitors in a decent room. I also didn't say it was strickly the playback system....it is the playback system and the ears/brain that in combination is able to deciper the difference. The vast majority can't but my argument is that some can and I've done tests that back that up so it isn't just conjecture.

Becuase ears can only hear what is being reproduced via speakers of some type. If you don't think there is a quality differene between sets of speakers, then we are not even talking the same language.

No it doensn't when they can do it a statistacially significant number of times. The issue with quality of playback system is different than perfect pitch detection in that the the differences between the lossy and lossless formats are related to quality of sound reproduction. $10 earbuds do not reveal the same level of sound detail as $15K Genelec Speakers do in a treated room. Lossy compression throws out data in the files and they attempted to do so to minimize the perception of loss, which they have done a very good job of at high bitrate encoding. However outstanding sound reproduction helps to reveal those subtle differences. You think a mixing engeneer can also mix records on $10 headphones? There is a reason why studio monitors are built and sold.