Marshall

Your post finally persuaded me to buy Scaler 2 (didn’t own version 1).I have thought about it for a long time! I have also bought the Producer’s guide to Scaler 2 video series which gives step by step guidance in an extremely clear manner. Just as when I got EZKeys years ago, I’m hopeful Scaler will bring massive benefits to my songwriting! Only an hour in and it seems awesome ?

Nice thought - best wishes to you all from Sunny Spain ?? Here’s to a massive improvement in 2021!

Caved in and bought Intensity at $119, plus a Halls of Fame freebie. Only been thinking about buying this for two and a half years! I spent a few hours with it last night. I like it on individual tracks that need to be FEATURED in the mix. Just as subtle volume automations can bring a static mix to life - you know, touch the acoustic guitar fader up for a second or two in between vocal phrases - I can imagine Intensity being used in a similar way. Overdoing it would be very easy, but to be honest, your ears soon tell you to back off! So, don’t use it on every track so that they are all competing, and just a 10 to 20% nudge on the Intensity ball is usually all that’s needed. Not had a serious go at using it for mastering yet. I’m pretty comfortable with Ozone Advance 8 in getting what I need, and my initial impression is that I could not get Intensity to match my results with Ozone. But, rather than replacing it, I think Intensity could be part of the mastering chain, perhaps replacing the Exciter module within Ozone. Some of the Halls stereo reverbs sound great. I know, who needs another verb? but it was free! Initial tests suggest it matches beautifully with some guitar sims - really brought Nembrini’s SoundMaster to life, far more so than Nembrini’s own reverb for example.

Equally excellent, as are the violin and the flute. Clarinet and Oboe not too shabby either ?

It really is very good. I’ve owned it since the day it came out, and use a “Y” cable to get stereo audio from my iPad into my desktop DAW.

Thanks for your thoughts on Intensity. Unfortunately I cannot demo it again - how effective have you found it on individual instrument tracks, if indeed you’ve used it in that way?

That’s still a decent discount. Like many others here, I swapped from Sonar Platinum to Studio One Pro at this time of year three years ago - I’ll never forget! Kept up to date until V5 came out, but I’m really struggling to justify the upgrade from 4 to 5 as I don’t think there is a single feature which will help my workflow, let alone help me make better music. Aside from the fact I like my DAW to be bang up to date I can’t justify it.

Yes, I guess all software developers have their own marketing approach. Informed potential buyers such as us lot on the forum won’t ever go near a Nembrini product at full price - wait five minutes and there will be a sale. But the uninitiated will buy at full price sometimes. I’m not sure what the right strategy is.

Two years ago I downloaded the trial and didn’t buy. I thought “I can do all this and more with Ozone 8 Advanced”. A lot of the online review demonstrations seem to be EDM oriented which is no interest to me, so I wonder about its effectiveness on traditional instruments and mixes/ masters thereof. So, I’m thinking I won’t buy, but I’d be interested in views from any established Intensity users, especially if you have tried it compared to more traditional mastering approaches.

Absolute must have for anyone working with harmonies IMHO.

This does sound fun. The demos are sufficiently different to what I already own...yeah, think I’ll jump on this one!

Understated but oozes class. Video works really well too!

I emailed Nembrini with a couple of questions and got this back: “...we will do a pro version with more features and no advert on it, and inport/export presets for use with our Plugin Rig” Just in case others are interested! With the existing version, I love the “show all plugins” option and the ability to resize them all to fit your screen.

Should have known!

Very useful for anyone with Nembrini products! And zero money... Nembrini Standalone

Just one for me - The Neural DSP Plini guitar amp sim at 50% off. Just completed this song for my next album, with the Plini used for the delay laden cleans throughout, and for the solo at 3:02

Sure is annoying. I’m really, ahem, “rather cross” with the way Studio customers have been treated by Celemony. However, I am NOT going to upgrade until they bring the price down, I can live without it!

Tempting, but honestly don’t need it!

Celemony have confirmed on FB there is no BF deal for Editor or Studio (no reason given) and it’s gone down badly...

Hmph.. Where's the deal on Studio 4 to 5 upgrade? Oh well, I don't "need" it ?

Neural DSP Plini at 50% off. It’s all over my new song too, delay laden spacey cleans and all out soaring lead tones. Very happy.

I “need” absolutely no software. Zilch! I wonder how many others on here feel the same? There is only a “want” category for most of us I’m willing to bet...have fun everyone!

Yeah, that’s no incentive for me. I’d planned Studio 4 to 5 as a BF purchase, but not at that price.

I have jumped on the Plini. Funny, tried it out when it first came out and let the 14 day trial lapse, no idea why. Like others have said, it’s very versatile but also it gives me inspiration with new sounds I don’t get with S Gear. It’s a great plugin and I’d like to record a song around it now. That’s me set for the weekend!

+1 - both the Marshall sim and SoundMaster are great for a quick iOS tone.