Nick Blanc

This is my question too.

I've heard good things about their plugins, but still, a stereo tool for around €100? Rough maths: Of course the 119.99 voucher places it just ($5) out of reach for the 75 monthly voucher. Which would lead to adding another product, which is an extra 30 (Amek 9099) with currect sale prices. Which would make the total 150, which was the voucherless price in the first place. Subtracting a 75 voucher leaves me with a 90 purchase including tax for CenterOne and Amek 9099. The usual black friday discount for Leapwing is 40% off, so still 120 for 1 plugin. So 120 for 1 plugin or 90 for 2...this seems like a good deal.

*Insert my usual rant about $1000 mics in this age of overprocessing every signal and insert the usual rebuttal by someone who knows more about mics than me.

Interested, The intro clip didn't do much for me, but maybe the walkthrough will persuade me. I like their plugins. In any case I will wait until Black Friday.

Aside from Smasher I don't have much experience with Pulsar. It all seems nice but rather expensive. I already have Acustica Magenta and I believe Native Instruments' Passive EQ is also modeled on the Manley (it sure looks like it) and is developed by Softube. The latter doesn't score that high on the 'accurate emulations' chart, but I like the sound. Haven't had the change to try Magenta that much. I'm interested in the reviews wether or not it is something for my wishlist.

Most of the time I sidechain with a volume envelope like Ducker, LFO tool or Kickstart. It gives me much more control and finetuning. I would say that 90% of the time I would like the sidechain effect to continue even when the kick is gone. So setting it up with a compressor is just more work, it gives volume jumps if you mess up the release, fixed ratios don't give you the control of an envelope and it requires me to use a volume envelope tool anyway. That being said, a must have for some sidechaining jobs is the ability to chose your spectrum or at least a LPF/HPF. Make it dynamic and I will love you forever. Looking at you Trackspacer. ?

Is this some kind of deal I'm too Dutch to get? ? Following your link I can select a $35 coupon. When I log in to my (Dutch) Amazon account, there is no such option.

I'm in the Netherlands and I was about to handdeliver a now molten box of fancy chocolates, when I received a message from my parents that they have a lovely view from their campsite in the south of France.

Yes, one my favorites for that purpose.

Very different thing imo. Yes there is some overlap, but TRK-01 is mainly for combining a kick and bass and pattern making. With the emphasis on 'combining'. That is its strength. Its weakness is imo that is has that very special Native Instruments techno sound. Which is not really to my taste. Also, you have to program patterns which you have to trigger which is not my workflow. There is no 'off' switch, you have to program an empty pattern. Also, no export.

I was wrong, I don't have something like this, at least not in 1 plugin. It seems to be a streamlined lovechild between Kick 2 and D16's Punchbox. The drag drop / import own samples and wav export is great. I'm buying. I'm a sucker for kicks and drums / beats.

I don't know, I feel I have something like this with Sonic Academy / Nicky Romero Kick 2. But seeing Björn Torwellen is involved is very intertesting.

I have an Abyss soundset from them. Great stuff.

Powerhouse on drums.

I have all the new synths. So now what? Do I need to install Syntronik 2 CS and then the content? And does anyone have suggestions which V1 to upgrade to V2?

And the winner is: https://www.zenhiser.com/collections/house/products/drum-rolls-and-fills-club

I thought this was going to be the introduction of a very poorly executed orchestral drum library.

I must confess I was a bit confused, but I think I get it now. Seems like Syntronik 1 is just that and it stays that way. Syntronik 2 adds presets and features which are not available when you stay on the S1 plan. Additionally S2 adds extra synths. I have the entire S1 collection. So I could buy-in, get the new synths and if there are any slots left I could upgrade the S1 ones I want.

As it now stands, I'm not buying from them again.

Between the €10 Softube transient designer and Spiff, does the Oeksound justify an extra €89?

I feel like I can repeat myself forever: "Oh come on, this HAS to be a joke. Some april fools thing." Who in their right mind would pay 1000 for a stand? Yes it is a pro stand. But still. You could buy a Moog Grandmother for that money. And I'm willing to bet the Moog sounds a lot better than an Apple pro stand. Yes yes, it is a PRO stand. And the Grandmother is not a PRO grandmother. But still...

Oh come on, this HAS to be a joke. Some april fools thing.

Yes! Those are very good points. No more 'pumping' of compressors or limiters. You can use them for some slight glueing, just the harmonics or an extra lock on the door to ensure you don't go over 0dB. You shoulnd't really go over 0 when clipping. But some algorythms allow for intersample peaks above 0 when using oversampling, so that isn't always the best option. I think StandardCLIP has this, so I wouln't use that in oversample mode as your final insert on the master bus. Great insight about the EQ's. Hadn't even thought about it that much but it is inherent. Mixing becomes much easier. I know that I extracted the max out of my sounds this way in terms of volume. So at the end I just have to gain the tracks down to fit them in the mix. I've been experimenting with clipping to -6 or -4 so it would leave me headroom to practice mastering. Very easy to do. Just set the clipping point to thát level, drive your sounds into the clipper and level your mix to taste. Make sure you make your loudest part (most of the time the kick/snare or vocal) your 'anchor' or the benchmark. If you set your anchor at -6, -4 or just at 0, you can mix everything else into it. Fun thing, when you have a break (so no kick/snare) you can push your melodic parts for extra impact. Oh wait, you said that already with your automation remark ? I know that for me, gainstaging was always a problem. I always went too hot, overcorrecting, messing up my mix, having the balance messed up, etc. Setting an anchor, clipping to the max and mixing everything in to the anchor saved my life.

The software installer has been updated, so use the software installer to install software to update the software installer to install software.

I did the Soundwide bundle and added the EXT product (the PSP EMT) and its code and UA Tails. 2 great reverbs for $29.