Bruno de Souza Lino

Good riddance. They've been in a steady decline in face of new market offerings and their aggressive behavior of blocking and going after anyone that criticizes them, rather then dealing with it in a professional manner has left a bad taste in the mouths of salespeople and consumers.

I wouldn't put money on Luna in the near or far future. It wasn't made with intent of being a new competitor in the market, but rather a very basic tool made for UAD owners by UAD owners and hopefully will drag new users into their ecosystem.

Didn't your ears tell that it sounded gorgeous before you spotted the phase issue in the meter?

I wouldn't count much on boost clocks. The advertised boost is only for a single core out of the 8 you have. The 4770S boosts lower, but his base frequency is higher. 1 GHz higher.

Good riddance, I say. Mesa had gotten a really bad reputation in the recent years for blocking and going after anyone that criticized their products. If some of you are not aware, there has the infamous Cab Clone incident where Anderton's (who is an authorized Mesa dealer) did a video about the Cab Clone and were honest about it saying they didn't like the product and that it wasn't very good (because it was a piece of crap). What followed was Mesa demanding Anderton's to take the video out and redo it displaying the product in a positive view with a Mesa demonstrator under the threat of removing the store from their list of authorized dealers. Not agreeing with that (Lee never hid the fact that Mesa did this and even posted comments on the new video explaining the situation), they did make the new video with the demonstrator. After that and many criticisms, they released the second version of the Cab Clone which, surprisingly, was made by Two Notes, not Mesa.

I heard a similar argument about harmonics a few years ago on Gearslutz. Sure, some frequencies outside the hearing spectrum can be perceived in other ways. Music is something that was invented and developed as a product to be heard. Not watched, not perceived some other way. So, anything that goes beyond the audible spectrum either way is unnecessary, IMO.

I believe TH3 also has a looper function.

Only issue I am aware with MODO Bass other than the one described by the OP is that the plugin doesn't honor CC 64 properly. Even if you're holding the key or have the note held in the clip, letting go of the sustain pedal or turning CC 64 to 0 will immediately make the note stop ringing.

That's a bit of an oddity. They should. I'd complain to IK about it, considering their statement that all purchases carry over across versions and they were even eager to give people that bought 4 MAX a version 5 with everything during the pre-release period.

Ideally, you should be shooting for a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 as determined here https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#visual-audio-contrast-contrast

I feel like this is is the equivalent to "eating a 1 pound steak versus 100 pieces of shoe leather." The feeling of accomplishment is much greater after eating the shoe leather.

There's a lot of things I'd buy from PA even without the voucher, just discounted but...No money. Can look, but not touch.

Maybe the humanizer settings are a bit too extreme on DrumGizmo.

My mistake. Vintage Channel is on X2. X3 is for Perfect Space, LP 64 EQ and MB as well as Pentagon I.

Oh yes. There are quality differences between speakers, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the notion that all it takes to tell MP3 from WAV is a sufficiently high end playback system. Should I remind you that nobody gave two tosses about Yamaha NS10's until Quincy Jones made a Platinum record using them? Gear quality is not solely tied to how much it costs. You'd be surprised to find boutique hifi speaker systems costing over half a million dollars with up to 25% THD and IM Distortion. That what believing in audio gets you.

Once again, if their ears are so special, why their detection relies on a specific set of conditions to work? As per mixing on 10$ headphones, I wouldn't be surprised to find many people out there doing it. Not everyone has the budget to high end equipment but have a will to make music. Mixing with headphones was almost taboo 10 years ago and now even famous engineers are doing it.

- Better handling of clip fx. The way it's currently set up, you have this teeny tiny rack that lists them and you can easily lose it by clicking somewhere else.

The latest version of Essential removed the Audio to MIDI conversion feature. You need the next version high up for that.

I'd only use the vouchers if you could use them to purchase stuff that's the same price as the voucher itself or less than it.

If the difference depends on a playback system, then I'll argue that knowing the (alleged) quality of the playback system introduces confirmation bias. If those special eared people can detect it, they can detect it no matter what the conditions are. That would be the same as someone with perfect pitch stating they can only accurately tell pitches under certain conditions.

I managed to download the piano plugin and could not get a clean sound out of it. All sounds come out distorted and full of noise no matter how high the samples were. On top of that: - Your website states that the plugins are VST3. They're not. Putting them where VST3 plugins are and scanning them yields no results. - Initially I thought you had to download the plugin and the samples separately, then I was surprised to find the plugin along with the samples in the samples download. What? Not only that, but the dll bundled with the samples has a different name and is detected as a different plugin too. - There are no installation instructions for the samples anywhere. As for the UI: - The UI is very dark and has contrast issues. People that are visually impaired will have a hard time using the plugin. - Many of the buttons are unresponsive when you click on them. When I opened the settings to see if I could fix the audio issues, the plugin would not close it no matter how much I clicked on the button. - The presets section seems to have a cork, as clicking it the first time doesn't load a preset, but rather shows "ScriptLabel1" instead.

Without knowing the exact parameters of your test environment, I highly doubt it. Ethan Winer has some tests on his website for bit rate, dither and so going on for over 10 years and no one has been able to guess the results correctly.

This song was originally meant to be a submission for a song contest hosted by Orchestral Tools with the theme "outside", but I missed the deadline to send it. I don't quite remember what I used for guitar, but the drums are DrumGizmo making use of its humanizing feature with some manual tweaking of velocities and timing, as well as adding things like ghost notes and such. Spectrogram was done with ffmpeg using some pretty large commands that spit out the video with the audio added to it and the effect.

The song sounds nice and has a nice atmosphere to it, but it's a bit too flat IMO. What I mean by that is the volume remains constant throughout the piece even in places where you should be louder or softer. You should consider that rather than just making everything louder. I don't think it's the kind of music that would benefit from having everything with no dynamic range, considering the style. As per the drums, they do sound sequenced. A real drummer, no matter what their name is, will never hit the exact same volume every time. Even when you compress the sound you can hear that. There's also the timing thing. It's impossible for a human being to perfectly lock into a time grid and even some of the drummers lauded for their tight timing will never hit perfectly on time. Granted that my impression might stem from the mix being static and not pushing and pulling. If you're programming drums by hand, getting them to sound realistic manually is some extra work but can be worth it, rather than expecting a plugin to get it right.

I had to complain about it in their forums about their eLicenser expiring my Wavelab license. Eventually, one of the admins gave me a new activation key. The only thing I'd consider if I had extra money would be the 50 EUR upgrade from LE 10.5 to Elements 11.