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Well, with good digital EQs I feel it's difficult to make it sound bad, or ruin the sound. It's like simply naturally boosting certain frequency rather than making it sound harsh or noisy. With most of 32 FP EQs, you could have more noise depending on the input level. Also when you boost, the noise is boosted as well. Also the filter structure apparently does matter to the sound and the transient, and that's probably one of the reasons why I often felt some EQs were better (more natural, smooth transparent, etc.) than others. Three Body Tech has a blog artcle explaining these things, so you can hear the difference of filter structures as they provide some demos. https://blog.threebodytech.com/127.html One day I was demoing various EQ plugins and I was really surprised how good prime EQ was. So, maybe you can demo Prime EQ or Kirchhoff EQ against Pro Q and maybe, probably you can feel the difference as well like I did.

I have MdynamicEQ and their free EQ. Functionality wise, I do like MdynamicEQ and I use it on every project on drums for harmonic dynamic EQ. I boost consonants of the key of the song, or attenuate dissonances dynamically. It's like tuning the drum set, like let's say you tune it to G and then enhancing frequencies of G, the multiplication of 49hz for kick, or 196hz for snare. I can easily add harmonics with Melda EQ. MdynamicEQ is an indispensable tool for me but I don't really use dynamic EQ for mastering. I used to use EQ and multiband compression of Ozone. Kirchhoff EQ is like a lip off of Pro Q in terms of the GUI, so adding high pass and low pass can be as easy as Pro Q. Grabing peaking frequency is also easy. For mastering, LP10 by DDMF might be one of the most transparent EQ plugins out there as well, at least in the past, although it crashes on cakewalk so you need a wrapper plugin to load it, such as maybe element or mini modular host. I have CM Version of LP 10 and I have used it in the past. Edit. I actually have used MdynamicEQ on mastering to make the drum sounds stronger. But I don't necessarily think it's a transparent EQ. So I don't know if it's great for mastering. I haven't really used other dynamic EQ plugins on mastering. But as I have Kirchhoff and Ozone 9 dynamic EQ now, I might first try them over MdynamicEQ. But to be honest I don't know.

Well, that's not about installing 32 bit vs 64 bit plugin. I'm talking about 32 bit as in floating point vs 64 bit as in double precision. It's about how the plugin handle the incoming audio data and out put the audio. Pro Q, according to a forum comments, uses 64 bit DP calculation internally but the output is 32bit data.

I have this EQ and sound wise IMO Kirchhoff EQ is better than Pro Q 3. I actually don't really think the sound of pro Q is that good. Functionality and dynamic EQ function of Pro Q is great, so without a doubt it's great EQ. However, Pro Q's output is 32 bit floating point and you actually get low level noise. You can test it with sine wave and use Span analyzer with widest dynamic range so you can actually see very low level noise when you use Pro Q. It's possibly a transaction noise, which Kirchhoff EQ doesn't have. First I was using Pro Q and then found Prime EQ and bought it but then found Kirchhoff EQ and I felt Kirchhoff EQ was even better and bought it. The sound different is probably neglegible at the end of the day and it could depend on the source, but if I have to compare, Kirchhoff EQ sounds marginally better to my ear. The thing I like about this EQ is that it has various EQ types. It doesn't have the non linearity of the hardware but it's interesting to try different kinds of EQ types. Pro Q doesn't have this. I saw other YouTuber's video where he mentioned that he was asked to review the product. That said, I also think this EQ is one of the best digital EQ out there. I haven't experimented the dynamic EQ function that much but as you can set attack and release, it's more complicated than Pro Q.

I was thinking about grabbing MC76 and DSM and wasn't that interested in newer and expensive tiers, but at this price, I might want plugins that usually don't go to $39 or lower. Do you guys have any favorite plungs you actually use? I probably don't need Lindell's API because I already have waves API and acustica Pink

It'd be great if $25 monthly voucher can be used for monthly payment for the $29 subscription. I'd be buying a tuner every month...

I don't own it but Superior Drummer should be the best in terms of sound quality among other big names. Not sure if it's easy to use but it's more professional I think. I see many people mention SD as the best on other forum(GS). I own Addictive Drums but if I ever wanted to buy something better then I'd be buying Superior Drummer. However, great drum sound can be achieved with fx like compressor and stuff unless original samples are really bad, so I am okay with what I have and I think there is nothing wrong with BFD. And raw sound from SD might not be magically good. And also replacing the drum sound on mixing stage is not so uncommon so as long as you have good samples, the original drum VST doesn't really matter. I heard Additive Drums doesn't not sound great in a mix or after some processes or it's kinda hard to get the right sound in a mix while with Superior Drummer you can get great sound in a mix. I also think so for AD. Other option can be drum libraries for Kontakt. Kontakt isn't necessarily meant for Drums unlike other ones I mentioned, but I'm sure there are great quality libraries and often people, including me, forget how great these are.

I have heard of good things about NoiseAsh plugins. So, even though I already have other pultec EQs, I feel like, ok maybe this one might be better than, say, IK one, so if I get this one, I wouldn't need another pultec... Well, at least that's what I thought when I got PSP pultec...

For the people in the US, it's one of the greatest time. The currency here has gotten cheap as heck and it is the worst time ever in the last decade to buy plugins now... Back then everything was 30% off compared to the price now... Well, I have amethyst and the sound of preamp is super sweet...

I purchased bitwig upgrade license a while ago but haven't activated it yet. XO looks funcy and they don't usually do this do they? but I don't know if I want to upgrade now. I actually liked vision 1 but they changed the UI a bit and I don't know if I am enjoying my v3 that much. I don't really use complicated tools added over years. Maybe I should wait until v5?

This happens to me as well and I feel this has something to do with other plugins. It could be latency related of other plugins or something. And yes, if it's the first plugin it doesn't crash. Anyways, the workaround is, open synth rack view and detach it to a window so that you can turnoff other synth. Deactivate the other synth such as SI E-piano, perhaps you might need to deactivate all, and then insert TTS, and then play some notes to make sure it doesn't crash, then reactivate other instruments. You might need to disable all FX by just pressing global bypass too but maybe you don't have to. It's tedious but it works for me at least.

Hmm...What about odin?

What a strategy! But I already have it and this is my favorite reverb.

I am glad to hear he is safe! I was wondering how he was doing. The last time I watched his video I realized his studio was in Ukraine. He has a lot of videos about Cakewalk by Bandlab. Some people might've seen his videos before like me.

I have a Crossgrade license for Cubase that I haven't activated yet. I bought the license more than a year ago. I hope I can use the latest version of Cubase when I register it...

I have version 1. When version 2 was released, I thought it would get really cheap later. I didn't buy it when they said upgrade discount, $49 deals or something crazy. Now the time has come, finally. So I bought it. But maybe, the give it for free in the future.... because they often do that.

Thanks for posting this because I am also curious. I have also watched his videos before and I was wondering how Cakewalk by Bandlab is regarding these topics discussed in his DAW comparison videos. His videos were very interesting to watch. Pan, Automation, Jitter, etc... I felt for the most of topics he covered where CbB is also included in the comparison, Cakewalk by Bandlab was doing well.

If you go to the plugin browser and select a plugin then the information is shown on the bottom of the browser window, well if it's docked it's not a window but you can see the information like "VST3 stereo double precision" For example, some Cakewalk plugins and Voxengo plugins like span are double precision, also TDR stuff, DMG, Sonimus, and TBProAudio are usually double precision iirc. I'm away from my computer so maybe I can post a screenshot later.

Yeah my bad, you're right. They are not pinned by default, and I wish they were, too.

I tried to use other DAWs but other DAW lacks some features I want. I have tried Studio One, Bitwig Studio, and FL studio. I mainly use Bigwig and CbB these days. I really like Dim solo and exclusive solo features but some other DAWs just don't have them. I always use Dim solo. It's really nice to hear it in context when I need to do some frequency adjustment. Exclusive solo is great when I need to compare sounds or switch to a different track. Studio One is great but the plugin windows is set to pin on default and you can't change the default setting. I always want my VU meter plugin or analyzer to be opened with other plugins so I need click a button to pin each time...They didn't have dim solo. I think they now have it on newer versions though. Bitwig Studio is really great but it doesn't have Dim solo nor exclusive solo. It's great for production. I really like this DAW. FL studio was not for me because I prefer linear workflow rather than making many patterns. in recent version they added linear workflow though. I think CbB is especially great for mixing. I can bypass effects for each track or entirely. I can route tracks however I want. These things are handy, too. I generally like the general interface too. I might want to give other DAWs another try in the future and I do miss some other features on other DAWs but so far CbB works for me for mixing and other general things. CbB can show the plugin information about bit depth. Some plugins are double precision and I can see if a plugin in is double precision or float point. I like this, too.

3-1 - locate your mouse to "output" 3-2 - click to open menu 3-3 - locate your mouse to New Aux track 3-4 - click it Yeah, only one extra step I guess.

I've never used Cubase but In Bitwig Studio -Select tracks -Control + G And it's done. It creates a new folder that works as an aux track fed from selected tracks' outputs. This is much faster than selecting tracks and assigning them to a new aux track on right click menu.

I bought Cubase years ago. Never registered nor activated it because I didn't have the dongle. Nice. I won't be register it any time soon though.

I checked the price yesterday and I remember the price for Amethyst and Ivory and they are the same at least. I'll be grabbing ivory for €60

Ahgggh I should've bought TDR plugins early so I could get the Melda plugin. I already have DS years ago and never used it.