Recent content by hct

Yes, "normal" prices are too expensive in my opinion as well. But I've picked up several plugins in sales and ... Yes, I know that Echoes looses in comparison with UAD EP-34 (in Echoplex emulation) and the same is true for Pultec emulations, but as UAD is far too expensive for me anyway, for me...

I know that Nomad Factory plugins are not (in general) the ones everyone and their dogs love, but there are some really useful plugins in their range nevertheless. And I think that now there is a good (not sure whether it's a right word to use here) reason to pick up some...

It's a iLok1 and MacOSX problem, not AU vs VST - ie there is no way to use iLok1 and 64bit plugin on MacOSX. Trigger (and FG-X for example as well) both use iLok1.

I switched to Studio One more than year ago from Logic Pro. I was getting tired to hope that Apple will fix looooongstanding bugs. Now, back to the original post ... - Stable here on OSX 10.8. I've had crashes, but tracked it down to Slate VCC VST's. Using AU version now and it's been rock...

I'm just looking at my options (at the far east edge of the EU, these are are even more limited than in UK) as well. Anyone has experience with these - http://www.thomann.de/gb/pyramid_egitarre_saiten.htm?

No doubt, but that's not what I asked for.

I happen to have Music Man John Petrucci signature with piezo option. Never really used it, but now I have projects in sight where I could find it useful. Therefore I'd like to hear any tips and hints to make a sound more acoustic alike. Any hints from ITB effect/etc tips to hardware would be...

Absolutely essential plugins come with your DAW :).

It really depends in material IMHO and the only real way is to try it out yourself. A little detail though, but annoys me a lot - there is still no 64bit FG-X for MacOSX.

Depends what you consider "nearly". The speed of wave propagation varies quite greatly depending of (mainly) insulator used in cables and may be only half of speed of light in vacuum. Not that it matters much in current discussion, but it's important to know. On more "serious" topic ...

Tried some time ago. Yes, the new installation procedure is ... cough. Another licence/download/etc manager preventing offline installations etc. Sorry, XLN. About limitations of the free grand - as far as I remember the free edition has only four octaves which makes it pretty useless for any...

Proximity is really cool, as is PTEq-1a. For mac users it's pretty much all. But hey, by looking at entries in previous challenges it's already two more cool plugins than expected! :) Btw, there is a great Proximity overview video available - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXP8ZEl4iQ.

Slate FG-X isn't 64bit either on Mac. The problem is an iLok1 which doesn't support 64bit plugs on Mac. It does in Windows, but support is somewhat buggy in there as well. Steven promised to release iLok2 versions of FG-X and Trigger at some point, but nothing so far. Steven, can your older...

Looking forward to it of course, but I'll remain a little bit skeptical for now. There is a lot of such apps around - most of them are general purpose, but there is some niche stuff as well, but they all share a single common issue - database quality issue. Even the ones with best maintenance...

And Chrome users can install Stylebot extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha No browser restart needed and quick usage tutorial is there in the Chrome webstore as well ;).