Recabinet 3 - Out Now

LOL... fuck... you found it... :lol:

I wish I had never said that because I spoke WAY too soon... I chalk it up to the kind of excitement and inexperience that has come back to haunt other startup developers cursed with "over promising and under delivering."

Basically, the original plan was to release a freebie Windows/VST IR loader made in SynthMaker, get it out fast (by the time I wrote that stupid post I had a working prototype built that way), and keep iterating the library as the main product... then perhaps evolve into something more like what Recabinet 3 has become later on... but plans changed and I realized that there was no point in doing it that way and putting off more ambitious goals. I wasn't happy being stuck on Windows alone, and SynthMaker was very frustrating and limiting...

Recabinet 3 then evolved into a cross-platform, hard-coded, monster project - the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life, requiring a massive investment of time, money, resources, etc. - essentially re-investing any profits from previous Recabinet versions back into the business to make something better possible.

So, admittedly, yes, I changed my mind. However, a huge amount of the Recabinet user base actually is getting this upgrade free - it's been an insanely popular offer.

If there's any of you who feel burned by what I said last January and bought during the $14.99 sale because of it, I'll be happy to figure out a way to make it up to you, just shoot me a PM. I am a man of my word, but it's impossible for me to adhere to something I NEVER should have promised in the first place, because I'd be screwing over the folks who paid more than double what you guys did.

I'm sure people understand Shane, and I think your pricing scheme is fair.
 
One more happy customer here; works great on PT9.01
and sounds fantastic with all the plugin preamps - although I
can't wait to get a free moment to hook it up to my amps.

At last a controllable, wide array of cab sounds... somebody had to come up with this, great plugin !
 
Awesome ! I like how it looks. And I'm elligible to free upgrade which is awesome considering how difficult current time is for me, budget wise.

Just wanted to be sure : is the authorization possible later with the offer, cause my main production computer is being sent to support because of a hardware crash, and so I will only have it like in 2 weeks, and authorizing on this current computer is useless for me. Does this imply one can only authorize it on only one computer for each keyfile ? Or can we generate a keyfile by computer ?

I hope it won't suck as much CPU as other people claimed, even if the i7 is pretty solid and could handle it anyway. I like seing my project stay under the 30% side even full of VSTi or kefir instances :)
 
Awesome plug in Shane, been waiting for something like this for ages, going to buy it later on today, AU demo works great and uses very little CPU but two things I've noticed are:

Garageband cuts the top of the plug-in so you can't load/save presets, this is a problem with garageband though and not Recabinet because I've seen it before
with other AUs:
screenshot20110120at135.png


In Logic the drop down menus were a little unresponsive at times, when changing cabinets I had to click 2-3- times. Other than that awesome work and congrats on releasing it, I'm going to be using it a lot.
 
I simply can't believe that nobody suffers from the massive CPU load under windows 7...OK, not the newest PC but running Win7 with a Quadcore Q6600 and 4 GB RAM with just ONE instance of Recabinet makes the hole thing absolutely unplayable.

No problems with any other VST, even with dozens of them though...:u-huh:
 
Wanted to mention I tried the demo a few minutes last night with Garageband. I used the AU, with Garageband '11. It seems that the AU is getting cut off like drawnacrol mentioned but also I am seeing issues with preformance. The playback gets really choppy, then stops playing. This is with only 1 track with the plugin. I have a brand new IMac G5 with 8gb of RAM and have not experienced issues like this since getting the machine. I will test in Logic tonight, hopefully I do not see the same issues. Not sure how many people actually use Garageband on these forums, I know its not a 'pro' style DAW, but I tend to do a lot of testing with it as well as recording quick ideas.
 
Wanted to mention I tried the demo a few minutes last night with Garageband. I used the AU, with Garageband '11. It seems that the AU is getting cut off like drawnacrol mentioned but also I am seeing issues with preformance. The playback gets really choppy, then stops playing. This is with only 1 track with the plugin. I have a brand new IMac G5 with 8gb of RAM and have not experienced issues like this since getting the machine. I will test in Logic tonight, hopefully I do not see the same issues. Not sure how many people actually use Garageband on these forums, I know its not a 'pro' style DAW, but I tend to do a lot of testing with it as well as recording quick ideas.

There's no such thing as a "brand new iMac G5" and we're not supporting PowerPC architecture. It's a bit of a minor miracle it works for you at all actually. Sorry, we are considering PowerPC support but haven't reached a final decision about it yet.

PS - we did most of our interim build tests with GarageBand (because it loads faster than most DAWs.)
 
Awesome plug in Shane, been waiting for something like this for ages, going to buy it later on today, AU demo works great and uses very little CPU but two things I've noticed are:

Garageband cuts the top of the plug-in so you can't load/save presets, this is a problem with garageband though and not Recabinet because I've seen it before
with other AUs:
screenshot20110120at135.png


In Logic the drop down menus were a little unresponsive at times, when changing cabinets I had to click 2-3- times. Other than that awesome work and congrats on releasing it, I'm going to be using it a lot.

We're aware of the menu issues in various hosts and we're working on it. As for the issue in your screen shot - maybe try hiding your dock? It looks like GB is trying to work within the screen real estate available.
 
I'm loving it Shane!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/425433/MP3/recabinet 3 demo.mp3

BTW: This is a CPU killer, can't run more than 1 instance in Reaper (W7 Dual core 3GB RAM...) without artifacts at max latency. Not that it's a problem of the plugin, cuz my pc sux.

We've downgraded the Windows version to "public beta" status for now, because of the CPU issues, really sorry about that and we'll fix it ASAP!

That demo sounds killer!
 
Awesome Shane good job on this!! I've just stared playing with it and love Br00tal 2. Anyway I could get this preset for my Axefx? I'm using the axe now as the amp and running this preset, its sounds great! In the future it would be great to be able mix and match in recab then export the end result in axefx format.
 
There's no such thing as a "brand new iMac G5" and we're not supporting PowerPC architecture. It's a bit of a minor miracle it works for you at all actually. Sorry, we are considering PowerPC support but haven't reached a final decision about it yet.

PS - we did most of our interim build tests with GarageBand (because it loads faster than most DAWs.)

My bad, I guess they are not called G5's anymore...

http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC508LL/A?mco=MTg1ODA3OTA

Intel Processor, not PowerPC

Doesn't seem to have the same issue in Logic on the same machine. Tested it again in Garageband and had the same problem...
 
The performance on the Windows side isn't as good it is on the Mac side at the moment. A performance update patch for Windows will be released in the coming weeks to address this and put things on even footing. In the mean time, here's a few quick tips:

  • 64 bit bridging on Windows might suck with this version. Try the 32 bit version of your DAW.
  • Extremely old hardware/software has not been tested
  • Alpha or pre-release DAW builds are not tested or supported
PS - the Windows/RTAS version is on the way soon as well.

I confirm the performance issue: on my machine I just can't use it. As soon as I activate the plugin, my pc dies... That's strange for sure, I can run several instances of Nebula without a glitch..

My specs:

Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
Reaper 32 bit
Intel Quad duo 2,5 Ghz
8 Gb Ram