Anyone got great dx plugins to suggest??I just found.....

darr wrote on 2/8/2001, 10:27 PM

a nice set of plugs with awesome reverb!!
Try ultrafunk.com
Good stuff.Very impressive.I used the demo in a mix and it
was great.
Anyone have any other plugs worth buying?
Tired of the waves pig plugs.Sound great but too much cpu
usage for extensive mixes.
Aboreutum plugs?Tc? Anwida?
Let me know suggestions.Thanx

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Rednroll wrote on 2/9/2001, 12:03 AM

My favorite reverb plug is (TC Works)TC Native Reverb,
sounds like a lexicon PCM-90. It does take some CPU
though, not as much as the Waves cpu hogs though. Other
very good plugins that don't take a lot of CPU is the
Timeworks plugins. Timeworks mastering EQ and the 4080L
reverb are my favorites, along with their Mastering
compressor. The cakewalk FX2 reverb is very cool also, and
I'm not too endorcing on cakewalk products. DSP FX's
plugins are good also, but tend to be CPU hogs like waves
and the user interface are less than desirable.

darr wrote on 2/9/2001, 9:31 AM

Thanx rednoll.
Try the ultrafunk plugs once and let me know your
opinions.Itried on a drum kit and was quite amazed at the
results as well as my clients face.The wide options really
makes snares come to life.

acegrube wrote on 2/9/2001, 12:48 PM

Thanks for the tip on Ultrafunk! I downloaded their reverb
and compression. IMHO the reverb is a great value for $50,
very nice sounding, doesnt' seem to have the high end trash
that a lot of relatively inexpensive reverbs do.

I had some trouble working the compression in manual mode;
very difficult to make precise adjustments in the demo
version because of that random bypass thing going on, but
found some nice presets in the 'vintage' category. Are you
using their comp? If so how do you like it. I will most
definitely buy the 'verb, but might spring for the whole
pkg. Anyone know of any comprable packages in price and
features I should check out before laying out 2 bills
(that'a a lot of jack for my humble little budget, I'm
still saving for a good studio condensor mike)

I'm relatively green at this pro-audio stuff, not a pro,
just working on my own songs on eves. and weekends, but
tend to know what I like when I hear it. I also don't have
the budget to go out and buy Waves gold package so I'm real
interested in hearing about economical, but good sounding
components like this.

Thanks again,
Erich Gruber

darr wrote on 2/9/2001, 11:01 PM

The ultrfunk stuff is good isn't it?
I like it alot too.I will be honest and say i have been
using waves for ever but am now inpressed with sound and cpu
{less} usage of the ultrafunk plugs.Just seem to be very
realistic sounding.Waves took me alot more time to zero in
to the feel of a real environment.
Any other ideas out there?

PipelineAudio wrote on 2/10/2001, 12:39 AM

Hyperprism makes a quick and easy MS decoder, if you are
into those kind of mic techniques( I use it for drum
overheads), and a good bass maximizer thingy. The rest of
the plugs are ok, nothing snazzy on the user interface, but
they certainly do like they say!
The new version of warmtone and spincycle by AIPL KICK
ASS!!! usually I die laughing at these tape recorder/ tube
emulators, but these are great. The spincycle is a very
convincing leslie emulator, complete with almost sort of
believable distortion.

karlc wrote on 2/10/2001, 11:27 AM

We use very few plug-ins, but Aaron turned me on to
Drummagog in this forum a couple of months ago. After
rescuing a few kick and snare tracks with it, I am
impressed. "Rendering" a badly recorded kick or snare track
with Vegas, and with Drummagog in the FX chain, can be real
handy for later triggering purposes also.

Nice tool to have in your arsenal of tricks.

KAC ...

darr wrote on 2/10/2001, 7:55 PM

I agree with both you and Aaron.
It is a great tool to have.Well worth the price!!!Cheap.
How bout Reverbs?

PipelineAudio wrote on 2/11/2001, 9:33 PM

Dont forget the totally insane stuff you can pull with
drummagog, you can use any sample you want as a substitute.

Sometimes for a snare drum, I made a sample where I
distorted the snare HEAVILY then ran a reverb on it 100%
wet. I record that into drumagog, trigger it with the real
snare. Now the original snare has a nice long tail on it!

acegrube wrote on 2/12/2001, 1:03 PM

Anyone tried the Arboretum stuff? I've read that the
hyper 'verb is supposed to be really good.

Erich

darr wrote on 2/13/2001, 12:57 AM

I tried a test on all the verbs I could get my hands on
from demos to full versions.
My findings are that the Arboretum verb has a cpu usage of
50%!!!!!
OUCH!!
It sounds ok but the ultrafunk and the Anwida sound much
better.
TC natives verb came in first as far as cpu usage{11%}.
It too sounds good.
Waves truverb came in at 25% usage.
Truverb really to me is not acomplete allround verb.
Great for creating rooms though.
I love the L1 ultramaximizer though.{26%}
Has anyone tried the Steinberg master maximiser plugs?
:-)

RobSoul wrote on 2/14/2001, 11:03 AM

Check out http://www.db-audioware.com/ For the price, the
plug-ins are great.

Rob Solberg
Q Sound, Inc.
www.qsoundinc.com

PipelineAudio wrote on 2/14/2001, 12:59 PM

There are a couple of "standard" fx that are missing from
direct-x's vocabulary, although I suppose you could
probably create them with the crazy, wonderful super
powerful Wave Warp plug, anyone tried this?

here are the ones I feel are missing, Ive written every DX
plug builder I could find and no luck so far:

1: A truly functional, working noise gate that includes
BOTH frequency dependant gating AND a look ahead feature;
Waves makes a version of the C1 gate that claims to have
both of these features but it is not implememnted well
enough to be useable. There is one for VST called " VST
dynamics " but will not run unless in cubase 3.7 or higher,
nuendo or wavelab 3 or higher, even with the VST adapter.
Also There is a great one included in Logic Audio Platinum.
Come on manufacturers, this is why your stuff needs to be
tested in the REAL world! Anyone who is messing around with
the Sonic Foundry SDK, I urge you to try and make something
like this!

2: An INTELLIGENT pitch shifter that can do harmonies, ala
Digitech IPS-33b or Eventide ultra harmonizer, the RBC
voice tweaker is close and can do this in some
circumstances, but I mean something with a delay, pan, and
pitch for each voice...at least three voices. And pitch
shift follows the correct notes for the key that its in.