Yes, that’s exactly what started this whole thing! It works exactly how they imagine.
I get the free library with the free player. I listen to their pipe organ player and then imagine wanting just one isolated pipe rank of the organ and start searching for samples. I find an appropriate organ and it requires the full version of the player. The pull-you-in-anator is fully functional.
Since I wasn’t really into their stuff at all before this I couldn’t know if $199 was really half off or if that’s their common fake half-off price.
The $125 crossgrade price looks pretty good since owning certain sample sets counts as a crossgrade qual. Their spotlight sample packs are only $99 and some less expensive 3rd party ones qualify too. Basically, you can break even to the half-off price and still get another sample set that you may or may not want.
it may also be worth upgrading to Komplete vs just Kontakt, depending on the prices offered and if Komplete has anything else you want. I think at one point I was looking at $99 for Kontakt 6 or $200 for Komplete 13.
Is there a reco on a good free VU Meter plugin, or is there value in paying for one and if so which and why?
I want to use it to watch what happens to the signal when I fiddle with my Hyper Luminal compressor so I can try to figure the damn thing out once and for all.
I am assuming it will actually work (meter) while in record mode vs playback of course.
If this isn’t true (I have Abelton), please let me know.
There’s also a company called Splice that offers rent-to-own for many, many third party plugins:
I did this to try out Pigments originally before buying it outright on sale later. So I lost my $10 there but no big deal as I saved a lot more than that.
You can add plugins on track or master inputs or outputs on any real DAW. Most also allow then to be added to isolated sections of tracks (or loops).
I usually put tuner plugins on inputs when I use them (if I am too lazy to grab my Peterson cable).
I just use builtin meters and scopes in the DAW, and in Neutron and Ozone myself but a good metering plugin would be a good idea to pick up. I wouldn’t mind one myself. I would mostly be using it on outputs and between other plugins, but no reason you couldn’t use it on inputs.
It turns out I own several and just haven’t used them; Melda’s MFreeFXBundle comes with MAnalyzer, MLoudnessAnalyzer, MUtility, and MVolume. I probably have more than that; I use Reaper’s built in oscilloscope periodically and I would be there is a level meter there too.
Anyway, if you don’t have MFreeFXBundle yet you should definitely get it, it’s great and also worth the low price to upgrade to full.
It seems to be celebration free season. The Big Bang Orchestra, Fujara Flute and Soft Imperial Grand freebies from Vienna Symphonic Library are fun. The BBO is like having an instant orchestra mapped across a MIDI keyboard. It kind of even figures itself out as far as instrumentation depending on where you play. It’s great for someone who doesn’t know orchestration to add that flavor to something.
They were on the Steinberg protection system. If your USB stick failed they wouldn’t recognize your purchase to replace it. So they started selling insurance against USB library access loss.
And the Steinberg eLicenser is the worst, apparently lol. Steinberg recently dropped eLicenser for Cubase, I wonder if they are stopping support for it completely and that’s why they went to iLok XD
Big iZotope sale at PluginBoutique right now. Highly recommend the “Mix and Master Bundle”; I use Neutron, Nectar and Ozone for every mix. Neutron is a great general track channel strip, EQ and mixing aid, with Nectar the same for vocal tracks, and Ozone is a great mastering plugin. Their dynamic EQ is a game changer and the way Neutron instances can work together across tracks is unique and cool.
IK Multimedia has one of their group buys. Syntronik 2 this time. It’s IK’s take on Arturia’s Analog Lab, but with different synths. Ofc. there are classics like CS-80, but also quite obscure synths with interesting sounds.
It’s already 1 + 6 … and as I know IK, if there will be a somewhat constant flow of buyers, they will prolong the group buy until it’s 1 +32.
Cannot add plugins before the instrument (ie. so it gets recorded with the effect) in Abelton apparently. Added after inputs, you can only see what’s going on in the plug-in on playback not record.
I thought you wanted to add a meter before an effect? If that’s the case, you can take that input and route it through an aux bus or someplace you can add the meter before adding the effect?
Almost all DAWs record the clean inputs and apply effects after, at least to store the original audio file for future needs. Agree, you could route it through an aux bus with the plug in on it. In Ableton you can also choose Post-FX from the single track with just the vu meter on it and route to another track.
That’s true, but some at least (and I had though most) offered FX at both track input (pre-recording) or output (post). Reaper certainly does and I am pretty sure Pro Tools does.
@Sully would this let me see the VU meter move while recording? Because I don’t see any movement in my compressors or the VU meter plug-in until playback. This is really what I’m after.
