Hi All!!!

I have recently moved over from Logic to SX2 owing to those rather nasty people ( ) at E-magic deciding to ditch its PC user base. I had always used Logic and thought (still do) that it is a FANTASTIC app. However, I was not gonna be bullied into buying a G4/5 and all new licenses for my VST/i's so I moved over to SX. Still getting used to it but its not too bad...

However, my problem is that I am now starting to miss some of the built-in Logic plugs. I am sure that there are equal or even better alternatives to all of them but I have not checked this out yet so I was wondering what you guys would suggest to replace the built-in plugs. Any info or opinions would be welcomed (abusive or otherwise ...I have been here long enough to see what goes on here sometimes!!! )

Thanks guys and gals!!!

firstly, if you could say which specific plugins you miss the most and are desparate for a replacement for. there are alternatives to pretty much everything. fwiw i switched to mac and am in heaven but yes, we will be able to get you a decent list of plugs. just more info please.

and welcome to kvr

I was in teh same boat, but have pretty much replaced all the ones that were important to me, and mostly in freeware too. Not ALL are replaceable with freeware though. Start with Kjaerhas Classic Series to get you started though for a good chunk.

Devon

Same story here. I can recommend the free Anwida reverb and the N-track reverb. They are some of the best reverb plugins there are. To use the N-track plug, you need to install N-track and after that it will be available as a directx plugin.
The Sonalksis eq is a good equalizer.
The PSP delay plugins sound really nice, but the ohmboys is much cheaper.
The ndcpanner is also nice.

blueqube wrote:

However, my problem is that I am now starting to miss some of the built-in Logic plugs. I am sure that there are equal or even better alternatives to all of them but I have not checked this out yet so I was wondering what you guys would suggest to replace the built-in plugs. Any info or opinions would be welcomed (abusive or otherwise ...I have been here long enough to see what goes on here sometimes!!! )

Without knowing which plugins you miss specifically it's a little hard to answer this question. However, some very nice plugins that are only available for PCs are the Voxengo plugins. They're fairly inexpensive and sound great and use unobtrusive copy protection. Demos are available at http://www.voxengo.com.

I'm pretty happy with SX2 also. Hope you like it.

Hey all...thanks for the info so far and the welcome! I guess I shoulda been more specific so here goes...

Tape Delay (a MUST for me...although I would always have liked an independent stereo version!)
Spectral Gate
EnVerb
Modulation Delay
Auto Filter
Phaser

ummm...I guess those would be the MAIN ones. And before anyone tells me that there are better plugs out there, I am not neccesarily JUST interested in having the best quality...I like some of the Logic plugs because they are NOT perfect but they DO have a nice character...whatever the hell that means!!! And I also don't wanna start a huge debate about what is "best" as I believe that the "best" plug is the one which the individual likes the sound of most and which helps their creativity and workflow the best (I can heated disagreement coming on here!!! lol). I guess I would just like OPINIONS on the stuff that you guys/gals are already using...

Again, many thanks and I am glad to be here...looks like its gonna be fun!!!

Hey, we like to argue to prove who has the bigger wingy dingy!

What was EnVerb again? I usually just used Plat, and sometimes Gold. I use Classic REverb instead, or even better, Dreamverb on the UAD-1 card.

Phaser? Classic series again.

Tape delay? the best of the best seems to be the PSP 84 Lex delay. Suuuweet! Expensive though. I believe Kjaerhas is coming up with a tape delay, and someone else just brought out a tape delay too.... but don't remember.

The rest of those I never used 'really' in Logic that I cared enough to try to replace them, so I can't really answer.

Devon

tapedelay: this is supposed to be a clone of logics tapedelay: http://www.memi.de/echochamber/analogicdelay.htm

luCiPHer wrote:

tapedelay: this is supposed to be a clone of logics tapedelay: http://www.memi.de/echochamber/analogicdelay.htm

It is!!!! Does it feedback on itself at 58%? Awesome man! I love you!!!!

Devon

this is a stereo version of analogic delay:

http://www.interruptor.ch/vst/bionicdelay1_0.zip

DevonB wrote:

luCiPHer wrote: tapedelay: this is supposed to be a clone of logics tapedelay: http://www.memi.de/echochamber/analogicdelay.htm It is!!!! Does it feedback on itself at 58%? Awesome man! I love you!!!! Devon

you're welcome