Plug & Mix Opinions

[Nick Hamilton]

Dear Friends,

Everyday we have been getting requests from users asking if they can jump in for the $99 deal and so we have decided to extend the promotion until April 31.

http://www.dontcrack.com/news/2013/04/p ... buy-final/

Voucher Coupon : PDZVIP

So if you haven't taken the opportunity to get the bundle at $99 instead of the $399 regular price, you can still do it until the 31st.

Best Regards,

Nick

[cyphersuit]

Nick are you planning on releasing a spring reverb, too?

[Nick Hamilton]

Nick are you planning on releasing a spring reverb, too?

Hello cyphersuit,

A spring reverb, now that's a good idea for another plug-in to add to the V.I.P. Bundle.

It won't make it into the 3.03 but I'll pass along the idea to the team and maybe it will make it into the 3.04

Thanks for the suggestion, we are always listening, so if you have any others you would like to see, just sent along your requests.

Best Regards,

Nick

[Burillo]

Nick, what about a de-breather? any chance?

[cyphersuit]

I heard that three new ones are already in production, so it's possible ^^

[Burillo]

[ObsoleteAcc99]

a debreather would be great.

My number one request is a zero latency doubler. Nectar has way too much latency. Waves has none but doesn't have the pitch quality of nectar but is otherwise as good as it gets. Schwah CMX is very good and simple and would fit the Plug n Mix ethos but it has no mac 64 bit, is never updated anymore, and has large latency. Something like 70ms from memory!

I can just imagine a nice n easy plug in mix one that would complement the bundle beautifully.

[Nick Hamilton]

a debreather would be great.

My number one request is a zero latency doubler. Nectar has way too much latency. Waves has none but doesn't have the pitch quality of nectar but is otherwise as good as it gets. Schwah CMX is very good and simple and would fit the Plug n Mix ethos but it has no mac 64 bit, is never updated anymore, and has large latency. Something like 70ms from memory!

I can just imagine a nice n easy plug in mix one that would complement the bundle beautifully.

Hello Theo,

Yes a "doubler" is a great idea.

I see your point about zero latency, but my experience with doubling always ends up being a delay between 15 to 30ms to add additional thickening to the modulation or pitch shift that is there to create the doubling. so a tiny bit of latency is for once, actually something appealing.

Thanks for the input.

Best Regards,

Nick

[Nick Hamilton]

Hello Guys,

Thanks again for all your posts with your positive comments about the Plug & Mix products, the "Group buy" and the special sale we did for the people who purchased after the closing was a great success thanks to all you people.

We are working on the AAX Native 2.0 that should be out very soon and there are some more plug-in requests that will be coming pretty soon as well.

Best Regards,

Nick

[Mace404]

Since Novation aren't adding my submission to their site I uploaded it to KVR instead.

Here you can find 40 Automap templates for the VIP bundle.

Enjoy!

[cyphersuit]

Hello Guys,

Thanks again for all your posts with your positive comments about the Plug & Mix products, the "Group buy" and the special sale we did for the people who purchased after the closing was a great success thanks to all you people.

We are working on the AAX Native 2.0 that should be out very soon and there are some more plug-in requests that will be coming pretty soon as well.

Best Regards,

Nick

Any timeline on the new plugins? just curious..

ps: still using the bundle every time i am at my daw. so they gotta be good ^^

[ThomasHelzle]

When I heard about the deal I was first pretty cautious, basically I have all the effects I'll ever need already, but I downloaded the demo and was positively surprised:

For me, these effects are a kind of VST-Lego - in the best sense.

Instead of uber-effects with dozens of parameters, it's little bricks of usually good sounding tools that I can click together and mix and match until something interesting comes out in a kind of modular manner. Processing demand is low enough to allow me to have 10 of them on a track without problems (6 core i7 here).
Somehow these plugins inspire me to try out stuff and play with them more than some of the much deeper ones I have.

For instance, I started with the Vinylizer to create some noise, added a Rotator, an American Tweed, a Granulize and an Octaplexer and ended up with a very roomy, lively sound of feed marching through mud which can be tuned to sound like a crackling campfire or very watery...

I personally like the guitar effects a lot. Somehow I was never too fond of the huge monolithic guitar suites like Guitar Rig, but with those small tools I can create a chain that is much more fun to tweak (for me anyway) and leads me to more surprising results. So while I still like Studio Ones "Ampire" most, for DAW independent use I created some very satisfying effect chains for Bass and Guitar with the P&M plugs.

The GUIs look good, are clear and mostly self explaining, the unified approach has a positive effect in that you don't need to find out what is what.

There are some plugins I'll hardly ever use, but about half to three quarters of them I really like.

My points of criticism would be:
- Some plugin parameters could use wider ranges, like most delays would be nice to be dialed in longer and some effects I'd like to turn more into the drastic.
- Some plugins could use more headroom. I got crackles sometimes when the signal went hotter from plugins that should be able to deal with that (like compressors and limiters).

But overall I'd recommend this collection to people who either start out or simply like the minimalistic Lego approach like me.
I personally wouldn't pay 399.- $ for them, but for 99.- it was a very nice deal IMO.

If this collection is further developed, updated and even expanded with new plugs, the deal is even more satisfying.

So a big thumbs up from me, although I may not represent the "normal" target audience with my more experimental sound-designish interests

Cheers,

Tom

[hibidy]

I'm still using them a bunch.

[Nick Hamilton]

Hello Guys,

Any timeline on the new plugins? just curious..

ps: still using the bundle every time i am at my daw. so they gotta be good ^^

Hello cyphersuit,

The AAX development has got the devs pretty busy, so the next release will just be for the ProTools compatibility.

Then we we will focusing on the next plug-ins to be included in the bundle, they are already on the rails and should follow a short time after the AAX release.

Best Regards,

Nick

[noiseprovesnothing]

I would have bought at $99 had adding and removing a plugin not consistently crashed Ableton Live. The plugins themselves sounded great.