Nomad Factory Magma released.

[Kevin63101]

Looks nice! Now let's wait for it to become a new No-Brainer deal

If you wait long enough, but then you'll complain it's only 64 bit.

Back on topic -- one of my favorite elements of Nomad Factory products is very useable presets. Magma is shipped with 600 presets.

[CT]

Its not hard to imagine these as Rack Extensions

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[chokehold]

Hm... The last word I heard about Nomad was that they're currently developing a bunch of plugins for DontCrack.com, Plug'n'Mix or something like that, and that there won't be a new Nomad release soon.

Now that the DC bunch of FX is out, suddenly Nomad come up with a bunch of their own.
And even 64 of 'em, that's not a number of FX you code in a month or two.
Smells a little fishy to me.

Could these be just all the various Nomad-developed DC plugins, stuffed into another skin and put inside a "rack"?

[antithesist]

Yeah, I thought the same thing about DC/P&M (that always makes me think of M&P from Clockwork Orange). Also, I wonder what Wade from Chandler and others might think of some of the designs? It looks like this has a Clarisonic or whatever from P&M. I seem to remember Kush/Greg Scott taking a dim view of that. I'll probably pass on this until (and if?) it becomes cheap.

Anyway, I don't care for shells for the most part, especially if they take up a lot of extra screen real estate like NI. On the other hand, it can be a lot quicker to audition different effects than all the instantiating and de-instantiating. I found this out with the McDSP 6030 Ultimate Compressor. It's so nice to just click through the different models, plus it sounds great.

[Brittlestem]

auditioning them was a nightmare with no next/previous effect shortcut, and a list without highlighters.

Spectrasonics have the same FX drop-down click mentality with their FX (obviously Nomad-related) and the filters of all things.
It's just shitty GUI design.

When I contacted Nomad about this last year, the response I got was, "Not sure what you mean by forward/backward arrows to change presets..."

[lotus2035]

Yeah I hate drop down menus too. A window with all presets listed is the best way for any plugin IMO.

[audiosabre]

it's just like the blue tubes sounds like the liquid sounds like the essential series all with a different face. I don't think they have done a new algo for 20 years

there honestly is nothing new here

Is that true?

I never used that rock amp legends thing, but are the guitar stomps and amps from that?

Really interested to know, because I quite liked some of what I heard; the bitcrusher/decimator is tasty, for example. It isn't my favourite bitcrusher, but it's different enough to be useful.

I'd be disapppointed is Magma is just simply a 'nomad wrapper' for their old plugins.

+1 to next/previous arrows for modules. The current way is so 90s. Next gen please nomad.

[composingkeys3]

Hi Guys,

Just to clarify, all of the effects from Magma are brand new from Nomad Factory.

[Fernando Carvalho]

I'm liking the demo a lot. I will purchase it as soon as it can host more effects, it can be a very interesting plugin chainer. The quality of the included effects is very good I think. I miss macros and some modulations, lfos, step sequencers, etc, like in guitar rig, would be amazing. But it's very versatile as it is I'd say.

[FrankT]

This looks really interesting. It reminds me of the StylusRMX FX - I always wanted those as separate FX. I'll try the demo and report back. Also $20 discount for previous customers.

Over at v.i. control Eric Persing clarfies this regarding Omnisphere:
http://www.vi-control.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26464

[braj]

So this has been out for a while now and I just demo'd it, liked it a lot and hope to get it when it comes used or at a good price. I'm just wondering how those that bought it are finding it after living with it for a while. I personally like the GUI, I like having everything in a rack instead a myriad of different interfaces and ways of doing things.

[cyphersuit]

there's a couple of bugs.. in logic .. the frog fitler instantly disables all sound in logic and the whole magma needs to be removed,

and another plugin did the same but i can't remember which one as auditioning them was a nightmare with no next/previous effect shortcut, and a list without highlighters.

the reverbs are still really bad and you can hear it's just the blueverb rehashed in various "preset configs"

the plate is "ok"

the mods are nice but sound precisely like the liquid bundle..

it's just like the blue tubes sounds like the liquid sounds like the essential series all with a different face. I don't think they have done a new algo for 20 years

there honestly is nothing new here, oh the presence and clarisonix from the donbt crack suite which aren't in the ISP3 bundle, ARE nice

did you ever contact the devs about it?

[Dentoid]

I must say, the sheer amount of plugins available in Magma is pretty impressive. Great release! I haven't actually had time to test them all through, but I look forward to doing it!

Keep it up!

[braj]

I don't have any of their old stuff, so 'nothing new' doesn't bother me really. I'm still wondering if the people who bought this are happy with their purchase. I am considering putting up a WTB ad in the market but want some feedback first. I really like the rack in Trilian and this is directly related, keeps the same workflow generally which I like. So yea or nea on Magma?