KVR Audio

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:56 am

List price $299 on sale for $19.99!
Are these any good? How can it be so low?
DumpWare?

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:16 am

I like them! Good price.

sheikh al Dudeilan · Post by **sheikh al Dudeilan** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:49 am

http://www.ultrafunk.com/

Read the about text at the bottom of the page.

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:20 pm

Thanks to both of you.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:30 pm

They're decent & actually 64-bit (at least the version bundled in Sonar), but getting pretty much bypassed by new product, including, most relevantly, new stuff at Cakewalk. More importantly, the DX plugin format is deprecated. Sonar uses VST and its own new proprietary plugin format.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:57 pm

I bought them when they were I think $79...quite a few years ago....I never used them once in a project and I didn't even install them when I moved from XP to W7....

ymmv

rsp

satYatunes · Post by **satYatunes** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:06 pm

They are good. I use them all the time in Sonar X1. Good thing is they are CPU friendly. I remember they were really sought after when it was released. Now that Sonar has similar effects bundled these don't get enough attention. For 19 bucks you won't be disappointed but before buying take a hard look at your current setup. As these are standard effects almost all the DAW will have them so you need to decide whether you need another set of std effects.

geroyannis · Post by **geroyannis** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:40 pm

They are available in VST format, right?

GeorgK · Post by **GeorgK** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:04 pm

http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/Pro ... SF3.31-10E

"These plug-ins have been enhanced with DirectX automation, and can be use with SONAR, Home Studio, Project5 or any application supporting DirectX or VST."

"System Requirements:
This download was intended for use with 32-bit versions of Windows 2000/XP. On 64-bit Windows Vista & Windows 7 it will only install as 32-bit plug-ins."

They are from 2003.
Except for a multiband compressor, there is nothing in this bundle which is not already part of most DAW's standard effects.
I guess you might as well throw two tenners out of the window.

Georg

Lenticular · Post by **Lenticular** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:36 pm

Yep, I guess if you don't have any good or basic plugins already it would be worth buying. But it's not supported & won't be updated. You can find similar free ones out there.

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:03 pm

Jace-BeOS wrote:They're decent & actually 64-bit (at least the version bundled in Sonar), but getting pretty much bypassed by new product, including, most relevantly, new stuff at Cakewalk. More importantly, the DX plugin format is deprecated. Sonar uses VST and its own new proprietary plugin format.

I wonder if the bundled one with X1 Prod can be used in other DAWs as well (they're in the cakeW shared plugs folder, so worth a go I guess)?

meloco_go · Post by **meloco_go** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:21 pm

Free Reaper plugins (free ReaPlugs or something) would cover same bases.

geroyannis · Post by **geroyannis** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:11 pm

GeorgeZ wrote:I wonder if the bundled one with X1 Prod can be used in other DAWs as well (they're in the cakeW shared plugs folder, so worth a go I guess)?

These are DX only.

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:08 pm

meloco_go wrote:Free Reaper plugins (free ReaPlugs or something) would cover same bases.

That's what I was thinking!
They (FX suite) have a better GUI IMO, but after I got them, too impulsive

, I realized.... no 64 version!

chokehold · Post by **chokehold** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:16 pm

These are OK:
http://www.acondigital.com/us_StudioNecessities.html

These are more than OK:
http://www.toneboosters.com/trackessentials/

These are more than OK and free:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/

Cakewalk Sonitus:fx suite