KVR Audio

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:06 pm

Numanoid wrote:does that imply u-he is not planning Rack Extensions at all in the future?

no. We simply don't know yet. But it's good to hear that some things move on PH side.

budweiser · Post by **budweiser** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:23 pm

Urs wrote:
budweiser wrote:This little pictures looks like a la2a, a 1176 and a fairchild...
Pure coincidence!

You'd better change that or people might think it's the holy trinity of comps under a gorgeous gui. Come on, it's not serious...

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:40 pm

Urs wrote:
budweiser wrote:This little pictures looks like a la2a, a 1176 and a fairchild...
Pure coincidence!

It's probably been answered somewhere else, but do you plan on introducing more cimpressor models in the future? Like cl1b, ssl, etc?

-Sam

Tp3 · Post by **Tp3** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:47 pm

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Hot off the press !!

sascha · Post by **sascha** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:02 pm

masterhiggins wrote:
Urs wrote:
budweiser wrote:This little pictures looks like a la2a, a 1176 and a fairchild...
Pure coincidence!
It's probably been answered somewhere else, but do you plan on introducing more cimpressor models in the future? Like cl1b, ssl, etc?

-Sam

The available views already cover 3 popular tasks: easy 2-knob apprach, classic compression/limiting, and more advanced M/S jobs.
Thing is: The 'vintage views' (as we call them at the moment) are only sort of skins of the regular UI, just to reflect common habits and parameter sets. Under the hood, everything stays the same. All that happens upon selecting any of these 'specialists' is loading dedicated/preselected settings mimicing typical properties.
To point it out clearly: we do not model any of these hardware types, we have different ranges and are far from being spot-on, perhaps. At least we're not interested in sounding close or spot-on. We just want things to sound great.
The views are there for offering the most-used params in order to create fast and pleasing results, without having to fiddle for ages. Once set up, you can always dive in deeper using the Normal view, unless you feel comfortable with it anyway right from the start.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:06 pm

Beautiful GUI indeed, looks almost photorealistic!

Who did the graphical design?

masterhiggins · Post by **masterhiggins** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:11 pm

sascha wrote:
masterhiggins wrote:
Urs wrote:
budweiser wrote:This little pictures looks like a la2a, a 1176 and a fairchild...
Pure coincidence!
It's probably been answered somewhere else, but do you plan on introducing more cimpressor models in the future? Like cl1b, ssl, etc?

-Sam
The available views already cover 3 popular tasks: easy 2-knob apprach, classic compression/limiting, and more advanced M/S jobs.
Thing is: The 'vintage views' (as we call them at the moment) are only sort of skins of the regular UI, just to reflect common habits and parameter sets. Under the hood, everything stays the same. All that happens upon selecting any of these 'specialists' is loading dedicated/preselected settings mimicing typical properties.
To point it out clearly: we do not model any of these hardware types, we have different ranges and are far from being spot-on, perhaps. At least we're not interested in sounding close or spot-on. We just want things to sound great.
The views are there for offering the most-used params in order to create fast and pleasing results, without having to fiddle for ages. Once set up, you can always dive in deeper using the Normal view, unless you feel comfortable with it anyway right from the start.

Thanks to responding. So it's not circuit modeled at all? Are they basically algorithms that approximate compressor behaviors kind of like psp oldtimer (except a lot more extensive, of course)?

-Sam

sascha · Post by **sascha** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:19 pm

Although it's got some signature sound and properties to our liking, Presswerk is mainly a compressor construction kit (a bit in the Satin fashion). It's got enough ingredients and degrees of freedom to let you create any kind of compressor you wish.

db3 · Post by **db3** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:48 pm

Looks gorgeous, hopefully it sounds delish

I wish Valhalla plugs looked like that

edit: after some testing I think it sounds pretty good. Although, probably not good enough to replace anything I already have.

Ghostwave · Post by **Ghostwave** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:02 pm

Did a quick 30-minute test run on drums and it sounds reallly nice (though I'm no compressor expert).

audiosabre · Post by **audiosabre** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:49 pm

For whatever reason, I was under the impression it was going to be a fixed compressor design. This looks way more interesting.

Much respect for Sascha and u-he, so my hopes are high. Off to install

audiosabre · Post by **audiosabre** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:12 pm

Quick question; is there a lookahead, or any way to achieve a similar result?

edit - nvm; turning sidechain delay to a negative value

fwsuperhero · Post by **fwsuperhero** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:57 pm

Looks wonderfull!
I have 2 questions:
1) Do you plan support linux also (i know there is beta test with podolski now...)? It would be amazing as i´ve stopped using windows.

2) Is there autogain? I think it is amazing function for dynamic and filter processors.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:52 pm

autogain? ... you must be referring to the Auto Makeup button near the thresh / ratio controls.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:32 pm

i loooooooooooooooooove u-he, but please someone tell me why we need so many compressors on the market ?

it's like eq's, people say there is not really much difference (when coding is well?), so i still stick to my go-to parametric eq from fl studio, compressorwise i got my recccomp from waves and dunno yet what this will get more than other comps?

no badmouthing, only let me know what im missing on the market

and again, i only write it here and not in other compression topics cause i always checkout u-he stuff !

U-he Presswerk ?