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Karma_tba · Post by **Karma_tba** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:14 pm

Has anyone had the opportunity to try the Focusrite compressor and EQ being given away on the cover disc of this month's Future Music?

Ocean Zen · Post by **Ocean Zen** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:27 pm

Yeah, I deleted them off striaght away as they are pretty unusable, I tried to change a knob value and just get directed to the website.
Cheekiest demo ever!

Pantsdown666 · Post by **Pantsdown666** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:29 pm

Karma_tba wrote:Has anyone had the opportunity to try the Focusrite compressor and EQ being given away on the cover disc of this month's Future Music?

They're unbelievably crippled demos. You can choose presets by description, but if you try to access any actual parameter knobs, it links you to their site to buy stuff. Very very misleading in the way they're marketed as being free plugs.

Karma_tba · Post by **Karma_tba** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:45 pm

Thanks for the heads up....I've always heard that their hardware was sweet,but beyond my price range,glad I didn't waste my hard earned cash on that issue.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:52 pm

Ocean Zen wrote:Yeah, I deleted them off striaght away as they are pretty unusable, I tried to change a knob value and just get directed to the website.
Cheekiest demo ever!

WTF?!?
That's just as ridiculous as it could get.

Jaybez · Post by **Jaybez** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:10 am

Oh dear, I get the feeling this is going to back fire on them.

Jeremy_NSL · Post by **Jeremy_NSL** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:45 am

EQ and Compressor presets?! A bit of an odd choice for a demo. Why not just the standard demo limitations?

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:46 am

floyd wrote:EQ and Compressor presets?! A bit of an odd choice for a demo. Why not just the standard demo limitations?

Because apparently they've got not all that much of a clue.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:05 am

Pantsdown666 wrote:They're unbelievably crippled demos. You can choose presets by description, but if you try to access any actual parameter knobs, it links you to their site to buy stuff. Very very misleading in the way they're marketed as being free plugs.

they must use the same marketing firm as IK does..

>v^<^^ · Post by **>v^<^^** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:56 am

Karma_tba wrote:Thanks for the heads up....I've always heard that their hardware was sweet,but beyond my price range,glad I didn't waste my hard earned cash on that issue.

I'm not so sure about their hardware either. I bet their high-end stuff is a different story, but I had to buy 3 TwinTraks in a row before I got a working one.

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:10 am

d2j3w7w wrote:
Karma_tba wrote:Thanks for the heads up....I've always heard that their hardware was sweet,but beyond my price range,glad I didn't waste my hard earned cash on that issue.
I'm not so sure about their hardware either. I bet their high-end stuff is a different story, but I had to buy 3 TwinTraks in a row before I got a working one.

That sounds like Behringer.

mark77 · Post by **mark77** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:23 pm

oh my god... this is so not cool. I almost bought that issue of FM solely for the plugins..now i'm glad i didnt. In the past i got suckered into buying certain issues because of samples/plugins but in th end i always found all of that stuff unusable and a waste of time. I guess all of this says something about the credibility of the magazine. They rely on LIES to get your money. very dirty stuff. If the mag didnt come with cover cds nobody would buy the damn thing, or only people new to the scene who dont know better.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:20 pm

Aside from being sly, it's also f**king dumb. How the holy shit can you evaluate if a compressor sounds good or not if you can't adjust it to suit the material you're compressing - you can't even change the threshold? That's just going to put everyone off. I won't even grace my plugin folder with it to trial it if that's the trick they're trying.

Pantsdown666 · Post by **Pantsdown666** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:51 pm

I think i've got every free VST available in my VST folder (being a Mac user, that's not a lot of course

) - but I have to say that this is the first one that I ever trashed immediately after trying.
It's not just that you can't turn the threshold dial - if you touch it, you get immediately linked to their products site.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:55 pm

Even leaving aside the stupid limitations aren't they supposed to be based on the Saffire plugins? I thought these ran on hardware DSP so a native demo would not enable you to get much of an idea of what they were like anyway.

http://www.focusrite.com/namm2005/saffire.html

Focusrite plugin giveaway