Please let me know how the build of the hardware unit designs go/are going.
It is so cool to hear of people with those skills to create their own custom units based on the designs of the schematics.
I think by this time next year, what Nebula can do now for preamps and eq's and lighter limiting/compressing, it will be able to do with great complexity and accuracy, for more complex compression units like the 33609 (and hopefully someone with a LOT of hours on their hands will tackle a complete series of API 2500's
).For now, the primary focus is definitely on the signal chain, bc that is something that can help DAW users NOW, to bring a very detailed level of analog functionality to everything they record. But, in addition to that, the full library elements of tape for group bus and individual line drive/signal path presets that focus on even more complex circuitry minus eq- make the idea customizable, flexible, and I think the user will be able to work with a full range of accuracy that wasn't available before. The compressors are included mainly because they came out so much better than I thought they would. They are definitely the 'added bonus' of the collection, and only very specific presets that really did what was meant to be achieved, are included. There are 4 1176-style presets that all together, add up to a range of things the true unit can do. The UAD-1 was helpful to try and measure this and sample this, but nothing ended up being directly sampled just from the plug-in comps. By next year, I think Nebula will be able to just directly sample outboard and plug-in comp settings without the tweaking it took me- and that tweaking was purely trial and error by listening... over and over:)
As far as the full library release- the time is nearer! There will be a release of information very very very soon.
Thank you so much for the input in this thread- I really hope that the collection is something that gets people excited about working in their DAW environment.
