KVR Audio

Kevin63101 · Post by **Kevin63101** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:49 pm

Izotope buys BT's Sonik Architects: http://www.izotope.com/bt/

This is great news. After all these years, the long awaited "stutter edit" and "break tweeker" effects look like they are going to finally get released.

Update 1/13/2011: Stutter Edit now released: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:05 am

Ha! I'm not surprised that BT is partnering with iZotope for this. I bet they met at Kevin Walt's wedding.

He gets a lot of crap here, but I kinda like Mr. Transeau. The few times I've met him he's always come across as down-to-earth and genuinely enthusiastic.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:09 am

justin3am wrote:Ha! I'm not surprised that BT is partnering with iZotope for this. I bet they met at Kevin Walt's wedding.

He gets a lot of crap here, but I kinda like Mr. Transeau. The few times I've met him he's always come across as down-to-earth and genuinely enthusiastic.

He helped Tori Amos make one of the few "trance" influenced tracks I really like - Blue Skies

Kevin63101 · Post by **Kevin63101** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:24 am

He also just got nominated for a grammy for his "These Hopeful Machines" as best electronic album of the year.

IMO his most amazing work was his 2006 "This Binary Universe", a non-dance album in complex time signatures featuring some of the deepest electronic work ever (Keyboard magazine wrote "In a hundred years, it could well be studied as the first major electronic work of the new millennium. It's that good.")

But he does deserve some jabs for the "soon to be released" software that's been coming for over half a decade. I saw some video previews (no longer posted) back in 2007 and it looked impressive.

Good move passing this on to Izotope. He's an innovator, but does best staying in the creative mode.

Kevin63101 · Post by **Kevin63101** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:40 pm

Stutter Edit is out. And they did a windows version (which wasn't going to be the case a few years back).

It looks like it has a very comprehensive interface -- much deeper than any stutter product I've ever seen.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:47 pm

Hahaha $250 hahaha

Kevin63101 · Post by **Kevin63101** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:00 pm

VariKusBrainZ wrote:Hahaha $250 hahaha

I suppose you're happy enough with Glitch freebie? This isn't glitch.

StutterEdit is a cutting edge product. What you're paying for is way more control and flexibility than any of the alternatives available, plus plenty of new features never before on a stutter effect -- did you bother to look at the screenshots or the details? Here's a demo video on their site: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/

BTW - it's $149 introductory.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:43 pm

Thanks for the H/U...

Looks like I'll be having some fun

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:00 pm

Meh, GUIs way too dark

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:12 pm

Looks pretty cool at first glance, but yeah, the price seems a bit steep although I see that there is an intro price of $149. Has anybody compared this to Artillery 2, The Finger, etc.?

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:56 pm

Aawww!! F%*(#&(%^(^)))!!! why the F$*(#%&(*% do these people do this.

When they KNOW there are those of us who are ADDICTED to glitch programs..

Now I have to save more money..

Downloading demo now

Grain Bastard · Post by **Grain Bastard** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:11 pm

Kevin63101 wrote:
VariKusBrainZ wrote:Hahaha $250 hahaha

I suppose you're happy enough with Glitch freebie? This isn't glitch.

StutterEdit is a cutting edge product. What you're paying for is way more control and flexibility than any of the alternatives available, plus plenty of new features never before on a stutter effect -- did you bother to look at the screenshots or the details? Here's a demo video on their site: http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/

BTW - it's $149 introductory.

More control than Artillery, Finger etc etc.

Glitch isn't the only stammerer in town these days and t-ttt-ttt-tt t t-two Huh-hu-hundred a-aaa-aa-a-an fe-fe-fe-fifty boys is taking the piss almost as much as the c**t claiming to have invented chopping up audio and rearranging it.

But if like you, I was getting a free copy, then I would also defending this cuntlike pricing.

Slinky Productions · Post by **Slinky Productions** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:31 pm

their pricing is hilarious! even the intro pricing.

I think this is a $99 plugin at the absolute max.

anyone want to compare it with buffeater ?

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:38 pm

It looks much more comparable to Lucifer2 than a lot of the other effects it's being compared to. That said, it would be more exciting to me if I didn't already have Lucifer2 (which is still the one to beat as far as I'm concerned).

Kevin63101 · Post by **Kevin63101** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:08 pm

Grain Bastard wrote:But if like you, I was getting a free copy ....

That's quite the wrong assumption. No I'm not getting a freebie. I'm not affliated with BT, Izotope or any software company or retailer on KVR for that matter -- beyond being a paying customer of many companies listed on KVR (and being a fan of BT).

I hoped to see pricing closer to $99, but if advanced stutter control is important to your production and this fits your needs, the difference isn't worth complaining about. I've been watching for this specific release for years along with others. This is a specialty effect that I believe is going to be used by some A list performers, producers and sound designers.

Time will tell if the average musician will buy this. Izotope has a pretty good track record for delivering products worth the asking price.

Izotope buys BT's Sonik Architects (Stutter Edit now Released!)