SCAMP 1.31 Released, adding OSX VST, AU and x64 support & new key-file auth system. 25% off sale!

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(Jan 11, 2015. All AQ products are on 25% off sale until month-end!)

It's been a long, long time since SCAMP had an update, but it's finally back! The little filter with the big sound that started it all, this was the product that immediately preceded Poly-Ana and prototyped the same realistic filter design that's made Poly-Ana famous.

SCAMP is leading the charge once again, this time debuting our new GUI system with OSX AU and x64 support, Windows VST x64, plus a completely new authorization system using portable key-files. You'll no longer have to contact us if you want to install on multiple systems or upgrade to a new box, your license key-file will work with the product forever, on any system.

Because these are some very major changes, we're putting the product back into Beta test status. That means there'll be frequent updates over the coming days and weeks (assuming there's anything to fix, which is usually a pretty safe assumption. :) ) And as we always do, we're cutting the price by HALF during the Beta test period. (How long will that be? No idea, it depends how the Beta goes. When we get to zero bugs, we'll go back to regular version and pricing.)

The sound engine is the same gritty, realistic effect that it ever was, though it's now been updated to full 64 bit double precision processing internally, and sends and receives 64 bit audio from hosts that support it.

SCAMP has a powerful envelope follower and LFO, and MIDI CC# input (01 mod wheel, and 11 expression) which can be used to play the filter interactively, like a wah-wah pedal. It also accepts MIDI note input, so you can play the filter frequency with a keyboard or any other MIDI controller!

It's free to try, the demo never expires, it only makes occasional, short silent gaps in the audio output. You can even save and recall your work so you can start working with it seriously before you commit.

Let us know what you think, and share your bug reports with us here and/or by email.

It's been far too long but it's great to have SCAMP back. Welcome to the Mac, SCAMP!

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Last edited by AdmiralQuality on Sun Jan 11, 2015 6:46 am, edited 5 times in total.

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admiral you can't be serious with that interface. why be different just to be different. scamp is a great plugin but theirs no way im buying this looking like it currently does.

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SCAMP was our very first commercial product, from 2006. It's meant to look like a "boutique" effect, designed and built in someone's garage with minimal industrial design. (There are even paint drips on it, as well as my fingerprint from where I touched it before the paint was dry.) Sorry, but that's what it looks like! Kind of like it sounds, dirty, unrefined and mercenary.

I like it, myself. I will never understand people rejecting a plug-in over its looks. If you hate it that much, turn the interface off and use the host's sliders.

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thanx for 64bit Admiral! the gui is okay for me (i get used to it). anyway like you said: the sound is important.
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I love filters. This one sounds awwwsome. Bought. :borg:
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Nielzie wrote:I love filters. This one sounds awwwsome. Bought. :borg:
Thank you, sir! Welcome aboard!

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Wow, we haven't received any bug reports yet. How's it working for everybody? Don't tell us there's no bugs or we'll have to end the Beta sale! :)

We don't have Logic X to test on yet, so Logic X users please let us know if if it's working for you. Other hosts as well.

And is anybody using it for processing more than 2 channels? That's another area where it changed a lot, as in its last incarnation it was still a VST 2.3 plug-in that had channel negotiation protocols that Steinberg removed in VST 2.4, which it is now. We've tested this a bit, but not much and not in a lot of hosts yet, particularly AU hosts.

Thanks all. Hope you're having fun with it.

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Any news/updates/plans on the analog BBD delay you were working on?

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AstralExistence wrote:admiral you can't be serious with that interface. why be different just to be different. scamp is a great plugin but theirs no way im buying this looking like it currently does.
It's the Admiral! He won't change anything! :lol:

(Seriously, I tried my best to convince him of a better GUI in the Poly-Ana thread but then I had to give up...)

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metalifuxx wrote:Any news/updates/plans on the analog BBD delay you were working on?
Analog Delay Tool. Will be getting back to that soon, now that all the cross-platform issues have finally been ironed out. Poly-Ana update first, though. Probably later in the summer or early fall before I'll get back to ADT.

But back to SCAMP... any bugs? Anyone? New key-file authentication system and silent gap demo mode working out okay? :)

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Tricky-Loops wrote:
AstralExistence wrote:admiral you can't be serious with that interface. why be different just to be different. scamp is a great plugin but theirs no way im buying this looking like it currently does.
It's the Admiral! He won't change anything! :lol:

(Seriously, I tried my best to convince him of a better GUI in the Poly-Ana thread but then I had to give up...)
It's almost like I don't work for you or something!

And if you actually read the Poly-Ana thread, you'd see I've never said there won't eventually be a new GUI. But thanks for misrepresenting my words here in this unrelated thread.

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AdmiralQuality wrote:
Tricky-Loops wrote:
AstralExistence wrote:admiral you can't be serious with that interface. why be different just to be different. scamp is a great plugin but theirs no way im buying this looking like it currently does.
It's the Admiral! He won't change anything! :lol:

(Seriously, I tried my best to convince him of a better GUI in the Poly-Ana thread but then I had to give up...)
It's almost like I don't work for you or something!

And if you actually read the Poly-Ana thread, you'd see I've never said there won't eventually be a new GUI. But thanks for misrepresenting my words here in this unrelated thread.
Sorry, Sir Admiral! :pray: :oops:

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It's not that it looks bad, it's just a severe juxtaposition to more contemporary UIs.

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AstralExistence wrote:admiral you can't be serious with that interface.
I may be wrong but I think he is talking about the sideways tilt.....looks like the plugin is slanting away from you on the right side or is somehow "curved"........ :shrug:
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Teksonik wrote:
AstralExistence wrote:admiral you can't be serious with that interface.
I may be wrong but I think he is talking about the sideways tilt.....looks like the plugin is slanting away from you on the right side or is somehow "curved"........ :shrug:
It is slanting away from you on the right hand side. That explains why you're seeing the knobs and switches at an angle instead of head-on. It also provides a nice black space for the parameter display to live in.

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