KVR Audio

Igro · Post by **Igro** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:38 pm

Is it Scotty Cane's GUI?

Zaphod (giancarlo) · Post by **Zaphod (giancarlo)** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:22 am

no...

Ultrasonic · Post by **Ultrasonic** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:55 am

poshook wrote:best sounding EQ plugin by miles

But no demo, so no buy.

Zaphod (giancarlo) · Post by **Zaphod (giancarlo)** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 4:33 pm

we'll provide it soon. What do you think about a service for processing your audio files? just a though

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:13 pm

Zaphod (giancarlo) wrote:we'll provide it soon. What do you think about a service for processing your audio files? just a though

Are you talking about using a service like that instead of a demo?

So much of using a plugin is determining how you enjoy interacting with it and how it fits into your workflow. Unless I can open the UI, see it on my screen, play with the knobs, etc., I'm not going to be comfortable. Besides, how would you know how to process the audio unless I'm there to decide what works best? My preferred demo option is the 14-day trial period. Otherwise, allow a certain period of time before noise or silence is introduced into the signal.

Zaphod (giancarlo) · Post by **Zaphod (giancarlo)** » Sun Aug 24, 2014 5:26 pm

14 day demo is easily crackable.... even a newbie with a couple of days of experience and ollydbg can do it... unless we use pace or similar things (a vm approach)
Other proposals?

mustgroove · Post by **mustgroove** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:34 am

What about a demo with periodic white noise bursts added to the signal? You could create it as a separate build from the full retail version, where the white noise is hard-coded and cannot be turned off, as opposed to a demo which could be unlocked with a serial (which would be crackable)

Eddie TX · Post by **Eddie TX** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:59 am

I'm a Nebula user and fan, and I know that there are many EQ libraries that sound great, but I don't use them as much as I might due to the cumbersome workflow issues. Now, having that sound wrapped in a nice VST would be fantastic, but unless I can try it out on my own system to see how I like it, and to check for stability, resource usage, etc., I'm not inclined to purchase.

Unless there are technical factors that make a real demo version impossible, I would bet that making one available would increase interest in this plugin dramatically. With the exception of a few indie developers, every other vendor on the planet offers free trials of their plugins -- can Acustica not do the same?

Cheers,
Eddie

mustgroove · Post by **mustgroove** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 2:13 am

Eddie TX wrote:I'm a Nebula user and fan, and I know that there are many EQ libraries that sound great, but I don't use them as much as I might due to the cumbersome workflow issues. Now, having that sound wrapped in a nice VST would be fantastic, but unless I can try it out on my own system to see how I like it, and to check for stability, resource usage, etc., I'm not inclined to purchase.

Unless there are technical factors that make a real demo version impossible, I would bet that making one available would increase interest in this plugin dramatically. With the exception of a few indie developers, every other vendor on the planet offers free trials of their plugins -- can Acustica not do the same?

Cheers,
Eddie

Ditto on all these points!

Zaphod (giancarlo) · Post by **Zaphod (giancarlo)** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 5:20 am

Eddie TX wrote:
Unless there are technical factors that make a real demo version impossible, I would bet that making one available would increase interest in this plugin dramatically. With the exception of a few indie developers, every other vendor on the planet offers free trials of their plugins -- can Acustica not do the same?

Cheers,
Eddie

About the planet.....
many are using pace. Uad runs only on their hardware. Other ones are using hardware dongles. Remain subset is cracked the day of the release (ok, sometimes a week later !!!)
Trial mode is not a valid protection
Sound burst is not applicable, since the way our libraries work (an acqua library is also a nebula library)

We released red eq as 'demo' for a standard eq, maybe in the future we'll find a solution for it.

kmonkey · Post by **kmonkey** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:20 am

An idea. You can provide fully finctional 14 day demo without automation parameters. Ok 14 days can be easily crackable but if your plugin does not provide parameter values to DAW at all (in a way they are completely missing in demo - i have seen such plugin demo examples) then there is no recall or automation inside project. This can't be cracekd or overcome AFAIK. If parameters are not there then they are not there..

Sure someone can always write values somewhere, load your plugin and set up everything again and they are fine and anyone can do it for a project or two but working like this on many projects is pain in the a** and likely that person is going to buy your full version...

just idea...

mustgroove · Post by **mustgroove** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:22 am

kmonkey wrote:An idea. You can provide fully finctional 14 day demo without automation parameters. Ok 14 days can be easily crackable but if your plugin does not provide parameter values to DAW at all (in a way they are completely missing in demo - i have seen such plugin demo examples) then there is no recall or automation inside project. This can't be cracekd or overcome AFAIK. If parameters are not there then they are not there..

Sure someone can always write values somewhere, load your plugin and set up everything again and they are fine and anyone can do it for a project or two but working like this on many projects is pain in the a** and likely that person is going to buy your full version...

just idea...

Yep that's another great idea...

Zaphod (giancarlo) · Post by **Zaphod (giancarlo)** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:12 pm

Eddie TX · Post by **Eddie TX** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 5:12 pm

kmonkey wrote:An idea. You can provide fully finctional 14 day demo without automation parameters ...

This is similar to how vendors like Massey, NI, Nomad Factory, and others do their demos. No automation and no saving of settings means the plugin can't be fully utilized in projects, but it can be evaluated to determine whether it warrants a purchase.

If this can be implemented with the Acustica plugins, a lot of people would be interested in giving them a spin.

The concern about piracy is certainly valid, but the question is whether Acustica would gain more sales by providing demo versions than would be lost due to pirates. I don't have an answer for that. But in any case, I wish Acustica the best of luck with the new and exciting developments in Nebula technology.

Cheers,
Eddie

Zaphod (giancarlo) · Post by **Zaphod (giancarlo)** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:19 pm

Eddie TX wrote:
kmonkey wrote:An idea. You can provide fully finctional 14 day demo without automation parameters ...
This is similar to how vendors like Massey, NI, Nomad Factory, and others do their demos. No automation and no saving of settings means the plugin can't be fully utilized in projects, but it can be evaluated to determine whether it warrants a purchase.

If this can be implemented with the Acustica plugins, a lot of people would be interested in giving them a spin.

The concern about piracy is certainly valid, but the question is whether Acustica would gain more sales by providing demo versions than would be lost due to pirates. I don't have an answer for that. But in any case, I wish Acustica the best of luck with the new and exciting developments in Nebula technology.

Cheers,
Eddie

We could provide something with disabled bands, or limited functionalities. We'll do it in the future, we are busy creating products now

Acustica - Trinity eQ