XLN RC-20 Retro Color

[p_wats]

Very tempted by the blowout price. Telling myself I don't need this as I already have the Soundtoys bundle, but it's hard to resist nonetheless.

[zvenx]

On Pc, in the xln installer you can designate where it installs to. Best way that the installing doesnt keep trying to reinstall.
rsp

[VariKusBrainZ]

Im finding on Win10 64bit the plugins dont like symbolically linked folders.
They still work just throw up a message a couple of times stating 'wrong binary location'

[VariKusBrainZ]

Im finding on Win10 64bit the plugins dont like symbolically linked folders.
They still work just throw up a message a couple of times stating 'wrong binary location'

sorry, I mean junction points not symbolic links

[skiltrip]

Very tempted by the blowout price. Telling myself I don't need this as I already have the Soundtoys bundle, but it's hard to resist nonetheless.

The current sale brought me here as well. I picked up DS-10 for under $20 from Plugindiscounts. Now I'm curious about RC-20, especially as this incredibly lowered price point. Then again, I can pick up Fabfilter Saturn for under $35 as well with my current FabFilter discounts. The GAS never ends.

Demoing RC-20 now. Not sure I'm convinced I need this, though it's fun to mess around with. I don't do anything electronic. I do rock music, both energetic punk/pop stuff and also acoustic indie folk/pop. I find that most effecty type plugins like this I ultimately just stop using. That's what I did with EZmix. I collected a bunch of expansions, and eventually sold it because I was becoming more and more choosy about what I wanted things to sound like.

Gotta love a cheap plugin though.

[whyterabbyt]

On Pc, in the xln installer you can designate where it installs to. Best way that the installing doesnt keep trying to reinstall.
rsp

Nope. On the PC you can only designate a single location where ALL their plugins get installed to. So if you want to do something utterly 'bizarre' like have your effects plugins in a different folder from your drum plugin, you cannot do that. And if you change the plugin path the installer uses, it automatically relocates all your XLM plugins into that one single folder.

And not only do they not let you install into different folders, they do not let you moveany of their plugins manually from that one single folder. If you move the plugin, then every time you scan or insert it, and the first time per instance you open it, you get warning popups complaining that its not in that one single folder the installer wants to use, even though the plugin works perfectly well if its been moved.

In other words, they disrupt your use of the plugin because they, utterly arbitrarily, want you to have all of their plugins in the same folder, and the plugins and the installer are written to penalise you if you try not to do that.

[p_wats]

Very tempted by the blowout price. Telling myself I don't need this as I already have the Soundtoys bundle, but it's hard to resist nonetheless.

The current sale brought me here as well. I picked up DS-10 for under $20 from Plugindiscounts. Now I'm curious about RC-20, especially as this incredibly lowered price point. Then again, I can pick up Fabfilter Saturn for under $35 as well with my current FabFilter discounts. The GAS never ends.

Demoing RC-20 now. Not sure I'm convinced I need this, though it's fun to mess around with. I don't do anything electronic. I do rock music, both energetic punk/pop stuff and also acoustic indie folk/pop. I find that most effecty type plugins like this I ultimately just stop using. That's what I did with EZmix. I collected a bunch of expansions, and eventually sold it because I was becoming more and more choosy about what I wanted things to sound like.

Gotta love a cheap plugin though.

I actually mostly do indie folk/pop/rock stuff too. I'm still tempted by this and have been demoing it, but I'm not convinced I'll actually end up using it often. That said, I've been doing more synthy stuff lately, so who knows.

[jbuonacc]

On Pc, in the xln installer you can designate where it installs to. Best way that the installing doesnt keep trying to reinstall.
rsp

Nope. On the PC you can only designate a single location where ALL their plugins get installed to. So if you want to do something utterly 'bizarre' like have your effects plugins in a different folder from your drum plugin, you cannot do that. And if you change the plugin path the installer uses, it automatically relocates all your XLM plugins into that one single folder.

And not only do they not let you install into different folders, they do not let you moveany of their plugins manually from that one single folder. If you move the plugin, then every time you scan or insert it, and the first time per instance you open it, you get warning popups complaining that its not in that one single folder the installer wants to use, even though the plugin works perfectly well if its been moved.

In other words, they disrupt your use of the plugin because they, utterly arbitrarily, want you to have all of their plugins in the same folder, and the plugins and the installer are written to penalise you if you try not to do that.

you can fix this by running the installer program (the one that gets installed to "Program Files") again and changing the location in the "Advanced" tab. i didn't notice any way to change this when it was actually installing, but this will fix the "wrong location" problem.

[whyterabbyt]

you can fix this by running the installer program (the one that gets installed to "Program Files") again and changing the location in the "Advanced" tab. i didn't notice any way to change this when it was actually installing, but this will fix the "wrong location" problem.

No you cannot fix this, where 'this' is the fact that it forces you to have all their plugins in the same folder, and I specifically addressed that in my post. Reread:

And if you change the plugin path the installer uses, it automatically relocates all your XLN plugins into that one single folder.

Relocating the one single folder it makes you install everything into does not fix the issue of it forcing you to have everything installed in the same single folder, and if you think it does, you clearly didnt test it.

[dreamvoid]

I bought licenses of RC-20 and DS-10 and found out that there is only the possibility to get these authorized when the studio machines are online. To exclude offline installers is a big fail IMO. I have one studio Windows machine I cut off the internet already (but not my intranet) and usually authorize it with offline installers. I never came across a software maker being so bold to offer online authorization only. This is just a hint for those with studio machines disconnected from the inetrnet for safety reasons. RC-20 is a great sounding plug in but this authorization scheme will hold me back in the future from XLN products for sure.

[Kr3eM]

To exclude offline installers is a big fail IMO.

+1

[JerGoertz]

This is my first project using it as a global mix/colouring tool. It's a cheesy 80's scifi/horror film intro parody:

https://soundcloud.com/mcbpete/vr-82

Very nice! If you don't mind sharing, what settings did you use?

[e@rs]

To exclude offline installers is a big fail IMO.

+1

+1. That's the reason I don't own any XLN Audio products so far.

[dreamvoid]

To exclude offline installers is a big fail IMO.

+1

+1. That's the reason I don't own any XLN Audio products so far.

I can understand this, because it is totally user unfriendly and needs a reality check by XLN Audio - many studio computers never get connected to the internet. I have no clue what was in their coffee to make such a decision. I found all this out afterwards my purchase - I never considered a company doing nonsense like this.
In all fairness I have to say that RC-20 and DS.10 are very useful plug ins tho.

[plexuss]

I had a request to share the settings I used in my track. Here it is, a variation of a factory preset.

I've been using it a lot. I love noise and distortion in the manner analogue gear imparts it. thats is, subtly but psychoacoustically significant. heres an example:

https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/ca ... lakes-blue