Community opinions: is DAW essentials worth it?

[FigBug]

All the presets are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ylt3fxjm1t6mp ... s.zip?dl=0

Could you try extracting them into ~/Library/Audio/Presets/Tracktion and let me know if that fixes the issue.

[Mark Swanson]

So, I bought the plug ins with the Waveform bundle and I am impressed with them, really like them. I just wanted to toss my .02 in, yes they are really worth it.

[Lutin mutin]

Hi FigBug !

I've downloaded the presets folder of the DAW Essentials at the url you indicate in your previous "reply" in this tread. And I unzip it...

When I put the presets folder in
internal HD > library > audio > presets > Tracktion >
(where all the other Tracktion presets are - BioTek and Collective -), I am still with no presets at all when I load an essential plugin in Waveform.

BUT...

When I drag-and-drop the respective downloaded presets folder in
me (user) > library > audio > presets > Tracktion >
(I had to create the Tracktion folder, because in this place it did not exist)...
YEEESS !! --> all the DAW essentials plugins have now access to factory presets !!

You solved my problem !

FigBug, Thank you very much !!!

One more problem solved.
And now, I go to the Tracktion website in order to download and install the new 8.0.25 Waveform version...

Thanks again !

[zzz00m]

Hey all! I have mentioned this before in some other threads, but I'm an Ableton Live convert. I relied very heavily on the built in FX that Live had, so I have never really explored free or paid FX plugins. Just wanted to gauge the community to see how good DAW essentials was. I have not yet purchased Waveform, so it would only be an extra $50 I believe.

Thanks!

I bought DAW Essentials for $99. And my favourites was: Compressor, Delay Studio, Equalizer and Reverber8. That's an acceptable $24.75 per unit. However, it is worth pointing out that I prefer the free TDR Kotelnikov over Compressor and the free Oril River over Reverber8. So we could probably argue about the actual worth of DAW Essentials in my case.

I would say that the free TDR Koletnikov Compressor and TDR Nova EQ are very good stuff. The updated free Oril River Reverb is nice.

Voxengo Span is a great free spectrum analyzer.

Don't forget to check out the free plugin bundles from Blue Cat Audio, which offers some good chorus, flanger, and phaser FX, and Melda, which has a bit of everything. Try these out and see what you still need. That's the beauty of plugins, you can add them as you need them.