Acustica Ultimate Dreamware Studio Collection 2
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 26 Mar, 2008 from Burgthann, Germany
Hello,
I am wondering if the Ultimate Dreamware Studio Collection 2 is worth its money if one only mixes ITB but on a professional level. Any opinions?
I am wondering if the Ultimate Dreamware Studio Collection 2 is worth its money if one only mixes ITB but on a professional level. Any opinions?
- KVRAF
- 5948 posts since 8 Jul, 2009
Try the demos
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 26 Mar, 2008 from Burgthann, Germany
Ok. But I am still interested in a variety of opinions based on long term experience with these plugins.
- KVRAF
- 1562 posts since 3 Jan, 2019 from Holland
Do you already own any Acustica plug-ins ? Because they are cpu hungry and the only way to find out how hungry they are on your system is to demo them.
More BPM please
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 26 Mar, 2008 from Burgthann, Germany
I own Nebula 4 Pro. I assume, with a Intel Core i9 9980XE, CPU hunger should be manageable also on larger mixes?
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- KVRian
- 1390 posts since 16 Jan, 2018 from Portland, OR USA
I use a limited variety of plugins. Acustica is the main force (usually). With a i9 9900K I haven't found limitations yet. I do mostly rock and pop-rock, so I don't use many VSTis. Mostly Falcon 2 does everything I need and at times a NI library here and there or a second synth, but that's about it. My full mixes end up in the 16 to 32 tracks tops and it's mostly audio tracks and buses.
I have all the dreamware plugins by Acustica that I've been buying over time. Money wise, I have paid way more than what they're asking for. Thinking about it, I could have skipped a few strip channels and EQs (I don't use all of them all the time, at all), but overall I'm very happy with those plugins. They do sound fantastic, along with a collection of 3rd party nebula ones.
I have all the dreamware plugins by Acustica that I've been buying over time. Money wise, I have paid way more than what they're asking for. Thinking about it, I could have skipped a few strip channels and EQs (I don't use all of them all the time, at all), but overall I'm very happy with those plugins. They do sound fantastic, along with a collection of 3rd party nebula ones.
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- KVRAF
- 5948 posts since 8 Jul, 2009
I have all of them except 3. I use them regularily on my mixed and mastering. I typically use them on tracks as the final touch. They have transformed the sound I am able to get into something more pleasing. I feel they help to mitigate the nasty sound that digital processing can impart. However it really depends on how your ears/brain work and how capable you are of using them in a pleasing way. They are not a silver bullet/one-knob kind of thing.
Here are a couple tracks mixed and mastered with Acquas. Pretty much on every track and the master buss. To me these have "that Acqua sound" - however as I mentioned it comes down to how the individual uses them - just putting them on tracks and hoping won't help.
https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/world-suite
https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/kkryhztalizzed
Here are a couple tracks mixed and mastered with Acquas. Pretty much on every track and the master buss. To me these have "that Acqua sound" - however as I mentioned it comes down to how the individual uses them - just putting them on tracks and hoping won't help.
https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/world-suite
https://soundcloud.com/musicofplexus/kkryhztalizzed
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- KVRian
- 1030 posts since 26 Feb, 2018
I don't use AA because of the CPU. But:
All the other plugins we are buying are toys? 9 y/o Timmy mastering records with TDR plugins, Black Rooster made a 1073 because they wanted an excuse to use the color purple?
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 26 Mar, 2008 from Burgthann, Germany
I am aware of that and I'm not looking for one-knob stuff. Since I am more after a warm, analog sound, and since I have to stay ITB (because as a physically handicapped person, I could not work with outboard equipment, at least not without help), I am wondering if the Acqua line would be worth to be added to my arsenal.
- KVRAF
- 1562 posts since 3 Jan, 2019 from Holland
Some do, some don't. The ones on older Core versions are still laggy and very cpu hungry (like one of my favs : Lemon). Gold is known for being cpu hungry so i don't think even the newest systems can run a lot of these. But since you already have Nebula, you also have Aquarius so it's easy to demo them and see how they act on your system and daw.
I read a lot ppl like some Nebula libraries better than the Aquas. There's some good topics about this on Gearslutz. Personally i didn't like the workflow of Nebula so i didn't buy it, but since you do it might be worth checking out some libraries if you didn't already..
I own a bunch of Aquas. I demoed almost all of them but just don't feel the need for owning all of them, as there's a lot of overlap and a lot of them are just not that great.
While this offer for the whole collection is appealing, i think you can get by with having a few of them that you really like for your purposes. And realistically you'll never be able to run all of them in a project, even on the most powerful computer. But again, demo them and listen for yourself.
More BPM please