Cherry Audio Releases Galactic Reverb

[briefcasemanx]

Beauty's truly in the eyes of the beholder. I dont see how people can really like how Valhalla DSP looks but dislike Galactic?

Valhalla plugins look bad, especially that one, but it's a sound maker, who cares?

(Apparently a lot of people if it has the name Cherry on it)

I think if anything is making the Cherry design look bad, it's the knobs. They should have made the knobs white outlines, so you could still see the space background, and they'd look invisible like the rest of the case. Could look cool as long as the numbers on the knobs were still made very highly visible.

[Vortifex]

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[jinxtigr]

uhh, this name is already taken for another well regarded reverb plugin.

https://www.airwindows.com/galactic/

Does it sound the same? One of the things about open source is that you could TAKE that verb and put it in your thing, all you have to do is give credit.

Surge Synthesizer did exactly that with my Galactic and have been enjoying the hell out of it, so this is not hypothetical.

If it doesn't sound the same as my Galactic, it's just a name collision, and there are only so many deep space names to use. I would say don't worry about it, heck I've done Console plugins and another company put out a Console One and we both survived that

[Teksonik]

I am also not a fan of the galaxy background but the knobs are just circles who cares if the look realistic if they function just as well. I am not saying the plugin looks good im just saying it looks very functionnal and easy to navigate and ultimately that is the only thing that matters.

No, the only thing that matters is how it sounds. Everything else is secondary. But if I have two plugins to choose from that sound equally good I'm going to pick the one I enjoy looking at and not one that is an eyesore to me.

This situation has never occurred with me and I have like a thousand plugins. I've never looked at my plugin folder and thought "hmmm, these 2 plugins sound equivalent for the task, I'll randomly choose the one that looks cooler". I just choose whichever plugin I think will be functionally better for the task.

And if both plugins are functionally equal? Don't you prefer plugins that you enjoy looking at for extended periods of time rather than those you find unappealing if they are functionally equivalent? I prefer plugins that I find visually appealing. I hardly think that's a controversial stance.

This seems like a scenario made up for forum arguments.

Yet here you are engaging in a forum argument. I simply gave my opinion to the developer. If others get triggered by that and feel the need to push back then....whatever.

[Teksonik]

No, the only thing that matters is how it sounds. Everything else is secondary.

Yes the sound is the most thing of course but I never disputed that. If you don't like the sound that's your opinion I was not challenging that. I don't need another reverb right now so i'm not even going to demo it for the moment. I just tought you were harsh on the design wich dosen't look cool to me but perfectly usable.

I said "utterly horrid GUI". You're the one who assumed that had anything to do with usability. But harsh or not that's my opinion and it was aimed at the developer in hopes they may get the message. Cherry Audio has received criticism over the quality of their GUIs in the past.

In the end you're defending the usability of a plugin you haven't even demoed and have no intention of buying so I don't think we have anything else to discuss.

[GaryG]

Beauty's truly in the eyes of the beholder. I dont see how people can really like how Valhalla DSP looks but dislike Galactic?

I can look at that Valhalla gui and see every setting instantly, the Galactic one is visibly a lot harder to read and then just shows arbitary numbers for most of the params.

Having said that, I think Valhalla could tweak the font settings, maybe a little smaller so looks a little less crowded.

[El°HYM]

I want a Reverb called Battlestar Galaticta to finally defeat the Cylon Empire and free the twelve colonies of Mankind.

[rsaintjohn]

If it doesn't sound the same as my Galactic, it's just a name collision, and there are only so many deep space names to use. I would say don't worry about it, heck I've done Console plugins and another company put out a Console One and we both survived that

Hi Chris, our apologies to you and all for any confusion that results from the Galactic Reverb name and your Galactic. Our plugin is a spinoff of the algorithm we added in Dreamsynth earlier this year which we called "Galactic," and the name stuck once we decided to break it out as a separate plugin. There is no relation between your work and code and our own. Although they may both sound spacey, a look and listen to your video indicates that the two go into different multiverses. If you have any concerns, drop me a message.

[El°HYM]

So there will be an Airwindows & Cherry Audio collaboration in our future?

[pekbro]

Cherryair, I like it...

[gnu23]

Have a nice day all, and thanks again Cherry Audio.

[briefcasemanx]

I am also not a fan of the galaxy background but the knobs are just circles who cares if the look realistic if they function just as well. I am not saying the plugin looks good im just saying it looks very functionnal and easy to navigate and ultimately that is the only thing that matters.

No, the only thing that matters is how it sounds. Everything else is secondary. But if I have two plugins to choose from that sound equally good I'm going to pick the one I enjoy looking at and not one that is an eyesore to me.

This situation has never occurred with me and I have like a thousand plugins. I've never looked at my plugin folder and thought "hmmm, these 2 plugins sound equivalent for the task, I'll randomly choose the one that looks cooler". I just choose whichever plugin I think will be functionally better for the task.

And if both plugins are functionally equal? Don't you prefer plugins that you enjoy looking at for extended periods of time rather than those you find unappealing if they are functionally equivalent? I prefer plugins that I find visually appealing. I hardly think that's a controversial stance.

This seems like a scenario made up for forum arguments.

Yet here you are engaging in a forum argument. I simply gave my opinion to the developer. If others get triggered by that and feel the need to push back then....whatever.

Your response addresses literally none of what I wrote. The first paragraph just repeats stuff you've already said, and second paragraph is completely and utterly pointless text. I'm confused about why you've even replied.

I don't own 2 plugins that are functionally equivalent.

Since there is a 100% chance that you'll reply to try to continue and "win" a lazy forum argument about why a pretty exterior is important for something that makes sound. I'll let you have the last word because I have important things to do. I won't read your reply, so you'll be typing a response to literally no one. Have a good one.

[kmonkey]

KVR forum "product specialists" on a rampage. Hahaha, imagine every developer trying to adapt every internet schmuck vision of a GUI. End result?

And then imagine every developer gets a coin whenever someone says: it's easy to do, it's "just" this or that.

If Cherry audio used "cheap" commercial knobs or faders then 20 people on KVR would bash him because he is using commercial or free knobs.Instead of actually hearing the plugin.

Tits.

[Krakatau]

Cherryair, I like it...

excellent !

[gnu23]