Taipei Studio Tape Recorder from London Acoustics - Official Acqua N4 plugin

[London Acoustics]

You can downgrade to the previous version via Aquarius in seconds. But you should still use this Rev.B because it is updated with a year's worth of customer feedback and new technologies.
Verona will be the next, and so on, in reverese order of release: Enna-Telge, Brighton, Osaka and last Tokyo.
Taipei should be the only one not backward compatible, the others yes.

[Leo1999]

I am demoing Taipei and Verona and am surprised to find
separate plugins like AA plugins,
wheras TimP plugins must be selected in N4, though.
I prefer London Acoustics' approach.
Or are just trial versions separate plugins?
Is there a reason why there's one Version of Taipei
with less knobs / options?
Imo the fuller version is better.
I like Taipei and think I will buy it,
just have to try the plugin in bigger projects,
it's quite heavy on CPU, but not too heavy!
Well, Verona is not bad, too, but I already
have (too) many eqs and I can't justify the
purchase of "just" another eq also with
regard to the price.
Imo you did a good job on Taipei.

[London Acoustics]

I am demoing Taipei and Verona and am surprised to find
separate plugins like AA plugins,
wheras TimP plugins must be selected in N4, though.
I prefer London Acoustics' approach.
Or are just trial versions separate plugins?
Is there a reason why there's one Version of Taipei
with less knobs / options?
Imo the fuller version is better.
I like Taipei and think I will buy it,
just have to try the plugin in bigger projects,
it's quite heavy on CPU, but not too heavy!
Well, Verona is not bad, too, but I already
have (too) many eqs and I can't justify the
purchase of "just" another eq also with
regard to the price.
Imo you did a good job on Taipei.

Ours are official third-party N4 Acqua plugins, the others you mentioned are N4 libraries.
The standalone DLLs (or AAX or AU) are for both trial and purchased versions (the only difference is that the trial version has only 44.1 and 96 kHz carriers, while the purchased version also has 48 and 88.2 kHz).
TAIPEI is an R2R for studio tapes, TAIPEI LITE is an R2R for home recording (also lighter on CPU and RAM), both are useful and interesting to apply, depending on the type of track.

Verona is a very rare console tube EQ from the 1950s and is able to twist your sterile recordings made with a generic sound card in an obviously good way
Its strong point is the combination of the 9 preamp and EQ bands. It is really hard to find good alternatives in the digital world.

[Leo1999]

I am demoing Taipei and Verona and am surprised to find
separate plugins like AA plugins,
wheras TimP plugins must be selected in N4, though.
I prefer London Acoustics' approach.
Or are just trial versions separate plugins?
Is there a reason why there's one Version of Taipei
with less knobs / options?
Imo the fuller version is better.
I like Taipei and think I will buy it,
just have to try the plugin in bigger projects,
it's quite heavy on CPU, but not too heavy!
Well, Verona is not bad, too, but I already
have (too) many eqs and I can't justify the
purchase of "just" another eq also with
regard to the price.
Imo you did a good job on Taipei.

Ours are official third-party N4 Acqua plugins, the others you mentioned are N4 libraries.
The standalone DLLs (or AAX or AU) are for both trial and purchased versions (the only difference is that the trial version has only 44.1 and 96 kHz carriers, while the purchased version also has 48 and 88.2 kHz).
TAIPEI is an R2R for studio tapes, TAIPEI LITE is an R2R for home recording (also lighter on CPU and RAM), both are useful and interesting to apply, depending on the type of track.

Verona is a very rare console tube EQ from the 1950s and is able to twist your sterile recordings made with a generic sound card in an obviously good way
Its strong point is the combination of the 9 preamp and EQ bands. It is really hard to find good alternatives in the digital world.

Thanks for your reply. No doubt you can get great results with Taipei,
as to Verona it is truly speaking a bit disappointing to me that you
did not create two mid bands, low mid and high mid plus the existing
two other ones. Maybe I am wrong, but wouldn't you quite often need a low and
high cut eq in addition when boosting lows and highs with Verona, because it has shelving
filters?!
I do not know the original unit and of course my knowledge of
developing plugins is low, but isn't it generally possible on one side to
be close to the original and at the same time even add things, that's what
makes software exciting, doesn't it? Maybe the fact that your plugins are not
algorithmic is a limitation ?
Or is it your general goal to create plugins
100% equal to the hardware?
4 bands are simply better than only 3 imo.

[London Acoustics]

The equalizer itself already has a natural low cut and a high cut in some preamps (if I well remember from 1 to 4).
Regarding the second Mid is not really necessary because the Verona has a fairly wide bell curve, it is a vintage-style EQ that operates in a very musical way, it is the opposite concept of a Fabfilter Pro-Q, for example.
If you need two mids there is our Tokyo, a 1990s vintage tube equalizer with selectable Q.

[TBlake]

Thanks for your assistance

[Leo1999]

I also can't use Taipei (demo version) on bigger projects, CPU simply is too high

[London Acoustics]

Tried the Rev B and the CPU is horrendous on my machine. Completely unusable to me.
I contacted the company and asked for a refund based on all the bungling that has occurred with this release. London Acoustics has to be one most unprofessional companies I have ever had the misfortune to deal with.

We already had a private discussion today via email, please don't start it here too.
Your system is 8 years old and TAIPEI (that's from the 2021) takes 50% CPU in that system.
We offer 30-day fully functional trial to test just to help you evaluate before purchase.
You asked for a refund, which was fine in spite of the 12 months after your purchase, but you refused to open a ticket @AA to get it (it's the only technical way) and then became quite rude.
Please don't.

[London Acoustics]

I also can't use Taipei (demo version) on bigger projects, CPU simply is too high

Thank you for your interest in our product, if you need help, please contact us via PM, we can evaluate whether we can improve the performance according to your system.

[TBlake]

Thanks for your assistance

[London Acoustics]

you're right, it was stupid of me to think London Acoustics could fix TAIPEI without doubling the CPU. Of course I NEVER would have purchased TAIPEI if it performed like that when I trialed. You know what the right thing is to do here, and refuse to do it. It's what makes London Acoustics an exceptionally unprofessional company.

FYI we have not doubled the CPU consumption; in fact, we have reduced it from the previous version, as some users have happily reported these days.
There is something in your system that is acting as a bottleneck, and as a first point I think it may be the age of your system (which affects not only CPU but also RAM speed and so on).

I am seriously willing to return to more calm and respectful tones and attempt to resolve, if you wish, your problem, or in case to proceed with a refund.
I realize that it is frustrating not to be able to use a purchased plugin and it is my mission to help customers in need, but please help me with this. So accept to open an offical ticket in the AA website.
Our goal from the foundation is to create great tools (without compromise) to make your job easier, certainly not the other way around.
Thank you in advance.

[London Acoustics]

JUST A REMINDER
23:59 CET time, today.

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[DCrown]

I read the posts by TBlake and I would be surprised if he invented his case.
So my question is whether your trial versions have less cpu consumption than the full versions?

[Erik_Lucas]

This thing is crazy good.

[London Acoustics]

I read the posts by TBlake and I would be surprised if he invented his case.
So my question is whether your trial versions have less cpu consumption than the full versions?

The trial is exactly the same, just 44 and 96khz vectors only.