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Hi guys,

after months of hard work, I'm happy to finally have the chance to announce our new sister company, co-founded with guitar virtuoso Thomas McRocklin: PolyChrome DSP

For details about it, please read my first reply below.

In the meantime, we are happy to announce to you the release of our first plugin: McRocklin Suite

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The McRocklin Suite is a selection of amplifiers and effect pedals, tailored together to provide Production Ready Guitar Tones. The suite features four uniquely voiced amplifiers, four stackable distortion pedals, 21 fully produced speaker chains, seven effect pedals and many more exciting features.

McRocklin was previously using a vast amount of hardware and software to create his tones.
It was a complex setup that relied on over $3000 worth of software, multiple hardware controllers, drive and compression pedals. Ultimately it became unmanageable, there had to be a better way!
Thus the concept for the McRocklin Suite was born.

McRocklin Suite Intro Song


Song Breakdown


Plugin Walkthrough


Specifications
  • Four amplifiers: Acoustic, Clean, Edge, Gain
  • Four distinct Acoustic voicings
  • Four distortion pedals
  • Wah
  • Heatpressor
  • Synth Octaver
  • Phaser
  • 21 Speaker Chains
  • Speaker’s Tone Shaping (Resonance, Air, Lo/Hi Cut)
  • Dual EQ (4 Band Parametric + 8 Band Graphic)
  • 3 Delay modes (Stereo, Pong, Grain)
  • 3 Reverb modes (Shop, Space, Dream)
  • Stereo Chorus
  • Post-chain Compressor
  • Gate
  • Stereo Widener
  • Global Input/Output controls for gain staging
  • MIDI Mapping
  • Over 500 presets
  • Resizable interface
Price: €149/$149

More info: https://www.polychromedsp.com/

Cheers,
Luca
Last edited by Audiority on Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:19 pm, edited 6 times in total.

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A personal note:
First of all I want to clarify that Audiority will still be here and nothing will change. I had the idea to create a new company for guitar related plugins a long time ago, since I didn't want Audiority to become a guitar-centric plugin company. I've been asked many times about suites, signing up artists and so on and having a new company, to me, is the perfect way to keep things in the proper place.
Last year I've been in touch with the amazing Thomas McRocklin. He was using some of our plugins for his masterclasses and we started chatting. We found out to have a lot in common, especially sharing the vision of a next generation of guitar plugins so, ultimately, we decided to take the leap and create PolyChrome DSP.

To avoid any kind of confusion, I'll set up a proper KVR account for future communications as PDSP.
I hope you will enjoy our work and, please, check out all videos! You'll see that "Production Ready Guitar Tones" is not just a marketing tagline, but something real :D

Love you all!
Luca

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McRocklin Suite updated v1.0.1

Changes
- FIX: Standalone not processing audio when using the 2nd input of a stereo pair
- FIX: Demo version silencer triggering at random times on some configurations

You can download the update from your User Area account.

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McRocklin Suite updated v1.1

Changes
- NEW: Tuner
- NEW: Tap Tempo and BPM change (Standalone only)
- NEW: New presets (more details on our Support page)
- FIX: Speakers volume increasing with sample rate changes
- FIX: Preset deleted if Cancel pressed on the Delete Preset warning box
- FIX: Deleted preset still showing while scrolling via PREV/NEXT buttons
- FIX: Logo painting in low-res on Windows
- CHANGE: Improved Standalone app
- CHANGE: Improved look for knobs, buttons and FX section icons
- CHANGE: Improved Synth Oct pitch tracker
- CHANGE: New Version Icon is now clickable

You can download the update from your User Area account.

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McRocklin Suite updated v1.1.2

Changes
- NEW: New presets (more details on our Support page)
- FIX: Improved Tuner precision among sample rates and block sizes
- FIX: Preset damaged after being favourited in DEMO version

You can download the update from your User Area account.

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McRocklin Suite updated v1.2 (Sonic Empire)

Changes
- NEW: Added a 6th and 7th speaker for Clean/Edge/Gain amps
- NEW: Drag preset to the UI to automatically load it and save it in the User folder
- NEW: Sonic Empire (v1.2) preset bank
- NEW: Sounds Like preset bank
- CHANGE: Improved tuner and pitch tracker
- CHANGE: Factory presets (excluding the one allowed in the DEMO version) now requires a valid license file to load
- CHANGE: Improved license management
- BREAKING CHANGE: Favourites for factory presets is reset

You can download the update from your User Area account.

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I love the UI. Death to skeuomophism.

Why some devs make plug-ins that use 80% of their space to render what even on the real thing is just tolexed plywood covering empty space is beyond me.

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Join us today, 5PM UK, for the launch of PolyChrome DSP McRocklin Suite v1.5 "Ground Control". Hop on!



Cheers,
Luca

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McRocklin Suite updated v1.5 (Ground Control)



Changes
- NEW: GUI overhaul
- NEW: MIDI Mapping
- NEW: Phaser
- NEW: Wah
- NEW: Knob locking
- NEW: More presets
- FIX: Improved manual value editing for knobs
- CHANGE: New Presets Manager engine
- CHANGE: Visual feedback for Gate (Yellow = is gating)
- CHANGE: Visual feedback for Output
- CHANGE: Improved presets
- CHANGE: More demo presets
- BREAKING CHANGE: Preset names must be unique
- BREAKING CHANGE: MIDI-enabled plugins won’t load on old sessions
- BREAKING CHANGE: Minimum macOS version is now 10.13

You can download the update from your User Area account.

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Hey guys, tonight I'll be live streaming with Thomas McRocklin. We'll talk about PolyChrome DSP and have fun. Hop on!



Cheers,
Luca

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First time I ever heard/read about your new company and as a guitar-player and huge fan of Audiority I must admit that I am quite shocked and appalled... :shock: :lol:


It's all quite fitting though - the sound, the GUI, the product-presentation, the company-name - but I for one am super-allergic to all of that (which is why I never could be arsed to even just try a demo of any NeuralDSP product either)


Hoarses for courses...

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Give it a try :D

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'kay - I will - but just because it's you, Luca...

However my eyes need to get some rest first, because I started watching the video and couldn't avoid looking at his guitars (not sure I'll ever be able to fully recover from that)

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Okay, I have now tried it and I really hate basically everything about it. :shrug:

I guess there's room for a third company. ;-) :lol:

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Yeah, I found it dreadful for a number of reasons.

The first thing I had to do was switch stuff off that shouldn't be ony when you load the plugin - which was spread across
three tabs: "Heatprocessor" (whatever that is - I had no inclination to find out after trying the plugin for a few minutes), EQ and Comp - then I had to switch to the clean amp and then to another tab (which is not the first one - bad) in order to try different cabinet-settings, just to find out that the different cabinets are just numbers, which is bad, as it makes it extra difficult to remember which one does what. (I never use Waves' Kaleidoscopes for the same reason - give it names please! I don't really care what these are - if you must insist it should not refer to any real gear it might be "itzebroegl", Kuhlemuz", "Phazfartaz" "hupsezorkz", "pastoquastostello", just as long as it isn't just numbers (or letters) :dog: ).

Only now I could evaluate the actual amps sims:

Clean doesn't really break up - WTF? I first fully pulled up the amp gain and then increaseed the input-gain but "computer says no"

Edge doesn't really edge either - it kind of breaks up, but like a bad transistor-amp - nothing that would really support my fingers...

after that I tried a few presets - most are greyed out for whatever bizarre reason though - I tried a few but these... well, they

a) were REALLY f**king LOUD (and I mean ear-piercingly loud), so whoever supplied them used the additional processors to add significant loudness - WELL THANKS FOR NOTHING REALLY (my ears asked me to please pass on to you to kindly f**k off)

b) they had really weird FX choices - sounded like bad wannabe special-FX that I'm sure I'd never have any use for. They certainly weren't conventional bread and butter presets.

And again: I am talking about a couple of the few that aren't greyed out i.e. of the only ones the plugin-demo has on offer.

That really was it for me then - I seriously had enough.

That was just me super-quickly testing it out and I had no inclination to find out what else might be shitty about it. :lol:


But to each their own, I guess. :?

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