KVR Audio

Choikdoi · Post by **Choikdoi** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:31 pm

martiu wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 9:29 pm the reviews are all positive, it must be good, gonna buy now

Hopefully it has lots of lovely crispy aLOLiasing.

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:45 pm

it is nice that the reviewers have 0 posts here on the forum and are writing the reviews in close proximity, very trustworthy

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:29 am

When something's written, it's always true.
Nobody would lie for the sake of business benefit.
All developers are honest and our friends.
We are loyal customers and support them with our wallet.
We're living in the perfect world.

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:44 am

martiu wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:59 pm u vil own nothin, u vil be happy, eat ze bug

Choikdoi · Post by **Choikdoi** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:47 am

martinjuenke wrote: Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:29 am When something's written, it's always true.
Nobody would lie for the sake of business benefit.
All developers are honest and our friends.
We are loyal customers and support them with our wallet.
We're living in the perfect world.

Say that you'll never never never never read it.
One plugin review why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world.

neverbefore · Post by **neverbefore** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:31 am

tonsturm doppler pro
Zynaptiq Vocoder 4
SonicLab Oceanic
GS DSP MMM
UVI Phasor
Anemond Factorsynth
DearReality MIYA
probably quite a few others that all offered something new

Scrubbing Monkeys · Post by **Scrubbing Monkeys** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:08 am

D16 Starting to update the drum machines was pretty cool.

Charlatan 3 is a surprise.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:23 am

Imagine an AI that creates an AI company selling AI plugins. It's a brilliant concept that only AI would be capable of creating. Soon we will be just AI consumers writing on forums created by AI...

But yeah, it's been a great year for blowing large amounts of cash on exciting pieces of software which we will never use.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:39 pm

egbert101 wrote: Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:23 am Imagine an AI that creates an AI company selling AI plugins. It's a brilliant concept that only AI would be capable of creating. Soon we will be just AI consumers writing on forums created by AI...

It does seem a bit like that. The market seems to have catered spectacularly well for every conceivable type of traditional synthesis, and streamlined the interfaces. How else is an audio software company going to create a groundbreaking product other than by harnessing AI, and the consequences of that might involve a diminishing of the need to understand traditional synthesis since the AI will handle that aspect for you. That then removes the need to learn a whole heap of theoretical stuff, and undermines the audio edutainment industry (which is already oversaturated).

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:32 pm

Phoscyon 2 & Arturia Acid V, Savant Audio QRS have me very excited. Even that MA synth that was subscription then suddenly wasn't sounds like a megasynth (though the wavetable/granular crap makes it unappealing to me). Cubase 13 with vocoder and every other DAW had upgrades which many users probably got quite excited about. Even that Lex242 thing was quite exciting (though not to me, but plenty here got their knickers all twisted about it). And then there were 10,783 saturation plugins to f**k up your tracks with. It's pretty exciting to f**k up your tracks isn't it?

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:10 pm

TONEX was released in 2023 right? That's going to be an all-time favorite plugin for me. Many other guitar players too. And it was actually something new. A software amp/pedal profiler where users could create their own profiles. That's where TH-U f*cked up IMO; keeping theirs closed. NAM, as a free alternative, is also huge.

There have been a few other really good releases but they're just variations on things we already had like a "another good compressor/EQ/reverb/etc". Nothing particularly Earth shattering with those IMO. Was glad that Orange Vocoder finally got the long-awaited update. Cytomic finally on Apple Silicon is also nice.

It's getting easier not buying plugins because there are so many great ones out there already. That said, I've still bought quite a few in 2023.

DCrown · Post by **DCrown** » Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:32 pm

UAD native plugins were not tempting for me (were they released this year?, the waves/plugin alliance pricing was this year, though), because I already have most of these plugins whether it's LA2A, 1176 etc
and although some people were asserting UAD's versions are the best, it was not convincing, at least not for me

dionenoid · Post by **dionenoid** » Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:20 am

So much new stuff, so little really 'new'.

For me, the only surprising plugin in 2023 was WA Kickshaper : https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/kickshaper
And yeah i know, it's WA Productions. But this one's pretty innovative (see the topic on GS for more info).

lolilol1975 · Post by **lolilol1975** » Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:09 pm

Liquidsonics didn't release a new reverb ?
Else there is Fabfilter Pro R which has just been released.

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:00 pm

dionenoid wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:20 am So much new stuff, so little really 'new'.

For me, the only surprising plugin in 2023 was WA Kickshaper : https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/kickshaper
And yeah i know, it's WA Productions. But this one's pretty innovative (see the topic on GS for more info).

Yeah.

I bought it on a whim and I have to say that I was really surprised by the results.

It's one of those plugins that makes it ridiculously easy to dial in your ideal kick sound.

Really impressed with it.

2023 what a plugin year!