UAD PolyMAX - This thing is Sick

[Chicken Drummy]

It does sound very good. A word of warning though. UAD Connect requires authorisation either online or via dongle. On several occasions authorisation has failed for me, causing the dreaded blurry interface of doom seen below, but even worse it prevented the entire project from loading. Once it even decided to unregister the plugin in the middle of a session. Perhaps I've just been spectacularly unlucky.

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Thank you for the warning. I was ready to pounce on this Plugin Boutique deal (and who knows, I still might. But it's good to go in knowing about this issue and being prepared instead of blind-sided).

[Chicken Drummy]

This fascination with black is weird to me.

Well, you know what they say...

No unc, what do they say?

[sqigls]

once you've had Asian, you'll never go Caucasian

[Vortifex]

..

[sqigls]

ok i'll brave it.
i already have a license for Polymax, i wonder if adding a second will make any difference...

[HM]

ok i'll brave it.
i already have a license for Polymax, i wonder if adding a second will make any difference...

Twice as good ,.. You get what you pay for they say

[Chicken Drummy]

Thank you for the warning. I was ready to pounce on this Plugin Boutique deal (and who knows, I still might. But it's good to go in knowing about this issue and being prepared instead of blind-sided).

The free version that you get with the Plugin Boutique promotion has machine authorisation instead of cloud.

Thanks, Vortifex.

[sqigls]

no dice


i've contacted support, we'll see how this goes

[sqigls]

buy the way, i spent [fuckin] THOUSANDS on UAD pci and pcmci cards back in the day, i've paid my dues thank you

[kropotkin303]

I got the free license from PB a few days ago. Still experimenting with it but the sounds are good and I like the filter. Bit concerned there seems to be no midi learn, but like the way cut off can be controlled with the mod wheel instead. That or vibrato.

[Uncle E]

Yes, no MIDI Learn. Fixed CC's. Also, the CC assignments are not consistent across the UA instruments.

[tripleflows]

Yes, no MIDI Learn. Fixed CC's. Also, the CC assignments are not consistent across the UA instruments.

The CC implementation is ridiculously missing some major parameters at all UA instruments. I can not believe how could they intentionally leave out e.g. sustain levels.
UA should fix all of them.

[sqigls]

support got back to me and made my licence machine auth capable!
thanks UA
so contact them if your license is not machine auth capable and they'll fix it for you

[Uncle E]

If you are like me and you find the PolyMAX GUI terribly complicated and difficult to use, as it has more knobs and parameters than all other synth plugins COMBINED, you might be interested to know that the Wayford skins are now on sale:

Wayford PolyMAX Bundle (two skins and presets) - 6$ until February 14.

https://wayford.gumroad.com/l/polymaxbu ... febspecial

[cdbaksu]

If you are like me and you find the PolyMAX GUI terribly complicated and difficult to use, as it has more knobs and parameters than all other synth plugins COMBINED, you might be interested to know that the Wayford skins are now on sale:

Wayford PolyMAX Bundle (two skins and presets) - 6$ until February 14.

https://wayford.gumroad.com/l/polymaxbu ... febspecial

But the biggest drawback is that Wayford's skins disable one of the most unique functionalities of the GUI: the light-up LEDs from the envelopes.