Acustica Audio intros Grey Pro, the powerful American VCA-based compressor suite.

[TBlake]

Wow they really sunk the hook deep into you. How "generous" of Acustica to withhold their Anti-Aliasing algo from free version the Grey! So now there's 3 sets of plugin versions to clutter up our hard drives. So very generous!!

Are you saying that the free version introduces audible aliasing?`

Can anyone verify?

I'm saying that Acustica held back their best AA OS for the paid version. There's certainly more aliasing than in the paid version. So generous of them!!

[BackInCheck]

Wow they really sunk the hook deep into you. How "generous" of Acustica to withhold their Anti-Aliasing algo from free version the Grey! So now there's 3 sets of plugin versions to clutter up our hard drives. So very generous!!

Are you saying that the free version introduces audible aliasing?`

Can anyone verify?

I'm saying that Acustica held back their best AA OS for the paid version. There's certainly more aliasing than in the paid version. So generous of them!!

Did you encounter aliasing issues in the free version?

For example: I don't care when there is a free version of a plugin that only has up to 4x oversampling and a paid version that has up to 64x oversampling, since typically 4x is enough to drastically reduce aliasing (unless there is something wrong with the anti-aliasing implementation).

That's why I('m curious, whether you had any prior issue with aliasing in the free version?

[Kappa_Beta_Hi-Phi]

I mean you are all dogpiling on the guy criticising them but let's not kid ourselves - AA do some absurd shit. The copy protection info that came out recently just cemented my blacklist of them.

I hope they improve as a company but I'm not holding my breath tbh. They deserve any criticism they get and then some IMO.

[Agreed]

Oh, I fully agree that copy protection scheme was outrageous, and to whatever extent it still relies on hugely multiplying the underlying data's size on disc I would still say I find it outrageous. The massive size has been a huge contributing factor to why it is exactly that I have not bought AA products previously. I don't believe that there can be no performance penalty for that, and poor performance in the past has been the other reason that I haven't bought from AA, so who knows just how much that has been the root issue all in one.

Free is still free, though, and the functionality that the freebie had that people liked is still just as it was. To me it's just not rational to be so upset about the promotional free release in advance of a more robust paid package. I have never been upset at that in the industry, it's super common, I guess I ought to just let it alone and give the fella room to be pissed off about it henceforth, just be reiterating at this point anyway.

[TBlake]

If you're happy with half assed oversampling, you'll probably be Ok with it.
They put their best oversampling behind a paywall. SOOO generous!!

Wow they really sunk the hook deep into you. How "generous" of Acustica to withhold their Anti-Aliasing algo from free version the Grey! So now there's 3 sets of plugin versions to clutter up our hard drives. So very generous!!

Are you saying that the free version introduces audible aliasing?`

Can anyone verify?

I'm saying that Acustica held back their best AA OS for the paid version. There's certainly more aliasing than in the paid version. So generous of them!!

Did you encounter aliasing issues in the free version?

For example: I don't care when there is a free version of a plugin that only has up to 4x oversampling and a paid version that has up to 64x oversampling, since typically 4x is enough to drastically reduce aliasing (unless there is something wrong with the anti-aliasing implementation).

That's why I('m curious, whether you had any prior issue with aliasing in the free version?