Gooey releases Apotheca (v2)

[jules99]

That is some 1998-type of GUI right there.

[Dave_p]

That is some 1998-type of GUI right there.

Ahhh, you noticed the retro vibes. Apparently, retro things do pretty well in this industry.

Update 1/28/2026: Apotheca has a new interface. You can make your own skin now too.

[Dave_p]

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[Dave_p]

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[Dave_p]

Thanks. You (or anyone else) are never obligated to provide a legitimate address. Of course, if you order the Gooey T-shirt, and provide a fake address, you'll never get it.

With that being said, the payment processor to receive the license to Apotheca only requires payment and email.

Wow. You can't even take your potential customers serious.
You have a ridiculous website, a ridiculous price and a ridiculous demo-policy.
Absolutely not interested.

Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

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[Dave_p]

Latch mode is coming...May 2025.

[whassup]

Can I be completely offline with my music computer and install and use your plugins?

[The Main Event]

Whats the point of doing that?

[VariKusBrainZ]

To catalyse your dumb question

[whassup]

Whats the point of doing that?

The reason behind the ability to be offline with my music computer is the fact that copy protections can't break my software anymore.
Before I experienced it myself I was rather careless about "software calling home", iLok and the likes.
And then I had bad experiences with Waves.
At first, over the course of several months, every now and then a plugin couldn't be loaded. Odd enough. Most of the times it was possible to get it going by reloading the project and/or the plugin.
And then the day came when all of my Waves plugins stopped working.
All of them.
Nothing helped.
So I invoked customer service, which was a not so good experience.
Several days without a solution, wrong advice, etc.
So I decided to get rid of such bullshit which cripples honest customers.

This is my major reason why I decided to reduce my software to the ones that are capable of being used completely offline.

[The Main Event]

I understand the frustration with waves, i would personally also not consider this brand given the bad customer support and strange price plans. Better invest your money in good (smaller) companies that make good products. Whether they have offline installers or not should not be a matter of quality. Only makes your life harder for no good reason, in my opinion.

[CinningBao]

I've no problem supporting new developers with interesting new approaches to the tools we use on a daily basis. The best stuff doesn't always come from massive companies with investors behind them taking low risks with their products; it comes from people taking risks, trying a new approach to things like modulation, routing or synthesis. Smaller devs can afford to take these risks as they don't have a board of d!ck5 insisting on the most profitable path; this is where I find innovation (especially in this weird little world of DSP algorithms) is most interesting.

When it comes to the authentication process, yes, it's tricky for devs to satisfy everyone's different 'rules' they've developed to protect their system. Some refuse iLok, others don't like initial 'phone-home' methods, and others don't give a frog about that stuff; they just want to play with the toys! It's difficult to gauge whether folks who create authentication limits on their purchases do it because "they've been bitten once and refuse to be bitten again" or the process is technically confusing and they'd rather only deal with methods they understand; there is no data to examine in this regard as far as I know.

Devs are just trying to protect their asset in the only way they know how, and we, as users, have no idea of the percieved value of their software from the devs persepective and why they might choose a certain protetion method... unless they pop up on forums and answer questions about it.

But yeah, don't get Waves.
TLDR: whatever you do, don't get Waves

[Jonathan Shepherd]

Hi. Is there a way to reset the demo? I didn't get a chance to do a deeper dive before it expired. Thanks either way-

[Dave_p]

All users can now demo Apotheca without having to register an email.

@jonathan,

Of course. The license has been reset.

The latest installer can be fetched from the "try the demo" button, so you don't have to log on to the my-accounts page if you don't want to.

*Note, there have been some issues for some users on MacOS with the installers, factory presets, and the ability to also save user presets.

I've reworked the preset file system and installer for Visage to be a bit more industry standard, and the changes will also be included with Apotheca in the coming days.*

All the best,
Dave

[Jonathan Shepherd]

Thanks mate. There are layers to this thing and now I can dig in.