Softube Equalizers

[db3]

Softube Equalizers is a modern EQ with visualisation, flexible M/S L/R routing, and dynamic EQ, but also allows you to load Softube vintage EQ plug-ins to enhance their workflow. https://www.softube.com/plug-ins/equalizers

There are a number of deals, both for Equalizers on its own and bundles with other EQs, including the new Core Vintage Equalizers plugin. https://www.softube.com/plug-ins/core-v ... equalizers

[UltimiGiorniRecords]

How boring become Softube?

[AGIGA]

How boring become Softube?

Not as boring as your comment

[AGIGA]

The fact that you can combine the vintage and modern (dynamic) EQs is actually pretty cool. Boost with an emulation and cut with a clean EQ in one plugin instance.

[thievedletter]

Something interesting with this update, that I didn't see mentioned anywhere, is that the British Class A strip adds 2 new plugins to my collection. It adds, British Class A Drive and British Class A Compressor, as separate plugins. Pretty cool!

[jamcat]

I don’t get why Softube Central doesn’t let you choose which plugin formats to install. What is the point of having a software manager that can’t even manage such a basic function?

[wintoid]

Something interesting with this update, that I didn't see mentioned anywhere, is that the British Class A strip adds 2 new plugins to my collection. It adds, British Class A Drive and British Class A Compressor, as separate plugins. Pretty cool!

Oh nice! Thanks for the heads up.

[jens]

The fact that you can combine the vintage and modern (dynamic) EQs is actually pretty cool. Boost with an emulation and cut with a clean EQ in one plugin instance.

What's really the coolest part - if I got it right - is that you can turn any of their vintage emulations into a dynamic EQ.

[bnz]

No, dynamic EQ is just the modern EQ.

[UltimiGiorniRecords]

How boring become Softube?

Not as boring as your comment

If you have no software eq or hardware eq and you are a novice it could be interesting the bundle. Otherwise it is all redundant. I have both so it is boring. Thanks for trolling me out. Back to work.

[martinjuenke]

I don’t get why Softube Central doesn’t let you choose which plugin formats to install. What is the point of having a software manager that can’t even manage such a basic function?

Very good question.
It's so annoying to clean up the installation pollution manually afterwards.

[db3]

No, dynamic EQ is just the modern EQ.

Yes, it seems you can combine Modern dynamic EQ with static Vintage EQ (in either order), but not make Vintage EQ dynamic.

[PAK]

I don’t get why Softube Central doesn’t let you choose which plugin formats to install. What is the point of having a software manager that can’t even manage such a basic function?

Because they've decided that they’d rather install everything on a machine if it avoids just one extra support request. It’s all about their convenience - not yours.

This said: check the size of the installed plugins. Notice anything? They’re all the exact same file size (EG Softube’s current Mac VST3’s are 18.3MB.) In other words the “so-called” plugins are really just generic placeholder files which link out to their own shared resource files (graphics etc), and that is what takes most of the drive space.

In the case of Softube that’s their Pace protected SSX bundle files. Universal Audio do the same sort of thing (linking VST3's to their lunacomponent files), and UA arguably make an even worse job of bloating your machine with garbage (Might wanna check the size of your user dir's “/Library/Logs/Universal Audio” folder).

It seems like this trend has went unnoticed by KVR - where the plugin you install no longer contains much of the plugin, and instead links to these resource files. Then companies feel more justified in installing every format, since it doesn't use that much extra space. Though it’s still 18.3MB wasted, per plugin, in Softube’s case if you didn’t want the VST3 etc.

[martinjuenke]

F*ck them lazy, ignorant developers!

[mothra]

It seems like this trend has went unnoticed by KVR - where the plugin you install no longer contains much of the plugin, and instead links to these resource files. Then companies feel more justified in installing every format, since it doesn't use that much extra space. Though it’s still 18.3MB wasted, per plugin, in Softube’s case if you didn’t want the VST3 etc.

So if those same resource files are in every variant of the plugin, it makes sense to install the resources once, and a tiny wrapper for each format. Otherwise, you would have all those resources themselves duplicated in your VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, etc formats.

In this instance, clearing out those AAX wrappers or the AUs or whatever you don't use, isn't really necessary as they don't really take up the space they normally would've if they flat out installed all the formats intact as you want them to.

I have both AU and VST3's on my system, don't use AAX or VST2 at all. I'd much rather have one set of resources installed and a wrapper that takes up no space linking to it, then having it install those same resources two or three times on my machine instead.

The really irritating one is Korg, who's VST3s pull from inside the VST2 versions. Delete the VST2s, and you break the GUI for the VST3s. You HAVE to leave them both installed for the VST3s to work.