Stillwell Audio update: new site, updated plugins, Fe26 release

[Naenyn]

This is awesome news! Thank you for the updates. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you create1

[Winstontaneous]

This is awesome news! Thank you for the updates. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you create1

Me too, the REAPER FX versions turned me on to Stillwell about 15 years ago! Glad to see new activity!!

[jamcat]

Plugin updates
A large portion of the lineup has been updated, including:

* 1973, CMX, Event Horizon
* v4 releases of Bombardier, Dyno, Major Tom, The Rocket, Transient Monster, Vibe EQ, Bad Buss Mojo, Oligarc Filter, Verbiage, Bitter, Psycho Dither, and schOPE

Focus is on:

* improved performance
* resizable, high-resolution interfaces
* smoother workflows

Do these support Apple Silicon and VST3 now?
Bitter is of particular interest to me.

[thebutler]

Trying out 1973 and Vibe EQ...

Even at 'Empty' or 'Track Default' presets, the 1973 plugin 'destroys' the audio here (a simple drum loop). Not pleasant. Using 'Bypass' on it, original sound is restored.

Using 'system 1' in my signature; have closed and re-opened Cubase twice now - made no difference... Anyone else.?

'Vibe EQ' sometimes produces a sharp, audible 'spike/glitch' when engaging or disengaging over-sampling whilst transport is running, coupled with a short audio gap. Is that to be expected.? i.e. only ever toggle this whilst transport is stopped (where no glitch/spike is heard).?

[Songwriter101]

Trying out 1973 and Vibe EQ...

Even at 'Empty' or 'Track Default' presets, the 1973 plugin 'destroys' the audio here (a simple drum loop). Not pleasant. Using 'Bypass' on it, original sound is restored.

Using 'system 1' in my signature; have closed and re-opened Cubase twice now - made no difference... Anyone else.?

'Vibe EQ' sometimes produces a sharp, audible 'spike/glitch' when engaging or disengaging over-sampling whilst transport is running, coupled with a short audio gap. Is that to be expected.? i.e. only ever toggle this whilst transport is stopped (where no glitch/spike is heard).?

Same here with the 1973.

Resizing vibe eq looks grainy, 1973 looks good.

[sstillwell]

Do these support Apple Silicon and VST3 now?
Bitter is of particular interest to me.

Any of the updated/new plugins are Apple Silicon Native and have vastly improved VST3 support. Bitter in particular was updated, yes.

[sstillwell]

I've reproduced the error in Live with 1973. I'm working on it now. It seems to be specific to Live, specific to VST3 only. It doesn't do the same thing in Pro Tools (AAX) or REAPER (VST3).

I'll look at the UI on Vibe EQ, but since those are bitmapped UI assets rather than vector-drawn, there's going to be some change in fidelity when scaling, it's kind of unavoidable. The thought was that having it be scalable and user controllable was preferable to having pixel-perfect UI that you can't change. I'll check anyway because I could have screwed up somewhere.

Thanks for the reports!

[Songwriter101]

I've reproduced the error in Live with 1973. I'm working on it now. It seems to be specific to Live, specific to VST3 only. It doesn't do the same thing in Pro Tools (AAX) or REAPER (VST3).

I'll look at the UI on Vibe EQ, but since those are bitmapped UI assets rather than vector-drawn, there's going to be some change in fidelity when scaling, it's kind of unavoidable. The thought was that having it be scalable and user controllable was preferable to having pixel-perfect UI that you can't change. I'll check anyway because I could have screwed up somewhere.

Thanks for the reports!

[sstillwell]

I've found the issue and confirmed that my patch fixes the issue. I'm working through one other reported issue and should have an updated build out later today. Thanks!

[sstillwell]

Resizing vibe eq looks grainy, 1973 looks good.

I've double-checked the image assets in the plugin. The @2x images are present and are in fact scaled up by 2x.

That said...if you're on a Retina screen (or HiDPI on Windows), you're already using the @2x images at normal 100% scale and resizing the plugin larger is done purely through scaling the image at runtime. On a "normal" monitor dragging the UI larger switches to the @2x image and scales down from there...usually remaining sharp...or at least sharper than it would be otherwise. There's not much I can do about that except to include @4x images in the build and that just bloats the plugin size unnecessarily, as well as increasing RAM requirements for the plugin.

How it visually appears is going to vary on a case-by-case basis depending on the images being scaled.

[sstillwell]

1973 version 4.0.13 and Vibe EQ version 4.0.4 have been pushed out to the website. All known issues should be fixed.

[solvni_music]

My licence files are not working anymore on Olga ,oligarc and sculpto , is this normal ?

[sstillwell]

No, that's not normal...but those plugins haven't been updated in years...if you downloaded and installed again it's the same as it's been for a long time. Make sure that your key file is still in the same folder as the plugin. For those plugins the key file still needs to be in the same folder as the actual plugin, so if you have AU, VST2, VST3, you need to have a copy of the key file in each location.

Once those plugins get updated (probably start working on that next week after I finish putting out any fires from THIS week's release) then we will have centralized key file locations and drag-and-drop installation of keys. For now those remaining five plugins don't understand drag and drop. (Olga, Oligarc, Sculpto, Spector, Tinman...anything marked v3.x on the Downloads page)

[solvni_music]

I will try to put the key in the same folder , I forget it was working this way since i ve moved to windows ! Thx for the tips !

[Songwriter101]

https://streamable.com/2vl3oq

The 1973 works like it should but the HPF knob is gone when it is set to 300Hz. Sonically the HPF works fine.