Worst purchase

[woodsdenis]

Boz plugins which still haven't been updated to Apple Silicon

[Yorrrrrr]

FL Studio. Because I can't sell the license, I can't gift the license, I'm stuck with a software I'll never use again gathering digital dust.

[MattCable]

without a doubt, Acustica. I had bought a couple of tape machine emulations that were very highly regarded. Can't remember the man's name, a big Christian in Atlanta, lovely fellow. These were not expensive things, I didn't pay close attention during the buy and turns out it requires Acustica. I forget if it would run in the free version but I doubt it, because why did I pay for that.

Using it sent my computer through the roof, I'd have to have a buffer so high it's not recommended (Cubase 2048 samples) and the serial key authorization would quit working mysteriously. The Acustica guy wasn't any kind of businessman, was exceedingly slow in response, somewhat difficult to communicate with, and would point me to info on the website to remedy the situation, the whole thing very convoluted.

Acoustica seems like such a mystery to me as someone back into production after a hiatus. A few people love them to death, they’re popular enough I hear their name all the time, yet 7/10 times it’s heavy criticism lol. Literally no other major developer seems to be mentioned that way at that frequency

[zerocrossing]

without a doubt, Acustica. I had bought a couple of tape machine emulations that were very highly regarded. Can't remember the man's name, a big Christian in Atlanta, lovely fellow. These were not expensive things, I didn't pay close attention during the buy and turns out it requires Acustica. I forget if it would run in the free version but I doubt it, because why did I pay for that.

Using it sent my computer through the roof, I'd have to have a buffer so high it's not recommended (Cubase 2048 samples) and the serial key authorization would quit working mysteriously. The Acustica guy wasn't any kind of businessman, was exceedingly slow in response, somewhat difficult to communicate with, and would point me to info on the website to remedy the situation, the whole thing very convoluted.

Acoustica seems like such a mystery to me as someone back into production after a hiatus. A few people love them to death, they’re popular enough I hear their name all the time, yet 7/10 times it’s heavy criticism lol. Literally no other major developer seems to be mentioned that way at that frequency

I downloaded a bunch of their free stuff and proceeded to ignore it and finally just deleted it. Is it good? No idea. Why didn't I try it? No idea.

[rafa1981]

Algonaut Atlas. No contest for me. I run a Windows partition for DAW only and have all my data on a shared-with-linux ext4 drive mounted on Windows with wsl2.

Every paid program/plugin from U-he, korg, Waldorf, Reaper, TDR, Acon, Renoise Redux, NI, iZotope etc works fine. Same with freeware. Even with the preset folders symlinked to the ext4 drive.

I demoed and bought without doing the symlink stuff because I always thought that the drive was seen as Windows as any other, only to discover that Atlas doesn't work in that setup.

The dev said it was a framework issue and that he wasn't going to fix it. He never offered taking my license back and refunding or anything, so I have the license there with no use.

[plexuss]

The dev said he was a framework issue and that he wasn't going to fix it. He never offered taking my license back and refunding or anything, so I have the license there with no use.

Wow. Edge case or what! But yes even these specific install situation fails, whether edge cases or not, are annoying. Too bad you cant get it to work because Atlas is quite excellent.

[plexuss]

Acoustica seems like such a mystery to me as someone back into production after a hiatus. A few people love them to death, they’re popular enough I hear their name all the time, yet 7/10 times it’s heavy criticism lol. Literally no other major developer seems to be mentioned that way at that frequency

Dealing with Acustica is like dealing with a very sexy romantic partner that has Borderline and Narcisistic Personality Disorder - when you enmeshed they sure are nice, but once you finally tear yourself away from them you realize your life is much better despite losing the "candy".

[rafa1981]

Wow. Edge case or what! But yes even these specific install situation fails, whether edge cases or not, are annoying. Too bad you cant get it to work because Atlas is quite excellent.

Indeed. I insta-buyed too fast because it was good (when working).

[pekbro]

Wow. Edge case or what! But yes even these specific install situation fails, whether edge cases or not, are annoying. Too bad you cant get it to work because Atlas is quite excellent.

Indeed. I insta-buyed too fast because it was good (when working).

Can't you just move it to the win partition? Symlinks are really just a cheat anyway (in windoze), tons of installers are not fooled and will just overwrite them.

[ampetrosillo]

Acoustica seems like such a mystery to me as someone back into production after a hiatus. A few people love them to death, they’re popular enough I hear their name all the time, yet 7/10 times it’s heavy criticism lol. Literally no other major developer seems to be mentioned that way at that frequency

Dealing with Acustica is like dealing with a very sexy romantic partner that has Borderline and Narcisistic Personality Disorder - when you enmeshed they sure are nice, but once you finally tear yourself away from them you realize your life is much better despite losing the "candy".

My experience with Acustica (only the free stuff).

Sounds good, or even excellent, when all set.
Heavy.
Glitchy.
Takes lots of storage and memory for stuff that should be elementary (I realise that their tech is all convolution-based, or largely so, but is it always worth it?).
They either really, really, really overdo it with skeuomorphism, yet the stuff looks like some machine out of a '90s videogame.

I am using STONE on the mix bus for one of my clients, just because. It added something to the mix, I opted to keep it. But I have to go really out of my way to use something by them because my PC is really old and low on power and nothing by them really feels essential.

[rafa1981]

Can't you just move it to the win partition? Symlinks are really just a cheat anyway (in windoze), tons of installers are not fooled and will just overwrite them.

Long version incoming

All programs and plugins are installed on the ntfs win drive. My sample library and presets (and all data that I don't want to be lost) are on the shared ext4 drive that gets backups now and then.

Windows symlinks work fine for linking the user presets from its default location (every dev has a different one Documents, AppData, etc... it's a mess) to my drive into a well known location. A lot of people on this forums does that.

In my case the difference is that the location I use to link to is wsl2-mounted. It still works with every program/plugin that doesn't support custom location of user banks/data, other samplers, etc.

Atlas works and installs correctly but can't create maps there using my sample library. It showed a window popup with the text "Not an error" and failed.

To that matter it wouldn't either work with a network mounted drive. That's what we concluded. That the framework used for file-access was very bad in this regard.

Probably I should give it a try again. It's been more than 1 year since I tried last.

[pekbro]

Can't you just move it to the win partition? Symlinks are really just a cheat anyway (in windoze), tons of installers are not fooled and will just overwrite them.

Long version incoming

All programs and plugins are installed on the ntfs win drive. My sample library and presets (and all data that I don't want to be lost) are on the shared ext4 drive that gets backups now and then.

Windows symlinks work fine for linking the user presets from its default location (every dev has a different one Documents, AppData, etc... it's a mess) to my drive into a well known location. A lot of people on this forums does that.

In my case the difference is that the location I use to link to is wsl2-mounted. It still works with every program/plugin that doesn't support custom location of user banks/data, other samplers, etc.

Atlas works and installs correctly but can't create maps there using my sample library. It showed a window popup with the text "Not an error" and failed.

To that matter it wouldn't either work with a network mounted drive. That's what we concluded. That the framework used for file-access was very bad in this regard.

Probably I should give it a try again. It's been more than 1 year since I tried last.

Yeah that seems complicated, bummer big fan of Atlas myself, I wish more of my samplers would do the same thing Atlas does. Have you tried Rando? I wonder how it would be able to deal with your setup. Not the same thing of course, but Rando is super cool as well.

[rafa1981]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try it.

[jsp1979]

Boz Manic Delay. It’s just a bad delay. Can’t get a nice long delay going, it loses volume too fast or goes to crap in feedback.

I guess you mean Imperial Delay?

Wait until you see how much it cost originally and why it's the delay that Elton John requires.

[plexuss]

Power Cord from https://www.audioflatulence.com/

Although it sounds great, it bankrupted me and makes my studio smell like poop everytime I use it.