Legendary Joe
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Where can we talk about plugins? I take it here?
Plugin forum?
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Legendary Joe
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I like to see what people are using, get opinions, etc.
therage!
Wicked Machine
I only use plugs that came with Sonar and now Cubase. But last year I bought Sound Forge and I use the Izotope mastering plugs in it. I had been considering buying a 3rd party reverb plug but I recently bought a Yamaha N12 mixer and I really like the built in Rev-X reverb so not really in the market now for a verb plug.
Lots of people really like the UAD plugs.
hardwire666
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Personally the Plugins I use the most are Izotopes Trash, and the Ozone mastering plugin. Some of the new plugins that come with sonar7 are pretty handy two. I really have never had a usless plugin. I think the more the merry. They all have a use somewhere.
David Katauskas
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I really dig the KJAERHUS gold series. They've allowed me to get the sound closer to what's in my head.
omtayslick
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My most recent plug purchases were the WaveArts Track Plug and Masterverb. Love 'em both. And very low CPU overhead too.
Alot of people recommened those "fish" plug-ins.
The UAD card is PCI right ?
Would the UAD plugins work for REAPER ?
They are VST right ?
Believe it or not - I have a secret plan of saving $125 / week, and waiting 6 months, which would save me $3000, so that I can buy a real Teletronix LA-2A. (I could get one by June, and my wife would never need to know)
However, if the UAD is that good....... I could potentially just buy that and the LA-2A plug-in.
The UAD card is PCI right ?
Would the UAD plugins work for REAPER ?
They are VST right ?
Believe it or not - I have a secret plan of saving $125 / week, and waiting 6 months, which would save me $3000, so that I can buy a real Teletronix LA-2A. (I could get one by June, and my wife would never need to know)
However, if the UAD is that good....... I could potentially just buy that and the LA-2A plug-in.
LemonTree
Suck 'em and see!
PCI or PCIe it comes in.
I got my first one second hand on ebay with the pultec Pro license included. Good EQ but I mix out of the box and like the EQ on my soundtracs Topaz project 8.
The first plug I added to the card was the LA2A. Never had any experience with the hardware version but it's my first go to compresor/limiter now. I've been DAW orientated for about 8-10 years now and I've heard no other software compressor that can come anywhere close.
I just scored the Plate 140 reverb plug for $61 with the end of year sale & the $50 voucher. Looking forward to getting some use out of that. Seriously...$3000 for one instance of a hardware unit where you could have a couple of UAD cards and ALL of the plugsfor less $$$...no brainer for me.
I can easily run 15 instances of the LA2A on one card (not that I'd ever need to), that's like $45,000 of outboard on one card taking up no rack space for $500. Buy a second used card for another couple of hundred and you're running 30 LA2A's for less that a third of the price of one hardware unit.
I've been using UAD for about 9 months now so this isn't nubie euphoria. I swear by these plugs
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WOW.
You might have just saved me $2500 and a whole lot of "beer" sacrifice.
So REAPER should handle this okay right ?
Since they are VST's ?
I hope that card has a good long lasting warranty on it.
If other people are going PCIe, I may be able to scoop a cheap PCI.
You might have just saved me $2500 and a whole lot of "beer" sacrifice.
So REAPER should handle this okay right ?
Since they are VST's ?
I hope that card has a good long lasting warranty on it.
If other people are going PCIe, I may be able to scoop a cheap PCI.
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therage!
Wicked Machine
I don't know why not.
I'm running Sonar Producer and Cubase and have tried out Reaper and it's very worthy program. If Reaper had been out when I bought Sonar I really doubt I would have bought Sonar. Reaper does everything I want to do but my main package is now Cubase because of integration with my mixer.
jrhager84,
Reaper gets a new update, full of improvements and new features almost every other day..
You should download and take a peek, if you havn't used it in a while.
It's very powerful.
It's also 1000% more stable than pro tools and uses CPU and RAM far more efficiently.
Pro Tools ruined 2 entire recording sessions for me, and scrambled a few songs so bad, they we're pretty much unusable.
With the same computer, same hardware etc..... Reaper has never ever goofed up on me.
My M-Audio Project Mix I/O works way better with Reaper. (And even better than it - with Adobe Audition 3)
I compared the 2 of them for 3 months straight, tracking and mixing in both...... Reaper beat pro tools in every category.
(Well, I can't use RTAS, but whatever)
Also...
Reaper $50
Pro Tools M-Powered $250
The workflow I find is also cleaner and easier in Reaper.
Reaper gets a new update, full of improvements and new features almost every other day..
You should download and take a peek, if you havn't used it in a while.
It's very powerful.
It's also 1000% more stable than pro tools and uses CPU and RAM far more efficiently.
Pro Tools ruined 2 entire recording sessions for me, and scrambled a few songs so bad, they we're pretty much unusable.
With the same computer, same hardware etc..... Reaper has never ever goofed up on me.
My M-Audio Project Mix I/O works way better with Reaper. (And even better than it - with Adobe Audition 3)
I compared the 2 of them for 3 months straight, tracking and mixing in both...... Reaper beat pro tools in every category.
(Well, I can't use RTAS, but whatever)
Also...
Reaper $50
Pro Tools M-Powered $250
The workflow I find is also cleaner and easier in Reaper.
Actually Reaper if you want to use it for commercial use is $225. I remember looking at it a couple years ago and didn't install it as it didn't have midi and other key components now looking at it I'm going to give it a try in a couple days. The one thing that would push Reaper a lot further is if they could export to ProTools format.
by the way give some of the Wave (i know some people don't like Wave) plugins a try ie: SSL API, I've tried the SSL bundle and it's like hitting the "Easy button" for vocals!