peter_schips's Reviews

Top "Freeware" Recording System from UAD.

The Luna Recording System is an ideal tool for all UAD hardware users. The "DAW" recording is constantly being updated and expanded, and it is also one of the best sounding DAWs at the moment.

Powerful extension for the UAD system

If you need more computing power for the UAD plug-ins, you will get 8 Shark DSP processors with the Satellite extension and thus a lot of computing power for the UAD plug-ins. The Thunderbolt 3 system is also compatible with Thunderbolt 2. (A TB2> TB3 adapter is required)

A good tool to get an overview

Cheap but does its job. After a few tests, the Real Time Analyzer display is absolutely precise,

Perfect Rack Synthesizer for Bass & Padsounds

The synthesizer is a bit forgotten, but still a powerful tool. I especially like it for its very own sound character.

Ilya Efimov - Nylon Guitar

We are pleased to offer you incredibly realistic virtual guitar.

The sound of this library is rich and sensual, transparent and incredibly expressive. We have made fantastic realism by using 14 dynamic colors for each note. You can use all frets for each string. The select of the strings and positions can be both automatic and manual. The control over any parameter is available though Graphic User Interface and your sequencer. You can easily use any of 14 articulations, selecting a particular articulation that you need.

Legato and glissando are implemented in the library. Using those features you can reach a higher level of realism. The library contains a great number of FXs, such as side noises that will appear during the time one plays the guitar up to percussion effects.

We do hope that our library will not leave you indifferent and its use will give you a great number of interesting musical ideas.

FEATURES

3 452 samples, 2,1 Gb (NCW Compression) 44,1 KHz 24 bit, stereo 14 velocity layers for each note 17 frets on the each string with round-robin. Automatic and manual String Selection Automatic and manual Left Hand Playing Position Selection 3 modes for automatic search of chord position 14 different articulations Realistic legato Natural vibrato Note-to-note glissando Repetition keys Many differents FX and Noises IR Reverb, Delay, EQ, Compressor Easy keyboard mode MIDI-guitar mode REQUIREMENTS

Native Instruments full retail Kontakt +4.2.4 or Kontakt 5 Windows 7 or 8, Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4 GB Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 3 GB free disk space

Ilya Efimov - Accordion

The Accordion is capable of producing four timbres for the right keyboard (namely piccolo, concertina, clarinet, and bassoon), as well as two bass registers for the left.

The library lets the player select a single timbre or to combine multiple timbres using any of the available 15 registers, just like a real accordion does.

The dynamics of the instrument changes in accordance to the timbre selection which allows for a very natural-sounding performance. It's of course possible to control the attack envelope of the sound as well as the mechanical noise levels coming from keys and a bellow.

NEW! Combined left & right keyboard patch, chord recognition, accompaniment keys, various play modes and more. You can play with both hands, simulating a real accordion quickly and easily.

The Accordion is capable of producing four timbres for the right keyboard (namely piccolo, concertina, clarinet, and bassoon), as well as two bass registers for the left. The library lets the player select a single timbre or to combine multiple timbres using any of the available 15 registers, just like a real accordion does. The dynamics of the instrument changes in accordance to the timbre selection which allows for a very natural-sounding performance. It's of course possible to control the attack envelope of the sound as well as the mechanical noise levels coming from keys and a bellow.

FEATURES

2 288 samples \ 1,7 Gb (compressed NCW) 44.1 kHz \ 24 bit \ Stereo Natural dynamic changes 15 registers - right keyboard 2 registers - left keyboard 3 patches: combined, right keyb, left keyb. NEW. Single combined patch for both left & right keyboards NEW. ?hord recognition & Accompaniment Keys NEW. Chord/Bass & Picking Mode options Round-Robin X 3 Prepared articulations: Sustain, Staccato, Crescendo Flexible attack control Multiple attack modes Detune, Key Noise, Bellow, Release Automatic noise control Repetition key Vibrato key Left & Right keyboard separate and conbined patches Chord recognition system for the left keyboard Accompaniment keys Chord/Bass and Picking mode REQUIREMENTS

Native Instruments full retail Kontakt +4.2.4 or Kontakt 5 Windows 7 or 8, Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4 GB Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 2 GB free disk space

Soundspot Velo 2

After the soaring success of the original Velo, we thought it only right to take things to the next level!! You asked for additional features and we listened! Velo2 has been reworked from the ground up with an improved algorithm and additional sonic features such as lookahead and oversampling, combined with a sleek new retina ready interface, making this update a must have for all producers.

The Velo2 is a brick wall limiter for maximizing loudness that features different options to influence colouration and transient preservation. As Velo2’s adaptive release makes the plug-in react quickly to the incoming signal, it’s a well-suited limiter for mastering any style of rhythmical music with pronounced transients, along with bus-processing beats, drums and rhythmical bass, guitar and synth parts.

Features • Intuitive, easy to navigate user interface • Designed to work flawlessly with touch controllers such as the Raven by Slate Media • Adaptive release control • 4 Style Settings • Transient Control • Real-time RMS display • Real-time Reduction display • Preset Manager to save & share your settings

Soundspot Percolate

Extremely Tight Drum Recordings & Percussion Loops in a Matter of a Few Clicks

Many modern music genres rely on groovy and danceable sounding drums and percussion. But because many drum and percussion loops come pre-mixed with different elements combined in a single track, it can be very difficult to make them work in a busy mix.

We designed Percolate to help you separate and target the snare, hi-hat and percussion parts of such loops, providing you with an easy and fast workflow to create a balanced drum or percussion mix.

Percolate uses analog modelled filters that separate the relevant frequency ranges in a very transparent way, and can be used in combination with our KickBox plug-in to target the whole drum or percussion section in your mix.

Features

Fast and intuitive workflow Analog modeled filters Suited for electronic and acoustic drums and percussion Extremely light on CPU and RAM

Soundspot Kara

We love pluck sounds…who doesn’t, but often when you start layering different sounds, you find yourself at the bottom of the rabbit hole with the laborious task of going into each synth and tweaking the envelopes to make each sound cohesive.

This is a personal bugbear for the team at SoundSpot during the production process, and we all wished that there was a plugin that could control the cutoff envelope on the group as a whole, so we decided to start work on a plugin that would do just that.

Introducing KARA – A bus processor designed to process multiple signals, into one cohesive sound.

As the KARA is an audio processor and receives no midi information, the first task was to find a way to trigger the cutoff envelope in a stable way. We achieved this by creating an RMS trigger that works much like a compressor, so when the signal hits the user definable threshold, which is set using the Sens parameter, the envelope and filter are triggered creating the pluck sound.

We’ve also added a delay to the end of the signal chain within the plugin, so there’s no need to have an additional delay unit after the KARA and using up any more of your precious CPU.

We also suggest using Kara on individual sounds, as whilst the plugin was designed to be used as a group processor, it can also yield fantastic results on single pluck sounds to add a more analog sound, so why not download the 14 day trial version today and see how it can take your pluck sounds to the next level.

Please note that whilst the preset manager is present in the Kara, we have not provided any factory presets. As the results achieved by the plugin hugely depend on the source signal, we decided that making presets wouldn’t yield consistent results, and therefore factory presets would not add any value to the user, and the inclusion of the preset manager was intended to allow users to save their own presets.

As Kara is so dependent on the source signal, we have decided to release an artist series synth preset bank which will include Kara presets that are designed to sound great specifically using Kara alongside them.

Soundspot Firefly

FireFly is a modern-style bus compressor with flexible options to optimize your track’s transients and stereo image. In addition, it features a sidechain filter for compressing tracks with loud kick and bass parts, and an analog mode that introduces non-linear coloration for warmth as well as adaptive noise generation for character and perceived loudness. With its separate left and right wave and reduction graph, FireFly gives you a flexible and intuitive way for compressing groups of instruments or your entire mix with ease.

“Stands up next to my Waves and UAD equivalents , nice & warm on mastering with the analogue setting retaining the lower frequencies often lost in the process of maximising the output.” – Matt Darey

Features:

• Intuitive, easy-to-navigate user interface • Designed to work flawlessly with touch controllers such as the Raven by Slate Media • Modern-style bus compression with continuous controls • Non-linear coloration filter for warmth • Adaptive noise generation for character and perceived loudness • Pre-compression transient shaper • Detection stage high pass sidechain-filter and stereo imager • Preset manager to save & share your own effects

Soundspot Fat Filter

Whilst hard at work in the studio, some members of the SoundSpot team discovered that when they were making their filter sweep transitions, they were forced to use heavy, full featured EQ’s & were using way more CPU power than seemed logical.

They also found that they were coming across strange crackling digital artefacts when using some plugins over certain sound sources. This was all far from ideal, so with this in mind, the SoundSpot team decided enough was enough, and set out to create a solution to fix the problem. After coffee, brainstorming, interface design and all the all important coding, The FAT Filter was born.

The FAT Filter has been developed using our ever popular analogue modelled algorithm, which results in super smooth transitions, whilst being incredibly light. This allows you to load almost as many instances as your heart desires without hitting your CPU to hard.

The FAT Filter plugin is completely free and always will be, so download your copy today and get your transitions sounding great.

Wersi Alpha DX-350 AMS

Some features:

Sound generation: DMS system Keyboard: OM and UM (splitable) with 44 keys each, velocity response, pedal with 13 keys (freely positionable) Polyphony: max. 20-voice Sounds: OM / UM 9-choir, 39 sounds (switchable to OM, UM and pedal), six Total Presets, 14 User Sounds Accompaniment automatic: Wersimatic CX 3 (freely programmable), Wersi-Chord Effects: Digital reverb with multi-level echo lengths and infinitely variable reverb, Wersi voice (Leslie), percussion, chorus, flanging, strain gage controls, transposer, pitch Mass storage: cassette drive Audio: line-out, headphones, tape, microphone input with separate controls for bass, treble, volume and reverb Connections: MIDI In / Out, RS 232 / V 24 (home computer interface), pedal and volume jack, power supply.

Samson S-Com Plus

The Samson S COM PLUS Stereo Compresser Limiter. Affordable, dual mono/stereo compressor/limiter, designed to control signal levels in a variety of applications. The Samson S COM PLUS is a powerful compressor/limiter, expander/gate, de-esser with peak limiter. Each channel features a wide range of variable control. A feature-rich Compressor section includes variable Threshold, Ratio, Attack and Release controls. Samson's SKD (Smart Knee Detector) circuit dynamically adjusts the compression curve to ensure a musical result. The AEG (Auto Envelope Generator) function simplifies optimum settings by constantly analyzing the audio input and automatically adjusting the attack and release parameters based on the changing level. Key Inputs and Outputs are included for externally processing the control voltage. The Expander/Gate features a variable threshold level and switchable release time (fast or slow). The Gate switch changes the downward expander ratio from "light" to "hard" gating for control ranging from subtle to an obvious effect. A dedicated Peak/Limiter with variable control provides protection against peak and overload independently of the compressor. When used in combination with the Compressor the Peak/Limiter offers even more precise control over dynamic levels. A functional De-esser improves audio quality by removing "S" from vocals and sibilance from overly bright signal sources such as cymbals. The Enhancer switch engages the EFR (Enhanced Frequency Recovery) circuit, which restores high frequencies that are sometimes diminished by heavy compression. Extensive metering includes Input/Output, Gain Reduction, De-esser Level, Gate Open/Close and Limit. A Spectra switch on the S com plus enables a special circuit for high frequency contouring.

IK Multimedia TRacks 5 Max

T-RackS 5 MAX gives you a massive 38 included processors, spread from contemporary classics like our multiband Quad Lim, our ultra-transparent mastering tool, the Stealth Limiter, to timeless favorites like the White 2A, the VC-670, the EQ P73 and, of course, the four brand new modules: Master Match, Dyna-Mu, ONE and EQual. It’s an entire studio’s worth of powerful processors to take your mixes and masters to a new level.

Fabfilter Pro C2

Incredible sound and character

FabFilter Pro-C 2 is a high-quality compressor plug-in for the most demanding engineers. Whether you need subtle mastering compression, an upfront lead vocal, that magic drum glue or deep EDM pumping: Pro-C 2 gets the job done with style!

Fabfilter Pro L2

Loud and clear

A true peak limiter is an essential tool for every mastering or mixing engineer. Are you looking for a professional, feature-packed limiter that is loud and transparent at the same time, equipped with extensive loudness metering? Then FabFilter Pro-L 2 is your weapon of choice!

Fabfilter Pro Q3

Unrivalled sound and workflow

An equalizer is probably the tool you use most while mixing and mastering, so you need the best of the best. With FabFilter Pro-Q 3, you get the highest possible sound quality, a very extensive feature set, and a gorgeous, innovative interface with unrivalled ease of use.

UAD Massive Passive EQ

Officially licensed and endorsed by Manley Labs, the Manley Massive Passive EQ plug-in expertly captures the behavior of the original hardware, from the unusual filter curves, to the multiple band interdependencies, right down to the tube amplifier distortion, and all-important transformer/inductor hysteresis.

iCON Platform M+ DAW Controler

USB DAW controller 9 touch-sensitive motor faders (8 x channel, 1x master) 8 endless knobs jogwheel illuminated transport buttons 2 illuminated track buttons 2 illuminated bank buttons Integrated iCon Quick Setup driver for easy Plug & Play installation in Cubase, Nuendo, Reason and Bitwig Mackie Control Protocol for almost every DAW Mackie HUI protocol for controlling Pro Tools iMap software for assigning keys and for firmware updates robust aluminum housing with Kensington lock Class-compliant with Windows XP, Vista (32 bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit), Windows 10 (64 bit) and Mac OS X (Intel Mac) Incl. power supply (12V / 2.5A) and USB cable matching display Icon Platform D: Art. 396647 (not included)

Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2

Keyboard controller for all virtual instruments Fatar keyboard with aftertouch and 61 semi-weighted keys ergonomic pitch and mod wheels plus touch strip Pre-configured mapping for all KOMPLETE instruments and hundreds of NCP-compatible (Native Kontrol Standard) instruments from leading third-party vendors complete VSTi support Tag-based preset browsing: quickly find and instantly preview sounds Two high-resolution color displays for browsing, sound tweaking and more Light Guide: RGB lights above each button indicate drum cells, key switches, chords, keys, and more Smart Play: Recognize keys and inversions with the Light Guide, play chord progressions and arpeggios with single keys or any key only with white keys seamless integration with the MASCHINE hardware / software intuitive control of Logic Pro X, Ableton Live and GarageBand two freely assignable inputs for foot pedals MIDI In / Out Power supply via USB 2.0 Dimensions (WxHxD): 1006 x 84 x 297 mm Weight: 6.55 kg register your hardware to download the KOMPLETE KONTROL software and KOMPLETE SELECT for free (11 high quality software tools and effects: Massive, Monark, The Gentleman, Drumlab, Reactor Prism, Scarbee Mark I, Retro Machines, Vintage Organs, West Africa, Solid Bus Comp, and Replica)