Reply To: Waves Plug-ins

Wow, I remember Kjaerhus well, but I don’t think too many people use them anymore. GVST is still around — just issued a couple of new betas, one a looper that is rather cute. I still use their GRev reversed delay from time to time and their GMulti is possibly the best freeware if not one of the only multi-band compressors out there even though I don’t use it.

Anyway, I wasn’t really referring to these sort of ‘starter’ bundles when I posted. There are much newer plugins to be had. Breebardt of ToneBoosters recently made all of his JB series into freeware, which are about as good as his newer series. Variety of Sound has released some really fine new ones and also gone back and improved a few of the older ones. It’s hard to know even where to begin, really, as there have been so many in the last couple of years that rival anything commercial. Meanwhile, as you might have seen in the constant $50 sale going on for the last few months at Waves, the price of both FX and instrument plugins has crashed throughout the entire market.

I wasn’t so much focused on synths or instruments when I was commenting earlier, but most of the top brands are on regular markdown or recurring sales, too. I can’t get over some of this — I never expected to see a company such as Waves slash its prices, but for certain they are not the only ones. It’s just a great time to be making music … and hunting plugins as well.

Well, cheers and best wishes! I had thought you were new to Podium, based on your original comments. I’m essentially a Cubase refugee and settled down with Reaper and Podium after shopping around quite a lot. I ought to also mention I have an x64 PC, but I keep all my audio software in 32-bit. I don’t have any vast memory needs, don’t like plugs that drag a gig of stuff around with them, and a long time ago I discovered my whole setup worked best for me when I stayed away from 64-bit DAWs and plugins. More choice at 32 in the first place. They harped on and on about 64 being the future 10 years ago but so many have been slow to get there with stable product. I guess I’ll have to look into the notion of converting in another 10 years, aye?