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Post by deaconblues on Nov 8, 2021 14:26:20 GMT -6
My understanding is that he fully owns Fuse by himself, Neold is a collaboration with Roger Schult and Dominik Klaßen, and then he additionally does freelance work with other companies.
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Post by yewtreemagic on Nov 8, 2021 16:11:19 GMT -6
Re the VCS-1: I remain impressed by almost everything Ray has released (either through his own Fuse Audio Labs or the modeling work he's done for other companies), and although I'm not personally a 'channel strip kinda guy' (I prefer to choose what individual preamp, eq, & compression if any I use for particular sounds) I'm inclined to buy this anyway at the jaw-droppingly low UK price of £21 just to support Ray in his endeavours. EDIT: Wow, that didn't take long - just tried out the demo and bought it 40 minutes later! While the HF aliasing may not be as low as other Ray products due to its zero latency nature, it nevertheless sounds great, and is also incredibly versatile yet very quick in use. I'm already enjoying the VCS-1 a lot. Let's hope there are other versions, as I can't wait to try out Ray's VCS-3  Martin |
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Post by Mister Chase on Nov 8, 2021 18:11:05 GMT -6
Re the VCS-1: I remain impressed by almost everything Ray has released (either through his own Fuse Audio Labs or the modeling work he's done for other companies), and although I'm not personally a 'channel strip kinda guy' (I prefer to choose what individual preamp, eq, & compression if any I use for particular sounds) I'm inclined to buy this anyway at the jaw-droppingly low UK price of £21 just to support Ray in his endeavours. EDIT: Wow, that didn't take long - just tried out the demo and bought it 40 minutes later! While the HF aliasing may not be as low as other Ray products due to its zero latency nature, it nevertheless sounds great, and is also incredibly versatile yet very quick in use. I'm already enjoying the VCS-1 a lot. Let's hope there are other versions, as I can't wait to try out Ray's VCS-3 Martin Indeed. Looks like the HQ button adds a low pass filter. Attempt to negate some aliasing? |
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Post by yewtreemagic on Nov 8, 2021 19:09:11 GMT -6
Yep - I think the HQ filter is very useful in practice, while leaving the zero-latency tracking performance alone, although it won't appease the PluginDoctor purists  |
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Post by Mister Chase on Nov 8, 2021 20:20:33 GMT -6
Yep - I think the HQ filter is very useful in practice, while leaving the zero-latency tracking performance alone, although it won't appease the PluginDoctor purists I'm not exactly sure, because I'm not a programmer or nyquist expert, but why don't they simply have a zero latency mode and oversampling options for various desired results? |
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Post by yewtreemagic on Nov 8, 2021 21:53:39 GMT -6
I might be wrong, but I suspect it's because once a developer has decided on the immediacy of a zero-latency design specifically for use during tracking, they make plenty of coding decisions based on what would work best in 'real time' (e.g. taking special care to keep the preamp saturation sounding as natural as possible within this design limitation, and having no 'look ahead' features on the VCS-1 limiter option). Having put in a lot of effort optimising their code for the best possible zero latency audio performance so that you can hear the result in real time, they might then take a dim view of someone asking them to add a 16x oversampling option afterwards for off-line purposes, which of course would slightly change the sound |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2021 22:00:15 GMT -6
I might be wrong, but I suspect it's because once a developer has decided on the immediacy of a zero-latency design specifically for use during tracking, they make plenty of coding decisions based on what would work best in 'real time' (e.g. taking special care to keep the preamp saturation sounding as natural as possible within this design limitation, and having no 'look ahead' features on the VCS-1 limiter option). Having put in a lot of effort optimising their code for the best possible zero latency audio performance so that you can hear the result in real time, they might then take a dim view of someone asking them to add a 16x oversampling option afterwards for off-line purposes, which of course would slightly change the sound Yes like the PSP Infinistrip. In infinistrip, Except for the Neve pre and the hard clipper being clipped, it just doesn’t get that distorted in normal use. Colored yes, but it can’t get Waves plug-in aliased distorted without being driven into sounding awful. |
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Post by Mister Chase on Nov 8, 2021 22:12:02 GMT -6
I might be wrong, but I suspect it's because once a developer has decided on the immediacy of a zero-latency design specifically for use during tracking, they make plenty of coding decisions based on what would work best in 'real time' (e.g. taking special care to keep the preamp saturation sounding as natural as possible within this design limitation, and having no 'look ahead' features on the VCS-1 limiter option). Having put in a lot of effort optimising their code for the best possible zero latency audio performance so that you can hear the result in real time, they might then take a dim view of someone asking them to add a 16x oversampling option afterwards for off-line purposes, which of course would slightly change the sound Makes sense, then. I was thinking less of offline purposes and more of general mixing vs tracking in real time, but if the algo's are coming from a certain place and take a certain path because of the latency free idea, that makes sense. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 8:39:03 GMT -6
15 bucks a pop. Ray is undercutting Waves and Plugin Alliance.
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Post by yewtreemagic on Nov 25, 2022 11:01:31 GMT -6
Yep - just bought VQA-154 EQ - couldn't resist at that price!
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Post by Martin John Butler on Nov 25, 2022 11:53:16 GMT -6
I just bought the VCL-25A on a recommendation of a friend. I have a dozen plug-in compressors, but even though I've only tried it for 30 seconds, it does seem to be more like the real thing than my other compressor plugs.
Grabbed a couple of freebies while I was there.
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Post by mcirish on Nov 25, 2022 13:28:13 GMT -6
I have a number of his plugins. I don't use them as much as I probably should. For a while, I was having odd GUI issues. He just sent me an email today that the VST3 version doesn't play well with HiDPI in Nuendo. Removing them and only using the VST2 versions solves the problem. Now, I better check out a few more before the sale ends...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 15:51:01 GMT -6
I just bought the VCL-25A on a recommendation of a friend. I have a dozen plug-in compressors, but even though I've only tried it for 30 seconds, it does seem to be more like the real thing than my other compressor plugs. Grabbed a couple of freebies while I was there. VCL-25A is great. If you get pumping or oscillation, set it for 1 second release like the hardware. The VCL-515 is 1 second or slower to avoid pumping imo or have the needle barely moving. VCL-864U sounds huge. 10:1, 2 second release, dig in |
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Post by bradd on Nov 25, 2022 16:01:32 GMT -6
How’s the plate? I’m a sucker for a good plate verb.
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Post by sirthought on Nov 26, 2022 4:06:00 GMT -6
I already own a few of their plugins, trying not to get too redundant with my tools overall. But since this sale is so cheap I decided to pick up the DrumsSSX to see if it might fit the bill occasionally when I mix stuff other people send me that's not multi-track. That software is one for the more expensive ones normally for Fuse.
I assume it works similar to iZotope RX on the re-mix feature, only it's setup more for drums.
That sale is insanely good.
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Post by mhbunch on Nov 27, 2022 9:45:45 GMT -6
This sale is insane- I already owned most of the Fuse stuff but just picked up the Drumsssx, Flywheel and TCS68 plugs.
Blown away.
I already owned a ton of tape sim plugs (uad Kramer, atr102, j37, slate, softube)and thought I would never need another. Got flywheel just because of the price - wow this thing is special. Based on the small amount of time I had to play with it it might be my new go-to. In conjunction with the TCS68 it’s so easy to dial in the right amount of gooey goodness.
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Post by vvvooojjj on Apr 7, 2023 2:39:06 GMT -6
FAL has a sale at moment. I bought the VCL-4 after demoing it a bit as I didn't have an opto in my toolbox that would suit my needs.
For some reason I never really gelled with UAD LA2s nor Black Rooster's VLA-3. I demoed UAD LA3 a few years back but didn't buy it as I thought something was missing.
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Post by mcirish on Apr 7, 2023 9:05:26 GMT -6
VCL-4 is very good. I have a number of his plugins and they all do something unique to the sound. Maybe it's subtle saturation. I'm not sure what it is but I find myself using them more and more. I just wish he would solve the VST3 gui issues in Cubase/Nuendo. I have to use the VST2 versions until he comes up with a fix.
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Post by copperx on Apr 7, 2023 10:00:06 GMT -6
FAL has a sale at moment. I bought the VCL-4 after demoing it a bit as I didn't have an opto in my toolbox that would suit my needs. For some reason I never really gelled with UAD LA2s nor Black Rooster's VLA-3. I demoed UAD LA3 a few years back but didn't buy it as I thought something was missing. After getting an Audioscape V3A, I compared it against every single LA3A plugin that I could demo, except UADs LA3A, because I wanted to know if my purchase was justified. What I found after many tests is that some plugins are closer than others (VLA-4 was good), but all of them let through some transients that the hardware doesn't. Especially in the high end. The 'box tone' isn't there either, but I wasn't too concerned about that. But I still don't understand why a plugin 'misses' transients. |
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Post by plinker on Aug 23, 2023 10:53:53 GMT -6
FAL has a sale at moment. I bought the VCL-4 after demoing it a bit as I didn't have an opto in my toolbox that would suit my needs. For some reason I never really gelled with UAD LA2s nor Black Rooster's VLA-3. I demoed UAD LA3 a few years back but didn't buy it as I thought something was missing. After getting an Audioscape V3A, I compared it against every single LA3A plugin that I could demo, except UADs LA3A, because I wanted to know if my purchase was justified. What I found after many tests is that some plugins are closer than others (VLA-4 was good), but all of them let through some transients that the hardware doesn't. Especially in the high end. The 'box tone' isn't there either, but I wasn't too concerned about that. But I still don't understand why a plugin 'misses' transients. I do the same A/B testing when I buy hardware, and have noticed exactly the same thing. Frequently, I have to set the software attack to 1 or 2 millis in order to get the same response as the hardware that is set much higher. Of course, we can't control the attack on the V3A (which I just bought), but still, hardware seems to clamp down much easier than software in most instances. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2023 21:43:12 GMT -6
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Post by ragan on Nov 14, 2023 23:54:04 GMT -6
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Post by kcatthedog on Nov 15, 2023 2:19:19 GMT -6
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Post by mcirish on Nov 15, 2023 6:44:07 GMT -6
Ray just put out a big fix update that solved the hidpi gui issue in cubase/Nuendo. Love his plugins and I'm very thankful for the big fix. I've been bugging him about the bug for a year. Pun intended.
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Post by ragan on Nov 15, 2023 8:46:42 GMT -6
Download linke (Mac) still doesn't work
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