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Is there some way to sidechain (from a different track) with your any of your plugins in Ableton Live?
I have sidechained with a plug besides Ableton’s native ones, so I think it just can’t be done with yours, am I correct?
Thanks again for sharing your wonderful plugins!
Chris
As far as I tested with NastyVCS and DensityMKII you can sidechain from a different track (simple exemple; kick ducking the bass) … this is possible when you load the compressor on the bass channel, find and activate “ext sc” / “ext” on the plug’s GUI.. then toggle Ableton’s I-O (Alt+CTRL+I) and find Kick’s “Audio To” dropdown menu and route to the bass’s channel instead of master.
If you want the kick signal along with the bass, send it through one of the sends.
The only plug-in from me which are supporting external sidechaining are Density mkII and NastyVCS.
Don’t they work properly in AL? Which sidechain routing method are you using in AL?
Not sure if I was just tired or only tried Ferric, but I got it working. Thank you to both of you, now I can do M-S SC comp.
Ok, anyone have suggestions for side chaining to duck freq instead of volume?
Often its better to duck certain freq’s than volume and looking for a better way than manually drawing in the automation on the eq. I guess a multiband comp with SC input would do it?
I want to be able to duck only certain freq ranges in M-S with a sidechain input.
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A multiband compressor with sidechain input per band sounds interesting.. but don’t know if it exists… so regarding this videos, basicly you have to build it… a bit messy
i’ve modded a multiband patch and put compressors with flexible sidechaining.
who’s interested email me at piguz@libero.it
Yea, I knew I could build but…
Thanks, I think I might try the multiband approach in the 2nd video.
Also going to see what cool;spring made below.
I came across two free plugins for band splitting.
Crossover: http://rs-met.com/freebies.html
Fr33some:
http://www.delamancha.co.uk/fr33some.htm
One is typical crossover and one is inversion. Which type is better?
The crossover is done with Linkwitz-Riley lowpass/highpass filters.
Crossover’s manual says a digital crossover with FIR- filters can get the sum to equal the original signal but adds latency so they went with the analog style (no FIR).
Fr33some has no manual just this http://www.delamancha.co.uk/images/inversion.png
Ableton manual doesn’t say how splitting is done for their multiband comp.
Would appreciate comments on best way to split bands.
Thanks,
Chris
To me the Linkwitz-Riley filter is still the best option regarding sound, cpu and latency.
Thanks! Btw, I found a free multiband with sidechain, thanks to cool:spring!
Equinox – http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge_2009.php#dc09_51
Will there be apple versions ?
not in the near future
would be nice if you found a way to translate your VST’s to OSX compatible plugs – - i would like to use your technology in Logic Studio on my 27″ mac on my art-projects and soundtracks.
why mac?
the easiness of OSX helps me so much te become productive – in the last five years i have made more music then i could on windows – so why stick to w? – see a list of my work at http://audio.dailym.net/cv-audio/ if you have the time
Density mkII is the best- please please do a 64 bit update:)
http://soundcloud.com/steveosiris/nastydla-mix
hehe, nice trip-hop feeling – me likes
I was just playing around with some plugins of yours.
Atm, I’m rediscovering them one by one and think some of them are really cool!
Thank you for your hard work!
3ee
P.S. I also read your manuals and find them cool, helpfull with tips and organized!
Nice and chill, I like, here is one of our super chill songs (of course with Bootsy’s plugins used) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZObXgVNlRo
Hi Bootsy. I’m a student at SAE Perth right now and would like to have a written interview with you on ‘emerging technologies and trends’ in the audio industry. This will be in my report for my 2nd trimester assignment. I wont ask you too many questions, may be 3. Email me soon if you are interested.
Thanks again for all the great work you are doing! I’m a great fan of your plugins.
Lovinab.
Interview is ok, I just require a digital copy and the permission to publish it on my Blog.
Hey man, love the plug-ins! I’ve just bought a Windows 7 laptop and tried running these plug-ins in my DAW (Cubase Studio 4) but it keeps crashing. Why do you think this is? I’d love to continue using your stuff because it’s great! I’ve had no problems using it in Vista, and it’s always worked before with my DAW.
Cheers, Martin
I’ve meanwhile tested Win7 compatibility and it works flawless here on an Acer subnotebook and Ableton Live 8.1.5. I’ve checked DensitymkII2.0.2, BootEQmkII2.1 and NastyVCS.
Did you installed them in the x86 section of Win7? Or is the host running in 64bit mode?
I’m running the 64 bit version of Windows 7. I’m also using Cubase Studio 4 64 bit, too. In my programs folder in the C drive there’s a folder which says “program files (X86)” but the Steinberg folder is installed in just the regular program files folder. What should I do?
You need a wrapper to run 32bit plug-ins (like mines) in your 64bit host. See here http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/64bit/ or elsewhere on more info about that topic, maybe a 64bit host user which comes along here can give more tips too.
Thanks for the help. I actually uninstalled my version of Cubase as I remembered when I installed it, it said whether I wanted to install the 32 or 64 bit versions, so I reinstalled it at 32 bit and now I can use these plug-ins again! Cheers for the heads up!
i use vista 64 bit and ive so much troubles but everything is nice since i have :
1/: put my (ableton’s live) vst folder in my documents(everywhere but not in program files x86) .
2/: running at the first install programs as administrator.
3/: disable uac (user account control ) .
but i think the first point may be nough to solve your problem
i hope this will help you a bit !
ciao !
Can we also use this page as a wish-list? I’d love to have the compressor from NastyCS available as a separate plugin. Thanks for all your hard work!
Sure but a separate VCS compressor is unlikely to come.
No problem; it’s just become my most-used compressor and I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask. It’s definitely not a hardship having it incorporated in the CS!
Density mk2 crashes Renoise. Help…please. I want to sell my Uad dsp so much…
I unfortunately can’t support the more “exotic” host like Renoise.
Ferric and Reaper:
I have a few instances of Ferric happening in different channels in reaper..and in one of the instances on one of the channels (a drum buss) no sound comes through when i have ferric on in the FX chain..however when i bypass it …sound goes through..
i don’t know if there is any delay component..to Ferric (maybe fir? or something) however it does seem like this phenomena of too much “feedback” in a very short delay that causes an effect to be unusable in that instance.
it’s not a huge problem because when i reset things it’s fine..and i also process stuff without it being real time etc..but i thought i would report it anyway.
cheers on your amazing software! I’m really excited for the “Nasty” Delay.
Is that with Ferric 1.5? Sounds like a Synthmaker bug.
yes it is the most recent one.
hi bootsie !
im not begging nothing but just to add something to the wish list .
for me , and to make some sound design , a real pitch/pitchshifter’thing , with your talent , will be amazing !.
tschuss !
Hi,
Is it possible to get older version of DensitymkII?
I’m sure I have used older version with older version of Renoise and it worked fine. Tried older versions of Renoise today and noticed it crashes on every version I could have possibly used (2.0 to 2.6)
So, could you send me DensitymkII 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 via e-mail?
Thanks!
no, sorry.
WHAT THE FUCK?
did you ever consider he may not have those old versions to send?
FUCK ME THEN.
semantically incorrect!
I don’t know if you’d announced anything about it or not, but here it is:
MAC OS X versions of these plugins.
There are many of us out there, making the cost/function calculation of the plugins we use, and there aren’t many ‘clever’ buys in the market.
Mac users too, need plugins you produced.
R there mac versions of these plug-ins?
thanx
currently not.
Hi Bootsy,
I’m normally extremely choosy about Plugin and use not much besides UAD, but I really like your plugin and miss them since I changed to mac. Is there any chance there will be Mac Versions (exspecially from Tesslar and Ferric)? Since I use the plugin commercially I would be prepared to “donate” and maybe there are other professional Mac-users who feel the same…
Big complement anyway!
Wolfgang
+1 for Mac versions. I’m especially interested in BootEQMKII and its RBass-like feature. Would be willing to donate.
+1, plz
Mac OSX plz…. sooo nice plugins
my brand new macbook collects dust just because of your fantastic plugins. please do mac versions so that i can switch over to mac os x and become a happy monkey.
+10000 for mac versions
Hello Bootsy!
I have covered some interesting sidechain experiments with Density mkII and NastyVCS’s compressor regarding the time characteristics witch I don’t want to make public just yet but want to share with you. Please contact me for more info if you are interested.
Maybe it will turn out into a cool article for your blog or something.
You can delete this comment after reading it.
3ee
Hi Herbert,
Except error or omission from my side, there is still this annoying bug with some of your plugs within Samplitude/Sequoia where for some reasons the GUI gets back to default (I mean all parameters to default) when I reopen a project.
Any clues?
Kind regards,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
meanwhile Outsim is working on that compiler bug. However, they did not confirmed any final schedule for that. It’s the reason why I’m still holding back other maintenance releases because this is going to be an essential fix (affects some other hosts/circumstances as well).
Just be patient (like me).
best regards,
Herbert
Hi Bootsie,
I run Cubase 5.5.1 on my new i7 930 with Windows 7 Home Premium x64.
The problem is: YOUR PLUGINS WON´T SHOW!!!
And This IS a real big problem to me
What´s up? ANy problems with win7 x64?
Please have a look on it because all my previous tracks use some of your plugs and I wanted to use them in the future, too!
These are Win32 plug-ins and you need a wrapper/bridge to rum them in a 64bit host.
Hi Varo,
never mind, got it working after telling Cubase the VSTPlugin directory is the VST2.x shared directory.
Had to make a rescan three times but now it runs VERY fine
Did you thought about what i wrote you about the nasty dla thingy? You drop me a mail and you´ll get all analysis data I´ve got so far.
Thanks and greetings
Michat
email send.
http://homemusicproduction.net/2010/10/03/bridging-the-64-bit-gap-with-jbridge/
How crazy analogesque can you push self oscillation while speeding up or slowing down NastyDLA ?
there are no limits …
Hi,
I am writing for Wusik Sound Magazine, and I would like to ask you if you are available for an interview for the issue which will come after this one.
I believe it would be an interesting read, since your plugins are so widely appreciated. Feel free to contact me if you have time and interest.
Kind regards,
Robert Halvarsson
eMail send …
Hello,
I’m trying to demo your Density MKII plugin. I get a nasty crash as soon as I inserted into my tracker (Renoise).
Here is a screenshot of the error:
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7760/crashk.png
As you can see, Density II is the last in the plug in chain.
I have a few other of your plugins and they all run fine in Renoise except this one. I’m running Windows 7 (64 bit) with 4 GIG ram. Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Adrian
Hello again,
Posted this same query here on the Renoise boards. http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=27243
Tactik(Dev) response:
“See http://www.renoise.c…showtopic=24978 please
I looked into this and there really is not much we can do without their help. All I could find out that the plugin crashes while trying to access some uninitialized memory. Very likely that they expect (and get) a call in other hosts to some internal function which avoids the crash there. But we can’t see what the plugin exactly does and thus can not even try to hack around this. Sorry…?
can we safely exclude that this is no 64bit issue?
Yes we can. From the other thread (as well as talking with others) This isn’t just a 64 bit issue.
Also read (in the link that Taktic posted that a user had the first version of Density and it was confirmed working good. Unfortunately, I don’t have Density v1 to confirm myself.
Hi,
Nasty VCS looses all the settings when reopening plugin GUI in Samplitude 10/Win7 64.
Thanks
Harerton
Known issue, still waiting on the bugfix from the compiler dev.
Bootsie your the man..cant believe these plugs are free.Thank you..
Im having a problem unarciving 2 rar files..bootsieeq..and the reverb…all the other files extracted ok..downloaded from your site..please help.
windows xp pro sp3
dell dual core 3g 3g ram
universal extracter 1.6.1
Maybe the downloads gots corrupted but otherwise, try iZArc – its free and best.
izarc did it ..thanks
Bootsie, great plugs. I’m having a strange issue with Nasty VCS. It seems that the plugin is generating a signal even when there is no audio running through it. This signal progressively gets louder as I am mixing. It seems to be in the very low end as I can not hear it but when I press play I can feel the compressor catch it and it makes a slight popping sound. If i press stop on the sequencer I can see that signal on the track with NastyVCS is being generated which goes away when I bypass NastyVCS.
Whats even stranger is when I restart Cubase it isn’t there, but as time moves on and I start working it starts to get louder until finally I have to restart again because its causing the limiter on my 2 bus to react too much.
Windows XP
Cubase 5.1.1
Hi!
First of all thank you for making these wonderful plugins!
I’m having a little trouble with the presets though..
If I choose a preset and make some changes to it then load another preset and then load the first one again it still has my changes applied to it, it doesn’t change back to the initial settings..?
Your plugins is not the only ones that behave this way so I’m not blaming your plugins I just wanted to ask if you know what could be causing this?
I’m using Reaper but the plugins behave the same in VST Plugin analyser, I have tried it on three different computers and under XP and W7 (both 32bit) and they all behave the same.
I’m not using presets that much so it’s not a big problem but I just wanted to ask if you had any info on this issue.
Best regards
Heb
Do you have versions of your plug-ins that work with OS X please ?
Barry
Hello dear Plug-in Master, I like Density MK II so much, it is really one of the nicest m/s compressor in software sphere, but sometimes it is getting crash in my 32-bit Cubase 5.5 on Win7 …well I am just saying
BIG Thank you for all of your stuff, it really rocks!
Hi bootsie,
great NastyVCS Channel Strip, one short question:
Could you give me the attack and the release times for the compressors preset settings?
they are not static/fixed but program dependent.
Since I helped with tweaking the compressor of the VCS and especially the timings, here is some thoughts regarding the dynamic sections (bootsy: I hope it is ok to share them here):
Generally the attack and release is programm-dependent, so no exact times can be given, as different input material gives different reactions for the same setting.
But nonetheless the naming of the timing presets gives a good idea what to expect out of them and the presets are sorted from fast (top) to slow (bottom).
So if you want to flatten and smash a drumbus use “grind” for attack and “squeez” for release.
If you want to enhance the punch of a sloppy kick drum, use “pres” or “slack” for attack and a fast release setting so the compressor can recover between the hits.
To gently level a vocal track use “slack” and “soft” or “LA”.
For upfront guitar tracks try “press” (stands for pressure) and medium release settings.
To get an idea of the “sound” of a compressor it often helps to really drive it hot (thats one of the reasons why I made bootsy add the +12dB button
. Then adjust the timing paramters and back of the compression amount until it doesn’t sound strained or overprocessed anymore.
I hope this gives a rough idea about the reasoning behind the timing presets. I know it kind of gets old, but really try to hear whats happening when using the different settings. Just take the names literal. Hopefully this works out for the material you work on and the sound you are looking for
first request for the dla
can you put some inertia to the effect of delay lines?
like in the real analog tapes, when you speed up or down,it needs s bit of time to change the speed(and it does it non linearly).
in this way,changing the sliders would change smoothly without revealing sampling artifacts deriving from severe pitch shifting!(and in xfeedback or 1&2mono mode it would cause beautiful things!)
as for the inertia amount, it’s just your taste, you can always add a switch led to activate it,or deactivate it automatically when switching to sync mode,so that patrick doesn’t have to modify anything
let me know what do you think
thanks!
it sounds so warm !
+1 on the inertia tape speed feature. Actually I already had such models in the prototypes but it did not felt right yet and so it was defered for the 1.0 release.
I also currently miss a midi learn feature when working with DLA on my own. Both might be something for an update but definately not this year anymore.
There is a bug in NastyDLA and Studio One. Even if the sound engine is off (Stoped not playing), if there is any insert of NastyDLA in any track, there will be hiss and noise when there should be none. Disable the instance (using Studio One “power button” on the effect) stops the hiss.
so is this noise independent of the NOISE level dialed in?
Yeah, there is no noise at all coming in as the audio engine is stopped and the effect it is not on a monitored track.
You download links (to dropbox) don’t seem to be working. Can you please update them?
Thanks!!
the bandwith limits got busted due to the DLA release. For NastyDLA there is a mirror below the dropbox link.
Tried downloading BootEQmkII but it just cam up with ‘Oops! Can’t find your page’, or ‘There has been an error’ pages…
Please just try again after the weekend, the bandwith limit is still exceeded at the moment due to the DLA release traffic.
Just tried the downloads, still getting a Dropbox error
Same here — thoughts on trying another hosting service instead? fileshare.com, ifile.it, hotfile.com, rapishare.com? (I could go on.)
However, I do imagine you probably have a good reason for using DropBox; I just don’t know what it is!
That aside, thanks for the plugs! I absolutely love BootEQ. I haven’t had a chance to try many of the others yet, but I will do when the opportunity arises!
relax, its just a matter of days. It has a reason why I don’t use those hosters in general. Just have a closer look at their terms of service …
P.S.: Thanks for some private hosting offers that I’ve already received. I’ll probably look for such a solution with the next release to have it available in a dedicated scalable place and to not disturb the dropbox downloads here.
Ah-ha, I see now. As I said, I figured there had to be a reason. Thanks for clarifying.
Hi Bootsie I really can,t fint how to accept the license agreement bofore downloading..
How do I do this?, help please….
hi,
i really like your plugins, unbelievable they are free. not only do they have nice interfaces, they actually sound great.
where can i donate?^^
unfortunately teslaPro and ferric won’t show up in cubase5.5 32bit win XP. any suggestions?
cheers
solved
This is my first post here. As a novice recording enthousiast, I do not have a great deal of experience in utilizing your plugs-ins yet. Still, among the many plug-ins out there, free or otherwise, yours stand out as being superbly designed. I appreciate your attention to detail in making them aesthetically interesting, particularly the vintage looking ones and those with Vu styled meters. I also really appreciate the plugs-ins that have many presets. This is a big bonus for those of us who lack the experience to hunt for and quickly find certain sounds. Even your manuals are excellent. Thank you for making these stellar plug-ins available.
P.S. I trust occasional glitches are an unavoidable consequence of software in general, but for what it’s worth, all of your plug ins have worked flawlessly for me.
Hi Bootsie, erstmal danke für NastyDLA und Deine anderen Plugins – ganz, ganz grooooß – tolle Arbeit!!!
Leider hab ich NastyDLA-Bugs zu melden: der eine betrifft den Chorus. Sobald man den Regler aufdreht, klingt es bei mir so, als würde das Signal degradiert werden – wie ein LoFi-Effekt/Bit-Reduzierung oder Aliasing, ich glaube nicht, dass es so gedacht war.
Noch ein zweiter: in Sonar 8.5.3 werden nicht alle Parameter gespeichert. Der aktivierte “Wet Only”-Button ist nach dem Neuladen eines Projekts wieder aus. Keine Ahnung, ob das auch andere Einstellungen betrifft.
Your dropbox downloads are not working.
I’ve been experimenting with using Tessla SE and Ferric in sequence to try to get a Fatso Jr sort of effect. Which one would you put first in that application? (I put Tessla first and use its output to drive Ferric) And would it be possible to quantify the gain reduction of Ferric’s “Trim” knob and/or add an input gain knob in a future revision?
Hello! I just wanted to congratulate on your great work flawless and neat that develops in these beautiful machines, also thank you for your dedication and great contribution to those of us in this, as I respect myself, my future in music production Industrial IDM, really needed a place like this!
thank you very much!
just to let you know, I’ve put all latest issue reports on my investigation list…
Will your wonderful plugins work on my new 64 bit, windows 7 computer with pro tools 9?
Thanks
Hi, I have some ideas for a new line of plugins – but i need a talented developer. Are you interested in working with someone?
not this way, sorry.
Hello,
I attempted to download your plugins and I saved them to a folder in my VST programs. However, it appears that they require some type of zipfile to open them. Did I do something wrong?
most are deployed in “.rar” format – if you don’t have a utility to handle that try IZarc for example or other free tools.
Hey Bootsy<
I use NastyDLA in Reaper and it will crackle once in a while even though the CPU says only ~15%. When I reload REAPER it goes away until I add something else…then the noise again.
P4 1GB RAM am I underpowered
If the P4 is a rather old one it could be the issue, NastyDLA demands some cpu indeed. But it could also simply the chorus bug if that crackle only occurs when chorus is enabled. That one will be fixed later on.
There is a bug in the chorus? I will check it out…thanks!
Hi
Tested it on PC, very nice work.
Is there OSX versions planned ?
thx
I was extremely negligent by not thanking you nice folks for the great plugins on your site!
Thank You! Kudos!
It would be useful for me to have the same name as “Vendor” in all the plugins. Now the older ones are by “bootsy”, Density is signed “VarietyOfSound” and the newer ones are “Variety Of Sound”.
Thank you
I love Density mkII and use it everywhere.
In Presonus Studio One, it makes something crash when I close the song. I never lost data, but.. just to let you know!
Thank for the wonderful plugins.
Firstly “Thanks VOS/Bootsy” for an amazing plugin pack…a great arsenal to any hobbiest’s or pro’s collection without question FULLSTOP!
Using Windows7x64 and Cubase 5.12 x64 with jBridge and with Joao’s help finally got the plugins working without glitches when changing the presets in the drop down menus. Was experiencing static sound shrills for 5-6 seconds and subsequent static blips when changing to further presets.
Solutions we found :
Inital solution was to select in the settings of jBridge the following two options :
•Enabling “legacy integrated mode”. This solve the subsequent static blips but not the intial 5-6sec shrill.
•Enabling “switch to integrated GUI mode” This resolved the static shrill.
BTW : Where’s the donate button I can’t find it
Hope you get a donate button if you release x64bit (and VST3 unlikely as I know it’s a different beast).
Thanks and regards
Just downloaded and briefly tested your plugins: need more time to evaluate but I believe Ferric and Tesla are the best saturation plugins I tried so far… Don’t really know why you keep them free!
hey there bootsy
i’ve used your plugs both in logic 5.5(athalonxp) no sse2 and reaper 3.73(P4)
both on windows
your plug-ins seem to work a lot better in logic
the plugs take a huge cpu draw, ferric is 5% and VCS
is 18% per instance in reaper
any idea if this is normal i really like your work
but want to move away from logic
thanks
lt
the P4 performs not that well with lots of float math so it could be the cpu and not the host.
Hello bootsy!
I just wanted to give you some gratitude for your wonderful plugins!
I just recently finished up a project where I used your effects – almost exclusively.
NastyVCS, FerricTDS, EpicVerb were some favorites with vcs and tds used on just about every track.
I also used NastyVSD on the master during mixdown.
I hope it’s ok to post a link to the album-
It can be streamed and or downloaded here http://www.rinahsegal.com
thanks so much and happy holidays
-Jerry
Hi, my name is Frank Gonzalez. I am a composer focused in making soundtracks for contemporary choreograhers and media. I wanted to thank you for your site, your work and your generosity. I am really astonished with your plugins collection. I just discovered them today but I am going to start using them right away. I promess to go back to you with some compositions after I expiriment with them…
A couple of questions: were can I listen to your music? and, have you ever been interested in midi-effects plugins and (or) generative processes: you know, using chance as an ingredient in composition… That is the kind of stuff I am in. Please visit quiltsuns.blogspot.com to see what is my line of work. Thank you again, congratulations and happy, happy Holidays!
Frank
Hi there,
many thanks for your brilliant plugins! Density mk.II is fabulous and is getting some serious usage on every mix as are most of the other plugins. There only issue is that Booteq and certain of the others won’t show up in my host DAW.
I’m running Cubase 5.0.1 within XP pro 32 bit. I’ve tried the obvious things like rescanning the plugin folders from cubase but no joy. Given the quality of the other plugins I’m desperate to give BootEq a try.
Many Thanks,
Graham
Which plug-ins exactly? Maybe I could include that in the bugfix releases planned for january then …
Although I left remarks once before, I have just finished my first real project, and felt compelled to comment again. I can hardly convey how well your plug ins work, and I am thrilled with the results. I used Density, Rescue, DLA, and Nasty HF. Everything about them is stellar, from the designs on through to actual function. Thanks again for making these unbelievable plug ins available.
Should you develop any others, perhaps some kind of specialized mastering leveler/limiter might be worth considering. Then one could literally complete a project, including mastering, using nothing but Bootsy plugs.
Hi Bootsy, the new website looks good. For me, it’s much easier to read now. Happy new year and thanks for your effort !
Hey Bootsy!
I’m really interested in your work, I’ve heard a lot of good stuff from classmates and fellow sound engineers! I’m keen on testing it, but the problem is I’m running on a mac, I don’t really have access to a PC in a controlled sound environment.. And I know you don’t seem very keen on porting your work either, but just out of curiosity, what would it take to make that port? Or perhaps “fix” the Mac OS to be able to run your plugins? Since the VST interface is the same for both PC/Mac, I mean.
Would it be able with donations?
Really inspiring work, I admire it! You should be proud
// Fabian
Your TesslaSE download appears to be corrupt?
works fine here
I find the NastyVCS really hard to look, small and confusing buttons all along the bottom and such. Will you be working on new skins? Thanks
nope.
I have Cubase, Reaper, and Adobe Audition to use. Audition offers great editing, but I’ve had some problem with outside [of Audition] plug-ins.
I was wondering if you have some experience with Audition compatability and, if so, any suggestions?
Thanks
The upcoming betas will address some issues in both, Cubase and Reaper. The more niche hosts are harder to support though. What are those issues – can you get a little bit more specific?
Hi Bootsy,
i have a really strange issue with BootEq-MkII(i have this problem even wit the latest beta release)
I’m running on xp 32 service pack 3.My mastering audio program is wavelab 6.
When i load the BootEq MkII plug into the master-section of wavelab 6 everything works fine
i can tune the controls of the equalizer and of the preamp section.If i boost the volume out
of the preamp i can clearly see the levels on the master-section going over 0 by +3dB or +4dBs.
But when i launch the render on wavelab(with the volume on the preamp boosted at 4 for example) as soon as the render is finished the peaks levels of the audio file remain unchanged.There’s no volume boost!!
This happens with version 2.1 and beta release.With the first realease of Boot Eq MkII this problems
does not occur as the level of the audio file get properly boosted.
Could you please let me know something more? This thing is driving me crazy cos i need
to use your fantastic plug on some mastering projects.
thanks for your help!!
regards
Francesco
i want to underline that it’s only the preamp section that has this issue.
If you turn off the preamp and use only the eq boosting levels at various frequencies
once you’ve rendered the files the peaks and the rms levels get properly boosted.
If you turn off the eq and use only the preamp section(boosting the out volume even by 8 db!)
once you’ve finished the rendering nothing happens.No boost in peak and rms levels on the audio
file.I think it’s a bug of the latest release(even the beta one).
If you could shed some light on this issue it would be much appreciated.
thanks!
regards
Francesco
There are plugins for your Mac OS X? If not, you will still produce? Thanks!
Is there any reason for you to not include the exact frequency (in numbers) when we tweak your plugins? I love Nasty VCS, but I need numeric precision when setting the High Pass Filter and the Low Pass Filter. Not even when I remove the GUI from the plugin I can see the data, just a slider with no label. This is being a deal breaker for me, have you ever considered doing a version where the plugin tells these informations while we twist the knobs? Thanks!
VCS is a mixing tool and imho there is no need to have precise numbers when doing that – your ears should be sufficient. Might be different if we are talking about pre-production or mastering but thats not what VCS was designed for …
As Exeris said below, in less than ideal rooms we often rely on numbers. That´s why I asked specifically for the HPF, as it´s the most difficult for me to judge by ear. When it comes to regular “color EQ” I totally agree with you. Anyway, thanks for the quick reply and great plugins. I can´t recall any project on the last years that didn´t had DensityMKII on the master bus.
well i had the same problem with it, since specially the hpf isn’t focused on the low values (say 0-200 hz) when turning the knob
on the other hand the hpf doesn’t have a particularly hi slope curve, so I wouldn’t suggest it for surgical room compensation.
but if you want to see what the filter’s doing, just use the mighty analyzer by christian, and learn how does it work, memorize the positions of the knob just like you would do for real gear.
about room compensation, i also would suggest an eq that has band notches as well besides the allpass.
i found it really useful in dual mono independent operations to correct both room issues and messy stereo micing , since often the excessive “boomy” or “phasy” sound that comes from them is given by one or more redundant frequencies that have to be erased with a combination of asymmetrical allpass filters and one or two band notches (possibly with harmonics control)
always take a look to a multiband phase meter, or at least use an eq that shows you the phase shift that you are introducing.
a simple hipass should be used only for simple tonal balance and rumble removal
hope i’ve been clear
enrico
Hi
I like the reverb a lot — but I’m wondering can you change the wet:dry mix (or add a button) to LOCK the wet:dry mix so it’s not recalled when selecting a preset?
It’s very annoying if I put it on an insert (so the wet:dry needs to be more like 30%) then as I scroll thru presets I have to keep changing the w:d ratio…..Many (most?) reverbs do not store the w:d ratio as part of the preset for just that reason…..but my sugg above is a decent compromise I think
Keep up the great work
Jordan
yes, you are right and if there ever will be a feature update then this will definitely be included …
I agree with DSA, would greatly appreciate Nasty VCS HP and LP have numeric precision as many of us are working in bad acoustic spaces and rely on our ears AND numbers to get best results. Hope you will consider in the future.
I know this sounds awfully whiny and despicable, but could you consider making OS X versions of your plugins (if not free then commercial)? I’ve read many good things about them and would like to try them out. Naturally, you’re very welcome to ignore this as I’m just random internet whiner
Happy new year anyway!
many greetings from Saxony here. the most of the tracks on page 1 (http://soundcloud.com/the-nautilus-project) over this link are done with densitymkII compressor on the hats, subbass and kicks and synths
thanks for that fine plugins, really love them!
Hi Bootsy,
many thanks for your fantastic plugins! Same goes to Patrick for his beautiful GUIs
At the moment i am just using the Cubase own plugins and your ones.
I can’t compare them to other professional plugins. But yours are enough to achieve a professional sound (to my ears). It is much fun working with them.
Same applies to the vst’s manuals and the background informations you present in this blog.
Thanks again and best regards
Olav
BootEQ 96kHz
192kHz ! GoGoGo !
Hi. does anybody know how I can make some of those plugins work with logic?
Hi Bootsy, I was just reading your latest news letter and you mentioned a bug with Nasty DLA. I have the plugin, LOVE it! Could you provide me with some details about the bug and what I mayt be able to do to help? Thank you for your great plugins; if I can help in some way I will.
Scott
If you are affected by this issue with your setup then you will immediately notice it: Some audible lofi noise / crackles when dialing the chorus in …
Ok, I have had this problem. I have a project with 3 instances of DLA running on 3 seperate tracks. Only one of them had the low fi noise and the ony way to eliminate the noise was to turn the chorus dial all the way down. I have recently updated my daw ( to a pre-release version) and now I can’t reproduce this problem on that same track. I can’t reproduce it yet in a new project either. Sorry, I have no explanation for this.
Hello!
I love your stuff, thanks so much for making it available! I’ve got some issues with the GUIs in Cubase Essentials 5 (had them in version 4, as well). Sometimes the GUIs won’t come up, but I just see a “frame” where the plug-in interface should be. Have you experienced this ever and would you know what might cause it?
Thanks!
Petri
is that also with the latest updates?
Do you consider releasing only the saturation section Nasty VCS (knobs IN and SAT) as a separated plugin? It´s my favourite saturation plugin ever and I use it on everything, but it´s a bit overkill loading the entire strip only to use this section.
no plans for that, sorry.
Hi.
From a technical point of view, would it be a pain to do mac versions?
-I am sure you could set up a “donate” function on your site, where people who wanted a mac version of your plugins could donate.
What are your thoughts on a future mac release? and donation?
thanks alot for you GREAT GREAT plugins!
Donation? No!
Mac release? No plans at the moment.
I am passionately in love with the VOS plugs. I’ve been doing KVR’s One Synth Challenge all year and as you may know one of the rules is that all plugs be free and available to all. VOS plugs have become my go-to for nearly everything, and have been so in my non-OSC work as well. It started with Ferric on the master, and I’ve just recently started using Baxter on the master as well. All your plugs have found their way into my work. My only gripe is the lack of Mac versions. We are on Macs at my day job (a large Methodist Church in the Houston, TX area) and I’m in the process of mixing our big Christmas musical for DVD. I find myself yearning in vain for my beloved Ferric and Baxter! Thanks for all the great plugs, and keep up the phenomenal work!
Hello – Really nice concept this “Nasty” business (the NastyVCS) but it crashes in Logig 5.5.1 on an Athlon Win XP machine. I tried it in Reaper on the same machine, and it works OK.
Most modern VST’s work with Logic, so I’m wondering if there is a workaround or if there’s a quirk in the Logic VST implementation that everyone used to be aware of, but that has somehow been lost?
I really like Logic for its MIDI, synths and flexibility – Reaper is nowhere near as yet, so any help would be appreciated…
- Oh and by the way: EpicVerb works flawlessly in Logic. So to help you grasp my problem:
In Reaper both EpicVerb and NastyVCS work, but in Logic only EpicVerb. So whatever braks NastyVCS, it’s not likely to be related to instruction set.
Your plugins are amazing! Thank you for being so generous…! I was comparing BootEQ with WaveArts tube emulator, and I was pleasantly impressed… with BootEQ that is! I think it is my new favorite EQ. So when are you going to try your hand at some mastering plugs, linear phase eqs, multi-band compressors (with programmable side chain for each band)… limiters…!
Hi there Bootsie. Love your plugs, just wanted to let you know that I stilll get that weird chorus issue with NastyDLA inside FL Studio 9.8, even with the new beta you released. It works great inside Reaper however.
Bootsie, I’m sorry, I didn’t see the new beta released Feb 10th for NastyDLA… I will try that with FL Studio 9.8 and report back. Thank you
Hi. I wanted to personally thank you for creating free VST effects. Our artists use them quite a lot in their music (Polybonk is an electronic music store).
Also, I would like to let you know in appreciation for making your effects FREE, that our blog included your FerricTDS in our TOP FIVE Free VST List.
You can check the post here : http://polybonk.com/blogs/darren/top-5-free-vst-effect
Again, thank you!
Tom
Dear Bootsy, I really like your plugins and appreciate your hard work. Soundwise one of the plugins I like most is TesslaSE. However, there is a graphical bug in Samplitude. When I re-open a project all knobs are set to Zero although the sound is still ok. Makes it hard to finetune settings. Afaik you updated some plugins recently to fix this bug for them. But TesslaSE was not on the list. Is there a change you’ll fix the other plugins that suffer from this issue, too?
Thanks and best regards!
hi im looking for a compressor with a very fast releas bilow 1ms . and with all the ather options like knee and attack.i dont know way evry one stop at 1 ms.
i have a the plagin mix buss from ssl and after i uzed some loops throw it i anderstend way it is the best plagin for drums and for mix buss ‘it have a soper relese and with a gain reduction of 16 db it still returns to 0 befor the next hit (that meens you added 16 db of ambians to the drums and some time it is the best for that ) no ather plagin came close to that on 16 db reduction on the same sample it came back to 8 or so even with the anteres mix bus com emulation .
can you make acompressor that “pumps ” and have all the capabilitis of athe compressor.
i realy wating for your replay
uzi
soory for my en
Hi,
I am compiling a list of the best free plug-ins I can find and waiting to post them to our new site
http://www.groovezoo.com
Is it possible to link to them ?
Thanks,
Michael
Any chance you have some Mac stuff in the vault ?
Hey Bootsie!!!
what do you think about setting up a Flattr account so people can give you some?
I really love it! and i would love to “flattr” you
its a kind of micro-payment system
http://www.flattr.com
Thanks for everything!!!
Joe
Hi Bootsy,
First of all, i would like to say that i think to Tessla PRO is an awesome idea / plug-in.
I have one question about it. I think the 30 ms max for the transients is too short. I would love to have it in a range from 0 – 150 ms. It would it make even more suitable for busses or the masterbus.
Would like to hear from you soon!
PD
I will try to contact you by email …
Hi been trying to get epicverb,all I get is an unopenable zip,yet other downloads on that page are fine, also the ealu cant find one nothing to tick??????would love to try this ,best regs P
It’s a .rar file, not .zip
Hi sorry been busy ,thanx for reply,yep I cant open the rar ,my mistake,on win xp or 7 or linux,still would love to try it, density ive tried so far its exellent ,thanx for that,I use uad and other plugs its as good as easily and more flexible.
I have a problem with Nasty VCS.
Some Functions can not be automated in Cubase like LP and HP …
Does that specific automation not work at all or is just e.g. steppy?
Not Work at all.
I write the automation for HP and LP and it does nothing on read.
Ok, need your host and OS versions then I can track that down.
Win 7 64Bit SP1, Cubase 6 32Bit
By the way.. your Plugs are Awesome!
Hi Bootsy! I love your plugins. I use Ferric and DensityII on every track! I also make my own dsp…nothing public, just experimenting for fun – but my limited knowledge causes me to wonder something about the saturation algo’s you’re using… in terms of aliasing & harmonic content. I notice when doing a sine-sweep through Ferric that you see aliasing “reflections” as the freq gets higher – these are very high freq sounds so I am curious if they don’t really have an audible effect – maybe it would be cool to have an oversampling feature to make ferric even smoother??? Or am I out to lunch here…
Since I’ve don’t seen your analysis and method I really can’t comment on that. Is that aliasing, THD, intermodulation distortion? There is so much confusion about all that out there.
Are you using 1.0 or 1.5?
using 1.5; here’s my analysis
http://www.cashcatmusic.com/spectro.jpg
first half of the spectrograph is with tds off, then on
http://www.cashcatmusic.com/fir1.jpg
the fundamental is there, and harmonics are occurring above the fundamental
http://www.cashcatmusic.com/fir2.jpg
there the harmonics are occurring below the fundamental
I’m curious as to your comments on this, I would find it very elucidating
I have enjoyed many of your posts
Got it all working,was a stupid problem,nuff said,WOW these are really hot plug ins,able to add or subtract harmonics eq etc, that ive been unable to acheive before even with uad,really pleasant results,they actually do something positive,awsome dude.
Oh yeah ,for years ive mixed using consules outboard etc,last few years been favoring in the box good ol mouse and surface,every single move,”worth it”, saved etc etc,as much as i love it one thing has eluded me is the chaos reactive component of the mixer always seems to add that something nuancey etc to the mix,Ferric and Tessla plus density HAS brought it into the box,for me, on the sub mix’s used subtle to moderate,an answer ive been looking for a few years,Thank you so much the happiest accidental ive come across in a long time.
I’m a regular writer for Sound On Sound magazine, where I write the monthly Mix Review and Mix Rescue columns, amongst various other things. I’ve recently written my first book, called ‘Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio‘, and to support it I’ve created a huge library of free mixing resources for small-studio engineers. As part of these resources, I’ve put together my personal Freeware Top Ten, which I’m pleased to say includes Variety Of Sound. I also name-check lots of the individual plug-ins on a number of other pages on the site (and feature them fairly regularly in Mix Rescue too), basically because I think they’re great! If this recommendation is useful to you, then I could also maybe email you through a small Top Ten badge/logo. Just let me know.
Cheers,
Mike Senior.
Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio — a complete mixing guide based on techniques from the world’s most famous producers:
HI. BOOTSY LETS START A COMPANY!
Hi, I use Ferric TDS and i know from specs the core engine should be oversampled.
but when you oversample you have to filter and downsample before sending the signal out to avoid aliasing artifact.
i think you didn’t apply any filter cause with saturation ferric presents artifact according to aliasing side effect.
do you think you want to put a anti aliasing filter in next releases?
tnx
version 1.5 does not use oversampling anymore.
Hi,
I found a picture of a synth called Venom related to your work. will we see a synth soon?
Greetings from Duesseldorf,
tonmanns
that must be a mistake – where did you saw that?
On” Referenzen” at SUXESIV, the “Urban Riedo:Venom” synth is written in one line with the company “Variety Of Sound”, when clicking on the image…
Maybe I missunderstood something.
BTW: Last night I finished a great Mix in Cubase for my brothers rockband “Tyranuke”, using BootEQ, Density mkII, the realVerb, FerricDTS and NastyDLA. Very happy with the results. I´m gonna stick to your plugins, they sound marvelous!!
fixed
Working with Density mkII in Reaper – it has a weird feedback loop where it keeps registering 3 db of gain reduction whether the track is playing or standing still. It doesnt’ do this in SONAR. Any ideas on what I can do?
Thanks!
btw – i LOVE these plugs of yours. THANK YOU SO MUCH for making them available!!!
Sorry, no clue …
Hi. I have been so impressed and pleased with your plugins! Especially the nastyHF eq! I tried epicverb for the first time yesterday and WOW!!!
what reverb unit did you model? One of the lexicons or is it a “homemade” reverb?
Thanks alot for your amazing work! Beats pretty much all other vst’s!
Hey Bootsy, any plans on developing a brickwall limiter/maximizer? All my projects have BootEQMKII and DensityMKII on the masterbus, all I need now is a maximizer to have the complete VarietyOfSound master chain
that could be, some day
Hi,
I think your plug-ins are incredible. i have a little plug-in corner in Music maker (the leading Dutch musicians magazine) and next issue will give you some nice press. I could send you a copy if you provide me with a postal adress, or I can scan the artikel and mail it to you if you are interested.
Cheers
Jeroen
eMail send!
Hey!
I just wanted to ask if there will be portations to the AU-Format fpr MAC OSX in the future. Would be very nice to use those pulgins in Logic, NI Maschine….
Dear bootsy!
For months on end I’ve been searching for a plugin that equals the effect of airwindows desk. Since this plugin is MAC only, it would be awesome if somebody (yes, im looking at you) create a plugin without any buttons, extremely low cpu usage that mimics analog mixing desk signal paths and just gives a tiny warmth and noise to either single tracks, busses or even master outputs. Sure, a lot of the plugins you have created so far, which are great, feature this more or less. However, I’d like one that i can literally put in a template file for cubase on every track and have that little ‘glue’ that mixing desk or miked sources give.
Please consider this, maybe an stripped version of your new preFIX will suffice. Anyway, keep up the good work and I’m looking forward to whatever plugins you will be releasing in the future!
Ruben from Groningen, Netherlands
Hi, Bootsy,
I’d like to check out the Nasty Channel Strip for live use with my soft synth rack in Brainspawn Forte:
http://www.brainspawn.com
Unfortunately, up to now Forte doesn’t support plug-ins with more than one stereo input. So would it be possible to have a version of your channel strip without side-chaining and only one stereo main input?
Thanks,
Angel
I won’t compile and distribute different versions of my plug-ins. I can’t support that – sorry.
Hey there Bootsy…
I am really impressed with the sound of your plugins but have a problem which I can’t seem to find an answer here for.
I’m running PTLE 8 on a Windows XP machine, and am using a FXpansion VST wrapper to incorporate the .dll files into PT. The plug-ins show up in my wrapped list, will load, and I can select presets and hear the different sounds, they are audible, however there is no graphic to be able to tweak settings, turn knobs etc. Is there something I’m doing wrong? Shouldn’t there be some sort of graphic files with the plugs or am I missing a piece of them?
Thanks,
Dan
The FXpansion wrapper works fine with my plug-ins (at least most of the times, as reported by lots of users/testers). However, as a freeware dev I can’t support such configurations if something does not work properly.
Thanks for the reply…
What a bummer. What’s strange is that If I have a web page open and drag it over the plug-in interface, I can see the graphic, but it doesn’t stay visible. Very strange. At any rate, I hope somewhere in the near future you can find a way to get these working accross the board, because I can tell they sound really great!
Dear Bootsy,
I’m really loving your work. These machines are sounding amazing and the GUIs are looking better than anything expensive on the market.
The only thing I’m missing is the possibility to change the values of the parameters (knobs) with the mouse wheel. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would like to have this little feature.
Is there any chance of implementation? If yes, do you have a time horizont?
(preFIX & FerricTDS should have priority IMHO
Thank you.
All the best
Joachim
would love to have that too, it just depends on the missing support from the framework I’m currently using.
I see. That’s bad.
Hello….I just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to quality…it shows. These are amazing!
Have you had success running these within protools using the FXpansion wrapper? I’m wondering if it’s something compatibility wise on my end…
Thanks!
Dan
Hi Bootsie,
First of all, I have to say the same thing as everyone else: I really love your plugins.
) on a lot of different tracks on Live crashed a dozen of times (mostly with an “out of memory” error message.
I was wondering whether you know of any problems with your plugins in ableton. I was working on quite a big project with a lot of your plugins (actually, almost all of them
I’ll send the bug reports to ableton and I’ll let you know what they say.
All the best,
Seppe
Ableton said that the plugins themselves don’t cause the problems, I just use too much of them
hello !
i own ableton live 8 and sometimes when i ve lot of tracks playing, with several plugs from you on every channel, when i open the gui to tweak some parameters , ableton produce some crackles, noises, and when i close it noises have disappeared..so maybe it just and simple (too little) buffer setting issue … i dont know ?!
Downloaded FerricTDS, NastyDLA and EpicVerb today and wrapped successfully. Ferric and Nasty load in an insert in Pro Tools just fine but EpicVerb gives me – “Alert- The plug in failed to load”. What am I doing wrong? Windows XP, SP3, P4, PT 8.03. Thanks for the Plugs and the help!
Anyone?
I cant find my copy of the earlier tessla se the on with the experimental level setting I really miss it wish you would repost it. Many thanks for all your superb and unique plugins.
Mark
no chance
Hi there, I heard your plugins at the studio of a Toronto mastering engineer and was totally impressed. I’d like to add another voice to the request for OSX versions — and I too would be very happy to contribute $$ to making that a reality.
VCS 1.0.1 Bug:
I cannot reproduce this reliably, but sometimes I get DC offset when the EQ section is enabled.
I’ll check fo sure
Ahh I think I sort of figured it out. It’s not really your fault, but it would be nice if your plug-ins would handle this more gracefully. Sometimes when my computer is under heavy loads, it makes pops/glitches that sometimes exceed 99.9 dBFS on the DAW meter (99.9 dBFS is the maximum that my DAW can display as far as I know) . The feedback nature of the algorithms tend to make things get stuck, even though I’ve increased my buffer size and the event has long passed. It seems to happen more often when you have a saturation in front of the signal chain. When I first noticed the problem, it was VCS after an amp sim under normal use parameters.
I can recreate the problem (turn off your speakers first) by chaining 4 VCS(es) or so together and then cracking up input, saturation, and EQ boost and the two gains up all the way. run some signal though the track. When there is no longer any signal, you’re left with around -30dBFS of DC offset. When you turn off three of them, a bit meter will reveal that there is still signal in all of the instances. This signal goes away when EQ is turned off. In this scenario, however, turning off the EQ in the last VCS does not completely eliminate DC offset; but turning off Saturation does, although there are still active bits on the meter in both cases.
Sometimes Density and VSD would also get suck at (seemingly) infinite gain reduction for an unspecified amount of time. This would happen more often if VSD is in front of Density, and I can’t really do anything except reload the session. (I have known this for a while… but I also knew why as it was extremely apparent because I would get no sound right away after the pop)
Hope this helps, your plug-ins are really amazing!
VCS with a gate/exp section would be extremely cool!
Thank you for existing!
I downloaded all of your plugins today and i must say that i am extremly impressed, i am an owner of the Waves Mercury Bundle and your plugins qualitiy must not hide from Waves. I like your GUI´s and how smooth they work in comparison to some commercial products.
The EpicVerb is an masterpiece of free VST plugins like all your others. Glad your not looking to go into the commercial direction.
thank you very much !
Have you thought about adding HTML anchors to the individual effects in the download page? This way, people could link to specific plugins in their blogs, tweets, facebook posts, etc.
And by the “Download” page, I meant the “VST Effects” page that provides wonderful yet concise descriptions of the awesome FX.
Hi! Thank you for your plugins! They are really great!
Do you plan to issue analog saturation modeller (I mean separate plugin, something like Mellowmuse or Soundtoys)?
TesslaSE and PRO are already there…
oh, my bad
I meant saturator with different kinds of tonal characteristics. For example, Soundtoys simulate 5 different kinds of sounding:
1) Ampex 350 tape drive preamps,
2) Chandler/EMI TG Channel,
3) Neve 1057 input channel,
4) Thermionic Culture Vulture triode setting and
5) Thermionic Culture Vulture pentode setting
and Mellowmuse simulate 4 types of saturation:
transistor, transformer, tube and tape
These plugins are great, but your approach seems to me more meticulous, your plugins doesn’t spoil the sound.
No bug complaints here- just had a moment tracking tonight where I realized just how much I’ve used your plugins over the last few years. Wanted to say thanks so much for your hard work- it’s made my work a little easier, and I don’t take your efforts for granted!
Cheers!
Hi.
. I have been wondering if you could make a version of BootEQ MKII that has the preamp section but no eq? Is it true that BootEq’s distortion charasteristics are based on tessla? The delay plugin is my another favourite. Last time I did music it came out on top of one delay plugin that I even paid money for. Outstanding! Can I ask what kind of stuff are you planning doing next? How about a de-esser, autopanner or some sort of delay based modulation effect?
Thank you so much for giving these plugins away for free. I have been using Tessla SE on numerous projects of mine. Your stuff is the best free plugins out there thats for sure. I have actually managed to shorten my buying list because tessla has such a good saturation sound. It’s just perfect for the electronic drumbuss
Thank you very much.
I had Density MkII across a “folder track” in Reaper, and while loop recording something the tracks in that folder slowly got softer and softer. This was *after* it had looped at least 3 times without any change. The sound was as if the input level *to* Density was being turned down to below threshold.
Upon examining Density, the meters were frozen at pegged (even though they were not anywhere near that as I had it set), and nothing responded on the gui. This seems to have only occurred after I manually tweaked a preset.
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Automating ROT in PreFix makes clicky noises
Hi, I really like your plugins, but there’s a bug when using Samplitude (tested with v9,10, and 11). When I open up a project and bring up epicverb (the one I noticed first) for example, all the settings shown are not what was dialed in when the project was saved. It may be that what is heard is correct, but the GUI doesn’t show the right settings. I would have to load up the saved preset to see the correct settings. It’s not a big deal if using 1 or 2 of your plugs, but I really want to use more than that. They really sound great! -Frank
Hi, Nasty CS/VSD keeps crashing in sonar x1, any potential fixes for this, p.s lovin these plug-ins great work !!! booteq is the shit, same with density !!
Yes, I’m new to audio production. Could someone post a video tutorial demonstrating how to side-chain using density mkII in Cubase or Ableton or, perhaps, provide detailed instructions as to how it is done?
Your assistance is much appreciated!!!
Tellsa Se, DLA and boot eq on every mix love what you guys are doing !
http://www.alexandert.bandcamp.com
Love your VSTs!
Linux – Versions please!
How complicated is it, to code them for Linux as LADSPA or LV2?
This would be the Hammer!
Matthias
Hey first off I LOVE your plugins they end up on almost all my tracks, I want to donate some $ as soon as I can afford it! (Just became a father! Expensive!)
Anyway I was wondering if there is any way in NastyDLA to mute the MAIN feedback entirely and just use say, echo 1 or echo 2 (or both) without the main echo?
I was having fun automating echo 1 timing, sounding really cool but I can’t get the main echo mixed out… If this is not possible in the effect as it is, maybe I could grease the wheels so to speak and you could add a switch to mute the main echo at the output stage?
Thank you thank you thank you, a thousand times thank you for giving out your plugs!!!!
Rescue AE, Density and PreFix are some of my favorites, and NastyDLA is probably THE best effect of its kind to date IMHO!!!
Love and respect for your work! I regularly urge my facebook friends to download and donate to your works!
There is no “main delay” just echo 1 and 2. Do you mean the direct signal? That can be disabled with the dry/wet option.
Ah right, thanks how silly of me! Thanks for the reply I must have had too many channels going, late nights I get a little loopy.
On another note, also regarding NastyDLA, I have noticed glitches reloading the automation of this plugin on Cubase. When automating echo 1 and 2 timing they reload as unknown automation. Just FYI I don’t really mind re-automating them because its fun and always yields interesting results, like turning the knobs on my space echo
Thank you for all that you do. I’ve tried/bought almost every plugin available, and regardless of the price or reputation, yours are always in heavy rotation, and always come out on the front line.
I had trouble finding a place on your site to support continued development of these works. Is that possible? Something that would help you? I’d much rather pay for your work than anything else I’ve come across.
Thanks again.
just spread the word in the forums – then you have helped us enough
Hey there,
I would like to say THANK YOU for all your great audio tools. I’ve used them a lot on my new album. And I couldn’t be satisfied with the sound of the tracks without them.
Just wanted to let you know how happy I am. And I’d love to send you the album on CD. So in case you’re interested just drop me a line!
Have a nice weekend!
Cheers,
Matthias (Axoplasma)
Hello – like (nearly) everyone I really like your plugs (else why would I be here) and I’m amazed that you make them available as freeware – there’s hope for the world after all. Here’s my situation – I am running Sonar 8.5, 32 bit version, on a quad core 2.4 Intel, with as much ram as Windows XP (32 bit) will allow. I do a mix of soft synth and straight audio, probably about 65/35. When I use your plugs at the beginning of a project (I like to mix as I go along) everything is swell but as I approach about 50% CPU usage things start getting a little flaky – snap crackle and pop and unusual dropouts until finally the transport will not function at all (which seems strange to me as I can move around and do edits but it just won’t play – there is zero cpu and/or disk activity on the little meters). I can freeze all my synth tracks and reboot all I want but the project will not play until I remove (usually) all instances of your plugs (I am especially fond of Ferric, Density and the Nasty Eq’s). I remove them, restart Sonar and all is well again – which kind of sucks because I like them a lot. I don’t have this problem with any other plugs- I use Waves, UAD-1, Sonar’s plugs and a bunch of other freeware – sometimes things get flaky but Sonar is kind of flaky anyway, and this is extreme flakiness. I did a search on Sonar in here but got no results – could I be the only one?
If you have any thoughts and or ideas I would love to hear them. BTW, your plugs work great in Adobe Audition 3.1.
Thanks for your work and any help – tom blackwell
It seems to be that Synthmaker support for Sonar is not the best atm. This is solely framework dependent …
Hello,
first of all, you write plugins of outstanding quality, thanks for that.
The question I have is about memory usage, particularly in FerricDTS. I am using multiple instances in Live, and I see that each instance takes about 50Mb of RAM. This is regardless of whether the plugin’s GUI is opened or closed. I mention this because I’ve observed other plugins drastically reduce their memory footprint when the GUI is closed and some others that only take a large amount of RAM for the first instance. 50Mb may not seem like much, but Live is a 32-bit host and when using Ferric on many tracks, the memory gets eaten pretty quickly. Is there a way to reduce/avoid this? Thanks!
Ilia
Yes, Ferric is a memory hog and its because of the huge knob animation graphics. Will have a look at it again when I’m going to update this one.
Well the graphics look great, but in the end, the functionality is even greater.
I’d be really happy to use a simplified or even GUI-less separate build if it means I can add instances without Live blowing up. Thank you.
Hi! Do you plan to develop some kind of VSTi synth?
no
Hi, just wondering if you can help, the GUI won’t show in cubase 5 (windows xp 32bit) during a project but they load up ok at the beginning of a project, task manager shows cpu on 25% load only and other plugins load fine, is this common problem?
example here: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6279/nogui.jpg
that must be an out of memory sort of thing – track that with the usual Windows task manager. If thats not the case then please report back to me.
I had the exact same problem today with Density mkII in Nuendo 3 (old version but still…). It did show up at first, but now it won’t show up at all in any other project. It’s as if a GUI on/off was flipped forever.
I really like the compressor sound though, it’s amazingly warm.
Thanks!
After some checking, the behavior is like Danny says: it open fines in other projects, but not the one in which the bug has appeared. It seems like when there are a lot of plugins loaded it starts too happen. But even though it might be a memory problem, I was only using around one third of the RAM according to Task Manager (Windows).
Thanks
-Simon
Hi Varosound (Or Bootsie ??
)
i want to invite you to partecipate to the discussion i opened on KVR;
we are discussing about aliasing of certain plugins, and some of yours also seems to suffer of this problem (Ferric particularly, Density MKII by much less extent)
Here the link:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4658709#4658709
I would like if you could clarify to us a bit this interesting argument
Thanks
Sorry, I was so busy last week and did not followed that discussiion – hope this week will going to be better …
hi,
es geht um den nasty DLA.
geht der filter immer nur auf den noise? das ist doch eher schlecht, oder ist das absicht?
gruß, otto
ich meine, ohne nur.
hätte gerne den filter auf noise aus. soll ja nach band klingen und nicht nach gefiltertem band. echo filtern is immer gut, auch hp+lp parallel. was mir noch gefallen würde…drittes echo….und natürlich reverb….wie bei nem roland echo….vielleicht ja mal eine idee fürn update?
ich versuche mich in richtung dub, ambient, dub techno….daher….
nasty dla is schon das beste freeware tool, keine sorge! was anderes kommt mir nicht ins haus.
D
Ja, das Rauschen wird immer mitgefiltert. Ideen sind schon mal notiert.
top work but I no longer have a copy of tessla se (1.1 I think)with the experimental setting on the threshold,I really miss that version/setting and would love to have a copy (as well as 1.2.1)which
I use extensively.I also use Density 1 a lot,which I fortunately still have,again I wouldn’t want to be
without Density 11but,am very fond of both.There is a subtlety and detail with Density 1 which I cant achieve with anything else and would really like to see both of these added to the downloads page
unfortunately I don’t support them anymore.
hi, recently i discovered some troubles with the Nasty Series …i use Studio One Pro v1.6.5 which is the last version …the trouble is that i load a Nasty plugin and i get a crash on desktop …also i can load an old project with the plugins on channels but soon as i cluck to open the plugin window i get the crash ..do you have any idea what can cause this? …i suspect is S1 fault …
Vielen Dank für die nützlichen Plugins! Ein Analyzer Plugin wäre noch klasse, so ala Inspector XL
. Großartige Arbeit!
Hi bootsy.
Have you ever considered making a” rigth click – learn CC” feature on any of your plugins?
the nastyDLA for instance, would be even more great if it had that feature. this is a plugin that i often “play” instead of set and forget. Many synths have this feature, and its a great and fast way to use your midi keyboards modulation wheel etc to quickly control a specific parameter
good idea indeed, especially for the delay! Lets see…
am & shawn lee using Dnsity MK2 during a record sesion for his lp, very cool
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5C58Ch523U
PS: at 4:02min
cool – thanks for sharing!
Hi Bootsy,
I have some bugs with the Nasty DLA. (i use cubase 5)
the plugin stops running when:
-Some a presets is selected
-Turning some knobs
-Stop & play cubase
Thx
DC
Very quick question: do any of your plugins properly support 96khz?
Thank you,
Matt B
yes, all of them.
Well, I know that’s not true. You’ve clearly stated in several places on this site that Booteq and several others don’t properly support 96khz due to the filtering. The booteq release page specifically states that it only works at 44khz and 48khz. And I know nastyvcs doesn’t work correctly at 96khz.
Again, are there any of your plugins which don’t have the filtering issue you’ve discussed at length in the past and that work at 96khz?
Thanks,
Matt
The BootEQmkII was fixed for all samplerate support one year ago – see the release notes here: http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/booteq-mkii-updates-to-version-2-1/
Thanks Bootsy – my misunderstanding – it might help clarify things if you updated all of your old posts discussing the issue with the new information, as I never spotted this in my exploration.
Thank you-
m
Bootsie, I was thinking… there needs to be a high quality LA2A clone out there that goes above and beyond. You were the first person I thought of.
You are the person who could bring it to the masses.
Any chance of these being ported to .au ?
These look amazing
Hi, downloaded Density mkII and Nasty DLA just yesterday. Thanks for the plug-ins. I did not have a chance to do much yesterday but my initial impression is that these are really great tools.
I am using Cubase 6 (Win 7 64 bit). I bridged the vsts using jbridge. When I choose a preset for Density mkII, it appears to me that the UI does not reflect the preset settings. Have there been other users having this kind of issue/any solutiuon to this?
Well, sorted it out by enabling the option “Force whole GUI refresh (per plug-in only).
Hi,
Can you tell me when all your plugs will be in 64 bits for windows 7 64 bits.
Thank you very much
J.Claude
A 32-bit DAW running in Win 7 64-bits will only accept 32-bit plugins, so, make sure your DAW is 32-bit.
Hi,
Yes, I know that. I actually use Cubase 5 32 bits with your plugs, with Windows 7 64 bits.
They work well.
But I would like to use Cubase 5 64 bits ( for more RaM ), and then your plugs don’t work.
So, do you know when your plugs will be in 64 bits ?
Excuse my English, but I am French.
Best regards.
Hello Noel,
just get jbridge and you will be able to run 32 bit plug-in even with Cubase 5 64 bits.
You can get it here:
http://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/
Hi,
Thank you, but I know jBridge and all you tell me … But I just want to know that :
” WHEN do YOU think to update your own plugins in 64 bits ? ”
Thank you fot your reponse.
That depends on the underlying framework which I’m using. I hope they make it 64bit ready be next year.
Hi,
” … I hope they make it 64bit ready be next year. ”
OK ! Thank you very much … Your plugins are really great, and I enjoy to use them with Cubase 32 bits.
The bridging solutions aren’t ideal, and the best solution is to have an x64 host with every plugins in x64 native ( for more RAM ) … Because with EZ Drummer ( 2 sessions ), Kontakt, Omnisphere ( with multis or arppegiator ), Independence Pro, Orchestra Gold and many other plugs, … 4 Go are sometimes short for me ( and I must freeze 1 or 2 VSTi )
So, Thank you for your reponse. I’ll wait next year for your x64 plugs !
Best regards
@Noel
Not sure why you need Botsie plugins in 64bit as they bridge nicely in Cubase both Natively and as an alternative using jBridge.
Another solution which works well is to bridge your 64bit plugins in x32 host. Again this will utilise all your available ram outside of cubase for the 64bit bridge plugins.
Apart from that I use VOS’s plugins fine in Cubase 64bit hosts.
Hi from Russia
Can you make some basic VU meter plugin? (in mixbuss very necessary)
There is already a good freeware one available from psp.
I know, but psp’s installer doesn’t work on Windows 7/Vista, really
Any plans to fully support RTAS outside of VSTWrapper???
nope
Ha Bootsie, thank you for epic verb, but how do get those extra presets to function, i have cubase 4, i put epic verb dll in a vst folder it works fine but i downloaded the extra preset file and i am unable to get epic verb to find them, what should i do?
Markonealwilson@gmail.com
Hi there Bootsy,
Your plugins are the best! Thanks a lot man, great work.
What saddens me is that I can’t seem to use more than a few of them at once, because when I do, a Visual C++ Runtime error pops up and I have to kill Cubase…
I am using Cubase 6.0.4 on Windows XP SP3. I also use Waves and Softube plug-ins simultaniously with yours.
Any idea what could cause the crashes? Or how i could prevent them? I would be happy to test some different scenario’s if it would help figure out the source of the problem…
Cheers,
Gert
Hmmm it seems to be a memory issue. Especially FerricTDS uses up quite a bit more than orher plugs of the sort. That 32 bit memory limitation is too bad. Do your plugins work on a 64 bit os?
Thanks man,
G.
In Ferric, when i push up the input knob, the output audio goes up too, is that supposed to happen?
In Ferric’s manual it says “Use the INPUT adjustment knob to bring the incoming signal onto
duty level (plug-in internally)”, So, from this I understand that the Output audio shouldn’t go up (¿?).
Fernando.
actually, it is just an input adjust (and not output compensated). If the bypass is used it’s also in.
I think that a +6 in / -6 out (in dB) button would be usefull for best A/B comparisons.
What do you think about it?
Port them to OSX!!!!! I would love to use these in my rig!! I’ll even beta test
I’m using Rescue and sometimes Ferric for mastering. I’m working on my new website and would like to put your brand (you do not have any logo, right ?) on it. I understand you’re not looking for publicity but people should know the work you do. It’s great work !
If so, could you provide me with Hi Rez file of your Variety Of Sound “logo” ?
I’ll second what Marcos says! These plugs are da bomb. But I recently switch to Mac, and now I can’t use them. Which sucks! Please consider it.
Esben
Hey man. These plugins look awesome and the manuals are great! I can’t seem to get them to show up in Audition cs 5.5 despite putting them in the VST folder. I’ve tried putting them directly in the folder and also making their own folder (for organization). Still nothing. Any tips?
thanks!
please make these plugins for Mac OS X also …
I just re-scanned the VST folder and the plug ins showed up (doi). Ferric is my new favorite! Adds such great color!
Just got the heads up about these fantastic plugins. They really are that good!
However I have a gui issue with the Ferric TDS in Cubase 6.0.5 64bit. Namely that closing down the GUI crashes Cubase leaving a blank gui.
However the good news is that J Bridge seems to work.
Any chance of some 64 bit versions?
David
Please, for God’s sake, these plugins are fantastic! He used a lot in my time of Sonar, but 2 years ago migrated to Mac OS X, and I can no longer use these plugins developed for Mac … Also, please! thank you
Sorry for bad English
With Nasty DLA (my definite go to delay even if I have a few very good payware ones as well) when enabling the wet only-button and then saving and reopening a project the wet only-button is disabled.
With Ferric TDS sometimes after loading several instances the GUI on a new instance of Ferric loads without the knobs and sometimes a new instance refuses to load at all.
This is happening in SONAR 8.5.3 Producer and X1 Producer Expanded on a quad core running Vista 32 and on an i5 running Windows 7 64 bit, both with 4 gb RAM.
Hey, I hear great things about your plugins! Any chance of there being OS X versions anytime? and RTAS??
Hallo Herbert.
)
Ich nerve mal wieder!
Du bist letztendlich meine ultimative Hoffnung:
Nachdem Du ja den, bis dato, nicht ganz so bekannten Baxter EQ emuliert hast (der so nebenbei sensationell ist.),möchte ich eine kleine Anregung zum nächsten oder übernächsten Projekt geben,welches scheinbar ebenfalls für viele nicht sooo spannend zu sein scheint.
Ich schreibe schon seit geraumer Zeit diverse Software-Producer an,mit der Bitte, eine Emulation des guten und legendären Channelstrips einer Trident 80B Console nachzubilden.Die Anfragen gingen hauptsächlich an kommerzielle Anbieter,welche mich gerne mit allgemeingültigen und banalen Floskeln abgespeist haben.
Soll heißen:
Ich bin auf jeden Fall bereit,für die Entwicklung einen sehr anständigen Preis zu zahlen.(Ich hoffe ganz stark,dass auch andere User für großartige Arbeit zahlen würden!)
Ich kenne Dich jetzt schon eine geraume Zeit und weiß ,dass Du eigentlich kein Geld möchtest,da Du ja einfach nur Bock auf die Arbeit mit Algorithmen hast.(Wenn ich so etwas könnte ,wäre ich sehr sehr glücklich.
Deshalb meine Bitte an Dich und Dein exzellentes Team:
Bitte habt Interesse an dem Channelstrip der Trident 80B Console und baut das gute Stück nach…Und bindet einen DONATION BUTTON ein,denn Ihr habt es definitiv verdient für so Spitzen-Arbeit dementssprechend entlohnt zu werden!!!!!!
Alles alles Gute
Ulli
Will FerricTDS work with a Windows 7 64 bit system?
I love your Plug ins by the way, but I have a problem with the Baxter EQ, some of the knobs are not responding.
Which OS and host (and versions)?
ps. the nastyvcs bug I mentioned earlier occurs at 88.2khz and 96khz, but not at 44.1khz or 48khz.
http://i40.tinypic.com/2ms2anb.jpg
The comment i left earlier doesn’t appear to be here, so – basically nastyvcs does weird stuff over time – there’s some kind of iterative variable that spirals out of control – looks like an offset thing.
In the pic I left above, the bottom track is rendering a track without 1 instance of nastyvcs on the ‘classic summing’ preset, the top is with. And as mentioned, the bug occurs at 88khz and above.
tracktion 3.0.4.8, winxp 32-bit sp3, 4gb ram, no other issues.
And it’s nastyvcs 1.01.
Have also tried deleting all instances of nastyvcs, saving project then loading new instances – no diff.
Hi , I just downloaded the Tessla PRO VST 1.0.1 … As soon as i try to load the plugin (in Cubase) it causes Cubase to crash..
Windows XP SP2
Cubase 5.1
Oops read that as Windows XP SP3
I tried Density mk3 ..
That does the same thing as Tessla Pro .. i.e crash cubase..
I have waves … plus a bunch of other plugins.. No One else does this
Hi, i just write to tell:
#1. Density Mk1. has a great sound…a bit dark, but dynamics had a thing similar to Symetrix 421,
dont like much the Density Mk2 sound. “just like all others” i does not have that special thing of the Mk1.
#2. it`s possible a MAC OSX VST, RTAS & AU UB version of the Density Mk1?
Thanks.
& HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Hey -
No qualms or problems, just wanted to stop by to say how much your plugins have improved my mixes. I’ve tried a lot of plugins from a lot of people, and there are hardly any saturation plugins out there that do it for me as much as Tessla (SE and Pro) and Ferric. I gotta say, Waves Master Tape and UAD Studer are awesome but yours totally compares. For certain things I prefer yours, others I prefer theirs. Regardless, I have YET to find a plugin that I prefer for transformer saturation over Tessla. It just sounds so good. Like, REALLY good.
I think that’s one of the biggest things people miss about digital recording. They try analog modeled EQs, analog modeled compressors, analog this, analog that. But, one of the main things they miss is saturation from tube, transformer, transistor, and tape. It’s not just the EQ curve of it (like most people think) it’s the saturation, slowly bringing up your RMS levels and slowly increasing your apparent loudness and width and depth all at once. It’s amazing what it will do to mixes if people just let it!
I was in a pickle about buying a pricey 32 channel analog summing bus setup, and instead I decided to do some A/Bs with your plugin and a summing bus. I bussed the mix down to 6 pairs of channels and 4 mono channels –
Stereo:
Stereo Overheads+Rooms / Guitars + Bass / Lead Vox / BGVs / Keys
Mono:
Kick, Snare, Rack tom, Floor Tom
Ran one mix through a summing bus, and on the other mix simply put Tessla across each of these channels. Tessla tied, every time. Mix seemed just as wide, just as full, just as beautifully saturated and deep as the analog summing bus of $1400. So, you have saved me $1400 and probably much more from these wonderful plugs.
Thank you for all you do!
K
Thanks for the detailed feedback! Indeed you’ve used the Tessla stuff right the way it was designed for: used sparingly here and there or on each track during the mixing stage. And that actually was a recommendation I’ve once gave long before the “mix desk plug-in hype” started. Lot’s of folks asked me to implement such a desk plug-in too, but of course I did not because with Tessla it was already there. Having said that I just want to add that most of the available mix desk “modelled” plug-ins out there are way over the top, distortion wise. If you want to obtain the positivie effects of them (e.g. detail, presence and imaging) then you just get that at the expense of distortion. In their analog counterparts you are able to obtain the positive effects right *before* distortion comes apparant that much.
When should I use Tessla SE or Tessla Pro? And what are the difference between them and Nasty VSD?
Thanks!
Hello,
do you have a trick/plugin to improve recorded strings? Bass and mid are ok, but high frequencies are no pleasure to listen to… Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Kind regards,
Bert (Belgium)
Sound sample?
thank you for your quick response, but how can i post a sample?
just upload it somewhere and post the link …
Your page needs a donate option! All the best for 2012.
Totally agree, perhaps http://flattr.com/ is a comfortable option? (Which can also be used to donate to say WikiLeaks, go thing for everyone to have if they want to do that).
Saying it again, it’s a darn shame this plugins aren’t available on Mac.. I would use them everywhere!
Is there an option in FerricTDS to have your baby? Because I am gay for your plugins.
Nasty DLA won’t save “Wet only” button state. I’m using Sonar 8.5.3
Unrelated notes:
-Tesla SE style plug with some serious (but smooth) grit would be nice… to accompaniment “subtle” saturation.
-Oversampling on/ off or 2x / 4x button would be nice if technically possible
-Any ETA on bug fixes?
Your plugs are the best!!! I’ve recently been rediscovering the wonders of NastyLF!
Not really a support question, but this is an important observation and FR regarding NastyDLA.
NastyDLA has been by far my most favourite delay since you released it, but I’ve had to make the unfortunate decision not to use it again unless the possibility of switching off the noise completely becomes an option. I tend to use several instances of delays in tracks, and with DLA once you hit 3-4 instances or more, the cumulative effect of the noise becomes a serious problem (very noticeable) even with all instances at the minimum noise setting.
Is there any hope in the future you might add a toggle to disable the noise component completely, for those who like really clean delays?
Hello!
I am really interested in your plugins. They look awesome, but unfortunately I only produce, mix&master in Mac. Will you offer these plugins for Mac in the near future?
Thanks for your time,
James (New York City)
no plans for the moment.
Hi,
I absolutely love your plugins. The BootEQ MkII pre-amp is on most of my tracks and I use its LF harmonic knob on bass guitar and kick drum most of the time. NastyVCS is my go-to compressor and EQ for broad changes. I also love TesslaPRO and epicVerb and baxterEQ.
I quite often have to even out the volume of a live snare drum track, where all the hits are very very short and sharp, and anything but a lookahead limiter is too slow, but I have to make sure the release is long enough to not cut the tops off the transients and remove punch. I usually use W1 or something similar, but was attracted to Density with its program-dependent attack/release time and smaller ratios instead of brickwall limiting.
The thing is, when I put Density in “LIM” mode, the manual says it uses a “feed-forward topology”, which i assume means a look-ahead, but when I load it up in reaper and put it in LIM mode it says it has 0 samples of latency. So does it lookahead or am I misunderstanding something? I haven’t been able to work it out with just listening tests. Can you confirm whether it uses lookahead or not in LIM mode? Or is it just much faster attack?
Many thanks
“feed-forward” does not imply “lookahead”, its just an internal different routing which determines from which point in the circuit the sidechain signal is obtained. See also:
http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/compressor-gain-control-principles/
http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/i-do-believe-in-feedback/
Cheers!
Hi Bootsy – I love the sound of your plug ins. However, two of them do not work with my DAW, Cubase LE build 1.0.1 (June 2006). I know it’s old, but it works and it’s stable.
Density MKII and Nasty VCS do not work. They are not visible to my Cubase LE and do not show up in my plug in menus after I insert the dll files into the VST folders.
All your other plug ins do work, including the fantastic Nasty DLA.
I’d love to use Density MKII on my 2 bus when I mix down my current project!
Forgot to add: Win XP Professional SP2B, Pentium Dualcore 2GHz, 2GB RAM
Hmmm. I’m thinking the side-chaining VOS plugs don’t work with my DAW
yeap, that can be the reason …
Hey there Bootsy,
Loving your stuff here, on all my productions of electronic music i do. Anyways, i use Nasty DLA as a bus delay and every time i close and reopen my projects (i have noticed this on all of them), DLA automatically switches the WET Only to Off. The only inconvenience i’m facing is the fact that i do forget about this and that i end up having some (phasing?) and level problems when mixing down. No biggie just thought i’d point it out.
Sonar 8.5.3 64bit
DLA is going through bitbridge*32bit
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Only automation is through the send levels of the bus, not the DLA itself
Tried to be as specific without crowding this post to much,
anyway.
Keep up the plugins, i love ‘em
Pete
Hi Peter,
Settings that don’t save sure can be inconvenient. My workaround (that usually works) is to simply automate the setting to the value you want. The automation is saved along with your project and the plug-in will read it when you play or mix down. The only requirement is that the settings have to be automatable..
I got the same setup AND the same problem (surprise!)
Automation for that button doesn’t work.
Could you please please please, make a small update of NastyDLA, to include a “right click on any control to assign a midi controller”-function?
It would be SO cool!, i mainly play the nastyDLA with all the feedback and stuff, and use it as an instrument. – not all daws allow midi control of plugins.
What do you think?
thanks man!
Hello,
Thank you for your plug ins!! How do I try the Tesla Pro plug in on a PC? It seems to be the only one that is downloading as a .rar file, not a zipped folder. Suggestions?
Thanks so much –
John Brighton
use winrar …
Thank you for creating a very useful set of plugins. I’ve found BaxterEQ to be my favorite eq for mastering.
Hi!
Love your plugins but I have a small problem with Pre-fix.
I get latency problems in Reaper when using the pre-open function of the gate..
If I don’t use it the plugin is delay compensated..
What is the latency of the plugin and isn’t the pre-open timing reported to the host so it can be delay compensated?
I will have a look at it …
Hi! and thanks for making truly amazing plugins! i use your plugins in every single project i do – its just as good and in some cases better than UAD and waves!
-I write to you to make you aware of a new platform (actually an old one, that is living again)
“sonic core”: http://www.soniccore.com
-Right now they are developing a daw that will integrate into the DSP’s and thereby avoiding ASIO driver etc – this will be a ZERO latency daw, because of not using asio.
I would love for you to port or develope plugins to that platform! you will both benefit from the shared work, and the SDK is free, and soniccore just announced version 6 of their dsp platform, and an open version that will allow users to use the dsp’s in any way they want (not only for audio processing)
please check it out and get back to me.
open scope:
http://sonic-core.net/joomla.soniccore/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=335&lang=de
thanks alot and keep up the good work!!
Will you release AudioUnit versions of your plugins anytime soon?
Thanks
probably no
Hi there, I have a question regarding FerricTDS, but first, let me say that I am a big fan of your plugins, namely Ferric, preFIX, NastyVCS and Tessla Pro. Thank you for providing such useful tools!
I recently noticed that Ferric would use about 40 to 50 Mb of RAM. Since I am on a 32bit platfrom, I started maxing the available memory pretty quick, since I discovered that running instances of Ferric on most of the channels helps me mix faster. Is this Ferric’s normal memory footprint, and if yes, which processes require so much resources? I did a quick investigation by removing plugins from my Cubase mixer, and found out that generally some freebies I use would take quite more RAM then say Waves plugins. Is RAM vital for the DSP algorithms or it goes for GUI??? And if this is so, could we have a less flashy GUI, but more efficient plug?
I love the idea of having subtle saturation device on each channel and I like also Ferric’s compression a lot. Should try NastyVCS for the same purpose and check if it would save me resources.
Cheers, Kaloyan
Yes, Ferric is a memory hog and its because of the huge knob animation graphics. Will have a look at it again when I’m going to update this one.
I thought you were kidding about the huge knob.. But hey, that’s great news!
This has been a problem for me too. Thanks for taking a look at it Bootsy!
Thanks for the quick and honest reply!!! I switched to the generic editor in Cubase, but this does not solve the problem. I suspect this is because Cubase will not remember this preference and loads the original GUI on opening the project….I’ll just print the tracks until GUI update or memory upgrade
Cheers, K.
WHERE IS YOUR PAYPAL DONATE BUTTON ?
Hi Bootsie,
Just wanted to thank you for your amazing plugins. The whole VOS plugin suite has become integral to my sound over the last 18 months – put simply, I couldn’t do what I do without Ferric, Nasty VCS, Nasty DLA, Boot EQ, Density, Epicverb and Tesla Pro. Speaking as someone who learned to engineer the old fashioned way it’s great to be able to have tools that can make working in the box sound so authentic.
Just did this remix for Heavenly Records new band,Toy, you can hear your sonic fingerprints all over it.
http://soundcloud.com/hardwaybros/toy-clock-chimes-hardway-bros
Thanks so much,
Sean Johnston (Hardway Bros)
Hello fine sir. I have been playing around with your vsts and I am having a lot of fun with them. I recently started making youtube videos that demonstrate plugins. Would it be ok if I made a series of videos using your plugins? Here is a link to my youtube channel so that you can get an idea of the type of video that I make:
http://www.youtube.com/user/u03mja3?feature=mhee
On a side note – is there a donation thing on your website? I would quite like to buy you a coffee for your great work on these inexplicably free plugins!
surething – just go ahead.
You are just too awesome…
I downloaded the BootEQ MkII from the Download Page (first on the list)
However I did not receive an Installer in the download.
How do I get the Plug In installed.
just put the .dll file in your VSTplugins folder
hey buddy i need to know something technical.what professional course should i pursue concerning the development of audio-dsp algorithms?a reply would be deeply and whole-heartedly appreciated.
Hi, issue with Win 64 bit version of Reaper and Boot EQ in that I cant access the presets from the UI of Boot – only from the access window of Reaper and the unfortunate thing seems to be that when I open a preset as a starting point and tweak the knobs – it is automatically overwriting the preset in Reaper. Net result – I lose the awesome presets provided by you
Hi,
I use pretty much all of your plugins and think they are great! One thing I noticed is the Vendor name is different for Baxter EQ and Rescue. Most of your plugins use the Vendor name ‘Variety Of Sound’ but Baxter EQ uses ‘VarietyOfSound’ (no spaces) and Rescue uses ‘bootsy’.
Would it be possible for you to change these labels so that all your plugins appear in one group in Cubase?
Hi,
I don’t understand how the limiter can work as a brickwall limiter: In Reaper, the output level after limiting is far above 0 db. In the manual, we can read “Set to 100% it works as a true and accurate brickwall safety limiter to prevent peaks to go further above 0dBfs”. But 100% of what? I see just two knobs for the limiter: “out” and “lim”. I think the 100% you mean consist in turning the “limit” knob to 12 (maximum). I also pushed the “Fast” button, what I hope to be the right choice for brickwall limiting. Of course, the limiter button is “on”. When I set metering to display limiter gain reduction, nothing moves. But the limiter seems to work: I use Nasty VCS on the master track to make the sound louder as smoothly as possible, what Nasty VCS can achieve better than many master limiters. But is it normal to be obliged to put an additional brickwall limiter in the FX chain, after Nasty VCS, to prevent peaks to go above 0dBfs?
Thanks for help.
Marginal Ray
http://www.marginalray.com
100 % made in Alchemy
In NastyVCS, the OUT knob determines the output level – its after the limiter. If this is set to 0dB then the limiting goes also to 0dB.
you probably say this elsewhere, but why are you just giving away your plugins? the difference they have mad to my mixes is astronomical, you would make a killing if you charged for your software
Just a spontaneous idea… one zip file for all of your plugins would be nice. Download, extract, done.
MAC OS X PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Any chance that you make your plugins available for Mac/Logic as AU versions? Maybe as donate version
Dear VOS,
Have used your plugs extensively in this track for the KVRAudio One Synth Challenge contest. Rescue was crucial for it. Thank you!
http://soundcloud.com/bjporter/bjporter-i-am-the-baron-of
-Bjporter
PS. I have found bugs with Nasty DLA, regarding the Noise resetting to default value when loading a project in Cubase 6.
Hello Bootsie,
do you know if anyone already succeed in wrapping your plugins to use them on OSX ? I’ve read that it was possible to do so (running vst dll on osx), though the workaround looks pretty tricky. If you know any working workaround, please let us know !
I’d love to try/use your ThrillSeekerLA, and I’m sure I’m not the only one wiling to !
Cheers !
The new ThrillSeekerLA is so very wonderful! There seems to be a minor bug, however. Ext SC doesn’t seem to work properly when used on a mono track in Sonar 8.5.3 x64 (Using Bit bridge). The SC signal seems to go to channel 2 instead of 3+4. And it would also be nice if mix level switch was usable when using external SC.
Ahhh actually… the mix level switch (when in ext sc) seems to only affect the interstage module, but not the compression. (In my DAW). Not sure if this is intentional.
First of all, let me say that I totally dig the sound and handling of the new Thrillseeker Comp. Well done and thanks for the hard work!
While using it in a mixing session today in Reaper I experienced the following bug: The plugin seemed to randomly time out after some time of use (approximately one hour), causing the track to go silent since no audio could pass through the plugin anymore. Bypassing the plugin (via reaper or the switch on the Thrillseeker interface) resolved the silence. As a workaround I saved the settings and loaded them into a “fresh” instance of Thrillseeker. Maybe there’s a memory leak somewhere causing this freezing issue (I’m sure you could have guessed that yourself
).
Feel free to contact me if I missed some details concerning the issue. Good luck and thanks again!
Thilo
After testing your wonderful plug ins for some time, I started using them in one of my productions. Unfortunately I experienced some problems/bugs:
- If I load more than one instance of Thrillseeker in a project (i.e. on two seperate tracks) the whole program (Cubase) freezes. (happens pretty much every time; still have to test if this is the case with the other plug ins too)
- When loading different presets the settings do load (i hear the change in sound) but the GUI does not change at all. Only if i click on a control it jumps to the present value. (Same with Thrillseeker, Density and Ferric)
I use Cubase 5 and 6 on 64 bit.
Would be great if you could fix these issues because I’d really love to use your plug ins in my projects!
THANX!!!
Seems I overlooked the fact that your plug ins don’t really work with the VST Bridge of Cubase.
I guess I have to wait until your plugins come out in 64bit….
Still, the problem with the GUI update when preset switching is also present in Wavelab 7 32bit!
I have exactly the same problem. I love all Bootsy’s fx, they’re all excellent and I used them in Cubase 5 32bit (on XP), but when I upgraded to Cubase 6.5 64 (on Win7 64) many of them cause Cubase to freeze. Some will appear to load and work in a project but the GUI doesn’t refresh (you have to close and reopen the GUI) or the GUI may go blank causing Cubase to freeze. Sometimes it will freeze while saving a project that uses them, sometimes it will appear to save ok but then freeze when closing Cubase, and freeze again next time the saved project is loaded. I’ll have to go through each plugin to see which ones work, but that’s going to take a while as each time Cubase freezes it take over 5 mins to before it’s unloaded from memory
Hope the 64bit versions will be available soon
Your plugins come very highly recommended by a lot of people I respect. I would love to give them a shot, but I’m running Logic on a Mac. I see that several have posed the question of future Mac compatibility. Is there any hope for us Mac users?
Do you have the plug ins for Mac? Thank you:)!
Dear bootsy,
I love the blog but you’ve been doing so many posts lately it’s kinda going down for me a bit. I liked it more when they were much less common and therefore most likely a very cool read.
Ezequiel
Buenos Aires
I got Nasty DLA , Nasty VCS to work,both scanned and loaded to my effects bin, but not BootEQ or Tessla or Density. Help.
Sorry, Music Creator 5 32bit / Compaq 64bit
Hello,
I was wondering how to load the presets for Epic Verb that come as a separate download.
they are just for the new Cubase versions
Biggest issue with all Your great plugins is that there are not linux VST verisons of them!
Please consider it Bootsy. I`m sure all Ardour DAW users would appreciate it more than very much!
Greetngs!
Hi there, thanks for all these great plugins.
My question is how to use the sidechain functionality of thrillseekerLA in Ableton? I’m not clear on how the manual says it picks up the sidechain signal on “channels 3 and 4″ – how does that work in ableton? Any quick advice for a newb audio student here…
thanks so much
ok, i got it, funny that the topmost comment here from 2010 actually answers this question – rock on \m/
Good day
I began a making the blog in Russian about free vst plugins and it settings (based on manuals). Also, about my personal experience and impressions from the using of it. And of course, yours amazing plugins will be there
I think it’s right to ask yours permission to write about yours “babies”)
Do you give yours blessing?:)
ps: sorry for my english :[
there is no need to ask to write about something, just go ahead. I just can hope that you are going to write something good about my babies …
it will be a good words:)
It is impossible to write bad things about good;)
Merci beaucoup pour tes plugins c’est du travail d’orfèvre!
T’es le boss
I want to say thank you very much for all the work and products you release.
I know there’s a lot of support and requests for donation for your plugins. I can understand once money get’s involved people have a tendancy to become more demanding for support and so on, as i know they do now.
Have you thought about maybe having various links on your website for donations to various meaningful charity maybe Music related, child welfare or whatever…just a thought
Peace
Thats a real good idea!
THANKS YOU! For all these free plugins. Being dirt poor right now I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you donating your hard work so people like me can get good effects for free. Love Epic Verb and plan on downloading more of your plugins soon. Thanks again!
Hi bootsie,
I always wondered, if you know Bootsy Collins….and if you know P-Funk tracks, where he uses the
Mu-Tron III effect, an envelope-controlled filter (also used by Stevie Wonder, Lary Coryell, Parliament/Funkedalic)….here a wonderful demonstration : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3mhuqCLU8A
After “Audio Damage” released 2006 “Phase Two”, a digital recreation of the Mutron Bi-Phase, I hoped, they will make a Mutron III too, but they didn’t till today.
After you made so many wonderful plugs in the domain of compressors / EQ’s / Saturation….wouldn’t it be challenge to rebuild this extraterrestric effect?
Many Thanks for your plugs
Kind Regards
Thomas
Thanks for the amazing free plugins! Much appreciated!
I have a problem:
I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS and using Cubase SL (version 1)
All of your awesome plugins work on my system except for preFIX, NastyVCS, Density mkII and ThrillseekerLA. They don’t show up in the Cubase insert options.
Do you know why this is? Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Is that Cubase SL version 32bit or 64bit? The VoS plug-ins must be installed in the x86 path. If you want to run them in a 64bit host wrap them with jbridge – its easy and stable.
Try using JBridge. I have been using it without issues for months. I often had issues with Cubases internal bridge.
http://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/
Both the thrillseeker la and the feric freeze. If i open them, and apply them to a buss track, I can dial in the effect and close it, but if I reopen the VST again to make an adjustment, my Cubase 6 freezes. Also if I select one of the presets, nothing changes on the dials, and the sound appears to remain the same. I’m running windows7 64bit. I love the sound of many of your plugins, I just have a fear of using them and crashing my mix. Please help
Hi,
I was looking for the NastyCS plug in but there is no download link. I have had to reinstall my recording computer and used to use that one so would it be possible to still obtain the plugin?
Thanks,
…J…
I have put Density mkII into Reaper. the picture of the compressor loads separate from the FX window.
it did not used to do that. (I just upgraded to 64 bit windows. I was using 32 bit.)
any idea how to make it like it used to work? please and thank you.
it is an awesome plug-in. thank you for designing and sharing it.
this is to do with using a 64 bit system and 64bit version of reaper- with this setup by default reaper -loads any 32 bit plug ins in bridging mode – great as it means you can keep using your old plugins
However the default gui setting for bridging mode is to open it up in a second window, with another little window for input setting etc. I always found this really annoying, (its not specific to VOS plugins , its all 32 bit plugins)
if you want to stop it you can go this
In FX browser
right click on the plugin
choose run as
choose embed bridged ui
This will mean that you can then right click on any fx wuindows that open and dock them
however I have found that it does make things more unstable – I think its the case that some plugins just dont like this mode – from what I can tell VOS plugins are fine though.
Any plans on going 64bit with your plug ins?
Love them!
Hi, I have a question on the VST parameters of epicVerb: I see a parameter “Ratio” exposed that doesn’t seem to correspond to something (no GUI equivalent and no obvious change in sound), on the other hand, I can’t seem to map a controller to the ER choice (the up/down buttons for the hall/room/plate etc choice). Am I missing something?
Thanks for all this!
Dirk
hi!
i think i found a potential bug in PREFIX: i feed it with an exceptional loud input (+12 db by the default ableton utility plugin) with predominant high frequency content (not more than kHz, still it was an external synth with hi resonance setting on the filter, so nothing related to software)and all ableton’s GUI stopped working until I lowered the resonance or the filter cutoff. in particular, the module that seemed to cause that was the scope.
one more thing. I don’t know if the output metering of THRILLSEEKERLA is meant to work that way, but it doesn’t follow the gain staging and it’s not useful at all. i’d also like it to stay turned on even when it’s set off by the on/off switch
Your stuff is awesome! Also digging the articles.
Is there a chance to get you to share some insights on how you modelled the Opto-Compressor in NastyVCS? I’m trying to find literature on the intrinsics of light-dependent resistors, but the memory effect important for the program dependent release behaviour of opto-compressors seems to be omitted everywhere.
Regards,
Ray
aaaa- these plugins are sweet = Y NO MAC VERSION ???? :’(
I love your plugins.
I have some questions to use them in the right way:
1) Is it a good idea to put the “Rescue” plugin
a) On a drum group? b) On a vocal group? c) On the master channel?
2) Does Rescue encode automatically in Mid/Side (or I need to use a plugin as Voxengo MSED before)?
3) Does Baxter Eq encode in MID/Side just by clicking on the MS button?
Many thanks to all guys that will help me.
Cheers
1) both
2) yes its automatically encoded, internally
3) yes
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR FAST ANSWER!
VCS does not side chain properly on mono tracks in Sonar 8.5.3
Greetings Bootsy,
I am relatively new to the world of digital audio processing, having taken it up as a hobby in my retirement to produce recordings for acoustic musician friends of mine. It seems to be characteristic of our little musical community that any individual’s computer skills are inversely proportional to his/her musical talents, the result being that a) I get to enjoy a lot of good music, and b) I am the default recording “engineer” (no offense to real recording engineers intended). I guarantee my friends that at the very least they will get what they pay for in my recordings – an easy promise given that I don’t charge anything for what I do. This cost model suits them fine, given that they too are retirees (most more senior than myself) and generate no income from their music (they generally perform only for the fun of it – e.g. at open mic events, charity events).
Given both my desire to do the best I can for my friends, and the limited (!) income my recording work generates, the internet has become my primary resource for learning and tools. I am very fortunate to have stumbled upon your website: your articles and plugin manuals are excellent learning resources, your plugins are comprehensive and of the highest quality, and your “pricing structure” is wonderfully compatible with my own “business model” (such as it is). Thank you very much for the curiousity, thoroughness, expertise and generousity you bring to your work. Thanks also to Patrick for all the work that no doubt goes into his wonderful GUI’s.
I have been meaning to write and thank you for some time now. Unfortunately, one too often procrastinates about such things, getting down to it only when presented with a more selfish motivation. Such is the case with me, and so I hope that you will excuse me for asking a couple of questions about one of your plugins. I know you’re very busy with many things, so if you have no time for this, it’s OK.
The questions I have concern the 90/180 and Lo/Hi switches on the Prefix Phase tool. I wanted to learn more about what the Phase tool does, so I started to play with it in Christian Budde’s VST Analyzer. I better understand now that:
– when the Phase module is powered on, it applies a significant frequency-dependant
phase shift to the input, even if the phase dial and polarity switch are at 0.
– with phase dial = 0, the magnitude of the shift increases with frequency in an
approximately 1:1 linear fashion (i.e. at double a given frequency, one sees an
approximate doubling of the shift); the phase shift therefore increases from a
minimum of 0 at 0 Hz, to some maximum (what the Prefix manual refers to as
“width of phase alteration”?) at 20kHz. The maximum shift is ~180deg when the
90/180 switch is at 180, and ~360deg with the switch at 90.
– turning up the phase dial increases the shift non-linearly across the frequency
spectrum; the effect is most pronounced in the 200-2k region, with almost no effect
at the spectrum extremes. The dial has the greatest effect (maximum additional
phase shift of ~260deg) when the 90/180 switch is at 90 and the Phase Center
(Lo/Hi) = Hi. The effect is much less pronounced at other settings –
~160deg max additional phase shift at 90/Lo, and ~120deg at 180/Hi and 180/Lo.
My questions are the following:
– It appears that the effects of both power-on and the phase dial are much greater at
90/180 = 90 than at 90/180=180. Was this your intent, or is there an error in the
marking of the 90/180 switch ? (i.e. should the 90/180 values be reversed on the
panel?). I note that if the 90/180 panel values were reversed, then the switch would
behave much more like the Little Labs IBP tool you discuss in your article
http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/from-phasing-to-phase-alignment/
(refer also to http://fader8.com/audioblog/uad%20little%20labs%20ibp.html )
– Am I correct in understanding that the purpose of the Lo switch is to increase the phase
shift at lower frequencies, in effect moving each point on the Hi curve to the left by about
half its frequency? This seems to generally be the case, but the extreme effect of the
switch on the magnitude of the phase shift when 90/180=90 makes me wonder if I am
missing something.
Thanks again for your great work.
Jean Arseneault,
Montreal, Canada
actually the phase section is modelled after the IBP and so if there is some weirdness in the original unit this appears to be in preFIX as well, especially the frequency related phase shifting.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I understand then that your intent is simply to emulate the IBP.
I could not find phase plots for the original IBP, but I did come across some for UAD’s plugin emulation (at http://fader8.com/audioblog/uad%20little%20labs%20ibp.html ). Assuming that fader8′s plots are representative of the original IBP, and assuming as well that I correctly plotted Prefix’s phase response, then it appears that Prefix’s 90/180 switch is the reverse of the IDP’s (i.e. the Prefix’s 180 phase plots resemble IDP’s 90 plots, and vice versa). The IDP manual states that the switch “allows a more extreme phase adjustment with a full swing of as much as 180 degrees or a less extreme 90 degrees of phase adjustment”. That is certainly the case with the IDP switch labeling, whereas Prefix’s is misleading. So, you might consider reversing Prefix’s 90/180 switch orientation or labels if/when you ever revise Prefix.
Best regards,
Jean
Thrillseeker LA stops passing audio at some point, and has to be reloaded into the channel. I’m on Reaper 4.2 X64 Win7-64.
Just added a link to EpicVerb under my kitlist – I’ve used it a ton over the years. Thanks for the plug, love it!
http://www.myagimusic.com
Hello! Any chance to see some TAPE STOP effect???
Thank
Just get Glitch homie… http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/
Much like VOS’s plugins, it’s an essential go-to freebie in my kit.
Thank you!
hey man just downloaded your plugins , they are simply amazing, better than waves by far, really really appreciate you making them free – your time and effort is going to a budding cause! young musicians slaving away endless over that master piece that will change music forever (ahem, well maybe)
Will you please please please consider developing your plug-ins for the new Reason extension called “Rack Extensions”? I think it’s a place where your plugs could really shine. If you haven’t heard the buzz Propellerhead is finally opening up it’s rack to 3rd party developers to implement new “plug in” devices in Reason! There are MANY Reason users that are EXTREMELY hungry it get their hands on 3rd party plugins so I’m confident this format is going to explode. Will you consider porting over some/all of your plugs to this format? Click here for more information http://www.propellerheads.se/news/rackextensions/developer/
It’s a great chance to bring some much deserved compensation to you as a developer.
Thanks for your time
Bryce
probably not.
Hello.
Firstly, can someone please delete this comment from the Baxter EQ page, as I put it there by mistake…..
When using this (Baxter EQ) in Nuendo via my WK Audio ID Console, I can control every parameter of every plugin, and 99% of plugins map to the controller properly. However….with this one, as well as Thrillseeker & Boot EQ MkII, none of the paremeters map with the values. Using the Baxter EQ as an example, I can see clearly the dials for FREQ–1, FREQ–2, (repeated 3 more times for 4 pairs in total) followed by GAIN–1, GAIN–2 (twice), (LINK-HI and LINK-LO both have paremeters mapped – off or on, as does M/S (on/off) , On (on/off) and bypass (on/off).
The frequency options & gain options all have no mapped values at all – I am adjusting blind with no reference at all.
It’s the same in Thrillseeker & Boot EQ MkII as well – parameters are there, they control the GUI but I have no idea what I am actually doing unless I peer at the monitor screen.
Is there any way to map the values as well? This works on almost all other plugins, and allows me to mix without an onscreen view – working purely from the ID Console instead.
Sorry to be a pest, but this is kinda important to me…..
Does automation of this parameters work in your host?
Hello,
I just found this interesting website.
I tried to install the plugins on my Windows 7 machine but they seems not to be compatible, freezing it when loaded.
Are you planning to release a compative version in the future?
Many thanks
Emanuele
How to install my plug-ins correctly on a Win7 (64bit) system? Due to the emerging 64bit platforms this gets asked more frequently but the answer is pretty much simple:
If you are using a 32bit host software then install them in your program files (x86) based plug-in folder. If you are using a 64bit host then you have to wrap them, e.g. with jBridge and simply put the wrapped version into your default VST plug-in folder.
Hello, I apologize if the question has already been answered, but I am wondering if you could contact me by email to answer some questions about audio programming. I am a long time programmer, and long time engineer, but I’m hoping to combine the two, and unfortunately audio programming resources are extremely rare. I’ve found very little information so far, and I was hoping you could point me in the right direction as to where to learn.
Hi,
Will your plugs (especially nasty VCS) become compatible with the ebu-r128 norm ?
Thanks.
Marginal Ray
The r 128 standard has nothing to do with plugins. It’s a loudness metering standard..
For that you would use a specialized meter – not the vu meter on any of the bootsy plugins:)
Hi, I have been using some of your plugins for a long time, and am now switching DAWs from Sonar to Studio One. Problem is, I cannot load your plugins in S1 (Thrillseeker, Density). I copy the dll to my Plugin folder, but they do not show up in S1. Running Win 7 64bit and Studio One 64bit.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thank you!
How to install my plug-ins correctly on a Win7 (64bit) system? Due to the emerging 64bit platforms this gets asked more frequently but the answer is pretty much simple:
If you are using a 32bit host software then install them in your program files (x86) based plug-in folder. If you are using a 64bit host then you have to wrap them, e.g. with jBridge and simply put the wrapped version into your default VST plug-in folder.
I’d rather give you the money for 64Bit versions and not need a bridge
… i should elaborate,.. I loved using your plugs under XP but haven’t been able to use them since going W7-64 and Cubase64/Wavelab64. If I get a bridge and there’s still issues then is it the plugin, is the bridge, who’s forum should i post to, what if each says it’s the others fault, and meanwhile i’m no better off. Whereas, if you made 64Bit versions, I know they’d be reliable
BTW – I had to buy Ozone and UberMod to replace your plugins
.. sorry, that should read “is it the plugin? is it the bridge? who’s forum should i post to? what if each says it’s the others fault?” – couldn’t find ‘edit’
I have used all of the VOS plugins without problems using JBridge. You just follow the the instructions – the recommended choices make this simplicity itself. It really is that simple.
http://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/jbridge-troubleshooting/782-2/
http://jstuff.wordpress.com/
Or this link which demonstrate how approachable JBridge is:
http://jstuff.wordpress.com/contact/
I definitely would not want to be without these plugins. They are certainly worth the effort to learn how to use JBridge.
Love plugins (Nasty is THE BEST DELAY of all delays ever created) and love that symbol. Are you…?
Cubase (64bit) 5.5.3 Crashes When I Use Your Plugins, but Your Plugins are Awesome, Please Help.
I would like to start by saying, “thank you.” I love your plugins, they have a more subtile and genuine change to the sound. They tend to the strength of the sound, where other plugins attempting to do the same thing your are doing, tend to make the sound weaker (like a phaser was applied to the sound). Your dynamics seem to work on the dynamics without coloring the sound too much. Great Job! They sound great, and they really look great, too.
However, since I began using them, Cubase 5 keeps crashing. It is usually when I am opening up one of your plugins as a insert effect. The GUI will not load or only partially load, and then the session is hosed. At this point, the only thing I can do is use “Windows Task Manager” to force Cubase to shut down. I believe I have had a problem with PreFix, RescueAC, and Density MKII. It should be noted that I am using many other plugins at the time it crashes, Including two or three instinces of your plugins, but it is when I attempt to open another one of your plugins.
I am using a Dell Inspiron 17R (N7111) with an Intel chipset and an Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.20, 8 gigs Ram, Win 7 (64 bit).
Which VST wrapper/bridge are you using? The Cubase one?
My DAW is Presonus Studio One 2.0.5 and I can’t seem to load the separate supplementary presets that you offer on your site for Epicverb. The VST and the regular presets are working fine. When I try to load the additional presets, it’s as if Studio One can’t read the format, because the file shows as blank–even though I know from looking at my Windows browser outside of Studio One, that the preset files are there. Any ideas?
you don’t need them, they are the same as the factory bank but just in Cubase vstpreset format.
hi from berlin! you might want to check out this track that has made the rounds in the modular world. its main feature is of course the fantastic NastyDLA. http://soundcloud.com/lilakmonoke/8×16-132
Hi,
Several Variety Of Sound plugs provide saturation, eq, compression… I’m a bit lost to select the appropriate one, dispite expaniations in the manual or on the web. Generally, I use Nasty VCS because it seems to be a kind of Swiss Knife plug. But to add gentle saturation on a track or on the master, shoud I better use Tessla SE, Tessla Pro, Thrillseeker, Ferric DTS… It’s not easy to ear the difference. Perhaps all these saturation tools use the same algo ? I could ask a similar question for the compressor : Nasty VCS or other Boostie plugs ? Thanks for help.
In my opinion it’s better to find out for yourself what the differences are, just try and crank them and use them for a while and you will probably start to hear and understand the differences between tape, transformer and tube saturation etc.. In the end there’s no right or wrong, and who says you have to choose, just put ‘em all on there!
Of course, my ears should be the only judge, but especially when working with headphones, I don’t trust them 100 %. So I formulate the question differently: Some plugs seem to use more advanced techniques then others. Is a combination of those plugs better then the swiss knife Nasty VCS : Tesla Pro for saturation, Boot EQ on individual track + Baster EQ on the master (vs the “air” knob of Nasty VCS), Density, Ferric or Thrillseeker to subtly glue the master track)… ?
Hi Herbert,
I am very impressed by the ‘statefull saturation algorithm’ that you have developped recently. It has even be used with great success on several classical productions here (Thrillseeker). However I wonder if there is any possibility to get a ‘pure wet’ saturation signal? My point is that on some materials you may want to add saturation just to the lows and highs and keeping the mids intact which is not feasible in the current implementation. Having just the saturationsignal on an aux buss would allow finer processing (eq for instance). Is this feasible? Would that be a good idea for future development?
Cheers,
Thomas
“To just use the interstage distortion section turn the RANGE knob all the way to the left – this way there is no compression applied and just the 3rd order harmonic distortion can be dialed in.” =)
Saturating just the lows and highs can possibly be achieved by applying 2 instances of TSLA as mentioned above, 1 for the highs and 1 for the lows..? Interesting idea nonetheless!
That will come with the TesslaPro mkII package
legendary!
Awesome!
I’vs been using booteq mk2 on some projects recently and ran into a question: why is the output knob only active when using the gain compensated pre-amp?
Has this been discussed before?
Hi
I’m having an issue with the BaxterEQ. It introduces a phase rotation even if the ‘in’ button is swtiched to “off” (supposedly bypassing the processing) and all settings to default. This is especially audible in the high frequency spectrum (combining the direct signal and the signal going through the plugin (whether processes or not) results in a HF roll-off. At first I thought there was some processing buffer introducing a delay of a couple of samples, but the shift seems to be frequency dependent. I doubt this is on purpose!
Greets
Dirk
OK, sorry, I missed the 4 samples processing latency. My bad! Anyway, thanks for all these great plugins!
Dirk
Oh, and BTW the NastyVCS doesn’t report it’s processing latency. There definitely is some in the EQ section, plenty more that the 4 samples of the BaxterEQ. I enjoy this plugin, it took some time to get used to it, and now it will do all the vocal processing on this year’s live-tour. (I mix my band 100% in software, that’s why I’m chasing hidden latencies! We can add up quite some by daisy chaining digital processors….). The compressor is really nice and easy. Thanks for this!
Ah, and may I humbly suggest a small adjustment for the GUI’s: there is an option in the VST SDK to set the way knobs react to mouse mouvements. In your Baxter EQ (for example) it’s set so that rotary controls react like if they were linear faders: to rotate a button, we must move the mouse up and down, which is very counter intuitive. Setting this to the alternate rotary setting (I don’t recall the name of that flag from the top of my mind) would improve the “user-experience”…..
I asked the following question in a reply to a reply, so I think this is the reason why I didn’t get an answer. So again : Some Variety of Sounds plugins seem to use more advanced techniques then others. Is a combination of those plugs better then the swiss knife Nasty VCS : Tesla Pro for saturation, Boot EQ on individual track + Baster EQ on the master (vs the “air” knob of Nasty VCS), Density, Ferric or Thrillseeker to subtly glue the master track instead of the Nasty VCS compressor, etc… ?
Thanks for answer.
I think that can’t be answered in general. The only rule might be: Take whatever works best in your very specific mixing situation.
Thanks for this very precise and technical answer. It helps much !
are you seriously being sarcastic about Bootsie’s wise words?
did you check out these resources? http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/vst-effects/
if you really want to figure out which tool YOU like best or think works best for a specific application (for example the ‘air’ in NastyVCS, the high shelf in BaxterEQ or the HF in BootEQmkII), just a/b/c the hell outta them: create 3 identical tracks with different types of music and put each plug on a different track and compare settings and sounds.
you can also run some pink noise through them and see what happens on an analyzer (or use QClone if you have it) if you don’t trust your ears.
if we were to tell you that NastyVCS was far superior and more advanced than any other plug and that you wouldn’t have to look any further, would you be satisfied with that answer and delete all your other plug-in?
“mixing cannot be taught, it can only be learned” – Mixerman
your’re welcome
i remember your question was replied to, maybe you could re-read the answer
I just found the Density MKII on your site. I downloaded it…installed it…and did some testing in the preview. I loved it! However, when I tried to apply the effect I got an error box that came up that said “an error was encountered processing the VST effect”. I am running Density on Adobe Audition 3.01. I have run, and am running currently, a number of VST plug-ins on Audition and have rarely had a problem. I also tried to delete the dowlnloaded file and started from scratch. Same thing. Any ideas?
What is the enviroment (OS version, 32 or 64bit?)
Hi…
I running XP Pro 32 bit.
Hi Bootsy. I’m a long time user and fan of your work. In fact I have been writing several blog post over at pluggar.wordpress.com about you.
Since the NastyLF/HF is no longer supported, I wonder what plugins best replaces them? When you want to enhance the low- or high-end.
All the best
/Jon
Most of that stuff made it into NastyVCS.
Hello Bootsy, Do you have a Google+ ID?
Thanks.
- nope
Hi…Great site.
I had submitted a question a couple of days ago about Density MKII. It keeps giving me an error message every time I try to apply the effect. I’ve tried a re-install, and that didn’t work. I have the VST plug-in installed in Adobe Audition 3.01. I’m running Windows XP Pro – 32 bit. I love the plug-in and would really like to be able to use it. Thanks for any help you can give me
I have no clue what causes this and unfortunately I can’t support Audition …
Just wanted to let you know that your work is greatly apreciated!! The fact that you give you amazing work for free is absurd (but awesome)! I use your stuff on everthing I do. Great Work!!
Hi Bootsy,
I am Daniël (Daan Jonkers, from Holland), and currently working on figuring out Baxandall & Butterworth circuits for a school project, which is going to be my first hands-on experience with electronics ever. I do know a thing or 2 about sound and audio engineering already, despity being only 17 years old. (live and studio experience, and lots of dedication)
My final goal is to build a hardware version of your Baxter EQ. In order to be able to do so I have some questions for you:
- I can’t seem to find any Baxandall circuits with frequency controls. Is it possible to create an original Baxandall style circuit with it’s 2 shelving bands, and frequency controls for those bands? How did you do this in your BaxterEQ?
- Neither can I seem to find any information on Mid/Side for audio processing. Do you have some kind of design of your Mid/Side matrix for the BaxterEQ? I have found this: http://www.uaudio.com/media/blog/2011/05/basics_panning.gif
The thing is (as you obviously know) that I need the Side channel to be stereo on both input and output in order to be able to have a true Side signal. And would this be a simple circuit? Or something very complex?
- What kind of amplification did you use for the gain controls on the BaxterEQ? Would it be like a tube design or more like an opamp design if “translated” to analog? Or is there no amplification at all and is it just a passive circuit like the baxandall idea? (make everything softer and then one thing normal so it sounds louder)
I have a very experienced tutor, who designed several chips and things himself, but having some slightly more detailed info about the thing itself would really help, as I basically have to figure most of the stuff out myself, mostly through the internet.
I do already have a copy of BaxterEQ (of all of your plugins actually).
Of course I’ll keep you up to date and if everything ends up working the way it should I’ll send you the results. The project is on quite a tight budget (about 50 euro’s), so a perfect recreation might not be possible, but I consider anything close quite a result:).
Thanks in advance for your help (and your great plugins, who started this all),
Daniël