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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.
Hi, I started to use Nastyvcs a few months ago, Please correct me if i am wrong, according to your explanation about ext SC, using your example, if i have another track using Nastyvcs ext SC (set for this particular track) then i must add another “Kick” track with output to the new track?
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
I can’t get them to open in Ableton for some reason?? They’re in my Ableton directory, they’re extracted and stuff and in the right place, I’ve tried restarting Ableton and nothing any thoughts????
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 🙂
I’m here to +1 the idea that Bootsy’s plug-ins make the jump to AU format, i love using them so much, and would really love to use them in my new Logic pro 9 based system.
+2!!!
The Variety of Sound vst’s are the only ones I use and my snotty decomposing hemorrhoid hag of a pc can’t handle the amount of tracks and effects I use in Renoise so I have to mix all my stuff on my gf’s mac.
+3 Is there any easy way to make these great plugins Mac compatible? Perhaps we could start a Kickstarter to accomodate your efforts! 🙂 Most creatives use Mac, anyways, so you’ll probably see an increase in use and awareness for your great product line.
now now children !
why are Mac fanatics so narrow minded and petty, always with sneery childish remarks. That attitude doesn’t encourage a positive response now does it ?
I could say that I moved from Mac to PC in the 90’s and have never looked back (saved myself a ton of money in the process too). There hasn’t been a single issue that I couldn’t overcome with a little effort/research. I have to admit, I don’t know any Mac users any more or any studios that still use Macs – I’m not knocking Mac’s here, but I genuinely don’t know anyone. But this proves nothing more than we move in different circles.
It seems to me that when Mac-Whiners (not to be confused with legitimately intelligent Mac users) don’t get handed an easy solution they throw their toys out of the pram without making the slightest effort themselves (guess that’s why they use taxi-Mac’s rather than manual-PC’s). For example – If you read the replies on this very page (you may need the help of a grown up) you will find out the reason why Bootsy’s plugs are 32Bit PC, and not 64Bit or OSX.
In the meantime, rather than continually asking the same question but not reading the answer, I’ll let you into a little secret,… come closer, I’ll whisper it to you,…get a bridge – it will solve your problem.
PS – I haven’t run out of tracks for over a decade, but then, I do know how to build & optimise a PC. If your ‘hemorrhoid’ can’t cope then you’re doing something wrong, try optimising the OS, adding ram, or getting a pro s/card 🙂
The original comment was a perfectly reasonable question: Are these plugins available for Mac? Answer: No – Ok. Well it’s not a huge effort to make them so and to that end someones wades in with a helpful ‘kickstarter’ suggestion. Great suggestion. And meanwhile people add their support for the original comment, and… I do too. While doing so, they all declare their appriciation for the software and the effort and knowledge that went into it. I do too, and since I’m a software developer, I know what that effort (in terms of 100s hours) is likely to be. As I read and consume more advice from others in the DAW community, and gain more experience, I am able to recognise good plugins – and these are just such a thing. I’d be willing to contribute financially towards an effort that brings these plugins to the Mac. I’m a bit jealous that they are Win only, but I have a Win PC too, so I can try them out there – no problem.
And that would be that, except then you barge in and spoil a perfectly pleasant thread with your condescending anti-Mac diatribe and proceed to vomit your ignorance all over the page like some raging Harpy who’s been locked away in her own little world too long. This is presumably because one comment was ‘most creatives are Mac users anyway’ – a wildly inaccurate comment, but then of course some people are prone to repeating ad-blurb and corporate messages as though they are facts. But that’s no reason to launch a tirade of abuse: calling people ‘narrow minded … petty … whiners’. If you know someone is mistaken, and you feel slighted because you think of yourself as a creative person excluded by his/her comment, you should correct him/her and present a reasoned argument. The comment did include a smilie btw – which I took to mean ‘I’m giving you PC users a friendly ribbing if you didn’t notice’. I’m guessing you flew into your vile tantrum too quick to notice the smilie. Oh well, perhaps you should take your own advice and read more carefully.
People don’t learn unless you politely guide them. When you do that, you feel good, and they benefit. Which is why I’m politely guiding you now. I’ll let you into a little secret,… come closer, I’ll whisper it to you … you are an a-hole.
+4. An AU format version of Density would be immense.
Even just an OSX compatible VST would be a great. This guy named Dave Pensado uses Mac and frequently gives shout-outs to freeware plugins, just sayin. I’m trying to think of a high caliber engineer or studio still using Windows…I’ll be here a while.
Why? …please think seriously about it! …Anyway, thanx 4 your huge (and very inteligent) work! …i read your feelings and i have to say that you have totally reached the goal you prefixed! …You created a really useful M/S devices!
Really want to hear what these are all about!!! but alas I have a Mac. Would be great if they come our way sometime!!!!!
Density mkII is the best- please please do a 64 bit update:)
Is there any tutorial on using preFIX? i want to use it on lead vocals and also on the overall mix…But i dont understand it..I need a tutorial…help.. kenrick.hunt@gmail.com
Maybe someone can help I’m new to the vst world. So I downloaded the plugins they showed up in my folder but I cant get them to show up on my daw I’m using samplitude music studio 2017. Also it said to accept the license but I couldn’t find that either.If someone can help me please explain in good detail…like I said I’m new to this lol. squidrulz@yahoo.com……Thanks!
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 https://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 !
Add a new folder for 32-bit plugins & put them in there.
I used to put 64-bit in C:/Program Files/64 and 32-bit in C:/Program Files/32 – buit never, ever installing both 32 & 64 bit versions.
Open the plugin manager in Cubase (or plugin information as it is in C4) and add the new path.
Close & relaunch – it will now scan the new folder & use the built in Bit Bridge.
Proper 64-bit versions are what is really needed though – but if it is Synthmaker, then that’s not going to happen – I recently went 64-bit all the way (and removed all 32-bit tools because the Bit Bridges are not ideal & do not work reliably) and also lost a stack of 5.1 capable plugins that were synthmaker tools, simply because the developers had given up trying to get it to run in 64-bit.
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
+1, Pls. You guys rock help us mac folks out 🙂
+1 Please port to Mac.. Sounds really great what you’re doing! 8)
Please do a Mac version! Had do migrate to MAC to develop apps! Really miss your stuff. Willing to donate! +30300303030303030303 to mac version!
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:
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
first half of the spectrograph is with tds off, then on
the fundamental is there, and harmonics are occurring above the fundamental
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.
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 🙂 ) on a lot of different tracks on Live crashed a dozen of times (mostly with an “out of memory” error message.
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.
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 🙂 . 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 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.
“?”
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
I also would very much love to see linux versions, and I think this option has just become a lot more relevant with the advent of Bitwig (awesome!).
But there is no need for rebuilding the plugins with a different container like lv2 or ladspa, just recompile them on Linux as they are. There is plenty of vst support around.
This would be a big deal for the Linux community, as there are so few industrial grade plugins around for the platform.
I would provide any help I could give you.
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.
😀
:PD
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: https://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:
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.
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:
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!
Well…I was just faced with the same problem, in reaper and FL Studio.
I have no idea what’s wrong…
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
Yes! Envelope filter like a mutron! PLEASE!? 😀
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.
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
(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.
That’s too bad. You design your plugins to look like rack devices, yet refuse to port them to an environment where racks design really matters and shines. Can you at least explain your reasoning to “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?
I can automate in the host easily enough, but I need to know what the values are as they are not mapped on my remote console. Very hard to explain. I prefer to work off my ID Console (it is like a HUI interface but specifically for Nuendo/Cubase, or like a DigiDesign Icon – it is a hardware controller for the DAW)
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/
Or this link which demonstrate how approachable JBridge is:
I definitely would not want to be without these plugins. They are certainly worth the effort to learn how to use JBridge.
Well I got J-Bridge, and YAY, I got all the VoS plugs working in Wavelab7 64Bit and Cubase 6.5 64Bit. It’s not perfect, the GUI’s don’t redraw when you select a preset (you have to close and re-open the plug gui) but all VoS plugs load without crashing 🙂
J-Bridge could do with a few improvements in the interface, and not all plugs-ins will work with it so it’s not a 100% solution, but it a good work around for now. Of course, it’s no comparison to if Bootsy made all his wonderful plug-ins 64Bit – here’s hoping
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)… ?
Going camping the Swiss army knife seems to be a handy tool. In other situations you might want a “real” knife, scissors or whatever.
So it’s you who can choose, what to use. Keep in mind, that everything you use to color your sound will take away something of the original sound at the same time.
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”…..
This is the first time I hear people asking for circular controls in a plugin. 🙂 Usually people prefer linear up/down controls because they’re faster and more precise to work with. They aren’t intuitive this way, true, but once you get a hold of it, you won’t look back, I can guarantee you that. 😉 Nobody I know uses circular controls with a mouse… really. It’s a waste of time trying to pick the right value and not so precise.
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? https://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
The thing about digital Eqs is that they’re exactly that – digital. This Equalizer is absolutely clean (klirr Active Filteringstage (lowpass and highpass, state variable so you can easily control the freq and preset the q) -> http://sound.westhost.com/dwopa2.htm with switchable caps -> maybe an Output buffer
If you use good quality components, they would be about 40-50€ if you want to make a stereo version of it, and ruin 2-3 opamps because of bad soldering 😉
MS-Matrices actually are quite simple:
M = sqrt(0.5)*(L+R) (just add the left and right input and take off 3db)
S = sqrt(0.5)*(L-R) (connect L to the +in of an opamp and R to the -in and again take off 3db)
Then
L = sqrt(0.5)*(M+S) (you get the idea 😉 )
R = sqrt(0.5)*(M-S)
Hi, i want to show some love for density 1.0. It’s my favorite ! I wonder, could i get the whole package as shown on http://rekkerd.org/bootsy-plug-ins/ ?
I would really like to try those as I work on a netbook, I like the tiny gui’s !
I have searched the whole web I think but can’t find it !
And is there a density 1.1? And what changes had it?
No.
thanks for the great plugins man ! Really like ferric TDS and epicverb, great work indeed. I use them regularly, you can check out my stuff here http://soundcloud.com/midi-error
Regards,
midi error
Do you plan to release 64-bit plugins?
Hi,
i have a very big problem with Boot Eq MkII !!(the latest version).
I have wavelab 6 and windows xp sp3.I have no problem with eq settings or preamp setting but as soon as i launch the render after it nothing happens.No change of volume in the file no change of eq nothing!!! I don’t know how to find a solution because Boot Eq Mk ii is a essential plugin for my mastering session.Please help.thanks!
Update.If you keep on only the eq once you render the files the changes in equalization do happen.
If you turn on the preamp boost the volume and launch the rendering nothing happens.No volume change in the file. Please help! thanks!
Are there any plans to make the plugins available for Mac users? It must be a question that you get asked quite a lot. I’ve recently switched from PC to Mac and I’m a massive fan of the Ferric TDS and the Nasty DLA. They’re some amazing plugins that I’d love to continue using in my mixes!
So no chance of getting a copy of NastyTabletop anymore then?
Hello and thank you thank you for your great plugins!
I know this has been mentioned several times, but here i go again: mac versions!
I know you seem reluctant to make mac versions (or at least it isnt your focus right now). But what if we found people who could port them to mac, would you be willing to let someone else do it? Or what if all the people who need mac versions would all donate a small amount of money (summing up to what might pay you for doing mac versions) would you then do it?
thanks!
Are you Mac people blind to the fact that these plugins are made in *SynthMaker*, and until SynthMaker is made for Mac, and also until they release 64-bit SynthMaker it is almost an impossible task to make them for any other platform than Windows 32-bit? Even making 64-bit versions of the plugins is impossible until then. The only portable part of the code is the algorithms themselves. Everything else is SynthMaker, and it’s a great platform for those people who want to get into DSP processing, not having to deal with coding GUIs much, and coding GUIs is a problem in itself. So somebody should code the GUI framework, and include Bootsie’s DSP code in it. Essentially, somebody should build a plugin from ground up for everything other than Windows 32-bit. That’s a pretty huge task for someone to take, wouldn’t you say? And that, of course means Bootsie should kinda “Open Source” his DSP code…
I actually wouldn’t mind having all his plugins as DSP, GUI-less, versions, though. 🙂 I would *love* that, actually. That would contribute greatly to their stability, too.
Cheers!
hey I’m not sure if this has been addressed but- density (both II and III) eventually mutes tracks in reaper. i haven’t heard of this problem with anyone else though so I don’t know whats up. I’m running the latest 64 bit reaper.
Reaper automutes a track if exceptional signal levels occur, for example when driving the total post fader signal to +30dB or something. I believe Reaper also mutes if exceptional amounts of CPU are eaten up by one channel. There’s probably some notes on that in the manual.
I should have been more precise- the track does not literally mute. It just stops playing sound, as in, the mute button is not on, the meters still show sound playing, but none comes out! It surely isn’t CPU either because with density the performance meter reads 0.5%
Then it has now become your mission to find out where your sound stops its journey thru your DAW/studio. If the sound stops without any precautions and just drops out for a while to come back after a few seconds, it is most likely to be a software problem. What meters are still showing signal? Channel meters? Folder/group/buss (Reaper calls them folders, but I tend to work the analogue way so I name everything the analogue way) meters? Master meters? Audio Interface output meters? And does the problem only occur if you use a VOS plugin?
This is a bug report for NatyVCS. But first, thank you again for your extraordinary plugins, Herbert! 🙂 I love them all, but I’m a bit more in love with NastyVCS which consists of almost everything a typical great console channel should have, and it’s my go-to channel plugin. But NastyVCS has a little issue with its EQ, which is its weakest point in general IMO, except the Air band and the low band which are simply GREAT choices of shelving type bands :), since bell bands warp at the nyquist point, but anyway… on to the bug 😉 It’s actually quite nasty when it happens, but really nasty and easy to recreate: Just open NastyVCS, load “default Bootsy” preset, and put “cut” on the low shelf to 4, and wait. It’s going to break after some time. A good idea is to put a limiter after NastyVCS for this one, to protect the speakers. I tried isolating the problem by turning everything off except the EQ, but it happened anyway, with a slight delay – it took about few minutes for the sound to break. Cheers! And thank you one more time for these brilliant tools you give us.
Will you consider porting your plugins to Propellerheads Rack Extensions? They are so good I would pay for them! 🙂
Read my reply to the persistent Mac user just a few posts above. It’s not possible, man. Sad but true. SynthMaker is great, but also restricting in the way that it’s *really* hard to port plugins to other OS or format other than VST. Until SynthMaker supported only VST, there won’t be any other formats of his plugins, trust me. 😉 Cheers!
I just answered to save Bootsie some trouble… same goes for the Mac user up there. 😉
Hi Variety Of Sound,
I am contacting you from Plugin Boutique. (www.pluginboutique.com). We love what you’re doing and if possible could you send me a contact email address? I’d really like to discuss a few things with you.
Kind Regards,
Gareth
Hi Bootsy,
Gotta say I’m digging the DensityMkIII improvements! The timing readouts are a great help and I really like the color knob does to the sound, although the effect remains quite subtle, even when turned fully clockwise. Can you please make it do more of that!? 😀
Also, I was wondering how the saturation behaves in M/S mode, is the signal affected before splitting or are the mid and side signals saturated independently? If so, the mid signal (which is usually louder) will be affected a lot more than the side signal, right? Could you maybe devise a way to compensate for this so that the side signal can get proportionally the same amount of saturation? Maybe a seperate color knob on each channel?
On to the NastyDLAmkII: the saturation is amazing on this thing, I may like it even better than on the ThrillseekerLA or DensityMkIII. I turn off the delay so I can use just the input section on everything, even on the 2bus because it remains quite natural while giving depth, density, liveliness, etc… One thing I noticed however, is that the amount of saturation doesn’t actually seem to be infuenced by the Input knob, but mainly by the signal level fed into the plug-in. As if there is a predetermined amount of saturation/coloration present which is blended/mixed in together with the original signal, but I could be wrong of course… Anyway, this one turned out really well IMO, would love to see/hear this type of saturation coloration in a stand-alone plug-in with more features 😀
Thanks again for all the brilliant tools you give us!
NastyDLA is a brilliant piece of work, too, yeah. Much more than just a delay. For that matter, as you noticed, it could be used as a saturation plugin, or as a chorus with saturation. 😉 With some slight improvements it could be a brilliant “Haas” processor, too. So far this only works for stereo audio input. Regarding that I think I found a little bug, as one of the more useful settings “wet only” doesn’t seem to remember to stay lit when I save it like that. 😦 I wonder if anybody else have encountered this bug? I use “wet only” a lot, so I could process the whole sound, not just the delay portion of it, so it’s a great drawback for me that it doesn’t remember to stay lit. In order for “Haas” to work for mono input, NastyDLA should be able to convert a mono input into stereo somehow. I thought “retro” modes would do it, but they put a dry signal to the left and wet to the right, so no go there. Here’s an idea: why not making that in “retro mode” when you press the “wet only” button [which currently does nothing in retro mode] the audio would turn into mono output-wet only [same as mono 1 mode], or stereo output for retro mode 2, which would enable making Hass type effects with mono audio input? 😉 Cheers!
I’m so sorry that I have to inform you of one more bug I found in your Rescue plugin. 😦 Both normal and AE v1.2 are affected. The noise stops working after precisely 4 minutes and 20 seconds and produces some kind of garbled audio artefacts afterwards. Add a few seconds that I needed to start the stop watch after starting the Rescue to this 4:20. Nothing else helps then but to load another preset and adjust it again, or delete and reload Rescue again. You can recreate this bug easily by just loading Rescue, put a sine tone generator through it [I used free MDA TestTone] and monitor with Voxengo Span for artefacts when 4:20 minutes passes. I also confirmed that in Reaper, with its JS tone generator. Same thing happens after 4:20. 😦 Must be some kind of a bug in noise generator? Cheers!
I really would like your plugins, but I have a 64 bit pc and I for the heck of it installed them but I don’t even see them. is there someware I can get the free plugins for a 64 bit system , thanks Bill
sunriseselectsound@gmail.com
JBridge 32bit to 64bit plugin wrapper/bridge is the way if your VST host doesn’t support bridging plugins. http://jstuff.wordpress.com It’s been answered several times already in this thread. 😉
You can only use 32-bit plugins on a 64-bit operating systems with VST hosts that support 32-bit plugins on a 64-bit OS. Like Reaper, for instance. Reaper has a VST wrapper that makes it possible. Perhaps there is a 32-bit to 64-bit VST host wrapper only that you could use to “serve” 32-bit plugins to a 64-bit VST host that you use? I’m sorry that I can’t help you with that, since I use Reaper so I don’t need any other 32-64 wrapper application. Cheers!
May I humbly reformulate your reply: “You can only load 32bit plugins in a 32bit application, whether you’re running that application on Win32 or Win64. (We’re talking about Windows specifically, not “any” OS)”
So to use these plugins you must run a 32bit version of your host on your 64bit system, OR use a wrapper like jBridge if you prefer to run the 64bit version of your host.
I have used jBridge without any problems for a while now. It is easy to use and allows you to make use of these wonderful plugins. Although I must say it would be nice to see some 64 bit versions. But hey, they are free. How should we be so lucky?
You are definitely the most passionate VST maker as you do all of this research and make excellent plugins and charge nothing for it. The thing I’ve always wondered is, what type of job do you do to make money? 🙂
I´m a big fan of Your plugins. My system is a win7 64 bit on sandy bridge processor and I´m using Cubase6 as a 64 bit host. Your plugs are bridged via jbridger which works fine with one exception: If I´m using TesslaSE there will be messages like “this buffer allready exists AB-IN_F2848435755” launched by jbridge and the system may react strange in the following session. Maybe You have a solution?
Thanks a lot again !
Hi:
I have noticed what might be a bug occurring between Epicverb and Harrison’s Busmix. When you open a previous session in Busmix, none of the settings for epicverb are saved. It only happens with Epicverb. All other VoS plugins work fine.
Hi.
I am using now epicVerb at Reaper v3(DAW). My only favorite reverb, but I have a issue.
A music track inserted epicVerb, and next, output to wav file.
Play the output file, I heard some strange sound.
The time is 0:00:00.000~about 0:00:00:00.300.
The strange sound is not heard at Reaper (Playing at Reaper or Playing at DAW).
Please tell me how to solve this issue.
If you need the wav files and Epicvertb’s Screen shot, I will send them.
Respectfully yours,
Miyako
thanks for your great plug ins! i love the nasty series.. and used it till my pc got broken… now i need to get them back, especially the “hf” but there´s no download link.. is there any option to get it? cheers!
Hey !
I really love your plugins in all aspects !
Is there any plan for AAX Support? That would be great !
Cheers !
Yes it would be great, but it’s almost impossible, at least for now, what you’re asking. Read my reply a little up from this one, to a Mac user. 😉
Mono versions of everything (to conserve resource) would be awesome!
I agree wholeheartedly! Also because when the plugin is stereo/mono, I have to tinker with the connections in Reaper to make it pure mono every time. Mono versions, 1in – 1out are big time savers! 🙂 And that shouldn’t be so hard to do. Why haven’t I thought of that? LOL Cheers!
NastyVCS is killing my VSTbridge almost everytime I load two Instances of it in my Cubase 6.03 64Bit (WIN7)… Anyone else experiencing such issues? Is there any way to workaround this? It is such a great plug, I’d love to put it to work…
yes, quite a few people have had this problem and found the solution,.. the answer to your question is fully explained in the comments above if you can just be bothered to read it 🙂
Do you have any of these plug ins for Mac??
You know how to read, since you can write. Don’t be so lazy and read a few posts back. There lies your answer.
Already got my answer… Beat it
Boosty, have you heard about Synthmaker transitioning to a licensing/rental model? How will this affect your plugin development? http://synthmaker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11619&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=64+bit
Hi, Tesla le, Tesla pro, rescue and epic verb come up as .rar files instead of .dll files when I try to download them. Is there a fix to this? Also your plugins are incredible! I like UA but yours are just as good and more innovative. Hopefully I can get the other four plugs cause the ones I have so far are incredible.
you can’t fix something that’s not broken ! A ‘Rar’ file is like like a ‘Zip’ file, it a contains one or more compressed files – just download the rar files and unpack them 🙂
Cool. I appreciate it.
Would you ever make a plugin that’s like a convolution plugin but works by convolving frames of audio in 1:1 time like let’s say the input audio is split into windows A-Z and the impulse audio which could be from a side-chained channel is split into 1-26 so A is convolved with 1, B with 2, C with 3, etc and it works with basic window shapes and adjustable size like some kind of convolution vocoder or does this exist?
It’s very late and you’re the only one I can think of that might have an answer aside from suggesting I learn C++ and download MatLab I just want to make noises not begin a career in software design come on
That sounds like a mix between a convolution and granular processing. 🙂 It would use lots of CPU if the impulses are big, but with smaller ones… I guess it would be possible, but it would still consume lots of CPU. Interesting idea! Did I get it right? 😉
I think many of us users think that it would be marvelous to have these plugins on a Mac. )
Hi, First at all i have to say, that all your plugins are great, Good GUI and Superb Sound Quality. But I Purchased a Mac beacuse i need ProTools in the Job, So, PLEASE, Release your plugins for OS X, Those plugins are a very powerful tool, that i’m missing. Thanks.
the reason why they won’t be coming out on the Mac (or 64Bit PC) has been explained in this thread above. Pro Tools also runs on the PC (though not that popular as it’s more powerful adversaries)
Hello,
I am using epic reverb in my studio one pro version 2. The moment I attempt to use more than one epic reverb plugin in the same song session epic crashes. for instance, one epic on my vocal track and than try to put another epic on my strings track in the same song, epic crashes.
An addition to my comment is, when it crashes something says this buffer already exists.
If you haven’t heard, KVRDC 12 is here!
Also, maybe you could collaborate with vladg/sound and see if he would be willing to help you move your plugins to 64bit platform? Keep up the good work!
Hey guys…
I’ve heard that your plugins are effin awesome and I really want to try them… but I’m on a mac. I think I speak for all my mac brethren that more free quality plugs= better, and if there was any way of porting your creations to mac we’d all be grateful.
Bootcamp works wonders and it will make your music sound better…you;ll have bootsie!!! :•) snigger
hi.. I’ve done an interesting automated patch for ableton live for your density III to monitor, balance and perform easy compression over a mix. While doing that, I’ve noticed that automating the timing settings, the knob and the actual settings don’t correspond. try by yourself, modulating manually the timing parameters by an automation lane, or by a default vst control, and watch to the knobs..you can see it even from the a/r text that compares below the knob:it follows the actual settings, while the knobs behave differently. btw are you interested for me to post that patch for you, or everyone who’s interested?
have a good day!
enrico
how do i set the input channles 3 and four for the Density mkIII? so i can work the mid/side chain? iam finding this very complicated.
Channels 3 and four are for the sidechain signal and not for mid/side. Working (internally) with mid/side just needs a switch on the right side dial …
sorry iam very new to these cutting edge comp techniques. i still dont ‘fully’ understand (as you can see) what mid/side is. but i think i get sidechaining. i think sideshain is actually what iam after. so basically your saying that mid (which as i understand is kind of a mono average of a stereo track) and side (which is like your left side of a stereo track…?) is only internal?? (they dont receive external comp triggers’) so if i want to sidechain, say i want track 5 and 8 to get compressed every time the kick (we’ll call track 1) pumps. so…how would i go about doing that? by the way iam using mixcraft 6, dont know if that helps or not.
Yes, M/S is internally handled. To use the SC in your case you have to route track 1 to input 3 and 4 of the plug-in and set the SC switch to ‘EXT’. Routing is done by the host, in your case Mixcraft (I don’t know that software) – in some hosts its easier than in others.
iam having a real hard time finding this fabled input 3 and 4 i keep hearing about. do they really exist?
where are input 2 and 3??
In Cubase (and I would imagine other DAW’s work similarly) create a Group channel, but make it a “Quadro” channel instead of a stereo channel. Load Density on it. Now send a side-chain source signal from another channel (a kick for example) to the group, using a Send. Make sure to use the “VST Audio Channel Settings” window (click the small “e” button on your kick track), then right-click – > Customize View -> Send Routing. A surround type panner will now appear next to your Send. Simply drag the dot to the bottom center of the square, and the signal will be sent to channel 3 & 4 of the Group..
Hope this helps!
Density mk III crashes Cubase 6 after a few times of closing and opening the GUI.
Hey Boostie, I have a quick question.
You’ve inspired me to have a go and start making my own plugins, I understand you use Synthmaker, but your own code? is that correct?
I have a good knowledge of acoustics/audio science in the ‘physical’ world but no programming experience. can you suggest a good place to start learning? (assembler is it?)
Thankyou so much for your contributions to my audio happyness! Density mkIII is one of the best buss compressors I’ve ever used including UAD, Liquidmix, Powercore and Waves.
just join the S|M user forum – there are lots of code examples to start with and to learn from and also a very helpful community.
Hi there,
We’re currently working on a Special issue about Freeware, where we’re recommending our favourite free software and showing readers how to use it to produce great music.
We would very much like to distribute two of your plug-ins [Nast DLA and VCS] with this issue (Computer Music Special 58). The magazine will go on sale in the UK, with copies exported throughout the world, from 23 January 2013.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you would grant us permission for this, and/or if you have any questions. My deadline is looming so be great to here from you.
Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Mo Volans
Computer Music magazine
Hi, Love the sound of your new reverb. do you ever license your DSP? we are looking to upgrade the reverb in our ANA synth.
Thanks
Phil.
nope, currently no licensing.
Dear Bootsie, I like your VSTs very much, thanks a lot for all the time and good work !
Could you kindly support me with this issue…
I have Cubase 6.5.4, 64-bit under Windows 7, SP1.
I bought JBridge 1.5 to get your 32-bit VSTs – like Density, etc – to work properly in terms of GUI redraw. With Steinbergs VST bridge i.e. the knobs do not update when selecting presets. JBridge has this “Force whole GUI refresh” option, by that all VSTs update the GUI and thus knob settings properly… With one exception… BaxterEQ.
Do you have an idea what makes BaxterEQ “special”, that it refuses to update the GUI, so that knobs do not update properly when going through different presets ?
As a workaround I have to push the red M/S button, or to click the version information, then the VST updates properly.
Could it be the case that in BaxterEQ something is special or missing in terms of GUI update ?
Joao currently has no idea in terms of root cause for this and asked me to contact you, whether you have an idea in regards to what BaxterEQ might be different in terms of GUI update…
Many thanks for your kind support.
2 related videos:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/96192996/003.MOV (separated GUI mode works, but handling is a pain)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/96192996/002.MOV (Here the issue with non working integrated GUI)
BR
Andreas
there is a smaller GUI version and the bigger one – does that occur with both versions or just with one of them?
I know what you mean, this is the case for both, no difference.
I made a new discovery. With the JBridge Option “Force Whole GUI refresh” turned on, its sufficient to click with the mouse at any place of the plugin to trigger the update.
I have the same issue under Cubase 6 64 bit. My workaround is to avoid using the “factory” presets and to save my own user presets with the Cubase preset manager. Doing this, the gui refreshes when I change presets. i remember that this effect may occurs with other bootsie plugins as well. When I used Cubase 6 in the 32 bit version everything was fine.
Thanks jazztom for giving that idea yes and I can confirm that it works. But its a big amount of work to save all factory presets and whenever an update appears you potentially would need to do it again should some presets also have changed. Then its far easier to click with the mouse one time at a random position on BaxterEQs “front-panel”.
I made another new discovery. When Cubase 6.5.4 starts-up freshly. In my case baxter appears on top of the mixer and loads the last saved preset fine. THEN its exactly one time possible to change the factory preset with proper redraw, BUT ONLY one time. Unloading the VST and reloading it doesnt help. You need to close and re-open the project, then its reproduceable. But it works after fresh project loading exactly only one time.
At the moment the best workaround appears to me to click somewhere onto the front-panel of BaxterEQ, but its not so nice in terms of functionality, especially when you start experimenting with sounds and want to make a quick A/B comparison, then this extra click slows down and takes too much attention from you instead of keeping the mouse position and concentrating on sound changes.
If you could contribute to get this fixed Herbert, it would be so cool !!!
For multiple of your plugins, specifically NastyDLA and ThrillseekerLA, the sound cuts out sometimes for no apparent reason and won’t come back on, especially when I’m rendering the project file. The only way to fix it is to copy the instance of the plugin, paste it back in, and delete the original instance. It’s quite annoying, with multiple instances of these it’s like playing whack-a-mole to get a render with everything playing. Do you know of any way to stop this from happening?
in which host is that?
Reaper, 64 bit, Windows 7
With thrillseeker it happens in Cubase, 64 bit windows 7 ans jbridger as well.
I Love Love Love Love your plugs! I make my music on a cranky old P4 PC running xp with only a couple GB of RAM, and your plugs are light enough I can use them with relative freedom (and they sound awesome!) and for this I am very grateful. I am not too fond of shameless self promotion, so I hope this is an appropriate place to share my work with you.
http://soundcloud.com/gorgorgathgorgorgor/sets/osc/
This is a link to what will soon be my first album, a digital only release through AWAL. I just want to thank you, because your plugs have been a part of what is making this release possible. Who knows, maybe I’ll sell enough to press it! one can dream 🙂
Tell me please. Is it possible to make backup copies of your free plug-ins? How many backup copies can be done? The point is that in order to avoid the loss of plug-ins, I keep copies of them at the same time in different personal places – on several HDD and cloud hosting services. It is permissible to your plug-ins?
as long as you don’t re-distribute them to others – why not?
Of course, only for personal use. Thanks for the reply, I understand, but let me clarify something. I made a few backups of each free plugin. Is there a limit on the number of backup copies of one and the same plugin?
I have Sonar Producer 8.5, and all I get with Ferric is crackles and noise when I place it on a track as a plug in. Help!!
I’m also on 8.5.3 Runs fine on my machine? I’m only running 44.1 and 48 khz sessions, so I don’t know if other rates are supported or not… but I assume they should work?
yes they should work
Well, if no-one can give me a decent answer, then I suppose I will just have to bin Ferric. I am currently trying to use it on a 24 bit 98 khz session, using a 32 bit version of Sonar, on a 64 bit PC.
Hello Bootsy!
I really like your FerricTDS on drum bus! I am learning basics of computer programming now – the question which arises is: what programming language should I choose? I want develop simple chess engine and some simple VST plugins [utilities which will speed up my mixing workflow]. Tell me what language do you use? And is it possible to create efficient plugins in Python?
cheers from Warsaw
Lucas
Interpreted languages with garbage collection are not suited to real-time processing -> Look for compiler based languages or dedicated frameworks for DSP stuff.
Just wow…period.Tried density Mk3, before that I used Ferric TDS for a long time and will keep on doing so. And it´s for free…unbelievable. Thank you so much! I hope more people get your spirit, and the world will be a better place!
Bye, Alex
Tomorrow is Christmas, if you know what I mean! 😀
Hey, Bootsy. It seems you’ve become a “Rock Star” of sorts with your popularity from your great VSTs. Lots of love from the masses. I am also saying thank you for your plugs.
I have a request that might hit you the wrong way, but I hope you can relate. I have been using Synthmaker for a while now but have had no real good outcomes with developing my own compressor. I would like to know if you would be willing to send me a copy of the .OSM for Density. I use it on all of my mixes and would like to create my own GUI for it to make using it simpler for me. I understand if you say no, but it would be an honor if you would consider it.
I am an expert graphics person as well as a musician, engineer, producer and singer/songwriter. Please let me know how you feel about this. I would love to be a part of any future projects as well. I also give freely of my work and time to benefit others.
Thanks in advance.
Koto-
sorry, no
I have downloaded Ferric TDS and it is in my downloads folder but I can’t find any way to install it. Here is what is in the downloaded folder.
-Ferric TDS .dll Application Extension 7,208KB
-FerricTDS1.5 Manual 886KB
-License Text Document 1KB
Which host software do you use to run the plug-in?
just copy the FerricTDS folder into your VST folder – whenever a vst comes as just a dll file you don’t need to install it just move it to your vst folder
Are there ever going to be 64-bit versions at all, and how well do the 32-bit plugs work in a 64-bit host?
re 64Bit – both your questions are already answered in detail above, you just have to read it – but basically, no not yet, and Jbridge
With the RedShift Overdrive on my dualcore L2400 laptop in Reaper there is a werid bug: normally the plugin eats some percents like any normal VST, but sometimes it just starts eating CPU, constantly rising in CPU use, I once let it go up to 600%, and it never seems to stop. I have a feeling this is usually connected to either stopping audio playback, or the plugin running out of audio. Really! Many times this starts exactly at the moment when a channel where the plug is inserted goes silent.
Otherwise a great plug, good crispy distorted sounds, been using them for acid bass lines, better than many other free VSTs, the plugin does not colour the treble end too much.
so, what is RedShift Overdrive???
LOLZ!
it’s a distortion plugin by Acme Bar Gig 🙂
They do lots of free guitar amps, etc
hi taikakim, this page is for VoS support, i think you might have better luck contacting Acme Bar Gig 🙂
Woops, my bad, I’ve been using VoS stuff a lot lately, got confused over this 🙂
I wonder if you (or anyone else) could mail me version 1 of the Nasty DLA? I’m returning to some old mixes and I have since updated to MK2 of the plugin. It would be greatly appreciated.
Much respect for your work.
Your email?
I tried to work in 96khz today and everything seemed okay, except that sometimes the EQ section in VCS started to self oscillate towards infinity decibels.
Hello and Greetings from Computer Music magazine. Could you please drop me an email at the CM office as soon as possible, as we’d like to discuss featuring Thrillseeker in a forthcoming issue. Many thanks!
Hallo Herbert,
ich hatte am Wochenende etwas Zeit um die beiden XTC Modelle zu testen. Deine bisherigen Arbeiten waren ja schon einsame Spitze aber was Du mit den beiden NeuVeröffentlichungen geschaffen hast,ist ja nicht zu fassen. Ich hatte den Mojo Spruch zuerst für leicht übertrieben gehalten… aber es war eine Untertreibung. Wo Du mit den Thrillseekers stehst,da müssen andere professionelle Software Entwickler erst noch hin.
Der Sieger der KVR Challenge steht schon fest.
Vielen Dank für deine unermüdliche Arbeit.
Ulli Hoffmann
Bad Fredeburg Hochsauerland
Hi, I was wondering if I want to tap the Thrillseeker just for a little bit of level and mojo (no compression) what would be good settings? I write film score stuff so I have to make sure all the low end gets through and doesnt get altered or cause pumping. Also lets say I want to use the saturation setting at the 2.5 Khz region but I also want to hit the saturation at the more mid range of around 500Khz, is it ok to use “2” instances of Thrillseeker on the mastering / mix bus chain? Or will that cause problems? I obviously don’t want to lose audio quality by using 2 instances. Or is there a way to do it on the full spectrum setting for saturation, and then roll back saturation on the low end only?
Thanks!
– MusicGuy37
Still kindly asking for linux VST or LV2 versions of Your wondrful plugins Bootsy!
Please, please, please:)
Anyway, thank You for the great work You`ve done for music!
I believe Bootsy makes his plugins via Synthmaker (or Flowstone 3 already?) and it exports only to windows VST or .EXE …so for current plugins, I believe, other versions (including mac VST) are not possible to be done.
Am I right?
Dear Bootsie,
Here’s a review of Thrillseeker XTC: http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/11/21/thrillseeker-xtc-review/
It was written by Rick Saxby.
great review – thanks for sharing!
I’ve just started working with these plugs and I’ve been blown away. I’ve only had a chance to put the Boosty EQ through it’s paces, and this plug alone has brought new life to my mixes.
Hi Bootsy.
I heard only great things about your plugs, so I downloaded 6 of them. Three I can use, but 3 do not show up when I try to add as an effect. I CAN access and use Baxter EQ, Ferric TDS, and Nasty DLA. I CANNOT access Density MKIII, Thrillseeker LA, or Nasty VCS. ALL have a .dll icon in my VST folder in my software(Cubase LE), and when I hover over them they all show that they are 1 – 3MB in size, so they’re not just a shortcut. I suspect it’s my processor or something like that. I have an HP laptop with a pair of Core Duo T7500’s running at 2.2GHZ each(about 2008 model or so I think). I’m running Windows XP. I did restart the computer but no go.
Any insights you could provide would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Keith
Density MKIII, Thrillseeker LA and Nasty VCS do have external sidechain support which adds a 3rd and 4th audio input on top of the usual stereo input. Cubase LE seems to have problems with that or not supporting external sidechain plug-ins at all.
Hello and Greetings from Computer Music magazine. Could you please drop me an email at the CM office as soon as possible, as we’d like to discuss featuring Thrillseeker in a forthcoming issue. Many thanks!
Thanks for the info. I’ll switch software and try again. Cheerios, and thanks for doing the plugs.
I already responded to your last request but never got an answer …
That’s very odd… I didn’t receive your email. How to proceed… could you try resending to my personal email address (i.e. the one I used to post to this forum)? Thanks!
Guys, sorry for being a noob but how do I install these as effects and not instruments. Am using cubase sx3 and when I click on a channel’s fx they’re not being shown
just put the .dll files in your VSTplugins folder …
Hi, thanks for this but I have tried adding them to the VST plugins folder under Cubase but when I’m in cubase I still can’t see them. I have Waves and that works fine…i’m obviously being stupid so will look at it again later today
I’ve got three requests for xtc plugin.
I’ve noticed that in your manual there’s no explanation of the output knob role in the signal path. it seems to be a pre – soft saturator gain, where the clipping point is determined by the drive-mojo section. It’s quite a complex design, specially for a/b-ing, so it would be nice to have it explained.
also, since usually the bass band is hit more heavily, I’d really like a sort of enphasis (tilt) compensated control. I understand that with the drive section it would be difficult to compensate the gain, but having 2 ranged versions this problem will tend to minimize for sure.
last but not least, is it possible to turn the individual band switches into a simple “no drive” button, leaving the opportunity to boost a clean band?
thanks.
(I know that I am writing too much, but your work is really stimulating, so I tend to act as a beta tester)
Hey man-
I’ve really enjoyed all of your plugins for years now. Great job! I was just wondering if you’ve ever considered making these into Reason rack extensions. I think your plugins would be fantastic in that format. Cheers!
Is it likely that the SDK used will be updated to VST2.4 at the very least?
I ask as with the imminent release of Cubase 7, there are going to be some problems with a large proportion of these plugs as they are in VST2.3
Please see http://www.steinberg.net/maintenance/ where this is confirmed as a known issue
The new Cubase 7 does not support VST plugins based on any SDK lower than VST2.4 anymore.
If I’m not mistaken, yours are still VST2.3 .
I haven’t installed C7 yet (it should be in the mail as we speak), but I would hate having to give up your plugins.
Do you have any plans in updating your plugins to VST2.4 or even VST3?
Forgot to include the Cubase page link:
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/knowledgebase_new/show_details/kb_show/cubase-7-known-issues/kb_back/2020.html
“Old VST plug-ins
Outdated VST plug-ins may render the application unresponsive. Please use only VST plug-ins which were built with VST SDK 2.4 or higher. “
HI, would it be possible for you to make a comparation list of VofS plugins vs ableton audio instruments and where best to use them (track, return, master) ?
sorry, comparison
Fantastic work: congratulations for the KVR 20012 award!!
Iam trying to load the and test the Boots eq i dont see application exec. file how do I load the program?
you need a VST host for the plug-in.
put the dll in your plugins folder 🙂
Have tried a number of these plugins and they’re fantastic, don’t know how it’s done but my mixes are much less sterile sounding now. Have done quite a bit of work on desks and my mixes now sound more like desk mixes for sure which is something I’ve been striving to achieve in a DAW. I would like to donate but it’s not obvious to me how I go about doing that?
Hey,
I would love to be able to download older versions of your plugins. I started working on an album last year and then took a break. Now I want to finish up that material but my DAW environment has changed a lot since then. When I try to reopen the projects with the latest versions of your plugins, they are not recognized.
I guess I can copy the plugins off of my old laptop, and I will do it. But it’s a real hassle, and if the laptop dies on me before I manage to do that, I’ll have real trouble getting them again.
Is there a specific reason why you don’t offer older versions? I understand if you want to keep your work up to date, but somewhere in the comments is a guy/gal who has the same problem, and I feel like it’s making our lives harder than they need to be.
Best regards
just an observation – all the plugins are just dll’s, they don’t need to be installed, so to copy the dll’s off your laptop onto a usb stick and onto your pc would only take seconds – (about the same time it takes to write a message on here 🙂
HI, would it be possible for you to make a comparison list of VofS plugins vs ableton audio instruments and where best to use them (track, return, master) ?
I am having issues trying to purchase the Punch compressor. The system will not except my Pay Pal account or my Mastercard. Can someone help?
hi, I think you’re on the wrong site. All VoS plugins are free so you wouldn’t need PayPal. I think Punch compressor is by Minimal Systems (http://minimalsystem.com/Store/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_60&product_id=61) – I should warn you though. I got Punch Evolved Compressor (same as Punch but with more features), it’s a great compressor, but, like all these VoS plugins, only comes as 32Bit. It kind of works on a 64Bit system with JBridge but has redraw issues. If you’re only using a 32Bit system and don’t intend to update to 64 in the future then it’ll be fine. VoS intend to update all their plugins to 64Bit as soon as the programming tools they use does (hopefully in 2013).
As well as ThrillseekerLA and Density3 compressors here, check out KVR (http://www.kvraudio.com/?t%5b%5d=free) for some great freebie plugins (look out for jsCompShaper, RoughRider(AudioDamage), DCAMFreeComp, and Molot03 compressors)
hope this help 🙂
just saw that Waves have a sale on (http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=351&ref=nl) and are doing their ‘Classic Compressor bundle’ (CLA-2A, CLA-3A, and two CLA-76’s) for £111 (down from £310) – details of package here http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=9297
🙂
HI,merry xmas and prosper 2013. I twice posted my question.. no reply at all !!,
HI, would it be possible for you to make a comparison list of VofS plugins vs ableton audio instruments and where best to use them (track, return, master) ?
Hi there, I expect he’s to busy to do something you could/should do yourself. You are asking him to load up Ableton (which he may not own), then run a series of tests (which will take time), and then write out the results in detail. The problem is this wouldn’t be any use to you though as you have a different system/studio/speakers/technique/style/etc. The only way to know is to test them yourself, which you can, for free (this is what most folk do 🙂
As all the VoS plugins are free, you can download them and compare them, on your system/speakers/etc, and see what the differences are for yourself, and which you prefer for different applications/content/etc (I wouldn’t bother myself as all VoS plugs are really top pro quality as you can hear when you use them).
As for knowing where to use them, read the descriptions on this site and download the manuals for each plugin. After that it comes down to experience/system/technique/genre/etc. However, there are some good tutorials on MusicRadar.com and YouTube, or check out magazines like Computer Music (who also give away loads of samples and plugin (often unique, or with extra features)
hope this helps 🙂
Hi, I did not ask to load,run & write ..etc, maybe he already knows the answer. I had a look at the vos plugings descriptions, i could get the info i needed of some of them, e.g. nastyvcs, (compressor,Saturation,limiter,eq), can be used on a single track or mastering, others were with very technical description. lets say he does not know ableton plugins, i am sure he can put quickly together a list with vos plugin name, function and where to use (track,mastering) I do know channel is = track, I do not have clear what is bus or mix buss shelving and like these ones i have more questions. but for now just a list as requested will help me to use correctly the vos plugins. thanks
Just use them and listen…
That’s the only way to figure out how and where to use them.
Hi! I’ve described in detail on my blog a couple of years ago how to setup a wrapper called wacvst for Mac users to be able to use your plugins. Very recently I’ve put together a better option and gave it a name, plugwire, my Wineskin setup. It’s all people need for Win VST plugins on Mac. Please check it out and if you think it’s any good maybe make a post for people to be made aware about it. Cheers!
http://diaphone.blogspot.de/2010/12/11.html
thanks, man!
Hi there.. I’m looking for an old version of FerricTDS – used on old project, now needing to load/bounce instrumental versions for TV/Film sync.. Anyone have any info/ideas? Had no success with Google so far..
Very grateful for any help, and also for all the amazing plug-ins – I use these as much, if not more than many “big brand” offerings.
just download the new and set the Modern/Classic switch on Classic… this will do the trick. other changes made were delay compensation and little improvement on the dynamics… so nothing really substantial, and besides, they are just improvements. Happy NY
Thanks for the reply Enrico – I do have the new version installed and I think it’s great. I was just hoping to be able to load the project with the *exact* same sound/settings I used, rather than try to re-create something similar by listening/checking/tweaking etc.
Anyway, thanks again, and Happy NY 🙂
it IS the exact one, because I was among the guys who asked for maintaining both the flavours. it’s just that the very first version simply had few samples of latency (1?). the switch is made for having the first one in the same gui. just check the blog. if you want to try a null test keep in mind that latency wasn’t reported, and if oversampling filters changed, you could hear a different hf phase response.
ciao! 🙂
Again, thanks Enrico – it’s good to know that the exact same sound can be achieved. Maybe I was not totally clear though; my aim is to load the project + recall the settings I used, rather than find something close by listening/tweaking. IE. I don’t remember what compression amount/saturation amount I used, and new version is not recognized as the same plug-in, so my settings are lost.
I appreciate the tips though – I didn’t know some of this info.
Thanks again 🙂
Here it is, Tom. It was sooo hard to do this. I had to find the CD where it was on it, then I had to upload it on some file host. Sooo hard. /sarcasm http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8rgpr2etgn8zabi Cheers, mate! 🙂
Holy wow… Thanks dddux! You star!
I will be keeping this one safely stashed in my files for those older projects – you never know when they might need restoring and this will make things much, much easier.
Thanks folks!!
And thanks again to Bootsy for the excellent plug-ins 😀
I’ve a feature request/bug report of sorts. I’m using your wonderful plugins in my friend’s max/msp runtime environment called teleport (www.juvul.com) for my electronic live performances (recently played fabric london :D) and soundwise they work out great. But they’re not “hot swappable” in the sense other plugins are. If i load your plugin while sound is playing i get cpu overload type artefacts and stutters, even when loading presets, while all other plugins i’ve tested (reaplugs for example) load without incident. I imagine they’re not really built for this if you could lead us on the right track to fix it that would be great.
Some of the features are disabled on the Punched compressor( the eq features ) on the left hand side. What’s going on with that?
hi, I think you’re on the wrong site. Punch compressor is by Minimal Systems (http://minimalsystem.com/Store/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_60&product_id=61) – try asking there 🙂
I love Density mkII! Is there any chance it will one day be available in other formats beside VST?
Hi Bootsy,
Your work is very excellent, Do you ever do contract DSP work? It’s an interesting project with good budget. And… Happy New Year.
Dude, once I get some good exposure, I’ll namedrop the shit out you and your VSTs–whenever it’s relevant of course. For now I’ll just drool over the plugins while I use them. 🙂 And I’ll remember to write a review after using them for a while. Right now I just recognize the technical aspects a little while saying,”Durr. Sounds good!” :p
I have not got any reply about my question posted already twice… Ok here we go again in 2013.
Would it be possible for you to make a comparison list of VofS plugins vs ableton audio instruments and where best to use them (track, return, master) ?
I already replied to you,.. read the answer to your last post !!
LOL I saw that one.
Well. got it. btw the vos plugins are very good, thanks
Hi dude love the epic reverb plugin, it really is cool. Would love to be able to use it in my tracks, but a bit confused after reading the T&C’s on the download page?
Can I get your ok before using it in my tracks, as I dont want to write tracks knowing I canr release them to record labels.
Regards
Des
of course you can use it in commercial productions, the EULA clearly states it.
Hi there.. first, thank you so much for making these vst’s for free. I love them and use them a lot in my productions. Just check beatport and look for C-Jay to see what i make.
Anyhow, i was wondering if you are planning to make a plugin that gives some analog / tape warmth / fatness to a song or single track? Like the “sausage fattener” of dadalife, or the vintage warmer of PSP. Would be awesome.
SF by DL is a really cool and cheap little tool. Maybe Bootsy may one day make something similar but SF is so cheap you should grab it anyway 😀
I’m not sure I have the comment’s right, Enrico did you get this one? Thanks.
“Your work is very excellent, Do you ever do contract DSP work? It’s an interesting project with good budget. And… Happy New Year.”
Reply
currently not.
hi george, did you mean me? what work are you referring to? oh you can always use my fb account to write me! thanks!!
Hello! I have just published a very in-depth 3042 word article on ThrillseekerLA (just in time for 1.0.1!). I would be very honoured if you could make a post on your blog linking to it, I am hoping you and the plug-in’s users will love it 🙂 If you would like me to make any changes, or get in contact, please do so through the contact form on the blog main menu. The link is http://www.learndigitalaudio.com/blog/thrillseekerla-freeware-compressor-explained . I very much look forward to any feedback.
Thanks so much for posting about my article!!
thanks to you, mate!
Tell me please, whether is admissible to do a quantity of backup copies of each plug-in?
sure
Hi Sarah.. what is SF by DL? I dont know what this is short for? 🙂
I was quoting you (abbrev) – “sausage fattener” of dadalife 🙂
it’s a wicked little tool, I use either that or Satson CM (free with Computer Music magazine) on every channel – subtlety is the key, less is more
I’m really digging your plugins, so thank you for providing them. Specifically I’ve been using epicverb, nastydla, nastydlamkii, and thrillseekerxtc. On a recent remix i completed, i had a self oscillating sounding part at the end that sounded fantastic. Epicverb has provided some great drum and ambient reverbs on several recent tracks, and I just started using ThrillseekerXTC on some master mixes coming out of Ableton Live. Great stuff… keep up the good work!
oh duh… haha… i could have come up with that myself.
yeah, it costs nothing… i give it a go in a few.
by the way, discovered Variety of Sound only 2 weeks ago or so thanks to Dutch magazine Interface. i really love working with it so far. the bootEQ sounds amazing in the top high and warm low. being a procucer for more than 20 years, having released 2 albums and about 50 singles (also in the vinyl age), i know what im talking about. thank you!
by the way, Variety of Sound is…who? what? One guy? A group of peops?
hey there, thanks a lot for providing such great plugins for free! i’ve been trying out preFIX for some time now and it seems it doesn’t want to work in audition 3.0.1, has anyone experienced any similar problems? i can tweak all the knobs and prelisten and stuff but when clicking on OK it won’t process the effect and i’m not able to reopen the plugin again.. kinda weird.
I also use Audition, same vintage, mostly in edit mode and when I try to apply a Nasty effect it gives me a runtime error and dumps me out. It seems to happen across all the Nasty plugs that I use – in Win 7 x64 in 32 bit mode. It happens with Baxter EQ, Density mkIII, Thrillseeker LA. Kind of irritating as I use many other freebies (Melda Productions, Modern series, TAL, Blue Cat) and they all work fine – it only seems to happen with NAsty stuff (maybe that’s where the name came from?) BTW, I also use Sonar 8.5.3 x86 and get weirdness and occasional crashes with the nasty’s , usually disappearing GUIs – The plugs seem quite resource intensive. I will say that when they work they sound good, just hard to trust them.
I tried to use the ThrillseekerLA in Adobe Audition CS5.5 with no luck. It puts the effect in the VST folder under “Other” and is greyed out so it cannot be selected for use.
It works perfectly well in Audition 3.0, but I need it to work in CS5.5. Any ideas?
By the way, Density mkIII behaves in the same way.
Both plugins have 4 inputs (stereo in plus sidechain) and this might not be supported in Audition.
Well, I believe Audition supports 4 inputs, but maybe not. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen other effects in Audition with the other inputs, but I’ve never used them.
The effects come up in Audition 3.0, but I hadn’t tried appying them. Others have stated that they don’t ptoperly apply in 3.0. But in AUdition CS5.5, the effects don’t even open. I don’t think Adobe changed the number of supported inputs between 3.0 and CS5.5.
Is there any way to not require the second set of inputs until the external side-chain is selected? I rarely use external side-chain…actually haven’t found a need for it yet. By the way, I am a mastering engineer in Austin, TX.
Actually, support for side-chain wasn’t added to Audition until CS6.0. Has anyone tried Density mkIII or Thrillseeker LA in Audition CS6.0? Do they work?
Would it be easy for you to supply versions of these plugins that exclude the external sidechain feature?…for those of us using hosts that don’t support the sidechain-inputs feature?
Hi Michael,
I have exactly the same problem on same specs. Did you ever find a solution for this?
No. I would have to upgrade my DAW for this to work. I’m using Adobe Audition CS5.5. I believe CS6.0 and beyond has support for sideband.
Is there any chance you Will support Mac AU in The future cant wait to try your plugs and i’m sure many people have demanded it in the past
Thank you
that’s been answered above somewhere 🙂
Do the plugins only come in stereo form? I’m a Pro Tools user and I have the FXPansion vst-to-rtas wrapper software. They all work fine, but I can only use them on stereo tracks.
?
yes, they are stereo plug-ins.
Any plans for mono platform? Great plug-ins BTW.
Very late reply to this but you have to go into the wrapper and change the “Can Mono” box from no to yes. They load up fine for me on mono channels after that! I can’t imagine protools without these plugins btw. NastyDLA and ThrillseekerXTC and VBL are all over every mix I do. They are proper magic…
Hi Bootsy,
I’m using Rescue on a drum bus with acid 7, all my tracks are “96000Khz 24 bit stéreo” and when
I render one or several tracks of this bus as a “96000Khz 24bit stéréo” wave file , the sound of the wave file is “hacked”or “scratched”.
The problem is the same with windows 7 or XP.
Does you know something about this?
thanx
Jean
Please try the new mk2 version which comes this weekend – that one is tested and known to work at 96kHz.
I wish you would create a virtual console similar to Slate Digital VCC or Waves NLS.
Your stuff is great and I’m sure your version would be something awesome
and maybe with some better ideas of your self.
Don’t has to be a console emulation of a real world console.
I’d prefer something with what you come up and has it’s own character.
Something that would console creators do wish they could create a emulation.(…LOL…)
TesslaPRO mkII
🙂
Regarding TesslaPRO mkII, I was just looking at the frequency curves under VST Analyser, and they don’t change when I change the sampling rate. e.g. with “British Console” it boosts around 1kHz, but when I change the sampling rate to 96kHz it boosts at around 2kHz. Shouldn’t it stay at 1kHz? Or maybe it’s VST analyser that’s buggy.
Seems to be a bug – thanks for the report!
Thank YOU! 🙂
Since I work at 96kHz only, I didn’t notice it, but if I changed the sampling frequency… that’s a pretty big difference. I checked TesslaPro also, and it does react normally to sampling frequency changes.
thank you very much indeed to make such fine things available for use, free of charge, to us, to me.
yours sincerly
stefan
Is RescueAE available for download anywhere? I have an old project that uses it, but no longer have it on my system following a crash; I have scoured the Download page but it is not there, and is not included in the RescueMK2 file. Thanks for the fantastic work.
its still there:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4063301/Rescue_1.2.1.rar
Thanks for the link! I’m not crazy, though, it’s not linked on the download page anywhere.
its still there:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4063301/Rescue_1.2.1.rar
Hi there-
just thought I’d let you know, there is some MASSIVE denormalisation happening in NastyDLA (both versions, but way more pronounced in mk2).
If you have a track with an abrupt end, such as a guitar clank (or whatever), and have the preset “london calling” on, a few seconds after the end (when the echo signal gets close to zero) you’ll get a massive cpu spike unless you have a denormal-avoiding plug (which adds a subaudible noise to the signal) like normalizer before DLA – 90% CPU with mk2, 50% with mk1.
I’m running an e8500, so not exactly something that’s susceptible to denormals.
Cheers,
Matt
You can help me narrow that down just by some simple checks: Is this just happening if the input stage SAT is on? … only if the Chorus is in? … only if the Feedback is at a certain level? Thanks in advance for your support!
I realize that AAX/RTAS get brought up a lot, but maybe in the social funding/kickstarter realm, there could be a lot of happy funders. Food for thought.
Can anyone recommend a FREE vst (or combination of a few) that are like Digital Fish Phone’s free Endorphin dual band compressor but better? If you are not familiar, here is link http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=3 I have been using this as my final mastering plug, but its not quite as good as it could be, and I no luck getting any other free plugins to work better. Maybe I could split the bands (using Ableton multiband comp), and then a combination of Bootsy’s current plugs for comp (like Density) and for brickwall limiting (NastyVCS). Anyone else come up with a good multirband mastering chain using mostly Boosty’s plugs? Thanks!!!
DDMF’s ‘LinComp’ is only £26, there stuff is very good
For free you could try Molot (on KVR somewhere 🙂
I use cubase 7 and tesla se do always crash my vst bridge. can i use tesla se in 64 bit programme folder. Or do you know the reasons why cubase vst bridge crash with tesla se.
Thank you very much.
Jocelyn Guilbault.
Are you using the cubase vst bridge? I had similar problems some time ago with testla se. Try to use jbridge and be careful not to use tesla se on Cubase mono channels. It turns out to be much more stable on stereo channels.
vstbridge isn’t very good, loads of 32Bit plugins crash in it. Try Jbridge, it’s more stable and more versatile, although still not perfect – if you select a preset you must then close the GUI and re-open it or the GUI won’t refresh 🙂
Hi, i’ve downloaded a few vsts and thankyou very much. I dropped bootsy rescue on a master track to see what would happen and it was a great result!
I’m just wondering if you could suggest what the best plug ins would be for mastering,
as i would like to see if i can have a Bootsy Mastering Chain, if that’s at all possible….?
Hi there, I have been enjoying your plugins for several years, but now since the implementation of the Stateful Saturation feature in many of the plugs they have now become staples in my DSP chains. Thank you, I hope the innovations continue. If you had a paypal donate I’d gladly oblige.
I think I may have found a bug with Thrillseeker XTC. I use the latest Black version. When engaging the Mojo/Drive section on bassy mono sounds there seems to be some ugly noise spread out in the stereo field as a side effect. If you can hear this yourself you will hopefully agree that it is very undesirable noise, especially in being low frequency cluttering up the sides. To compensate I’ve been using another effect after XTC to make the sound mono again, thus gaining the benefit of the Mojo section without the stereo artefacts. But if I had other stereo sounds I wished to process then this would obviously be an unfixable issue, especially if the sound had any mid-lows.
Run a mono kick drum through XTC’s Mojo section and analyse the output via a phase meter and you’ll see the artefacts in action. It would be great to know if this is indeed a bug and something that will be improved for the next version update.
Hi there.
I like your VST plugins a lot.
There is any chance to see one or a few of them as Rack Extensions for
Propellerhead Reason DAW ?
The new RE format is much better than VST becouse it have back side with ability to connect cables as you want.
Just check official RE video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDR9pJOl6M
And some press conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIsBdvLaCEY
Some of the biggest VST companies already made their own RE versions.
It would be a great pleasure to have your plugins in my reason rack.
ps. If you want, I can always join your beta testing team.
Regards
NaviRetlav
Everything is possible when you’re using the right software, Navi, like EnergyXT, and Reaper can do it easily, too. See: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5249/energyxtsc.png
However, putting that aside, the problem is that SynthMaker cannot export to RE plugins, yet, only VST.
Hi there,
thought you might like to know we recently reviewed RescueAE at cobaltaudio.com, and it’s proved very popular.
Here’s the url if you’d like to read it: http://www.cobaltaudio.com/plugin-review-rescueae-by-bootsy/
A fantastic plugin, really well thought out.
Death to 32bit! Life and power to 64bit! jbridge is an anarchist! He is trying to prevent the 64bit revolution! Please report him to the authorities. He is a real danger to our loved ones, families, our economy and well being. We don’t tolerate terrorist activity. That is why it’s your duty as a fellow 64 to make sure all of those who chose to shun technological advancement be dealt with by the authorities. We appreciate your help in our cleansing of the sins of 32bit and making a pure world only for the 64bit. The 32 bit had their chance and they proved it in the end. 64 bits everywhere… rise my brothers, rise!
Sorry… felt like it… all this for………. 64bit plugins please 😀
You could easily argue that 64-bit gives no difference in audio quality at all and is only of any use to those who use massive, badly designed sample libraries and has been forced onto us by developers who wish to fuel the constant “yearly (or every other year) upgrade” frenzy.
Does it make DAW applications better? frankly, no – it seems to encourage lazy and/or bad programming because you can always add ever larger minimum memory requirements.
I still run 32-bit systems as bridging into 64 bit is a cobble, but forcing everyone to go 64-bit is playing right into the hands of the big OS developers & nobody else.
Speaking as Devils Advocate
64 bit = sample libraries = inauthenticity = bad music
plugin addicted, go play with instruments, it’s just more fun.
no time? well, music is made of time.
no instruments? well, music is made for musicians. And nowadays they’re starving.
you don’t know any? go in music schools and ask how much the would like to be payed for 3 minutes of recording…less than a fraction of any worthy sample library.
it’s not that libraries are useless, but a good solo recorded by a flutist is nowhere good as a keyboard played multilayered sample.
it’s just a different way of making music.
i’d like more tools, sincerely.
sorry Enrico, I have to disagree entirely.
“64 bit = sample libraries” – No, it does not ! It has nothing to do with sample libraries at all. Technology moves on, most new pc’s come with a 64Bit OS these days, which means they are more capable at everything, video editing, 3D, animation, graphics, and of course, music. Many 32Bit plugins simply will not work without problems with a 64Bit Daw. 32Bit plugs that have not been written correctly (strictly adhering to Steinberg’s protocols) may be stable enough to run in most 32Bit apps without showing any problems, but can crash/freeze a 64Bit Daw. Even using a 3rd party bridge like JBridge, many 32Bit plugins will still cause some problems, and trying to figure out which settings have to be applied to each plugin through trial and error, and having the Daw freeze/crash with many of those errors is very time consuming and disheartning. For most folk this is an unacceptable problem which can only be avoided by not using 32Bit plugins. This is why any one running a 64Bit system/Daw is eager for their favourite plugins to be released as 64Bit,..
the rest of your comments have nothing to do with VoS plugins, or whether any plugin is 32Bit or 64Bit but seem more based on your inexperience with, or understanding of, good sample libraries,..
🙂
thesarahdavis, well… 64 bit is the new frontier. but really. the only advantage of it is the memory (RAM) limit. another thing could be a new set of cpu instructions(like sse2 was), a new dsp technology (as could be CUDA in the near future), or some other stuff not yet invented. But!
64 BITS AUDIO software is just capable of huge ram amounts. that’s the reason of me mentioning sample libraries.
of course, if they exist, there’s a reason for this. but besides of this, even editing a mix for a movie, nobody wise enough would squeeze out more than 2 gb of ram stored data..
that’s atm the only advantage of 64bit (cpu) AUDIO software, to what I know.
please tell me if I’m wrong about this.
to put it into other words, to my eyes it’s just as if everybody wanted the new iPhone5 over their 4s just because it’s the NEW one, besides what they actually DO.
oops. that’s exactly what’s happening around the world.
respect. for everybody, though….
I’ve changed already many things, many times. I hope to be openminded enough to keep on changing as I need it.
Yes, there are no other advantages except applications being able to utilise more than 2GB of RAM. It’s for the people who need to use massive sample libraries, pretty much nobody else, and it’s still wise to keep away from 64-bit OS and apps if you want to make the work done without any problems, and if you don’t need more than 2GB of RAM. Reaper can actually utilise more if you run your sampler [like Kontakt] as a *separate process* so this separate process gets whole 2GB for itself. I don’t think any other app aside from Reaper can do that. So yes, 32-bit is still safe and sound to use, and very stable, if you want the work done. If you like troubleshooting use 64-bit OS. I’m going to use it when it becomes as stable as 32-bit, or if I suddenly found out that I need to use more RAM. There’s really no other reason to do it. And someone who’s venturing into 64-bot OS has to be aware of the fact that not all plugins will work correctly. So it’s your fault you miss out on plugins, not developer’s fault.
yep, change is a constant thing. I changed from XP to W7,.. I figured as 64Bit OS has been around for 10 years or more it made sense to go from 32Bit to 64Bit (take advantage of the larger ram) at the same time (as the price was the same), rather than then have to change again to 64Bit in 2-3 years, I also upgraded Cubase to 64Bit,.. that’s when I found out many of my plugins wouldn’t work.
After a few weeks of freezes and crashes (and not getting any work done) I now avoid 32Bit plugs, just for the sake of stability – other than that, no problems,..
I hear you completely, bro. 🙂 You speak the truth.
Well, despite my earlier “Devil’s Advocate” post I am now firmly in the land of 64-bits because I have found there is very little choice if I want to use newer DAW.
There are 2 huge problems though, one for each version. First up, the 64–bit problem.
There are a lot of plugs that simply do not work properly, and using a Bit Bridge is a cobble not a solution. I am (extremely reluctantly) cutting back on use of these tools, despite the fact that they sound superb, simply because using a bit bridge causes problems for me. It is never anything that can be pinned down precisely and getting repros is also difficult as the issues all seem to happen given certain combinations of 64/32-bit plugs in the same project.
Now the 32-bit issue – it seems that the newer 32-bit hosts simply do not work as efficiently as the 64-bit counterparts & there are definite performance issues because of the lesser amount of memory that can be accessed. Another huge issue is that some plugs I use are officially supported as 64-bits only, and although there are 32-bit versions they are – how to put it – unreliable. This may or may not be host related.
There are also issues running specific combinations:
Drumagog 5 Platinum is 32-bit only, and works only partially in 64-bit bridged mode as it seems impossible to load an older 32-bit project in the newer 64-bit host and because of the previously mentioned “lazy programming” issue I cannot load the saved 32-bit mix in the newer 32-bit host either. Other issues occur when using plugs that wrap others – such as Amplitube 3, Drumagog 5 Platinum running BFD2 internally etc. I cannot open those saved mixes in 64 or 32-bit hosts.
It really is getting to the point where 32-bit is more & more useless every day, and this is sad.
Please can we get 64-bit versions before Mac ports?
I am using some of your plugins and they are great. But I also have a problems with BootEQ mk2 using in Reaper – sometimes by unknown reason plugin stops processing and remains silent. Only unloading/reloading project and/or plugin fixes this for some time. Is there a way how to diagnose this?
Using it on W7 64bit, Reaper 4.33 64bit ( so it is in bridged mode ).
Thank you
Really Very Happy – with the fact that the complete suite of plugins is made available in this way. As anyone knows who has tried them, they rank with the best commercial offerings (where some have no direct counterpart) Generous Global Thinking.
Hi,
I was planning to buy N.I.’s Audio 6 Komplete, which comes, a.o., with Cubase 6LE & Komplete Elements (which runs on Kontakt PLayer).Restarting musical activities after a nearly 40 years’ break, I’m a complete newbie with current technology (left off during Windows 3.1(!) ), hence this possibly dumb question.
My recently bought pc came with Win 7, 64 bits version – I had no choice but assumed it was the current standard version. On your web pages I believe to understand that your smashing looking VST effects which get nothing but rave reviews are 32-bits. Does this mean that I don’t even need to bother to download them, or will “Jbridge” or a similar program make them work with my set-up? I don’t seem to be able to figure out wether this “jbridge” lets 64-bit VST’s run in a 32-bit environment, or just the other way around.
Any advice is greatly appreciated,
Yves Kuypers
You can use the Cubase bitbridge or Jbridge (which is known to work better). Jbrigde works in all directions whether you need to bridge from 32 to 64 or vice versa or even from 32 to 32 bit (to separate a plugin from a host).
Hello we are trying to contact Variety of Sound,
We are sound designers looking for a developer for our next vsti plugin. If you are interested in being hired for this project please contact us back asap.
I’m hearing all this stuff about the “analog sound” and tapes and consoles and how certain plugins such as Satson and similar ones when put on every track, “glue” the tracks together resulting in a “fuller” mix. I have my eye on FerricTDS and TesslaPRO but since I’m a noob in music in general (metal bedroom producer actually), I don’t quite know the differences between the two; which one am I supposed to use if I want to add this saturation that helps the mix? Thanks in advance for any response.
Hi,
Can anyone tell me, with the Ferric plugin, if I am using it on a stereo track, are both channels linked or are they processed totally separately?
Thanks
Stewart Peters
Both! The compressor part is linked and the saturator/limiter is un-linked.
Thanks very much for your quick reply. BTW, the ferric is great sounding tape simulator in my opinion.
Thanks again
stewart
It seems PE is taking out my DAW when I try to render a mix. I’m not sure why, as I’ve been using it for a while without a problem, but now I’m crashing every time. The error message dialog when the DAW (REAPER) crashes is from the MSVC++ run time (pure virtual function called). When I disable the instances of PE I’m using, it no longer crashes.
PE is clearly getting fingered in the Windows event log (see below). The PE DLL I’m using is dated 2012-10-05.
Is is possible an unrelated recent install up/downgraded the MSVC run time DLL and this is affecting it? I thought DLL Hell went away with Windows XP. Any ideas on how to work around this? I like Punch.
I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 on a Core 7 with 16G RAM and I’m using the 32 bit versions of the DAW and plugins.
Regards,
–mark
Example log entries:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 3/14/2013 11:05:12 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MoonBase
Description:
Faulting application name: reaper.exe, version: 4.3.2.0, time stamp: 0x50f5f519
Faulting module name: Punch Evolved.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b14231e
Exception code: 0xc000000d
Fault offset: 0x00269e4c
Faulting process id: 0x19fc
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce2129d4af79db
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\REAPER\reaper.exe
Faulting module path: M:\MusicSoftware\plugins\MSI\Punch\Punch Evolved.dll
Report Id: 26ab3800-8d1d-11e2-b9fd-902b34da0009
Event Xml:
1000
2
100
0x80000000000000
4731
Application
MoonBase
reaper.exe
4.3.2.0
50f5f519
Punch Evolved.dll
0.0.0.0
4b14231e
c000000d
00269e4c
19fc
01ce2129d4af79db
C:\Program Files (x86)\REAPER\reaper.exe
M:\MusicSoftware\plugins\MSI\Punch\Punch Evolved.dll
26ab3800-8d1d-11e2-b9fd-902b34da0009
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 3/14/2013 11:02:25 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MoonBase
Description:
Faulting application name: reaper.exe, version: 4.3.2.0, time stamp: 0x50f5f519
Faulting module name: Punch Evolved.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b14231e
Exception code: 0x40000015
Fault offset: 0x001c6bb5
Faulting process id: 0x1784
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce21283fcf0018
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\REAPER\reaper.exe
Faulting module path: M:\MusicSoftware\plugins\MSI\Punch\Punch Evolved.dll
Report Id: c2ede1d1-8d1c-11e2-b9fd-902b34da0009
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hi mark, I think you’re on the wrong site. PE is by MSI, not VoS (this site). I have PE, I run it through jBridge as I’m Cubase 64Bit – it’s not very stable here either 😦
Wow, do I feel like a dummy. I can’t even keep my plug vendors straight. :-\ Thanks for pointing that out.
Hi! I got a question: when will be made equalizer Boot Eq Mk2 for Mac as AU plug-in? And is there really such a plugin?
hi there, this is already answered above.
For the full answer read the answer above somewhere, but I think it has something to do with Mac’s incompatibility with the software VoS use to make the vst’s (and the same reason there is no 64Bit versions) – however, the software is expected to be updated later this year, so them, hopefully, 64Bit and Mac versions will be possible 🙂
Hi guys, have you considered to make any Rack Extensions for Reason?
We as community would love to see your stuff in the Rack! =)
Regards
George
I’ve used some of the plugins heavily in compiling my first drumkit and mentioned you in the readme.txt. Just thought you’d like to know. For now the release is here: http://forum.renoise.com/index.php?/topic/37656-wizzkit-no-01/
First and foremost, thank you for sharing your magnificent work.
I am writing you to inform you of a spelling error throughout our web pages…
The word “Resource” has just one(1) “S”, NOT as you have spelled it (“Ressources”).
I just thought you’d want to know.
Keep up the great work and once again, thank you.
Joseph.
Hello Bootsie!
I recently found your plugins and just tried the epicVerb, which seems to be amazing! The only issue I have is that I can’t see any of the supplied presets. I’m working in Pro Tools 8 LE and I use a wrapper to make the plugin behave as RTAS. This is working great, except that when I navigate to the preset menu it only says “factory default”. So I wonder if you know if there is any way to get the presets available in Pro Tools?
Best regards
Mazz
Nevermind, I found them at the bottom of the plugin.
Is there any way you can offer a zip file of all your plugins in one place? Everytime I reformat my computer I have to download all your stuff one at a time… again.
Save them all to your backup drive or media.
Hi Bootsie,
Absolutely phenomenal work! I would happily pay money for plugins of your quality but you provide them all free I cannot thank you enough!
I have spent a lot of time digging around your blog so forgive me if I passed anything over but do you have anything published on any details of your stateful saturation algorithms? I’m hoping to begin working on plugins of my own soon and anything you could provide to push me in direction at all similar to the phenomenal warmth and character of your plugins would be a great help. I have an applied math background so nothing is too technical :). If you want to keep this proprietary I also understand. Any reading you could point me to on analog modeling to get me started would also be very helpful.
Thanks again for the fantastic products… I push people here every chance I get whenever anybody asks about high quality plugins, paid or otherwise. You are literally the best!
Anyone else experiencing instability with Density MKIII?
Just to inform that your plugins crash Samplitude PRO X x64. I hope you can release x64 version to avoid to use Samplitude x86/x64 bridge.
Enrique
Hello!
I am happy to inform you that we have recently published our selection of the Top Free Compressor Plugins on Audiofanzine here:
http://en.audiofanzine.com/plugin-dynamic-processor/audio-damage/Rough-Rider-%5BFreeware%5D/editorial/articles/the-top-free-software-compressors.html
And your plugins ThrillseekerLA and Density MkIII were listed as one of them!
You can feel free to share this with your fans and customers and to post it on your website. If you’d like us to translate it to German/Spanish/Italian/Japanese to post it on our global sites I can send you a proposal.
Congratulations again!
Hi bootsy, remembering you from earlier times being an active community member from homerecording.de ( now , wie Du weißt, recording.de) I wanted to ask you if you might give a small literature advice for “beginning dsp developing”. What to read, learn and/or what to avoid. Didnt see another way to contact you. Sorry, if this is the wrong one.
Kind Regards
-Anthe
This covers almost everything and is only for free: http://www.dspguide.com/
And of course: ein >> MEGA GROSSES << Danke für all Deine Arbeit !
Hi! Ferric TDS not working with Sound Forge 9.0a for me – any audio processed ends up sounding like a chopper. Please advise! THANKS!!
FerricTDS is working under JRiver Media Center at 44 and 88, but so far I see that it is not working at 176. Should it?
tried download booteq there was no installer?
There is no installer. Just put the .dll file into your hosts vst folder.
is this 64 bit
HELLO, looking very good here, tried some plugins, and i love them. still is it possible to use them in reaper? windows 7 64x? and can i use them on protools 8 windows xp? i would be a happy user.
greetz peter
They are all working perfectly on my windows 7, 64 bit and reaper 64bit (with the option “Automatic bridging (when required)” activated).
windows7 64 fine here …
Is there any way to give you money or otherwise support OS X development? I’d be willing to donate some, since I’m helpless without NastyVCS after I swapped to Apple computers. It seems that specific saturation has been in almost every one of my channels, and I’ve all but quit doing music after I found out there’s no alternative.
If you just could have been bothered to read the comments you would know that the software he uses to write the plugins does not support 64Bit or Mac,… yet 🙂
It’s not like I don’t know that there’s no support currently. 🙂 It’s more about showing that I’d be willing to support it financially, if it comes to that. You know, developers should know that there’s people standing behind their projects if they’re willing to jump into new areas. Even if it’s just a small amount of money, it might become significant with a fan base this large. Show your support! 🙂
sorry, just read my reply back and sound sneary, it really wasn’t meant to be. Yes, good point,.. I suspect (hope) he’s aware he has a growing following of appreciators 🙂
hi,
all your plugins are awesome! use it on my Pro Tools 10 and runs great! thanks a lot…
but i notice some parameter label issues on these 3 plugs (for host automation):
– TesslaPROmkII : missing 1 parameter, no “Boost” param.
– NastyVCS : missing 2 parameters, no “Sets high shelf” & ‘Sets metering to display” params, but it is explained in its pdf manual.
– epicVerb : missing 1 parameter, no “Select ER” param, but there is (maybe unused) “Ratio” param available
So, will they get updated? or that’s just what they are?
no response?
An update for TesslaPRO is already planned, for the other not …
thanks varo
Hi Kinwie I noticed you run PT 10 Do you have to use a “wrappper” for the Plugins? I am running PT 8 on a PC Will I???
Yes Gordon, I own the Fxpansion Vst to Rtas adapter. With that wrapper you can run Variety Of Sound’s VST plugins in your PT8, both HD or LE. They will works great on PC side. Only in Mac, the wrapper got many issues and problem. Hope that help
Can’t get the latest version 1.5 to work with Adobe Audition – just appears as “not working”.
Vlags Molot compressor as a rack extension in Reason. Hopefully Something can happen to were we will see Variety of Sound plugs ins as Rack Extensions soon as well. That would be awesome!
Hello,
I have seen issues regarding higher sample rates on a forum before but can’t seem to find it so allow me to explain the issue I am experiencing. I tested a bunch of Synthedit plugins today and at high rates such as 96K. On rendering, bouncing or exporting the sound of the track with the Synthedit plugin is garbled or warped. Now I know VOS plugins are not Synthedit per say but I think you mentioned you use SE for some part of it, correct?
It seems SE plugins or any plugin associated with SE do not function properly at 88 or 96K on my system:
Sonar x2, x64
Win 7 x64
i7 3930K (ADK)
At 44.1 and 48 they work fine.
Non SE plugins work fine here at any sample rate.
Can you please confirm this?
Thanks
I’m not using SE.
You aren’t using it for any aspect of the plugin? I am confused, I see SE mentioned here and there.. for GUI purposes? I am not sure, but at any rate the VOS plugins are behaving exactly like the SE plugins in Sonar X2 at high sample rates. At 44.1 and 48 they are great.
You might confuse that with S|M (or now “Flowstone”) framework.
Ahh, I see. Okay, so they separate but their behavior seems to be the same. I do not know what the case is in other DAW’s however. This could be strictly Sonar related.
I downloaded the Reaper demo to test the plugins there. The SE plugins and your plugins behave normally there at higher sample rates so it must an issue with Sonar X2 and how it interacts with SE or Flowstone.
BTW, I am not sure if you familiar with Sonar. There is a “fast bounce” option when rendering/exporting/bouncing. When that is checked is when the plugins misbehave at the higher rates. Un-checking fast bounce, they behave at all rates.
I thought this article on bit rate and sampling rate and hearing would be of interest to you or others. (I don’t know why the url says neil-young as he is not even mentioned in the article.) http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
I’ve seen this article before and watched the video, and I generally agree with about 90% of what has been said, however, I would like to stress that he’s talking about the final product, a mixed and produced master track. What he said cannot be completely applied to working in the box with the VST plugins, especially regarding bit depth of audio. It’s easy to test that if you use Reaper. Just make a project that uses 16-bit audio for summing and you’ll easily spot the difference. Also, many plugins jut produce too much bad sounding aliasing when working at 44.1, so it’s definitely preferably to work at 96kHz to avoid that. The end result, whatever sampling frequency and bit-depth you use will always just sound better.
Hi and thanks so much for the free plugs,
Many kind blessings ahead,
Trav
Hello,
I was always wondered why thrillseeker xtc raises a right channel a little. bringing mojo up does it. Is it bug or a “secret trick”? I am using latest Renoise 🙂
I did not read to all the comments, so this might be an issue that has already been raised. On Cubase 7 64bit on a 64bit Windows 7 with a multi monitor setup, I am experiencing crashes (Cubase freezes, process has to be killed) when moving the plugins out of visible screen space. completely different issue: enabling/disabling the Cubase specific “constrain plugin delay” feature can lead to a crash of the audio system as well, but does not render Cubase unusable here (ie I can still save a new version). maybe you want to look into those issues 🙂 both issues are easy to avoid though, so they don’t lead to problems in everyday use.
Hi, testing VBL now, and found out that if i switch the TRAFO on, it introduces huge amount of aliasing on very high frequencies (when driven quite a bit), but if i disable transformer, aliasing is almost inaudible. It’s like oversampling is turned off with the trafo button in.
Is this by design?
Thx
Hi Variety of Sound !
Thanks again for your great plugins !
As you might be aware, wrappers won’t work anymore on PT11 and as I am willing to pay to use your plugins and I’m certainly not the only one, did you think about using crowdfunding plateform to pay you for doing AAX 64bits versions for Pro Tools?
What do you think?
I’m not sure but I may have a compatibility issue. I tried installing the file on my WIndows XP & Windows 7 computers but all I got was a DLL file, TXT file, & a PDF manual.. I was hoping to use this with my VST Wrapper using Pro Tools (7.4). Any suggestions?? Thanks! If the Plugins sound as great as they look then I’m sure we all are in for a treat.
-Moshae Music
Got it to work! DUH! I added it to the VST folder in FXExpansion, scaned the VST’s & now is running on Pro Tools. I can’t wait to try them out!!!
Thanks!!!
Hi, I work as a Music Technician in a secondary school in the UK. I was wondering if it would be ok for the kids to use these fantastic plugins within the school?
It would vastly increase their quality of work.
Thanks,
Harry
surething …
Hey Bootsie! Thanks for all that you do. I just wanted to let you know that VoS made my annual list of favorite audio blogs. Keep it up man, I love VoS.
hi! i love your plug ins, i had a question regarding you Nasty series. is there any way i can download the installer again? ive since had a HD crash and would like to use your nasty cs again if possible
thanks for all the awesome tools!
they are not online anymore (dropbox space limits).
Hi Bootsy,
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to write this, but:
I’ve just finished a 2-hour genre-less mix, spanning 50+ tracks and 40 years of music with my long-time collaborator (under our alias Arts Learning Community).
Please take a listen if you have the time and interest, it heavily features your NastyDLYmkII and various Thrillseeker plugins (in one case, used to restore vibrancy and mojo to the only track which we couldn’t obtain a lossless source for). I’ve given special thanks to you in the notes, as well.
http://astrangelyisolatedplace.com/2013/07/28/isolatedmix-40-arts-learning-community-away/
Warm regards from Taiwan,
Brian
what an awesome mix!
Thank you!
We’re also hard at work finishing our debut LP, which also features many instances of NastyDLYmkII. Alongside other excellent plug-ins (UA’s RE-201 & EP-34, EchoBoy, etc.) and hardware (Strymon Timeline, Malekko Ekko 616), it still holds its own and has a special sound. Your numerous stateful saturation tools were also frequently used in the tracking & mixing stages.
I’ll send you a copy as soon as it’s finished.
hi, i’m Andrea Bianchini, a VarietyOfSound satisfied user. i’m going to use Ardour sequencer on Linux.
Now Ardour supports vst plugin standard compiled specifically for Linux so it would be great if your VST get working on Ardour natively.
Is there any possibility to consider recompiling your VST for Linux? other vst developers and enthusiast are moving on this.
Best regards
Hi! My name is Pavel. Very much like your plugins! You do not want to port them to the Rack Extensions for Propellerhead Reason? We can help with porting (our company a lot of experience), fully taking on the cost of development. Please write to us, I think we can agree! 🙂
One more appeal for porting VarOSound into Rack Extension format! 😉
Hi Bootsy, is there any word on SM2/FS 64Bit yet ? I’ve read a few forums on the subject and there appears to be a lot of people upset at Outsim’s lack of support. Could you use another platform ?
I miss my VoS plugs 😦
sarah
still no info yet about 64bit …
You ROCK man, I have been producing mostly Electronic music for over 15 years, and I must say I’m blown away by your plugins, I will Share this to all my colleagues. Will send you tracks that use your plugs when they are done so far I have only tested the processing they provide. AWESOME.
Please bring them up to AAX 64bit format to use them in PT 11.
My Mastering in PT 11 so much poor
without these super super superb Plugins.
Thanks for your great and ambitious work.
Hey Dude
Thanks for the link to my video and site. I was wondering where that recent spike in views came from 🙂
Anyway, contact me via email, it is attached, so we can chat.
– Justin.
I am constantly getting a BSOD when opening a project in Cubase 6.0.7. The problem goes away as soon as I take the VOS-Plugins out of the VSTPlugins folder. I will try to isolate the plugin causing the issue. Any more I can do to find the problem? Other projects with the same plugins (Nasty DLA, BootEQ, Density, Ferric and Epic Verb, newest versions) open flawlessly…
Thanks,
Tobi
Unfortunately any of the plugins crash this particular project. have you ever heard of this? since all other projects still open without a problem it’s not a huge problem. but I really like your plugins and would hate to run into similar problems in the future…
anyway, keep up the great work! it’s highly appreciated!
no, never heard of it – unfortunately I can’t test those specific host versions on my own. The testing relies a lot on the beta testing crew which covers a whole range of hosts but not each and every version.
A buddy just turned me on to your plug ins. Are they compatible in ProTools LE 8 On Windows 7
Can these plug-ins load into ProTool 8 LE
you’ll need the fxpansion wrapper then …
Hi, I really appreciate that you share freely these gems. Which plugin do you suggest for waveshaping/fattening the individual sounds? I currently use the stock FL Studio waveshaper for that purpose but while my bass for e.g. gets fat enough, it stills lacks depth and color.
VBL does fattening pretty much well …
Can someone tell me what are the Range button and Drive button in the Density compressor?
I’m lost because I usually have compressors with Threshold and ratio buttons
Many thans for your answers.
RTFM
It’s difficult to understand that kind of answers : “RTFM”
Perhaps an angry sentence like “Read The ? manual”.
I read the user manual (page 9) but i didn’t understood:
RANGE- adjustes the actual gain reduction range….
My question: If i turn right, does the GR increases, more compression?
DRIVE: increases the gain of the audio signal in the side chain path !!!????
My question: Why do the talk about side chain here?
I’d like to understand the comparison with threshold, ratio, attack,release that we usually find on the compressors.
BE A GOOD TEACHER FOR ME PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!
Laurent Devel
trying to download sum of the plugins but nothing is working? is there another site where I can download the vsts?
The tools look great! Really appreciate what you’ve put together. Getting a Dropbox error when attempting to get to them.
Trying to download your VST plugs I keep getting the error “Error (509) This account’s public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled! ” Have downloaded from your site in the past without this error
dropbox download limit got busted, sorry for the inconvenience.
for anyone who uses Novations Automap software, I’ve mapped ALL of VoS plugins – you can download the zip free from KVR – http://www.kvraudio.com/product/automap-by-novation/downloads
hope they’re useful 🙂
Hi there
I’ve started using Variety of sound plugins but there is one problem with Samplitude ProX 64bit. After deactivating that plugins in insert rack and activating again there is completely no sound. The only way is reloading plugin. Do you have any idea how to solve that? When we can expect native 64bit version of your great plugins?
Regards
Lukas
Same problem here! Samplitude Pro X2 32-Bit: It works … Pro X2 64-Bit: Hit bypass, and then bypass again: After a “click” noise, no sound. Would love to use these tools … ^_^
Lukas’s post brought me to the solution. Using this: https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/ … I remembered having purchased it years ago. Catched the latest version … works!!!!!! Thanks, Lukas 😛 & thanks Variety of Sound for the Plugins!!!
Hello! I saw a couple of your plugins listed as among the best free VSTs out there – I believe it was specifically ThrillseekerLA and Density mkIII (from here: http://www.musicradar.com/us/tuition/tech/the-27-best-free-vst-plug-ins-in-the-world-today-277953) and I was really excited to try them both out. The thing is, when I tried to download them I got a 509 from Dropbox, saying your public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled. Is there another way I could download them? Thanks!
Hey guys can’t download your links . Error message says your to busy??? What’s up with that?
Hej Bootsy,
just wanted to say thanks for the amazing plugins you make. I use them in all of my mixes.
Also i wanted to download Thrillseeker VBL but the dropbox links don’t work anymore for all the plugins as you have reached the download-limit for public links. Is there any chance that we can download your plugins elsewhere. I could not find a link on google.
Any hints appreciated.
Thank you very much and keep up the greeeeaaaat work 😀
Would love to try Baxter EQ – I hear such great comments – but DropBox has suspended your folder due to high traffic. Any other means of downloading this plug-in?
Any idea when you will be up and running again??
Can you please reup the downloadlinks?? I really want the Rescue MK2…;-)
Still down?
Interesting little hiccup with ThrillseekerLA this morning. I reloaded a session from yesterday, and noticed a load of ‘noise’ coming from a stereo track (unfortunately, I didn’t screenshot this). Probably about 12-18 dB of noise, though it was inaudible (well, I dind’t notice anything). Popped over to the channel, disengaged everything, and found it to be the Saturation section of ThrillseekerLA. The Left channel was silent, but the meter on the right channel was fully on, all the time. Stupidly, I disengaged the plugin and reinserted – it was fine… but if I see it again, I’ll get a screen grab. First error with this plugin so far – it’s an awesome compressor :). Thanks man!
Hey, if you need someone to host your files so they don’t get removed by dropbox or some other one-click hoster, I could provide you with some storage for free on my server (either SCP or FTP, as you like).
Feel free to contact me 🙂
Your plugins cannot be downloaded. Dropbox gives an error: “Error (509) This account’s public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!”
https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/alternative-vos-plug-in-download/
Im trying to download some vsts but keep getting error 509 from dropbox.
Is there an alternative download server I can use?
aha! sorted! cheers.
Hi,
im an happy user of ur plug-ins. I just found a problem with pre-fix using reaper. It takes too much CPU compared to other plug-ins, even disabling all the stages. Is it a common issue or is just my problem?
Thanks
Daniele
where are the mac version of all these plugins….???
Could you add a modifier key, like alt or ctrl, that would allow for the output on the plugin to be moved down as i move the input up and vice versa, so in other words to link the input and the output control in a reverse fasion.
Love your Plugins,
Goran Toprek
Just wanted to stop and say thanks for all the plugins. I read all the info first and every one of them sounds useful , particularly the saturation plugins. Many thanks for your hard work , and also for making them available at no cost. Very much appreciated , and I hope you reap back much more than you have sown.
Are any Mac formats available?
Will you be presenting your effects plugins in 64 Bit format any time soon. Thank you.
I’m very interested in all of the plugins here. It’s very impressive!!
But up to now, one thing I hope to have is the 64bit version :D. And the UI of TeslaSE become bigger. It’s quite small to use :D.
THX
Hi!
Love your plugins but I’ve ran into problems with it recently.. I’m using Reaper by the way. Slate digital have updated their plugin Trigger some day ago and after the update it sends out midi as well as audio (a feature you could turn off in the old version and I wish it had stayed that way). The thing is that as reaper pass both midi and audio through and your plugs receives the midi they get all messed up with strange sound or no sound as the result.
Other plugins don’t react to the incoming midi.
To be honest though, if I set up a miditrack with midi on it and route that to your plugins they don’t react to it.
I know I should blame slate and trigger for bad design (and I’ve sent them a bug report) but I just wanted to share my findings and ask what you think could be the problem.
Thank you!
I hear the “NASTY VCS” is awesome. I would love to check it out but the file is not allowing me to extract. So I cant drag it into my plug-in folder. Most of the other downloads worked fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
wave4bookings@aol.com
the download and unzipping the archive works fine here – please try again …
Hello, I saw your article on ”myths and facts about aliasing”, it turns you can help me out, analyzing the output of the SSL Buss Compressor plugin from Waves I found out some strange digital stamp in Baudline’s spectrogram when introducing a swept-sine (it only happens at the output of the plugin), this stamp has got an “X” shaped matrix across all the harmonics, and start developing at 2500 Hz-3000 Hz, I will post the gearslutz thread in the Website gap so you can have a look and tell just what is this and what does it imply.
I’m trying to use your wonderful plugins in GNU/linux running under Wine. They actually work but there is a problem with the gui, when the knobs are turned a blank grey square appears. I know you don’t support linux but I was wondering if you could let me know if there are any Windows components that your plugins use/require or even just which language they are written in?
sorry but I can’t support that – on some linux/wine combos they work, in others not …
I’m helping Olmeca Tequila spread the word on a new series of documentary videos they’ve created with Mixmag, the world’s biggest dance music and clubbing magazine, and was wondering if you could help me out.
They’ve teamed up to produce an energetic ten-documentary series entitled “Switch On the Night” that features some of the most important figures in the international dance music scene. The series will air beginning this November on the company’s Facebook Page, as well as on Mixmag TV.
Here is one of their videos, entitled “Dancers of Ibiza”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aR1CPiixWg
The short takes a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the entertainers in Ibiza, one of the world’s most exciting nightlife destinations. The documentary also features music from Captone, Loco Dice, Miguel Puente and Robbie Akbal, and Samu.l.
Hope you like it!
I have been using Baxter EQ smaller GUI version for around a week and it has been working great. I have extensively used the presets and think they’re marvellous. However, suddenly without warning all of the presets have been reset to 0 for every paramater. I tried deleting Baxter and downloading again in case of corruption but the parameters for everything are still set to 0 on every preset EQ. Can you help?
Density & Thrillseekers Crash in Cubase 7 64bit upon opening the GUI. The GUI will be all White and Cubase has to be force quitted. ?Some issue with a vst Bridge? or…
Just to let you know…
Best reagrds,
Christian
the y work ok with C7 64Bit using jBridge 🙂
Hey there, using NastyDLA as my one single delay ever since you added the cross-feedback mode. Just a tiny niggle though (not even a bug): The triplet figures are off by one, i.e. 1/8t plays quarter-note triplets, 1/16t plays eighth-note triplets, etc… Same with mkII as well as version 1.0.1. No worries though, it’s still the last delay I will ever use!
Hey, I don’t even understand you, you’ve brought so much goodness to the world’s community of producers, thank you!
Feature Request: I’d like the delay of Nasty DLA mk II to stop when my sequencer is stopped. I often print to tape, or carry out some other operation, and have to wait for the delay tail to stop before I can begin my operations. For me, this is the sole limitation of this plugin for my workflow. Beyond that, Nasty is just fabulous, and again thank you, absolutely fantastic plugin in a range of fantastic plugins.
du kommst aus hamburg, oder? lass ma ne fotosafari machn! 🙂
First, I just wanted to say that all of your plugins are absolutely freaking amazing.
Well, now that that’s out of the way… I was wondering if you have any plans to add external sidechaining to ThrillseekerVBL. I’ve been dabbling quite a bit in French house lately, and while trying to find a way to achieve the classic Daft Punk-style compression, I found that ThrillseekerVBL does that sound PERFECTLY if you drive it to hell 😀
I think that adding sidechain capabilities would make the effect that much better. And besides, what’s a limiter good for if you can’t use it to duck? 😉
Just a request, not trying to sound pushy or demanding. I’m more-than-satisfied with it as it is. I’m just pointing out a nice use for it.
Due to its complex internal feeback structure it would be very hard to open it up for external sidechain support. Sorry to say …
Alright, thanks. Great stuff nonetheless, and I’ll just continue to drive it really hard to achieve the effect 😛
Hei! I seldom if ever write comments on websites – but I’ve been using your plugins for quite a while now and realized I’ve never thanked you for the amazing work you do. I’ve used especially epicVerb on a number of productions and to me is absolutely the reverb to go, especially for vocals. I have available many branded and commercial others, including the UADs, but I find myself going to it again and again. To have such quality software for free is – well – amazing. Just sayin’. 🙂
Tell me please.
Is it permissible to make a copy of your license agreement your software products in order to translate to native language (using translate.google …), for personal reading before installation?
Thanks.
I just read the last guy’s comment (in English) and thought the same…
A HUGE THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!
I use your plugins on everything I do, from sound design to mixing to composition. I decided to go fully legit about 5 years ago (paid and freeware only – no cracks) and would be totally screwed without your amazing plugins. They are stable, look beautiful and sound great too!
Big up.
Forgot to say…using Cubase 64 bit on Win64 with jbridge.
I know you have fielded a lot of questions about this in the past few years, but it’s a new year, and I thought I’d ask – Are you gonna release Mac versions this year? I run a recording studio in NC and I would like to incorporate some of your plugins, particularly Ferric, and like other mac users I am willing to donate to the cause for quality stuff.
unlikely 😦
I’m not a programmer, so I definitely don’t understand the issues involved in the differences between the platforms. It would still be a vst plugin for the Mac, but it would have a .vst extension instead of .dll. Is there a substantial difference between the code of a vst for PC and for Mac? I would think it was more packaging type things, at the code level – but again I am not informed in this area at all. Perhaps you could develop a PC vst “wrapper” for mac users or something?
Is the issue one of time, money, programming environment, or will? I’m asking not to pry, but just to brainstorm. I know there is a big mac market. You have award winning plugins. I realize they are award winning in a free marketplace, so I get that you might not be able to sell the same things on a mac side without running into “Why is it free for PC and $xx for mac?!”. I also get that it is a big transition to go from freeware to pay-ware. One of those issues is, of course that you don’t have any obligation to support freeware very actively if you don’t want to. If things are paid for, then there comes with that a greater expectation of support. And I get that if you want to stay freeware, and there happen to be substantial development hurdles to translate and support the mac versions, then there would be little in it for you, since the work has no potential income stream. On the other hand, if you are a programmer, and you are a musician too, surely you know or could easily find some mac programmer/musicians, and perhaps there could be a freeware expansion partnership in the future where you let one of them come on board and develop the mac versions, and thereby expand your base of creatives loving your content. Just spit-ballling here, though.
Another angle is that you could certainly sell your plugins for $20 to mac users and move thousands of copies. I don’t know what a development budget would need to be, but I bet you could easily get a 5 figure income stream for the rollout over the first year, especially with your awards, and with how great your plugins look.
Forgive me if I am over the line here, I just hate to see excellence out of reach, so to speak. I want to also benefit from your good ideas.
🙂
Thanks for your thoughts – really appreciated.
I cant figure out how to get Ferric TDS to run on my system. I’m running Pro Tools 9 on Windows 7. Any suggestions which folders to put the files in?
Do you have the fxpansion VST wrapper for Protools?
protools dont support VST. you need to get a VST wrapper for protools from fxpansion.
I recently installed cubase 7 on my win7 pro machine and now my Density mkII and Thrillseeker la plugs are not recognized. When I open up an old project I get a warning that the plug ins are not found. They were saved to an external drive and then reinstalled in the vst folder from there. Any ideas as to how to make them work again. I love these plugs man!
Sir:
My name is Curt Yengst, and I’m a freelance writer for “Radio World” magazine. I’m currently doing a regular column on free plugins and in the course of my research came across your site. I’d like to feature a few of your offerings in an upcoming article. I’d like to get some background from you and ask you a few questions if I may.
Thanks,
Curt
It would be nice if you made a video of your plugins in actual use. This HDR sounds great but I’d like to see how to best use it.
Hi,
I would buy OSX versions of most of the stuff from here 🙂
I wish it was possible
Cheers
Hi,
I was looking over here if there was reported any problems with the GUI’s of almost all plugins, but goodn’t find it. The problem is that the knobs are not changing at all while you skip true the presets. Only when you close the plugin and re-opens it again it has chanced. (Ableton 9). Pro Tools is working great!
Regards Lars
are you running 64Bit ?
I had the same problem when running ALL the VoS plugs through jBridge in Cubase 64Bit, but jBridge has been updated a few times since then and the problem disappeared.
Hello, first I want to say thank you and every single one of your plug-ins are innovative and inspiring. The sounds that come out from your plug-ins are truly commercial grade. I have downloaded and used the majority of your plug-ins and none of them have let me down whatsoever. I’d love to donate, keep up the good work!
On Windows7 ,both thrillseeker plug-ins do not appear in the Audacity Effects menu after rescanning for VST’s. They are detected but then not loaded. Please see http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ .
I got Audacity to see these plug-ins after several attempts to load them by deleting Audacity’s plugins.cfg file. The plug-ins were not written there as should have happened.
Dear Bootsie – thanks for your great plugins. What is really great about them is that they are so musically – they add life and warmth to the tracks.
I have a question regarding NastyDLA. I have used it as a “send”. However, there seems to be a little noise coming from the plugin when I do that. Is it meant to be used only as an insert? When I use it as an insert often the VU-meter will be pushed fully to the right. Is that a problem in itself or doesn’t it matter at all?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Martin
There is a dial called NOISE to adjust just that.
Oh, boy… How could I miss that one… Thank you! Turning down the NOISE dial solved my problem! 🙂 (my self-created problem that is… :-)). Thank you for a fab NastyDLA!
Hey! Thank you much dor Density MKIII! But I have a problem with it. I can open it only once. After I close it and try opening it again it’s the empty window appears. And the thing that I can’t close it after that. And can’t do anyhing else in my DAW. The DAW is Cubase 6. Can you recommend anything to solve this bug?
Thanks!
I installed FerricTDS a good while ago (from computer music magazine i think) having no idea it was you guys, and then I heard about the immense SlickHDR, so naturally Ive been going through the rest of your catalogue…and im similarly blown away! So firstly is there a donation button anywhere?
Secondly im a little confused as there appears to be a lot of overlap of the functionality of each of your effects. Is it possible you could create a quick list just stating each VST’s best use..i.e. best used on – drums/synth/vocal/single track/buss/master etc. Im just concerned im gonna be playing around with these for far too long and not actually making any music! Thanks!
…also just to add it’d be great to what combinations of the VST’s work together (and dont work together)
Tell me please.
Is it permissible to copy the license agreement which is included in your software products to be translated into the native language (using online translator – translate.google.ru), for personal reading before installation?
Sorry for my bad english…
Thanks.
sure!
Hi,
I’m using NastyDLA mkII in Bidule and i sometimes get nasty cpu peaks and the plugin stops functionning…i made a test with the older version and and that doesn’t happen.
Could that be a cpu denormal problem? I tried using a denormal vst plugin after or before and that doesn’t change anything.
The first version is still cool but i much prefer the sound of the second one…
Is there a possible solution to this problem?
Thank you for your plugins…i love them.
I’ve been searching for a while and can’t find a definitive answer to this blank UI issue. It seems like a bit bridge problem. I’m running cubase 7.5 64 bit and I’ve always had problems with XTC. I open the UI once and it works fine but after closing and reopening the UI is blank white and my entire session becomes unresponsive. It’s a real shame because I’ve wanted to support VOS a lot more for a while now but it’s never been stable on any of my 3 systems. Is there a fix to this? I’ve tried jbridge and also moving the .dll files to a 32bit directory.
is that with the Cubase bridge or jBridge?
I use C7 on W8.1 64Bit and run all of VoS through jBridge with no probs (used to have probs with the gui redraw about a year ago but it’s all ok with the latest versions) – I keep 2 separate folders on D for 32Bit and 64Bit vst’s and jbridge the VoS from the 32Bit folder to the 64Bit folder 🙂
========EpicVerb-problem ======
Hi! First of all, thanks for making these wonderful plugins free! I opened up an old project in Cubase 6.5.3. I got a warning saying EpicVerb was missing. I downloaded it and placed it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VstPlugins. But the strange thing is that Cubase doesn’t see it. When I open Reaper, it can see it. Yes, I have checked that C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VstPlugins is added to my plugin path in Cubase. This is very strange. Any tips to get it to work?
Hello,
Congratulation for those great plug ins and thank you for the work you do ! I really like using youre plug ins, they sound good and are easy to use. Unfortunatly, I only got the plug ins that are currently downladable on variety of sound but i didnt find the Nasty serie and NastyXTC (and maybe others that I’m not aware of ?). If possible i would really like to have them.
Daniel
they are not available (anymore) …
Hello! I am loving the sound from the Thrillseeker LA.
I have just one issue, it seems to cause Cubase to freeze and crash all the time. I’m running Cubase 6.5. Do you know why this is happening to me? I have lots of different plugins including the “BootEQ MKII” which runs with no problems at all.
The “Density MKIII” also causes crashing for some reason.
Thank you,
Fred
Thanks for your work with Epicverb. I found it somewhere else, and now I have found your site I will try more. I used EpicVerb extensively on my songs for the album I have posted at http://www.elevensongs.ca. Even if you would not like to buy- I have some free songs if people are interested. I am putting another free one together in the next week or so. It will be a sort of hard edged acoustic folk version of Mott the Hooples, “all the way to Memphis” with acoustic guitar and clarinet lead. Thanks so much, your stuff is great!
I think there is problem with the downloads. They stop after a few seconds…
works fine here.
Hello! How to resize SlickHDR to make it all visible on my monitor? Maybe You could fix it in future versions?
Thanks!
sorry, i didn’t catch sight of smaller gui version in folder…
hi bootsy, first big bravo for your work, plugins are really excellent. my only regret… i mainly use logic , do you plan AU 64bit version of them? that would be so cooool ^^
thanx again for your amazing work
This is a gift to thank you for the amazing vst plugins, are the best! Maybe my music not be to your liking but is gift, jaja. I´m very poor but if someday I could I donate. Thank you very much.
https://robermartinez.bandcamp.com/album/lunas
If you want I can send a bandcamp gift to your mail account. I put the album in soundcloud one week only
Rober Martínez
capitancontracultura@hotmail.com
thanks for sharing!
Hey Bootsy, how are you doing?
I am writing because I’ve found sometimes your plugins are loosing their state and returning to Default when loading a project on Harrison Mixbus.
The rare thing is that it just happens from time to time (i haven’t been able to spot when or under what situations exactly), and in one session it may happen to some of the plugins while others are keeping the state fine (talking about Variety of Sound’s).
I remember it happening on BootEQ, ThrillerSeekerVBL (this one tends to keep them better) and BaxterEQ.
Hope you can take a look at this.
As always, thank you for your great work.
Ignacio
I love the FerricTDS, it’s a game changer! Keep up the great work.
Hi!
I guess this is the wrong place to ask this question but my browser is giving me a hard time.
I had to uninstall my hardrive recently and by doing that all of my plugins was deleted. I have the nasty dla v.1 in almost every project im working on and i would really need to have a copy of it so I can save presets and go over to v.2.
Could you send me a download link of it?
I love your plugins!
/Rickard
Dear Bootsy,
This is just to ask whether you are aware of the problem with NastyVCS reported here:
To summarize, the problem occurs when
– 88.2/96 kHz
– low EQ hi-Q on
– low EQ f set to 30Hz
Reproduced on: reaper 32 bit, sonar 32bit on winxp and reaper 32bit on win7
Do you plan to investigate/fix this?
Thank you,
Radek
the filter is not stable, it seems. did not fixed it yet …
Hello,
I’m one of the developers of FL Studio. The Nasty VCS plugin crashes the current alpha version of FL when it’s removed from the host. I have an idea about what might be going on. Could you contact me by email, so we can try to find out what exactly happens?
Regards,
Frederic Vanmol
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I’m enjoying several of your plug-ins. Thank you so much! I’m having an issue with Thrillseeker LA 1.01 at higher sample rates, specifically 96kHz. The interstage harmonics are at higher frequencies at higher sample rates. At 44.1 the 0.8+ range seems to fill in around 1k-2k nicely but at 96 rate the same setting creates harmonics from 2k-4k, and the 2k setting boosts above 5k. It seems to have an error in calculating the frequency based on the ratio of 44.1 to whatever the higher rate is. I have some eq plug-ins that do this same thing that I’m trying to resolve. Some do, others don’t. Your other plug-ins I use work fine in this regard (NastyVCS, ThrillseekerXTC, BaxterEQ). I often have sessions at different rates so consistency in response is very nice. Any ideas? Thanks again.
yeah, must be a bug – thanks for the report!
Thanks for the reply. I was wondering if there was a setting in my system that affected certain filter algorithms. I have some eq plugs from other manufacturers that have a similar problem. For instance, at 44.1 a notch at 1k on an eq works at 1k, but at 96khz that same 1k notch setting creates a notch at 2.2k (same ratio as 96/44.1). It’s just weird that some eq’s have the problem and others don’t, even within the same ‘bundles’. I’ve contacted the other manuf’s but haven’t heard back yet. Are there some filter calculations that are performed relative to sample rate (and only calibrated at 44.1 apparently), while others are calculated based on absolute freqs? Anyway, I find it interesting. I really like the ThrillseekerLA. I use it in a lot of applications.
Professional Mastering Engineer – Just upgraded to a 64bit Windows system. AAARGH Baxter is 32 bit. I’d pay for a 64bit version. How about upgrading your excellent 32bit plugin???
just use jBridge…
I just started “experimenting”, with Presonus Studio One via PC, and for some reason, even using the 32 bit install, your plugins dont show up!!! Is there a way to sort this out? Otherwise, (and some may say its crazy), but i will just keep right on using FL Studio, I’m sure i wouldnt be the first to tell u that I still hold even some of your oldest plug-ins in very high regard.
ON SECOND THOUGHT!!!!! I just started using the J-bridge myself, and it seems to work proper!! I was really sweating the idea of No baxter, No XTC, No VBL, AND (shiver) NO FERRIC OR DENSITY…hellz no..
First, massive respect for releasing your hard work to the public, free of charge. Thank you.
Unfortunately, I am running on Bitwig 1.0.8 and can rarely get the VoS plugins to work. Most of the time they click loudly upon loading and then force a horrible loud buzz out the DAW. I am guessing it’s a compatibility issue with Bitwig.
I pray I can use your plugins soon…I really miss using Tesla and Nasty DLA Mk ii, which is easily my favorite chorus (and I’ve tried quite a few expensive ones).
Keep us posted ^_^
Bootsy could you please add some of your earlier mark 1 versions to this site as Legacy Downloads; such as Rescue 1.2.1, TeslaPro 1.0.1, etc.
Though the newer versions have great improvements; to keep compatibility with older projects and that these have a unique sound of their own, it would be great if they could be still downloadable from here.
Thank you for your brilliant effects!!
I’m not sure how to install the thrillseekerLA compresser plugin. It doesnt seem to work when i drag it into the plugins section of my Ableton Live 9. I’m running mac os X Mavericks, is this an issue?
AMAZING! SUPERB PLUG-INS! BIG THANKS! CHEERS!
thanks for all of your work. I’m hoping you will see this. I’m using Nasty VCS and finding that the settings don’t save from one session on Reaper to the next. I need to go into each iteration of the plugin to make sure it is set to the user preset I had in it from before. Any thoughts on this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hello, does anyone still have the Nasty Series. . email it to me. . I’d really want it to try it. . I’m sure it was as good as plug-in that still exist on the download pages . . . please email me at info@valetna.net
I use your plugins all the time. Wouldn’t like to do without them. Whenever I need something, Variety of Sound is the first place I go. Your plugins also keep coming up on all manner of “Best Plugins” lists, including epicVerb 1.5 in the reverb category. However, for some reason epicVerb 1.5 (yes I know, last updated several years ago) just won’t load (for me) in Adobe Audition CS6. In the “Audio Plug-In Manager” dialog box under “status” it simply says “Not Working”. Everything else runs just fine.
Any thoughts?
Audition CS6 is a 64-bit DAW. You need a bridge. Try jbridge.
But can you explain why all my other 32 bit vst’s work in Audition CS6, except epicVerb?
Just found a work around! Blue Cat’s Patchwork. Insert epicVerb there, works like a charm. Still don’t understand exactly the how and why, but thanks for the hint 🙂
That is strange. I can’t explain that. Sorry.
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Hi Folks,
Our company has just come out of hiding. We are making a high performance VST host disguised as a throwback guitar pedal with an intuitive wireless UI. For context, please see our site at http://www.kskelectrics.com.
The text of our initial press release, due out on Friday, can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/m34vjxr.
We need quality VST plugins to ship with our hardware. Under what arrangements might we be able to ship with some subset of your products? Please take pity on a start up with potential to expand the VST marketplace – if even a little.
Thank you,
Perry Kivolowitz
co-founder – managing partner
Hey man,
every time i want to add Density Mkiii to my Group channel in Cubase 7, it shuts down the tone of the whole mix. Nothing comes in to the master, no channel has an output, it’s like cubase suddenly ignores the media in the project. When i remove Density from the signal chain, cubase crashes. Any idea?
Ferric 1.5.1 problem report:
Ferric Saturation level meter (the right most meter) seems not to work properly when the stereo signal entering the plugin is not well balanced, i.e. when the L or R channel has substantially lower level than the other channel.
How to reproduce the problem:
Send a normal stereo signal into the plugin (L and R channels have similar levels). Adjust saturation level so that the meter shows some saturation. Now mute the R channel of the input signal. The saturation meter will become idle (no movement), although the saturation is still applied to the L channel.
Ferric version: 1.5.1
VST host: Reaper 4.7
Windows 7 home x64
Anyone can reproduce this? Is this a bug? Thanks.
I am a lover of your plugins. Know where I heard them? Off the one guy working in top-level production in LA who uses a PC. If your plugins were mac compatible ( without attempting to use a wrapper ) I imagine no production outfit would be without them. Yes, as a mac user my bias is known. However few Eqs no matter the price compare with your BootEq Mk2 when sourcing a GML / Baxendale clone. All the v best. Don de H
Hi, I admire so much your work, about sharing your unique ideas for DSP and most surprising freeware, i try to use your plugins sometimes and always say : ohhh great sound and insert maybe 15 instances and remember ohhh my cpu is overcharged 50% (i work in mixing proyects with 70 tracks sometimes and need to insert alot of plugins), i use a intelcorei 7, 8 gb ram. and could insert the same instance of plugins by another developer and cpu its about 5 or 10%, i wanna know if that occurs by the programing plataform synth edit or what can happening, but thats only a small topic to your great job. Regards from Colombia.
I just wanted to say thank-you very much for these incredible plugins. Even an amateur hobbyist like me can tell that they alter the sound in magical ways. Your generosity is much appreciated!
Hello there. Just wanted to take a moment and thank you for your amazing work! I just completed a project where I used your plugins almost exclusively (besides a few reverb and cabinet impulses). NastyVCS , SlickEQ, FerricTDS are used on every track along with Density mkII, and the secrete weapon Nasty DLA! I am overjoyed with the results! Take a listen if you’d like…
https://stinkypockets.bandcamp.com/releases
Hello. I have a problem with nastyCS and nastyVSD – they not run in Sonar X3 (completly crash a environment). This issue is only in just these two plugs (a rest is OK). so could you check and fix this in free time? Greatings
Hi! Check out our recent review in French of Variety Of Sound SlickEQ Gentleman’s Edition here: https://fr.audiofanzine.com/plugin-eq/variety-of-sound/slickeq-gentleman-s-edition/editorial/tests/un-eq-qui-en-a-dans-le-slick.html
Also we gave it Audiofanzine’s Sure Bet 2014 award!! Congratulations. To have it be featured and published on our English edition of our website. Please contact me at the email below as soon as you can!
Sarit
Hey there,
we featured 3 of your plugins in one of our recent video, we’d love to get in contact with
you, please write us back.
Cheers
MixbusTV
Hello, friend! This is the 11th ProTools? As you VST plugins opened on ProTools? Through JBridge? Thank’s
Hi all
Just getting used to these great plugins – I’ve got so much to learn. However I’m having a problem with thrillseekerXTCblue; it invariably crashes my system – I’m using Cubase 6.5 64bit on a PC. Is this a common problem – any known remedies? Also with all of my VOS plugin downloads I’ve not got any pre-sets (just get the Cubase pre-set box pop up, which is empty) – not a disaster, but for a beginner it’s nice to have a starting point for mixing.
Ian – Chester, UK.
most of Bootsy’s plugs are 32Bit and will crash in a 64Bit DAW. I use ‘Jbridge’ for all his 32Bit plugs and don’t have any probs 🙂
Hey! I was just wondering if you had plans on making any of your plugins 64-bit? I know I could purchase jBridge or some other bit bridging app, but I would much rather have a 64-bit version and just donate my money to the guy making the plug-ins.
Thanks
-Taun
Hello, I have found (and made reproducible) a denormal problem with NastyDLA; here is a REAPER test project that makes it easy to see it (need Synth1 and NastyDLA); just play it, at around measure 14 CPU usage increases suddenly from 1.1 to about 10%. Turning off input saturator bring CPU back to normal; same if I insert a denormal plugin before NastyDLA. Here is the test project. Feel free to contact me for any further info.
http://www.errepici.it/public/Test/NastyDLA.zip
Thanks,
Mario
Damn… I just realized I was using v1.0.1…. NastyDLA mkII doesn’t seem to have any problem. Sorry for the false alarm 🙂
I just wanted to say thank you very much for such an amazing job. I’ve been using ThrillseekerLA for some time. Not only this plugin sounds great, but it really helps to explore the sonic possibilities and I recommend it to anyone who uses so called “unofficial” plugins.
Your plugins really serve the purpose of people stopping to buy/steal more and more plugins and start making music.
Great stuff!
Thank you, Igor!
Hello! My computer is running on the 64-bit version of Windows 7 and none of the programs from this website seem to be registering in Ableton. I see that it says that the system must be Win32 compatible, so does that mean that I cannot use any of the plug ins from this site? Or is there a way around this issue. Thank you so much!
Actually, only the program – your DAW has to be 32-bit as Win7 64-bit can run 32-bit programs. So you can use Live 32-bit in Windows 7 64-bit. Live 32-bit will recognise 32-bit plugins. If that’s not an option, you have to use a so called “bridge” plugin that is a bridge between the 64-bit DAW and the 32-bit plugin, like jBridge, for example: http://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/ Some DAWs come with bridge plugins, like Steinberg Cubase or Nuendo, Cockos Reaper. Reaper’s bridge plugin works great. http://www.reaper.fm/ Steinberg’s not so great.
hi Andy,
If your running a 32Bit version of Ableton (on your 64Bit Win) then there should be no problem, just drop the dll’s into your plugins folder. If your using the 64Bit version of Ableton then you need a ‘Bridge’. I use ‘JBridge’ (it’s $15 or something) and all the 32Bit VoS plugs work fine for me (Cubase7.5-64Bit on Win8.1-64Bit)
🙂
I 100% agree. EVERY crash I have with my DAW is a bit bridge related one and I have streamlined all my plug ins to be 64 bit except XTC and I’m about to not use it anymore because it’s the ONLY plugins that crashes due to bit bridging. I love VOS stuff but please get with the times. It’s a 64 bit era now.
Dude.. these are free plug-ins and they’re amazing – easily up there with pricey alternatives. I’m not in a hurry to tell the dev what to do over here.
Happy Thanksgiving Mr. Variety of Sound & All Music Maestros & Plug-in slutz here!
Just wanted to ask. I’m pretty naive with Windows. (Ive been on MAc for music all my life). I heard so much hype on your plug-ins that I was curious. I managed to load 32bit Windows version of Ableton Live 8 on my old Windows XP (Home Edition PC Version 2002 Service Pack 3) and running pretty decent to my surprise. I went to download your Density Mk3 as the first 3rd party plug-in and for some reason i can’t open the .dll file. It just wont open. Like I said Im pretty naive beginning as to where to even store this VST (what folder) in Windows …but 1st I have to open the file with success. Anyone know what im doing wrong or maybe i need a special .dll “run” app? thank u :). (BTW I love MOLOT!!)
*****Pardon me on the last comment above last sentence, (even though i do like Molot) I meant the joint venture you guys did w Tokyo Dawn Labs on the Slick EQ! QUALITY!!! GREAT STUFF!
Thanks for all of your love on your vst’s.
Many kind blessings ahead.
Trav
Thanks!
I’m sure you are sick of questions like the following; however, I must ask you…
I recently learned about your “Nasty” line of plugins… particularly the Nasty LF/HF plugs.
Having recently moved to Mac, it appears I found my very first reason to keep my PC… and that is so I can use those Nasty plugins (which aren;t available in Mac).
I feel like I could almost die!!. I want to use those plugins SOOOOO bad, that it’s just plain crazy!!
VarietyofSound: Do any of your newer plugins exhibit the same behavior as your Nasty LF?.. particualrly, I like the idea of being able to cut the lo-end, and then, boost it back up with eq-saturation.
If you do not have any Mac-compatible plugins that are similar, what other plugins (from other devs) are similar?
Thank you… and keep up the great work with Tokyo Dawn Labs!
Just use SlickEQ – it exactly has that cut/boost feature and is Mac also.
maybe you should take a look at something like this: http://diaphone.blogspot.nl/2010/12/11.html
wow!!!.. I will try this for sure on my Mac… Excellent
I will pay ANYONE that can get me the installers for
Bootsy:
Nasty LF
Nasty HF
Nasty VSD
vst4free has two of them,..
Nasty LF is on this page – http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=666
Nasty HF is here – http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=667
that’s it….
Sarah Davis… would you please do me the honor, and become my wife?..
Marry me!!
please!!!
Just… soooooo awesome!!
sorry though…
on a serious note however… Thank You soo much for that, I can’t believe it.
I am also looking for the Nasty VSD… that analog summing plugin. I checked the Vst4Free site but had no luck with that one..??
any ideas??
I wish I could edit my comments… then I wouldn’t have created these 3 posts… anyways, here is a link to the plugin I am talking about… As I said, its the “Nasty VSD”, and it’s the 4th plugin when moving down the page.
Link: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=217522&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
thx to you for your amazing works
Grazie di cuore per il meravilgioso lavoro che svolgi e condividi con noi!!!!
Is there any chance that you will make your plugins available for OSX, too? I have demoed nastydla mk2 the other day and love it so much… I would def. pay for it!
Hi, i must say Great Job and pasion,Again before all. im following since maybe 5 years ago so Know Your Development And Happiness shared with comunity of audio entussiast or pro or whatever.
i don’t know if anybody ask this before, but are you thinking in a Boot Eq Mk III Version? With Some aditional Parameters? Ej: LPF.maybe Separate HPF & LF with Bell And Shelf, or The LF in saturation section with selectable Frecuency, Input knob to calibrate gain stage to drive saturation. output gain able ever separate of ON button in saturate section. even though boot eq mkII is so high, but IMO that minimal improvements could convert it a otherworldly eq.
i have no idea of development but think do it demand a lot of time, experience, felling and knowledge and hope support your job soon with a donation. Bless.
Regards From Colombia! Excuse My Writening.
Svm Prod.
There is already SlickEQ!
Yeah I Know Slickeq And Tried It, But IMO thats diferent philosophy, GUI influence the workflow too, slickeq consume more cpu than boot eq. altought thats Great, Thanks For Your Atention.
long time i haven’t been here, but I have a big problem with your plugins, probably related to synthedit and c++ libraries.
after installing some redist libraries (demoing some other plugins maybe), all your plugins stopped loading. I’ve been trying to uninstall and / or reinstall as many libraroies as I could recognise (since any program adds its own)
all’s happening is that sometimes it appears a message saying “schematic load: type not found” . sometimes it just doesn’t load.
can you suggest me any solutions?
thanks
Enrico
Did you get any reply ? I am getting the same problem.
Hi there,
I’m a big fan of the Variety of Sound plugins, and I’d love to see some OSX versions. I am a developer and would love to talk about collaborating on Mac releases.
Hello Herbert,
I’ve been using your plug ins for the last 2 years, and thought i should share a link with you:
http://wetlandsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-the-key-of-bass
This is my debut EP, free to DL courtesy of The Wetlands label on bandcamp.
I used VoS plugs for just about everything. Nasty VCS is on every drum track and most bass tracks. Thrillseeker VBL or LA are on all leads, pads etc. Nasty DLA and EpicVerb are used extensively. The mastering chain included Baxter or Slick EQ, Density mk3 and Thrillseeker XTC.
Thankyou SO much for all your incredible work and amazingly free plug ins.
Warmest regards,
Jake
I forgot to add that Ferric TDS was also in the mastering chain…;)
Hello! I really like the plugins of Your company, I often use them, especially Booteq. Please make under Mac OS, AU format, is not enough 😦
I like your vsts a lot and use it almost everytime! thanks!!! here some of my stuff for free.. https://soundcloud.com/studiogegner
amazing work, if possible maybe make the output gain knob in ferictds and nastvcs with more range for attenuation, i feel that sometimes I’m missing more attenuation to get the equilibrium of processed/bypassed volumes. when looking into your manuals (which are great BTW) i found that when setting the input stage right on FericTDS for example I usually need to add a gainstage plugin after it to achieve equilibrium of volumes.
GREAT plugins, can’t stress that enough, seriously
RESPECT
There’s no one answers…
My sorrow there is no limit, all projects without it is stopped. Dear developers, please make Boot EQ for Mac OS and Logic!
I love the way you write your articles (and manuals), you should write more of those. I’m still waiting for one of those “what i’m currently working on” articles. So, what are you currently working on?
Peace.
Hello again,
I just finished another project where VOS plugins were my primary tools used. Take a listen if you’d like!
Used VCS (with a little saturation) on every track. Ferric TDS on every track + mixbus. SlickEQ everywhere. Density II on the drums + mixbus. Epic DLA II – secrete weapon on vocals, dobro, and fiddle 🙂
I can not overstate how grateful I am for these tools. I feel that they indeed impart a certain vibe into my projects that I very much enjoy. Thanks – and keep up the good work!
Thank you!
And here is one more from the same session. Again VOS used on every track!
What an interesting voice Emily Caroll has on “Please, please” – and very nice arrangement and production!
Sounds great! Good work, man!
hi i am interezado to send me VST plugins … NastyLF discontinued. Bootsy BootEQ DENSITY VST VST .. and … NASTY cs … PLEASE, FOR THE LOST AND HE COULD NOT GET THEM BACK … I already have the new versions but like most older versions grateful for your attention … I hope reply .. bye
Hi guys, Hi Herbert,
I use your plugin on a regular basis! I don’t get why so many people run after those expensive plugin companies when the good plugs are so near and (almost) free. I’m happy to pay for Kotelnikov GE and SlickEQ GE. It’s almost no money for instant happiness:-). In my opinion it’s the recording (meaning sound in the room + chain into the PC) that makes 90% of the sound. After that you shouldn’t need too much to make it sound great. And that’s where I use VoS and TDR! For me it’s nearly all the tools you need… so first of all: THANKS FOR THAT!!
But I wonder if there is anything new planned? You seem to be much more into photography these days and busy with “variety of light”. I really miss your “what i’m currently working on”-posts:-). To be honest, I don’t NEED anything new. But damn, I’d love to EXPERIMENT with new stuff!
Thanks for your effort / your plugins and please let us know, if we can expext something new in the future!
All the best,
Matt
NO MAC FORMAT???
Dear Boosty, could you possibly add a sentence to the text at the top of this page (If you observe any issues…to come back to you) stating (maybe in bold text) that there are no mac versions and there are not going to be any? Hopefully that would prevent at least some of the all too often posts pestering you about Mac versions. I’m sure you are even more tired of it than us 😉
Hello ♪♫
as the plugin user happy ” Density MkII ” , allow me this question: is what the plugin is envisaged aax format? (now PT11 user, Density miss terribly)
Thanking you ,
musically,
Bruno (France)
no plans for aax.
Since Cubase 8 pro I have issues with Nasty VCS. Sometimes it freezes everything and I can’t even close Cubase normally. I have to close it within Task Manager…
Thanks for your help and for your great plugins!
Hi! I’m the author of the Airwave VST bridge for Linux (https://github.com/phantom-code/airwave). During the analysis of crashes with Bitwig Studio, I’ve found that your plugins return incorrect data on the effGetParamDisplay dispatcher event. The expected value is a null-terminated string (http://www.asseca.org/vst-24-specs/efGetParamDisplay.html) but returned value contains non-printable characters (it seems like a raw binary data). I think it’s a bug and it would be great if you could fix this. By the way, I’ve made a workaround.
Thanks!
I’ve downloaded a bunch of the plug-ins and looking forward to using them. I have an issue though… any time I try and use any of the plug-ins the sound begins to stutter. I’m using a 32-bit version of Ableton live 9 on a laptop running with 64-bit, windows 8. Hope you can help me. Thank you in advance.
Hi, where can I get older version plugins?
I need Rescue(not the Mk2) for example.
Hi! Is there any chance to get x64 plugins frm you?
Hi there,
Will your plugins also be ported to osx? I changed from windows to osx and sadly i can’t use them anymore.
greetings Chris
I just finished computing 1 as the first step into a computer science career. The class was taught in python. I loved it, but I know it is just a taste of things to come… If I wanted to do things like what you are doing, would you have any recommendations on what I should start learning? Computing 2 is in C++, and I am getting a head start on that now. By the end of the degree path, I should have a math minor also. My interests are making plugins that are as excellent sounding as yours, but for DXD and other extreme resolution formats, or even possibly doing a live conversion of DSD to PCM and then using a plugin on the material before converting back to DSD.
Hello,
You have some fantastic work — I am currently branching out into programming my own VST’s, do you have any recommended resources for someone just starting out?
Thanks so much,
Jared
There is a developer subsection over there at kvraudio.com which might be a good starting place and to research and contact people.
I appreciate that, I’ll dig up as many resources as I can over there. Thanks much for the information!
Loving Epic Verb. I do however like to have it as an FX on a track and then flick through presets. The ability to lock the Dry/Wet mix to a certain level when switching between the presets would be fantastic. Just the same as Valhalla plugs. Could this be looked at a future feature request. I used Reaper DAW so can set the DAWs own dry wet parameter but it sounds different.
Found your site thanks to Glenn Fricker at SpecterSoundStudios. I’m blown away by epicVerb and the Density MKIII plugins but I’ve had a major issue with epicVerb in REAPER.
When I use it on drum track it sounds great and I can really get a massive sound out of it, but after around 15-30 seconds it silences the whole track. If I turn off the plugin in its UI, the track continues to play as it should without the reverb, but when I turn it back on it effectively mutes the whole track. If I open up a separate instance, it works for around 15-30 seconds and then the same thing happens.
Hi!
First of all thank you for your huge genorosity developing and offering us your devices. Reallly in love with Teslapro, it blows away any of the other saturation plugins tested before for me.
I have to report a failure of ThrillseekerLA. I’m still using for the caprices of destiny (hold on at your seat) Logic 5.5.1 in Win XP, ThrillseekerLA is not detected by Logic. This doesn’t happens with Tesla**, Ferric, and the other Thrillseekersm which works fine. Logic has problems with some VST 2.4 plugins, I know, but I use a free VST called Effectchainer to detect and use those plugins. ThrillseekerLA is in fact, detected by Effectchainer but the GUI doesn’t works, it’s like a frozen picture, I can’t use the plugin. DLL file is not corrput, it works under other hosts. I would surrender if your other plugs wouldn’t work, so I’m wondering if there’s something I/you can do for that wonderful device to work on my beloved brain-extension aka Logic 5.5.1 😉
Again, thanks and keep the good work on!
Joan
Hi there!
I’ve been a big fan of your dynamic and EQ processors for a long time. I’m using a mac now so I’m a little sad I’m going to be loosing access to many of them but they are excellent.
Anyway… my question is about modulation effects.
I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to DSP but I was wondering if you could give me some pointers in how to analyse analog modulation effects – specifically old chorus effects – and pointers on how to digitally model them. I’ve done some searching and although convolution is great for certain time domain effects and real spaces, I’ve seems no good for modulation effects.
Hope you have a moment to direct me to some reading. All the best!
I’m also using your plugins regularly, enjoying what they do to my mix (often enough pulling it in a totally different direction, but that’s fine).
I’d like to second the wish of one other person in this comments blog: please consider releasing a de-esser that’s doin’ the work in a subtle but efficient way. I’ve come across several de-essing plugins that totally suck, if someone’s designed for the job, it’s you.
Hi!! I love epicverb, I’ve used it at a friends house so I installed it at home.
I have a windows 7 // core 2 duo intel 3.00ghz each// 3G ram // 32 bit computer
I use Nuendo 3 and when I try to use the epicverb, the whole nuendo crashes with a blank-ish screen.
Do you know what could be happening or how to solve the problem?
thanks in advance
I never did had much testers on Nuendo and so test coverage was rather basic. Sorry.
Is VAS still kicking? I’m wondering how a vinyl emulator would go, seeing how FerricTDS turned out so good (it really is a cool plugin).
FerricTDS looks terrific but I am running on linux and as I understand is not ported. I have just read the other comments and I am willing to add a +1 to it to hopefully convince you there’s quite a community there and it may be worth thinking about!
Take care.
I’m sure he has metrics relating to number of downloads, versions, web traffic and so on. He must know there is massive use out there for his stuff, and he must know there is significant demand for features like higher sample frequency use, cross-platform use, or hardware imbedded use. Hell, I’d love to be able to run these at 32bit 192khz or even 384, and on my mac or linux too.
But, interest comes and goes, and we are not just talking about something simple here. His plugins work so well because they are not simply skinned versions of the average plugins. He designed them from the ground up, and that takes a lot of work both in the math world and in the programming world.
I think he must have just lost interest which is pretty acceptable for a guy who made some of the best plugins available out there and then gave them away for free. I’m sure a lot of people would pay him for the features we need, but I seriously doubt that we could really compensate him to the tune that would make it worth his time. We are after all talking about someone with skills that probably pay him $100 to $200 per hour, and realistically, these features would require a great deal of hours. Is there really enough demand from the community to pay him $50k or $100k, or at least enough money that he would seriously devote significant time to this? I doubt it, especially since most people just steal software anyway. I bet we could raise several thousand, but that isn’t enough really unless this guy wanted to just donate his time, which he has already done amply.
reading down through this blog, it appears he’s already explained why 🙂
I’am a huge fan of your plugins, man! I think most of them are even better than those plugins which cost 200 bucks or more! And I love your compressors, They may look like existing gears but they do bring the concepts to a new level.
Recently I am looking for a FET style compressor. And I found that the VoS compressors are mostly opto style…Some may be inspired by the Vari-Mu design, but in my opinion none of those have a fast reaction or have the fuzzy caracter as a FET style comp.
So, will you have a FET style comp in the future?
Best Wishes.
No plans, currently.
Hey there –
I’m in charge of product strategy at iZotope. We’re looking to license technology that we don’t currently have in-house.
Any interest?
alexw@izotope.com
no
Hi I am trying your BootEQmkII but none of my DAWs are recognizing it (Reaper, DSP-Quattro With MAc Pro OS10.10.2). Nothing else in the vst folder is shown as a “.dll”. I tried changing the “BootEQmkII.dll” to a .vst but that did not work either. Am I missing something?
It’s PC only.
And the question that i forgot to add was…. or is is PC only? Thanks for your quick response
Hey Bootsy!
Long time user here, and recently recycling old projects which were made with Cubase SX3. Now I’m using Cubase 5 for backwards project compatibility and there’s… this… little nagging thing with your TesslaSE plug-in (which I’ve used a lot) – It always silences the audio engine, no matter where it was placed, channel, group or master. No sound, like it messes with VST engine or ASIO engine. If you’d have any tip or clue about what is happening I would be grateful, TesslaSE was a tiny(BIG) part of my old sound!
Thanks for all of your efforts man, and good luck with all of your new hobbies,
If I ever make it big, I am taking you with me buddy. I will make sure your epic free plugins get epic advertising! You rock. These plugins are better than most paid plugins!
Any plans for AAX versions of your plugins? Thanks for considering, John
nope.
Hello Variety Of Sound team,
We would like to establish cooperation with your company. I would like to provide you more information. Contact me back please, if you are interested. Thanks
nope.
Hello,
I have used your plugins at my studio and home studio and love them. We recently had to upgrade our systems to Macs and I did the same at home. Yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard this and see it coming but I want to tell you that there is absolutely nothing I have found that comes close to the Nasty DLA, especially the self osc and beauty and musicality. Not even from VST’s for 300+. I understand there is some aversion to 64 bit and Mac but I would pay to use this professionally and I am sure others would too because in my searches I ran across threads of new Mac users saying the same thing about the DLA and other VOS plugins. Thank you again and best regards, Wes
Hi Bootsie, – and thank you for your impressive work through VOS.
I am a big fan of your plugins and use especially Thrillseeker LA, Density mk iii, Nasty DLA, Ferrics, Boot EQ, Slick HDR and Rescue (+ the Slick EQ from your collaborative work with TDL and VLAG). VOS plugins are in use in almost all my mixes.
I have a question about a little detail in Thrillseeker LA: The range knob – is it a threshold or is it a ratio controller? (and is that the same in Density)? I have had a discussion about that with a friend of mine and hope you can clarify this for us (he thinks it is a threshold, I think it is a ratio).
Thanks in advance!
Martin
PS: If you’d like to hear an example of a mix check out:
(Density used for “summing” effect and gentle compression on several bus-tracks, Nasty DLA on lead vocal, Tesla Pro and Ferrics on several tracks, Slick HDR on backing vocal bus as well as on the stereo bus, and Epic Verb on guitars)
This is compression transfer curve: http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/userimages/Compression_ratio.gif
The leftmost position is linear curve (1:1, no compression), the farther right, the bigger the curve.
As for your song – nice, thanks for sharing. I like your falsetto. 🙂 And I like this “something” you did by using Tesla and Ferrics – really pleasant! And I like that your song evolves over time, keeping it interesting. Congrats!
Thanks! 🙂
Your plugins are probably among the best I’ve used for mixing and mastering. Only just got them running in 64-Bit using JBridge (so far without a hitch) and they totally dump on anything I can do with Cubase Pro 8’s built-in processors. Amazing work!!
Greetings! I really loved the SlickHDR for some additional glue on track groups (and especially on vocals). Fantastic plugin, and very unique in addition to that. However, there is one issue that causes freezing. Please let me explain the issue in detail:
– I’m using Cubase 8.0.20 64bit. Operating system is Windows 7;
– Plugin loads and works fine. Somewhen during the workflow I’m closing it’s GUI. Still fine. But when I bring it up again, the white zone is displayed instead of the GUI, and Cubase freezes (if it happens during playback, then playback goes on, but the DAW doesn’t respond to keyboard or mouse). To be more precise, it looks like a conflict with Steinberg 32bit VstBridge, since killing the task VstBridgeApp.exe unfreezes Cubase.
– ThrillseekerXTC black and blue have the same issue. Only a tiny part of their GUI is shown on a white zone, before Cubase freezes. Your older plugins, however, work flawlessly.
I tried Jbridge demo, but scanning a bridged version of SlickHDR has crashed my DAW. While the absolute majority of my 32bit plugins work great, bridged by Steinberg VstBridge, I’d rather avoid Jbridge.
Thank you very much in advance!
Hi, I love your plugins! Big fan of the tape sim and tape delay…would you be into tackling a plugin to achieve even more tapey/lofi goodness? I’m thinking along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vG399z_pDs
Maybe an ips setting, some unique pitch changes, rolling off highs dynamically?
So far uhe Satin and Ferric are some favs.
Hey there! I tried to find some private email to send this but I failed, so here it is… Herbert, I want to say huge “thank you”. Without you and your generosity, this would be impossible:
Your wonderful plugins are all over the place, spread on individual tracks as well as master buses. I could not complete this material “the way I hear it in my head” without them. PEACE and LOVE from a humble Polish musician.
These truly are superb plugins but sadly I have had to stop using them because of the 32-bit code.
Will there be any chance of 64-bit versions at all? I would happily pay for this….
Hi, I wanted to download your plug-ins, but Chrome reports: “xxxxx.zip is an unusual download and could be harmful”. Any suggestions ?
I then inspected one of the download links using http://www.virustotal.com, which identified a malicous site.
Any clue ?
Thanx, Thomas
Hello Herbert and everyone.
I have a feeling that Herbert is busy these days. Thus I hope maybe someone else can help me with a little info:
I have a question about a little detail in Thrillseeker LA: The range knob – is it a threshold or is it a ratio controller? (and is that the same in Density)? I have had a discussion about that with a friend of mine and hope you can clarify this for us (he thinks it is a threshold, I think it is a ratio).
Thanks in advance!
Martin
It is ratio (to be precise – a compression transfer curve)
It controls (limits) the ratio range.
Thank you for clarifying this. I win the bet! 🙂
Thank you so much for all your hard work in developing this plugins. I am particularly a big fan of the Thrillseeker LA plugin, it’s amazing all of the sounds that you can get out of this one! How can I send some money your way?
I can’t believe this is free. I have never found a plug in that made my $100 drum set sound so good. I want to send you money. How can I do that? PS I used this plug in on every drum track on this record: http://shopping.bandcamp.com/album/gizzard-shingles a nearly every other guitar and vocal track.
Hello Bootsie and crowd,
lately I have been investigating into your “Rescue” plugin. It is a really, really good sounding piece of gear! That stateful saturation of yours certainly is swell. And the dimension and punch that “Rescue” can add (what is sometimes called a “three dimensional” effect added to the sound) is impressive.
I have a question about the two versions, Rescue mk ii and Rescue AE Anniversary Edition. They sound quite different even with the same settings. The AE version has more top end and sounds a bit sharper than the mk ii version. To my taste and ears the Rescue mk ii has a far better sound with much more warmth and punch.
Are there any specific explanations to the difference in sound between the two – i.e. are they intended for different uses…?
Thanks in advance.
Martin
I was hoping you could let us know if NastyDLA will be ported to 64 bit? It is my absolute favorite delay plugin. Is this planned at all? I am running Studio One now and I would prefer not to use a bit bridge 🙂
Hi Bootsie, I can’t believe you offer these for free. I have been using your plugs for a couple of years and continue to use them regularly. Again, like many others, if there is any way to send a few $$ your way I would love to do that from time to time… Won’t be much at a time, but if everyone that appreciates your work and uses your plug sent a small donation, I’m sure it would help you out. We want to make sure you are continuing to support these and more great plugs in the future!
I’ve been doing a lot of speaker and room correction lately, and I work a lot with deconvolving and convolving to simulate guitar amps.
The one thing that impulse responses won’t do is simulate speaker distortion, and all the other sources of distortion along the chain. You want to have preamp and power amp tube distortion simulated already before you reach the cabinet, so the missing link is that speaker distortion.
When I do measurements with my omnidirectional measurement microphone, I have a lot of data, including THD. Lots of distortion data available! So if I could just replicate this distortion data with a VST, I could replicate the distortion between output source and microphone. Is this something you would know how to do?
Hello everyone,
Is there any alternative to download plugins ? Seems like broken or not working links.
Many thanks !
JMG
Thanks for the info – I have to check ….
Everything is back online!
Your products have been very very usefull and have become a part of the “sound” i get in my home studio. This summer I uppgraded Cakewalkn sonar to the latest “artist version” and now I cant get any of you wonderfull vst pluggins to work, have been troubleshooting for a while now but no succes.
Thank you again for the time and love you put into these fantastic tools!
Hei Sami, what do you experience? I use Bootsy’s VSTs in Sonar with no problems. X3 tough.
Ok. Then maybe it’s just a problem with finding the correct VST folders.Before I had a rely old free trial version of sonar. Now I’m using this new 64-bit version of sonar artist.
Hello, I would love to download the boot EQ. The download link does not seem to supply me with an install option once dowloaded. Just text/code/ manual, etc. Thank you for your time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Check Sarah Davis comment from february 2016
Vince M.
I’m getting sick and tired of some of the comments that i hear concerning some of the great plugins that you guys give away.Stupid comments,like,”i move the dials around,and,nothing happens”I tell people,these plugins were designed by professional,for professional.Not some lamebrain that doesn’t know the difference between 0 and 5 Decibels>If you don’t have the proper equipment ,your never going to be able to listen to the nuances that these fine plugins have to offer.I’ll say one one thing,Ferric and Baxter are some,if not the finest,mastering tools that I’ve heard in a long time.Oh,and one more thing,if you can’t here it,you can’t control it.
Just got into NASTY DLA which is fantastic! For some reason my download although it’s Nasty DLA version II doesn’t have any presets (or even a preset dropdown menu) showing on the screen. I’m using it via Reaper (latest version 5.1) Do you have an idea why there is no preset menu please?
Thanks again for this great VST!
Hello again! I just completed another project mixing almost exclusively with these plugins and wanted to share my latest track with you. Wow – I’m constantly reminded just how great these plugins sound.
Nasty VCS and Ferric TDS were used on every just about every track / master bus. Density III used on drum and master bus. Nasty DLA, Slicik EQ and Thrillseaker LA were all used as well.
Thank you !
Here is the track.
https://soundcloud.com/space42/directions-to-nowhere
Hi,
Downloaded your great Nasty DLA II but don’t see a preset menu dropdown on screen. Is there something I need to do to get the presets please?
Might we ever see VOS for Mac AU ? Pretty please. All the best, Aes•thete
Hello,
I have a problem with the FerricTDS installation – according to the instruction, I moved the .dll file to the Vstplugins (as x86 as x64) and neither of my DAWs (Presonus Studio One 3 and Adobe Audition CS6) sees it. My OS is 64-bit Windows 10. Maybe I did a mistake, would you instruct me, what I did wrong?
Thanks in advance
Marcin
Thanks for the Great plugs 😉 I find myself using them more and more. xD the only thing I desperately miss in them is mouse wheel support.. They don’t respond to mouse wheel at all… Mouse wheel support makes playing with em knobs A LOT easier and painless… It would be a great if you make your future code mouse wheel friendly 🙂
Dearest Variety of Sound:
Your plugins are wonderful. So wonderful. I was wondering if you have any plans to remaster them for 64-bit VST and/or VST3 formats. Utilizing BitBridge and Jbridge is something that I’m trying to avoid as I migrate to a strictly 64-bit mixing environment, and I’d love to keep your plugins as part of my workflow.
Also, what are the best means of supporting your work, other than downloading and word of mouth? Cheers!
“Eden Uno” Entire album used Density III
https://soundcloud.com/eden-uno
When will we have the chance to have the MAC OS X versions? I read and heard excellent comments on all your plugins and plus they have a great look! I only worked once in mix with your plugins in a studio and I was very impressed (I mix for over 25 years and I use a lot my UAD-2 and several set of plugins and I respect sincerely your products!) I’m sure the Mac community would be willing to buy your plugins and in large quantities, if you manage to get good prices from $ 25 to $ 50 each, wow! But if like many others your price would be $ 100 to $ 400 each, you’d sell a lot less! Mac users are accustomed to paying for plugins, there is very little cracked plugins in Mac! Now with your name, your reputation and your credibility, you would be very popular Mac version too, I’m sure! Why not try to start by first OSX plugin as your super reverb or EQ famous? Finally, I hope one day to buy and use your excellent products! Thank you and congratulations for your good work!
Been using and loving several of your plugins for years and really appreciate the work put in to making these superb tools. I did also want to draw attention that right now the download page is not working. Many thanks again.
Hi there,
I’m verry happy to discover that there are plenty FREE VSTi’s Plugins to find on the globe, and that there are people making verry good VST Plugins and not asking even a dime for it. Just for free. Awesome guys. Keep it on. I hope that these people will get really good ideas to make even more and better Free VSTi’s.
BUT, I had try to download the free VST Plugins that are can be found on this webpage. Sure, I would like to test some of them.
But I found out that the download links are NO LONGER AVAiLIBLE to download the VST’s.
Maybe you have an other link for me availible. I would be extremly happy if it is so.
Wish you all good luck producing your music and a good day to you all out there.
Greetz, Bastián
I second this. I have one or two but I wanted to download all of them because these plugins are replacing basically everything in my signal chains but dropbox isn’t letting any downloads now 😦 I would love to be able to download as well!
Yeah, every time I try to download any of them, Dropbox comes up with an error and saying something like “This account’s links are generating too much traffic and have been disabled”. I’m really bummed out about this. 😦
I don’t know how long i’ll leave these up, but hopefully it will be temporarily useful
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ew15ayn3o6vmxkl/AAAoVcfd-BNCqNAOjp7Mabo6a?dl=0
Thanks a lot !!
Sarah thank you so much for posting the plugin link!!! I send to you all the awesome vibes I can!!! Also, Bootsie please keep making plugins man, they’re so incredible we would be glad to pay you for them!!!! Namaste!!
Thanks. Alternatively, this link can be used
https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/alternative-vos-plug-in-download/#comments
Yeah, I’m getting the dropbox error too. I’ve tried to download elsewhere but all the links always refer to this blog with a broken link?
Hate you Mac users?
Nobody in the world has offered to you a converter platform plugin service?
Naaaaa
Hello !
I have a problem when trying to download your wonderful plugs !
dropbox say this :
”
Error (429)
This account’s links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!
”
Can you do anything to fix it ?
Thanks,
Vince
Download Links are broken! can we get them backup please?
Guys check Sarah Davis comment on February 8th 2016!!!
Hi!
I’d love to try your plugins, as I’ve heard great things about them! But unfortunately the download links does not work anymore, and only comes up with an error message saying “Error (429)
This account’s links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!”
Would you be able to fix this?
All the best,
Jørgen Munkeby
I can’t download the epicverb. It’s link gives an error.. How come? Says to much traffic but I doubt it.
Hey, VOS. Are you still around making plugins? You haven’t done anything that wasn’t a collaboration since January 30, 2014 (SLICK HDR) and haven’t done any plugins since March 28, 2014 (with Tokyo Dawn). I’ve missed the plugins.
Just want to request 64 bit versions of your plugins, specifically Ferric and Density. I love the plugins, but find myself using them less and less because jbridge is so buggy.
Thanks! (running Ableton 8 and Reaper)
Hi, was gonna try out the FerricTDS since I’ve heard great stuff about it. However, when clicking Download I get “Error (429). This account’s links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!”. (I guess congratz on expanding traffic is in order as well though 🙂
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ew15ayn3o6vmxkl/AAAoVcfd-BNCqNAOjp7Mabo6a?dl=0
Hi the link for EPIC verb seems to be broken, is there another link I need to use? Thanks and nice one for creating the plugins.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ew15ayn3o6vmxkl/AAAoVcfd-BNCqNAOjp7Mabo6a?dl=0
Hi, links on the download page are down!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ew15ayn3o6vmxkl/AAAoVcfd-BNCqNAOjp7Mabo6a?dl=0
guys dont be lazy!! read the freaking comments! here´s the link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ew15ayn3o6vmxkl/AAAoVcfd-BNCqNAOjp7Mabo6a?dl=0
Hey,
There seem to be problems with download…Dropbox dont open. Is this just temporary?
Regards, Anthony.
I’ve been trying to download Baxter EQ and FerricTDS for days and it is saying that the link has been disabled due to too much traffic. When will this be corrected?
Hello. My attention has been brought to your plug-in, but when I tried to download them, I get an error message from DropBox telling that the account is generating too much traffic so it has been temporarily disabled. Any alternative? Seems like you are in the point of asking someone to mirror the downloads – costs of popularity 😉
I’d also like to download your plugins, and I can’t get any of them! Been looking to get FerricTDS in particular.
Hi, The website keeps giving me a dropbox “too much traffic error” when I try to download your plug ins. Is there any way to fix this ?
Thanks,
Rob
Dropbox is blocking downloads (error 429 — too much traffic). Is there an alternative, or have you set up a mirror?
Howdy folks,
and sorry for the inconvenience. There is a sticky post right at the top of my blog https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/blog/ which serves an alternative download (mirror) if dropbox went nuts.
Happy mixing!
Herbert
Hi I’m having a problem with some of the plugins. I love the sound but some of them, namely the compressors, have a bad tenancy to freeze my daw (cubase 7.5 64bit) . Currently to use them I can load them into the project, and I can adjust the settings but only once or twice, eventually if I open up the plugin it will freeze the whole daw and require me to close the project and reopen it. It wouldn’t be bad if this happened one out of 50, or heck even 20 times, but if I’m going to adjust the settings on your compressors then I ALWAYS have to save beforehand and just accept my daw WILL crash.
this is covered above, you could always try reading the answers written above 🙂
but the quick answer is that most of Bootsy’s plugs are 32 Bit, and Steinbergs ‘bridge’ isn’t very effective. Use something like ‘Jbridge’ – I use this without any issues.
🙂
@JOhn are you using Native bridge or jBridge, I would highly recommend jBridge its very cheap, flexible and works with pretty much every 32 to 64bit plugin required in cubase (which isnt many nowadays.
I’m using the native bridge. I’m having problems with Jbridge. I keep all my plugins on an seperate SSD and Its not allowing me to select their folder when I try to run jbridge so I guess I’m just outa luck or something.
this won’t help much, but I have all my plugs on ‘D’, samples/soundbanks on ‘H’, and ‘I’ is my music projects, and Jbridge works fine, sees my ‘VST 32’ folder and puts it’s shortcuts in the appropiate sub-folders of my ‘VST64’ folder. Maybe try unin/rein-stalling Jbridge, or contact their support for advise, but it should work.
Although, to be fair, I actually have very few 32Bit plugs now. If a plug only comes in 32Bit I usually don’t bother anymore, but all of VoS work fine here – I know that doesn’t help but it does show that it should and can – don’t give up.
🙂
There is a minor bug with jbridge and folder selection. It will general recall the last folder location and if you need to drop back one folder level, other subfolders dont show. This may be an issue you are finding/hitting.
I work around this by checking the folder it auto defaults to when loading jbridge and just rename it temporarily, ir vst\NIPlugins to vst\_NIPlugins. This will push jbridge back so you can select the new folder location.
Once you’ve bridged the relevant plugins, just rename the vst_NIPlugins folder back to it’s original name vst\NIPlugins. Obviously do not run your host until during the rename process. Also ensure jbridge is running with admin priviliges in windows.
The fact you have multiple drives should not present an issue if you try the method with jbridge I mention above.
Also check out jbridge webpage for a few settings like opcode 19 error message and other little work arounds.
I’ve just booted up cubase and tested all 26 VOS plugins. No issues, maybe a little sluggish on initialising during loading with live audio playback. I would highly recommend jBridge for VOS 32bit to 64 bit bridging, for the few notes of currency he charges, it does the job. Hope you sort it.
Hi, are your plug in 64 bit?
Hello, i just tried download some of your plugins but i only got documents… Do these plugins work for macs?
please email me back at a.acostajr@yahoo.com. Thank you
The Aparte Project has released a new song called “Butterfly Dreams”. Many instances of VOS-plugins were used in the mix process – especially Ferric, Thrillseeker LA, Density Mk III, Nasty VCS, Tessla PRO, Thrillseeker VBL and Boot EQ. All of these plugins are higly versatile and they include the possibility to add a very nice saturation to the tracks and groups they may be used in connection with. Several of these plugins have extra options that you might not get from other plugins which gives you the freedom to calibrate the effect very much to your desire. Than you very much for these quality tools! – A link to the song on youtube is included:
… Spell error at the end: I meant to say “Thank you very much for these quality tools!” 🙂
Hi.
I am a student in my final year studying Music Technology (Sound for Media) and during my research came across your page. I was impressed with a couple of your statements particularly the pleasure you find in creating and sharing your work and also how you have not found what you require in current tools, so try to innovate and avoid straight copies. In a market flooded with emulations of ‘classic hardware’ I find your approach really refreshing.
I wondered if you would be willing to answer a few more questions for me via email if you have the time?
Regards, Karl Martin.
Of course!
Great! Thank you. What’s the best way to contact you?
I am using epic verb in Mixcraft Pro Studio 6 and it’s great . I recently upgraded to Mix 7 and everything bur epic verb transferred Any thoughts? Can I purchase this on a disk.? I tryed downloading and it won’t open in 7.
Hello! Why do not you release x64 versions of his old plug-ins? Specifically interested FerricTDS and ThrillseekerLA. Without FerricTDS I generally can not live seriously. Just a couple of days, the studio moves to the x64 system. Do I will have to give it up … I can not sleep with these thoughts … Or maybe you’re planning to release a replacement of this beautiful tape simulator?
I have been trying to install these plugins as in copy and paste into the vstplugins folder on my pc, I use Studio One 2, however, every other plugin can be seen, except this, any idea why? is it because of the 32/64 bit thing? Please help!! Thank you.
Is your host (Studio One 2) 32bit or 64bit?
Make your awesome plug-ins available for Mac users, please! pretty please!
I just went all 64-bit a few months ago – didn’t take long until I started using a bit bridge (Reaper native bridge) ONLY for some of these plugs (specifically Ferric TDS, Thrillseeker LA, BootEQ and Density III). They do use a tad more CPU through a bridge, but by limiting my 32-bit plugs to just these I haven’t had any issues or instability – these are worth it.
I fully understand why these will probably never be available as 64-bit plugs – the development framework Bootsy used at the time simply doesn’t support 64-bit, and never will without a major re-coding effort. But I don’t plan on getting rid of these anytime soon! I have Waves Gold + some singles, lots of IK Multimedia stuff, Stillwell plugs (paid) and others, but the old VOS stuff still seems to fit the bill on some material.
Hi, would you mind sending me an email? I’d like to discuss your excellent Density MkIII plugin. Thanks!
Hi! I really like the Boot EQ. The eq section in itself is splendid and to top it all there is a preamp section to warm up the sound further. The faxct that I cannot see a graph with am eq curve helps me use my ears instead of making music with my eyes. Boot EQ is a powerful tool.
Does anybody know whether the eq section in Nasty VCS is based on the same algorithm as Boot EQ? Or is Nasty VCS a different EQ Beast?
Thanks in advance,
Martin
Hey there Herbert,
you’ve been very quiet for a while. I assume you are enjoying your other ‘hobbies’.
Again, many thanks for your amazing plugs.
I use them all the time for everything, and think they are better than all the other commercial and free plugs out there.
Now, i’m not going to beg you to build them for Mac (never going to go down that road, ever!), but i wanted to ask you about the differences with having 64 bit.
I don’t particularly want to bother with going 64 bit, but i’ll most likely do it when i get a new pc (only cos of other plugs and updates), but is the only advantage of using 64 bit being able to have more and more plugs and channels at the same time?
As i would want to continue using VoS plugs, is JBridge really the go for this task?
Anyways, here’s a link to some latest work (this is a drum ‘n bass e.p.)
You’re plugs are all over every track.https://soundcloud.com/neuroblivion/sets/songs-in-the-key-of-bass-2016
There’s not much problem in using the plugins on a 64bit system – I do that with Sonar and bitbridge. There’s the occasional instability, but no more than with any regular plugin. The only real issue is vey small, when the plugin GUI is shown, the keyboard controls for the DAW don’t respond (one has to click on the DAW window and then of couse the DAW key commands respond).So really it’s a no issue.
Hi Jake, – I am not a computer expert but from what I understand you can access more RAM memory when running your DAW in 64-bit (someone please correct me if I am wrong).
I work in Cubase 7.5 (64-bit version) and I use J-Bridge with VOS plugins and other plugs in 32-bit. It works like a thrill. No problems with the VOS plugins at all. They run smoothly and work the same magic as in 32-bit 🙂
Best,
Martin
Thanks Martin. Good to know as the only reason i havent gone 64bit is cos of VoS plugs. Yes they are that good that i could never get a Mac either (and would never want to anyways). Guess ill have to get familiar with JBridge eventually (unless Ableton finally include a built in wrapper)
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I installed a focusrite scarlett solo studiio had cubase up and running . It keeps crashing all greyed out with error message saying serious problem. What have i done as i followed all instructions and it wont work
Hi, Using Cubase 6.5 here and it resides on my “F” drive.
When I copy any of your .dll files, I get a message saying: “An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application’s support team for more information.”
Since I always do what I’m told, I’m contacting you for help.
Peace
Hello ya all! Does any of you know which compressor Bootsy is referring to with the preset in Thrillseeker LA called “Swedish Clean One”? Thanks in advance!
My first thought was that it could be a reference to the CL1B compressor but that one is actually made by a Danish company called Lydkraft and isn’t Swedish. Then again the Swedish company Softtube made a very convincing emulation of the CL1B and thus the “Swedish Clean One” could be a reference to that emulation…?
I know: I am talking to myself :-). I just can’t think of a Swedish compressor that is well known… So if you can: please enlighten me.
To solve the riddle: It was made in reference to that Danish compressor but called Swedish by mistake *oops*
You are forgiven 🙂 (I am Danish :-)). But thanks for clearing it up.
Thrillseeker LA really is versatile and can work in a similar way as the CL1B as well as in ways similar to several other well know compressors.
I have a question regarding the Boot EQ: When I use it on for instance a bass track and flip between the shelf and the bell curve in the low frequency (LF) section with no value dialed in on the volume knob of that section the sound changes (as if I had dialed in a low cut). I assume that this is a bug?
I work in Cubase 7.5 using Windows 8.1 64-bit with J-Bridge.
Best
Martin
seems like a bug …
I ABSOLUTELY LLLOOOVVEE these plugins!! I actually used to use Ferric TDS on most everything when I was just starting out in professional production a few years ago.
I’ve been using waves vintage emulation plugins for some time so I would say I’m pretty versed in their line of products.. I tried Thrillseeker VBL on a project recently & I have to say your plugin blew me away. It’s LITERALLY the most realistically warm sound I’ve ever heard without troublesome midrange distortion. I replaced the other plugins I was using with yours (especially the boot eq, thrillseeker LA & Thrillseeker VBL. Creamy warm sound..
One plugin suggestion though: I think you’d be great at creating something truly iconic & vintage as far as a Tape, with wow & flutter & with some m/s three dimensional sound for mastering! (Ferric TDS has saturation but not wow & flutter)..
Once again, Kudos on a great plugin line!
Hi, are your plugins 32 bit or 64 bit? My ableton runs 64 bit plugins but yours are not showing up on my vst folder location thru ableton (they are pasted in the folder already). Please help! 😦
How does one get the NastyVSD Plugin? Pretty please? I even have an old XP machine to mess with the plugin! 🙂 Please?
-Billy
what are the chances of us seeing a updated 64 bit version of your plugins as well as mac os and even linux
Hi.
Thanks for your fantastic work. Your plugins rock!
Do you have any plans to port the VBL to 64 bit? Bridging on Cubase is a bit of a crash fest, but I’m addicted to the fantastic sound of your plugin.
I would gladly pay for it!
thanks 🙂
the reasons why 64Bits have not been made and are unlikely to be forthcoming are detailed above.
Jbridge is a cheap viable alternative to cubase bridge (all VoS plugs work fine with it)
is the Density Mk II compatible with presonus’ studio one 3? If so, how do I get it into
the program? Having a hard time finding it..
Thanks
Can’t tell that for sure since I’m on version 2.x here …
Hey there, using NastyDLA as my one single delay ever since you added the cross-feedback mode. Just a tiny niggle though (not even a bug): The triplet figures are off by one, i.e. 1/8t plays quarter-note triplets, 1/16t plays eighth-note triplets, etc… Same with mkII as well as version 1.0.1. No worries though, it’s still the last delay I will ever use!
Hello, I’ve a job offer but I can’t find an e-mail to contact you.
please send me an email to support at stamaudio dot com , please
Best
Hi …. I really like your plugins… However, I often use TesslaSE & FerricTDS… However, in Cubase x64bit 8.035 it tends to crash or freeze up the session a bit… I do use Jbridge with them but i was wondering if you will make these awesome plugins native 64bit?
Hello. I also like the plugins ALOT and am sad that Cubase 9 blocked 32 bit usage.
if you plan on doing the 64bit versions you will make many happy 🙂
thanks my friend
your work has been and is helpful to many
Hi, I downloaded Density MkIII and threw it in FlStudio 12. The vst will pop up for a second after putting it into my mixer, but then it says “the connection to this pluggin was lost” Help?
Just thought you’d like to know that for the last 3 years, I didn’t make a single mix without FerricTDS.
Thank you for this plugin.
hi there. im a huge, huge fan of booteq.
been using it for years. just today i installed cubase artist 9, only to find out 32 bit is no longer supported. is it possible you make booteq 64 bit please? i cant live without it.
Best solution for an alternative bridge to Steinbergs loss of 32bit bridging.
ola.. i know about j bridge, just not 100% satisfied with that. doesnt work as it should all the time.
really hoping for a 64 bit BootEQ version.
Hello, I just tried installing your plugins in Studio One 2 and regardless of copying the Dll. File’s to the best folder they do not show up. How can I fix this?
Just on word: Thanks!!! Eveything is perfect!
Hi! – I am a big fan of the Thrillseeker LA. It is a very versatile compressor. I understand from the manual that attack and release times are program dependant. But how fast is the Thrillseeker LA able to react? In the preset list there is a “Fast as a FET” preset. But can the Thrillseeker LA really compete with the attack times of a FET – or is that preset title more of a “tongue in cheek” reference? 🙂
In short: how fast an attack time can the Thrillseeker deliver?
Thanks!
Martin
Hi again :-). – I am writing an article about freeware compressor plugins. If any of you should happen to know the range of attack timings on the Thrillseeker LA (and actually release timings also) I would be grateful if you could share. I know from the manual that these are program dependant eventhough you can influence the timing to some extend. But if anybody knows what the fastest repsonse time is (for attack and release) please share 🙂
Hi! I’d like to run preFix as first VST in my guitar tracks since I sometimes record from noisy pedals and amps. However, the most important feature for me then is the gate which does not work properly on my device. I cannot change the attack time. It’s locked at minimum, 0.1 ms I think. I’m running Samplitude 11.5 on Windows 7. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Hello there! I’m so impressed with your innovations! Do you make your VST plugins available on Mac OS as well? Please let me know.. I’m dying to get your awesome Vst’s working on my Apple Logic.
Sorry to be naive, but are you vst only in pc format? I just downloaded your complete set. corinpennington@gmail.com
I’m trying to install the boot eq in Reaper, on a Mac. Is this not possible? I put the DLL file in the VST folder, but it’s not showing up in my effects menu.
im trying to get density mkiii on my computer. when I download it only gives me a dll file and liscence files. where is the installer?
drop the dll into your VST folder.
in your DAW, tell it to rescan plugins
that should be it
the VoS plugs are 32Bit so if you’re using 64Bit you need to buy and run Jbridge (All VoS plugs can load with Jbridge)
Hey guys,
First of all thank you for all your hard work and bringing your knowledge and passion to this game of music. I wanted to know are your plugins 64bit compatible. My DAW is unable to read them. So the only time I run into that situation is if plugins are only 32bit.
Thank you.
the VoS plugs are 32Bit so if you’re using 64Bit you need to buy and run Jbridge (All VoS plugs can load with Jbridge)
Re NastyDLA have you got a 64bit vesion planned
i hope 64bit is getting done as we speak
hi I just tried to download your plugins. But none of the links work. Can you help? I would like to download the complete set.
fixed – there is download link for the complete set available.
Guys, release please 64 bit version of Ferric TDS. It is BEST tape plugin, but I need it in my 64bit host
I know this has been asked a million times, but i’ll still ask again, Would it be possible to get Ferric/Tessla SE ported over to native 64bit? … I’m using Cubase 9 and jbridge is a bit finicy…. But you’re older plugins are really awesome, so i was just wondering if it would be possible?
Hi. Great plugins! I have two questions.
1) What is the difference between TeslaPRO and FerricTDS? Are they both tape simulators?
2) Will you release 64x plugins? I wish to use them in 64bit DAW.
Hey Mr. VOS! I absolutely loved your plugins for many years. Nowadays i’m working completely in 64 bit , and bridged plugins use to crash quite easily. So i was wondering if you are looking forward to release your legacy in 64bit one day? Guess you really would pleasure a lot of people all over the world!
Kind regards, David
Does anyone know why EpicVerb v1.5 does not load into the JUCE Plugin Host Sample application. Host sample says the plugin fails to initialize. I know the plugin works very well with Reaper (and sounds amazing!). Trying to figure out if the problem is with the JUCE Plugin Host Sample code or the plugin itself.
Hello – On the Plugin Boutique website it is advertised that the freeware BaxterEQ is available as a 64 bit plugin. I went through the trouble of downloading and installing this plugin only to find out this was a 32 bit plugin. My DAW (Cubase 9), will not support 32 bit plugins. Boy, was I disappointed. Is this the case with all of your freeware? Will I find that even if it is advertised as a 64 bit plugin it will turn out to be untrue? It’s really a shame since your plugins’ specs seem superb. Is it possible you could notify me and I guess, from the recent comments in this thread, everyone else if you ever release 64 bit versions of your plugins?
Thanks you so much for your time,
Mark Avila
Thank you for these outstanding free vst plug-ins……I have downloaded the free VOS Complete Package. It downloaded ok but I am trying to unzip with winzip trail version, so that my DAW can pick them up and load them…..it keeps saying UNABLE TO PROCESS and I can’t go any further….love those free vst plugins, I just need a little help to install them in my DAW. Can you help or give some advice?
Need Help
Tony
try “7zip” (free utility, and worthy replacement for WinZip)
Hi. I want to use your plugins on my Mac. Can you build plugins for MacOS?
PLEASE make them Mac compatible. They can remain in VST format and even 32 bit, but they need to be .vst not .dll I used DDMF v3 to run .VST’s (32 and 64 bit) in Logic X.
Forgot to say, I’d be happy to pay £10 or £20 to pay for a Mac compatible bundle.
How do I download these onto my iMac ? Much appreciated if you can help me. I’m new to VST’s as I have been a user of propellerhead Reason
Many thanks VOS.
Though I have been a game producer for more than 20 years, I started out, long ago, as a studio engineer. The game teams have audio people that don’t need much help from me, but I still record and mix tunes in my little home studio. I can’t justify a big budget, since it is only a hobby, but my ears were trained on the great old hardware that plug-ins like to mimic. Ah, champagne tastes on a beer budget.
Your audio tools were a wonderful discovery for me. I found them by downloading a number of free plug-ins to try. I quickly reduced the set to just “the good ones” and then I realized my favorites were all from Variety Of Sound! You have good ears and it really comes across in your work.
There are so many plug ins that just don’t sound good. When I found Variety of Sound plug-ins, I was amazed. They sound great. Now they are essential to my workflow. I love Density, Ferric, ThrillseekerVBL and epicVerb. I am just discovering your exciter, delay and EQ’s. It is like Christmas. Thanks again.
Hey Bootsy… Whats the future of VarietyOfSound? You haven’t released anything in years, is VoS still a thing or are you closed for business?
I was wondering if anyone was running VOS plugins on Harrison Mixbus32c? I recently started using it, and I cannot get any of the VOS plugins to work. I have tried locating the files in various folders and routing Mixbus plugin manager to those folders and still no luck. Tech support simply said the software is compatible with a “vast majority” of third party plugins, but not all. I would argue that “vast majority” in this case actually means limited few. I have come to lean on some of these plugins and would love to be able to access them in my Mixbus sessions. Is there something I am overlooking?
AMAZING Plugins! Freeware or not these plugins perform extremely well. They are easily competing with the more expensive plugins on the market, and I own quite a few. Thank you for your wonderful work.
these are amazing plugins, especially considering they are free. I use Sony Acid and I’m able to use the plugins fine during editing sessions. However when rendering with the plugins enabled the sound skip constantly. I’m using them on the master plugin chain so i COULD do a separate render pass from another DAW, but would love to use Acid. Any advice?
How well would these work on amd quad core a10 7400p with 8 gig ram?
Where is Herbert these days? Its been quite a while since the last plug. Yours are really the best in their field.
I know you’ve pretty much got all the tools covered with yr plugs but will you ever design any more?
Thankyou so much for all your great products.
hi,i download slickHDR 1.0.1,inside in archive v.1.0 !!! It should be?
Thank you guys so much for making these VSTs, they are all amazing. Great work… xxx
What are you working on nowadays? Will we ever see your amazing work be carried into the future with 64bit, vst2/vst3, etc? These plugins are easily the best in the business, paid or not, and if you were to rework them to be 64bit compatible, you could charge money for them, and it would be worth it to everyone!
Are any of your plugins going to be reworked into TDR plugins in the future too? I love evetything TDR, so that would be amazing too! SlickHDR, FerricTDS, Epicverb, ThrillseekerVBL, and ThrillseekerLA, are all absolutely amazing plugins. Oh, and ThrillseekerXTC and BootEQ. I love them so much, and I bought Jbridge just so I could use them in 64bit. I want to support your work though!
Not sure if things are still active over here but I figured I’d give it a shot.
I have (and love) Ferric on my system and I throw it on a lot of things, so it affects the dynamics of my songs pretty strongly.I reinstalled everything a few days ago and Ferric doesn’t remember any of the settings on anything it was applied to. The bottom of the plugin, where presets and saved settings can be loaded are completely grayed out (but I can still click them). I’m fairly certain all of these instances of the plugin were based on a preset I created that is now lost – but no other plug I used has forgotten its settings.
It’s VST wrapped into an RTAS if that matters – and it’s not forgetting anything now. If I tweak it and save it now it saves, but these old ones won’t load properly at all. This data is technically somewhere in the Pro Tools file, and not lost forever, correct?
I continue to be amazed by the VOS plugins. Lately I am trippin’ over Thrillseeker VBL using it as a mojo-tool in general or more specifically for extra vibe and distortion on for instance bass guitars etc. It adds something to the stereo field that I very much like – a 3D quality I guess.
Also the Baxter EQ is an incredible tool – especially on the 2-bus. And one of my most used compressors is the Thillseeker LA. It is very versatile and can also be used as a dynamic mojo plugin without compression. Often I use it for both but at times I take advantage of its ability to work in a very clean fashion even when pushed hard – very much like the Lydkraft CL1B.
If I need an exiter I will reach for Thrillseeker XTC as the first choice. And the Nasty Delay is very versatile and one of my most used delays
Thank you very much for all these brilliant plugins. Needless to say they are most definitely on par with commercial plugins – and several of them are so cleverly laid out and offer features that not many plugins have – like for instance the detailed interstage manipulation possibilities on Thrillseeker LA.
Your plugins make mixing a thrill!
Thanks for these great free plugins. if there’s anything you require bass-wise, please let me know! Cheers Mike
have you any plans about vst for mac?
I love BootEQ MKII. I use it with OceanAudio 32&64, for mixdown, but with Magix Samplitude Pro X-2 64bit, it crashes every time. I have re-installed both BootEQ and X-2 and they still crash…first it studders, then it will lock up X-2 and I have to shut every thing down and reload Pro X-2.
I really like ‘BootEQ mkII’ I use it with Ocenaudio (32 and now 64) for doing final touchups on my recordings…but when I use it with Magix Samplitude Pro X-2 it crashes the DAW. I have re-installed Pro X-2 and ‘BootEQ mkII’ I keep getting the same results (windows 10) I intalled Pro X-2 on my HP pc and I get the same results…CRASH! Is there some trick to getting it to work that I do not know about? Has anyone else Running Pro X-2 had the same trouble… thank you
Are these plugins VST only? Is there support for AU formats planned for the future?
Please x64 Ferric TDS!
I really like ‘BootEQ mkII’ I use it with Ocenaudio (32 and now 64) for doing final touchups on my recordings…but when I use it with Magix Samplitude Pro X-2 it crashes the DAW. I have re-installed Pro X-2 and ‘BootEQ mkII’ I keep getting the same results (windows 10) I intalled Pro X-2 on my HP pc and I get the same results…CRASH! Is there some trick to getting it to work that I do not know about? Has anyone else Running Pro X-2 had the same trouble… There are some other plugins that I also can’t use for the same reason…Pro x-2 will lockup. No word from the folks at Magix about it.
tripsichordmusicbox@gmail.com
Hello, using NastyDLA as my one single delay ever since you added the cross-feedback mode. Just a tiny niggle though (not even a bug): The triplet figures are off by one, i.e. 1/8t plays quarter-note triplets, 1/16t plays eighth-note triplets, etc… Same with mkII as well as version 1.0.1. No worries though, it’s still the last delay I will ever use!
Is there a manual available to download for Tessla SE and TesslaProMKII?
Each download contains a manual/reference.
Hi!
Just wondering if I can use the Density Mk2, epic verb and Ferric TDS plugin for commercial purposes?
I’ve been trying it out on some songs i’d like to sell.
Thanks in advance, Chase.
surething!
Hello Herbert,
I am an undergraduate electronics student and i’m trying to build a tape saturation simulation out of curiosity (more generally i’m interested in exploring dynamic waveshaping – that’s how i’ve found your blog). I’m looking for advices, and have a few questions about your ideas of “stateful saturation” or saturation through sidechain. I played around with waveshaping after a VCA driven by a transient detector, or interpolating between waveshape but what you are doing seems like a different thing altogether. Though I don’t know how comfortable you are with giving clues about what’s happening in the inside of your algorithms to people on the internet, so i’m only going to ask one question for now :
A friend of mine have access to a reel recorder with his school, so i’m going to send him a test signal to perform analysis, but i know that this kind of experimental analysis is only effective if you already have a good idea about what you should look for. Right now, i am planning to send 1) a sine sweep at different volumes 2) sinewave of various frequencies decaying abruptly (starting at 1 to simulate transients), the main idea is to look for the transfer curve as a function of (preceding) RMS volume and frequency. So the question is : am i on the right path here?
i should have paid a bit more attention in my electromagnetic class…
-JB
Hi,
Thanks a lot for you awesome plugins.
I used them a lot on PC but are you going to make a VST version for Mac now ?
Please do it ! It would be so cool.
Regards.
Ben
Just wanted to send a massive thank you to the developer(s) of the VOS plugins! these VSTs are extremely high quality and have a great character to them. They have become absolutely essential to my workflow and I am able to get excellent results very quickly, truly don’t know where I’d be without them. EpicVerb is by far the best sounding and most versatile reverb plugin in my arsenal. TesslaMK2 is one of my all time favorites. Great work! it is very very much appreciated ❤
Please I need tutorial on how to use the Prefix Noise Gate for noise reduction
When you download the plugin there is a manual included which explains each section.
Hello. I am trying the plug-ins and they are great! Only problem is I’m running a 64 bit system and the performance suffers greatly I assume because the plug-ins are 32 bit. Is there any work around you know of or is there any chance of a 64 bit set of effects coming out?
Thanks for the great plug-ins!
You need a bridge-tool. The VoS plugins work fine in a 64-bit DAW if you use JBridge. Check it out here: https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/
Can we get a kickstarter campaign going so you can port thrillseeker and nastyDLA to 64 bit? I’d happily throw in $30 to the pot. How much would it take? Would $1000 be enough?
Recently FerricTDS hasn’t been working for me and I can’t figure out why. In Reaper, when I add to my FX chain it stops any output. There’s still signal coming in, I can see it registering in the saturation meter. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
Maybe something new for KVR Developer Challenge 2018? Another collab with VladG and Tokyo Dawn would be genius!
Hi there,
I used to use your bundle religiously. Really helped me out with guitars and mixes overall.
Now I’ve upgraded, Cubase 9 Pro only allows 64-bit plug ins, and I miss your vsts…
Do you have 64-bit versions?
I don’t like J-bridge 😦
Thanks,
Tim.
Im using Ableton Live 9 and cannot get any of the plugins to work. I’ve putted the .dll file in my vst folder, tried rebooting computer and also tried to rescan the folder in ableton live. Nothing. what to do?
Nether Density MkII or III work in Logic 4.7 Windows XP – the plugin doesn’t show in the VST dropdown menu on the inserts – other VoS plugins are there and work (esp. Ferric and Tessla SE) but Density does not. Is there an issue with this plugin in older Win32 VST applications?
Hi! I’m searching RescueAE for an old project. HDD crashed some time ago and I’ve lost the backups. Is it possible to get it somewhere? Thanks for your awesome work btw 🙂
I have not been able to upload this plugins to Studio One 3.5.1. On Reaper and Sonar they are ok, but nothing happens with SO. Maybe is because they are in 32 bits version.
Hi, I can’t seem to understand the input staging in NastyDLA. The input knob doesn’t do anything at all. I can push it to 18dB but the volume stays put and I can’t hear any difference (with or without the SAT on).
Hello, my name is Christopher Fuentes, and i wanted to know if you will be releasing the “Ferric TDS” Plugin for mac? i absolutely love that plugin, and it broke my heart when i learned that i cant use it on my mac book pro. Please let me know if you guys are considering making a version for mac so that i can use it on Logic Pro. i would be more than happy to pay for it honesty. Thank you so much for your time! God bless! 🙂
id love a few of the plug ins to try, can u tell me how to convert for the Mac?
You should update all these plugins to 64-bit VST and sell them. Seriously.
Hey VOS!
My name is Vinyl Darkscratch, and I am the founder of Gooborg Studios. We’re known for our work in porting the popular game OneShot for macOS, and have been branching out to software and plugins as well. Long story short, if you are interested, we would love to port your VSTs to macOS. We’re not in it for the money; our primary goal is to help out.
Please let me know if you’re interested, I’m looking forward to working with you!
Hi there. My name is Mark Fireman from PluginPlay. We would ove to be able to add your plugins t our new playtform PluginPlay
We are open for ideas for collaboration as well.
Looking forward to your reply.
Mark
Hi there, is there a 64-bit version of BootEQ? I’m running Cubase pro 8, and you can only see half of the plugin’s interface for some reason.
It’s been said loads but.. is there ANY chance of your VSTs being ported to OSX? I absolutely love using them on the computer at our radio station, but would love to be able to use them for my personal productions! Thanks so much for your work!
Hello , I´m new to this plugin universe. I tried to use yours but couldn´t make them work. I´ve put the dll files in the Steinberg->Vstplugins folder . do they work in 64bit apps?
how could i solve this problem? . Thanks ,
Nope, 32bit only.
Hi as Herbert says the plugs are 32bit, but you can use a bitbridge to run them in a 64bit environment. I’ve used them (and still do) with Sonar/Cakewalk 64bit with no problems (maybe a couple crashes in several years). The keyboard can’t control the GUI the same way as the for 64bit plugins, but it’s absolutely no big deal and well worth the additional mouse click. 🙂
Indeed, jBridge also works like a charm.
Hi. Amazing plugins.
I’m seriously just curious as to why you haven’t entertained the thought of making Mac versions of these great plugs. Makes me wonder if you are anti Mac. Haha. Doesn’t really matter to me, as I solely use Windows, but I’ve read countless requests and it’s very interesting and perhaps amusing that I have not seen you even entertain it.
Use your plugins all the time. No issues at present. Feel free to make more. 😉Peace and love, Bootsy.
I have downloaded thrillseekers la and other plugins from variety of sound–all working fine until this evening when nothing is working at all –all of the variety of sound plugins give me an error message that it cant be used and the configuration is preserved–what in the world is happening do i now have a raging virus or something??my computer is not online..
Can you please share the exact error message ?
For as long as I can remember I have never been happy with the sound of my finish mix.
Over 10 years of my life wondering why my mix don’t somehow “gel” or “sit right”.
I’ve listen to tracks with the same sounds that I have, yet still get no satisfaction. My mix sound harsher, less depth, just worst somehow
I am no wiser has to why, but now it doesn’t matter because your Density mk2 takes care of it.
I personally used to instances on the master bus;
1. Glue
2. Summing
Guess what?. Everything got that finish sound now 🙂
Any master eq tweaks all sound good, before when none did.
THIS PLUG BEATS EVERY COMPRESSION VST EVER CREATED.
If I ever win the lottery I am gonna write the designer a big fat check.
For this to be free, there must be a God.
When I have time I am going to swap all my other vst for VOS on my tracks.
It’s a crime on every musician who records but don’t have access to this plugin.
There is literally millions spent on expensive plugins and courses where this will do the job hassle free.
So am i better at mastering? No
Point is my mixes got that sound that many strive for.
No new equipment, magazine etc etc
If you don’t use this then you’re a fool to yourself, be good to yourself, use it 🙂
Hello! Everybody loves FerricTDS, so I just have to try it. However my Reason 10 won’t open it. It’s as if the .dll just isn’t there. Any idea of what’s up with that? I’d really love to try it!
Do you offer any form of advertising on your website? Thank you
Is it possible to collaborate on 2 plugins inspired by Sausage fattener and Endless Smile? I feel like their GUI is a little bit unprofessional, and detracts from the actual plugin.
Hi Herbert – I was just browsing your Variety Of Light blog and came back here to see if you were still active at all in this space. I see you were here in September 2018, so hopefully you’ll read this message at some point. Do you ever think you’ll come back to continue this legendary work you did as Variety Of Sound? Was it a thankless pursuit? Did you achieve everything you wanted to get out of it? I’m still using all your plugins regularly on all my mixes – so a big thank you! The legend of VoS lives on!
Where is your donate button? I find am using your plugins all the time and want to give something back …
Brother, Android devices badly need a good (min. 10 band) EQ with an exciter (mp3 remediation) ontop. Currently there is one single decent 10 band system-wide EQ called Equalizer Pro.
Please let me know if you or anyone you might know would enjoy bringing this massive benefit to humanity, because I have some good ideas on the potential ergonomics of it.
Highest Blessings and Love (to be!)!
Hi, I downloaded the BootEq MKII plugin and copied it in my VstPlugins folder but Ableton Live 10 won’t show it.
I love the whole package you have put together. I use them during mixes. Fantastic!
Hello! In my Studio One 4 I can’t use Your plugins because it only supports vst2 and vst3. Shall You prepare some versions for vst2 or 3? is it possible?
hello there Herbert, I hope you are well and enjoying your photography, or whatever it is you do!
For years, I refused to goto 64bit DAW cos of your plug in’s. Well now I finally have and I purchased jBridge and everything works fine.
However, I came across something you mentioned in the notes for Thrillseeker XTC.
You said you WOULD be making 64 bit versions as soon as Flowstone made it possible.
Surely this must have been developed by now…(????)
I know that EVERYONE here is as curious as me, as to what YOU have been up to, and if this does indeed finally answer the 64bit question, cos VOS fans are for life.
Not cos they are freeware, but cos they are remarkable!!!
Cheers, Jake.
ps. if you goto my soundcloud link, every song on there is processed with VoS plug-ins….;)
Thank from Lilia Boisvert
I’m a 52 y.o. guy starting to matlab and C++. A loooong time in broadcast and i confess i liked those vsts so much. But, i am trying to develop a transformer based algorithm capable to color the sound as the same way tesslase does. Is there a place where i could have an idea to copy, to start with? I dont have commercial interests, just a hobby to make some old sounding vsts to myself. If you can share, of course… Thank you…
Hi guys, really keen to download your plugins, I’ve heard some positive reviews to say the least. However when I use link it does not find the specified page to do so. Very frustrating! Help asap! Gracias!
The link on that page works fine.
I’m really hoping to hear an update on your plans to continue developing your great products for 64-bit windows. I’ve always loved your plugins – I don’t know, there’s just something wonderful about them. But I had to move on (I don’t use 32- bit plugins…I have my reasons). It’s been so long – why the silence? I know others have been asking.
Jbridge is the great solution.
SUPERB WORK,,,,I AM GLAD THERE IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN THE COMPUTER MUSIC WORLD
MY CONGRATULATIONS
Hi! Please please when will you port your plugins to MacOS? I desperately need them and would pay to have Mac versions!
Hey Variety of sound 🙂
We have a blog article that we would love to share with you/ maybe you want to post it? Let me know if you are interested, it’s about a start up music school releasing a delay course.
Many love,
Sebastiaan
Subject Sound
Are you still active? I just discovered your plugins and they are amazing.
Love the BaxterEQ, BootEQ, Tape Delay effects but my new DAW doesn’t support 32 bit VST, any chance we can persuade you to release a 64 bit update? I really need these effects, my mixes don’t sound the same without them.
Any chance for a download link for the NASTY series (specifically NastyVSD and NastyCS) and RescueAE? I can’t find these gems anywhere on the internet.
The older stuff was discontinued and is no longer available.
Hi guys,unfortunately I’m having some issues with the DensitymkIII and the ThrillseekerXTC. When I try to open the plug-in for the second time,it doesn’t work,appears a white window and all my Cubase 8 project freezes. When I open the plugin at the first time it works, it’s very strange. Maybe my graphic card is not powerful enough (AMD Radeon RX 460 2 GB).
Someone has any idea about a possible solution?
Hello Herbert/Bootsy! Just wanted to say again, that i still really adore your plug-ins and use them and will do, for as long as i am producing music etc.
For anyone asking, J-Bridge DOES work flawlessly. I stayed in 32bit Ableton only because of VoS, so when i went 64bit, there was NO way i was not going to use VoS plugs. So J-Bridge was the perfect solution.
I am quite surprised though that you haven’t developed your plugs into 64bit, and re-released them as one big package for us to (more than happily) pay for.
I’m sure most of us are all wondering – where is Herbert???!?! What’s he up to? (i know photography is your thing now, but will you come back to DSP and port to 64bit, and perhaps make a couple of new plugs – phaser? tape flange?)
Your work is astounding, and are better than ALL commercial plugs by far!!! VoS fans know what i’m talking about!!!!
I’ve used your plugs at every stage of mixing and mastering.
Thankyou for all your effort and for providing them as freeware.
You have helped me understand dsp alot more, and generally now compression works, etc.
Please come back!
Warmest regards,
Jake.
ps. i’ll add some links for my music here. Everything i’ve uploaded online has been processed with Vos in some way.
https://synthicidemusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrLiberty1972
Thanks a lot, Jake! And for sharing the links.
Hello again Herbert,
and thank YOU for all that you’ve done.
Wanted to mention that somewhere on this website you said that you could
be making 64 bit versions as soon as Flowstone made it possible.
I’m sure everyone is as curious as me as to whether this will still happen.
I can imagine you selling 64bit versions as a bundle, that you well know all of us
would be happy to support.
Regards,
Jakes
I
Bootsie thanks for such incredible plugins and resources! I don’t know how I’d do without them.
I have a quick question regarding the Ferric and TesslaPro plugs, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I’ve read about the 0dbfs sweet spot, much I don’t typically work in floating point so I have to watch my gain staging for clipping.
My question is, is the frequency/compression response in Ferric or TesslaPro dependent on the incoming level hitting the plugin? i.e. is raising the input any different from lowering the threshold, or vice versa? Or is it critical to have a hot level coming in for proper response? Thanks so much!!!
Does anyone have access to Rescue AE, the anniversary edition? It is not on the download page.
Love Ferric. I use on my master channel of every project, and call the preset “Ferric Buehler’s Day Off.” lol.
Can I help you do a 64-bit version? I make VSTs, also have the full license from Steinberg for VSTs.
drop me an email.
I am impressed with these plugins, but probably the developer stopped updates …
It would be great if there are 64 bit AU for Mac!
Cant work out how to instal them just dowwnloaded and extracted but cant do anything with the extension’s am I doing something wrong? cheer’s in advance.
Hello
I am starting studies to develop plugins for audio processing. I have been following your work for some time and have it as a inspiration. I wonder if you can give me some point to start a study of concepts of audio plug-in development and maybe provide a simple source code as an example.
Thanks
preFIX sometimes outputs Nyquist tones at a very quiet level, or near-Nyquist tones, when the phase module is enabled. It goes away when I move the DLY knob.
Hey! I have used your plugins at my school and I`m trying to download them to my computer now. But when I download to whole complete set, epicVerb doesn´t work. It doesn´t get downloaded as the other plugins. I`m I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
Hi, is it possible to get/download the Rescue Aniversary Edition?
Vos VSTs not showing in Reason 11
SlickHDR not showing up in current VOS download zip.
Hi! I downloaded your plugin suite a year or two ago, and I absolutely love them. I love them so much that they became some of my most used tools for mixing, displacing many of the commercial plugins I had bought previously. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I had to convert my studio to a Mac based system, and can no longer use your plugins. Would it it be possible to hire you to convert some of your plugins to a Mac compatible format? If the budget for such a project ends up being beyond my means, I bet I could crowdsource enough to make it worth your while. Please let me know if this could be possible, and what you would need to make it worth your time. Thank you.
Hi! I very much like the saturation I can obtain with Tessla Pro – and the way this plugin can open up the stereo image in subtle (“3D”) ways. I have been studying the manual again lately and in one of the “Tips” in the manual it mentions a “red needle” in the VU-meter on Tessla Pro. I don’t see this red needle on the plugin when I use it. Am I missing something?
Quote from the manual: “Tip: The red ‘VU’ meter needle indicates if there is transient information passing through. If all transients gets saturated the needle stays to the left. This is also the
case if there is no transient information available at all in the actual audio signal.”
Hi!
Variety of sound has produced very high quality plugins, and it breaks my heart that I can’t get to use any of them since I’ve started using pro tools in my 64bit system. The software I use to convert Vsts to a format Pro Tools accepts simply won’t convert 32bit plugins.
Is there any workaround to that? What would you guys suggest me to do? I still think to this day that Ferric is untouchable, I would love to be able to use it alongside other Variety of Sound plugins in my current projects. Thank you!
Hi to All, I use “Nasty” and others for a long time with “Cubase LE7” and WIN7. Now I get “Cubase 10” and no VST in 32 works – only in 64. When do you think, that I can get your famous “Nasty” in 64 version ?
Hopeful Peter
None of the VoS plugins are showing up in my copy of Studio One. All of my other plugins are coming up, but nothing else is. I tried troubleshooting with Studio One, but they aren’t finding a config problem on that side, and all of the plugins are in the correct locations. Any help would be necessary to get them set up
hi.
first of all thanks for the great stuff.
trying to use epicverb in liveprofessor but LP cant load the plugin
it does however show up in my wavelab.
any idea why is this happening?
thanks
Hello,
I could use some help and I don’t see anywhere else to look. I use EpicVerb 1.5 with Reaper, typically on several tracks. Earlier this morning, my computer crashed mid-session with a BSOD (I think the error was “Page fault in non-paged area,” if that helps.) When I rebooted, Windows insisted on installing updates, and now, whenever I add EpicVerb to a track and play it, I get this godawful digital distortion that I can’t get rid of except by disabling EpicVerb. This happens whether I add it to a new session or the session I was working on when my computer crashed. For some reason, tracks in older sessions that have EpicVerb added are fine as long as I don’t touch the settings; the second I do, the distortion appears and I can’t get rid of it. Did something get corrupted, and, if so, how can I fix it?
Hi Michael, waiting for Herbert’s reply: there’s a number of things that may have happened, from disk corruption due to the BSOD to some incompatibility between your interface audio drivers, the windows updates and Reaper’s bit bridge (assuming you are using 64 bits Windows).
Distortion how you observe means the audio buffer is being corrupted. It’s hard to say specifically, but any debugging would like involved de-installing reaper, the VOS plugins and perhaps also the audio driver to see what’s causing the problem.
Which interface do you use?
If you are using ASIO drivers, like most likely you are, you could try to switch momentarily Reaper to the WDM or WASAPI drivers (if it can, I’m not a Reaper user) to see if it’s a driver issue.
I have W10 on continuous updates (including the last yesterday), had a session open and tried an instance of epicVerb with no problems. I use Cakewalk but I dont think it’s an issue of DAW.
Hi, Christiano,
I’m using the FocusRite Saffire 6 USB 2.0 as my interface, my OS is Windows 10 Home 64-bit, and I’m running Reaper v5.78. EpicVerb has always been a bit twitchy on my system, but until the crash, I’ve never had serious problems with it. I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling Reaper, the EpicVerb plugin, and and my Saffire audio driver, as well as switching Reaper to the WDM driver; none of these worked. Since everything was working fine until the BSOD, I have to assume that this is the culprit. Trouble is, I checked all of my hard drives for errors using Windows 10’s built-in tool, but it didn’t find anything.
Some other things I noticed: other VoS plugins work perfectly fine with no issues since the crash; the only one that acts up is EpicVerb. Also, turning the Dry/Wet knob all the way up (so that I only hear the reverb) eliminates the distortion, while turning it down brings the distortion back.
UPDATE: I just tried using EpicVerb in Vegas Pro and it worked perfectly, so I’m inclined to think that the crash fouled up Reaper’s 32-bit bridge. If I’m right, is there any way to fix this apart from reinstalling Reaper (which didn’t help)?
Hi
Have downloaded the VSts (Ta)
Am running reaper DAW but the FXbay says the VSTs are bridged- Am willing to sign EUA but cant find one antwhere?
Fantastic products, but I too had recently been having problems with them crashing in Cubase. I run 32 bit Cubase 4 LE (I know, I know) on 64 bit Windows 10. Every time I opened a VoS product, it would crash Cubase. But I think I have found a solution. I have a 4K screen, and the app properties for Cubase had been set in the ‘Change high DPI settings’ button of the ‘compatibility’ tab to ‘override high DPI scaling behaviour. Scaling performed by: System (Enhanced)’. Unchecking the override box magically made them work again. You might need to run the compatibility troubleshooter for Cubase as well. Won’t work for everyone, I guess, but I hope it helps someone out.
Hi, firstly, thank for your awesome plugins !
Using RescueMK2 i see a phase problem when put the plugin on OFF by the the “ON/OFF” button inside the Rescue. My correlometer show -0.75 correlation at 5,4kHz and -0.5 at 14kHz…It disappear when i set it ON. But it’s not cool for with/without test. I can you send you some pic, contact me on me email.
Thank you again.
Hello Im from Turkey, I have one questions to you i like my friend sound system but he is use Hardware device (Behringer MDX2200, Behringer DSP1124,,,) He is Ham Radio operator and he has excellent audio excellent modulation, Im Use Audiomulch software and some Plugin but not reach this audio type What i need for reach this audio, This sound how this sound can be..
I want this sound
[audio src="http://www.wz5q.net/mp3/w5udxold.mp3" /]
[audio src="http://www.wz5q.net/mp3/rv0aps_1.mp3" /]
[audio src="http://www.ta7om.com/resimler/essb_ta7om.mp3" /]
have you a plugin for Mac ? logic pro-x?
Hello,
I try to download EpicVerb but any link works, dont find the EULA anymore on your website…
I found a zip file on other site, but there is just notice pdf and dll extension… I’ve missing something??
By advance, thanks for your return and your help, your softs seems to be very promising!! 🙂
Hello.
All of Your plugins are amazing. Do You have any plans to make 64-bit versions of Your brilliant plugins? That would be even more amazing. SynthMaker’s successor FlowStone can now make and export 64-bit VSTs. Thank You very much for all of Your great freeware. Stay safe and healthy.
All the best,
AM
is there a version of thrillseeker for mac?…i have heard very good things about it…….
Happy New Year to you, Bootsy, and to everyone else! Thank you for your amazing plugins!
Thanks, Martin!
Basic question. More and more VST only support 64 bit VST plugins nowadays. I am really fond of your awesome effects. Any chance you will go to 64 bit as well or is there any other workaround for this?
Thanks for your contribution to the musicians in the world, super!
More daw’s only support 32 bit VST I ment…
You can use jBridge and thus be able to use 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit DAW. The Variety of Sound plugins work like a charm in Cubase 64-bit with jBridge.
Have fun with your new studio 🙂
Oh I know so well what you mean to stuck in all that digital options. Years ago I recorded – first Take and ready. One of my best songs.
I’m such a big fan of your plugins and I would be so happy if I could use them today but my DAW is 64bit and the don’t work. What a pity. Hope you have the time and the passion to program your plugins in 64bit 🙂
Have fun and stay healthy
Achim
Achim, I have the same problem and will be using Cubase. There is a program called Jbridge you can use appearently to make the 32 bit vst’s work in 64 environment. There is a free trail version available so you can check or it works before buying, and it’s not expensive, here 15 euro.
You can use jBridge and thus be able to use 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit DAW. The Variety of Sound plugins work like a charm in Cubase 64-bit with jBridge.
Hy
Il dont understand how download the plugin Epic verb.
when i click on the link nothing happens. or there is a blank page error 404.
can you explain to me how to proceed?
Thanks you
The download host is currently down. I’m sorry for that but I might have to look for another solution.
maybe google Drive? 🙂 It will be great if the plugins will be available again 🙂
Hi, i have been using EpicVerb extensively in tons of projects. Now i finally switched to cubase 11 and im using Jbridge to bridge dozens of plugins. Everything worked but EpicVerb, weird Jbridge bug or error. Is there any chance to have an EpicVerb 64 bit version someday?
Hey, hope you’ve had a good day so far.
I’ll keep it brief. Does Variety of Sound accept sponsored posts?
We have a client who is interested in doing a permanent post on your website. We’re on quite a tight deadline so would appreciate it if you could get back to me ASAP.
Cheers,
Charlotte
Currently not, thanks for asking.
Hi,
I think I’m late to the party. I’ve been reading on mixing tips and so on and keep running into suggestions to use your plugins but now find plugins unavailable. Is there an alternative site where they are available? If not I guess it sucks to be me for coming to the party late!
Hi Ted, You can still get the VOS plugins at Plugin Boutique, free.
Nigel
Hi guys. Will Epicverb be available in a Win64 bit version? Stig.
Hiya, I just want to message you say thanks for your amazing plugins which I have used for many years. I have now moved to a 64bit DAW and I’m really struggling to find anything like Ferric and VBL which I used on most of my tracks. I am sure you have probably been asked by many people before, but was just wondering if you have any plans to make 64 bit versions of your plugins either free or paid? I’m sure there would be a lot of interest in them now. Cheers
Hello! FerricTDS/Density/Baxter/BootEQ, etc.the list goes on; these are easily the most incredible plug-ins I’ve ever used–but I got a new computer and now I can’t find the downloads for any of them! Is there a reason for this/somewhere else I should be looking?
Your plugins look great but all the download links are dead. Have they been discontinued?
No, not discontinued. I just do not have any public cloud-space to offer downloads atm. Will change soon, hopefully.
Hey man, would love to get a hold of your epic verb but there are no downloads on the page. What do I have to do to get that? Thanks for all your hard work.
Just a reminder that literally all your VST plugins are legendary and amazing and are rotting away in a dark basement somewhere, when you COULD be revamping them as modern 64bit plugins and selling them as TDR plugins.
I used almost all of them until I had to move on to 64bit, and now jbridge won’t work anymore, so it’s lost in time for me now.
FerricTDS, TesslaPRO, RescueAE, every single Thrillseeker plugin, and SlickHDR, all replaced major paid plugins for me, and they are all truly among the best in class. Your saturations are SO smooth and true-to-life, and everything gains this sense of size and authenticity with your plugins. I can’t get that with anything else.
So please. PLEASE. Let me pay you for 64bit ports! 😛
Please add a pay what you want option for the 64 bit plugins. This feels unfair.
Hey there, Density MK III is not available for download, and we are now making the top 10 free compressor plugins and we want to feature it there, so could we link to this link here so then people can download it? I mean here – https://plugins4free.com/plugin/659/
Is that possible? Let me know, please.
– Viliam
sure!
Good evening,
I used to use your plugins when I was still on Windows.
Would you be interested in porting across your plugins as auv3’s onto iOS?
Gravitas
Hello,
unfortunately I can’t find a phone number or email-adress so I’m writing here. I’m the news editor for the German print music magazine KEYS. I’m writing reviews and news about freeware-tools and samples every month at KEYS, and I wanted to write shortly about your free Variety of Sound effect bundle with all new 64 Bit versions. May we use the tools also for our magazine-DVD? Can we get a permission for it to put it on the DVD, please?
Best regards
Unfortunately not, currently only beta plugins are available.
I downloaded the public beta and the one big thing that hit me instantly is you don’t have the mouse wheel scroll control for the parameters. I love your plugins I’m very happy to see them being ported to vst3 and I’m going to use them regardless but the mouse wheel scrolling as small as it is doe help me a great deal when dialing in parameters and I’m sure I’m not the only one that loves the tactile control that simple function adds.
Hi! In license terms it is written “You are not allowed to make any copies or redistribute this software including but not limited to making the software available for download or making this software part of a software CD/DVD/Blue-ray compilation.”
I want to save the copy of the software on my backup hardrive in order to install it again if I will do a format of my PC. Is it allowed?
sure!
Hi, I’ve seen that you are re-releasing plugins in 64-bit format. Any chance of Linux VSTs being produced? Thanks! FerricTDS and NastyDLA especially are top of the range. Great stuff really.
Hi, I’ve been using your plugins for years now and am happy to see that as I transition to 64 bit the VOS plugins will be able to migrate with me. Epic Reverb and NastyDLA are staples in my mixes.
I have encountered a problem with NastyDLA however. On some “delay type” settings, one channel does not seem to output a signal – most notably on ‘Ping Pong’ there is no right channel audio return. On the ‘retro I’ and ‘retro I + II’ the left side is silent.
I’m using Cakewalk by Bandlab on windows 10pro, PC.
THanks, E
Hi,
I’m really glad that you send out FerricTDS (and other VoS) for free. I’m really enjoying them so so much!
Thanks again!
But could you please intergrate mouse scroll in the future to dial those knobs? I use mouse scrolling a lot.
And another thing is can you have GUI size selection. I don’t mean resizable GUI. But I think 75%/100%/150% is useful enough for those really small as well as big screen with hi resolution.
Again, thanks so much for your hard work!
Hello.
I have a problem with FerricTDS mkII after I installed it. I’m using REAPER 6 (x64) which is installed for portable and window 10 pro. Problem is that I have not been able to see it from REAPER’s vst plugin list. I’ve trying to figure out what am I wrong however I couldn’t find any clue. Another plugins that I already used or newly installed are work fine. I would like to try FerricTDS. Could you help me please? Thank you.
I’m sorry. I just found what I did wrong and have been trying it. So far works great. Thank you.
Can you tell me how you solved your problem? I’m having a similar issue trying to install FerricTDS in FL Studio
I was using TeslaSE vst on a master track. It sounded good in a project (Cubase), but everytime when I exported that track, there was a strange volume change in the beginning of track – here’s the image https://i.imgur.com/fLJzeiR.jpeg
First I didn’t know it was because of this VST, but after exporting without it, the file was fine. Strange also, that I never had the same problem with other tracks (even if I used this vst in a similar way).
I keep getting an error when I try to download and install the new FerricTDS. I put the .dll file into my plugin directory like it says to do in the manual, but when I scan for new plugins, it finds the file but says “error” beside it. I’m using FL Studio v20.8.4 on Windows 10.
32bit or 64bit host?
64bit. I tried to download the latest version of Density too and I ran into the same issue. Downloaded some plugins yesterday from other developers and they all installed fine.
Hello, I am also getting the “error” message with Ferric TDS. Is it not avail anymore? I am willing to purchase it if you would please make it available.
The Ferric TDS plug in is also not working for me at all. This is despite the fact that I have downloaded the most recent version of it that was made available this month on 6th Sept. Each time I try to pull it up in my FL Studio(which is fully updated), it says, “error.” I don’t know what to do.
Heya Bootsy,
I’m super excited to play with the 64bit beta version of Density MkIII, one of my favourite glue compressors still! I noticed that there aren’t versions of my other favourites – Thrillseeker VBL & TesslaPRO mkII. Any plans to update these as well? Would be happy to pay for these too 🙂
Thankyou so much for your excellent work!
Cheers,
Grant
I’m a bit confused. I don’t see any download links for the Thrillseeker plugins on the Download page. Am I missing something, are they hosted elsewhere now, or are they actually taken down, perhaps indefinitely? Was quite curious to try after finding this site through BPB.
They are not yet ported to 64bit and will appear later this year again.
Sorry for the double post! I don’t see a way to delete either of these, so please feel free to delete the one I’m responding under now. I had a weird login issue and I assumed my comment never posted, so I typed it out again and tried again. Whoops.
I am so happy to see the new 64 bits version of some of your awesome plugins. Thank you very much!
Does Ferric TDS mkII alter the polarity of audio signals depending on the settings? When I saw the new 64 bit version of Ferric, I immediately opened my recent project and replaced my drum bus soft clipper with Ferric. I set Ferric up for mild compression and saturation (about 9 o’clock both) and it made my drum bus being completely out of phase with my room verb bus and parallel compression bus, which have sends routed to them from individual drums. Now I have to browse through all my sends and individually decide whether I want to flip phase on assorted elements to get some punch back. Is it normal behavior or maybe a bug? Thank you!
Indeed, you can’t dry/wet mix the output anymore from the mkII version. It’s mentioned in the manual.
Did Ferric TDS work for you?
I downloaded the latest version of Ferris TDS but it is not working for me. It keeps giving me “error.” Please advice what should I do. I really really need this plug in.
Is the download your problem or is the download successful but installation won’t work?
Both the download and install work fine. When I extract the zip file and move the dll file in the right folder, I go to FL studio. The FL studio scans/looks for new plug in on the laptop. It pulls up Ferric TDS but it says, “error,” which means that the Ferric TDS file is not there.
I have no problem with any other plug in that I download. FL studio finds them easily.
I have been using this plug in on my old laptop for a long time. I love it.
My old laptop broke. I need the Ferric TDS plug in on my new laptop. Alas, it is not working.
I will be grateful to you for your help.🙏🏼 Please make this plug in avail for me.
Are you using the FerricTDS mkII 64bit version in FL studio 64bit?
Yes, I am using 64 bit version of Ferric TDS. It is not working. I even tried 32 but in desperation. My laptop is 64 bit.
Please help. It is my earnest request.🙏🏼
I just installing Ferric TDS 62 bit again. I got the same error. Would you mind please looking into the plug in on your end? Something seems to be wrong with it.
This plug is not new to me plus I have had no issues installing other plug ins in my FL studio. My FL studio is all up to date.
Which FL version is that? Maybe some other FL users might chime in here also.
It is FL Studio 20 and it is all updated.
Are you sure there is nothing wrong with the plug in?
Not at all but this is nothing I can figure out on the short run.
I am so sad to hear that there is no solution to the issue that I am facing. Someone else also posted the same “error” issue.
I am basically stuck now.
When did you download the latest version of Ferric TDS?
Hi Bootsy,
could you please check the phase section of PreFix (latest, 64bit) again? On a sample or subsample level it alters either phase or delay or both as soon as you switch it on. A delay test yields 7 samples offset on top of the 4 reported, but even then the audio in a null test ist still well audible.
Generally I’d find PreFix the best processor for minutious aligning, if it was clean from the start 🙂 Cheers!
Is this only if the “phase section” is activated or already if the whole plugin is active?
Only with the phase section active.
How is that “delay test” performed? Or is it done by specific software? Which one?
2 tracks in Reaper ‒ 1 sending to 2. On track 2 I insert PreFix and flip the phase *in Reaper*. Silence, perfect null. As soon as I activate the phase section, the level is rising significantly.
I got aware of it when I listen to the correlation between 2 microphones in a room, Simply switching on the phase section changed the sound a lot. Comparing PreFix’s phase rotator to e.g. JS Phase Rotator is different. Also disabling PDC for PreFix wouldn’t result in a null.
Ok, will check that – thanks for the report already!
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Thanks for ThrillseekerXTC 64-bit version! Now waiting for Rescue, imo your best plugin. There was a problem in the legacy MKII version where I had to keep the saturation circuit always on because of some weird phase issue, but in some situations (ie. on master) it had too much impact on the sound so I mostly used MKI. And the AE version didn’t have presets. Please, when porting Rescue, give us the option for a clean sound (no saturation) with just the amazing stereo spread like in legacy MK1 and make sure to include the same presets for consistency. Thank you!
See all about Feric TDS MK2 in our video https://youtu.be/ltK6Sg6xryY?t=70
I have problems with the plugins, I use FL Studio 11 and no plugin of you opens, I get a message, saying that an unknown error was found, I tried all your plugins and none of them opened, I also tried it with version 20 of FL Studio and they don’t open me either and I have the first version of ThrillseekerXTC and this one works for me, but I needed the 64 version, so I chose to update it and it won’t open, is there a solution?.
Hi mate,
Loved FerricTDS mk1 — though for some reason I can’t get mk2 (or any of the new versions) to load into Reaper (v6.36). It’s a fresh Windows 10 install so I’m wondering if there are any dependencies I’m missing that are causing it to fail to load in?
Cheers
Hey guys! Where’s the ThrillseekerXTC black gone? I’ve used it in a ton of projects. Just did a fresh install, but now I can’t find the plugin anywhere anymore, so it’s missing in all my old projects. I realize your stuff is free, but this kinda sucks.
Can’t you put it in the legacy / discontinued section?
Please, I beg you once again: Please make the ThrillseekerXTC black available for download again. The MKII is a great plugin, but it works differently. I can’t replicate the MKI’s sound with it. Hell, I’d BUY the thing if you’d only give me the option to.
So, where is that difference exactly which you would like to turn off?
Anyone have an idea why Tessla SE is so frickin incredible? After all these years, i still can’t get “rid” of it, it’s the only 32 bit plugin i still use (and i have many tons of saturators). I am really “dissappointed” that Tessla SE is not a part of latest 64 bit transition. Any particular reason for this? Is there another VOS plugin, which can come close in this area. Thank you!
Your wish is my command 😉
Hello, and thank you so much for sharing your fantastic plugins! I do have one request. Is it possible to provide a 64 bit compile of the original ThrillseekerXTC blue? The reason I ask is that it has proven extremely useful in working with orchestral libraries. They tend to be low on dynamics and dark sounding and your product saves the day. The MKII mid band compression further suppresses what little dynamics are present in these libraries making the original a noticeably better choice for this particular use case (in fact the dream product for this use case would be a XTC blue with a mid transient shaper). I’m using the original with JBridge and it works fine, but it would be great to have a 64 bit compile for a longer term solution (or maybe an on-off switch for the comp in the MKII, but guessing that might be much more effort). I used to write software so available to test if needed. Thanks again for such great plugins!
Definitely would like to get a rework for 64bit version of ofBootEQ mkII What say ye?
Its just a matter of time.
Hi, what happened to the Tessla Download link? Is the plugin not available anymore?
Hello there, i’m gonna tell you my experience using your plugins, my DAW used to be Mixcraft because it was the mos intiutive and easy to use for me, that was in 32 bits, and all your plugins worked well there, ThrillseekerVBL is one of the very best plugins i ever used, Then i started to experience some stability issues but it was the DAW, so moved to Ableton 64bits, and now i downloaded TesslaSE mkII and others, their newest 64bits versions, but none of them seems to appear in Ableton when i copy de dlls to the vst folder (64bits), it would be great if you can make the plugins work on Windows 7, maybe theres a compatibility issue, so i’m reporting it here 😉 your plugins are awesome, i would like to enjoy them again!
Thank you for the great plugins. One small feature request: Please consider adding mouse-wheel support for knobs etc.
Thanks!
I send you a greeting and thank you for such appreciable work and well I am just downloading your plugins and i going to test them, I congratulate you and I will keep you updated if I have a question, for everything else, thank you for your effort and dedication…. °,..,°
None of these plugins show in Reaper 6.42 Any idea anyone please, Regard’s, Joseph.
No problems here using with Reaper 6.42. Try rescanning the plugin folder in Reaper do Preferences>Plugins>VST>Re-Scan.
Installing Microsoft’s Visual C++ Redistributables (2015-2022, 2013) solved a similar problem for me.
Thank you Tom, I will try. Regard’s, Joseph
I am running Windows 10 x64 which is up to date. My daw is ‘Reaper’! And I am running many Vst plugins, Fx & Instruments without no problems. I have tried re-scanning my plugin folder, without no joy. Still, my system can not see any of your plugins and I am baffled! 😦 Please help if you can? Regard’s, Joseph.
Hi,
First thing first, thank you ever so much for the wonderful plugins you provide us with, amazing stuff!!!
I started using them not long ago and instantly fell in love.I came across a weird issue recently, though:
they were working perfectly and suddenly, out of nowhere, they turned into “not installed on your system” in my DAW. I tried every possible solution to make them work again but to no avail.
I use Studio One 5 on Windows 10. Funny thing is, Studio one finds them when I launch the plugin scanner but they wouldn’t show up in the plugin manager nor in the plugin list.
The Presonus tech guys tried to find a solution, even by working remotely on my laptop but weren’t able to figure out what’s going on.
I wonder whether you’re aware of any known issues with Studio one or Windows 10 or both that prevents your plugins to work properly.
I hope you can help me out because I really love those guys and would like to be able to use them again.
Cheers,
Lux
Bootsy! After thinking that we lost your plugins due to 64 bit taking over I was pleasantly surprised to see that you’ve updated some of the classics to 64 bit! Epicverb and Baxter are here to stay! The new Tessla SEmkII is terrific! I’ve been trying out many different saturators and failed to find what I wanted. Most are distortion boxes and some so subtle that you have to make sure they’re not in bypass. Tessla SEmkII does magic!
There are other plugins that were so specific that there are just no 64 bit replacements for them:
Nasty VSD (such a great colored clipper/limiter – awesome for drum bus)
Nasty HF (one of the best HF exciters)
Nasty LF (terrific LF exciter)
That other Tessla transient saturator (there were mk1 and mk2 – these ruled on drums)
Is there any chance we’ll see these resurrected in 64 bit? Pretty please 🙂
Thank you!
I’ve always liked your plug-ins. I especially like your Rescue Mk 2. Could we collaborate and make a Rescue Mk 3? @robert from DSPplug
Freeware?
Or commercial, I was expecting freeware, but maybe a commercial version with a true peak limiting device might be nice as well as a freeware without. I’ve made some new technology lately that also allows a bit of denoising on the mathematical level. It’d be a nice pre-filter for mid and side, being that they’re additive. In My opinion your plugin allows a good mastering solution, especially in the way of punch reduction. Should such a device also allow a sound limiter, ideal and easy. As long as cpu cheap.
And actually, I have another product that may be the source of some wild ideas. It involves optional multi-track widening. That would be another dimension and maybe better than tp limiting? hard to say what is best. Obviously a well rounded product that’s always useful is nice. Being that you have an auto correlating haas method already, perhaps it’s the right direction and a more natural transition. I can promise width that’s wider sounding than anything you’ve heard, or subtle. Perhaps with built in phase control.
None of these x64 plugins are recognised in Reaper or Acon Acoustica today! Why?
Hi! BIG fan of your work, thank you very much for sharing this!
I have 2 plugin ideas, would you be interested?
it is an (Guitar-Cabinet) IR-Loader with 1 knob for speakerdistortion (integrated speaker-distortion-option , air-compression-option , microphone-transformer-saturation-option) , 1 knob for micpreamp-option (if possible switchable between different colours) , 1 knob for tilt EQ
another idea:
a transient/sustain shaper with m/s function and regular distortion plus reverse saturation
1 knob for transient+sustain
1 knob for tilt EQ mid
1 knob for tilt EQ side
(knob full clockwise = max transient mid & max sustain side
knob full counterclockwise = max sustain mid & max transient side
transient is send to regular (preamp/colour)distortion
sustain is send to low level saturation (like low level compression where the signal UNDER a certain threshold gets compressed or in this case saturated)
In 2022 there are still absolutely superb processing effects VST3 virtual units.
I am, like many, desperately awaiting them ALL to be ported to OSX, for my friends to truly appreciate them as well.
I have them all as per your blog update latest list… and keep coming back to your list hoping the last of the updates will be completed soon.
You should use Patreon I suggest, like Analog Obsession, that will perhaps connect you with an assistant coder to finish last of the updates you have listed still marked N/A and importantly to port to OSX?
Gawn, you know you want to 😉
Kind regards in 2022
I love your plugins…especially BootEQ and Thrillseeker VBL. I’m hoping those make it through to 64bit soon. They are both incredibly useful and sound great. I still have a 32bit environment around just for those until you (I’m hoping!) release a 64bit version of both of those 🙂
I love your plugins…especially BootEQ and Thrillseeker VBL. I’m hoping those make it through to 64bit soon. They are both incredibly useful and sound great. I still have a 32bit environment around just for those until you (I’m hoping!) release a 64bit version of both of those 🙂
Hello! I want to thank you for the excellent TesslaSE mkII plugin. Please explain why when the “Transformer” button (blue) is pressed, the phase is reversed by 180 degrees. Thank you in advance.
That should not be the case. How did you measured that?
1 kHz Sine render in DAW, render audio track and testing in PluginDoctor Oscilloscope. Where should I send the screenshots?
Ok, thats the phase shift introduced by that circuit. Its not constant but only at around 1kHz its about that amount, therefore I’ve asked. Works as designed.
So, is it normal for the sine and wave of the audio track to be flipped upside down? I agree that when summing (adding) the original and processed track,n DAW there is no complete subtraction.
A 180 degree shift equals a polarity flip for that specific frequency, so yes.
Hi, I’ve been using your new 64bit version of Nasty DLA for a few months now, and have noticed that it doesn’t save the “Wet Only” on setting in Cakewalk by BandLab / win10. Every time I reload a session I have to click it on again. Turning down the “dry” mix knob helps, in case I forget, though. Thanks H
Is there a currently working download link for ThrillseekerVBL? I used it years ago and something about the way it sounded on snyths worked amazingly and nothing else compared. I recently got back into audio and I can’t find a working link for this plugin anywhere!
Its currently not available to download.
Hi! I’ve been trying to download the FerricTDS Mk2 for about a week now, but the download link won’t work! It also seems that none of the other download links work! I hope u can fix this asap!
I haven’t used ur plugins before ‘cos they were 32bit, but now that I suddenly noticed u have made a comeback in refreshing all these classic plugins I became interested again! I managed to download like 1 plugin week ago, but now that I came back for more, the links were down…
Thank u for ur work! 🙂
I just checked the download link for FerricTDSMk2 and it works flawless here. Since it uses a redirect via bitly shortlinks you might want to double-check your browser settings or browser addons if they allow that.
Hi! Yeah, I was actually finally able to solve to problem after posting that… I’m currently using Edge as my main browser and for some reason it was giving me an error trying to download that or any other plugin from your site claiming the google drive site was prohibited or something. Then I finally tried another browser (Vivaldi) and the links worked! But the thing is I was able to download the 1st plugin WITH Edge before, that’s why I didn’t think it was browser related problem… Also when I posted that comment THIS page was not working properly, it was not letting me post – nothing happened when I pushed the Post Comment button! :O That’s what prompted me to try another browser… Thus I guess it was some sort of temporary bug, ‘cos Edge got an update about 2 days ago and now the links work again in Edge too!
Why don’t you share the source code? Its not like you would be losing money or anything.
Hello. 29 march 2022.
Your plugins ( x32 ) are not being seen by Reaper x32 v6.37 … help!
Hallo Herbert, thanks for the great plugins and updates. I would really love to see multiple sizes for it. They are too small. I really hope you’ll go HiDPI soon. I’ll pay for it.
I would like to congrats the great plugins you have made for us, and ask for an way to reach you by email to send the tranlated version to Brazilian Portuguese of the BootEQ mkIII manual. Cheers from Brazil, health and peace from me to you !!!
Hi, Just checked latest BootEQ MkIII release and it seems that Drive section inverts the signal phase.
Its actually a phase shift / group delay over the whole spectrum and not a phase invert.
Sorrily the new ThrillseekerXTC MkII doesn’t work in none of my DAWs/VST-Hosts. As well as all the other MkII Editions. I run Windows 8.1 with installed recent version CRT Runtimes 2022 on a Laptop. I’ve tried a bunch of things (Runas Admin/Compatibility/Defender off/VST Folder Path…) and now I’m out of ideas. Please help if possible.
Hi Bootsy! I just want to thank you for the updates / re-releases of your plugins. I have been using most of your plugins in the 32-bit versions (with jBridge) for years and as I have grown in experience in the field of music making in the box I have come to value them more and more. Also a thank you to your GUI designer – I believe his name is Marco? – for the great work he has done both aesthetically and for easy workflow when operating the plugins.
Thanks a lot. The GUIs were made by Patrick, btw.
Thank you for TesslaSEMKIII update. It sounds lovely and lively! Big fan here. What I miss is -1 sample reported compensation and switched phase.
In Bitwig I have to time shift to -1ms ahead and invert phase to get proper in phase sound. It is obvious if transformer engaged and mixed with dry signal. I dont mix dry signal but it is sometimes good to keep lows out of this plugin if already properly mixed kick and bass and post process with Tessla.
So if you will have time it will be fabulous to have in updated version also correct delay compensation, inverted signal (for transformer button engaged) and optional high pass as a first processor to keep bass intact especially when transformer engaged. I like the movement of sound but it is “equing” lows too much (if you already mixed them right).
There is no overall 1 sample delay in the plugin but just a gradual phase shift over the spectrum. Some hosts might interpret that as a delay or polarity switch but technically speaking that is wrong. And yes, it does color the sound, thats what I’ve made it for, works as designed.
Host does not interpret anything. It was me trying to use it for mix buss duties. As I dont like it processing bass frequencies on mix buss I put it in multiband splitter (Bitwig has built in) it behaves very phasey as it almost cancels its sound. To correct it I had to do what I wrote. With time shift and polartiy switch I can get the “correct” and lovely sound back.
Hey there, any Chance ThrillseekerLA gets rereleased? HEard good things about it and a 64 Bit version would be soooo Cool!
I second that 🙂
sure, its just a matter of time
Hi All the new Bootsy upgraded 64bit plugs work perfectly on my PC with Reaper. Today I installed the new Flavour MTC but it continually crashes. The graphic comes up and it works for a few seconds and then Blue Screen. Is anyone else experiencing a problem, or have done something wrong.
A windows blue screen?
I jumped boats this year- need to work on a mac now..
The biggest loss for me is Thrillseeker VBL.
In any dimension, could there be a possibility of that amazing plugin in 64 bit and mac compatible?
Im sure there would be a lot of happy people. And willing to pay for it (like for analog obsession on patreon etc)
Thanks!
Is there any hope for mac 64bit verstion of your brilliant plugins? Especially FerricTDS. Please!
Hi! I’m trying to set up a new environment based on Cubase 12.0.20, but the DAW blocks every VOS plugin. It won’t support 32bit architecture, and the 64bit versions of the plugins come up Cubase’s plugin blocklist as “not a valid plugin”. I have been using VOS in Cubase 5 for years now, but I’m trying to biring a couple of projects with VOS in them to the new workstation and I’m really struggling. I’ve tried downloading the plugins several times to try and eliminate the possibility of corrupted downloads, changed installation directories, I’m at a loss. Any help or comment would be most appreciated. Cheers!
On which Windows version?
Windows 10 Pro 21H2 build 19044.1706
I tried bridging the 32bit versions to 64 bit with jBridger but the app won’t create any new bridged .dll’s – I found a link to the old ThrillseekerLA plugin, installed it, bridged it and Cubase is recognizing it.
Thanks for the report!
👋 I can’t get Reaper to recognise any of the Variety of Sound vst plugins at this time on Windows. And I was so looking forward to trying the ‘plate’ vst! Regards, Joseph.
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Which Windows version?
No worries, thank you for the reply!
So I take it there’s no inmediate solution or workaround? Maybe I should dig around for the old installers and just bridge them, I was looking forward to trying the new releases but I really don’t want to not use some of your plugins haha
Thanks!
There is no instant solution, this has to be figured out with the dev of the framework I’m using, unfortunately.
Could you please double-check if the Microsoft Visual C++ Libraries are missing and needs to be installed: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
Reaper v.6.59 x64 won’t recognise any of your Vst’s in Windows! 😢
Hi, as previously reported, the x64 plugins won’t show up in Reaper with Windows 11.
I just tested with Reaper x64 v6.58, v6.57, v6.0 and v5.0. None of these versions recognize any of the VOS plugins.
With Windows 10 and reaper x64 6.58, everything works great.
So the problem is definitively windows 11.
The plot thickens. There were also some issues with latest Cubase on Win11. Thanks for the info, this is definately helpful.
Could you please double-check if the Microsoft Visual C++ Libraries are missing and needs to be installed: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
Yippee !! Now it works !
I just installed Visual C++ Libraries 2013 and also 2015-2022, and tested with latest Reaper x64 v6.64 on Win11.
Ferric and Density MkIII x64 run good ! Didn’t test the other plugins so far but I assume they will run the same.
Thanks a lot Herbert
Hello VOS,
I just tried TesslaPRO mkIII. From the downloaded zip-file I took the file “TesslaPROmkIII (64).dll” from the “64-bit”-folder and put it in the folder “C:/Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins”. Then I started Steinberg Cubase 12, and used the plugin manager to check if Tessla Pro was found. It was found but Cubase does not think it is a valid plugin, it could be that Cubase thinks it is a 32-bit plugin but it is not clear.
I strarted to write a question about this, then I had the good idea to search your blog for “Cubase” and after some time I found this entry about Visual C++ libraries, I downloaded from the link and installed, and now it works perfectly.
Maybe you could add the link to the C++ libraries already on the download page for the plugin.
Other than that, thank you very much for extremely good plugins.
Best wishes
Anders
I’ve placed a sticky note about it on the top of my Blog.
Reaper v.6.6.2 Dose not recognise any of your x64 bit plugins! Please can you help, Variety of Life?
Regard’s, Joseph
Is it on Win11?
Found out why! You need ‘vcredist’ for windows. Now all plugins work with Reaper 🙂
Yoo,
You guys needa come back with a version of Ferric Tds for the Mac !!! Everyone’s moving to the MacOS & even DAW’s like Fl Studio & etc are now popular on there. Trust me, ppl are using this plugin !! Need one for the Mac !!!!
Had this on my mind for a long time, just now hitting you up !! 🙌
Hello VOS, can you please provide me the ThrillseakerXTC Blue 64bit. It had some analog magic in the stereo image that is missing in New XTC. Please It’s a request. There is absolutely no plugin in the entire world that can do what XTC Blue can do. Please provide us “PURE CLASSIC XTC BLUE” 64bit, please.
What is that exactly you are missing? Is it by the “mojo” function or the EQs itself?
EpicPlate v1.0 won’t scan in Reaper v6.65. I tried both the 64 bit and the 32 bit versions, one at a time. They won’t appear in the available plugins (FX list).
Reaper 6.65 64 bit, Windows 10.
👋 You need to have ‘vcredist x64’ installed. It’s a free Windows application you can download! Regard’s, Joseph.
I’ve got a similar problem with Cubase 12.0.30 on Win 11. Worked fine on my Win 10 system. I’ve installed the 2015-2022 redist but seen as “not a valid plug-in”:
“Plug-ins that have been added to the blocklist
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins\epicPLATE (64).dll (Not a valid plug-in)”
Thanks for your suggestion, Joseph. However, I already have “vcredist 2015-2022 x64” and “vcredist 2015-2019 x86” installed. From a discussion on the Reaper forums, I found that someone shares my problem, while someone else has no trouble.
Sorry I can’t help further Juan. ☹️
Make sure its the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013
Thanks @Variety OF Life! That was it.
Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013
Just use Windows 10 for music. If you have a W10 disc, I would never upgrade! What’s the point? Use what works musically. I have a music only dedicated PC. Regards, Joseph.
I have yet to find another plugin that does anything like the Thrilleeker VBL especially in the midrange. Would certainly hope for an updated version and fingers crossed for Mac versions of these great plugs.
+1 totally the best plugin ever and really bad its not cross-platform. The only thing I miss after migrating to mac..
Hi, anyone have the old presets that came with the original Boot EQII release ?
Im after the “sophisticated” preset in particular – it really transformed a dull dynamic mic recording
Hi Herbert, been following you since the far booteq first editions. I had a true coup de coeur with the amp section of your Thrillseeker VBL, one of the best versatile comps still out there. I see that you made some considerable improvements on the transformer algos recently (tessla), and that was the only thing I didn’t like on the VBL (it was always muddying the bass a lot)
(sorry I posted it before it was complete)
So, I’d really like to see a V2 of the VBL, with 2 added features:
one being a switch for turning off the comp section, leaving just the AMP section,
the other one being the updated trafo algorithm. (and maybe all the input stage goodies you added to ferric)
well, that’s my dream!
I dare to ask because I see you are back with some good plugs and works, but of course I know it would be work for free, so I’m not expecting it done just because I asked.
but, oh my god, the “friction” feeling that this distortion algorithm brings to tonal sounds is sooooooo nice that I’ve built entire recursive effect chains to make it more evident on my tracks since it came out.
IF, by any chances, any of your other plugs that have already x64 capability implements the same algo (IDK, maybe your payware Eqs, maybe? I remember them having plenty of flavours, and maybe one is similar?), please specify it, I’ll be glad to buy that instead of asking you to update an old one.
Plenty of respect and gratitude.
it’s nice to have you back in the game.
(makes me feel sentimental- yours were the only freewares that I felt confortable with, along with toneboosters)
Enrico
Coincidently, I just posted this here https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/next-level-saturation-experience-still-missing-vos-plugins/
I also had already the same idea for turning the compression off. Lets see if this actually works and will make it into the update …
Just a word of thanks for the new TesslaPRO mkIII. Between it and your FerricTDS mkII, I am able to drop in a digitally produced track in the midst of analog tracks and the mix is convincing. Without these two plugins that track stands out like a sore thumb in that mix. Thank you!
Thank you!
Woo Hoo, 3 updates and a new plug, why Bootsy, you old dog 🙂
Hey guys..so i don´t know if my last question has been read.. so i try again because i have still no solution for my issue..so can the mklll version of boot eq read the presets of boot ey mkll? in cubase i saved them as vst presets and then i tried to move them to mklll but they dont show up..or did i something wrong? i am on win 10
Not sure how this works with cubase vst presets but in general it should work since the parameter names did not changed between those two versions.
Could you pls post the presets to Boot EQ II or the old install link so I can retrieve them ? The new version doesnt have any presets ( that I can find ) and I seemed to have lost my old 32 bit install ( new computer ). Thank you
Do you mind to include a “download all” or a zip for people who like to try them all at once?
Yes! It would be great to download all the plugins in one zip. 😃
I have used epicverb for mixes on an old computer and have started working with a new computer. I can’t download epicverb and so cannot continue my mixes with my new computer. Is there a way to download epicverb so I can continue my mixes without having to replace all reverbs with a new plugin?
It’s discontinued so no longer available here for dl, unfortunately.
When I have many VOS plugins in a reaper project, it appears to cause a gui bug in another plugin, trackspacer, any idea how that could happen??
Can you show a screenshot to see what exactly happens?
I have suggestion for NEW VST MULTIBAND DYNAMICS EFFECT for you cos I did not see/find such plugin anywhere and I still scratching my head why?
MULTIBAND UPWARD COMPRESSOR WITH ADJUSTABLE FLOOR:
Upward compression differing from the classic one that it makes sound louder IF THEY ARE UNDER THE THRESHOLD (see difference with the downward expansion: it makes sound quieter when under the threshold…upward expansion makes sound louder when above the threshold) – that will simply make quieter parts louder without compromising everything that sounds OK (that is loud enough).
There are some sorts of such plugins, like OTT, but it is terribly amateurish done and basically useless, unfortunately.
Yet NONE OF THOSE have the floor attribute/value: that is to set the lowest value it would upward, like for example upward everything below 40cB but do not upward anything below 70dB (<—- floor value). Every band of the multiband should have its own floor.
The best upward compressors (yet NOT MULTIBAND) and Waves MaxxVolume and freeware Sonic Anomaly VOLA2, yet none of those have the FLOOR VALUE, so both tries to upward even the quietest noises when there is no sound or when the volume become too quiet and it tries to still upwarding it – terrible! Actually MaxxVolume has gate but it seems to work not for the upwparding but as classic noise gate for the "normal" whole sound…
BTW: please, for gods sake, make all values having its dedicated input value fields so that we can set the exact value ourselves and not just by chance by dragging the knobs! :-(((
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK, HM?
So, you basically mean I should contribute to the LOUDNESS WAR?
NO, I am kindly asking you as a guy with the ability to be the first one to introduce this thing + what loudness war??? I am not talking here about some techno/modern MSM disco style whatever that all its aim is to be as loud as possible omitting any sort of dynamics, what I am asking you to is for example making this tool so that for example when I have bass sound that sound great on lower keys but lost hell of a lot of the bass going to higher notes, this thing would solved it! And I know it would cos as of now I am doing it megacomplicated way using several other plugins, like first I load VST that splits signal into several bands, this plugin enables me to load different other VST inside it for every band, so I load a plugin that do normal one band upward compression, but as it has no floor value it is a mess once the bass notes becomes too quiet cos it tries to still upwarding it (I described it above in the original post).
That being said I do not understand your point…like saying everyone of us is that loudness-freak, no way – I actually use my brain to make it sound still with dynamics BUT with constant signal volume in specific areas (like the bass sound described above, just example…other may be vocals, where the track is not volume consistent with parts very quiet tho overall it is OK – do you understand now? Using compressor with very low threshold to solve this would completelly destroy naturality of the vocal – it is no way about loudness war at all) without compromising the overall sound with classic compressor which sound extremely unrealistic (cos one would have to comp it like really hard).
Hope you see now you are not correct with your assessment here, sorry.
Very interesting argument. Always, always use your ears! And adjust level’s accordingly. Equalisation is the key. Get the bass to sound right in your channel, then adjust the remaining channel’s to colour the picture in my humble opinion.
Unfortunately no, that won’t do it in no usable way what whatsoever in cases like I am talking about here: been there, done that…nah! The only REAL WAY is the one described by me above, it is in fact quite CPU heavyweight but man the bass stays basically consistent even with notes going like 3 octaves from each other in the succeeding notes. With the way you supposing it will produce still tiny baseless high bass notes. Like I agree here that EQ is key but just the EQ itself is not and never will be enough for all the cases and definitely not for the one I am describing – the only solution is multiband upward compression with possible floor value for each band. And no: just placing noise gate there is not the same, as it would attenuate/completely silent the sound below the value, we do not won’t the values below the floor be touched in anyway – not compression, no noise gate, just to be ignored by the upward threshold….basically “threshold stop”, got it?
This sort of sounds like a multi band expander or compander.
Depending on your DAW, you could achieve what you’re looking for with some multi-effect building (I’m an Ableton guy). Saturation, Splitting into bands, gain staging and side chaining each band. Also, setting up macro controls to make it more manageable possibly.
No, you do not seem to get the difference, so here it is for all like you struggling with the differences:
downward compressor – everything above the thrs is attenuated
upward compressor – everything below the thrs is made louder
downward expander – everything below the thrs is attenuated
upward expander – everything above the htrs is made louder
Simply put, these 4 types ARE UNIQUE AND NOT INTERCGANGABLE, that is there is no like oh it sound like…no, it is either one of these four basic types or none, sorry. :-)))
I stand corrected. Thank you for clarifying 🙏
Or even better, watch this is you still struggling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_89TRju4rWw
I think there is an issue with Input/Output link in new ThrillseekerVBL – such a great tool, would be great for that function to work properly! Amazing job nonetheless
What is the issue exactly?
The volume keeps increasing when setting the input. Even when lowering output by some extra dbs it still keeps getting louder. On Windows 10 and Reaper 6, but I’ve seen others having it too.
Does it rise only slightly or in dB as indicated? Does the output knob move back accordingly or not?
It rises significantly – possibly as indicated. And the output knob move back accordingly, not sure if it has any effect then. It surely works when moved manually.
Thank You! Only issues is preset menu is blank for epicPLATE , ThirllseekerVBLmkII, & TesslaPROmkII. Please Help or email me a copy of the presets for protools
Hey there! I’ve been trying to download the plugins, particularly the x64 versions, but there seems to be a problem;none of them can be downloaded, or it takes an incredibly long time for them to appear for download. Any way to remedy this? Thx.
make sure your browser is not blocking the bitly redirect.
Hi there, I was trying to run these via Wine on macOS and Linux and AudioGridder to be able to use them on macOS. They did work sonically speaking. However, there is a memory and cpu constant increase when the UI of any of your VST is open. This doesn’t happen with plugins from other devs. There might be a chance that this issue also affects regular windows users, but nobody ever reported because CPU and RAM are included inside the DAW resources, and not keeping them open all the time would be masked by having their processes included inside the DAW itself. It would be weird to be a Wine or AudioGridder problem, because for example Transpire VST (which is Windows only) works great and CPU and RAM doesn’t increase constantly over time when its UI is open. Cheers!
Just tested Epic Plate against some really big name plate algos and with some pre EQ it did quite well in that group! Very nice product.
I had my hard drive fail and I’m rebuilding my plugins. Sigh. I seem to have an earlier version of Density mkIII on a number of tunes. Is it possible to get the older versions? Thanks. Love the compressor.
Reaper is looking for
DensitymkIII (x86) (Variety Of Sound) compressor
The current release still contains a x86 binary you just need to install that properly on your new system.
I have installed the new version and it works fine. Thanks. The problem is Reaper sees it as a new and different FX and doesn’t import the settings from the previous version of DensitymkIII. I have no idea on what the old settings were. Since I’m recovering old files I’d like the mixes to remain unchanged.
The ThrillseekerLAmkII crashed my DAW during changing values (release time i think ) “The memory could not be read”.
Hi! A strange problem has appeared. VoS plugins are not recognized by DAW Waveform 12.1.8 in Windows 11. Everything works fine in Windows 10. It was tested on an almost clean system. Maybe the necessary dll libraries are missing?
Check this out: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/in-case-of-vos-plugins-not-showing-up-in-your-vst-host/
While evaluating a number of different tape sims from various vendors by using the null method of playing two identical tracks, one 180 degrees out of phase, the other in phase and running the evaluated plugin, I discovered that Ferric is reversing the source material 180 degrees. Once I figured out what was going on with Ferric compared to all the others, it stacks up very nicely to the paid competition. But something for users to be aware of, or something to revise in the product.
I’ve been trying to install the EpicPlate VST in reaper, on a new computer, but it is failing to scan everytime i try, i have already tried to claer cache and re-escan, uninstall/re-install reaper, and uninstall/re-install the VST, but it is still failing to scan…in other computers there’s no trouble scanning, but in this specific one, it’s been imposible! what can i do in this case??
Nicolas, have you got Windows VC_redist.x64/x86 installed as yo will need it to run these plugins? Regardâs, Joseph.
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Thanks for all your work Bootsie. I have used ThrillseekerVBL no my 2bus for about 5 years now, but the mkII version seems to have cut a lot of the high-end out. I have tried various adjustments but can’t seem to get it to add the high end like it used. Any suggestions?
It does not cut any HF per se – could you elaborate a little bit about it?
Here I’ve made a sample video for you to see it
That video is not accessible (marked privat)
Try now
In the old version, the Brilliance control was able to exaggerate the HF loss introduced by the compression/saturation. This has been changed since there is no such HF loss anymore with the new version and its also described in the manual. Just add a HF shelving filter afterwards, if needed.
Having trouble getting “FerricTDS mkII” plugin to show up in my DAW (Reaper). I’ve tried all the usual trouble shooting suggestions (clear cache / rescan / restart computer, etc) to no avail. Any help much appreciated!
Have you got Windows, vcredist installed Russell? Regard’s, Joseph.
Hi mate do all your plugins incorporate over sampling?
Hi,
The download link for ThrillseekerLA 2.0 isn’t working – I have tried several different computers and browsers.
Thanks,
Jerry
Hey variety of sounds. I am running the last version of flstudio21.0.2 (64 bit) and have encountered issues with your plugins, they wont open. I have installed in different folders just in case but it shows an error at the moment of scanning them.
Did you checked this:
On some Windows installations there are no Visual C++ runtime libraries installed by default anymore. Make sure then to just install that package – for a free and safe download at microsoft.com just lookup “Visual C++ runtime 2013 download”.
thank you! it worked!
Hi,
ThrillSeekerLA download link is broken –
http://bit.ly/3VHXaAp
Thanks,
Jerry
Please disregard last comment re:ThrillseekerLA – I finally got it to work. Thanks!
Any plans for a new version EpicVerb? It was my goto for really huge verbs that I couldn’t get anywhere else, and realized I didn’t have it on my new computer. Went to DL and it is discontinued? Was quite disappointed. Would really love an enhanced VST3 and CLAP!
Check out the beta for epicCLOUDS – that will be the successor.
Love your plugins! please make SlickHDR available in 64bit, it used to be my go to plugin 🙂
Hi Variety of Sound. It is so nice that your plugins are available in 64-bit. I really like the Stateful Saturation that you have developed and implemented into several of your VSTs and make ample use of them.
Can I find a user manual for the latest version of Tesla Pro somewhere? Or is there an old user manual that covers the basics of the new version? Thanks in advance.
Ah… Found it! It showed up as soon as I unzipped the downloaded file! 🙂
Hello VOS,
Long time lover of the plugs since the 2010s. Can Density MKIII and Baxter EQ be next for VST3 coding please. I loved those dual mono plugins?
Hi, I always loved VOS plugins. I want to return after some absence. I tried ThrillseekerLA and sadly crashed my Cubase 12 Pro latest. Any help is very much appreciated!
Which windows version? Also please check this: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/in-case-of-vos-plugins-not-showing-up-in-your-vst-host/
Just found your site via Mike Senior’s Freeware tips. You make some great stuff, and glad you keep it updated. Nice to see Windows getting some dedicated love for a change. Anywhere we can send you donations or anything?
Hello, is there any hope that you will make a 64 bit version of Rescue MK.. ? that would be super duper great ❤
The FerricTDSmkII doesn’t work on my new computer even though I’ve re-installed it and tried everything possible to my knowledge. I use the latest version of FL Studio 21 and it gives me this warning message, when opening the plugin in FL:
“There was a problem opening the plugin FerricTDSmkII for an unknown reason. Please make sure it was installed correctly.”
Any help appreciated.
Did you checked this: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/in-case-of-vos-plugins-not-showing-up-in-your-vst-host/
That worked, thank you!
Hi! I was looking at the Density MKIII manual and there’s no reference to the “Color” screw. It doesn’t appear in images or text.
I’ve been using it for so many years and I love the sound of it but I want to know what exactly it does. Is it just saturation?
It is a “VCA color model implemented which can be dialed in as needed, providing a strong 2nd and 3rd order harmonic as well as frequency and load dependent higher order harmonic distortion artifacts” so the color gets introduced at the VCA stage as soon as actual gain reduction gets applied.
Excellent! Thanks, Herbert.
I am wondering if anyone can give me some help. I have been using VOS since from almost the beginning and have most of the VST plugs. However the last three VSTs I have downloaded and put in the VST folder do not show up. Does anyone have a clue of what may be wrong?
hi, i was using density mk3 on mixcraft9 some month ago, and i did reset my computer for some external problem, i tried to install again this plug-in but now it won’t run on my daw, it’s always in the section “unable to load”, i don’t understand why? have you some request to send me?
Have a good day,
Gael
Check this first: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/in-case-of-vos-plugins-not-showing-up-in-your-vst-host/
Thanks you!! it works! i’m so glad !
Hi, most of bit.ly links in downloads are dead…
They all work here. Sometimes Google Drive is a bit slow …