Waves in particular frequently drop their prices substantially, and I got a very good deal from Soundtoys in a sale last year.
It’s often worth waiting for the plugin maker to have a sale before buying. Intuition is a good thing when creating music, but sound engineering means sometimes it’s necessary to know what’s going on and what to do. Where I feel Live has a particular weakness is in metering tools- the (free) Voxengo SPAN is a very useful metering tool as is Melda Production’s MMultiAnalyzer. If a plugin that comes with Live does what you want and you like what it does then use that and only buy third party ones when you know why you want that specific plugin.
I think it’s better to have fewer plugins but know them very well. There are lots of plugins available, probably thousands and it’s tempting to get more than you will ever use. Some manage this better than others, but that’s the aim. Where emulation/simulation comes into things is when a plugin is intended to sound like a particular hardware effects processor or instrument which has a desirable audio quality. This explains the difference between the two quite well. i'll try those ones you mentioned though for sure and learn what they do and some new language about them!Įchoboy is a delay/echo effect, not a reverb. it's mostly so i can get creative and outside of the walls of just flat digital sound:) and for when I'm better at production i will have them. I do tutorials and am going to do the warp academy mixing and mastering one month course and they say not to have a bunch of plug ins. SoundToys has released Little Plate, which they say offers the lush sound of plate reverb with a modern twist.A spokesperson told us, 'The unmistakable plate reverb sound warm, rich and spacious is now at your fingertips.
Soundtoys little plate simulator#
I don't have great vocab when it comes to works like simulator and stuff. I have valhalla vintage verb so i do not have that sort of toy right there? or is echoboy different? I think Waves Abbey Road plate reverb is a better plate simulator and has more configuration settings, but it also uses a lot of cpu while Little Plate is low on resource use in comparison. Tremolator is very good, as is Little Plate. If I only had one Soundtoys plugin it would be Echoboy, it does a good job of emulating a very wide range of delays and sound very musical. All the Soundtoy plugins are good at what they do.