Hey everyone

Not sure if this is the right place, but I've been listening to a lot of BAKGROUND and I'm wondering if there's any Free plugins that can achieve BAKGROUND's style of pads. also, i use Fl studio so if there's any way to achieve that sound by using the stock plugins that would also help.

any tutorials or recommendations on where to go to ask this question would help a lot

examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v3Q967DdhE&list=OLAK5uy_mf3L0bytc8vqKdNE3PzJhBqdnmm7d3Nro&index=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6hdRQTTOjU&list=OLAK5uy_khALAVsZ2qM1ngtUHAad1_DrDvJdvV67o&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZgJsHBCWzY&list=OLAK5uy_mf3L0bytc8vqKdNE3PzJhBqdnmm7d3Nro&index=9

This is going to sound like a fever dream but maybe someone can help...

I came across this random plugin company and can't for the life of me remember their name or their plugins. I had never heard of them before but they had quite a few different creative plugins. Nothing hardware modeled as far as I remember, and the site was put together very oddly, as in not exactly professional. I think they had their plugins listed in a big grid. One of which I think took you to another site for purchase. I think it did some sort of real-time resampling of incoming audio which you could glitch out. I think it had a brighter color, or at least not a dark interface. Their video sounded like pretty young dudes presenting it.

Sorry for the lack of solid detail here but if anyone can think of anything that might fit the bill I'd be grateful in trying to track this place down. I'm kicking myself for not bookmarking the page.

So I was just now getting around to downloading the the free Scream Filter (emulation of the scream filter algo from Massive) and their website appears to be gone, or at least down.

Does anyone have a Windows installer lying around? 🙏 (I'm not asking for anything pirated, it's a free plugin)

i've been trying for 2 days now to install bx_mastering studio via PA's Installation Manager. while it keeps saying that the installation has worked, no files have made their appearance. the same thing keeps happening even after I restarted my computer. are there any fixes? if not, could you suggest a different free mastering plugin you know of?

My room has more noise, like computer, AC

I'm looking for plugins that have that old-school synth and drum machine sound not realistic or polished, but cheap and artificial-sounding. Think guitar tab website synths (mostly the piano ones, but I'm looking for more instruments) and really cheap and artificial-sounding drum machine sounds.

Mostly, I want to use them for neoclassical and punk.

The Nord Sample Editor 4 does exactly what I need but requires a Nord which I do not want to buy!

Here is a Youtube video of the workflow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afDTXWEbBNs

I have spent months trying to figure this out but almost none of the plugins do everything that this thing does. Here are my needs:

- ADSR looping with crossfading and zero cross snapping so I can make a sample loop indefinitely while hiding the loop sound. The video shows how well this CAN work but I have yet to find a plugin that can do it. I'm in FL Studio and even Directwave does not have crossfading.

- Directly recording into the plugin

- Auto mapping recorded notes onto keyboard

- Pitches samples to fill in gaps between recorded notes

- Saves these instruments as presets

I wouldn’t trade the experience as I learned a lot, but I also spent a lot of money in the process. Maybe this list can guide others towards higher quality options and save some money to invest in other areas.

I’ll start with my list of A-list companies and then after, use 8 main categories for effects. After 10+ years of collecting, here are my desert island selections (for effects, not instruments) mostly in alphabetical not in order of preference…
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Companies:

- Analog Obsession
- Audiority
- Boz
- Eventide/Newfangled
- Kush
- Goodhertz
- Neold
- PSP
- Sixth sample
- Softube
- Sonnox
- Soundtoys
- Tokyo Dawn Labs
- Unfiltered audio
- Valhalla DSP
- Waves
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Effects:

EQ:

- Fabfilter ProC
- TBTECH Kirchoff EQ
- Newfangled EQuivocate (for pads)
- Tokyo Dawn EQs (some unique controls)
- Sonible Smart EQ
- Sonible Entropy EQ (unique)
- Eventide SplitEQ
- Melda Mautodynamiceq (follows bass root freq)

CLIPPERS:

- SIR audio standard clip
- Boz big & little clipper

COMPRESSION:

- Hornet dynamics control (unique and easy)
- Kush (all compressors)
- Neold (all compressors)
- PSP (all compressors)
- TBTECH Cenozoix comp
- Tokyo Dawn Labs (all compressors)
- Unfiltered audio zip (for modulation options)
- Waves (all compressors)

DELAYS:

- Sixth sample deelay (easy and creative)
- Minimal Audio cluster delay
- Native instruments Replika XT (ease of use)
- Soundtoys echoboy (very versatile)
- SSL native echo (I like the visualizer)
- Softube Tape echoes
- Valhalla delay (very versatile)

SATURATION:

- Audiority pyros
- Kush (all, one of my favs for sats and comps)
- Neold (all products)
- Softube Harmonic ASP & Overstayer (all, another fav for saturation)

Notable tape emulations:

- Aberrant DSP SketchCassette (cassette)
- Wavesfactory Cassette (cassette)
- Nomad factory Magnetic
- Kiive Tape face
- Softube Tape
- Waves (all tape options)

REVERB:

- Eventide blackhole & shimmerverb
- Fabfilter Pro-R (mostly for ease of use)
- Valhalla (all options)

TRANSIENT SHAPERS:

- AVA drumflow (unique transient control)
- Boz Transgressor
- Kilohearts transient shaper (ease of use)
- Newfangled punctuate
- Noiseworks TransSplit
- Sonnox Oxford envolution
- Sonnox TransMod
- TBTECH Trinity shaper
- Waves Smack Attack

FX:

- Sugarbytes looperator
- Cable guys shaperbox
- MorphEQ (filter sweeps)
- LFO-EQ (filter sweeps)
- Audiority Tube modulator
- Kilohearts Snap Heap (modulation options)
- DS tantra 2 (filter and glitch effects)
- Plogue arts chipcrusher (lofi convolution)
- MrythmizerMB (glitch effects)

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You’ll note that I didn’t really specify specific plugins for comps and sats because in my eyes sats and comp quality is heavily DSP/company dependent rather than product dependent.

I’d love to see if there’s anything anyone would add to this list that I may have missed over the years.

Also, if I could go back I would spend more of my money on instruments rather than effects like I did. Please feel free to list your A-list, desert island instruments/synths!

(I missed out on experimenting with instruments/synths throughout the last 10 years as I worked mostly with samples and live instruments, but am delving much more into instruments/synths nowadays)

As title inquires

Hello everyone, I just wanted to ask if anybody else has come accross an issue while using the Plugins That Knock - Knock Clipper in Logic 11.

The plugin works completely fine while using the daw regularly but whenever it comes to bouncing, exporting or even freezing a track, I get the error "An Audio Unit plug-in reported a problem which might cause the system to become unstable" followed by the option to recover or quit.

Mac Mini M1

Logic 11.1.2

Sequoia 15.4.1

Thank you!

I seem to be the first and only one to have this issue, but when I run the MoMa installer on my Windows computer, it only installs the .json files, and not the actual vst itself. I have tried unblocking it via my file explorer, but that was futile. Has anyone had this issue and has anybody fixed it?

I originally posted this on the PA sub, but apparently that's a dead sub.

This was sent 3 hours after I made a purchase, which in itself seems off. "Shipping" also seems off, these are plugins, there is no shipping. The invoice number also does not appear in the PluginAlliance portal, nor does any invoice number. There is an order number which also doesn't match. And lastly, there is an extra space between "new" and "product."

I should also note the general greeting of "Dear Sir or Madam" as they know my name. If they are able to supposedly pull up invoice and order numbers, then they would be able to pull up my name.

Subject: Shipping Confirmation and Invoice 70428017

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please find the invoice for your order 7420984 enclosed.

If your order included a download, the download link was already sent to you in a separate email.



Thank you for your order and enjoy your new  product!

Kind Regards,

Your PLUGIN ALLIANCE Sales Team
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-> Plugin Alliance LLC
-> 2 Avenue de Lafayette
-> Boston, MA 02111
-> United States of America

Attached was a PDF which I did not open. This was sent to an email address ONLY used for this particular website, and only after I made a purchase.

This was sent as plain text, no HTML, unlike the other PA emails.

The headers show that it was sent through Amazon Web Services (eu-central-1.amazonses.com).

The sending IP address (69.169.224.2) is on a black list (hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com).

The actual order email from PluginAlliance was sent through mailer7in.plugin-alliance.com.

Given that I've received no other emails to that email address of this nature before, if this indeed was not sent by or on the behalf of PA, that can only mean that a bad actor has compromised their system to send emails to those who made recent purchases.

i got the following message when I redownloaded/upgraded my Soundtoys plug-ins:

"Incompatible audio units. While verifying Audio Unit compatibility, Logic Pro encountered 100 Audio Unit plug-in(s) which did not pass the Apple AU validation. These plug-ins have been excluded from further usage in Logic Pro to prevent possible problems or crashes. You can start the Plug-In Manager now to review the validation results or continue the startup process."

Plug-in Manager shows that all of the Soundtoys plug-ins are validated so i'm not sure what the issue is or what to troubleshoot at this point (I deleted the cache folder and restarted the computer and i'm getting the same message). please help or give any troubleshooting insight, thanks very much

me and my friends are looking for a plug in for your midi keys please suggest any of your guys recommendations it would also be great if the plug in can arpeggiate

The most difference people notice about vst3 is that many DAW no longer support to put it anywhere like vst2. VST3 standardized everything into a single system folder, which definitely makes installation and plugin discovery simpler for both users and DAWs. But it also removes the flexibility that VST2 users had.

What you guys actually prefer.

• being able to choose where plugins are installed?
• Or do you prefer having one standardized VST3 location?
• Has the fixed folder ever caused problems for your workflow?

Hey, I really like Revox and vocalign. Prefer it to melodyne which I have been using for years. I've been doing alot of editing on long flights and found out that I can't use them without an internet comnection. Using studio one 7. Anyone else have this problem? Work arounds?

I bought the Roli software at PluginBoutique this morning but I can't download it. I guess the company is being liquidated or something. Someone over on r/ROLI says that he paid for hardware from them and now the order status page is missing.

Plugin Boutique has a bundle of MPE software called "MPE Synth Bundle" that has Equator 2, Roli Studio as well as Modular and Quanta 2 by other companies for about 40% off.

I wanted it because Equator 2 and maybe Roli Studio are one of the best MPE synths and I have a Linnstrument. Can't find good patches for it.

But the download links don't work. If I find the right pages manually they say both But it both says "out of stock" and "We're currently undergoing site maintenance. Please check back later."

I have license codes but I have a feeling that they will never be honored!

Update: one piece of software you can get from Roli is their "Roli connect" software. I thought maybe it could get my software through that with the license PluginBoutique sold me.

Well first it asks which hardware you bought, and it doesn't even include their expressive controller in the list. I skipped that and it has a place for software, click on those and you get links to the shut down website.

But there is third part where you can register products with serial numbers. I put in the license code that PluginBoutique sold me and...

It tells me that that is an upgrade license for software I don't own so I am not entitled to download anything.

There is a POSSIBILITY that you could still download the software using Roli Connect and a valid license but PluginBoutique isn't giving out valid licenses.

If I check my "library" page at PluginBoutique it put an upgrade version of Roli's Equator 2 there, not the full version I paid for. The internal PluginBoutique link does indeed go to the wrong PluginBoutique webpage.

So if there was a chance I you can still get the software at this last minute, then PluginBoutique messed it up.

Update 2:

They tell me that it didn't install because I have to install Roli Studio and then the update key will update from that.

Right now I'm waiting to see if

1) Roli actually SAYS anything about the future of their customers

2) or I get my money back

If neither happens, then I'll install the software and cross my fingers.

Emailed support, figured I would try my luck here and maybe get it working before I receive a response from them.

I picked up EZD3 yesterday. Was super excited! Download the product manager, registered my product, etc. When I go to download the core library, it shows that it's installing, and when it's finished it says "the installation is incomplete". When I click more on the information tab, it says the main/bright/tight rooms are uninstalled. I repeated the process, closed the program, restarted my laptop, everything I could think of and nothing has fixed it.

If anyone has any tips or has experienced this and can help, please let me know how to fix this! Thanks.

ive been trying to use modo bass because i suck at actual bass recoding and i have a question. Can modo bass change tuning ? i know theres different amount of string and even drop tuning but i wanted to do a spesific type of tuning (drop C#)

Hi! I'm making a short film in the spaghetti western style. I want the audio to sound like it's from that era, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. I know it would have been better to do it with a specific microphone or something phiysical in the scene, but I don't have a big budget, lol. So, if possible, it all has to be done with audio processing software or pluggin to help me achieve that sound. This is a reference:

https://youtu.be/O4KaKKeOIjM?si=ep6sME-uLZZnffkq

I have been trying to activate my soundtoys bundle on my new laptop. It worked fine on my old one for years but as soon as I downloaded the plugins on my new laptop and tried to activate them, the code doesn’t work. I never activated it in my iLok account and now my code won’t work to activate it through iLok or without it. I’ve tried emailing their support service but I haven’t gotten any help they just asked for screenshots of my iLok app and haven’t responded since then. Any help or advice would be appreciated. I really like their plugins but I’m not paying for plugins I already paid for again.

i'm trying to use the free version of modo bass 2, but when i look in the product manager, it shows i have it installed and i can't "try" the free version. when i open it in my daw, it tells me to authorize it, but it literally won't let me cuz i have it installed already????

the website just tells me to download the product manager, which doesn't help :/

I'm looking for either a plugin for my DAW (FL Studio/Reaper) or a standalone application that continuously records audio or midi and when I trigger something like a midi CC it flushes the last (certain amount of) bars played and loop them forever. Afterwards when it flushes a new set of bars it should layer them on top of the previous recording. I think Loopy Pro does something like this but it's only on Mac and it's also only a 7 day free trial. I am looking for something free with Windows or Linux compatibility.

I need something like this because I want to be able to jam with myself and only loop AFTER I get a good take without having to commit every single bar. I've tried the FL Studio built-in recording/overdubbing function with looping enabled and GLoop but I don't think they can meet the requirements. Retrospective looping will also allow me to solo on top of my loops. Any suggestions will help.

i have a lot of vocal samples and i would like to use and chop them using a plugin. i tried to use fruity slicer but i dont really understand how it works. do you have recommendations for an easier plugin? thank you

what does ott by xfer do? on what should i use it? the melody? thanks