Hi,
I'm curious about what you third party Saw plugins you use and how you like them versus today's native vst alternatives. I'm guessing the biggest draw is that they are guaranteed to be more stable than others plugs? But are they way more dsp-efficient or something or sound better? Otherwise, I don't get the point.
The Sonoris Parametric Eq in particular has piqued my interest. I'm not sold on getting another parametric eq yet but Im kind of in the middle of revamping my rig and rethinking things. I have come to rely so heavily on the Nebula sampler programs for its sheer sound quality but Saw doesn't seem to handle this sampler nearly as well as other hosts because Nebula lives off complex multicore processing and ram. Bouncing tracks all the time can be a bit cumbersome and there is no freeze function so now I am looking to go more dsp friendly in other areas is a priority so I can use their sampled hardware preamp, eq, tape saturation programs liberally.
So I've been toying around with firewire and card-based systems and am starting to be more pleased with my results using the Liquid Mix for compression and hopefully soon Powercore for reverb and other effects since my newest reverb is not playing nice with Saw. I love the Saw eq but sometimes its just faster to have those graphs there for visualizing how wide your q is. My current parametric eq kind of sucks up dsp and I'm hearing that DMG and Pro L are top of the heap for parametric eq and very stable but at the same time are very heavy on cpu.
If anybody has any endorsement for Sonoris Eq I'd love to hear how it holds up in your mind (sound quality-wise, workflow-wise, and dsp-wise) to some of today's better eqs in 2013 and know more about what the benefits of running plugins in Saw format. I'll check it out myself at some point but value the input of my fellow Saw users.
Curious too if anybody has any thoughts on Anwida Spazio for verb versus other alternatives. I find most algorithmic reverbs in the box to be quite disappointing and VSS3 (card-based) Audio Exponential Phoenix Verb have been the only ones that really impressed me so far.
Thanks!
AC
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