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I think you ment “ damn good seller”

@@cary3428 No, this man is for real.

That is the downside to Softube. Great quality plugins but you pay big bucks for it.

That's the real question :D we want to know David! (btw you two look perfect together)

I mean if no one told you what was used on a sound in a test you would never be able to tell.. man you guys need to stop with that hardware vs software bs

@@BR_READDY225 working with the true hardware for so many years, I can tell the difference, no bs here

I have a question at the risk of sounding cheap (unemployed musician recovering from recent fusion spine surgery) so my funds are super stringent; i recently decided to try to get back in the game and got a soundcraft MTK22 USB mixer along with the AKAI MPK61 ADVANCED MIDI CONTROLLER, plus the AKAI MPC-LIVE and the new ASM HYDRASYNTH and have been eyeing these mixer control surface units and and cannot seem to come to a decision most of the other ones have some issue or another the the QCON ICON PRO G2 was on my list until i saw all the bad reviews of ppl complaining about NO USA CSR support- so that thing is in my rear view mirror along with the Berinhger, the AVID one the FADERPORT the SSL UF8 - i have settled on spending my LAST FEW $$$ saved in my account on getting the SOFTUBE CONSOLE 1 along with the CONSOLE FADER 1 unit to use with LOGIC PRO - my question is; if i get this SOFTUBE CONSOLE GEAR am i “LOCKED IN” to ONLY USING SOFTTUBE PLUGINS AND UAD PLUGINS AND NOTHING ELSE??? I don’t think i can afford more than 1/2 the price of one of these units for PLUGINS each time i want to buy one?? Can i use other plugins too??

@@klownaround5464 Hey, sorry to hear about your surgery but that sounds like a great way to spend your recovery. A lot packed in there: I'm really impressed with that Signature 22MTK. I had one of my nephews get one and a Macbook Pro as his beginning system, and its far more than it's given credit for. One of my 4 Analog Consoles is a CAL modded Soundcraft Ghost, which I absolutely love. The MPC Live is rock solid according to my peeps that bought em, I'm still trying to push the X up my priority purchase list. As for your question: The official answer is unfortunately No, but..... Softube has a deal with Universal Audio and only those plugins work within the Console 1 and Apollo Central system. That said, A) if you do use UA and specifically UA Console, and if you have or plan to have a collection of plugins from those two companies, the hands on integration really is incredible. B) depending upon which DAW you use, and I'm not sure about Logic but easy to search, some DAW manufacturers (Studio One, Reaper, others, not ProTools) open up their Mixers for Console 1 to control directly the Faders, Pans, Mutes, Solos, Track Names and Numbers and more. With the 20 channel select button across the top and banking, you can fly through a 100-track mix in 5 clicks! C) if you Track using UAD Unison Preamps, inside of UA Console, the Softube Console 1 hardware feels like it was built by Universal Audio. Say you load UA 1073s across 10 Unison slots, UA Console becomes like a virtual BCM10. Then if you Mix on the included 4000E or my favorite the 9000K, you've achieved the old holy grail of Tracking on a Neve and Mixing on an SSL. But then you have dozens of other Preamps and Channel Strips to choose from. D) I buy all of these on sale, but these two companies still average out to about $100 a plugin. If you get Softube's Volume 4 on sale, you get both the API and the Summit consoles included along with a bunch of other useful stuff. Now.... E) whilst C1 is a closed proprietary system, the hardware itself is just a Midi Controller. For the system to work, Softube includes the On Screen Display OSD software, and when its running it takes control of the hardware. However, if you simply Quit OSD, the hardware becomes available to the computer as a generic Midi Controller. What that means, is that you can map anything you want to the buttons and knobs if you're willing to take the time. For instance, I use tons of Channel Strips from Softube, but also UA, Brainworks, SSL themselves, etc. In Studio One, it's incredibly easy to Map all of the controls to functions in a specific plugin, then load it up on every channel just like in C1, and just select channels in the DAW. Even though I've had Console 1 since it came out, This functionality is new to me (and everyone else). I've tested it briefly and it works great, but I haven't mapped everything yet. But I will! What you can do is switch OSD on and Off while running a session without missing a beat, almost like a third mode for Console 1. Currently I'm building my new home studio, looking at a room-in-a-room 2x4s as we speak. I can't wait to get back up and running to dial it all in.

Get any of my courses or become a member, there's more examples of distressor (and fatso) use in real mixes than anywhere in the world

I haven't tried ELI lilfreq so I can't comment, but I feel mike-e is a bit more organic sounding and closer to the distro (hw)

Me looking at the FG-Stress I hardly use at the same price

The Mike -E in my opinion. It thickens sounds up nicely and gives you a closer distressor sound.

Mike e sounds better but arousor is more flexible. So i prefer the arousor

Never end up using the arouser, it just always has artifacts that I don’t like. This sounds legit to me, I’m going to scoop it I think.

well...not if you approach it in a modern way. you gather impulse responses from various settings of the hardware unit, interpolate the gaps between et voila: perfect matching sound and nothing but code for routing and some gui work.

@@troeteimarsch good luck taking an impulse of a compressor 😏

@@Clarity-808 it works you'll get a knee

@@Clarity-808 the Acustica comps are essentially modeled this way. People online rave about them but I’ve not seen any professionals personally using them. Guessing it’s because they are high CPU or the software is unwieldy. But modeling analog hardware in software IS difficult. There are thousands of nonlinearities in how a lot of that stuff works. With as much money gets spent on plugins, if it were easy we’d be swimming in hardware quality plugins. Not quite there yet (but getting real close ;)

@@troeteimarsch Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about. It's way more complicated than impulse responses.

There are very minor difference in use but if you have Console1, you can just get that. The plugins are for those who don't have Console1

Not mine 😄

@@mixbustv 😆 alright, alright.. show off!

Softube really tries to write the code in a cpu friendly way. Most of their eq, comp, saturators aren't that cpu hungry. They still have exceptions tho!

Softube is really CPU friendly. Just finished a song with 120 tracks, I put console 1 SSL4000E on every channel, bus, aux, still can add other plugins as usual.

Just to point out, as it seems to have been lost on some people.. I was being dramatic, tongue in cheek, sarcastic.. however you want to put it. Even if it is CPU hungry, there are strategies to deal with it.

Exclusivity is only on the name, a "competing product" is only competition between the two companies, not the licenser

no

Just did a shootout *on acoustic drums only*. They are similar in terms of compression, but their tonal balance is a bit different. If you have the UAD compressor like me, turn up the Input to get a similar effect to MIKE-E's Preamp Gain section. The main difference I hear is that MIKE-E is 10% warmer with a silky top, more pillowy on drums if you want, and will help tame harshness; the UAD also has a nice tone, can be 10% more punchy/in-your-face/aggressive sounding, and it's slightly easier to dial in your compression - flipping through the ratios is roughly level-matched, and you have continuous Attack/Release knobs (although dragging the knobs is a bit wonky - try using your mouse wheel instead). Unless you're pushing past 12 on the Preamp Gain on the MIKE-E, the two devices can be adjusted to sound fairly similar (UAD Input knob makes a massive difference in matching tonality), but even when they sound different, they're both amazing and useful. Again this is all on acoustic drums only, and just my 2c

I don't have UAD but I inheredit sessions from time to time (they bring the little interface along) with their distro in and I find this one closer to the hw and better at the top and at high GR settings but also, I don't have real experience with their stuff. Not including the preamp section