That’s a good point, brought to my attention recently.
Well I guess I’m sticking with Rekordbox 5 for a while then
another NI side note
that summer komplete 50% off sale should be starting some time in the next 8 days. Last few years it has been on the first or second wednesday in June.
I’m biased, but I highly recommend the Unfiltered Audio plugins (huge disclaimer: I’m half of Unfiltered). During these big PA sales, Triad and LION are popular. Triad is a multi-band modular effect that uses three of our BYOME rows (40+ effects to choose from). Aside from frequency band splitting, you can use the rows as per-channel or in serial/parallel configs.
LION is our synthesizer with a BYOME row built-in. I strongly recommend demoing it before buying it. I wrote it to be my personal favorite synth, but I’m into more experimental stuff. The design of it is sort of like “2x MI Plaits, 1x MI Warps”, as you have two compound oscillators and a very weird two-op mixer. The fun of it is that each mode for each oscillator is designed around two pitch controls, and each mode additionally has an optional stereo mode where stereo imaging happens at the synthesis level instead of as mixing tricks later on.
My other favorite plugins that we make are Sandman Pro and SpecOps. However, the $49 sale isn’t much savings on SpecOps, and no savings at all on SP. Still, SP is a really cool delay and micro-looper (non-layered… more for glitching than for layering), while SpecOps is the most accessible spectral processor I know of.
Mostly, yes! In the channel modes (left/right and mid/side) there’s a PRE/POST row that processes the entire signal either before or after the per-channel processing. There is also a 2x parallel + 1x PRE/POST serial row mode. In either situation, you could use that as a full-signal BYOME row. Triad also comes with the BYOME factory presets.
The one feature that Triad does not have compared to BYOME is the AGC (auto gain compensation) knob, which is used heavily in a lot of BYOME factory presets (especially the ones by Ivo Ivanov). We tested this feature on Triad and it just straight-up sounded really bad in nearly every mode.
Also, it’s worth noting that Triad does not replace BYOME in our lineup, as we’re still actively developing both. I actually use BYOME about 90% of the time in my own music making.
Thanks for that. Spent way too long mulling over whether to get Byome or Triad, and ended up with Byome because of this. With Triad available at $49 for Byome owners, it seems good to test the waters with the “original” first.
While not really a perennial thing (but there is almost always something on sale) Silence & other Sounds is a great and cheap sample resource for unconventional sounds (comes as Kontakt libs and wav files):
BTW: the Relic pack is free
The guy from Nine Inch Nails who also produces the soundtracks of the saw movies highly recommented them in a stream for being cheap and exceptional different (and he was right ).