Audio FX 1, 2 and 3 for free in Cake store. Are these useful?

Very old 32bit DX effects. Can be used in any DX host. The come with SONAR except for FX3. Not part of the standard 64bit SONAR installation process.

Thanks, scook. That third one does look like it might be interesting but meh on the 32 bit thing. I could maybe use them on my old machine though but I've pretty much abandoned it at this point. Cheers.
 

Beepster
Thanks, scook. That third one does look like it might be interesting but meh on the 32 bit thing. I could maybe use them on my old machine though but I've pretty much abandoned it at this point. Cheers.
 

Only if the host supports DX or you use a DX to VST wrapper.

Is triangle II 64bit?

Both Square I and Triangle II work fine on my 64-bit system (well, as much as I've tried them so far).
It's nice to have all the synths, even if only to see the evolution they went through from the likes of PSYN to Rapture.
It's my understanding that SFZ+, contrary to its name (and namesake SFZ), won't read sfz files (multisamples), only sound fonts (I know nothing about sound fonts).

Hi Beepster...
 
Yeah, they are a bit of a dead end as everyone has already mentioned that they are DX...
 
They were really cool "before their' time" plugins that never got any further development as the public (mostly) ignored them...
 
The amp simulator isn't bad... No cute gfx and minimal choices, but it can work well when coerced... Same with the tape simulator... Each with a sound all it's own...
 
the most impressive (to me) was always the FX3 which with a little more development I believe would rock the market to this day... the ability to graphically place a source and mic position as well as customize the room to your heart's delight! I loved this one and used it often...
 
What it was sorely needing was a way to map each source's entry into the room via the graphic representation... I guess that was (is?) too much to ask for, but I find this one a lot of fun to work with...
 
I haven't tried it in either of the X versions yet being overwhelmed with simply getting around the X-UI... but I plan to try again... With a vst wrapper of course.... ;-)
 
Keni
 

Hmm... I guess it couldn't hurt to try them out. Would probably be a good exercise in learning about wrappers and I'm trying to think of any room verbs I might have that work the way that one seems to. Honestly... I'm not too fond of Breverb. To me it sounds like the reverb is sitting on top of everything instead of actually giving the signal space. Hard to explain. I'm probably just not using it right though. Thanks for insight, guys.

scook

Keni
The amp simulator isn't bad... No cute gfx and minimal choices, but it can work well when coerced... Same with the tape simulator... Each with a sound all it's own...

These two along with the pitch shifter were ported to 64bit and are part of the standard 64bit SONAR installation.

That's a surprise... I know they came with the install, but as they are DX, I figured they would only work in Sonar 32bit where DX is still supported...
 
Keni
 

Get the z3ta presents from XenosSoundWorks.com for less. You might also want to consider Valhalla Vintage Verb (demo available) instead of the PC4K if you are short on cash and need to make a choice between a new reverb or compressor. Of course, Valhalla does not discount (at least not yet but at $50 a sale is unlikely) so you could pick that up the next time you had some spare change and the itch for a new reverb.

Well, there are hundred of ir files in the link above for many famous brand reverbs. Don't cost nothing but time to check them out. You also want to try a short delay instead of reverb.

AT the risk of sounding redundant, most of those effects were great for their time, but hardly worth installing.  Fx3 being the one that could add something different.  Everything in Fx 1 or 2, there are better or equivalent things in Sonar.  Sfz is kind of redundant because ,most of the functionality is in dropzone and dimension. square is very similar to triangle and pentagon (same programmer).  I'm sure there are subtle differences, but I doubt it is big enough to make it worthwhile.

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