Ultimate TAPES and SATURATION chapter I : the Arrival !

Fleer
You da man, Zo!

Thks Fleer ...

Of course you guyz tell me your personnal favorites ... fav according to what you heard in the video ;)

Zo has made an incorrect assumption about Studio One optimisation.  On the video channel he says it is way less optimised than Sonar for example.  The latest update 3.5 has brought some significant improvements in this area for Studio One.  Granted, before it was not ideal but things have changed big time with this update.
 
CPU use has been greatly improved, core distribution etc..but overall CPU efficiency has been changed quite a lot.  Also we now have low latency monitoring modes which are quite amazing.  The input and output latencies can now be separated and set independently.  Dropout protection is also an option too preventing super large sessions from breaking up and not playing correctly.  We also have a 16 samples buffer setting too which as far as I know not many DAW's are providing.  You do need a decent interface for this setting though such as a thunderbolt interface on a Mac for example. 
 
I suggest you do the update Zo and spend some real quality time here with these features before making statements that it is not optimised at all.  It seems to me that you have not done this.  It has been greatly improved in this area. I can understand it because quite a few changes have been made here and now things are quite different.  It has become a little more complex in the area of setting buffers and things and using LLM, but there are some very good explanations of it on the forum.  Well worth reading.  The latest Groove 3.5 update video also explains it pretty well too.
 
Your video is not that great either.  Sorry, but hearing the same groove for over 90 minutes is a bit much. The choice of music for testing the tape simulators was also a very poor example.  I could have done this in 20 minutes and used a much wider variety of material in the process.

interpolated
Awesome accent. Aren't you that guy off First Dates?

Now i have to check , and i m afraid to lol ... any link ?

Jeff , did younrecord the final master on that tape or multitrack , his made a whole diff ...and yep difference are not subtile ....what i was more into was the difference between tape more than wet / dry witch is obvious each time ...this allows me to tell peopléto focus on a specific thing and then to switch model ...

I posted exemple on a more complex thing at gs bu still one bar loop ...

Yep studio is one of the best daw and surely one of the most responsive dev team ...for my students , i say for producer you can t go wrong with sonar , cubase and sonar ...those are solid choice ...if i had to choose one to replace sonar , you already saw it in the video ...;)

If you want to stack'tape in all track , tapedesk is hard to beat cpu wise , it aliases at hig distortion but i use the sonar oversampling witch leads it then to the quality expected ...

I don t use tape that much either , only for specific duties , or on final sub mixes ...that s why color , compression , qualitybis indeed important ...

I bought tape , but it was just because the demo was off ...if i had to l i wouldn t ...for me one of the bestbnew release and all'arounder is tapedesk ...
Magnetite works wonder on acoustic stuff also ...

Gonna update studio one , is it stable or did they introduced bugs with the update ?

Thks alot for your feedback ...

Ahah ...the most incredible thing for me is beign able  to change and try tapes within a second ...and not having to set up a whole rec session  !!! priceless !!
 
With all those great era things , still people making crappy music ....

If you have the J37 i would say nope ...it's really a great one but just don't take cause it's cheap /..
 
It's super easy to set up and the delay is exellent ..but this can be done in J37 , test it ...if you can ...

For some reason your previous reply about DSP vs. Native is not here. Anyway the reason I want DSP as well as I native is so I can balance my load. Whether the plug-in is native or not, I suppose it's the nature of the beast. Universal Audio have always sounded good to me along with TC Electronics Reverbs which came with a DSP card I used to use.
 
For the life of me I have two missions in life when it comes to computer music production, avoid Apple Mac and Protools - the forefathers of lockdown.