Bajan Blue
I do think originally it was a good idea, poorly executed unfortunately and now everything else plug in wise  has improved so much, it has possibly missed its time.
Nigel

While I can agree with the impression that Nebula's success has been unfortunately diminished by a somewhat amateurish promotion/marketing/support regime, I don't agree that it has yet missed its time -- if anything, it's a technology ahead of its time.  It does require a fair bit of DAW horsepower, although this is less of an issue than it once was -- I can run a couple dozen instances on my i7 just fine using the "reverb" version of the plugin (an example of one of the counterintuitive Nebula quirks).  But as for sonic performance, there are Nebula libraries that to my ears beat any regular plugin available.  A common Nebula characteristic is the sense that you're using something better than a plugin, something closer to hardware, with smooth frequency response, a sense of depth and weight, and without the usual digital artifacts.  The idea is to "sample" a real piece of hardware using a very labor-intensive process to capture all its flavor and store that into impulse files (which can be very large).  It's much more than simple convolution, but the basic concept is similar.  Not that I'm an expert or anything.  But the results to me are almost always impressive.
 
To get an idea of what's possible, you can download some free VST plugins that use Nebula's technology from CDSoundMaster -- they run just as regular plugins, no Nebula engine required:  http://cdsoundmaster.com/site/cds-software-online/demos.html.  Be sure to check out the Neve 1084 mid-band EQ, for one.  Have fun!
 
Cheers,
Eddie

Eddie,
 
Appreciate your perspective on this.
 
My experience was with the older version. Latency and CPU usage was bad enough that Nebula was okay for post processing, but nothing that could be used in real time. Good thumbs up that you are geting multiple events without freezing on faster systems.
 
Back then in the dark ages, the advancement that you could use an IR wav and get a flange, then be able to control flange parameters was something nobody else could do. Had a hi novelty and shock value just because you could pull it off.
 
The cult following for Nebula is hard core and has to have some basis. Never got into the cabinet syms because honestly can't tell a Marshal from a Vox. Reverbs were okay, but may need a second listen. Got to revisit this thing.
 
John
 
 

Latency is still an issue, so I doubt you could use Nebula while tracking, but for mixing it's not bad.  Your mention of reverbs reminded me of one of the stars of Nebula: the VNXT set of vintage emulations.  You can hear some audio demos here:  https://soundcloud.com/vnxtsound.  Don't miss the EMT140 examples.  It took me quite a bit of fiddling to get that plate library to work, but the result was well worth it.  It exceeds UAD's emulation, in my book.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Hi Eddie
Thanks for this - I'm glad they've improved things.
Perhaps one day when I have some spare time I'll have another look.
Cheers
Nigel