Is Nebula the only vst capable of this functionality?  It seems as though, "this is an amazing idea."  Does anybody know why it hasn't, "taken off?"

Also..  Is this snake oil?

http://www.acustica-audio.com/

What functionality?
There's programs for eq's, consoles, verbs, filters, pre-amps, the 3rd party ones being the best.
 

The functionality of, "sampling a hardware box."    I think this is different from emulating?  Perhaps I am wrong.

I was wondering if any other vst's had, "impulses," used as eq, or filters, or preamps, etc, etc..

Acustia Audio Nebula is good I have some of the products.
Heavy on cpu I found in most cases and may be why it hasn't taken off. 
A little pricey too.

Linear Phase


The functionality of, "sampling a hardware box."    I think this is different from emulating?  Perhaps I am wrong.

I was wondering if any other vst's had, "impulses," used as eq, or filters, or preamps, etc, etc..

Focusrite Liquid mix uses IR tech for compressor and EQ

Does anybody know why it hasn't, "taken off?

It uses dynamic convolution (rather than static)... which is under patent protection.

 I don't know if you noticed but they have a free version with some really interesting IR's. Thanks for posting that

  Technically, Nebula 2/3 do not use IR's or "dynamic convolution" as described (for example) by Kemp (USPTO 7,039,194). Rather, they use truncated Volterra series expansions, apparently cast as multidimensional convolution, which explains the exorbitant CPU usage for most models as well as possibly explaining the existing confusion over what is actually being done inside Nebula by Acustica Audio. A good background reference is for the use of truncated Volterra series expansions is: V. John Mathews and Giovanni L. Sicuranza, "Polynomial Signal Processing," Wiley, 2000, ISBN 0471-03414-2. Chapters 2-4 provide a fairly good picture of how to implement this kind of thing, while chapters 5 and 6 provide parameter estimation information (i.e. to help understand what NAT is doing). This is a graduate-level text, so beware.... Regards, Dave Clark

DaveClark


Rather, they use truncated Volterra series expansions, apparently cast as multidimensional convolution.

Does that come with dilithium crystals (or are they extra)?
LOL - JK Dave