![]() I'll take a look at that Sound-On-Sound review again of the Pro Tools restoration suite plug-in shootout, as there were a couple of categories where the plug-ins they reviewed were all fairly equal (Soundsoap Pro, Sony Oxford, Waves Restoration Bundle). The end results of using all of their plugs are just too "digital" to my ears, and aren't transparent enough w.r.t. I do need to consider that the WaveArts stuff, like their early plug-in suite, is great bang-for-buck with a well-thought out GUI and feature set with lots of flexibility, but I consider their stuff all stop-gap interim solutions either when nothing better is available or the budget isn't there. It looks like I can rule out the TC Electronic stuff though! I suppose it's the oldest, so it shouldn't be surprising. And in the second example, the transients were barely touched. ![]() ![]() Whilst they do preserve the musical character in the first example, the noise floor is still quite high. The TC Electronic results are shockingly bad. The WaveArts example is what I expected: some digital artefacts, even some pumping, but almost complete removal of the broadband noise (in the first case) and the transients (in the second case). But even if RTAS is not a big seller, I would think they would port the suite as they did with the others - or were those TDM as well (which I think is the Pro plug-in format for Digidesign?). I couldn't figure this out from their website.Īll of this is just meant to provide context for whether RTAS is a dead-end in terms of volume sales. The reading that I did last week indicated that RTAS was more for the amateurs who get into Pro Tools LE and rarely move beyond that to the full version? I don't want to get us OT I'm just making it clear how clueless I am about the whole Digidesign setup and whether their own systems are even compatible with each other, the division between LE and Pro, etc. I understand to some degree that it is a closed system, but I also read that over 90% of people use it (yet only a small handful of people I know do, and only one of them is an amateur or semi-pro like me - the others are all fully geared pro studios). I still don't understand the whole Digidesign thingie, as I came into the digital world quite late. Why would they cancel a product that consistently got such great reviews?
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