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@authorized_person_only2787
9 ай бұрын
- 20.11.2023 @ 01:58 Hi developer! Finally you need to change the mind, after you found that current protection scheme does not work for R2R. You have serious misunderstanding about it. * We showed we can reverse Virtual DLL trick and make valid keygen for RC4 Crypt for your products in 2014. * We have shown that we can decrypt / unpack and emulate expensive commercial protections, which should be obviously more advanced than your homemade one. We can't understand why you can believe in your super bloated multilayered protection. With the 2 facts above, there are no doubt that we can easily (at least should be much easier than paid protections) remove yours. As we stated in the previous section, it didn't even take 1 day for us. Customer (incl. potential customer) are not blind. Please think about how they feel, once after we proved these protections are making your products really fat and decreasing the performance - and R2R ones are far better. We saw you are saying that "legit version is better because you can get updates!" but these updates perform much worse than R2R release unless you change your mind. Instead of threatening your customer, do the right thing. Make a statement that you will remove the shit and focus on the performance and quality. We - R2R, customer, potential customer are watching you. Don't let your customer selling your products and going to be R2Red. 22.11.2023 @ 11:20 There are many duplicated files in their library. That's why R2R can compress well after the decrypting and decompressing. We found some errors that some files in N2V are not decrypted as expected. There are too many similar issue in Acustica products. Some products do not work at all (try Crimson Trial and Pensado EQ 2 Trial if you have Aquarius, well, issue may be fixed by developer after reading this NFO). In Acustica product, issue can happen only in specific sampling rate, because diffrent sampling rate uses different library files. This makes testing process hard for the developer. Hi developer : How about encrypting SKIN only instead of encrypting all files? In the real world, the cracker who can decrypt one file can decrypt other files. Bonus1 : Gainstation 1 Bonus2 : Proof that R2R release (Stereo Savage) is used in Studio DMI Mr.Acustica needs to tell his business partner not to use R2R release in the commercial project. Otherwise, the developer of Stereo Savage needs to put 10GB protection layer to his product, and post "we need to do this because of the piracy!" to facebook, then finally threaten the warez users. Users and developers need to think about why many 1st class producers and engineers don't use his legit version even if they have license. By the way, this release package (GS2 + Bonus) is still smaller than legit GS2 22.11.2023 @ 12:19 Library is completely decrypted, decompressed, DRM related bloat removed, and built to the clean one. Legit One : 3930MB (Per Plugin Format) This Release : 140MB (VST/VST3/AAX) Apart from the bloating (injecting SCORPION DLLs to any files), this data shows how the encryption kills the compression. Because R2R release is all decrypted and pure, 7zip-Chan effectively compresses them well -22.11.2023 @ 12:20 According to the developer, the library of Ash Ultra is super optimized from Ash and bloating is solved. But you can see that R2R library is still 50% less from the legit version. The loading time is also better in R2R release, because there are no RC4 decryption, no GoogleSnappy decompression, no Virtual DLL loading, no NTDLL.dll scan, no RSA license decryption, no MultiLayered decryption by SCORPION. -23.11.2023 @ 15:41 R2R - Acustica Side Story : Because there are too many human errors in their software (wrong file, broken crypto, broken TOC, non used files...) we had to code own verification tool for their products. While it really helped us rebuilding the libraries, it also annoyed us by finding too much errors made by Acustica. Judging from their code, they hate to handle the errors. For example, if there were missing files in the user installation, it just crashes or shows null GUI without notifying the acutual error. Their activation can lead the crash when its license file is not for that computer (it fails decryption and program reads broken data). We assume they don't make verification tools for their products to assure the quality. The developer is insisting they are caring the user experience and they are reducing the bloat. However, we know that bloating was already there in 2014. There were plenty of time to remove it, but they put more and more effort on the protection instead of hearing the users' feedback. No other developers put such amount of the protection. How do we know? Because we have reversed thousands software It should be very hard to maintain more than 100 software for small company. Even the big companies do not maintain such number of the software. Something is being sacrificed to realize that. There are serious security vulnerbility in the Acustica's protection. Bad hacker can put malicious code to the Nebula library. That malicious code will be run by Nebula / DAW. When DAW has admin rights, that code runs in admin rights, of course. There were similar issue in the Cherry Audio plugins, but they fixed it after we pointed out. To fix this issue, Acustica needs to update all related plugins. To make matters worse, library devs (their party too!) need to update all the library (with DRM) to be validated by new plugins. We are sure Acustica knows where to fix this issue, because that vulnerbility is not made by error
@McSalty087
9 ай бұрын
Thanks R2R
@paulnaraboth4774
9 ай бұрын
😆
@mayzter8765
9 ай бұрын
@randomaccount5623 the company knows and is now pushing PR to save what’s left of their reputation. I don’t use crackware, that’s why I’m now a happy UAD customer. Waiting for the 6 month term to offload most of my AA licenses. Will lose a lot of money because everybody is dumping! Hyper3 or hyper33, they lost my trust!
@mclovin_69_
9 ай бұрын
they got cracked from the witches, thats what happened
@IAMCORNHOLIOINEEDTP
9 ай бұрын
I have been a loyal user of AA products for many years, valuing the quality and innovation they bring to audio technology. This commitment to excellence has always been apparent in the tools they provide, which have been an integral part of my audio work. However, I recently learned saw that a significant portion of the software size is attributed to bloated protection measures. This revelation is concerning to me, both as a user who values efficiency and as a professional relying on streamlined and optimized tools. Large software sizes not only consume substantial storage space but can also affect system performance, which is critical in my line of work. Given these concerns, I find myself in a position where I must consider alternatives that align better with my needs for efficiency and system performance. It is a decision made with a heavy heart, considering my long history with for their nice emulations/products.
@mayzter8765
9 ай бұрын
Same here. I spent a lot of money on tools I can barely use and now learning it is all due to bloated protection. Unhappy customer!
@IAMCORNHOLIOINEEDTP
9 ай бұрын
What upsets me most about this is that the software was made better by reverse engineering. It's like teaching a paralyzed person to walk with greater success than the person who has always been able to walk. If you look at the file sizes alone, without the copy protection, it's unbelievable. The VST3 plugins, which are simply VST2 plugins with a wrapper. Or the lack of 48Khz support. The list could go on and on.
@mayzter8765
9 ай бұрын
@@IAMCORNHOLIOINEEDTP I have jumped ship to UAD. I still use El Rey 2 on vocals and sometime Ultramarine on the mix bus, but I will never again buy AA.
@nj1255
9 ай бұрын
Not only that, there's a ton of errors in their files and code, even some security flaws that could result in Windows users being vulnerable to attacks(!), and Acustica just chooses to ignore them. Giancarlo has been called out on his BS business practices before, but this time there's tons of proof levied against him, and in usual fashion he only threatens to mass-ban legit customers instead of actually taking responsibility for the amount of shit code and errors in his products. Shady guy, to say the least. I was very close to buying Nebula 4 a couple of years back, just to be able to use the third-party libraries from Tim Petherick, but I'm glad I never did. Acustica Audio is not a company I would feel comfortable with supporting. I just feel bad for Tim Petherick, AlexB and other great third-party Nebula library developers.
@eprotz
9 ай бұрын
Same here!
@authorized_person_only2787
9 ай бұрын
-22.11.2023 Library is completely decrypted, decompressed, DRM related bloat removed, and built to the clean one. Legit One : 3930MB (Per Plugin Format) This Release : 140MB (VST/VST3/AAX) Apart from the bloating (injecting SCORPION DLLs to any files), this data shows how the encryption kills the compression. Because R2R release is all decrypted and pure, 7zip-Chan effectively compresses them well
@RandomRelapse
9 ай бұрын
📠 only the real ones and the witches really know the truth 👁
@authorized_person_only2787
9 ай бұрын
@@RandomRelapse People should have the right to know all.
@bontempo1271
9 ай бұрын
@@RandomRelapse why on earth are the Freemasons involved ?
@bontempo1271
9 ай бұрын
@@authorized_person_only2787 Have a right to know about a security scheme to stop hackers ? You people are stupid
@authorized_person_only2787
9 ай бұрын
- 20.11.2023 @ 01:58 Hi developer! Finally you need to change the mind, after you found that current protection scheme does not work for R2R. You have serious misunderstanding about it. * We showed we can reverse Virtual DLL trick and make valid keygen for RC4 Crypt for your products in 2014. * We have shown that we can decrypt / unpack and emulate expensive commercial protections, which should be obviously more advanced than your homemade one. We can't understand why you can believe in your super bloated multilayered protection. With the 2 facts above, there are no doubt that we can easily (at least should be much easier than paid protections) remove yours. As we stated in the previous section, it didn't even take 1 day for us. Customer (incl. potential customer) are not blind. Please think about how they feel, once after we proved these protections are making your products really fat and decreasing the performance - and R2R ones are far better. We saw you are saying that "legit version is better because you can get updates!" but these updates perform much worse than R2R release unless you change your mind. Instead of threatening your customer, do the right thing. Make a statement that you will remove the shit and focus on the performance and quality. We - R2R, customer, potential customer are watching you. Don't let your customer selling your products and going to be R2Red. 22.11.2023 @ 11:20 There are many duplicated files in their library. That's why R2R can compress well after the decrypting and decompressing. We found some errors that some files in N2V are not decrypted as expected. There are too many similar issue in Acustica products. Some products do not work at all (try Crimson Trial and Pensado EQ 2 Trial if you have Aquarius, well, issue may be fixed by developer after reading this NFO). In Acustica product, issue can happen only in specific sampling rate, because diffrent sampling rate uses different library files. This makes testing process hard for the developer. Hi developer : How about encrypting SKIN only instead of encrypting all files? In the real world, the cracker who can decrypt one file can decrypt other files. Bonus1 : Gainstation 1 Bonus2 : Proof that R2R release (Stereo Savage) is used in Studio DMI Mr.Acustica needs to tell his business partner not to use R2R release in the commercial project. Otherwise, the developer of Stereo Savage needs to put 10GB protection layer to his product, and post "we need to do this because of the piracy!" to facebook, then finally threaten the warez users. Users and developers need to think about why many 1st class producers and engineers don't use his legit version even if they have license. By the way, this release package (GS2 + Bonus) is still smaller than legit GS2 22.11.2023 @ 12:19 Library is completely decrypted, decompressed, DRM related bloat removed, and built to the clean one. Legit One : 3930MB (Per Plugin Format) This Release : 140MB (VST/VST3/AAX) Apart from the bloating (injecting SCORPION DLLs to any files), this data shows how the encryption kills the compression. Because R2R release is all decrypted and pure, 7zip-Chan effectively compresses them well -22.11.2023 @ 12:20 According to the developer, the library of Ash Ultra is super optimized from Ash and bloating is solved. But you can see that R2R library is still 50% less from the legit version. The loading time is also better in R2R release, because there are no RC4 decryption, no GoogleSnappy decompression, no Virtual DLL loading, no NTDLL.dll scan, no RSA license decryption, no MultiLayered decryption by SCORPION. -23.11.2023 @ 15:41 R2R - Acustica Side Story : Because there are too many human errors in their software (wrong file, broken crypto, broken TOC, non used files...) we had to code own verification tool for their products. While it really helped us rebuilding the libraries, it also annoyed us by finding too much errors made by Acustica. Judging from their code, they hate to handle the errors. For example, if there were missing files in the user installation, it just crashes or shows null GUI without notifying the acutual error. Their activation can lead the crash when its license file is not for that computer (it fails decryption and program reads broken data). We assume they don't make verification tools for their products to assure the quality. The developer is insisting they are caring the user experience and they are reducing the bloat. However, we know that bloating was already there in 2014. There were plenty of time to remove it, but they put more and more effort on the protection instead of hearing the users' feedback. No other developers put such amount of the protection. How do we know? Because we have reversed thousands software It should be very hard to maintain more than 100 software for small company. Even the big companies do not maintain such number of the software. Something is being sacrificed to realize that. There are serious security vulnerbility in the Acustica's protection. Bad hacker can put malicious code to the Nebula library. That malicious code will be run by Nebula / DAW. When DAW has admin rights, that code runs in admin rights, of course. There were similar issue in the Cherry Audio plugins, but they fixed it after we pointed out. To fix this issue, Acustica needs to update all related plugins. To make matters worse, library devs (their party too!) need to update all the library (with DRM) to be validated by new plugins. We are sure Acustica knows where to fix this issue, because that vulnerbility is not made by error
@eprotz
9 ай бұрын
Since their plugins were hacked the most interesting finding was that the size of the plugins is 10 times of what it could be just because of their protection scheme, making the installation of one eq 10 GBs instead of one. And also from what I've read in forums that seems to affect performance as well, as if they weren't already cpu hogs. As a user who has spent a lot in the plugins this is really disappointing, as the turn the company has taken with the release of new products bundling eqs or compressors instead of upgrading the classic line up. 👎
@sub-jec-tiv
9 ай бұрын
Congratulations you’ve successfully repeated something other people said. Without having any first hand knowledge. Try using their recent plugins, then tell me how bad they are. I’ve been using their stuff since 2021, and everything released since then works great on my system. As David said, the newer plugins are much better on processor hit.
@eprotz
9 ай бұрын
@@sub-jec-tivif what I said repeats from another user is because we have the same experience, don't you think? Hahaha, I tried nebula 2 round 2010 I think, my laptop could not even handle one instance at that time, then it came out the freebie AquaVox, Pink CM, Violet CM, Ochre EQ, Red EQ, and I started to buy them long before 2021 and joined the 55% club, so I know them very well, and yes I' ve tried the new ones as well. Even when they have improved the issue of bloating the plugin with anti piracy is ridiculous, as well as not willing to upgrade the classics charging a fee.
@roberteismann1929
9 ай бұрын
I am not sure if that is true as the biggest part of their size has always been the samples, take them away and you have very little size.
@eprotz
9 ай бұрын
@@roberteismann1929 That's what I thought too, but it seems not to be the case. For example Pink's size with protection is round 9GBs and the hacked version 900 Mbs, and from what I read it works even more efficiently than the normal one. I haven't test it because don't want my account banned, I have invested a lot in that, but it would be interesting to check if it's really so.
@tobimontana61
8 ай бұрын
@@roberteismann1929be sure, it is true. The plugins are heavily bloated with protection files, i mean about 90 %, and even more than that, of the whole installation is garbage. It’s just ridiculous and a slap in the face of every paying customer. You have to waste a crazy amount of HD space and get a quite noticeable decreased performance because this guy was scarred of something he couldn’t prevent anyways. And the first thing he did after getting exposed was threatening his existing customers and ban their account and plugins they own!!! if they ever dare to replace a completely unnecessary bloated and sluggish plug-in they payed for with a way slimmer and faster performing cracked one… A lot of people in the warez scene end up buying stuff they really like and use, I personally see it as fully functional, extended trial version. And those few people which exclusively use cracked stuff are no professionals and wouldn’t buy anything in the first place so nobody lose money with them anyways.
@beaglewings4657
9 ай бұрын
Question: When a clipper is really good, what is it that makes it good? Is it the coloration of the sound or is it that you can push it really hard without being able to hear the clipping (supertransparent) or is it the multitude of choices of sound? Good content! Keep up the good work, learning a lot! :)
@triplebeam23
9 ай бұрын
I think you answered your own question
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
You did answer your question, generally speaking. It depends on what are you using the clipper for. If it's for color you want something that has no aliasing, no artifacts and a color that goes well with the material. If you want peak reduction, you want somthing that you can push and it doesn't fold and distort quickly.
@sergeyleps8492
9 ай бұрын
I am a user of the ASH plugin (+ received all the new additions). This plugin DOES NOT - and has never had “Sound Coloring”. Also, this plugin is NOT a Saturator (as the video presenter says). But it is a very high quality Clipper and most of all What amazes me in this plugin is the quality of the “True Peak” limiter. I have never heard anything like it in ITB.
@kelainefes
8 ай бұрын
A saturator and a clipper are just a variation on the same type of processing. In particular Ash does soft clipping as well as hard clipping which makes it a saturator.@@sergeyleps8492
@ermessete
9 ай бұрын
I tried a couple of plugins from this brand, but once I have realized that audio got muted for each value change and also the consistent latency of the plugins, I decided to not use them. Also to be noted that this channel is 100% product placement as many others, so who cares about the Hype.
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
😂😂 right. Wanna see mixing? Membership 👍 also you're still watching
@djse
9 ай бұрын
It's nice to see (or ear) that we can finally switch from one model to another without that little annoying silence, I hope they'll put that in older plugin aswell (also flat GUI, vintage look are great, but flat is better on the eyes for quicker workflow)
@christianbiend4458
9 ай бұрын
R2R did a great job😂😂 😂
@rm4733
9 ай бұрын
SIM KKKKK
@rohitRraina
8 ай бұрын
Shhhh 🤫😂
@bilalrobin
9 ай бұрын
thx. ASH Ultra Flat is the best clipper i have tried
@lunairysproducciones
Ай бұрын
Hey David, thanks for the video, as you maybe know, the Twilight mode in Midnight is the StamChild SA-670, it would be great just for fun to have your opinion on how close it is since you have the real thing. I don't know if you've had the time to do a versus, but if you did, please tell us, Greetings!
@mixbustv
Ай бұрын
If it's modeled after the MKI is very different from MKII (which is the one I have)
@mayzter8765
9 ай бұрын
I hope Giancarlo reads all the comments, steps over his ego, and gets rid of all the bloatware. If you want to keep us as customers, please think very hard about your next steps. I love how the plugins sound, but they are unusable in real life mixing and mastering situations (unless you have a NASA computer LOL).
@nashse7en
8 ай бұрын
Nah bro, NASA can only launch rockets but never multiple instances of midnight using oversample.🤣
@mayzter8765
8 ай бұрын
@@nashse7en😂😂😂
@jj454
9 ай бұрын
I’m guessing they wanted you to do a video but they should probably just keep quiet for a while. All Acustica seem to be doing is bringing more attention to their issues as can be seen in these comments and other forums
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
I'm not really sure what are you or anybody else is talking about, but do you guys realize that videos are filmed usually 20 or 30 days before they are released right? Or you think I wake up in the morning and I film the video and release it 2 hours after? So I'm not sure what happened but whatever happened has nothing to do with my video because it was filmed weeks ago. I do gather from the comments that the plugins got cracked or something. I'm very confused as to why a company should be embarrassed if someone cracked their software. Or should they be embarrassed because they use protection? Do you lock your door at home or your car?
@jj454
9 ай бұрын
@@mixbustv paying customers (myself included) are upset that the cracks revealed literally 10x the size of the drive space they take is only for their DRM protection. Acustica have always led customers to believe the huge sizes were due to their samples when in reality they were 10 times larger than necessary for their DRM. When you have plugins 4GB go down to 150MB that’s a hugely unnecessary strain for legit customers to take on their storage
@mayzter8765
9 ай бұрын
@@mixbustv The cracks have shown us that the recourse issues are not caused by their sampling algorithm but by their bloated encryption. False advertising tools to us that are barely useful. But not your fault...
@authorized_person_only2787
9 ай бұрын
- 20.11.2023 @ 01:58 Hi developer! Finally you need to change the mind, after you found that current protection scheme does not work for R2R. You have serious misunderstanding about it. * We showed we can reverse Virtual DLL trick and make valid keygen for RC4 Crypt for your products in 2014. * We have shown that we can decrypt / unpack and emulate expensive commercial protections, which should be obviously more advanced than your homemade one. We can't understand why you can believe in your super bloated multilayered protection. With the 2 facts above, there are no doubt that we can easily (at least should be much easier than paid protections) remove yours. As we stated in the previous section, it didn't even take 1 day for us. Customer (incl. potential customer) are not blind. Please think about how they feel, once after we proved these protections are making your products really fat and decreasing the performance - and R2R ones are far better. We saw you are saying that "legit version is better because you can get updates!" but these updates perform much worse than R2R release unless you change your mind. Instead of threatening your customer, do the right thing. Make a statement that you will remove the shit and focus on the performance and quality. We - R2R, customer, potential customer are watching you. Don't let your customer selling your products and going to be R2Red. 22.11.2023 @ 11:20 There are many duplicated files in their library. That's why R2R can compress well after the decrypting and decompressing. We found some errors that some files in N2V are not decrypted as expected. There are too many similar issue in Acustica products. Some products do not work at all (try Crimson Trial and Pensado EQ 2 Trial if you have Aquarius, well, issue may be fixed by developer after reading this NFO). In Acustica product, issue can happen only in specific sampling rate, because diffrent sampling rate uses different library files. This makes testing process hard for the developer. Hi developer : How about encrypting SKIN only instead of encrypting all files? In the real world, the cracker who can decrypt one file can decrypt other files. Bonus1 : Gainstation 1 Bonus2 : Proof that R2R release (Stereo Savage) is used in Studio DMI Mr.Acustica needs to tell his business partner not to use R2R release in the commercial project. Otherwise, the developer of Stereo Savage needs to put 10GB protection layer to his product, and post "we need to do this because of the piracy!" to facebook, then finally threaten the warez users. Users and developers need to think about why many 1st class producers and engineers don't use his legit version even if they have license. By the way, this release package (GS2 + Bonus) is still smaller than legit GS2 22.11.2023 @ 12:19 Library is completely decrypted, decompressed, DRM related bloat removed, and built to the clean one. Legit One : 3930MB (Per Plugin Format) This Release : 140MB (VST/VST3/AAX) Apart from the bloating (injecting SCORPION DLLs to any files), this data shows how the encryption kills the compression. Because R2R release is all decrypted and pure, 7zip-Chan effectively compresses them well -22.11.2023 @ 12:20 According to the developer, the library of Ash Ultra is super optimized from Ash and bloating is solved. But you can see that R2R library is still 50% less from the legit version. The loading time is also better in R2R release, because there are no RC4 decryption, no GoogleSnappy decompression, no Virtual DLL loading, no NTDLL.dll scan, no RSA license decryption, no MultiLayered decryption by SCORPION. -23.11.2023 @ 15:41 R2R - Acustica Side Story : Because there are too many human errors in their software (wrong file, broken crypto, broken TOC, non used files...) we had to code own verification tool for their products. While it really helped us rebuilding the libraries, it also annoyed us by finding too much errors made by Acustica. Judging from their code, they hate to handle the errors. For example, if there were missing files in the user installation, it just crashes or shows null GUI without notifying the acutual error. Their activation can lead the crash when its license file is not for that computer (it fails decryption and program reads broken data). We assume they don't make verification tools for their products to assure the quality. The developer is insisting they are caring the user experience and they are reducing the bloat. However, we know that bloating was already there in 2014. There were plenty of time to remove it, but they put more and more effort on the protection instead of hearing the users' feedback. No other developers put such amount of the protection. How do we know? Because we have reversed thousands software It should be very hard to maintain more than 100 software for small company. Even the big companies do not maintain such number of the software. Something is being sacrificed to realize that. There are serious security vulnerbility in the Acustica's protection. Bad hacker can put malicious code to the Nebula library. That malicious code will be run by Nebula / DAW. When DAW has admin rights, that code runs in admin rights, of course. There were similar issue in the Cherry Audio plugins, but they fixed it after we pointed out. To fix this issue, Acustica needs to update all related plugins. To make matters worse, library devs (their party too!) need to update all the library (with DRM) to be validated by new plugins. We are sure Acustica knows where to fix this issue, because that vulnerbility is not made by error
@db4ks
9 ай бұрын
@@mixbustv People are dunking on them because of what was discovered after it was cracked. plugins that were taking 10gb of space now take 3gb of space and run more efficiently and load faster than the real version. ,it was discovered that acustica was using protcols from windows xp that was extremely outdated. they also threatened to put malware on users computer in the past. to sum it up their Lies,bloatware,bad customer service,bad cpu usage plugins,old systems and horrible ceo (and much more, would take too long to list) are why people are celebrating after acustica plugins were cracked.
@africanrevolution3551
9 ай бұрын
That Hip Hop song is FIRE!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!! GOES HARD!!!!!
@camilkanouni
9 ай бұрын
nice video as always ! What is the difference between Ash Ultra and Ash Ultra flat ?
@giovannimameli6364
8 ай бұрын
Just the gui
@jfloyd2919
9 ай бұрын
Good stuff David bro ! ✊️
@amunahm3324
8 ай бұрын
AA plug-ins are heavy and take lots of memory because they code the license privacy on the plugins and let the customers’ computers handle that chunk, unlike some other companies who use iLok or code line like Fabfilter or code file like Valhalla. That’s why I stop buying AA: too much memory for a simple plugin.
@nofood1
9 ай бұрын
Do you have any reviews/thoughts about their Purple series?
@HottestInTheStreetsNetOfficial
9 ай бұрын
1 instance of Ultra flat took up 56% cpu , is ash any less of a beast as it's lighter on cpu for me ?
@davidperez909
9 ай бұрын
It's the graphic interface hitting the CPU. Use the regular Ash until they fix it.
@aleksamrkela831
9 ай бұрын
Very neat!
@sancessounds
9 ай бұрын
I'm confused.. my Ash does not look like that. I downloaded Ultra and all
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
Ultra Flat is what you want
@sancessounds
9 ай бұрын
Thank you! Thought I was crazy there.@@mixbustv
@rundajulesproductions7735
9 ай бұрын
Midnight just crashed every time I tried to open it. I got the trial. I have the UAD Fairchild which I use pretty often, but I was interested in hearing how it sounds and seeing if the extra control functions made a big difference. It looked like one of the 670's was a 660. When you clicked on it, it still showed the left / right mid/side knob. Is it stereo? Compared to your gear how do their emulations sound? I always felt Aquamarine was kind of a miss besides the reverb on it.
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
You should try to redownload the update. It happened to me too and told them and they should have fixed it already.
@nashse7en
8 ай бұрын
Hi David the Yellow ASH uses only 7% of cpu and 16% with 8X oversampling. And ASH ULTRA 56% with no oversampling. Could you make a video making a comparisson? or just tells us if you found any difference in the sound?
@gautumpundyt3405
9 ай бұрын
Hyper 3 technology 😂😂😂
@eddie3569
9 ай бұрын
ASH Ultra Flat & Midnight are excellent, like everything Acustica Audio builds! Very good David, I'll be waiting for you at RECnMIX, soon.
@GingerDrums
8 ай бұрын
Acoutica: "We love software-bloat! Making the cracks work better than the purchased versions for your inconvenience. "
@user-js4ng6jq8t
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for your work, David! What is the music in the first example at 5:20? It always gets my attention. Is it available somewhere?
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
It's literally a track I put together in like 5 minutes for demos 😄
@user-js4ng6jq8t
9 ай бұрын
Ha! Maybe you should put another 5 into it. Ya never know. I know you'll sell at least one copy. And thanks again. I super appreciate your videos.
@nashse7en
7 ай бұрын
Hi David, in the manual it doesn't explain in dept what the SHMOD do just say that position 2 is the normal attack settings and position 1 is a faster settings. For exemple if the fastes Attack is 1ms, how much it would be reduced using SHMOD in position 1, would be 50%?
@davidperez909
6 ай бұрын
SHMOD is a real use your ears kind of situation. Very mysterious by the rate that it slows down or speeds up. Check out CMT compressor attack/release plugin to see changes more in detail.
@Impish.
9 ай бұрын
Is Ash Ultra Flat the same plugin as Ash Ultra, but with a different GUI ? The same way as Ash Flat is essentially the same plugin as Ash.
@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY
9 ай бұрын
You also got to check out AA's Pumpkin PRO. Use that plugin with AA JAM ---> AA ASH ULTRA, and now your music would sound like Katy Perry's and Taylor Swift's mastering engineers. Some people btch and complanin about AA marking their Pumpkin PRO to not be the sequel to AA JAM as "JAM ULTRA" because its saturation algos are different but effective af -- trust me.
@bubz75
8 ай бұрын
ACUSTICA AUDIO . Great Plugins Crap Tech Support customer service.👎🏾 Still waiting over a month to change PW to demo install plugins. Now the discounted plug-in I wanted to demo , returned back to its normal price wtf😤
@mosermichael4404
9 ай бұрын
I have take acustica Audio diamond Dynamic saturation Plugin..👌
@sinamomtahan5924
4 ай бұрын
Do you need to have Ash if you have Lace?
@mixbustv
4 ай бұрын
Need might not be the right word. But for me at least they belong in different places although they can be used together on mastering, I use Ash in mixing a lot, LACE mastering only. You could argue that LACE could, on paper, let you bypass an additional clipping stage since it's got one built in but I find that not true in real use. It's still better to "split", plus ASH gives me a lot more control on the clipping stage. The difference might be only 10% but I personally live in the 10, even 5% world.
@sinamomtahan5924
4 ай бұрын
@@mixbustv Thank you for answering this so throughy, and all the material you put out. I will make the effort to learn what can be done with Ash in the mixing stage. I do own it now.
@traezaX1
8 ай бұрын
Acoustica audio has such beautiful looking like JET ... Love their products
@oliverpinelli6868
7 ай бұрын
I recommand AA do get less involved in marketing but sort out the many issues they still have. They are so worth it due to such a great potential. But in real life applications one tends to use more "traditional" plugins due to so much nonsense AA still produces. I own more than 40 plugins of this company because I am convinced of their "as close as it gets to analog" structure. Nevertheless there is so much about these plugins that really gets on my nerves. The guis alone are just so bananas and let´s not even mention the usage of Gigabytes for protection purposes solely. And-still in the realm of no go- the CPU usage. I think instead of trying to sell us the "sound of clipping" they should rather fix these things. Less is more, guys. Again, I am a fan of their products but sometimes I find myself rather using other stuff.
@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY
9 ай бұрын
6:02 Platinum maker - Bettermaker Mastering Limiter not AD
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
The Bettermaker has a clipper function in it, they didn't model the limiter.
@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY
9 ай бұрын
@@mixbustv Cool.
@Fwuzeem
9 ай бұрын
No pre or ultra pre engaged for Midnight?
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
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@peterorany
9 ай бұрын
To many commentators: is 2023 stop making music on Atari or commodore!
@electreelife
9 ай бұрын
Sorry Dave - But Acustica Audio is probebly THE MOST OVER HYPED company in the history of VST! They are average at best, They are clunky AF, heavy, and they are total workflow killers, and most likely coded poorly, I mean,,,WHO DOES ZL VERSION ON TOP? and their naming scheme is a joke, go figure what each plugin does in a sea of colors and Gem stones ... i hope you are doing this for affiliation and get paid well. (don't get me wrong I'm not short sighted!) but AA? I mean comeonnnnn.
@anonymousbrowser4448
9 ай бұрын
I tried one of their plugins a few years ago and immediately uninstalled it. Super clunky and buggy. Graphics would freeze up
@assshakerstudios549
9 ай бұрын
I'll give ya the clunky, ridiculous naming, worst customer service I've experienced so far. However, they've come closer to the "analog" sound then any other plugin company so far. Some don't sound as good as others. The majority do. But you'd not noticed that unless you have the right tools, and ear. Even if you do, and you go to someone elses studio and hear it on their setup(even if they have mixed gold records and love something) it might be a terrible plugin overall, and they just love it for some weird reason. Made that mistake before on limiters and other plugins for electronic music where I mostly do rock/Metal /alternative, etc. You'd be surprised how different something can sound in a different room, even on the same speakers as you have. It's crazy.
@ShaunNater
9 ай бұрын
OMG Thank you for saying it. I thought I was the only person that thinks most of their plugins are trash. Softube is my go to for most plugins.
@sub-jec-tiv
9 ай бұрын
I haven’t used any of their old stuff… i was always a Softube person… but in the last 2 years i’ve bought 5 of their suites, and it sounds more like the analog stuff to me, and the processor hit isn’t bad on their new stuff. I used to mix in a studio with real 670, Manley stuff, etc. and the Acustica stuff sounds much closer than most of it. Particularly the EQs. Sounds to me like electreelife has a short-sighted tribal opinion about Acustica, and hasn’t used their stuff in the last few years. 🤷♂️
@authorized_person_only2787
9 ай бұрын
- 20.11.2023 @ 01:58 Hi developer! Finally you need to change the mind, after you found that current protection scheme does not work for R2R. You have serious misunderstanding about it. * We showed we can reverse Virtual DLL trick and make valid keygen for RC4 Crypt for your products in 2014. * We have shown that we can decrypt / unpack and emulate expensive commercial protections, which should be obviously more advanced than your homemade one. We can't understand why you can believe in your super bloated multilayered protection. With the 2 facts above, there are no doubt that we can easily (at least should be much easier than paid protections) remove yours. As we stated in the previous section, it didn't even take 1 day for us. Customer (incl. potential customer) are not blind. Please think about how they feel, once after we proved these protections are making your products really fat and decreasing the performance - and R2R ones are far better. We saw you are saying that "legit version is better because you can get updates!" but these updates perform much worse than R2R release unless you change your mind. Instead of threatening your customer, do the right thing. Make a statement that you will remove the shit and focus on the performance and quality. We - R2R, customer, potential customer are watching you. Don't let your customer selling your products and going to be R2Red. 22.11.2023 @ 11:20 There are many duplicated files in their library. That's why R2R can compress well after the decrypting and decompressing. We found some errors that some files in N2V are not decrypted as expected. There are too many similar issue in Acustica products. Some products do not work at all (try Crimson Trial and Pensado EQ 2 Trial if you have Aquarius, well, issue may be fixed by developer after reading this NFO). In Acustica product, issue can happen only in specific sampling rate, because diffrent sampling rate uses different library files. This makes testing process hard for the developer. Hi developer : How about encrypting SKIN only instead of encrypting all files? In the real world, the cracker who can decrypt one file can decrypt other files. Bonus1 : Gainstation 1 Bonus2 : Proof that R2R release (Stereo Savage) is used in Studio DMI Mr.Acustica needs to tell his business partner not to use R2R release in the commercial project. Otherwise, the developer of Stereo Savage needs to put 10GB protection layer to his product, and post "we need to do this because of the piracy!" to facebook, then finally threaten the warez users. Users and developers need to think about why many 1st class producers and engineers don't use his legit version even if they have license. By the way, this release package (GS2 + Bonus) is still smaller than legit GS2 22.11.2023 @ 12:19 Library is completely decrypted, decompressed, DRM related bloat removed, and built to the clean one. Legit One : 3930MB (Per Plugin Format) This Release : 140MB (VST/VST3/AAX) Apart from the bloating (injecting SCORPION DLLs to any files), this data shows how the encryption kills the compression. Because R2R release is all decrypted and pure, 7zip-Chan effectively compresses them well -22.11.2023 @ 12:20 According to the developer, the library of Ash Ultra is super optimized from Ash and bloating is solved. But you can see that R2R library is still 50% less from the legit version. The loading time is also better in R2R release, because there are no RC4 decryption, no GoogleSnappy decompression, no Virtual DLL loading, no NTDLL.dll scan, no RSA license decryption, no MultiLayered decryption by SCORPION. -23.11.2023 @ 15:41 R2R - Acustica Side Story : Because there are too many human errors in their software (wrong file, broken crypto, broken TOC, non used files...) we had to code own verification tool for their products. While it really helped us rebuilding the libraries, it also annoyed us by finding too much errors made by Acustica. Judging from their code, they hate to handle the errors. For example, if there were missing files in the user installation, it just crashes or shows null GUI without notifying the acutual error. Their activation can lead the crash when its license file is not for that computer (it fails decryption and program reads broken data). We assume they don't make verification tools for their products to assure the quality. The developer is insisting they are caring the user experience and they are reducing the bloat. However, we know that bloating was already there in 2014. There were plenty of time to remove it, but they put more and more effort on the protection instead of hearing the users' feedback. No other developers put such amount of the protection. How do we know? Because we have reversed thousands software It should be very hard to maintain more than 100 software for small company. Even the big companies do not maintain such number of the software. Something is being sacrificed to realize that. There are serious security vulnerbility in the Acustica's protection. Bad hacker can put malicious code to the Nebula library. That malicious code will be run by Nebula / DAW. When DAW has admin rights, that code runs in admin rights, of course. There were similar issue in the Cherry Audio plugins, but they fixed it after we pointed out. To fix this issue, Acustica needs to update all related plugins. To make matters worse, library devs (their party too!) need to update all the library (with DRM) to be validated by new plugins. We are sure Acustica knows where to fix this issue, because that vulnerbility is not made by error
@grungefire
8 ай бұрын
It’s quite annoying that I have to buy the whole bundle just to get Ash Ultra and Ash Ultra Flat.
@tramer76
9 ай бұрын
Most overrated plugin company out there with massive bloatware.
@peterorany
3 ай бұрын
Best plugns with worst gui. In 2030 will be ok with cpu and ram
@mixbustv
3 ай бұрын
My 4+yo computer can run dozens of these without even budging. In a full session. Not sure why CPU would be an issue (or ram even less)
@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY
9 ай бұрын
The Italians are kicking arse in the plugin market nowadays. Viva l'italia e la sicilia
@MoveTrueRecords_
9 ай бұрын
My boy!!!
@JSSTUDIO-wr2jq
9 ай бұрын
👍🙂
@TheChromaticz355
9 ай бұрын
Not even close to new flatline2
@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY
9 ай бұрын
Schwab Gold Clip verzuz Acustica Audio's ASH ULTRA verzuz Submission Audio Flatline2 would be sick shootout vid.
@mixbustv
9 ай бұрын
Unless they changed something, flatline was the same exact plugin as another pretty popular clipper. And nothing mindblowing.
@slxth4036
8 ай бұрын
r2r thx
@Lolwutdesu9000
8 ай бұрын
So David, will you still be featuring these plugins once it was discovered they were bloated pieces of shit?
@mixbustv
8 ай бұрын
Yes I will if they make things I like because let me be very clear: I couldn't care less, and I think people are being crying babies. A company makes a software, if you like it, buy it use it. If you don't, for whatever reason, don't buy it, don't use it. People have too much time on their hands, if they'd use that time working on improving their lives or working towards their goals instead of crusading against companies for having protection on their software (no matter how badly coded that is) it would be much better. I don't do drama, too busy
@stephenr7297
5 ай бұрын
We live in new world AA gives u 15-30 demo first. Use it until the very last day. If one cannot continue without it. Then buy it. Just like hardware if you don’t like it after purchase make sure there is a 7 day guarantee at least before bring the eq home. I my self have purchased AA plugins ever since they started own a whole lot of them. Particularly on black Friday crazy sale
@MCNoise
9 ай бұрын
Acustica Odio 😂 in effetti in questi giorni se n'è visto molto
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