The color says “distortion” but I’m trying to understand how a one knob distortion could be very exciting.

Well, what can I say, they’re pretty pretty good: exquisite piano apps (Relic!) and drums (Legend!) but also pretty sweet guitars (Cinedream!) and I loooove their Finishers (Boost!).
But their Zimmer stuff is next level as it makes orchestral sounds quite usable.

Yeah. It never seizes to amaze me how much more effort some companies put into driving customers away instead of getting the free PR and good word of mouth for relatively little to no effort. But when the message is practically “Your investment is not safe with us” it’s kind of really easy to skip buying from such vendors.

I’m curious what people’s thoughts on UJAM plugins are. I had a few, but really never used them.

Yep, dealio on those sweet Zimmer apps.

And let’s hope there’s a $20 voucher in the offing 🙂

I am surprised that the Omnivoice Beta is part of all versions of Cubase 15.

On the other hand they might have some telemetry set up in it to capture user usage.

On November 5, 2025 at 11:21 am William Heins said
“VST 2 is not officially supported. VST 2 plug-ins may be loaded (excluding on Native Apple Silicon) when the VST 2 plug-in scanner is enabled in the VST Plug-in Manager. However, Steinberg does not provide support for any issues related to VST 2.”

From the Notes section 🙂

A lot of demo stu…

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“VST 2 is not officially supported. VST 2 plug-ins may be loaded (excluding on Native Apple Silicon) when the VST 2 plug-in scanner is enabled in the VST Plug-in Manager. However, Steinberg does not provide support for any issues related to VST 2.”

From the Notes section 🙂

On November 4, 2025 at 11:14 pm Satya said
the forgot password link does not work

Yep same here – sad as it sounds very good indeed!

This is the one item that is 100% off:

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/53-Multi-Effect-/7464-Finisher-RETRO

What a strange relationship these two have now