I recently picked up a couple of plugins for my DAWs. I got the Ultra Analog VA-1 synth and the Breverb AudioMidi.com edition. The Ultra Analog was only $15 and the Breverb was $5. “Why not” I thought, “20 bucks is a decent amount for a synth plugin and a decent lil’ reverb.” It’s not like it was going to kill me to drop that much cash.
So far I have found the Ultra Analog synth to be useful. Does seem to crash once in a while. I really like it and hope to use it more often in the future. I still haven’t really got into it yet because I’m pretty busy with producing my next album. I did use it to replace the bass on of my beats. I just used a preset that seemed to work in the sound.
The Breverb plugin is well I don’t know. I have yet to use it. Still waiting for my serial number. The only reason I got it was because it is $5. Besides that I’ve been looking for some kind of useful reverb to use in protools besides its stock verbs. Ideally I’d be using Altiverb, but I don’t have the cash for that. I did try out the demo. It’s now on my “things to buy” list for when I have a job and can afford to start spending on nice things again .
Although the Breverb plugin only has 2 types of reverb available, it’s still cool cause I been wanting a decent plate reverb. From reading the manual I don’t care much that the minimal reverb time is .5 sec. I would prefer something shorter, but I see it as just part of the Breverb flavor that I can choose to add to a track in Pro Tools. I don’t think I would be using it too much in Logic though. Logic does have a few reverb options and its own convolution reverb. Plus I still have the Altiverb impulses from the demo which I believe I can load up in it. HeH!
I’ll post more later on that Breverb and synth (hopefully).
