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I've tried many DAWs and recently downloaded Cubase. I started using it last week and haven't encountered any issues with MIDI or audio all the function it's pretty much the same as the others. but the sound quality is excellent, and the drivers have not caused me any problems. I love Cubase. Good video.

This changed the game for me. I still love my SSL style mastering, but this takes me back to some of the best 90s vinyl records. The side chain is a wee bit confusing, though. What they need to do is add a visual display like they have with their other comp.

How cool to be able to remaster Chet Baker

I would say the p455 is getting somewhere - its getting closer to analog - is it analog ? no - but .... give it a couple of years , a better computer and threre maybe some good SSLs and Neves - meanwile the kiive Nfuse is the best

kiive NFuse ( the neve bus ) - is 10 times better than this one ... Nfuse is the best

Is this song released? Name? What beautiful is it 🔥🎵💕

Amateur hobbyist mixer watching and your discussion on compression is great. However, a little more basic compressor would have been helpful. You’re moving around on 2-3 knobs on some of the samples is confusing. Release fast, slow, delay and no dB levels to see on the knobs as you turn is confusing. The display is somewhat helpful but don’t want to rely on it to see what’s going on. The instruction is great but I’m lost as to what you’re doing on such a complex unit.

IMHO, version 13 discourages desire using Cubase. The “Channel” innovation brings even more confusion (It’s like a separate channel from MixConsole, the same thing is with MediaBay), since the Inspector expand section exclusively (now it's optionally) and there is also a Channel Settings window... And in the “new” Channel I did not find the opportunity to make a channel strip as a pre-insert, you can only move it around. And also in the Channel Strip I did not see two new compressors: VoxComp (apparently an alternative to RVox from Waves) and BlackValve. In general, Cubase suffers from duplication of windows. Studio One, in my opinion, will be better.

API is the best kick and snare drum EQ, period!

Very nice. I like Kazrogs Avalon 747 plugin a lot, also...

Thanks for this, Mark!

I’m a bit late to the party. Just got the Sonsig Rev-A on a special offer and found this video. I always appreciate your content and the way you demonstrate the sound quality of the plugins you review. Great work! BTW, who is the singer? She has such a beautiful voice! Regards!

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One of the best sounding plugins out there right now. Hats off to Pulsar.

Generally love your videos and the calm and analytical approach, but here you've unfortunately fallen victim to a clever psychological trick. The trick is basically monetization of what's called the expectation bias. There are studies that show increased brain activity in the brain regions that are associated with pleasure when tasting a wine that is said to be expensive. The same wine will trigger less pleasure in the brain when the person tasting is told that's it's a cheap or a mid-priced wine. So your brain will hear what it seeks to hear, and the expectations that you bring with you will very concretely change your experience. A very simple way to bust this FiDef "Magic Sauce" would be to perform a blindfold A/B -test (Hofa makes a plugin that's great for this) and see if anyone can hear any difference when the expectation bias is taken out of the equation.

I'd be interested to hear what you thought about the voosteq model N.

If this is stereo delay how do I get left to out put 1/8 dotted and right channel to output 1/4 triplet?

i used logic, protools, and now use Cubase, and never looked back !

That "velvety" horn effect was observable (more like felt), indeed.

Perfect for your musical examples. I´m glad you dig P455 Sidecar. Enjoy. 🙂

If people want an analog sound why not just use analog hardware instead of all these fake digital analog plugins and don’t use computers

Thanks for making this available!

Holy shot i came across it again recently

It does not matter if you use like 6 or 7 plugins on a particular track, if you just want to use the filters of a ssl strip but then the 10k band of a neve to add more top end why not, there is nothing wrong with that. That is not what those mixer mean when they say if you use more than 3 plugins then you are probably doing it wrong...they often mean when you put it on the master or mix bus then it is too much. mixing into a compressor or desk plugin is a good thing the sound will be a part of the mix. However, as you try to explain, you put like loads of plugins on a track, but that is not the important thing when mixing, what is is that you solve problems, when you hear things or not you have to get rid of it or add a bit to make the track sit well in the mix. What i have learned from the old timers is that you do it most effeciently possible. Use as less as possile plugins on a track to make it sound good, and learn this way what the track need or does not need and you will grow as a mixer.

No it's not. Actually, Fab C2 in the same situation and same basic settings are much better sounding plugin

I used Protools for years, it’s slow and buggy. Moved to logic, even more buggy. Hopefully Cubase is the one. There’s a recent video, the guy tests all the new m chip macs on various daws. Only Cubase and Reaper used all cores which allowed for a much higher track count. That’s my main reason for switching. That and less bugs, hopefully 🤞

I can't believe I didn't think of using a transient shaper... THANK YOU!! Huge difference.

I might have to get this when they do their discount. Btw your voice over audio sounds a bit weird in this specific video. Much enjoyed the music again though

Does elevate not have stereo separation between channels? If not, do you miss that option?

Mark, how do you compare this to Michelangelo in terms of “analog magic”?

Not at all impressed. Firstly, the signal mutes when inserting the EQ? That alone is a deal-breaker, totally unnecessary. I’m trying hard to mention one positive impression I get from this. Sorry, but I can’t. Further, I don’t need every last thing explained to me in five different ways. I want only to hear, not to be sold.

Did you make the Oz soundtrack?

ALL the Pulsar Modular plugins are spectacular. Expensive, yes, fairly CPU intensive, yes, but the sound… the sound…

Thank you for this video. What other plugins do think are in the same realm as the p455?

This plugin will hit an i7 16 core cpu at 10% per instance. It won't be going across a big project unless you print the tracks.. Sounds really good but at a major cpu cost.

Hi - what band is this?

The sound quality is excellent, so good, I could almost overlook the huge flaws in the UI. When snare’s attack is varied from 1mS to 30 mS and not an iota of difference results on the display, I’d prefer no display. Very odd little plug-in with weird display flaws and wildly inconsistent correlation to the hardware I know so well. Not for me.

Input gain does nothing?? Many compressors are set entirely by adjustment of input gain. That’s a major oversight.

Thanks Mark for your music and your Heron Island UA-cam channel! I really enjoy your guitar style, and I guess a big influence is Allan Holdsworth, right? You have your own unique sound of course, but I can hear the great Allen Holdsworth shines through from time to time. He joined the same label as you, when he was in his latter years of his career. He released his last music with “Soft Works”. “Abracadabra in Osaka” is an outstanding album, thank you for the fantastic remastered version! 🙏🏻

Great, now how do you fix the piano tuning 😂?

Excellent video comparison. I’m two days in on my trial of Cubase 13 pro, the drum editor mode is a huge difference, also being able to enter piano roll notes without holding command I like seamlessly with out switching to a tool. I was feeling to lazy to learn another day after like 5, thought logic was my perfect daw but for $250 with there current promotion you might have sold me on it to invest in it and accept the learning curve lol

25:10 Isn't "Relative" affecting only the bell at 1.4kHz?

Nice comparison. I would like to hear about the differences wrt notation as well. Thank you for making this video!

Cubase and Reaper are the most optimized DAWs for Apple Silicon Logic you ask? Not even close Weird but true

I originally came from Studio One Professional to Logic. The one thing I fell in love with Studio One for was their advanced hand mastering processes. Since then, upgrading my VSTs, ozone has made that part of S1 moot which is what made me move to logic. But unfortunately now running up to 50-80 tracks at 44Khz I’m getting a ton of overload issues on a newer Mac. It’s cheaper for me to upgrade to Cubase (I have a 64gb ram and 13th gen intel laptop with a 3080TI) which having Cubase be cross compatible removes that roof when we hit that ceiling when we are tracking.

Hi there great video. Does the Kirchhoff do frequency unmasking?

Tube Tech for the Win 😂❤

This type of comparison is what makes the most sense to me, not the "what do they sound with the same settings" type of comparison, although an interesting experiment, there's no real world application for that. Rather knowing what they sound like when trying to make the original material as good as possible, and what different results you get from that, that's a way more useful comparison :)

Watching this a year later after I haphazardly updated to Sonoma 17.4 and all my Ilok plugins like UA and Soundtoys cause errors in Logic Pro and won’t open on my newish 2023 M2 Pro Mac mini. There’s a workaround through Rosetta but unacceptable. I switched back to my Studio one Professional which continues to work flawlessly during this time

My MacBook crashes now as often as Windows 95 used to. And my PC is very stable. One Soma update even bricked my MacBook... I hate Apple now.