I have used it about six times. While it wasn't perfect it worked a lot better than I thought it would. Just be sure to tweak the latency/buffer setting and you'll be ok. If you have slow internet choose the lowest quality lossy option and highest latency. Use offline bounce after making settings tweaks. On an East coast fiber optic connection I get 300ms buffer at 24/96 lossless. Sound quality is excellent...I finally have access to dream gear for my mixes without leaving the DAW.
This is next-level audio tech, I LOVE IT!!!! Speaking as a DJ/Producer who has used this tech in Beta...I can assure you, it works and sounds incredible. THANK YOU ACCESS ANALOG!!!!
WOW, REALLY love the idea, and the price is not that bad. Not only does this make great devices affordable, it give you much better automation capabilities than owning the device. Will definitely try!
Because many audio engineers dream of using thousands of dollars worth of audio hardware and now they can for the fraction of the price. For me real Hardware vs plugins I notice it at the extremes. EQ boosts, compression gain reduction and saturation are best through hardware still. for me I think it makes my tracks sound more realistic, more musical basically more like a song you hear on the radio. It's also faster to get great results.
@@RealHomeRecording Well, to be fair, you're right in that regard. VSTs don't quite seem to do it for me vs. real hardware. I do find it a little hard to wrap my mind around how streaming audio to a DAW could possibly work, but apparently it can... they seem to say it does.
@@cybernitemusic the first time I streamed lossless quality audio in near real time was with Audiomovers Listento service back in 2017. So, it's definitely possible for the audio streaming part to work. You're streaming audio, just like an internet radio station, but at a higher quality output. Then, software controls are sent to the robots. The audio is then sent from the hardware back into the converters at Access Analog's end and then back to you through the internet. Their LA-2A compressor did something to my bass guitar track that I've never heard a plugin do when pushed. Instead of just breaking up/sounding bad it added an extra attack/transient that wasn't there previously which I thought was really neat. And the way you can push vocals really hard without them sounding bad (through the LA-2A or Distressors) is also very telling. Anyway, I am glad this service and MixAnalog (another company doing things a different way with real hardware over the internet) exists. We're living in interesting times!
brentonius Waves cla76, for instance, is not actually fast enough to catch transients to be used in that standard way. The Presonus SSL bus comp pumps too much and doesn’t actually glue things consistently in a track. waves api eq smears transients...bottom line is that hardware truly is still better and now we get to use it and trust our results even from a little bedroom across the world. I am literally grateful for this and am curious to see how many/which studios adopt this as a revenue stream. And, mix:analog has a terrific Fairchild clone and blue stripe 1176. Two great progressive companies. Wait until we get to remotely mix on an entire console! If this takes off that will be next.
Find a Local studio near you that has access to equipment you desire to use or save up , learn it inside out , appreciate the graft that went into creating it and marvel that your hands are touching/controlling such brilliance ! Question to all - Should we devalue hardware and treat it like software ? Machines controlling a machine that was designed for human touch , ear and feel seems ................... Fill in the blanks =~}
I'd love to do all of that, but I'm not rich and recorded music isn't exactly a hot product these days. Services like Access Analog and MixAnalog are the next best thing to owning real audio hardware. Perhaps better because you are in the sweet spot when tweaking, fast recall/presets and you don't have to worry about the equipment breaking.
@@RealHomeRecording Nothing gave me greater satisfaction than saving up for the hardware i own - knowing my hands can caress it's knobs and sliders , appreciating it's creators graft and using it & sharing it with anyone willing to invest there time to physically pop round my yard and enjoy in it what i do ! It's also great for building relationships ! The human element and interaction of hardware i feel is lost in this sense and is my main point being, Yes if you live in say Alaska and have zero to little chance of human interaction and have zero way of getting Access to hardware this is a great opportunity to use some but City/town dwellers should always opt for human and physical interactions first and foremost ! =~}
aikighost I feel like the exact contrary, most people are not able to afford a Distressor, or an API5500 or a NEVE 33609N, with this a bedroom producer can have access to this kind of hardware whenever they want for a fair price. Also if you want to buy something like a distressor you can try before you buy with your own audio! Or think of making a sample library and running all your drums through analog gear, imagine ramming 909s through Analog equipment super hard.
@@felipevareschi7773 Most people have no idea of what a "Distressor, or an API5500 or a NEVE 33609N" does or can do. If somone has never had one to experince then seeking one out is a bit oddly retrograde IMHO.
aikighost aikighost i i don’t know about that, many people are exposed to analog gear via software emulations, just look at the “glue compressor” in ableton or some of the countless VST emulations of classic compressors that are so popular, plusyou can see what these pieces of gear sound like in reviews. If someone starts out in electronic music maybe they don’t know about expensive analog equipment, but with time most of us start researching and find gear that we like and lust after. At least in the circle of music producers I know 90% of them lust over analog gear, how is it retrograde to use a remote SSL G on your projects when you can’t justify 3300$ on a real ome. Most music prodicers know about this kind of gear, imagine if they did this with a real vintage 808 or 909 or even just a vermona DRM III, extremely popular machines that cost a lot of money. How is that retrograde?
aikighost Well, IMHO, I think it’s quite the opposite. And, I use myself as an example. I’ve recorded in some great studios for my own projects. They have the gear and the space. I know how to use the equipment. especially these days with all of the tutorials online many people spend their free time binge watching and, quite frankly, researching these analog pieces of gear. A lot of times it’s for the purpose of figuring out which emulated plug-in to buy or just out of curiosity. So yes, there are many people that have used the gear like me and just can’t afford it at home but maybe I want to mix something at midnight. Or, there are plenty of people that know what the emulated plug-ins are trying to do, and would actually benefit from the hardware. Yes, we live in a world where many more people than you might think basically know what classic pieces of gear do and are used for. We’ve been chomping at the bit to have access, no pun intended, to all of the stuff for better results. Do I buy studio time at $50-100 hr or do I rent a piece of gear for $6 in the comfort of home whenever I want? I AM their niche market and am knowledgeable. 🤷🏻♂️
felipe vareschi Yessir! What’s funny to me is that ppl act like this is rocket science 😅 It’s not hard to understand and use any of this gear to it’s potential.
Wow. This is an incredible idea in theory. Let’s see how it works out in practice.
I have used it about six times. While it wasn't perfect it worked a lot better than I thought it would. Just be sure to tweak the latency/buffer setting and you'll be ok.
If you have slow internet choose the lowest quality lossy option and highest latency. Use offline bounce after making settings tweaks.
On an East coast fiber optic connection I get 300ms buffer at 24/96 lossless. Sound quality is excellent...I finally have access to dream gear for my mixes without leaving the DAW.
This is next-level audio tech, I LOVE IT!!!!
Speaking as a DJ/Producer who has used this tech in Beta...I can assure you, it works and sounds incredible. THANK YOU ACCESS ANALOG!!!!
WOW, REALLY love the idea, and the price is not that bad. Not only does this make great devices affordable, it give you much better automation capabilities than owning the device. Will definitely try!
Now THAT is impressive!
So correct me if i'm wrong, if you put 5 devices in chain you will get 5 da/ad conversions? Too much even for aurora
Yeah this tech is nuts but that many stages? Might as well just use plugins.
unless you are still using really low rates like 16 bit digital, I doubt you would even notice.
This is our future like it or not, same story as renting a physical dvd or watching online a « on demand » movie...
yeah sure. Google Stadia thinks the same and look how much of a flop it is.
very cool, would be worth them selling the tech for automation of non recall hardware
You can buy custom robotics/software from them. It's not cheap but it is a possibility.
I'm genuinly curious about why anyone would be interrested.
I know. Odd
Because many audio engineers dream of using thousands of dollars worth of audio hardware and now they can for the fraction of the price.
For me real Hardware vs plugins I notice it at the extremes. EQ boosts, compression gain reduction and saturation are best through hardware still.
for me I think it makes my tracks sound more realistic, more musical basically more like a song you hear on the radio. It's also faster to get great results.
@@RealHomeRecording Well, to be fair, you're right in that regard. VSTs don't quite seem to do it for me vs. real hardware. I do find it a little hard to wrap my mind around how streaming audio to a DAW could possibly work, but apparently it can... they seem to say it does.
@@cybernitemusic the first time I streamed lossless quality audio in near real time was with Audiomovers Listento service back in 2017. So, it's definitely possible for the audio streaming part to work.
You're streaming audio, just like an internet radio station, but at a higher quality output. Then, software controls are sent to the robots. The audio is then sent from the hardware back into the converters at Access Analog's end and then back to you through the internet.
Their LA-2A compressor did something to my bass guitar track that I've never heard a plugin do when pushed. Instead of just breaking up/sounding bad it added an extra attack/transient that wasn't there previously which I thought was really neat. And the way you can push vocals really hard without them sounding bad (through the LA-2A or Distressors) is also very telling.
Anyway, I am glad this service and MixAnalog (another company doing things a different way with real hardware over the internet) exists. We're living in interesting times!
brentonius Waves cla76, for instance, is not actually fast enough to catch transients to be used in that standard way. The Presonus SSL bus comp pumps too much and doesn’t actually glue things consistently in a track. waves api eq smears transients...bottom line is that hardware truly is still better and now we get to use it and trust our results even from a little bedroom across the world. I am literally grateful for this and am curious to see how many/which studios adopt this as a revenue stream. And, mix:analog has a terrific Fairchild clone and blue stripe 1176. Two great progressive companies. Wait until we get to remotely mix on an entire console! If this takes off that will be next.
Let me be the first to say: we have gone too far.
As a bedroom producer, who can afford studio time, this is amazing.
omg, I had this idea not too long ago also..
Find a Local studio near you that has access to equipment you desire to use or save up , learn it inside out , appreciate the graft that went into creating it and marvel that your hands are touching/controlling such brilliance ! Question to all - Should we devalue hardware and treat it like software ? Machines controlling a machine that was designed for human touch , ear and feel seems ................... Fill in the blanks =~}
I'd love to do all of that, but I'm not rich and recorded music isn't exactly a hot product these days. Services like Access Analog and MixAnalog are the next best thing to owning real audio hardware. Perhaps better because you are in the sweet spot when tweaking, fast recall/presets and you don't have to worry about the equipment breaking.
@@RealHomeRecording Nothing gave me greater satisfaction than saving up for the hardware i own - knowing my hands can caress it's knobs and sliders , appreciating it's creators graft and using it & sharing it with anyone willing to invest there time to physically pop round my yard and enjoy in it what i do ! It's also great for building relationships ! The human element and interaction of hardware i feel is lost in this sense and is my main point being, Yes if you live in say Alaska and have zero to little chance of human interaction and have zero way of getting Access to hardware this is a great opportunity to use some but City/town dwellers should always opt for human and physical interactions first and foremost ! =~}
@@liquiditey thanks for clarifying.
Really smart fkin guy. Good job
i got excited that Access made a new synth, I'm sure this is cool, but they don't have the right to use that name like that. disappointing
Yeah I feel the same, so sad :(
This makes no sense for 99% of people
aikighost I feel like the exact contrary, most people are not able to afford a Distressor, or an API5500 or a NEVE 33609N, with this a bedroom producer can have access to this kind of hardware whenever they want for a fair price. Also if you want to buy something like a distressor you can try before you buy with your own audio!
Or think of making a sample library and running all your drums through analog gear, imagine ramming 909s through Analog equipment super hard.
@@felipevareschi7773 Most people have no idea of what a "Distressor, or an API5500 or a NEVE 33609N" does or can do.
If somone has never had one to experince then seeking one out is a bit oddly retrograde IMHO.
aikighost aikighost i
i don’t know about that, many people are exposed to analog gear via software emulations, just look at the “glue compressor” in ableton or some of the countless VST emulations of classic compressors that are so popular, plusyou can see what these pieces of gear sound like in reviews. If someone starts out in electronic music maybe they don’t know about expensive analog equipment, but with time most of us start researching and find gear that we like and lust after.
At least in the circle of music producers I know 90% of them lust over analog gear, how is it retrograde to use a remote SSL G on your projects when you can’t justify 3300$ on a real ome. Most music prodicers know about this kind of gear, imagine if they did this with a real vintage 808 or 909 or even just a vermona DRM III, extremely popular machines that cost a lot of money. How is that retrograde?
aikighost Well, IMHO, I think it’s quite the opposite. And, I use myself as an example. I’ve recorded in some great studios for my own projects. They have the gear and the space. I know how to use the equipment. especially these days with all of the tutorials online many people spend their free time binge watching and, quite frankly, researching these analog pieces of gear. A lot of times it’s for the purpose of figuring out which emulated plug-in to buy or just out of curiosity. So yes, there are many people that have used the gear like me and just can’t afford it at home but maybe I want to mix something at midnight. Or, there are plenty of people that know what the emulated plug-ins are trying to do, and would actually benefit from the hardware. Yes, we live in a world where many more people than you might think basically know what classic pieces of gear do and are used for. We’ve been chomping at the bit to have access, no pun intended, to all of the stuff for better results. Do I buy studio time at $50-100 hr or do I rent a piece of gear for $6 in the comfort of home whenever I want? I AM their niche market and am knowledgeable. 🤷🏻♂️
felipe vareschi Yessir! What’s funny to me is that ppl act like this is rocket science 😅 It’s not hard to understand and use any of this gear to it’s potential.