PSP Effects pack

[maintiger]

Its been sold at the motu site for what its beed advertised as half price ($199) Has anybody heard it? Is it any good? here is the link to it:

http://www.motu.com/newsitems/atnewsite ... 9298680277

[chrispick]

I've test-driven a bunch of them. Nitro is cool if you're into producing electronic music or sound design. The others are okay, I guess, but really didn't thrill me. If you loved their earlier hardware incarnations, you might think otherwise.

[belexes]

Don't know much about the effects pack but their Mixpack is awesome.

[daveyboy]

I have most of their plugs including these. Really like them and consider them a good value if it's something you need. Download the demos and try em out for yourself.

[Shooshie]

Its been sold at the motu site for what its beed advertised as half price ($199) Has anybody heard it? Is it any good? here is the link to it:

http://www.motu.com/newsitems/atnewsite ... 9298680277

I bought these on an impulse buying spree. A little more than I wanted to spend on "weird" effects, but I must say these things are incredibly deep. Especially PSP Nitro and PSP 608. The Nitro has what looks like a simple interface, but then you click on the display and discover infinite programming loops and envelopes and parameters I never knew a delay unit could even use! Incredibly deep and well programmed.

Suffice to say that I never heard so many variations of delayed audio. I've never used this sort of thing much, but I'd heard good things about it and just wanted to see if I'd get something unique out of it. I think I've opened a window to a new direction I hadn't considered before.

Now, I want their Vintage Warmer, but may wait a while before getting it. One $200 purchase is enough for a month or two, but I'm happy I got this.

Oh... one other thing I forgot to mention: I started playing around with drawing automation curves for various parameters in the Nitro. This enables you to create sounds and shapes that are less dependent on wave forms. In other words, you avoid "LFO Fatigue" by overriding the settings with arhythmic manual control. I drew sine waves, squashed them by using the SHIFT key (every alt key does something to the shape of the automation drawn with the wave shaping tool), and then modified them with the free-form tool. The result was spectacular. Sometimes it was the opposite, though. It just took some creative thinking, choosing the right parameter, and going for it with nothing particular in mind until I stumbled on the right ideas. Didn't take long to do that. Automation in DP is so easy and quick to do by hand.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Shooshie

[Fibes]

The PSP 42 and 84 are great delay plugs. The 608 is a CPU hog but pretty cool and Nitro is cool but i prefer the Camel Audio stuff...

Overall it's worth having.

[misentropic]

For those interested in PSP's products, make sure you take advantage of their educational discount if you qualify.

I am a poor teacher (boo hoo - 20 weeks of vacation a year to write music) and went shopping on their site after reading this post and noticed the educational offer link:

http://www.pspaudioware.com/indexen.htm ... m/edu.html

All you have to do is scan or fax them your current school ID.

Thad

[amerecordingstudio]

Nitro is great... bubt we've always had a hard time with PSP plugins... the Lexicon 84 wont run at all, it always crashes DP for us. Nitro has also been a culprit for crashing, but not all the time, it seems if we open a small file and put nitro on a track there, close that session, and open the big one with nitro already there, it works fine... it's just annoying.