Hi,
this morning I got a mail with this info:

Get Ready to Upgrade + Explore the New Account System

Spoiler: a 50% Off Upgrade Sale is coming in mid-August – this sale will last 4 weeks. To ensure you get the best deal, read on.


I already got Soundtoys 5 so i though maybe they mean an upgrade to Soundtoys 6 which would be awesome.
Do you guys think my interpretation could be right?

 

I think this refers to upgrade to full SoundToys 5 suite for those who own few plugins.
But yes - I have the confirmation they are working on new plugins and some new stuff right now. No official confirmation for SoundToys 6 yet but I guess it will come.

First we get VST3 and that will happen very soon

 

It sounds like a reduced cost upgrade from 5-6. And users get to hope that "Exploring the New Account System" is not a creative way of saying "pay again for the same thing you already have."

 

@pixie

 

I found it interesting that they usually don't spoil sales for Soundtoys 5. Maybe we get new Soundtoys 6 plugins plus VST3? The whole mail is written very vaguely. Also, they want me to ensure the best deal?

 

If you were the only guy on audiosex that bought my vst, I'd be sending you an email too!
Already seems like a strategic mistake to get R2R on the look out.

 

This is very confusing indeed. Let's wait and see mid august what is going on

 

I see nothing indicating SoundToys 6. I see a promo of an "upgrade sale", and a new account system that takes into account what you own.

Most likely, this is what it is - a sale of upgrades, so people can upgrade their collection to the Full Bundle at a cheaper price...

Honestly, if they were giving out spoilers for such a long-awaited and big release as a new major version, considering people's observations of lack of activity for some years now - I'd expect something more in the way of teasers if someone big was coming.

We'll see - but as some cynical person said, the key to a happy life is low-expectations... ;)

 

In the context of the email, I read this to mean:

"To make sure you get the cheapest upgrade price based on what you own, make sure all the products you own are correctly displayed in your account. If you have plugins in other accounts/different email addresses, make sure those are all moved into your one main account so they can be factored in correctly to your upgrade price."

 

how can they release a soundtoys 6 when soundtoys 5 is so perfect?

 

In the near future, Soundtoys 5 will be the new hardware.

 

If Decap was a realistic price I would buy a 64 bit version of it. Certainly. About 50$ realistic, but there are so many other good options now. Call it a fond memories fee.

 

Agree. They are quite expensive and the sales are somewhat far between.

I've still to find a plug-in that comes close to the sound of Devil-Loc Deluxe, and I've tried so hard to replicate it with different plug-in chains and JSFX, but nothing sounds like it. It's one of my all-time favourite plug-ins for kick+snare drum smashing and also works great on room mics.

EchoBoy is also one of those plug-ins that just sounds marvellous, even though there are so many other dirty delays out there. LittleAlterBoy is still my main octaver/pitch shifting FX plug-in. Decapitator has never been my favourite Soundtoys plug-in (although it can sound pretty great). There are so many other better distortion plug-ins. If I pick a saturation/distortion plug-in from the Soundtoys bundle I usually go for Radiator or Devil-Loc Deluxe.

Yes. The Soundtoys plug-ins have become a bit dated by now, but they still sound as awesome as ever IMO!

 

@Arabian_jesus
The Tone Empire Loc-ness plugin does exactly the same job as the devil loc of soundtoys with integrated oversampling. I love this kind of processing.

 

Really? SoundToys seem to have sales pretty often (it's about the only new thing they can announce without new plugins), and I've certainly seen DeCap for that price before...

I think signs that ST6 is coming would be suspiciously cheap upgrades to the ST5 full bundle for those not already on it, as an attempt to get the userbase ready ("milk") for a bigger and desirable upgrade to ST6 with new stuff, resizable plugins and so on.

 

If they were to update Soundtoys 5, I'd like to see an oversampling feature, Decapitator really REALLY sounds better with it

 

Exactly!

 

It's hard to expect good quality new plugins because their main coders left the company a long time ago.

 

It's modelled after the same hardware but sadly doesn't sound even close to as great as Devil-Loc.

Tone Empire's oversampling is also utter garbage. Every single plug-in they have made sounds completely different when you enable oversampling. They probably have their envelope algorithm tied to the samplerate and therefore it completely messes up the attack and release times when the samplerate changes. This should be a pretty easy fix for most devs, but not for Tone Empire/BeatSkillz. People have complained about this since their first plug-in with oversampling was released (Goliath v2 I think?), but I don't think they have even tried to fix it. I wouldn't be surprised if they have just copy/pasted the oversampling code from somewhere and have no idea how to fix this issue.

 

Oversampling ?