oeksound - bloom

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  1. RAIN

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    Bloom is an adaptive tone shaper. It analyzes the character of a signal and applies corrections to the perceived tonal balance for a more even and refined sound. It also lets you shape the tone and character of a track, for example, by adding warmth, brightness, or clarity. Tonal adjustments made with Bloom are dynamic and context-aware. This, together with its carefully designed user interface, makes the plug-in quick and intuitive to use and helps keep the material sounding natural, even when making radical changes.





    technical specifications
    Windows 10 – 11
    64-bit VST3 and AAX (Pro Tools 11 and up)

    Mac OS X 10.14 (Mojave) – macOS 14 (Sonoma)
    64-bit VST3, AU and AAX. Both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs supported.


    199,00 €
    https://oeksound.com/plugins/bloom/
     
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  3. playtime

    playtime Rock Star

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    Got the email today. 199,00 € is too much. I was expecting some special offer for Soothe2 and Spiff owners but there is none so far.
    Looks interesting but I'm not going to buy it at that price. No way.
    BTW I'm all covered with other tools and Process Audio Sugar is doing similar work for me very good.
     
  4. Harish Pamu

    Harish Pamu Producer

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    How different is this from Gullfoss? any idea?
     
  5. Niels

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    No intro offer?! No "loyalty" discount for owners of spiff and or soothe?!
    It's like companies want to have a bit of beef with their customers first, before coming back to their decisions (Minimal Audio, Bitwig, ...).
    Nope I'll be waiting for a better price at this point...
     
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  6. ayu

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    i love bloom, it sounds beautiful, unmatched plugin. M/S sculpting with negative squash gain-staging is underrated, you can make every mix "alive" with this tool. but yeah, as an owner of both soothe2 & spiff they could've done at least a loyalty offer. bloom + Tonal Balance Control = success
     
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    what else do you expect from a company that uses iLok :rofl:
     
  8. ayu

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    After the release of macOS 14.4, iLok is completely broken. Nothing works anymore, and all iLok plugins generate infinite gain :dunno:
    Maybe plugin devs take notice, and move away from iLok once and for all
     
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  9. TheRiddler303

    TheRiddler303 Kapellmeister

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    it seems only to affect m2 and m3 users on Logic, with AU plugins on ARM Mode. its not like whole ilok broke apart :yes:
     
  10. shinyzen

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    wow. this thing sounds really good.

    crazy good.
     
  11. No Avenger

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    'carefully designed user interface' you say? Dusky pink I see. :dont: [​IMG]
     
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    a review
     
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    This is what I got from their contact for special pricing existing clients....I ve legit soothe 2 and spiff. This company really deserves to be cracked their products!

    `Unfortunately we don't offer loyalty discounts, I'm sorry. We want to try our best to treat everyone in the same manner, which is also why we aren't offering any intro pricing for Bloom. I hope you understand our position.

    All the best,
    Max`

    Sorry I dont understand your company's greedy position. Thanks I am done with oeksound
     
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  14. lennyi97045

    lennyi97045 Noisemaker

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    Haha, I agree with you. "We want to try our best to treat everyone in the same manner" is bullshitting for "we are selling enough plugins so we don't care how many plugins you have already bought from us, because we can afford it".
     
  15. shinyzen

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    ive been demoin all day and its a really good plugin, but i dont want to spend that cash. Somebody talk me out of it! What are some plugins that i already have that do the same thing?!
     
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    What do plumbers, R2R and greedy, foolish companies using iLok protection have in common?

    Answer: Cracks

    [​IMG]
     
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  17. shinjiya

    shinjiya Producer

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    I haven't done the trial because I simply can't afford it at the moment, but even after watching all the videos I can't really fully grasp what exactly this plugin is meant to do. I mean, it sounds good, but is it meant to replace your EQ? The more I think about it, the more it looks like something like SmartEQ4: amount knob is the same as moving the smart band up or down with 100 adaptive setting, the tone bands at the top are like creating your own bands (if within the smart band it will still react to the adaptive setting despite boosting or cutting), and the only thing missing is the compressor, that I think everyone here already has one they like. SmartEQ also doesn't have a mix knob.

    What the hell am I missing? Though, despite that, I still like it. I just have no idea how exactly it changes my chain.
     
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    Don't forget about the cable companies.
     
  19. Djord Emer

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    Bro people have been mixing and mastering for about 70 years now, do you think engineers in the 80s had "Bloom"? Do you think engineers last year had Bloom to mix and master? The answer is no, they never needed it to make great albums. The same applies to you, you don't need this, you just want to fancy a new toy that will probably get lost in your sea of plugins in a few months. Move on brother.
     
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  20. shinyzen

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    haha good call. I do use everything i collect. but yah, you are right, i dont NEED it. Im still confused as to what is actually going on under the hood, some sort of mb compressor, saturation, auto eq-ing, i think. I know i can make my own version of this using a handful of plugins and some macros.
     
  21. BlossomwoodsCollection

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    Facts, and for 200$? A definite no. Unlike soothe2, this seems more like a trinket/gadget than a genuine tool.
     
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