useless "Snake Oil" vst's

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  1. tori

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    Wow, didn't knew that. I don't think those are snake oil, at least not every plugin. But mostly they do some easy stuff, and you can get better results with other plugins, if you know how to do it. And they're cheap. I think these samey cheap developers are mostly gathering more inexperienced producers, and they make a business model with all these different more cheap brands. Maybe because it seems like 'diversity'. Many plugins do something useful, but you don't really need them.

    Lately I like WA Production plugins even less, now they are doing synths, a few weeks ago they released their first synth, but now another one, they sould focus more on their products and make them better, instead of throwing out a new plugin every week. But what can you expect when your main targets are edm-zoomers with ADHD.
     
  2. Talmi

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    Lol. Cheers for catching that, edited my post.
     
  3. Smoove Grooves

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    Point of interest. The term actually comes from way back when con-men would travel around trying to sell fake medicines.
    Not from White Sea Audio.
     
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  4. Meteo Xavier

    Meteo Xavier Ultrasonic

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    I find the widespread use of the term "snake oil" for junk things to be hilarious - the irony is that the original snake oil product for which the trope derives its name actually wasn't 100% useless. I don't remember what it was actually a legitimate ointment even if it was a limited use thing, which goes to show that no matter how badly things are advertised or despised by the fucking peanut gallery, all things in this world have SOME sort of reason to exist.

    That being said, I'd say the VST I'd found the most disappointing to me was T-RACKS 3 that I own a boxed copy of. I could never figure out how to use it or make anything sound good with it. It's useful to someone else, but not me. I'd love to sell it if I could.
     
  5. Peek

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    The last Cashmeere
     
  6. Peek

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    Did you know that Luftikus Eq is a PluginAlliance Maag EQ4 with a different GUI?
     
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  7. Peek

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    Nothing. All is good
     
  8. Peek

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    'Mastering', and the 'Analog' are referring to the stepping knob. 40k goes to 40 k. if you don't have a spectral range up to 40k, what do you expect to see?
     
  9. Peek

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    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
     
  10. philkizer

    philkizer Ultrasonic

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    All VSTis under 20 MBs. Most of them sound like a terrible version of synth1.
     
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  11. Smoove Grooves

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    You could've just put "synth1".
     
  12. mp5

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    Rule the day.
     
  13. mp5

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    So, 'Guys' work every now and then.
     
  14. mp5

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    So what?
     
  15. Ad Heesive

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  16. mp5

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    I don't know wherever from you inferred "always"?
    The "correct and obvious things" for you do not seem like that to me at all.
    There is a very strong correlation with capital Melda interfaces, including even registration interface. You don't mean to say they just "borrowed" them from Melda at random?
    And I just said 'affiliates', not 'Melda product'.
    The degree of guesswork on your side is much greater than on mine, so I disliked your far fetched attitude. Nothing personal, so your sensitivity to imaginary attack on your personal worth ("me") was not a matter of my post in any way.
    Sorry if you thought I was offensive.
     
  17. Xupito

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    Hell yeah.
    And flood the thread.
     
  18. Gyro Gearloose

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    thread where ppl talk bout things they determine different like the term snake oil...
    another point
     
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  19. mp5

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    Flood with no blood.
     
  20. Gyro Gearloose

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    not reading manual can be snake oil too:mad:

    unblvbl anoying that that yt fonsi did wave over here with this term everyone determine a little different

    i think this white sea studio could be foster himself
     
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