I think Greg's a genius and he has a good ear. I trust him. You can tell he loves music. The best designers are music lovers.

I'm excited to hear this thing.

- c

So you're looking for comments based on the looks since there is demo at this time.
I am not a fan of small knobs on -anything- let alone a plug-in.

The GUI is bananas but I'm happy it doesn't have fake rack screws which drive me nuts especially on non-modeled gear

More troubling though is that in the official NAMM thread (https://gearspace.com/board/namm-201...nter-namm.html) it says it will be available for Mac and PC, VST and AU but doesn't mention RTAS or AAX!

Have no fear, AAX will happen, but it's done by a different coder than the native stuff.

The AAX pipeline is simple: UBK-1 is being done as I type, then it's the Clariphonic DSP, then we can get to the Pusher.


Gregory Scott - ubk

I've got a strong feeling this will sound awesome-

Keep dealing the mojo Greg you gone pusher you -

Greg:

Love your style, but sometimes your schtick commences to chap my hide just a bit. The BS Police do have to swing thru even your neighborhood every now and then, pusher. Nothing personal. To wit:

Convince me that this product doesn't already exist, albeit with a less artsy and more tweakable GUI, and that it isn't called "FabFilter Saturn."


(Caveat: if Cool Stuff Labs is coding, then my guess is that the sound will be the convincing factor, and that ish needs no hustle. But still.)

The price is right at $149! And if there is a discount for owners of both the UBK-1 and clairphonic then that's just icing on the cake.

Greg is a true west coast stoner !

He addressed aax in the thread

GUI is awesome! Looks mean, reminds me of something the military would use...lol

I think it's stylish...but really, who cares if it sounds and does amazing things. Not like you gotta look at it for an extended period of time. I personally think Metric-Halo's channel strip looks distracting and cluttered...much rather be staring at eh Pusher.

Having said that, I can't stand other GUI's that simply look childish...Doesn't make me feel like it's of any quality...but the Pusher looks Mean and high-end...to me anyway.

Internet issues, triple post :///

Internet issues... Triple post :/ sorry guys.

So how much longer are we gonna have to wait to try this on AAX after it's out? I own UBK1 and Clari.. And am happy to see them in aax 64 bit.. But I can't wait to try this new one!

me to think so

Shouldn't that be... "And will be happy to see them..."?

We got to love KushAudio for bringing new things to the digital world instead of the same ol "analog modeled" mumbo jumbo we seem to get here everyfrigginday. Looking very forward to trying this out.

Yeah I guess so.

yeah but why doesn't he do an SSl EQ & a 1176

Totally agreed, I'm not immune from any kind of scrutiny or criticism, and my hype factor is unabashedly high so fair's fair.



I can't do that (literally, only you can make that kind of decision for yourself), and tbh I don't consider it my job to convince anyone of anything. My job is to make a thing, put it out there, do my best to pique people's interest in it, then step aside and let everyone form their own conclusions based on direct, personal experience.

I made similar 'one of a kind' claims about the Clariphonic, and that's still the consensus on that eq. Likewise with the UBK-1, it creates a movement all its own. I'm not interested in developing 'more me' products with Kush, I'm much more interested in trying to create genuinely new twists on otherwise-old things.

Here, it starts with the modeled behavior of saturating a magnetic field, but without any semblence of physical limitations. There are 4 different types of magnetic fields, each of which has different harmonic structures (one is mostly 2d, one is mostly 3rd, one is 2d &4th, the last 3rd & 5th). It turns out some very interesting things happen when the 4 fields interact and sum, there's a chaos thing. It's not actually chaotic, but there are so many interactive variables it's close enough to pass.

The tiniest tweak on one core can suddenly cause all 4 to 'collapse', or pop a completely new transient shape, or futz in an alien way. The way the Flux Drive and Bias interact with the 4 cores is pretty much impossible to put into words, and I'm not generally shy on words. I spent 12 months with my head up this thing's butt, and when I went to make presets last week I was still discovering new ways to bend sound with it, some beautiful, some bizarre, some a little of both.

This is my new fetish right now: taking a real-world process, modeling it, then seeing what happens when you push it as hard as humanly possible. If/when things get nasty -- and they always do --- I just tweak the baseline little by little until the place it broke suddenly sounds cool. Then I push it harder. Lather, rinse, repeat.

It's a strange career path, but as someone who's obsessed with tweaking sound with no particular reason or agenda other than exploration, it's incredibly satisfying.


Gregory Scott - ubk

I think it's great to bring out new stuff... But I've made the decision that as a ProTools user I'm not buying ANYTHING that's not AAX2! I don't care how cool it is. It's been too long for too many products by too many companies who already have my $$$$

Sorry

Well, for not being able to do that, you basically did it. That sounds very different from what Saturn does. Looking forward to giving it a whirl.

I'm really looking forward to this. In fact, I, generally, look forward to anything whose butt Greg has had his head up for 12 months.
That's just a rule.

Fook, that is one ugly and terribly laid out GUI. I would find myself using my host's default GUI rather than look at that!

What's with the ridiculously small and badly placed meter? The round knobs don't exactly give a clear feedback as to how they are set and the background is like some crude experiment by some noob into their second youtube tutorial on photoshop layer fx.

Truly an eyesore and baffling that anybody would use a screenshot of this GUI as a product teaser :(

Cheers

Conundra

When is it going to be possibile to demo it as vst?

The GUI is, for sure kinda weird. At least to me. I don't like it.

That's a shame in my book, compared to the stunning UBK-1 which is easy on the eye, well laid out, just with the nice amount of eye candy.

But I'm sure it will sound badass !

I feel like Miley after the VMA!

Ah well, you know what they say...








Gregory Scott - ubk

Don't listen to 'em Greg, the GUI is awesome. Thank god no more typical sliders/knobs/emu GUI's. The only way to break the old paradigms is to start new ones!

That's totally fair, and you won't have long to wait. The UBK-1 AAX2 is being buttoned up as I type; Clariphonic is right behind it, then the Pusher.

Once we're caught up, I hope to whittle the gap between a new native release and the PT releases down to something closer to 4 weeks.

As my father in law loves to say: "make progress, not perfection!"


Gregory Scott - ubk

F*** Yeah.......

That is all... And let the haters hate on the GUI... I think it looks KILLER.