#SONAR 8.5 PRODUCER UPGRADE UPGRADE#
There are several good plugs in the Cakewalk bundle, and it's well worth the upgrade price to get them if you are needing some plugs. Personally, if one plug-in can get the sound I want, why would I want to fiddle around with six different plugs lined up on a track? I DO that often as well, but I don't think that takes away from the usefulness of channel strips at all. Nothing wrong with either method if the end result is what you want. I know you can get the same thing out of multiple plugs, but if you can get a good sound out of one plug-in that is efficient on resources, why not? Why use multiple plugs just because you know how to? I don't get why it's better one way or another. That's what I find anyway.īut that's the whole idea behind channel strips. Plus, making my own plug-in chains and channel splitting I can compress different frequencies differently, pan them differently, add delay to some but not others, pan the delay signal all the way out or straight down the middle or anywhere else.īoth Vocal Strip and Percussion Strip will work in REAPER, and they have the "advantage" of giving you lots of presets so you can set something up quickly.īy all means try them, but, honestly, somebody who understands the principles behind compression, EQ and other FX (which you clearly do) is likely to get better results, (and discover far more creative and original options) in most cases by creating your own chains from individual FX plug-ins. ReaEQ (or Sonitus) is more flexible than the Vocal Strip EQ. ReaComp (or Sonitus) is far more fully featured than the Vocal Strip compressor. Especially with REAPER's routing capabilities. I still personally prefer to chain together individual FX for myself rather than go for these "out of the box" FX.
At least you can chain the components together in any order you like, which isn't always the case. That said, if you like that sort of thing, vocal strip and percussion strip are both better than most of their ilk. I only ever use this sort of thing when preparing a quick and dirty demo of a song. I find they tend to be restrictive and confine creativity rather than encourage it. I have an inherent dislike of these multi-function plug-ins which (for example) combine EQ, compressor, delay, whatever. I rarely use synths, but I'll happily give you my opinion on vocal strip and percussion strip. I'm not counting stuff that came with v8 or earlier, and I could have missed something out. These are included but only work in Sonar: However, these are included with Producer, and you can use them in REAPER: Whether it's worth the $99 to you is of course something you must decide for yourself. Anyone know of any VST (& other) plugins that are included in SONAR that I could use in REAPER that would make the $99.00 worth it?