Comments on: NCAR Is A FREE Summing Console VST Plugin By Analog Obsession

By: Crust Lord Algae

Crust Lord Algae — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:09:30 +0000

Most plugins of this developer are just repackaged bits of the same wonky lines of code. The many different compressors behave very samey and the analog saturation is simple linear soft clipping for the most. Many of these plugins are extremely CPU inefficient. It’s hilarious to see how much the “audio producing community” has degraded to the point where a fancy name and a fancy GUI are enough to get your plugins into many top-20-best-plugins-lists. AO is quantity over quality, and the developer cannot even write DSP code. He uses Spice to mimick electric circuits of real units (which I’m sure he does not even have access to, given the sheer amount of plugins he released) and then translates these electronic calculations into basic, non optimized code. The results are naturally far away from real analog modelling and more guesswork than anything else.

By: SP

SP — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:06:23 +0000

In reply to Rahul Ranganath. I tried it on a bunch of tracks, Kick/Snare top & bottom/ST OH/Bass/2 Gtrs/Stereo Piano, trying to do a A/B comparison and the result with the plugin on was a phasy mess. That made it pretty unusable, pitty. I was really excited about this plugin.. I am not sure if it's a bug of some sort and except you there's noone else talking about the phase, no info at all.

By: Rahul Ranganath

Rahul Ranganath — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 03:24:10 +0000

Has anyone else noticed the massive phase shift these plugins cause. Not to mention all the compressors from the developer have the exact same release curve when you analyse them. I find all these products unusable for those reasons. Would some more insight into what’s happening with the code. Am I doing something wrong ?

By: Topon Das

Topon Das — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:29:49 +0000

In reply to Topon Das. Got confirmation that this doesn't work in Cubase.

By: Wing Yee

Wing Yee — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 06:53:09 +0000

NCAR works best in a Modular App such as Minihost Modular or Element.
In Element, the following I/O configurations are available: Mono, Stereo, LCR, Quadraphonic, Surround (5.0, 5.1, 7.0, 7.1), Discrete #9-#16 (#16 = I/O x8).

By: Vatche

Vatche — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:32:45 +0000

In reply to Gary. Agreed, there is no analog summing in the digital domain.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:35:49 +0000

sorry, im no expert, but what is the point of having a digital summing vst?

By: Tomislav Zlatic

Tomislav Zlatic — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:38:56 +0000

In reply to Rob. Nope, a different developer. But it's coming very soon, stay tuned! And hey, well spotted! :)

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:36:25 +0000

Saw the hidden message Is it a collaboration between you and AO? Cool!

By: Topon Das

Topon Das — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:02:07 +0000

Anyone know if NCAR can be used with Cubase 10.5? I downloaded the plug-in, but haven’t been able to figure out the routing properly. Putting NCR on a 6.0 buss and panning the sends seems to somewhat work, but then I’m stuck with the awkward panning.