Nebula 2

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:58 am

Did anyone tested this nice VST plug-in?

I`ve now checked out the free version and I have to say I am quite stunned.
Apart from being an Xxxtreme cpu hog, all the fx emulations sound really very good!

While I am a hater of convolution reverbs ( they sound static and somehow dead) the reverbs on this thing sound transparent and clean and have spaciousness...

classic convolution also is not able to authentically capture EQs and stuff like that.... but the EQs (highpass, moog lpf, lowpass ) that are included in the free version sound very close to outboard mixer gear, if I close my eyes and just listend to them...

This is some decent stuff....

The only problem is after 4 EQs and 2 reverbs my system is at it limits.... lol
So not perfectly usable....

check it out there is a free demo
http://www.acusticaudio.com/

try that synth sweep highpass on a synth pad, absolutly great.
if you change the freq on highpasswhile playing the sound is warm and like cutting through butter.

Excellent.

Post by **Neil B** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:11 am

I've got the Nebula M42 and it is well worth the money. Let's face it, it isn't expensive and is worth adding to the armoury.
Support for the products is good too (Tim Conrardy) - very helpful guy.
You also get a freebie (Algo) which is also fun.

I haven't thrashed it in earnest yet but you'll find an example of a track I'm working on on my website (Ladder).

Good manual too.
Only complaint is some of the Midi CCs under Cubase 32/5.1 - one oor 2 of them have weird outcomes such as exiting Cubase completely

However I can live with the odd anomaly for the price.

OOPS - sorry - wrong VST - I've just tried your link - I thought you meant this one:
http://www.algomusic.net/

Sorry

fidox · Post by **fidox** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:38 pm

hehe, yea Neil B, i also bought M42, sounds great, but i didn't discovered whole synth yet,

all softsynths which i have, sounds great thru creamware cards, so no external gear needed right now, but you never know....lol

Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:24 pm

I've been using Nebula 2 Free for a couple of months now and am going to purchase. Yes it hits the CPU pretty heavily but I've been using it as specialty plug usually on mixes. The Angel EQ is really something and adds air to anything. So I think I'll buy since the price is right and consider it like having one decent piece of hardware, abeit in different forms..

Bifop · Post by **Bifop** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:58 pm

Hifiboom, the developpers of Nebula are porting their creations to the Nvidia's CUDA platform. It should deliver amazingly powerful results.

http://www.chrismilne.com/uadforums/vie ... light=cuda
http://www.chrismilne.com/uadforums/vie ... light=cuda

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html

Even Aleskey Vaneev (Voxengo) os looking into this.

http://www.voxengo.com/forum/ar/1522/?offset=10

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:26 pm

well, those 'cards' start in the $100 range...

for certain algorithms it's an interesting approach, but as the dude from Voxengo points out: don't expect the numeric performance advertized, those figures are based on abstract processing tasks.
I find it interesting for it's pure C-interface and will check that out - though my current 'favourite' is Altera's Crystal technology approach.

cheers, Tom

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:33 pm

Whatever happened to that reverb in a GPU that InVidia was sponsoring. I knew it sounded too good to be true, but a great idea none the less.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:50 pm

yep! this is a great idea...

I`ve read this in their forums, too.
I think there is much parallel power behind those GPUs.
And Nebula 2 is really a great product for a very cheap price.
The developers so far are very nice and friendly guys too.

*thumbs up* for them.

So the future audio DAWS are also great gaming machines.

exactly what I need!

I always like some rounds of BF2 with a great teamplay.

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:56 pm

No, small metal tank models.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:57 pm

the plug-ins that run on the nvidia cards surely will have a nice 3d realtime calculated surface with correct lightning point....
You don`t have to design your knobs in 3d studio anymore

hehehe

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:11 pm

It'll need meshes or else you'll have an empty space.

valis · Post by **valis** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:51 am

That there are other reasons to pursue GPU based calculations beyond just the additional FLOPs available on the card. Modern graphics cards are starting to have rather massive high speed memory pools available directly on the card which I suspect would come in really handy for convolution techniques, resynthesis etc. Also (sort of joking) the latency settings that most modern graphics card drivers give should insure that your Nvidia reverb doesn't throw you PCI bandwidth errors.