Samplicity announces Berlin Studio plugin

[Daniel James]

Picked this up Yesterday. Its incredible! instantly 'worldizes' anything you put in it. I love taking synths or sound designs and then seeing where in the room sounds best, then being able to mix the mic positions as if it was actually recorded in the room is flawless. Genuinely feels like I am mixing my live orchestra sessions at times.

Most definitely a new goto for so many things in my workflow now! Superbe work!

Hope we see more products in this style!

-DJ

 

[constaneum]

btw, got the license activation key but somehow this isn't tied to ilok ? I have ilok 3 dongle but can't seem to find a way to have the license activated on dongle instead. I don't wanna stay online for my DAW though.

 

[Peter Roos]

Picked this up Yesterday. Its incredible! instantly 'worldizes' anything you put in it. I love taking synths or sound designs and then seeing where in the room sounds best, then being able to mix the mic positions as if it was actually recorded in the room is flawless. Genuinely feels like I am mixing my live orchestra sessions at times.

Most definitely a new goto for so many things in my workflow now! Superbe work!

Hope we see more products in this style!

-DJ

Hey Dan, thanks so much! This means a lot to me!

 

[portego]

For FL Studio users who have unsaved stage location issue, you may opt for the "Make bridged" option which works while waiting for Peter to resolve this.

Son of a Gun . It really freaking works . Are you some kind of FL Studio wizard? Thank you very much

btw, got the license activation key but somehow this isn't tied to ilok ?

I've read it somewhere that iLok will be the next step (next update in december?) and this method now is just a temporary solution -> Will be tied to iLok in the future.

 

[Peter Roos]

The update with a few fixes has finally been sent out!

And there is now also Vst2, on Mac and Windows

 

[Peter Roos]

I hope we get at least 2 license per 1 purchase? i like to have a 2 keys.

Currently two activations. Will think about it again with the iLok version.

 

[Peter Roos]

Hi @Peter Emanuel Roos

Dumb question. I don’t notice a wet/dry knob in the screen shots? Or have I simply missed this? I trust this plugin is not only for use as an insert?

Thanks

That's the fun, this is a new concept. There is a simple Direct channel. Just pull that fader down or set it to Mute and you have a Wet only mix.

 

[Peter Roos]

Can I use Berlin Studio as a tail reverb on the master bus without selecting any position?

i.e. as a “normal” tail reverb on master bus

No, that would give you a dry output

 

[Jett Hitt]

The update with a few fixes has finally been sent out!

Got it! I’ll install and give it a whirl later tonight. Thanks Peter!

 

[Peter Roos]

Hope machine based activation can be included sometime in the future. No go for me personally till then.

I expect not to support that - maybe I may change my mind when I soon start integrating that stuff.

 

[portego]

Funny enough with the (new) "VST2" Version the stages are saved in FL Studio...

 

[Peter Roos]

Can confirm that it works on a AMD CPU and in FL-Studio.

One instance of "Berlin Studio" uses on a AMD 5950x around 1% of the FL-Studio CPU-Meter. Would say, a little less than 1%, because the 1% Rule applies to about 80-90% or so. It is obvious that multithreading is not implemented yet, but "Peter Emanuel Roos" confirmed this in the "Berlin Studio - The Ultimate Reverb Test" thread and is working on it. So yeah, even if it is not optimised for AMD i don't see any problems but looking forward to the next update. Multithreading for the win

Btw. Played around only a little bit. So far I can say, it sounds amazing with VHorns and:

- Install Process was not a problem on Windows 10
- Also no virus alarm (which was mentioned on the homepage, it could happen)
- But install process is probably not finished, couldn't choose the drive (-> went to windows drive)
- A link parameter for the delays would be awesome (link all the knobs together)
- The delay knob didn't pushed it far enough in my first little test. My idea was, to push a string ensemble patch (front stage) to/behind the individual strings (with delay), but it didn't worked as planned -> ensemble on middle stage was fine. But this could also be problem of the string library (only tested it with 8Dio Majestica).
- Some kind of auto panning would be nice. In my test, the dry signal was just where it was (Example: Horn reverb left, but dry signal of the Horn in the middle). There are knobs in the plugin to pan it, directly in the plugin. But in my head I was thinking: "Why doesn't the plugin just pre-pan for an individual positon? Or why aren't there 2 settings for each stage (one pre-panned, one free). I'm a lazy bastard and it would just make sense in my head -> Every instrument center and remove the reverb -> Choose place and the option of pre-panning and voilà . I mean, than you would have the exact angle of the panning for each position... But i get it, there would have to be 2 options, because some libraries are allready panned...

Yeah, this is my first impression of this neat reverb. Like it so far.

Well, not optimized... I use quite a lot of vectorized optimizations for the heavy calculations - this part uses the best the local processor has to offer.
It is about how the software "project" itself is compiled. If you do that with an flag for say AVX512 it will simply not start on machines without those features. Hence I decided to use the old AVX option (machines to 10 years old).
AVX, AVX2, and up, it all makes some difference, but the main heavy crunching will really make use of the SIMD operations that your processor supports.
The delay options can already push instruments "out of the room" - it is not meant like a pre-delay in a regular reverb.

There will be documentation and blog pages in the coming weeks. Hopefully some rest from coding...

 

[Peter Roos]

Correction: There is a bug with FL Studio

The stage location will not be saved with FL Studio. The faders are fine, but the stage location will be the default "violin 1" when you save and open a project with FL Studio.

@developer team: is this fixable? Asking shyly as it kind of messes up my whole plan...

A standard state-exchange with the host is used, I cannot imagine that a host can have problems with it. Will look into it.

I will also be easy with refunds if it really disappoints you in some way.

 

[portego]

I will also be easy with refunds if it really disappoints you in some way.

Very generous, but the VST2 Version already fixed the issue... Don't see any more CPU usage with the VST2, so yeah, i'm happy

 

[Daniel James]

Hey Dan, thanks so much! This means a lot to me!

No worries man, genuinely blown away.

Only thing I can think that I would love is a LP/HP filter on the front panel for each mic. And a 'apply eq to all' option so I can quickly apply the same EQ shapes to the different mics quickly if I just need to kill a resonant frequency, to save me doing the action 3 times.

Pulling the bass out of some mics can really clean things up, would just be cool to have an easy way to tidy. But in all seriousness, this is a fantastic plugin. This is how convolutions should always be packaged going forward. Easy UI - Powerful results!

-DJ

 

[joeunsoo]

The update with a few fixes has finally been sent out!

And there is now also Vst2, on Mac and Windows

Yeah!

I installed the update and got a fantastic reverb

 

[constaneum]

Can't wait to try out the update. The 1st version I have problem with the EQ on FL studio. Audio signal became distorted and ended up with no sound. Anyone had this issue ?

 

[Jett Hitt]

@Peter Emanuel Roos the plugin seems to be working on my M1 Mac Studio in native mode (no noise). However, it still fails to validate.

Update: The validation for the plugin crashes. It runs, but CPU usage is high. In Rosetta mode, it says Not Authorized, and inserting it crashes Logic.

 

[Allen Constantine]

Can't wait to try out the update. The 1st version I have problem with the EQ on FL studio. Audio signal became distorted and ended up with no sound. Anyone had this issue ?

I have the same thing in Cubase on 256 buffer size.

However, switching to the free version of Reaper, everything is going smooth.

I don’t have a clue what is causing this with different Daw’s.

 

[constaneum]

I have the same thing in Cubase on 256 buffer size.

However, switching to the free version of Reaper, everything is going smooth.

I don’t have a clue what is causing this with different Daw’s.

The latest update also have this...probably I need to tune the buffer size to test out.