PSA Soundtoys little plate VST free till 22-NOV

Teetonetal

http://www.soundtoys.com/product/little-plate/

guitarfishbay

Note to self remember to download.

GavRichList

Yup, gorrit

Cirrus

I've been laughing at some of the people on gearslutz - this is variously exactly like a real EMT plate or a totally fake piece of crap. My favourite was, two hours after it was announced someone on a totally unrelated thread very po-faced said that Soundtoy's little plate was the best VST option for short snare reverbs. Like you could get the handle on a tool that quickly. But the people who's opinions I've come to respect say it's good. I'll definitely download it - I tried but their website was pretty hard to access on the day of release.

Teetonetal

Cirrus said:

I've been laughing at some of the people on gearslutz - this is variously exactly like a real EMT plate or a totally fake piece of crap. My favourite was, two hours after it was announced someone on a totally unrelated thread very po-faced said that Soundtoy's little plate was the best VST option for short snare reverbs. Like you could get the handle on a tool that quickly. But the people who's opinions I've come to respect say it's good. I'll definitely download it - I tried but their website was pretty hard to access on the day of release.

It's free. That's enough for me. Can't have too many reverbs

Legionreturns

Bookmarked... Free shit = good

joeyowen

It says you need iLok?  Can someone explain if this is true as it is free?  

Cirrus

Yes all soundtoys plugs require Ilok. Not the actual USB stick which is a pain in the nuts, just the program you download and activate software licenses on.

guitarfishbay

iLok really isn't that bad, even if you use the USB stick (though that can wind up being a very valuable stick if you get into buying a lot of software).  But yeah you can just license it to your computer if you want.

Sound Toys make good stuff so I've got high hopes for this regardless of it being free.  Plus they have managed this magical thing where you can have a rack... or individual plugs... wish Slate would do the same.

GavRichList

guitarfishbay said:

iLok really isn't that bad, even if you use the USB stick (though that can wind up being a very valuable stick if you get into buying a lot of software).  But yeah you can just license it to your computer if you want.

Sound Toys make good stuff so I've got high hopes for this regardless of it being free.  Plus they have managed this magical thing where you can have a rack... or individual plugs... wish Slate would do the same.

It’s only free for a couple of weeks, then it’ll be the standard $99

Legionreturns

GavRichList said:

guitarfishbay said:

iLok really isn't that bad, even if you use the USB stick (though that can wind up being a very valuable stick if you get into buying a lot of software).  But yeah you can just license it to your computer if you want.

Sound Toys make good stuff so I've got high hopes for this regardless of it being free.  Plus they have managed this magical thing where you can have a rack... or individual plugs... wish Slate would do the same.

It’s only free for a couple of weeks, then it’ll be the standard $99

As in you can use it for a couple of weeks then you have to pay for it? 

GavRichList

Legionreturns said:

GavRichList said:

guitarfishbay said:

iLok really isn't that bad, even if you use the USB stick (though that can wind up being a very valuable stick if you get into buying a lot of software).  But yeah you can just license it to your computer if you want.

Sound Toys make good stuff so I've got high hopes for this regardless of it being free.  Plus they have managed this magical thing where you can have a rack... or individual plugs... wish Slate would do the same.

It’s only free for a couple of weeks, then it’ll be the standard $99

As in you can use it for a couple of weeks then you have to pay for it? 

Nope, if you haven’t downloaded by the 22nd you have to pay for it 

guitarfishbay

Legionreturns said:

GavRichList said:

guitarfishbay said:

iLok really isn't that bad, even if you use the USB stick (though that can wind up being a very valuable stick if you get into buying a lot of software).  But yeah you can just license it to your computer if you want.

Sound Toys make good stuff so I've got high hopes for this regardless of it being free.  Plus they have managed this magical thing where you can have a rack... or individual plugs... wish Slate would do the same.

It’s only free for a couple of weeks, then it’ll be the standard $99

As in you can use it for a couple of weeks then you have to pay for it? 

No it’ll be free until then for a perpetual licensed it’s the way they usually do this.

Generally they release a mini version for free for early adopters. Then there will be a more full featured plug later. People who get this one will probably get upgrade pricing. People late to the party have to pay for the mini IIRC

I just checked my emails. I’ve already been deposited a license since I own the bundle.

Cirrus

And the incredible thing is that even if you get it for free, in the future the fact you have the license for it gives you something you can trade in towards either the more expensive version or the full package of all their plugs. That's how it's been in the past, anyway!

guitarfishbay

Cirrus said:

And the incredible thing is that even if you get it for free, in the future the fact you have the license for it gives you something you can trade in towards either the more expensive version or the full package of all their plugs. That's how it's been in the past, anyway!

Yep. IIRC I found adding a free license reduced the cost of my bundle a while back. Really like their plugs.

Teetonetal

Nice company... certainly compared to some!

guitarfishbay

Yeah they also charity drives, whereby instead of taking money for the plugs they donate the money to a charity.

They raised $176,000 this September.

http://www.soundtoys.com/storm-relief-2017-results/

GavRichList

founder used to work for Eventide too, which makes a lot of sense. 

Teetonetal

GavRichList said:

founder used to work for Eventide too, which makes a lot of sense. 

Did not know that.

Freebird

A neat little plugin for free!

Freebird

GavRichList said:

founder used to work for Eventide too, which makes a lot of sense. 

It seem to recall there were a few people who moved over from Eventide when they started Soundtoys.