"Saturation/analog coloration/etc. can't be fully mimicked ITB" is a pretty weird thing to say." Sorry, but you cannot create the harmonics that happen with tubes and transistors in an ITB situation. That is light years from a weird thing to say, my friend. Light years. It's very factual. That's th...

Yeah, I've run into that a lot. It is indeed very frustrating to end up saving $30 instead of $80 (or whatever) on a bundle due to having previously purchased some of the products in it. Your original purchase wasn't "wasted" though, unless the bundle was there all along and you just never noticed i...

"Saturation/analog coloration/etc. can't be fully mimicked ITB" is a pretty weird thing to say. A lot of people say it and I'm never sure whether they mean "can't be fully mimicked even in theory" or "could be fully mimicked in theory but it's too hard to do in practice". If the former, that's just ...

Here's another way of looking at it. I own 0 VST's but dozens of RE's. The fact that prominent developers are making RE's is a miracle! I'm not quite sure how Propellerheads pulled it off. They somehow created incentive for these developers though I'm not aware what that incentive is. Sorry you ran...

I keep seeing comments from people on various forums that seem to indicate that the SSL mixer itself DOES color the sound in various pleasing ways, and it seems like they're not just talking about its EQ/compression/etc. I can't seem to hear or find any evidence of any such coloration upon analysis...

It really is. I continue to be amazed by just how much better Reason has gotten over the last few versions. The SSL mixer is an absolute masterstroke. I'm getting better mixes than I've ever gotten ITB, and I'm getting them FAST. It's amazing. The old 14:2 mixer is still not without its charm, howev...

Thanks very much for clarifying that, truly appreciated! Nice to finally have this whole thing settled, I had asked about this on other forums but no one anywhere else can hold a candle to the level of knowledge that exists here. :) I also might as well take this opportunity to thank you for your th...

Right--so am I correct in thinking that in the absence of any such coloration, the signals from the mixers should null perfectly? I've heard things about the possibility of different summing algorithms causing different varieties of subtle artifacting and such in the summed output, that kind of thin...

Thanks for the responses everyone--good to know that my ears and eyes have not been deceiving me. Just to be perfectly clear, since no one has exactly said this explicitly: as I suspected, and as seems to be the result of my tests, when all mixer EQ/compression/etc. features are disabled the audio o...

Hi all! First post, glad to have found that the original PUF community lives on (sort of), and glad to see that so many of my favorite users have migrated over here. I got a lot of world-class help on the old forums and I'm sure this place will be no different. So, right off the bat, thanks! :) I ne...