Introducing Admiral Quality VST/AU plug-in products

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Admiral Quality
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23 Mar 2018

Hi Group!

First post here, wanted to introduce myself and direct you to our plugin products at http://www.admiralquality.com/

First of all, I'd like to congratulate Propellerhead on their great decision recently to support VST plug-ins. We've always been interested in Reason as a platform, but we could never justify doing one-off interfaces that only work with one brand of host product, there's just too much work involved. Great to be able to offer Reason users our products now!

We've been developing Windows VST plug-ins since 2005, and Mac OSX VST and AU plugins since 2010. Our specialty is emulating the subtle sonic aspects of vintage, analog gear. Our flagship product is the Poly-Ana virtual-analog VST/AU softsynth http://www.admiralquality.com/products/Poly-Ana/

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(Note: Lots of alternate skin choices here. You can even make your own! http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... /skins.php

Poly-Ana is famous for her convincing analog tone and massive, flexible voice-architecture. Poly-Ana also comes in a discount player-only version, L'il Poly-Ana http://www.admiralquality.com/products/LilPoly-Ana/ She's got the exact same sound as her big sister, but most of the synth voice controls are removed (the really important ones like filter cutoffs and the performance section are still there). So if you're not the type who's interested in programming a massive synth architecture, L'il might be the best choice for you. (And you can always upgrade to the full Poly-Ana later for the difference in price plus $10.)

Sharing the same virtual analog filter design as the Poly-Anas (the discovery of which was the whole reason I started this business) are our SCAMP envelope following and LFO filter http://www.admiralquality.com/products/SCAMP/ ...

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... as well as its predecessor, our first VST plug-in, Naive LPF http://www.admiralquality.com/products/NaiveLPF/, which we still offer for free. (As a free product it's no longer maintained and still an older VST 2.3 format plug-in, but it should still work in most host software. We continue to offer it for free as we originally promised we would.)

Recently we've released a new effect plug-in into public Beta testing, the Stunning Phaser http://www.admiralquality.com/products/StunningPhaser/, an extremely high quality, internally oversampled, VST/AU phaser effect plug-in. In addition to the usual LFO, Stunning Phaser also offers a highly configurable stereo envelope follower, multiple LFO waveforms, and our very own Gliss-quanti™, an automatic sample-and-hold function that divides LFO waveforms up into discreet steps for exciting new possibilities you've never heard a phaser do before! And as always, we're offering a great deal on it with our Buy-it-in-Beta offer. To encourage early-adopters, we start with a very low price and with every Beta update we raise the price a little more, until the 1.0 release when it will reach its full price. We're expecting the next update any day now (maybe even later today) so try it as soon as you can.

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And by the way, all our plug-ins are free to try, no time limits, you can even save and recall your work! The only demo limitation is occasional, very short silent gaps in the audio output until the product is authorized. So please try them out and get actually working with them, you might just find you can't live without some of them! :)

Feedback and suggestions are always welcome (though please keep in mind we can't always satisfy everybody) as are any bug reports. We haven't had a bug in a LONG time, not even with our newest product that's still in Beta! Our platform code is very mature and well-tested at this point. But that said, we'd actually love to discover any as it will make our products that much better, so if you run into any problems, don't hesitate to let us know, either here or by email (info@... ).

Thanks all! Please let us know what you think of our stuff, and it's not too late to get suggestions for Stunning Phaser included in the product.

Cheers!

- Mike/AQ

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hurricane
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25 Mar 2018

It's good to see you here.

So, my 3 favorite synths - Diva, OPX Pro II, and Poly-Ana. Poly-Ana makes it on 99% of my tracks. I love it. The sound is so rich and thick and juicy. I haven't been fortunate enough to get my hands on a real hardware classic analog polysynth, but I imagine they sound just like Poly-Ana. The sound is so rich and round....gawwww - I love it. Works well in Reason too. I love that you can pan the filters and gang the Cutoff and Res. Thank you for the stereo signal path! CPU load is surprisingly low for such an amazing sounding instrument. Granted there are no onboard effects, but it REALLY doesn't need them!

The original GUI is not quite my taste, but yes you can skin it, and I use Hoverland's Dusk, although I modified it a little:

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Only thing I wish for is an all-encompassing Retro/Analog/Classic Polysynth soundset as I am too lazy to create one myself. This is one reason why I use OPX PRO more -they've really nailed it with their factory soundsets. Poly-Ana's sound/tone is more "solid" though. But in my perfect world I'd like Poly-Ana to have all of OPX-Pro's presets.

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Admiral Quality
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25 Mar 2018

Thanks Hurricane!!! Always so nice to hear that!

And don't forget that Poly-Ana also comes with an included effects version, Poly-AnaFX, that not only lets you process incoming audio through the filters and amps like many classic and virtual synths do, but also lets you turn those signals into modulation sources allowing you to create envelope followers, ring modulators and many other effects that respond to the dynamics and frequency content of your incoming audio. (Note that you'll need to hold some keys down to hear processed audio with Poly-AnaFX. There's a programmable hold button that helps enable this, it will even remember and recall the notes that are held in the program/project.)

Here's a little demo of that. Two different monophonic synth lines playing arpeggios at different rates are modulating the filter cutoffs that are split full left/right in the stereo routing of the patch, while the keyboard MIDI note input plays a completely different polyphonic part. http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... acking.mp3

Another little-used but super-powerful feature of Poly-Ana is that the filter cutoffs can be modulated by incoming MIDI notes on different channels than the one you're using to drive the main keyboard. This allows for all kinds of sequenced filter effects like most vintage modular synths were capable of, but without the limitations of a step sequencer (and without having to learn a new sequencer interface). Instead, it leverages the power of your DAW's own sequencer for these two (monophonic) note inputs! Just click the product name to bring up the Options Dialog to set that up, then click the INPUT-1 or INPUT-2 buttons on each filter to drive them from incoming MIDI notes on the two channels you set up. (I'm not sure offhand if Reason can support the MIDI patching required for this. Does anyone here know?)

Lots of audio demos on the Poly-Ana page at the bottom, http://www.admiralquality.com/products/Poly-Ana/, but the best demo is to just download it and try it yourself. Again, you can get straight to real work with it because it will let you save and recall your work even when in demo mode.

This one's still my favorite. 100% Poly-Ana, even the drums.

And there are lots of patches to download here, always free, we'll never sell them. http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... a/patches/

And by the way, you can get our new Stunning Phaser http://www.admiralquality.com/products/StunningPhaser/ included for FREE with Poly-Ana. They sound so good together we just had to bundle them. It's also a little taste of what's in store for Poly-Ana 2.x (which due to our Upgrade Protection Policy Poly-Ana licensees are already authorized for, no upgrade fee will be applied) where we plan to add an effects section and expand the already huge voice architecture even further. (All while maintaining backward compatibility with the old version 1.x patches!) Not sure how long until that'll happen, there's a few other new products on our list first, but hopefully we should start work on it sometime in the upcoming year.

(Still working on that next Stunning Phaser Beta update, life has been interfering a bit this week. But expecting it any day now so catch it ASAP to get the best deal.)

Cheers!

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Theo.M
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30 Mar 2018

I love Poly Anna.. entirely reasonable on cpu usage too considering the quality of the sound.

Interested in the green phaser.. how high does the host sync go in bars? This is what ruins almost all plugin phasers and flangers for me as they never go high enough, hopefully yours does at least 8 bars but 16 even better!

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Admiral Quality
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30 Mar 2018

Theo.M wrote:
30 Mar 2018
I love Poly Anna.. entirely reasonable on cpu usage too considering the quality of the sound.

Interested in the green phaser.. how high does the host sync go in bars? This is what ruins almost all plugin phasers and flangers for me as they never go high enough, hopefully yours does at least 8 bars but 16 even better!
128 beats, so 32 bars of 4/4. :)

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Theo.M
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30 Mar 2018

that's awesome!

Will test in patchwork aax, hopefully either the au or vst will work fine.

Do you think you'll ever port to aax? Cheers

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Admiral Quality
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30 Mar 2018

Theo.M wrote:
30 Mar 2018
that's awesome!

Will test in patchwork aax, hopefully either the au or vst will work fine.

Do you think you'll ever port to aax? Cheers
No, sorry. Unlike all the other plug-in formats, we need their permission to develop for ProTools. They haven't responded to any of our applications to, they don't even have the decency to reply with a "no".

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Theo.M
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01 Apr 2018

wow that's really poor form Avid. I will complain about that in a support email. I pay for support so feel i am entitled to.

I work in cubase more and more these days, as it can sit on 64 buffer all day and have amazing performance, so will grab this one soon anyway.

Another prop for poly anna.. i really do recommend it to absolutely anyone wanting a quality analog synth plugin and don't want the cpu overhead or cost of diva.

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