I know this is a thunder for some of you.
This is lime:
Basically Lime has the same structrure we have in Sand, but basically with a completely different sound.
As you can see we are featuring 2 equalizers, 2 filters, 5 compressors and 8 preamps. Routing exactly the same we have in Sand.
All lime products will be shipped with 2 different skins: one of them is very "flat", for intensive usage. The other one is very "3d" (still frontal view), for a better "feeling" with the software. There is just a different lens effect. There were several complains in the past from several engineers, they basically they asked a more flat view, less distracting.
There is a beautiful usage of colors. Basically Console A is green (knob pots are painted using different shadows of green), Console B is blue. C and D are different items inspired to the best surround compressor available (very expensive one). They are two, it will be explained below, they are yellow. E is derived from a rack-mounted compressor and it is violet. We used red/orange for "controls"
So basically you have the main colors for the 3 most important items: green for console A, blue for console B, red for controls
Exacty like we did for Sand, we are going to release also standalone plugins derived from the main strip channel.
The family is named CRAZY 88.
Apart the famous movie featuring them, we were inspired from the following sentece we used in an advert published on CM this month: MIX HUNGRY, MIX FOOLISH.
Let's present our family members:
What's new this time? There is a new technique we consider a part of Core9 and delivered for emulating a device for a different company, which forced ourselves to a technology jump. The technique is named "ultramatch".
Basically our dynamic processors are refined running a sort of nebula instance trying to replicate the same testtones at the same levels used for the hardware. This technique is between brute force and AI. Basically we get something like this:
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The real issue we had, if we emulate the hardware more closely sometimes someone could not like it (yes it happened a betatester preferred the "acustica" one), so we decided to merge this technique with our one just following our instinct and using the technique when the result was sonically better. Basically compressor A and the whole compressor C is based on this new technique (B, D and E are based just partially on the technique, for example the attack shapes). I'm interested in your comments as soon as the product will be released ehehhe
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I'll start a different topic for Black Friday, but here the deal.
As presale we decided a 10% OFF.
We added a 10% OFF for black friday/cyber monday.
Than we decided a couple of different discounts which should interest more users:
20% for Navy users (they are MANY). Really navy is a similar tool but at the same time very different (navy is more addressed to classic 60-70 items, so I think it is fair)
5% for Sand users - Lime is different but at the same time there is something in common, for example routing.
Lime price will be 199 eur. So for a Navy user we are in the 120 eur ballpark, I think it is more than fair.
Discusson about prices is still open for few hours. Tomorrow we'll send emails with discount coupons, so if something is wrong just tell us.
BTW: after this release we'll rest a bit with new products.
On next month we'll start moving older plugins to the new tech. Titanium2 is planned for december.
Nebula4 should be our christmas product (so no more surprises). We'll start releasing new products around march, more or less. We planned to update Pink, Amethyst, Pearl in the short period.
