Nomad Factory announce MAGMA, The Next Generation of Audio Effects Processing

[neon]

Wow!!! looks like REASON and kind of cheese and childish looking ... are Nomad Factory the Behringer of Plug Ins? i just hope sounds good....

and the name MAGMA....sounds familiar right??

[Solar]

Originally Posted by neon

Wow!!! looks like REASON and kind of cheese and childish looking ... are Nomad Factory the Behringer of Plug Ins? i just hope sounds good....

and the name MAGMA....sounds familiar right??

I personally wouldn't say that NF is the Behringer of plugins mate, Nomad has been developing the plugins behind Specatronics (Stylus RMX, Atmos etc..). So if a company like Spectrasonics trust NomadF to develop their stuff, they must not be that bad.
Also ain't saying that all their plugins sounds great, but some of them do, easy to use too.

Also totally agree, this reminds of me the approach of Reason Rack, one thing for sure, a great step.

Cheers

[zak7]

Yeah the look is really horrible, NF had at the Beginning the best GUIs now this GUIs look really like a Toy, I hope they sound great, but really a good GUI is also inspiring and these plug ins looks very plastic.

[SLiC]

OK

I'll be the guy who say I like the way it looks!

[Solar]

Originally Posted by SLiC

OK

I'll be the guy who say I like the way it looks!

I'll second that too... don't like all them UI but overall, me like, what matters mostly aside the GUI is the sound, if they sound good, then I can live with

[Rust Creep]

All my gear was.bought for how it looked

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[Johngs]

Assuming I'm not assuming too much, this looks like an updated, stand-alone, expandable version of the effects in Stylus RMX and Omnisphere. If this is the case, something I have been wanting for a long time - thanks Nomad Factory.

[evilaci]

Is this a Germanium Comp and a Little Devil Comp....

Finally somebody thinks forward....

[Zyzygis]

I really like the way this looks, fun, colourful and the layout looks great and very easy to use. I hope it sounds good too, looking forward to tryimg it out.

[eigens]

20 off if you already own every nomad factory plugin. Yippy!

Nice rack concept but I've demoed and it seems like a new GUI over same old effects. Nothing stood out. Maybe I'll wait until they do another fire sale !

[Jeezo]

will be curious how it handles 3rd party plugins and their gui ....like Waves Grid ?

[KernelG]

Originally Posted by Johngs

Assuming I'm not assuming too much, this looks like an updated, stand-alone, expandable version of the effects in Stylus RMX and Omnisphere. If this is the case, something I have been wanting for a long time - thanks Nomad Factory.

That was also my first thought (looks like the effects from StylusRMX!), and I hadn't known about Nomad's work with Spectrasonics. It makes more sense now.

Interesting that it will be able to host 3rd party VST plug-ins down the road.

I don't envy the job of making 65 different "devices" look different & good all at once (some of the typefaces are pretty bad, though). I'd expect more time was indeed spent on the DSP.

[manymanyhaha]

It may sound better but how is this much different in concept from the rack portions of Guitar Rig and Amplitube? Just sayin . . . .

[Lights]

I think it's good that Nomad is trying to think out of the box a bit with the framework. That could be interesting. However, the effects themselves seem kind of stale, too similar to the somewhat generic plugin bundles that NF is suspected to have 'ghost written'. There don't appear to be ground-breaking or best-in-class plugins here that will captivate anyone. (But I'm just speculating based on the announcement.)

[ionian]

I hope Magma is planning on including an XLR M to XLR M adapter for the line out on their lead guitar plug in.

Regards,
Frank

[zak7]

Originally Posted by ionian

I hope Magma is planning on including an XLR M to XLR M adapter for the line out on their lead guitar plug in.

Regards,
Frank

can magma accept FW and USB?

[Alxi]

FWIW
i think that nomad are making great products.
I have use some of their tools with great succes.

I like the new rack concept

[Andy_bt]

Originally Posted by ionian

I hope Magma is planning on including an XLR M to XLR M adapter for the line out on their lead guitar plug in.

Regards,
Frank

I can see the guy making the GUI:
"there's no knob on this one, let's try with a plug instead, oh yeah! looks great, I'll paste another one on the opposite side!"
A.

[bof]

30 years of GUI development and we're still buying products with tiny visual imitations of plastic knobs originally designed to be rotated with fingers, inscribed with lettering that can only be read by a bird of prey, and inscrutable meters squashed into a space that's 3/4 of the actual height of a 19" rack unit.

It looks vintage, so it must be good... AAAAARRRRGGHH!

Having said that, it looks really cool so I might buy it.

[gsilbers]

Originally Posted by neon

Wow!!! looks like REASON and kind of cheese and childish looking ... are Nomad Factory the Behringer of Plug Ins? i just hope sounds good....

and the name MAGMA....sounds familiar right??

its the effects spectrasonics uses

[zvenx]

Originally Posted by SLiC

OK

I'll be the guy who say I like the way it looks!

+1.... downloaded demo.... I only wish midi cc learn was a right click and that you can hit a +/- button somewhere to circle thru the fx modules.

rsp

[gsilbers]

played around with the demo. its a lot of fun.

great for sound design. trancegatter , reso plugs my fav so far.

a lot of lo fi/dist plugs.

the routing page to choose parralel configs etc its cool.

im used to the sound since its the same plugs as omnisphere rmx trillian.

but it has moreplugs


i def was not a fan of nomad. but the way the plugs are preseted here and the amount of options , i think its a good product.

not sure about mixing pop and rock with these. but for contemporary and electronic styles is sure great.

[Solar]

Originally Posted by gsilbers

played around with the demo. its a lot of fun.

great for sound design. trancegatter , reso plugs my fav so far.

a lot of lo fi/dist plugs.

the routing page to choose parralel configs etc its cool.

im used to the sound since its the same plugs as omnisphere rmx trillian.

but it has moreplugs
.

Sound Design or just to add some funkydelicious effects pack presets stock or from scratch on some audio. Was thinking the same thing and I think this baby is going to have a great use part of my arsenal.

Been a NF user from their beginning and still am. Don't find all of their plugs amazing but some I love and easy of use, always have great pricing & love their Gui as well.

Way to Nomad

[zvenx]

I know a wah wah pedal is just a bandpass filter..but its odd they don't have one explicitly named that way to me.

rsp

[orcasound]

Looks interesting.
Can anyone confirm - are these the identical racks from stylus (just rebadged)

(if that is the case... It's worth the buy)

[dariva]

Originally Posted by orcasound

Looks interesting.
Can anyone confirm - are these the identical racks from stylus (just rebadged)

(if that is the case... It's worth the buy)

yup, I'm interested in this too....Did this assumption come only from the resemblance in the GUIs?

[orcasound]

It's rumored that NF did the effects rack for the Spectrasonics plugs -
If any has demo'd and also has the Spectrasonics stuff - can u confirm.

[javahut]

Originally Posted by dariva

yup, I'm interested in this too....Did this assumption come only from the resemblance in the GUIs?

Well... and Spectrasonics and Nomad Factory are both distributed by Ilio in the US... if that's any further clue.

[imaginaryday]

i don't care what the gui looks like. it's about the sound.