Antress plugins... SSL?

[limestone]

Tried to check out those Antress plugins, and whenever I try to click on an antress link or type in the Antress website in my browser I get re-directed to the SSL homepage... any idea why?

[mpmusic1981]

try typing in Antares instead :)

[drakewire]

Antress are some cheap free crappo plugz antares is a different company

[redvelvetstudios]

I don't know if they're crap, but they are not what they report to be...

[mpmusic1981]

KVR: Database Query

you can click on any of them you want, and download them for free.

i didn't even realize there was a company making plug-ins named Antress. Here i was thinking it was just a misspelling.

Hope this helps!

[Kelly644]

Those are not all of the Antress plugs. They had emulations of units like the Fairchild 660, 1176, LA2a, etc.

Looks like SSL bought them out... For Duende I bet.

[redvelvetstudios]

if you wanna um - they are here...

Directory Listing of /plugins/hosted/antress/

[Jim@SSL]

This is news to us.


Perhaps it is a new form of shareware - just share your company with another! Any offers please contact me for takeover details

[Kelly644]

Well that's strange.

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by Kelly644

Those are not all of the Antress plugs. They had emulations of units like the Fairchild 660, 1176, LA2a, etc.

Looks like SSL bought them out... For Duende I bet.

AFAIK (and I've been attacked for saying this before) Antress plugins are coded using Synthmaker, with GUIs ripped off from other designers (I've heard UAD been mentioned before). The developer has gone on record admitting this, and has attempted to justify it by saying copyright laws aren't the same in his country.

They're NOT emulations of the hardware. Whether or not they're usable is up for debate, but there's no way a "proper" developer would want to buy them out. I've heard lots of people say they sound "good" but no-one has said they sound "like the hardware" - at least, no-one who uses the hardware regularly.

Note that I've never used them personally, I don't have an audio PC - just followed the debates online.

[chris carter]

I've used them personally. Most of them don't sound like the real thing (as least the stuff where I know what it should sound like) - they only have a 'similar vibe', or are in the 'general ballpark'. If he actually made stuff that sounded just like the real thing (something difficult for even big profitable companies to do!) then he would have been snatched up in a second. I have found zero uses for most of them. But some of them do actually come in very handy. They are (were) free, so you can't expect everything to sound good adn usuable on lots of stuff - you have to dig through them and see what works for you. There are some free plugs that do similar things that are better (blockfish and spitfish, for example get used very often). But in the grand scheme of freeware plugs, about 99% of which are totally and completely unusable for me, some of these actually get some use here and there so I have to give him credit where credit is deserved.

As far as I know, they were done by one guy in his spare time who lives in Taiwan. He's not a company or someone with resources or anything - just a regular Joe. He did it for fun to learn about making plug-ins so it was a constant experiment. He would make something and share it and get feedback. There would be new updates like every two weeks (or less sometimes) and he'd constantly pull the plug on some plug-in that he felt wasn't worth continuing. It was kind of interesting to see the quality go from garbage to a few very useful plugs over the course of time.