Hi,
First of all, I want to congratulate you on the plugins, they sound uncannily well. It was truly a great surprise. I think I will start donating monthly to support what you're doing.
Secondly, I'd like to suggest a few features for the future development, that I think would improve the plugins further. Here they go:
1. LP & HP filters on the Preamp module. They exist in the Summer Channel, but before you hit that or the console channel, you would normally hit Tape, and it's always useful to remove some subs before hitting the tape, to avoid mud. This would eliminate the need to insert a separate filter after the pre.
2. Extend the upwards range of the Preamp Output level to 24 dB, like the Tape and others. 12 dB, I found, is rather limited. This will allow you to turn off the Gain Match - which works great, by the way - once you've set the Input levels, to free some CPU - cause i found it does free CPU.
3. Maybe allow the Gain Match to change the Output knob value/position, so that once you turn Gain Match off, the Output level is already in the right position, and you don't have to adjust it manually.
4. Since you've released the Channel Strip as a Console channel, it would be great to insert the Tape module in it, so you can use a single plugin for the whole chain - Pre - Tape - Line (another Pre module) - Compressor, EQ, Width, Summing. Wouldn't need another plugin, other than maybe an additional EQ.
And if you can find a way - if possible - to cut down on the CPU use - WITHOUT SPOILING THE SOUND - I'll take sound over CPU any day, even if it means buying a new processor, which I'm kind of forced to consider now, even if it's not budgeted - some optimization possible, that would be great. I don't want to buy a new CPU just yet, but it seems I'm gonna have to.
Will come back with suggestions as I have more. Just started tinkering with the plugins, for now. Great work!
All the best,
Olaf