Can confirm later on my computer. Cannot vouch for them. I found some links to the betas on the new site but the links are dead. Could be worth tracking Hagen down and asking him to make publicly available folders somewhere. I can provide drivers somewhere for anyone who wants them but they are 64 bit Windows only. Drivers are 64 bit but plugins are 32 bit. I will also see if I can find any other reliable sources. Kind regards Henry. Just found them. Link is near the top alongside Rooms, Announcements, Watch party etc.
I don't know why, maybe a new Poco Thunderbolt will appear? There is hope. Maybe TC Electronic will wake up. There is no alternative! Attached Thumbnails. Henry that's exactly what i did.
They're a great resource The latest drivers are 4. Worked perfectly and I have mine setup in a slave machine now with Jbridge and Audiogridder They still sound great against the best of todays reverbs. VSS3 sounds amazing! I understand what Henry meant, that the value is in the 3rd party plugins. Which standard plugins are worth checking?
Last edited by Arseny; 19th January at AM.. Last edited by Arseny; 11th January at PM.. Arseny, As mentioned in my original post, no-one can sell you 'powercore licenses' as such. The facility to transfer them and do so was taken away by TC maybe in if memory serves me right.
They shut down the servers which allowed this - what this means is that if you see any licenses for sale on any websites no matter how tempting, do not buy them. They will just be a serial number you cannot use in any meaningful way. You need to buy a powercore with the licenses for specific plugins already authorised on the hardware except for certain Sonnox licenses which are on an ilok.
Sonnox originally tied the license to hardware and then moved to ilok at some point. So the later generation allowed trading of licenses. Sonnox are pretty strict about ilok license transfers - I think it costs 25 pounds or so per plugin. They are the only ones left in the game who can issue a powercore license though. Everyone else is defunct. Trust me- I asked around and most companies have moved on. A lot of them have gone to native processing or UAD.
But Sonnox will do so at their discretion. I heard from someone who read this thread and enquired of them and they were initially refusing as they said it was a discounted product. I suggested that if he really wanted them bad he must haggle - maybe offer full price. I mean it's easy money for Sonnox if you think about it.
Just e-mail a few codes to customers with the usual disclaimer that it is is discontinued without the prospect of updates etc bla bla bla. It could be an easy revenue stream especially as others begin to re-discover how good the powercore coding was. By the way - I have never had a crash from Sonnox plugins - they are that stable - phenomenal engineering.
As an aside, I used to play in a charity cricket match with the Sonnox guys almost a decade ago. Such awesome guys.
Not sure who is still there from the original bunch. I always found them helpful. Henry, beside the the mentioned 3d party plugins, which built-in plugins would you suggest are worth checking?
I also want to offload as much processing as possible: So I wanna use firstly PoCo to it's max. Thanks so much. Finally I managed to get Sonnox plugins on my PoCo. Sonnox guys are really friendly as you said. Of course they must say there's no guarantee that everything's gonna work old technology, no support etc. But I found their plugins are the least problematic on the PoCo. Other things are more buggy: Sometimes while playing, Virus crashes 32lives that bridge app.
So, playing the live instruments might need more experimentation until I get it running stable. Currently testing Audiogridder as many people here to offload Acustica on my slave machine s. Don't believe in the concept of only one computer any more for mixing on Mac with Acustica. Which means: no, it's not like you must have an ancient Mac G4. Hope I can report more in a couple of months, if this really works for me.
How did you get the Sonnox plugs on there after the fact? Last edited by Arseny; 17th January at PM.. Using a Powercore X8 on a Windows 10 machine here. You need to power up the X8 before starting the pc, otherwise it's not recognized.
Even then, sometimes my pc does not recognize the X8. A restart helps in these cases. Apart from that it runs smooth. For VSS3 a native version exists. For the Master X5 I haven't found any alternative that could do what it does. I have a Sonnox native license on ilok, but I'm guessing I have to request the PoCo version from them? I had my Powercore running on Windows 7 with Cubase It was perfect. I've since moved to W10 and Cubase 11 and I've yet to install the drivers and legacy firewire drivers.
These days I only use the for a single plugin. Nothing comes close to the TC Brickwall Limiter even after all these years. It is very easy to use. I do spend some time adjusting the crossover points between the bands on every mix.
Once that's done everything else is self explanatory. It's a plugin that is almost set and forget for me. Somehow this plugin manages to not audibly squash your mix even when it does a lot of gain reduction.
I took the red pill:. Classicverb is one of my favourites for chorused reverbs with long tails. I loved that reverb when I had a powercore. Yowser - Is that 44 DSP chips? I thought I had a beefy system with 32 chips LOL. You definitely took the RED pill. I am curious and have some questions if you don't mind. What did that setup cost? Did you collect yours over time or buy them in one hit. You may just have the biggest Powercore system on the planet. I find that the system starts to glitch a little once I fully load all of mine.
Happens with Nebula too. Have you ever mixed with all chips loaded? I also mix at 96 khz so I know how useful it is to have the extra horsepower. Last edited by Arseny; 26th January at PM.. The outcome of the process was the Virus Powercore 2. Overall, the Virus Powercore is still a great workhorse VSTi with a diverse sonic range and decent computer integration after debugging the possible initial driver problems.
After ten years it still delivers that famous, unpredictable and cool sound and the fast synth editing experience. Log in or Create account. Cart 0. Menu Cart 0. Virus Powercore - FX-1 page It became obvious that Access would focus all their efforts on the TI line at the expense of everything else.
It does not take up space on your desk. Up to polyphony with the Multi-license, which is enough for complex song arrangements or fat sound layer sampling. Separate multiple outputs per part are possible with the Multi-Out version of the plug-in. Total recall of all preset settings in the DAW project. The output sound quality is limited only by your audio interface. The audio input plug-in version of Virus is part of the package, so you can use it as a real-time FX processor or as an effect plug-in on any track.
You can put any of your favourite effect plug-in onto its channel to color and spice up your Virus sound right inside the box. If you have a hardware Virus you can control the virtual Virus directly from the hardware. Virus Powercore red flags : Both the Powercore platform and the Virus Powercore synth were terminated in Since then they are unsupported and are not available to purchase anymore. There is no bit version, however the bit Virus Powercore plug-in even the separate audio input plug-in works seamlessly in any host using jBridge.
The steady problem of any Virus affects the Virtual Powercore as well: as one instance of Virus can not handle more than 16 voices, this is usually insufficient for even four parts. Without the multi-license it is not an attractive choice for composers.
For example, you can not delete a patch, just overwrite it Despite its own praise in the manual, this part is old-fashioned and not user-friendly at all. Occasionally there are still some stability problems even with the new fixed version, like disappearing GUI or easy-to-fix tuning problems when using DSP 3 and 4.
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