Comments on: Wicked Ohm Force Effects, Whimsy as Utility, and a Group Buy Discount

By: Der Weihnachtsohm

Der Weihnachtsohm — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:53:21 +0000

We at digital audio service are running a fun new Ohmforce competition this christmas – you can find it here:

Ohmforce-Contest

Its about making your very own X-Mas track using at least one Ohmforce-plugin. The crazier the better!

The site is in german, so if google translate leaves any questions, just use the comments.

Yours,
Der Weihnachtsohm

By: axiom-crux

axiom-crux — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:12:21 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnK3m7CWUoo

check out that tutorial video, its pretty funny.

By: Downpressor

Downpressor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:14:41 +0000

@flip: heres a little idea, if you want to sell me something, make it easy for me to figure out what you are selling me and how to buy it. For me the ohm site failed on both counts. YMMV. I do however agree that Fromage is a neat plugin which demonstrates the quality work Ohm is capable of even though I dont use it very much.

@SiUnit: Audio Damage makes such good stuff at such reasonable prices (with a very easy to use website and friendly sales policies too) that its hard not to compare other vendors to them. This here delay would have to polish my shoes and clean my cat box to justify the extra effort and price required to compare to my AD plugs.

@PeterKim: My only issue with fancy skins is when it becomes an issue with screen real estate and lately thats become more of an issue. A factor for whether I buy this one would be “can I turn off the fancy skin?”.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:53:22 +0000

I’m not suggesting Ohm’s plug-in skins are the be-all, end-all of interface design — on the contrary, I expect they’ll annoy some people! But I found the story above musing on whimsy in design to be interesting. There are lots of ways to go about that. I love minimal design, too. It just suggests you have some choices, and those choices affect how you feel.

I’ll put it this way: I don’t think fake hardware-style knobs are necessarily any *more* serious than those cartoon characters above.

But that’s a huge bummer that the plug-ins then stopped working … no solution occurs immediately. It’s really odd that they’d impact any presets; that shouldn’t be the case.

By: flip

flip — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:37:09 +0000

I’ve been using plugs by this company for ages on TV, film and personal compositions. Absolutely in my all-time top 10 plugs. I’d say Fromage (currently free) is probably one of the coolest filter/distortion effects I’ve ever used.

@Downpressor: Get off my lawn!! Geesh, Mr. Cranky. Their site isn’t THAT bad.

@SiUnit: Never had the problem you mentioned, even though I used Logic 8 too. I dig the Audio Damage plugs as well.

By: SiUnit

SiUnit — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:13:15 +0000

Everybody loves a cool GUI and it can often be a significant factor in choosing a plug-in. The issue I have is when these ‘funky’ skins reduce the functionality. With these Ohm Force effects, I ran my setup [Logic 8] with the standard skin and found them perfectly usable, clear and well laid out. Upon reinstalling OSX and Logic a few months ago I thought I would give the funky skins a spin. Now I never use them! The presets don’t work in Logic, they did with the boring skins, plus none of the buttons are labeled properly.

Look at Audio Damage, their plugs have interesting GUI’s, granted not as ‘extreme’ or ‘urban’ or ‘insert other buzzword here’ as the Ohm Force guys, but its form is tied to its function. They are part of the same process, the interface reflects the effects parameters in a clear and undeniably cool fashion, giving more precise results quicker.

The Ohm Force effects went from being used everyday to sitting behind my Audio Damage and D16 in the dark, dusty corner of my plug-in folder.

End rant.

By: Downpressor

Downpressor — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:03:24 +0000

Interesting, will check the sounds/demo.

Minor complaints:
1) no direct links to the thing itself in this article, took a while of me digging on the Ohm site to find info on this plugin. To save folks time: it comes in all major flavors (VST/AU/RTAS) and the single prices are either 79 or 99 Euros (before discount?)

2) anyone else be forewarned that the ohm site is a monstrosity which does not seem to offer any way to navigate w/o loading up a small pile of CPU gobbling flash objects. (obviously not a CDM issue)

By: stiff

stiff — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:37:17 +0000

Thanks for posting this :)

I’d like to add that while it’s “only” up to 35% right now, we’re running a “Happy first week”, meaning that anyone subscribing the first week gains two levels. So people who have already signed up (or sign up during this week) are actually already at the full 50% discount.