“Good product, but there are some drawbacks after upgrading:
I miss the button to switch between speaker and headphone mode in the plugin, which I had on a hotkey in my DAW to quickly change between the two, now I have to open the plugin and manually select the preset each time. Next and previous preset controls don't work well in Ableton.
Applying EQ curves feels laggy and can be annoying to get right.
The application feels heavy on my system, I have to use a high buffer size to avoid dropouts and clicks
And finally, I would like to see a cross-talk feature for headphones”
“A great advance, being able to select what frequencies I want to be flattened, or the laptop/club/mobile phone emulator saves me to change between systems to test my mixes”
“Sound ID is definitely a worthwhile upgrade from Reference, although it was frustrating to be told shortly after purchasing reference that the bugs would only be fixed in SoundID and this was a paid (not cheap) upgrade...
The biggest upgrades are the stability and the ability to save custom presets with the exact settings you want.
I also like the ability to test on different playback systems which is fairly accurate and extremely important part of the mixing & mastering process.
I hope future upgrades are not as costly as this one though.”
“I tested the upgrade by downloading a trial version of SoundID... I can't live without it!!! It's such an improvement in your everyday music production sessions, sound design, mixing adn overall testing whatever you want!!!
Love it! Thanks to everyone involved in this project! Also the mobile app is an excellent companion!!! Well thought!!!”
“The software itself it’s a game changer but the new sound id has awesome new presets such as avantone mixcubes and ns10s but also different car stereo emulations, iPhone, and laptop presets.”
“Oh the euphoria of pastures new! New home, new studio space, big plans that is until I realized that the space for my studio was - due to the dimensions - more than sub optimal. Every source I researched and every acoustic expert I asked flat out said “Find a new space”. But!!!!! After a great deal of trial and error I finally tamed the untamable beast of what was supposed to be an acoustic impossibility. After a ton of acoustic treatment - Basotect - and measurements - Sonarworks - I finally ended up with a small peak at 100Hz and a dip around 80Hz with all other frequencies pretty much flat. Yeah! Sonarworks Sound ID did the rest by addressing the peak and dip. This should be in every studios - home or professional - toolbox as it’s indispensable for measuring room acoustics and after that in tweaking those nasty frequencies that your room still has. My mixes and as a consequence my clients are much happier.”
