Following the loss of our good friend Bernie Torelli (founder and main developer at Nomad Factory), we at DontCrack are honoured to announce the release of a very special product, Bus Driver, that we are making available ‘FREE‘ of charge on the DontCrack store.

For a limited time, we will let everyone have a voucher, which lowers the retail price to zero enabling you to have it for FREE ! Please visit the Bus Driver product page  for details of this excellent Optical Compressor, follow the purchase link and use the following ‘Voucher Code’, to receive a 100% discount on Bus Driver.

Voucher Code : freebusdriver

All Nomad Factory Products at up to 67% Discount !

We have also decided to lower the prices on all Nomad Factory products until Monday February 29, 2016 to allow everyone to have a chance to pick up one or several of Bernie’s great products in order to appreciate his work.

It will have the added benefit of helping his family with the unpaid hospital bills and other expenses that have accrued during his illness. Another positive aspect will be the help it will give to the continuation of the Nomad Factory company that we are determined to keep running, to honor the life and commitment he had for producing high quality plug-ins for the audio community.

About Bus Driver :

Bus Driver is an optical compressor that provides a wide range of compression effects, reminiscent of the best vintage compressors made in the ‘60s.

Compression is one of those studio processes that is all too often taken for granted and not usually used to its full potential. Today’s producers think nothing of inserting compressors on every single channel of their DAW when mixing, but old school engineers had to learn to make the most of only a few units of compression and this made them learn them inside out to use them to their best advantage. Bus Driver is modelled on the classics from the ‘golden age’ of tube compressors.

Also included in Bus Driver is a Tube-Driver Saturation feature. It allows you to add the sound of a vintage tube amplifier giving you the differing electronic characteristics of triode, tetrode, and pentode vacuum tubes. So you can add the vintage warmth of the those models of the classic tubes (e.g. ECC83, 12AX7, etc..) to your tracks or on your mix bus.

Nomad Factory designed an Output Stage Soft-Clipping to eliminate digital clipping at any output level and produce a smoother distortion characteristic. This feature is in addition to the Tube-Driver Saturation Modeling included in Bus-Driver.

We know Bernie would have been really pleased to know you will be using it on your projects.

In closing. On behalf of Bernie, his family and the team here, we sincerely appreciate the support and expressions of kindness given during the lengthy period of Bernie’s illness. Your support added so much to his ability to cope with it. That touched us all. Thank you!