Hi syurin,

Thanks a lot for your message and kind words — it really means a lot to hear from engineers and producers who are actively using Nomad Factory, BBE, and Plug & Mix plugins in their day-to-day work. That’s exactly why we’re putting so much effort into modernizing the entire catalog: to make sure these tools stay relevant, powerful, and reliable for your creative needs.

Now, about the updates…

I've learned over the years not to make promises when it comes to plugin development — especially around release dates. Our dev team often comes up with clever new ideas or improvements while working on legacy code, and I always encourage them to push further. That means things can take more time, but the results are well worth it.

The Liquid Bundle is just about ready and we're aiming for a mid-June release.
After that comes the big one: the Blue Tubes Bundle, including BlueVerb and Analog TrackBox — 20 plugins in total. It’s a flagship collection, so we’re taking extra care with the update. A lot has been done already, but there’s still some heavy lifting ahead. If all goes to plan, we’d love to launch it around September for the Back-to-School season. But again — no promises until we’re confident with the beta.

Then comes MAGMA — a beast with 65 plugins. After the work we did on the P&M V.I.P. Bundle (50 plugins), we’ve built up some great experience and momentum, but MAGMA is still a major challenge. If everything stays on track, we expect the full Nomad Factory product line to be updated by mid-2026.

As for the license question: You’re right — the original Integral Studio Pack III allowed up to five activations, while newer licenses are currently limited to three. However, all updates to the included plugins will be provided for free, regardless of when you bought the bundle. That’s a commitment we made years ago with my late friend and co-founder Bernie Torelli, and I intend to honor it. It’s not always easy, but it’s the right thing to do.

And to answer your last point: Yes, we do plan to support Windows on ARM. All of our updated plugins are being built on a modern cross-platform framework that makes it easier to follow OS and DAW evolution — including ARM support, both on macOS and Windows.

Hope this gives you a clearer picture of what’s ahead!

Kind regards,
Eric

Dear friends,

Apologies for the delayed reply.

Rest assured, we are absolutely not abandoning any Nomad Factory software!

Upgrading the Nomad Factory, BBE Sound, and Plug & Mix product lines to support the latest operating systems and DAWs is a massive challenge — but we’re fully committed to making them better than ever.

We’re just about to launch a major upgrade for the Motown EQs, which will also be added for free to all Retro EQs owners, just as we promised years ago.

Here's the unpublished Motown EQs video trailer. Please keep that between us until the official launch in just a few days, Ok?:

https://youtu.be/vTkFJwTyuGw?si=0YO4SRvna-_Sq8PX

Next up is the Liquid Bundle, scheduled for release by the end of May 2025.

The Blue Tubes Bundle is also on the way — that’s 26 plugins to update, representing a huge amount of work and investment.

MAGMA is another major project: we're planning to complete the full upgrade of all 65 MAGMA plugins by the end of 2025.

You can’t imagine the amount of time and resources this requires, but we’re doing it — and offering all these upgrades for free to our loyal users, as always. Not sure any other plugin company does that ;-)

Thank you so much for your patience and continued support.

Kind regards,
Eric

Hi syurin,

I understand your concerns. Here's the road map that I have at hand:

•Magnetics Bundle: This is where our focus is at the moment. We've completely overhauled these three plugins, much like the updates we did with the Pulse-Tec and All-Tec EQs. They're sounding better than ever and fully modernized. If all goes well with our final checks, we're looking to announce these on April 15.

• British Bundle: This one's coming up next. It was a bit easier to tackle since we didn't have to do a major overhaul—just some nifty upscaling of the GUIs to keep that cool vintage vibe, plus quite a bit of manual tweaking to smooth out the upscale artifacts. It's trickier than it sounds, but we're aiming to get this bundle out before the end of April.

• Plug & Mix V.I.P. Bundle: There's a lot of anticipation for this one, and rightfully so. It's been a beast with 50 plugins to update, a process that's eaten up over two years of our time. But, we're nearly there and can't wait to get this into your hands by May or early June at the latest.

• Blue Tubes Bundle: We're not stopping there. The flagship Blue Tubes Bundle is already in the works with major improvements on the way. July is our target for this release, fingers crossed.

• In Between Surprises: And just because we can, we might sneak in a few surprises here and there, like the Liquid Bundle, which is all set and just waiting on a fresh coat of paint, graphics-wise.

• Magma: Looking further down the line, Magma is a hefty project with 65 plugins to port and a complex layout that we're aiming to make even better. It's a big job, but we're on it.

I really hope this sheds some light on where we're at. We haven't been the best at sharing our roadmap, and for that, I apologize. It's been a wild ride with plenty of hurdles along the way to creating the perfect setup for reviving these amazing plugins. Offering these updates for free to our existing users is just our way of saying thank you for sticking with us through this journey.

Again, thank you so much for your message and for hanging in there with us. Your support truly keeps us going.

Hi syurin,

I understand your concerns. Here's the road map that I have at hand:

•Magnetics Bundle: This is where our focus is at the moment. We've completely overhauled these three plugins, much like the updates we did with the Pulse-Tec and All-Tec EQs. They're sounding better than ever and fully modernized. If all goes well with our final checks, we're looking to announce these on April 15.

• British Bundle: This one's coming up next. It was a bit easier to tackle since we didn't have to do a major overhaul—just some nifty upscaling of the GUIs to keep that cool vintage vibe, plus quite a bit of manual tweaking to smooth out the upscale artifacts. It's trickier than it sounds, but we're aiming to get this bundle out before the end of April.

• Plug & Mix V.I.P. Bundle: There's a lot of anticipation for this one, and rightfully so. It's been a beast with 50 plugins to update, a process that's eaten up over two years of our time. But, we're nearly there and can't wait to get this into your hands by May or early June at the latest.

• Blue Tubes Bundle: We're not stopping there. The flagship Blue Tubes Bundle is already in the works with major improvements on the way. July is our target for this release, fingers crossed.

• In Between Surprises: And just because we can, we might sneak in a few surprises here and there, like the Liquid Bundle, which is all set and just waiting on a fresh coat of paint, graphics-wise.

• Magma: Looking further down the line, Magma is a hefty project with 65 plugins to port and a complex layout that we're aiming to make even better. It's a big job, but we're on it.

I really hope this sheds some light on where we're at. We haven't been the best at sharing our roadmap, and for that, I apologize. It's been a wild ride with plenty of hurdles along the way to creating the perfect setup for reviving these amazing plugins. Offering these updates for free to our existing users is just our way of saying thank you for sticking with us through this journey.

Again, thank you so much for your message and for hanging in there with us. Your support truly keeps us going.

For those amongst you who would like to add a helping hand to speed up the release of the new Nomad Factory products, we have just opened a new Public Beta Forum.

The more reports you file, the quicker we will be able to launch the new version, so please spread the world to let everyone know that new beta testers are very welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Hi.

We are pleased to inform you that we have nearly completed the porting process for Magnetics bundle . It will be available within the coming weeks.

We appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this process.

Should you have any further questions or require assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Ziggy Hand
Quality Assurance.

Hi.

We are pleased to inform you that we have nearly completed the porting process for Magnetics bundle . It will be available within the coming weeks.

We appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this process.

Should you have any further questions or require assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Ziggy Hand
Quality Assurance.

I noticed that Magma VSR is no longer available on the official Nomad Factory website and Don'tkrac[k].
I am a big fan of Magma VSR.
Will Magma be discontinued?
I have recommended Magma to many friends.
I believe Magma is an excellent plugin in terms of its concept and performance.
I sincerely hope that it can be upgraded to support new platforms and improve its GUI.
I would appreciate your consideration.

For those amongst you who would like to add a helping hand to speed up the release of the new 80s Space, we have just opened a Public Beta forum (you just need to log-in as a member to access it).


The more reports you file, the quicker we will be able to launch the new version, so please spread the world to let everyone know that new beta testers are very welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Hi syurin and teksonik,

First of all, thank you very much for your comments in this forum. I do see that myself and the team have not been very active on this forum board and I apologize about that.

To keep you folks in the loop, it is much more than Nomad Factory products that needed to be upgraded to our new framework. As you may know, we also acquired the responsibility to keep the BBE Sound plug-ins up to date (as these have been developed by Nomad Factory for BBE Sound) and there is also Plug & Mix that was an other big project that I started years back, again using the Nomad Factory framework to build our own plug-ins...

The problem when porting software from an old framework, to a new one, is "Backward Compatibility". It is the "fine tuning" that literally takes weeks or even months to do for each plug-in, so that it sounds and feels exactly the same from old sessions recorded years ago. Many companies don't really bother with that but we do...

At this time we ported all BBE Sound software to our new framework and a major upgrade should be announced before the end of the month. That means that the Sonic Sweet Bundle and the BBE StompBoard will now be fully compatible with all computer OS and plug-in formats as 80s Spaces actually is.

There's also the Plug & Mix V.I.P. Bundle that counts 50 plug-ins that is now almost ready to launch, all nice and clean. That should be in early October.

So, as I said, other Nomad Factory products are on the way to be ported but it will unfortunately take some time. I hope all of them will be ready before the end the end of 2023... While we gained great experience porting lots of plug-ins, we know that is not something that can be done correctly with a finger snap.

As for the GUIs, I feel 80s Spaces is big enough on a 4k 27 inch iMac Pro but resizing is on the todo list for up coming updates... 😰

Thank you all for your patience and your understanding.

Eric

It's great news that the Nomad Factory plugins are getting some love from a new team!

I had the honor and privilege of doing some beta testing for Bernie before he passed away and his generosity has provided me with licenses for almost all the NF catalog except the 80's Spaces which I may pick up during the sale.

So I'm very exited that great plugins like Cosmos, Drum Tools, MFX-Magma etc may be in active development again.

However, one of the things I'm reading on various forums and these are my feelings as well, one of the most useful updates would be for resizable GUIs or at least more GUI size options.

When most of the NF factory plugins were first released, common monitor resolutions were much smaller such as 1366 x 768. Today 1920x1080 is one of the most common resolutions and 4K is becoming more and more popular.

This causes what I call "GUI Shrink" where plugins that were the perfect size on older resolutions are now too small for today's higher res.

I noticed this right away with the 80's Spaces version 2 update. While it is usable at 1920x1080 it is a bit too small to be comfortable. I don't have a 4K monitor but imagine it would be even smaller on one of them.

So I'd like to encourage the new team to look into resizable GUIs for any of the NF plugins that get updated.

I wonder if we can hope for VST3, because last week Cubase announced that they will no longer support VST2?