14 DAY TRIAL // Cubase, iZotope, Reason, Audition, Logic, Sonar, DX/i, VST/i, ReWire, Firewire. Do these words make some sense in your mind as you read them? If they do, you're safe, along with your money because this means you know what recording and (in our case) mastering are all about.
From a musician's idea slowly growing up in his agglomerated mind and finding its own way towards music expresivity down to actually writing it and playing in a recording session, furthermore to mixing, and finally to mastering, the road goes long and hard.
The mastering is the final stage a recorded source has to pass through until it becomes supposedly ready for public listening: it's the stage where all tracks are "varnished in the same color", get even volume levels and overall spacial effect such album delay, final track-compressions and other little audio engineering tricks are being applied so the sound is close to perfection.
All names above mean really professional applications based on which the world's contemporary music, be it classical or goregrind, is being finalized and released. Professional software has professional features and professional looks and by no means can anyone mistake a pro-grade software for a lousy one; vice-versa there are some possibilities and often cons use pro-looking graphics to trick people.
Born To Rock is an "innovation" company which has set forth onto creating unconventional guitars and basses but in my eyes, they have failed to achieve the commercial potential they were obviously after. Not only did they make instruments, but also developed some software to help mankind master better audio.
The Born To Rock Rockster promises a lot, but its GUI does nothing to help save the professional-wannabe attempt. It swears that it will add a warm and professional reverberation to your audio so that it will sound as if recorded in some very classy location.
Crap, if I may speak freely. The almost 35 dollars Born To Rock ask for the Roskster are far too much for a little program that does such little work. No matter whether a standalone or plugin, the operations carried out are too expensive: first of all, there are numerous programs which do this kind of work for free; then there are lots of similar softwares offered for roughly the same money doing the same job or even more and look really good.
Third and the last, why would someone who has already bought or even downloaded a free serious host/DAW loaded with many mastering FX and plugins want to pay extra for such a crappy-looking piece of code? I guess I won't have to see the day when a (home) studio will run on such a thing... Take a look at the screenshot below and call me stupid.
