Uad Plugins Bundle
For a long time I was wanting to go UAD to get things like the Massive Passive. Situs nonton drama korea sub indonesia. With an octo card and the plugins I wanted on sale (Black Friday I think has their lowest prices), I was looking at spending over $3000.
Mackie Designs UAD-1 Powered Plug-Ins 2.2.2 (Mac/Win) DSP card/plug-in bundle $995. FEATURES4.0EASE OF USE4.0AUDIO QUALITY4.5VALUE4.0RATING PRODUCTS FROM 1 TO 5. PROS: Great-sounding plug-ins. Includes the LA2A and 1176LN vintage compressors and Kind of Loud's RealVerb Pro reverb. Very good bang for the buck.
I recently decided to instead go with native plugins. I mostly got Waves on their recent Easter sale ($50 for $300 plugins) and Slate Digital with 50% off for student discount. I also got the transient designer 50% off.
So for a set of plugins similar to what I wanted from UAD I spent less than $1000. I've heard that the UAD tend to be superior to most other plugins and sure, I don't get exact replicates of hardware models, but I think it was worth saving the $2000 difference.
Money that can go towards Spitfire libraries The only major downside that I see is that some of the plugins I got are resource intensive which you don't need to worry about as much with the UAD (although things like the Massive Passive take up an entire core). In the future if I really want to get some UAD to supplement what I already have I could always pick up a used duo card. For hardware emulations I turn to UAD. I have and Apollo Twin and a Quad PCIe card, so horsepower has not (yet) been a problem!
For everything else I have a small stable of native plug-ins that I really like - I have all the PSP effects, the SoundToys Bundle, and odds and ends from FabFilter, AudioDamage, Voxengo, Rob Papen, and probably a couple others. I also have Waves Gold Bundle - I've had it since it was called something else and used a parallel port dongle! They are darned good plug-ins. I especially like their more sound design-y stuff, and the C4 compressor. It doesn't sound like a dBX or Urei, but that's not why I use it. It is just an super flexible compressor that can fix things.
Same goes for their parametric equalizers. On the other hand, I dislike their wrapper, it makes things so cluttered, and difficult to manage. It's a little better with VST3, so maybe they are listening? And the annual maintenance thing gets expensive, I guess it is working for them, but I find it a bit annoying - I'll let it go for a while, but it still stings a bit - especially when I remember what I paid for them way back when.
On the third hand, I have gotten a LOT of use out of them. I've also tossed more plugins than I use - some got tossed because they did not live up to my expectations, some because I just didn't use them enough to justify having to dig to find them, and couple were actually bad (for my tastes). Sometimes I think I should trim the collection some more, and then I'll use the AudioDamage Bi-Phase or Ronin, or the Papen delay or whatever, stuff I don't use every day, and I'm reminded why I keep them - they sound cool!!!
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I think superior is a bit of a stretch, in fact I'm not sure one can really say one plug-in is superior to another anymore - at least not at the level of developers we're talking about. More well suited to a particular workflow or taste? But blanket better? For the most part they are different, but after you get past noise problems, cpu hogs, and other things you just don't find much it comes down to what the developer thought a specific plug-in ought to do, or sound like. In this corner the dBX 160 as implemented by UA. Nothing I've heard from any other developer captures the 160 as well, for me. In fact I like the plug-in better than the hardware.