Most make the mistake of not realizing Ozone is for the mastering side and throw them on every track and think CPU hog. Mastering plugins are not made to run at 1.5 ms on a modest system.
Trying RX7 on an album recording that is not available in CD. It was one of those summer projects spending hours removing all of the clicks in Soundforge. Does anyone use RX7 through their monitors or use PC speakers?
They are gonna have to come down to under $150/5yr for me to bite. It would cost me $1000 to replace one system with all SSD. If I really need that fast SSD streaming I can temporarily move them to my Intel 500gb drive. I have my VSL libraries on it. The Synchron players loads these quite fast.
If anyone has ever noticed that Izotope doesn't seem to have a machine limit. I've had some of their stuff that came with Acid Pro and had to install them many times on four machines. Also make sure to custom install if you don't want those RTAS, AXX, or install into Steinberg\VST folder.
This may be the incentive I need not to buy more stuff. I was gonna go for one of the Melda bundles until I seen they added local sales tax which is 8.6%.
Wow now they charge sales tax. It's 8.6% where I live. I was thinking of going into debt for the mixing bundle but I'll pass. They usually offer this again during the holidays.
I think developers realized they deflated the value of plugins. I think the days of the hobbyist spending over $100 for a plugin that isn't a synth are gone. There's a lot of youtube videos of amateurs doing great music with stock plugins. Splice and Melda have where you can rent to own. Some believe this whole industry is going to be subscription. Many have it but don't advertise it heavily. I think it will ruin everything except for the opportunist developer who does not go subscription.