Nah, I’m saying that if you don’t have anything MAX from IK, getting the Amplitube 5 MAX from APD for $99 should get you the Total 5 Max for $299, hence your outlay would be $399 instead of the $499 crossgrade price from other stuff.
In your case probably your latter choice is best as you already seem to have an older Total MAX version.
Sadly that Meldway Grand still has teething problems on Apple Silicon, as do others Melda plugs. Their dev isn’t very enamored with Apple, to say the least. Understandable, of course, but still.
Thanks TTF, great to read how this could be interesting, as I was simply thinking: hey, didn’t Falcon come with Euclidean arps? But your inverse reasoning makes sense.