Bus confusion

[Starship Krupa]

25 minutes ago, Bass Guitar said:

There's this  video I watched a while ago where he was telling people never to use plug ins that are tied exclusively to any particular Daw. It will make it hard to share projects with collaborators as well as future proofing your work if you switch Daw's down the road. 

I was actually very surprised at how many of my Cakewalk instrument collection open in any Daw. Like Dim Pro, Rapture and even the SI instruments.

That's exactly why I don't use DAW-locked plug-ins.

When the Cakewalk devs first murmured about porting the Sonitus suite to VST3 I told them why I don't use host-locked plug-ins if there is any alternative. The only one I regularly use is the ProChannel's QuadCurve EQ, because it's just so convenient and straightforward (and sounds good).

But I have and use multiple VST hosts that aren't competitors to Sonar (Vegas Pro, Audacity, Sound Forge), and there's no reason to use any host-locked processors. It would be like having a vacuum cleaner that only worked in my living room. Why would I bother with such a thing? No matter how well it worked, it wouldn't work enough better to have to learn a completely different set of controls, attachments, whatever. Even the simplest compressor or EQ is more complicated to learn than a vacuum cleaner. If you want something with simple controls and an uncluttered display, download Kilohearts Essentials for free. Those FX resemble traditional "stock" plug-ins in every way except for being host locked.

I think the solution they came up with, to have the Core FX usable in other hosts by using the same authentication system that Sonar uses, is pretty brilliant. I've never seen another company using it.

Cakewalk under Gibson got into the "plug-in business," where they were trying to sell their premium synths and processors outside of the SONAR ecosystem. PreSonus and Tracktion are making a run at this today.

The SI Instrument collection used to be available as a separate product. They were eventually surpassed by even free products, but they were decent enough for the time.

When the CA/2A compressor first came out, it got EXCELLENT reviews, some probably still consider it one of the best, most faithful LA/2A emulations. I think its algorithm still ships in Sonar Premium's PC module. It would be a great candidate for inclusion with Sonar Premium. LP-EQ, LP-MBEQ, Adaptive Limiter, these would all be great to have in Sonar Premium.

[Bass Guitar]

The Pro Channel quad cuve EQ ports over to Studio one’s version of a EQ  very accurately thanks to @azslow3 brilliant CPW2song  conversion tool. 
And I guess all the  instruments that Im finding work elsewhere are the ones I paid for in the Legacy days. 
As far as effects go I think I only ever used the Quad curve and the CA2A.