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Originally Posted by JPeters86  Of course it's very personal if you want to use Waves plugins or not but I find them to be among the best plugins out there. I think the DSP platform is something from the past and it surprises me to see how many people still use that technology now that we have eight cores of internal power available. I especially like the Waves compressors, the LA2A is simply in a whole different league than the UA version soundwise (which I guess is largely due to DSP constrains UA had to deal with when they developed the LA2A plugin in the first place). When the studio I mix for went from zero Waves plugins to buying the Mercury bundle some while ago, my ITB mixes improved quite a lot. I still use Sonnox and Voxengo every now and then but this seems to be getting less.
There's one other plugin company which comes to mind and really kicks ass as well, it's Airwindows, simply brilliant. |
That's because my
only defense against software piracy is to earn respect and loyalty. I've got forty-two free plugins out and downloadable right now, just to support people who might otherwise turn to piracy. One of them was recently shot out (without my knowledge- I'd have chosen something I get paid for
) against the latest Steven Slate big-budget console-modeling product and did very well in blind comparison. I'm putting out another incarnation of speaker-modeling stuff today, which is going out as a free update to people who bought the very first, feeble versions of that sort of thing from me in 2007... some of those people have got crossgraded to the latest new thing three or four times because they were among the few that got stuff back when it tried bravely but sucked
None of my stuff has ANY copy protection on it at all. I will not take ANY effort to find or punish people who're copying the stuff that they ought to be paying me for. They are not paying me to do that... it seems like it would be a really silly thing to pay somebody to hunt you down and give you the third degree about whether you're ripping them off. It seems like, to work tirelessly on making your stuff better and taking care of your existing users with presents and free gifts like updates, presents a better claim to deserving to get paid for that work...
Software police is not my job. Maybe it's a polarizing thing, in that you have to either pick one side or the other: become ever more draconian software police, or devote yourself entirely to earning community respect and trusting people to (mostly) do right by you. I don't see anybody pirating (not like you have to crack!) Airwindows plugins, and I'm not going to see any next week either. Why? Because I
won't look.