Hi guys,
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Waves SSL on a Friend's DAW and its sound was damn great. Especially the master buss comp worked as advertised: The GLUE!
I was talking to my friend and he mentioned something interesting:
He said several of his clients had told him this rumor: "Waves has developed the SSL plugins for both their company and Duende! The reason that we are seeing them as different products is that they think this competition helps the marketing and also it could help to sell some mandatory hardwares as well (Duende)!" He said the same thing has been said about UA plugins.
And now I am thinking: these days we have access to very fast CPUS (3 gig something). So does it make sense that we believe UA plugins could be handled by some 150 MHz Motorola DSPs but not with 3 gig CPUS?! Or basically the point is we MUST buy that hardware?!
It would be nice to hear more about this. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Cheers