I've contacted them again (several times), and it sounds like the general consensus is that they're going to drag their feet until enough customers demand the option of using the hardware they already own to run the plugins they buy. Ironically, consumer available CPUs have advanced at an even faster rate since then, as have the states of many notable competing products.

I never forgot this conversation and I assumed they'd eventually drop the requirement for a piece of UAD hardware to run their plugins, but it never happened. Meaning, the emulation is absolutely 100% identical, and it had simply become a matter of what hardware was assigned the 'work'. Although the work offload is still a big plus, it was possible for everything in their library to run well natively on a high end CPU (presently at that time). Long story short, they talked about how they (much like every company other than UA that sells analog emulations) have technology that makes it so the DSP accelerators are no longer absolutely required for their plugins to work. (This was right after the big 'Ryzen boom' where ThreadRipper was starting to make waves for both AMD and Intel, and a lot of computationally expensive things were becoming a financial possibility for home users.) Can't do that with the way these subscription services work unless you want to spend half your life bouncing everything as audio etc.Some time ago, I had a chance to speak to some employees at a sort of trade show and we talked about the required 'DSP accelerators' that UA has been known for essentially since their founding, and the conversation turned to recent consumer technological advancements.

Hell, I keep clones of my drives from different OS's over time, and so should I need a piece of work from say 2006 or 2012, I can boot from those system drives and bounce. And more importantly (to me at least, as I have hundred if not thousands of legacy songs/projects), these services go away, and you don't have them anymore in five years as they are out of business and you are just straight up fucked.

but if I had to login and 're-subscribe' every time I wanted to use my Soundtoys plugs ins or whatnot, I'd be pretty pissed. I'm a guy who works on a lot of different projects, and sometimes will go months without working at all, and I will have certain plugs I will lean on for a bit, then move on. there are some that are fair, like kinda the 'rent to own' Xfer Serum model, and Roland allows you to retain one or two a year last I checked, but companies like Avid can eat it in my opinion, as what they do isn't right. sigh.īut yeah, it's been awhile, and I'm not up to date on all subscription plans or how they have changed. Click to expand.Long time no see my friend as well! You know how the last year or two have been for all of us.

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