Going back to my previous paragraph, the studio I work with uses Avioms for monitoring, and while flexible I never feel like I should good. The comping still sucks but ultimately the sounds I get are amazing. I have fallen in love with LUNA and the workflows there. That doesn’t mean that I’m wrong or there wrong. That said, I’m a songwriter and I work with a studio that doesn’t use any UAD products. When you sound badass in the headphones you feel better. It gives you confidence as a singer/player. Being able to have a solid preamp, Pultec, compression and print that all to the track in real time saves so much time in editing and mixing. There are a couple I bought that I don’t really care for. UAD is so focused on end to end replications of hardware.
It’s not that they don’t work, but I don’t think they’re true replications. The UAD LA2A’s, API’s, 1176’s, for instance work exactly how the hardware works. The UAD plugins absolutely blow the waves stuff away. I have an Apollo x8p in my home studio and I’ve used Waves extensively. Overall, it's just going to come down to what makes sense to you, don't worry about justifying your choice to others' opinions because "the company is dying, only buy from this company now", those conversations are trends that come and go every year. It's also a personal choice when it comes to subscriptions versus plugin ownership, whatever works better for you. If only for some hobby-type work, then it's all very personal to how much you want to invest for what specific use cases. If you have clients to justify the cost to provide them quality mixes, then yes it can be justified. If only for mixing, then it's a depends answer. If you plan to record often, then yes it's of the total value. To answer your question though more directly.
As much as I can do that with CPU, I used a 2012 iMac for a long time and didn't have the CPU horsepower I have today, that taught me how to preserve power, now I make sure to keep resource headroom to allow myself to be able to slap on a really CPU intense plugin late in the game when needed. For me where I still see value is offloading some heavy-duty stuff to the DSP, I own such as AutoTune. With mixing, not all the plugins exist as native and I would assume not all of them are going to be native. Also do a podcast and a YouTube channel and I record my mic real-time with processing so another similar usecase.Ģ. I forgot to stop recording for a bit cause I was so in the zone. The whole time I thought I was listening to a done record. I had this artist where we put a flange on a monitoring insert in LUNA. Being able to record someone and give them full experience changes the performance. Recording, that real-time monitoring is something I can’t live without.
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