UAD users - will you buy them (sight unseen)?

The Lexicon 224
Vitalizer
bx_digital


I imagine we're talking close to 1000 bones for all three.

vitalizer native is $199, so I doubt the UAD will be competitively priced

If they price the vitalizer at $149 I'll be mighty tempted.  I can get the SPL version for 180.  However...I have basically quit buying UAD plugs since the Manley and EMT 250.  And there are still a handful of the older plugs I don't have and don't want.  And there are several I wish I'd never purchased...not due to their quality...I just never use them.  Plus it seems every other really top notch plug maker is hurting just like the rest of us and either greatly reducing their prices (see Waves...Waves for chrissake!) and Nomad Factory and IK and NI (Just think about all you get in Komplete 7) etc...  So the competition's pretty fierce.  Add to that UAD is making plugs, that while arguably better modeled, use more and more of your cards CPU.  There's plenty of talk about people with 2 UAD Quads who still can't load the new Studer plugin on all their tracks.  UAD needs to get "their mind right".  What we got here is a problem of communication.

You can get the Rennaisance Reverb from Waves Native now for $38.  And the RVerb is one of the best reverb plugs evah.  And still I'm not buying (I think) as I've already got 6 or 7 killer verbs and 4 or 5 utility verbs.  I mean when will the madness end.







Never...I know.

I'm with Yoropal - I use Aether for nearly all my reverb needs now and quite frankly the lexicon (or the idea of the lexicon) leaves me cold as well.

I seem to remember a little while ago UAD doing a survey of what they should produce next - I said personally I would rather they worked on some kind of interesting effects as opposed to software clones of old hardware as that has sort of been done now.

Also on  personal note, after the Powercore shock (they have stopped development and support basically) I am reappraising what I spend my money on.
If I spend a $1000 on a guitar, keyboard or synthesiser, basically you have this for life. I spent much more than this on my Powercore set up and they just turn round one day and say "that's it we've dropped the product." I have THREE very nice pieces of useless hardware (well they will become useless very soon). But also the software which I purchased to run on the Powercore platform is also now or soon will be useless - I spent a great deal on all of this.

Who is to say that any software company will continue support going forward?
So how safe are our investments in all this very expensive software?
Perhaps this uncertainty will drive prices down? One can hope!

Interested to hear what other people think on this subject.
Nigel

I've stopped buying the UAD stuff. 

I'm in the process of moving to the real versions of most of their key plug ins. That said, the Studer800 plug in won't be replaced anytime soon. I would rather throw $300 at a pop, the current cost of the new ones, at compressors, mics and preamps purchases or, use it to save until I can have something better. After you invest a thousand or more in plug ins, which I have done over 10 years, and you still aren't getting the sound you want, it's time to move on.