pharohoknaughty
izotope put their bundle with Ozone 7 Advanced and a bunch of other plugs on sale for the price of Ozone 7 Advanced alone.
This is as close to a no-brainer as I have seen. I had RX4 Advanced, so I qualified for that ADVANCED bundle for $200. That's Neutron advanced, an upgrade from my Ozone 6 basic to Ozone 7 advanced, the latest RX plug-ins (but not the RX stand-alone app), plus some other stuff I may use from time to time. That's a great deal.
It did not start off well. Thanks to the other folks here, I found that my problems were all solved by disabling the VST2 versions in SONAR. It works beautifully. I love that Neutron track assistant and the masking stuff.
And I just discovered in Ozone that I can now save directly in MP3, plus there is a full auditioning mode for the various dithering and compression levels. Importantly, Ozone can let you hear what artifacts you are losing with your MP3 compression. There is a lot more being lost, even at 320 kb/sec, than I expected.
And now I am looking forward to the next version of Ozone that surely will have a Mastering Assistant, along the lines of LANDR.