I, for one, want to support SONAR and if I buy (I am close), I will buy it here even though there isn't any benefit to me other than supporting my favorite DAW company. I will demo it first for this is the OEM compressor built into the famous HELIOS (Dick Swettenham) desks used in Island Studios, Basing Street along with the Rolling Stone Mobile (made famous in the lyrics of SMOKE ON THE WATER). I know they used a lot of 1176's but for the goto compression on other tracks, it was this ADR compressor that was built into the Helios desk.
You won't get BONZO's drum sound just with the compressor and for some of the drum mics, it was definitely part of the alchemy of the sound. Problem I have, is I don't remember how it is supposed to sound and I need to play around a bit... but, if I can coax some magic out of this baby, I will be putting my hard earned dough into the Bakers basket.
Off the demo from the BOZ site,
Jim