Still Love ozone 5 for mastering does it all no fuss.
 

Be happy Alex, be very happy. LP-64 is really very good.

Well,the sonitus is kinda cheap since it's bundled with sonar...works well.it's also quite CPU friendly
 

Thanks for all your commens. Wow a lot of opinions... Still counting the costs, for now yes what Cake supplies is pretty good.... But the next round of sales I feel will be that much lighter... Cheers and happy new year!

Sanderxpander
I have it and I'm just wondering why. I think it's one of the oldest perhaps? Even Waves have since then moved on to C6 and LinMB. C4 doesn't have the best reputation for transparency, even with the bands switched off, ultimately leading (more than ten years later) to people like FabFilter trying specifically to keep audio completely transparent when not processed.

In truth, I doubt many top mix engineers use multiband compressors very much. They may be slightly more prevalent among mastering engineers, but I'm not sure about that either. The impression I get from the top mixers is that they prefer to use parallel compression (create a copy or aux with all but the desired frequencies filtered out, then hit it with a regular compressor and mix it back in), which is unquestionably a better way to do it, albeit much more time consuming.
 
That's what the Manny Marroquin Tone Shaper plugin does - multiband parallel compression. It gets pretty nice results too, for being kind of a simplification of that process in a single plugin.

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Sanderxpander
I have it and I'm just wondering why. I think it's one of the oldest perhaps? Even Waves have since then moved on to C6 and LinMB. C4 doesn't have the best reputation for transparency, even with the bands switched off, ultimately leading (more than ten years later) to people like FabFilter trying specifically to keep audio completely transparent when not processed.

In truth, I doubt many top mix engineers use multiband compressors very much. They may be slightly more prevalent among mastering engineers, but I'm not sure about that either. The impression I get from the top mixers is that they prefer to use parallel compression (create a copy or aux with all but the desired frequencies filtered out, then hit it with a regular compressor and mix it back in), which is unquestionably a better way to do it, albeit much more time consuming.
 
That's what the Manny Marroquin Tone Shaper plugin does - multiband parallel compression. It gets pretty nice results too, for being kind of a simplification of that process in a single plugin.

It may be part of the underlying tech of Pro-MB too, since it lets you create bands freely and doesn't process audio where you haven't created a band.

If you've got the $, good patience for learning, wait for a few months for v3, I can really advocate the Flux Alchemist. I've used this for a few years, and it honestly is the most complete (over-complete?) Multi-band Compressor I've found.

"Flux Alchemist" - That's probably the funniest plugin name I've ever heard - my devious little mind is thinking along the lines of colonic irrigation or something! I'll check it out, it certainly looks the job - thanks..

No, it REALLY does live up to the name. Some have mentioned you need an Engineering degree to fully utilize it. However, I found that you don't simply turn everything on. You employ it, but only enable or tweak the specific things you need, and leave everything else well alone. Until you get some time with it under your belt, you won't really be able to fully appreciate what it can do, but be simply bewildered (good or bad) by the seemingly endless controls it has. I will say, Flux is probably hoping for a loophole in Trade-marks so they can call one of their processors a "Capacitor"....

Wow, 569 plus an iLok or their own dongle. It looks nicely featured with some quirky options the others don't have. I'll stick with my Pro-MB for now though :)