Friends,
Subjective info hope may be of use.
Had these plugs in the shareware mode for a long time and way too overpriced to merit getting the whole set. So many that in my realm weren't useable and the single units too expensive. The granulator, ring mod, duplication on overdrive presentations, eq and brighteners that were already in my arsenal otherwise. And some that didn't seem to do anything.
There are however gems.
Bit posted the hard core question about the reverbs, if another was needed given what we already have, and respect to a great musician pulling in the reins on gear lust.
Balanced that decision here too, and erred in the direction that another reverb was needed (whether it was or not). Endless Maya in a higher philosophy.
The plate reverb is quite nice. A one trick poney, but shades of the dark smears of HOF Origami in a different way. The Digital reverb is nice as well. Above the bar for a floor stomp. Don't regret having these limited devices beside the Valhallas, Toraverb, Reverberate, etc...
The distortion devices to my old ear are eq spinoffs on the same theme so all are probably not needed. The American Tweed gets the soul of all of them and cuts through the mix driven by a single coil.
The 3-D and Leslie sims are good. 3-D on the first (out of 3) presets delivers some awesome presence.
Chorus, flangers, compressor/limiter plugs are good but only on par with what's out there even freeware.
This is however a generous deal. Idea is that you download the whole 40 plug collection and select what you want to authorize after a Facebook like.
Couple points...
Some are caught in a loop getting the plugin on step 2 of the Facebook process. Drifts data in favor of the company, since every time you try to submit a "like", your attempt fails and you try again. You don't get the plugin, but another "like" is submitted to the number. Therefore, they have over 4000 likes, but doesn't reveal that some poor dude has tried (as they have) a hundred times to get the process to work, liking the plug a hundred times and not getting a successful download link.
Some emails/accounts are cursed for whatever reason. Nothing recommended will work by the company if you are in the step 2 cycle rut. Start another account, and registration should work properly.
Some have problems getting the vst's to register all of them.
Takes one crashed vst to abort anything after the rogue element. Meaning if plugin 17 out of 40 goes down, 18 to 40 may not be picked up.
Fix is to go into the ini log, delete the quaranteened vst and rename it. PM whatever without the hyphen. Should flow through okay.
To my battered ears, these things won't change the face of the vst landscape, but very cool. Check out the reverbs.
Another rambling point...
The company allows something like 5 activations (moral unpoliced company request). These are not dongle or online activations. They follow a simple serial number "activation" like Sonar. Deserves our support for not getting sucked into the dark side of paranoia that only punishes the end user.
Reason I kept these things on my hard drive for so long is because they allow the shareware suite to function for a half hour before it craps out. Very generous for half an hour without noise bursts or 20 sec dropouts.
Some good stuff to be had and their free offer not there forever.
Best,
John
edited...Can't spell right even in my mother language...think it was english...