It seems all the big plug companies are trying to get people on subscription because they all want recurring revenue. One nice thing is they don't bug you to buy support every year like Waves do. I like some of their guitar/bass amp plugs as well. They have some good emulations I've only otherwise seen in UA, like the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor. I quite like some of the PA plugs, but (like Waves) only buy them when on sale. Just wanted to talk straight, the way i see it, as i have some experience with them and their ways. This is all extremely generally speaking obviously, and are just my completely subjective opinions, you might end up loving PA for all i know. And you won't find many of those over at PA. Good transparent plugins used in combination with a few more colorful plugins are key to the best sound imo. So if the plan is to replace all stock plugins with PA, you will get flat mixes. If you stack a lot of these after each other all over a mix, you will get a flat and overprocessed sound (regardless of how good they sound in isolation). Having access to 150 new plugins, and weekly additions, will just be a lot of noise with absolutely no benefit, despite what the marketing says.Īnother issue with PA is that a huge majority of their plugins are 'analog modelled', which means they are almost all nonlinear processors. It strongly incentivise abundance and a constant change-up of tools, which will overall lead to worse mixes compared to familiarity of well known tools. I would also stay away from Subscription models. The best plugins are usually found from a select few indie developers, which is worth the extra time and research. Slow and sloppy QA process and bugfixing, do not expect any extra service There are some great individual plugins there but overall i find them highly overrated and i hate that style of doing business. Lots of convoluted schemes to trick you to get involved with their rollercoaster business model.

They are extremely frantic with their sale antics, fooling people into buying plugins for 350$ that goes for 29$ a month later. I own some plugins from them but i would generally advise against PA.

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