Jac459 wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023
iTrensharo wrote: ↑24 Feb 2023
Personally, I am more than fine with abandoning developers who don't make the move to VST3. I don't think it is even worth investing in them. They have had far too long to move to VST3, by now. There is literally no excuse for it.
I theory I agree with you. In practice, there are a few A-List plugins that haven't jumped yet.
Spire from reveal sound is one of them. I don't use it as much as before, but for SAW Leads, and dance stuffs, it is unmatched in my opinion. I own Phase Plant, Serum, Pigments, but none does the kind of sound like spire... (maybe Synapse Antidote is the nearest).
So basically, even if these vendors have no excuse (especially as they continue to sell these plugins at high price), it is a bit frustrating...
Fortunately Spire has a RE version...
Synths are some of the easiest plug-ins things to replace, due to how many redundancies exist within that market.
Whether or not something is as good is always tainted heavily by preference and biases towards specific products, so I cannot really comment on that. People will personally like or dislike the "sound" of different synths to various levels.
Spire has a Rack Extension version, so it's not really a factor.
And again, if they are that slow to keep up, then I don't see a point in investing in them. I'm paying them and basically green lighting this development philosophy, and that is something I no longer do.
There is about a 1-3% chance that I'll ever buy another Reason upgrade for this very reason. It will work on Windows for the foreseeable future, so I'll at least be able to open projects that use it when necessary. That is good enough for me.