303abuser Yeah it’s the same with fabfilter. I like some of their stuff and I’ve very glad I paid for pro q3 as I use it all the time, but it’s tough to justify $100 for a delay when I have 10 that work just fine already. Physion does some cool things and I’d pay $30 for it right now, but $100 is insane for what it does and my limited use case for it.
FabFilter, Eventide, Oeksound, Waves and a few other developers are still stuck on old school pricing models. Most dev shops have adjusted their pricing to be in the $30-50 US range or have enough frequent sales that you can get them for that. The number of developers in the audio plugin market has expanded exponentially - along with the quality of the code, the product’s ideas and graphics behind them.
The only FabFilter product I use on a consistent basis is their FabFilter MB plugin - which realistically if I wanted to poke around enough I could find another multiband compressor that’s much cheaper that does the exact same things. I admittedly use a ‘trial’ (ahem) version of it because I’d never pay what they ask for it, but I’m sort of tied to it because there’s a preset that’s part of my parallel processing chain that I use all the time.
I truly believe the longer these developers have these rather high priced models, the more irrelevant they’re going to become.
As for FabFilter Pro Q3, White Sea Studios did a video on YouTube with Sonible’s ‘Smart:EQ3’ plugin at their SmartLimiter and he said he was immediately ditching Pro Q3 and FabFilter’s Limiter because Sonible’s products are cheaper and do a better job with more options. That’s coming from a mastering engineer.
FabFilter’s plugins haven’t really changed that much in fifteen years and that tech is starting to age not so gracefully for a premium price.
