Very much in the “nice to have” category, I’m wondering about other folks experience of the mega bundles that go on sale around Black Friday. I know some people have bought a selection of these, or even multiple of them. From what I’ve read, although they have some crossover, they tend to fall into 2 categories, where you either get a) a lot of plugins, or b) a few mixing/mastering plugins:
Effects
- Arturia FX
- Baby Audio
- Soundtoys
Mixing
- Fabfilter
- Ozone
I’d be interested to hear your perspective on integrating these plugins into your workflow. With the effects, how many of the bundled units do you actually use, and is the number of options ever overwhelming? And on the mixing & masrtering stuff, I’ve heard that the Fabfilter stuff is in a class of its own in terms of the power of their tools. Is this the sort of stuff that needs to be handled by trained mixers, and is learning in the DAW a better approach before you grab these tools?
I guess overall I’m interested in hearing opinions on how you’ve found these bundles, the good, the bad and maybe if any of them have stood out to you over time in real world use.