They're much better than Waves.

That's not a hard feat though, Waves is overpriced shit. They're "industry standard", like Technics 1200s. Obviously there are way better turntables out there than 1200s, for a fraction of the price, but everyone buys them because it is the done thing.

IMO, the Sonnox plugins are at the pinnacle, quality wise. As a bundle, there is nothing which competes with them. Individually, however, you will find alternatives of a similar quality. Although they are fantastic, I think they're well beyond the point of diminishing returns, in terms of price. If you mix and match the best VSTs from other companies, such as Sonalksis & WaveArts, you could get the same quality level for much less.

the sonnox plugins are really awesome. i use the complete bundle since some months now and they just work great on almost everything i put them on.

like echosystm said, waves are overhyped and aren't (anymore) on the top. and with bundle discount of 40% and some other nice shop discount you can get them really cheap this days and epsecially the native version which aren't limited to the poor processing power of a powercore.

The Sonnox Dynamics, Limiter and EQ are really really good in a hard to explain kind of way.

Sonalksis SV-315 is really good too on the compressor/limiter front and costs less than the hardware required to run Sonnox plugs and comes in VST format.

But. Kjaerhaus GCO-1 costs way less than Sonalksis and is just as awesome as far as I can tell. I would say that GCO-1 is the best bang for buck analogue compressor emulation you can get right now.

EQ wise, I like Sonnox EQ but from a workflow perspective, you can't beat Voxengo GlissEQ. Its the spectrum analyser built into it with overlays that does it for me. I can compare spectrums from 4 separate channels and calibrate the graph accordinging so I can visually see what I need to EQ out. It sounds pretty good. I think its the best value paragraphic EQ you can get which has awesome workflow.

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Originally posted by Derivative costs less than the hardware required to run Sonnox plugs and comes in VST format.

Sonnox are available as VST now man.

They're actually cheaper than their PoCo/TDM siblings. Funnily enough, they use bugger all CPU usage too. That really blew the wind up elitist DSP wankers!

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Originally posted by echosystm Sonnox are available as VST now man. They're actually cheaper than their PoCo/TDM siblings. Funnily enough, they use bugger all CPU usage too. That really blew the wind up elitist DSP wankers!

yeah, on the powercore you can use 1 (ONE) full sonnox eq per DSP (so 4 on one powercore) on my amd x2 4400+ it uses around 1-2% cpu

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Originally posted by echosystm Sonnox are available as VST now man. They're actually cheaper than their PoCo/TDM siblings. Funnily enough, they use bugger all CPU usage too. That really blew the wind up elitist DSP wankers!

Oh shit. Ok, I want to buy Sonnox Limiter and Dynamics now...