I too thought of IK… On paper it sounds good.
But I -loathe- their ‘Custom Shop’ system of licensing and will likely never buy anything from them again because of it. It has proven to be quite unreliable.
Their customer support is always understanding when it fails and I tolerate it because I don’t use their stuff too often. But if those kinds of hiccoughs happened with Cubase? I wouldn’t be using Cubase.
HowlingUlf:
If I’ve paid for it I want to own it. I can’t guess what’s about to happen in the future so I do not want anything stop working because I happened not to want to upgrade at a specific point in time, for whatever reason. I might want to upgrade later but if I agree to go with this model I’m beyond the point of no return.
We’re also reaching a point where it’s hard for an application like Cubase to be significantly “better” (as opposed to “more”) so there’s a point in keeping one eye at the wheel and one one the road. I think I need to check if I really need new versions after this one. It’s already freakin’ awesome like it is, and I’ve paid for it. To jump on a subscription model now … naw! I don’t wanna tie myself to the whipping post!
I don’t remember but wasn’t there another question about a modular model as well. Buy modules as you need them or something like that? I kind of like that one. It’s a little like IK Multimedia Amplitube and T-rackS? I’m not sure how that will work out in a totally different program like Cubase but it’s interesting.