Antelope/BAE joining forces...

Yeah that ad copy is a little ridiculous.

Also, not so much a middle finger to UAD as a several years later "hey, us too!"

heheh. Here's a snippet from an/the Antelope guy on GS in response to the question "how are these not plugins?":

"Conventional Buffered DSP plugin fx require thousands lines of code to operate and either use up lots of a computers resources or require additional off-line processing muscle, yet don’t improve upon latency or sound quality. Such plugins often add several milliseconds of processing delay and typically introduce artifacts to the sound causing various types distortion, as well as smearing the audio’s stereo imaging. Antelope’s FPGA effects maintain audio realism and not only sound great, but behave and feel just like real hardware gear, because Antelope’s FPGA is in fact replicating actual hardware circuits. "

Gave me a good chuckle. OHHH ok, so conventional plugins "require thousands of lines of code" (we all know how much of a problem that is for a computer to handle) while this exciting new FPGA thing "maintains audio realism". Well I'll be damned. That does sound pretty good! I wish my other plugins Maintained Audio Realism^TM !

Desperate attempt to stay relevant? So, I have to buy another hardware to use software that does exactly the same as all the other software I already own? What's different from the UAD system I've been using for 10 years? Thanks, but no thanks. I'm happy with my 'real' BAE and API hardware and UAD software. This has all the potential to put me off Antelope forever. Leader in the field of audio clocking?? cough cough.

Ah the world of plugin emulations, somebody make a deal with the original manufacturer, every body else makes a deal with the cloners, we thought the world of hardware politics was fun!