I’ve been running the free demo for a month, but really don’t like the subscription model. Apparently, if you subscribe for a year, you get one of the plug-ins to keep.
I do like the 808 and 909 plug-ins. The reason why is - recently, I’ve been trying an approach where I start my beats with an off-the-shelf kit, but replace the patches afterwards with various different sound-sources (plug-ins and/or hardware), so starting with an 808 to get the basics down is something I’m finding quite useful. Off-the-shelf kits tend to have kit pieces set up for sitting together in a mix. If I start from scratch with patches, I find it can get in the way of the beat programming.
…but the Roland Cloud plug-ins are arguably too good a set of copies of the original. They don’t tend to go over and above the originals. For example, the 808 doesn’t allow re-pitching of hi-hats.
Anyone else got thoughts on their Cloud system?