Responding here @Gunark with a quick snap overview of some testing away from the sales thread. I have a test set of unmixed stems that I use to run through any plugins like this through.
The Smart Limit looks to be a quality limiter all in all, and the way it displays information is very informative. Smart Comp 2 is also very impressive, and these two seem to be the real winners in the pack. The EQ seems to mostly make sense as a tool for working with multiple busses, perhaps less so on an individual track. I quite like how they aren’t as bloated as the iZotope tools, and it’s all laid out very clearly. As for downsides, anything that relies on recognised patterns could always use more references, but they seem to have a wider range than iZotope. They are quite a bit heavier on processing than a standard comp/limiter as well, which needs taking into account. For example, even with oversampling, Pro-C2 introduces 1.5ms latency, where Smart Comp has 47.8!
Sound is definitley clean, erring on the side of “safe,” but it does sound good quite quickly (eg: using the compressor to get a kick punching.) They look interesting as learning tools in the same way that Pigments has in-app tutorials, (though in this case the whole plugin is the tutorial.) I guess you’d want to pick these up and then at some point, move on to doing stuff by hand yourself. But if you’re stuck on a mix somewhere, it could be nice to have in your toolkit.
On the price, as I mentioned over in the other thread, on sale these are roughly the price of a single FabFilter plugin. Latency knocks aside, Smart Comp and Smart Limit are no slouches compared to FF, as they are also clean and punchy. So for the money, I think those 2 plugins are pretty solid, with the EQ as a bonus.
I guess in that question about what does this do that my DAW doesn’t - Sonible has an interesting offer. Analogue modelled EQ’s aren’t the same as the clean ones in your DAW. Fabfilters are clean and have more features , and iZotope gives you the kitchen sink - both charge you handsomly for it. The Sonible stuff seems to be offering a light-ish bundle of utilities that do something stock tools don’t and at a price that beats some of the more fully featured offers. So if you could lend a hand on the mixing end, it’s worth a look.
Unsure if I’ll go for it just yet, but very tempted.