You can buy the individual bundles and build up your Fat Channel plug-in collection that way. Or buy the whole lot and that price works out a bit less. In my case for example $930 compared to buying the whole bundle for $715. So this represents a fairly decent saving. $215. I have got them all by the way and they are all fantastic. Well worth it in my opinion.

As far as I know the Purchased PreSonus bundle are VST's that can be opened up in other DAW's I suppose. The free ones are Fat Channel only. The other Fat Channel bundles are Fat Channel plug-ins only. You need to be in Studio One, have a Fat Channel loaded and then select these as necessary.

My question remains unanswered. So (in denial of what the rest of the software world is offering) Fat Channel plugins cannot be upgraded to the full collection, meaning at some point you'll pay twice or are stuck with buying all plugins piece by piece.

In Euro that means 11x80€ = ~880€ instead of 500€ for the collections price, difference of ~380€ which is the price of a professional DAW (pun intended).

Strange I cannot see my purchased Fat Channel plugins in my VST folder, the Presonus installer never asked for it. But good to know they can be used like that, thanks for clarification.

At least for the Plugin I purchased at Presonus I cannot seem to find a way to install as VST.

The manual also says nothing about that. I've asked at the store now, maybe they know.

Quick update: Store confirmed it's a typo and there's no VST version of these plugins. It doesn't exist.

You’ve answers your own question sadly

However... be patient as they tend to use those things as gifts and run crazy sales after they’ve been around awhile

IMO the Fat Channel plugins are WAY too expensive, even at 50% off. They are not so far better than everything else out there to justify their high cost.

darrenporter1 wroteIMO the Fat Channel plugins are WAY too expensive, even at 50% off. They are not so far better than everything else out there to justify their high cost.

Yeah, they're trying to Leverage The Euphoria of modeling some Boutique analog Hardware. But it's good to remember that when you copy some old analog gear, it's just like modern stuff except there's more noise. So if you want to catch the old analog Vibe, just use a modern compressor and add a noise generator and invent your own!

And my speech to text generator is randomly capitalizing Words, which I find entertaining. So there's some emphasis in that text that's not mine.

mikemanthei wrote

darrenporter1 wroteIMO the Fat Channel plugins are WAY too expensive, even at 50% off. They are not so far better than everything else out there to justify their high cost.

Yeah, they're trying to Leverage The Euphoria of modeling some Boutique analog Hardware. But it's good to remember that when you copy some old analog gear, it's just like modern stuff except there's more noise. So if you want to catch the old analog Vibe, just use a modern compressor and add a noise generator and invent your own!

And my speech to text generator is randomly capitalizing Words, which I find entertaining. So there's some emphasis in that text that's not mine.

Well there is a lot more to modelling a piece of hardware than that. All of the tubes, transistors, transformers, potentiometer values and tapers... even the choice of resistor and capacitor types and tolerances all add their own little bits that sum-up to the sound and "vibe" of a piece of analog gear. Line up ten vintage "identical" compressors and they will each sound a bit different.

I am NOT saying one is better than the other by the way... each person has to choose what works best for them. This is an artform after all

But yeah I do agree they are trying to milk the "vintage vibe" thing with their pricing.