FYI,

I'm now running Tracktion 6, and believe it or not, the T3 plugins work just fine with it in 32 bit mode. The Tracktion folks took a tip of mine to improve their website and they paid me with a Tracktion 6 upgrade.

So, I've been using all the really quite excellent T3 plugins in the 32 bit version of T6. So far I've used the mono and stereo channel strip plugins as well as Final Mix.

They have recently released a very similar plugin to Final Mix as a standalone product. I haven't tried it because I have Final Mix running in Tracktion 6 without issue.

https://marketplace.tracktion.com/app/tracktion-master-mix-2.html#.Vh7sdCuNCDk

Final mix was some of the crack that many of us got hooked on with Tracktion, so it is not surprising that the Tracktion guys have made a standalone VST of a similar stripe - the visuals and controls seem identical based on screenshots.

I'm not sure I like the Tracktion 6 workflow as much as T3 and previous editions - but there are loads more features which I haven't yet learned. I will say that the elastique pitch and time stretching algorithm has been nice for band rehearsal purposes. I think that's the same algo that is included in PG products.

One would also wonder if 'extortion fee' is appropos given the very reasonable price of Tracktion that is in the same range as new release upgrade prices of PG and other DAW products, even on the low side given feature set comparisons to other software.

-Scott