Re: AIR and SONiVOX products.
Both companies were purchased by inMusic, a holding company that mostly owns music hardware brands like AKAI, Alesis, M-Audio, Denon, Marantz, etc.
By regularly offering these two companies' stuff for $1 or as free gifts they have essentially devalued the brands to nothingness. And as @Temme said, some of these products are abandonware. You don't see updates on most of them and when the internet is abuzz with a bug, they don't fix it. I would imagine that all it will take is the right OS update to make some of them not work anymore. In fact they don't work on some computers, so it's good to get demos.
That said, these instruments were made with a lot of love by some of the most talented people in the business. If you judge them by sound, you may be impressed. I am a huge fan of SONiVOX's percussion libraries, which are incredible bargains at the $3 they often sell for. But the way that InMusic has trashed the brand makes a lot of people give them less respect than they deserve.
It's fine if Heavyocity sells Punish Lite for $50 on their site and gives it away for free this month on Plugin Boutique. They might sell some copies of the full Punish by doing that. That's a very different thing than if you know that anything they sell could very well turn up for a dollar.
Recently, InMusic bought BFD.
It can be very fiddly. I can want to only turn a few words gray and it turns the whole line gray. But I agree that it is useful. After all, I often come back to these old posts myself!
