TC Electronic MegaReverb PowerCore

Playing/writing music as far back as I can remember. I play the computer mostly, but still play guitar, bass, percussion, and anything else that'll make a noise. I use/d this plug-in with Nuendo 2 and now with Cubase SX3. I work primarily writing music for film and television. I have an Intel 3.6Ghz P4 with XP. Primary listening setup is RME hdsp96/52 going into a Scope card and out to Mackie HR824 monitors.

Interface is easy as it can be. No problems installing. Never automated the plug-in. Usually will automate the send to it, not the actual plug-in. The copy protection is the hardware Powercore... without it the plugin will not work and sometimes it won't work with it either... but I'll get to that.
Very easy to get a good sound out of it. Don't think you need a manual for this.

Sounds great. It's my favorite reverb plug-in when it works. Presets are fine and it's easy to make your own. THE MAIN PROBLEM IS IT CRASHES. The plug-in will lose sync with the host within 5 mins or less. The 1st software version it actually worked more than not. There have been 3 upgrades since I purchased the Firewire Powercore. The performance has gotten worse with every update.

It is not worth the price tag. At least the firewire version isn't. Tech support has been awful to say the least. I would complain about something and they would list my complaint as sloved without doing anything. Then i would complain again until I got kicked out of the system. Finally I got in touch with TC in the US and sent my powercore in to be tested. I sent it UPS next day. I waited 10 days to call. I called and got the response 'it arrived today'. WHAT? Then I got 'well, actually it could have arived any day last week, it just wasn't logged in until today.'

The end result is this: if they make it work I'd buy another one. If they don't... then I'll just keep writing bad reviews until they do.