[Righty27]

I've resisted the VMR release (debated at length with SS himself here by several members) because of the rack and soon being forced to use this to host VCC 2.0, which I purchased without a rack dependency. As it stands (if I buy no other VMR modules), I will take VMR to mean VCC which will be loaded by default!

On the other hand, I started to use IK/T-Racks when they released standalone plugins ... and today would be a good day to start if you haven't already as they extended their 'Group Buy' to 5 for 1 if 300 more are sold over the next 10 days (currently 4 for 1)!

Soundtoys have also announced they are going the 'rack route' - however, like Waves (native) and unlike Slate (who appear to have integrated common code in the rack module itself to make for speedier releases in future), this is optional.