When I bought mine, I expected it to be the way it is with other high end ‘flagship’ products – ie the really good stuff comes out there first and then trickles down to lesser models, relying on the Halo Effect of the flagship to sell those lower cost products.
That’s not how it works with the H9000. You wait for literally years for trivial bug fixes – and for new algorithms, you have to make do with the crumbs from entry level guitar pedals. SEVEN YEARS since release, there’s still nothing unique to the H9000 which fully utilizes its power, just a subset of legacy algorithms and ports from guitar pedals. The ports can take an eternity to arrive with no roadmap to keep users informed and engaged. Meanwhile it’s doubtful whether the recent excellent surround plugins (Blackhole/MicroPitch) will ever even make it over to the hardware.
I’m sorry if this sounds negative, but in the three years I’ve had my H9000, I’ve gone from enthusiasm to disillusionment. There’s been very little of interest released and enquiries from frustrated users about important things like 96KHz support just result in vague promises from the devs that never materialize. So much untapped potential – it just doesn’t seem to be a priority for Eventide at all. I’m sure someone will jump in to reassure people that it IS a priority, but the release notes of the firmware updates over the past 7 years tell the true story.
