We own most of the originals here at Ardent and I must admit that the Clockworks Plug Ins are amazing. Are they exactly like the hardware. No they are not. But the hardware can change from day to day and can drift. And the Plug ins sound the same each day and its also allows you to automate what used to be cumbersome tasks back in the day. The Omnipressor and the 949 are great. The thing that is missing is the fact that the original hardware and the compansion it used on the input side were part of the sound and the AD/DA converters being a bit clunky adds to the sound . But overall the Eventide Clockworks Bundle delivers a fairly faithful recreation.