Personally I think that one can create just as good material with expensive tools as he can with freeware. Whatever one uses doesn't matter.
One don't have to spend an arm and a leg in order to achieve results that would cost as much - and then some.
(R. , I'll send the money to your studio )
bManic summed it REALLY well, some time ago :
bManic wrote:People need to realize that we live in a world today where you get extremely high quality stuff for any kind of money. Sometimes even free stuff is at the very top level outperforming stuff that costs hundreds of dollars.
Price of a plugin is an illusion. A high price does not make a plugin great. A great plugin makes a plugin great!