2023-2024 Best Plugins?

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  1. Stevie Dude

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    It's Izotope Ozone 11 for me. The on the fly stem separation processing is still in its early stage, but it works really great even for now, can't imagine if the machine learning and stem separation technology get more advanced. Clarity module in Ozone is the best, love it to death and been abusing it during mixing just to clear the midrange mud just a lil bit, it adds up at the end.

    TBTECH Cabinetron is one hell of a IR Loader, easy to use and a lot of tweakablity options. I'm aware the Melda Production IR Loader is somehow more comprehensive and complex but Cabinetron wins in term of ease of use and user friendly interface.

    I'm liking the TBTECH Cenozoix more and more these days, it is slowly replacing a lot of compressor plugins in my template for its flexibility, wide range of colors, compression characters, and tone shaping capability but with 1/10 of the processing power. Efficiency.
     
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    Punctuate alone is worth the upgrade IMO (although I prefer sister site lol). It replaced Spiff for me the same way Bitwig replaced Ableton lol.

    (although Eventide seems to challenge both Spiff and Soothe with SplitEQ, but its bands are limited -which is not a bad thing).

    When I got time I'll challenge myself into making a track using only Newfangled plugins. Their synths are really unique (in an over saturated market, that's something), even their delay plugin managed to surprise me (it doesn't offer any "never heard before" features, but you can get insanely cool sounds with very few tweaks).

    Ironically, their final mastering plugin (Elevate) is the one I use less. Maybe my ear isn't trained enough yet, but the mel scale/multiband spectral limiter thing seems overkill to me, and the filter bank interface isn't very intuitive (although it would probably become intuitive if I'd spend more time with it, after all I feel completely at home with Melda lol).
     
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    2023-2024?
    huh nothing from Fabfilter except Pro-R 2 reverb,
    so I gotta give vote to new TDR Special Filters Bundle - they are best, but for very specific tasks, not casual home mixing
    :chilling:
     
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  4. Kate Middleton

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    i use ALL devious machines effects! i just love this interesting company
     
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  5. shinyzen

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    i second this! they make some great plugins. Infiltrator has replaced pretty much all glitch / multi FX in my workflow
     
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  6. El digital

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    But why not just name this "best stuff" that gets ignored? It certainly wouldn't hurt.

    I end up buying all the plugins that I use regularly but I like to try out what seems interesting without constraints before buying. For me right now, the only plugin I would like to have is the SoundRadix Auto-Align Post 2. I bought the Auto-Align 2 but didn't experiment enough during the 14 day demo of the Post version...
     
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    In order to not turn this into a warez request thread. Everyone who has been around the scene for a minute knows what they are...That's all.
     
  8. El digital

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    It certainly wouldn't hurt to let the world know what new plugins you'd like to see on the scene and would help spread curiosity and interest.
    I visit the sister site regularly and I don't know what plugins you're talking about. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who doesn't know what plugins you're referring to.
     
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    Sonnox, UA, AVID (to name a few) stuff in general is not "new". It's quite established, but goes ignored by the scene for the most part.
     
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  10. El digital

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    :mates:

    Having almost all the Sonnox plugins (except the Restoration plugins) and most of the Native UAs, I agree that they are good plugins. At the same time, there is in my opinion nothing essential or incredible in these plugins that would greatly hinder my work if I did not have them.

    If Waves had never been cracked and they were still selling their Ultimate Bundle for 15k++ in 2024, imagine how we would dream about it!
     
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  11. Auen Fred

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    maybe on release level but most certainly not on consumer level . just see el digital ,like az is his kvr .
    ua and avid arent ignored ,ua dont exist in warez world cause of obvious reason and avid i guess stays internal cause protection hassle and puplic rls would destroy current work maybe.
    sknote seems ignored but on the other hand i think eg r2r maybe imho dont want to fck with devs which have a really nice lets say policy bout protection and price and all the other do what they interested in or get a random supply .
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    lso an very old reason is that r2r is not liking the tiny amount of supply they get , yet they seem to have it all in their cataloge it seems based on their crazy numbers.


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    The obvious reasons are non-existent. It's more like politics, back end agreements or just plain payoff's... All speculation at any rate. What is fact is that NOTHING is un-crackable. The Witches have proven this to be true time and time again. Those who nay-say that particular fact are simply parroting some error prone opinion they read somewhere.

    As far as what constitutes the best or worst is all subjective anyway. To some, the most rudimentary app could represent the best to them. AS to what plugins anyone could "live without" is also subjective. Personally, I believe that iconic hardware is where it all starts. The plugins that most accurately emulate that hardware IMO are considered the best. UA as a corporation completely sucks ass (they didn't always). However when it comes to emulating in software the essential hardware that every audio facility under the sun uses daily, their stuff reins supreme. IMO...
     
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    actually dont want go offtopic nor sensless discussion but the
    educational assignment for new ppl is needed here (sry my english sucks)

    besides you seem to have no idea from audio scene which actually isnt scene at all and even less from r2r and their history ....and what huge target sign it would be on their back then...


    so lets look from point of few of a big company like avid . so you think they have some kind of insider who exactly knows they have contact with the real r2r and then putting lets say 150k on a anonymus crypto wallet.lol
    besides that it would be an invitation for masses of darknet hackers to blackmail them all .wtf
    im sure when i were really into juristical www company wise stuff i would find a dozen other reasons not to do so .
    so you think they coded an emulator for UA hardware in 10000000 man hours which then need a quantum puter to run 50 tracks which then get compromised by next update of UA ...sure mate:hillbilly:
     
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    Hi all .
    I would just say the Room ReLab QUANTX reverb which is magnificent in every sense of the word.... demo test it's heavy.....
    :wink:
     
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    Thanks for checking out Infinite Packs b2d40c208e3cb7b741f2! The team is always working to improve Infinite Packs and other cool stuff!
    I'm also going to check out these other plugins,because these sound really cool. I've used the Sonible Smart:EQ, and really loved using it, but the rest are new to me.
     
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    The thing with digital plugins is - you can't claim they use Japanese capacitors, or fairy dust. Digital is pretty much all nice and smooth once you refine your DSP with oversampling and little randomness and noise perhaps, to be more true to analogue. There isn't much to explore at this point. I'd say we have some of the best EQs and Compressors ever in the history of audio, and all of the other effects like reverbs and delays on which all the other effects are built upon. We have tons of fascinatingly great plugins already. And they cost nothing. Yes, I'm not talking about the monetary leeches that are always in every business, but developers that make free plugins using top DSP free code.

    As an example, Reaper comes with a set of plugins that would be considered thousands of dollaros worth 20 years ago.

    Make music, people. Let your soul sing and enjoy the process. Freedom! :)
     
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    optimization - lower cpu load, lower latency, faster GUI loading....
     
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    I have a hardware Mk 1. Fantastic piece of kit.
     
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