Octamed on the Amiga, everything else is just sideways .

 

Hm, back when I used Ableton Live regularly I was quite satisfied with the stock plugins, only collecting more plugins for fun or because they were trendy.
Nowadays, if I were to reduce myself as much as possible while staying in Reaper, my choice would be (approximately) as follows:
- FabFilter Total Bundle (has all the basic necessities and enough options for more creativity)
- IK Multimedia Amplitube (as I play loads of guitar and don't have a proper physical amp)
- MeldaProduction (FreeFXBundle and some additional tools depending on what I intend to do - music production, post production, restauration..)
- Native Instruments Kontakt (some nice piano libraries in there, Una Corda is one example)
- sonible smartGate and smartLimit
- Spectrasonics Keyscape (greatest keys I know, need I say more?)
- Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 (in case no drums and/or drummer available)
- Xfer Serum 1/2 (once again, need I say more?)

There are some more plugins that are very nice to have and ease the workflow a lot, but going for essentials that should be it.

 

Amiga?!!! .... Atari ST(e) any day of the week!

Seriously though, the Amiga/Atari days were amazing times for being creative & pushing the hardware beyond what it was supposedly capable of. Both visually & sonically.

 

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If my system were wiped, tomorrow I'd install:

• Cubase 15
• My UAD plugin$ - but especially: ATR-102, Distressor, AMS RMX 16
• Lexicon reverb
• Softube: Weiss limiter
• Arturia chorus
• VoosteQ Model N
• Techivation M-Exciter
• Omnisphere
  
• TAL synths and Cherry Audio synths
• Arturia synths
• Kontakt

 

Keeping this also in mind, it would be interesting to use that folder with the installers and auth, also programs (installer I made loads with vlc, notpad++ and a few others) and code out for win full reinstall oobe. Almost there...

 

If I were to do a clean install tomorrow this is what I'd install first

Software
Studio One
WinRAR
Jdownloader
Wiztree
Powertoys
Streamdeck

Plugins
Algonaut Atlas
Sublab
Apisonic Speedrum 2
Fabfilter Pro-Q
Tal-Sampler
Melodyne
Valhalla Reverb and Delay
Some tape plugin