Yeah, when taking that choice you need to know you're spending a considerable amount of cash for the price of the workflow. As i said, not on a budget setup.

If want the best sound output for the lowest price i'd go for a computer with a decent amount of RAM and Nebula libs, since OP already got the converters.

 

Step 1 for sure, and the original post isn't specific enough to get much more in-depth.

Or a headphones amp with DAC and enough power to drive the nice new headphones you get since you won't be able to trust your monitors in an untreated, small room that you don't know at all.

 

Fabfilter bundle, Oeksound Soothe and do monthly subs to try out Softube, Plugin Alliance and UAD. You'll have everything you need in there and eventually you'll have your go to's. Except maybe some real niche stuff like Pulsar Modular's Sidecar or Tape. Be careful not to fall into the trap of FOMO on plugin sales. Give yourself some time to explore your subscriptions.

 

AnalogX and Nebula (third party libraries, Tim petherick, Cupwise, AlexB, VNXT etc )... and maybe a few UAD but the first are killers in terms of hardware emulations.

Reverbs VNXT and Tim Spaces are a must !

EQ Tim Classic Eqs and AlexB 4k 9k amazing stuff

Compressors Cupwise Neve and C660, Tim Opto1 etc

AnalogX DwFern, Distressors, Fairchild , Tape, Neve consoles emulation...

Lots of stuff to choose are not that expensive as well...

 

but they are CPU resources expensive.

So after all the common day-to-day analog and digital Mixing Plugins, but still for Mixing uses...


Oaksound Soothe2 - intelligent dynamic resonance surpression.
Oaksound Spiff - intelligent transient enhancer
Soundtheory Gullfoss - Automatic perceptual dynamic equalizer
Soundtheory Kraftur - Adaptive dynamic saturation processor
Kush Audio Electra DSP / UBK-1 – color, vibe, and analog-style compression
HG Blackbox (Plugin Alliance)- Analog style saturation and density
Waves Torque - Drum resonance pitch shifter
Waves Smack Attack - Transient shaping dynamics processor
Newfangled Articulate - Intelligent articulation enhancer
UVI Drum Replacer - drum trigger and replacement
Fuse Audio Drums SSX - Drum separation tool, not intelligent but sounds good
Sound Radix Surfer EQ – pitch-following EQ for dynamic musical correction
Sound Radix Auto-Align – phase and timing alignment
Synchro Arts Vocalign / Revoice Pro – automatic vocal and adr alignment
Melodyne Studio – advanced pitch and timing correction
Eventide SplitEQ – spectral and dynamic EQ separation
Eventide Blackhole - creative reverb
Eventide H3000 - multi-fx and harmonizer
Zynaptiq ZAP Bundle Adaptiverb, Morph Pro, Unveil – intelligent spectral processing
Exponential Audio R4 / PhoenixVerb – natural reverb with advanced control
Acon Digital Restoration Suite - audio cleanup outside of RX and without 50 Waves versions
Altiverb 7 (or 8) - Convolution reverb
Sonnox Oxford Inflator - Inflates stuff

 

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Yes, Nebula is quite CPU resource expensive but I am running a simple Mac mini M4 and can actually load several instances. If the OP gets a new M5 Studio or Ultra (released this year), using Nebula won't be a problem at all. It's a bit tricky but worth it.

AnalogX is quite different, it can be supported by GPU (at least in recent computers)

 

room is build and treated for the job, i will just have to get use to it... still have my old little labs monotor around tho but i mainly work with monitors