whats the best plugin investment in terms of a VST/VSTI you made that you didn't stop using

 

You first, and why

 

R2R Plugins

 

idrum but it has been discontinued now and remained 32bit

i haven't bought that many yet...and if i did i'm not using them...so...not good

 

Instruments: Scaler 2, RAPID Synthesizer, DUNE 3, Chromaphone 3, Discovery Pro, many Cherry Audio (DCO-106, Dreamsynth, Voltage Modular, CA2600, Eight Voice, Mercury-4), VPS Avenger.

Effects: all Klanghelm plugins.

Windows 10 Pro x64

 

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StandardCLIP, soothe2, Brainworx bx_digital V3

 

Instruments:
serum, viper, omnisphere, nexus

Effects:
arousor, seventh heaven, softube harmonics & tape, weiss mm, pro q3, soothe 2 decapitator, echoboy, lfotool, lindell deesser, shadow hills class a, masterdesk and !bx_meter!

things that i regretted in the end:
poliverse manipulator, volumeshaper 4 (because they switched it up so that you need to use the whole shaper box), stereo savage, wow 2 and toxic biohazard

 

My best investment was the 2 minutes it took me to create my AZ account.

 

All madrona labs

 

I've been using FIR2 compressor a lot as well as Limiter °6 on the master to finish it all up.

 

Fabfilter Bundle, SSL Bundle, UAD plugins ( all of them ), All the Plugin Alliance but the guitar amps, iZotope Bundle, All the Valhalla's, LiquidSonics ( all of them ), Relab ( all of them ), Slate Digital ( all of them ), D16 ( all of them ), Antares ( all of them ), McDSP ( all of them ), SoundToys ( all of them ), Soothe 1 and 2, Arturia Bundle, Spire, Sylent1, Serum, Native Instruments Ultimate ... and lot more.

 

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UVI Shade. I prefer it to the Fabfilter Volcano. That is hard to accomplish.

 

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Plus 1 for TDR Limiter 6!

 

Best: Scaler 2, Soothe 2 and Output Portal.

Worst: When they first came out bought the 2 Westcoast Expansions from Studiolinked and i never was disappointed like that from Anything that i bought. (I was new to Music Production and they got me with their Marketing).

On My Waitlist to buy is Gospelmusicians Bassalicious 2.

 

HY-Filter4 on subprojects for rhythmical effects (basically as a mini Bitwig)

(fyi https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/reaper-subprojects )

 

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Sources: Kontakt, Reaktor, Zebra2, ACE, Surge
FX things: Eos 2, Dubstation, Guitar Rig

 

Most used plugin (that I haven't bought) is probably Serum.

Most used plugins that I have personally bought: NI Komplete (I dont use it much now though), Waves bundle (I think Im diamond level now.. just slowly upgraded over time), and probably Scaler 2. Shout out to Shaperbox 2, as I just bought that a few months back, and I think I'll find a lot of use for it.

Edit: Forgot about Fabfilter and Valhalla bundles. Those are highly recommend.

 

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all fabfilter, soothe2, gullfoss, standartclip and shaperbox2

 

if one considers the donation of a few dollars or a cup of coffee an "investment"; the dsp56300 emulator for source. all day

I'd rather get answers to "what audio tool was worth the time you invested into learning it?". Using price to evaluate skews it with the additional factor of "bang for buck".

 

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