If you could only have 10 third party plugins to make music, what would they be ?

Here's mine :

 

UVI Falcon
UVI Shade
UVI Sparkverb
Xfer Serum
XLN Audio Addictive Drums
Audio Damage Dubstation
Izotope Ozone
LHI Audio ST4B
Oeksound Soothe
Ayeic Mix Monolith

 

Captain Plugins
Scaler 2
Serato Sample
Nexus 4
ANA 2
Kontakt
Shaperbox 3
Kickstart 2
Trackspacer 2.5
Weiss MM1 - Mastering Maximizer

 

I Don't use all these wow I'm so impressed with your lists!!

1.Air Stereo Widener (also to control lows)
2. Fab pro-3
3. Cla 2a compressor
4. Valhalla Vintage Verb
5. Soothe 2
6. Kontakt 7
7. Choric
8. Clairphonic MK2
9. Omnisphere
10. Kickstart 2

 

Fabfilter Pro Q3
iZotope Ozone
Cenozoid
Jamstix
EZkeys
EZbass
Synthmaster
Amadeus (Kontakt Library)
Valhalla Delay
Chorus (Kjaerhuis) - usage as the beat doubler there is

 

I'm very much intrigued by anything Oeksound/UVI but I'm not ready to use iLok yet.
Glad to see there are a few ones I don't know about at all so I can try new things.

 

1. Slate FG-X - I use it as a limiter all the time. It's my go-to limiter for tracks that start to build up a lot of energy. It's very transparent, super old, and reliable. Besides, it takes very little CPU power.
2. STL Tones Control Hub - This is the channel strip I use the most. It's great for coloring tracks without much hassle. I'm a lazy ass, so I tend to go to plugins that I slap in and forget with the fewest possible tweaks. This fits my bill.
3. Sonible Smart:Limit - That's the plugin I always use to beef up the volume on the final bus. Sometimes it is the final plugin on a master.
4. Supertone Clear - It's an amazing plugin to clear spoken word or de-reverb a vocal.
5. Accusonus Voice Leveler - Discontinued and now abandonware. It' does what it says with musicality.
6. Nuro Audio Xvox - My Swiss-army vocal chain. I sometimes just use it for the reverb or delay, but sometimes you just use it for that modern, radio-friendly vibe.
7. Plugin Allliance Lindell 902 - Easy to use, quasi-intelligent de-esser. It does the job.
8. UAD Distressor - I've never used a physical unit, but I've tried every distressor clone that I could, and without a doubt this is the best one for my ears.
9. Softube Drawmer S73 - Itr's supposed to be a mastering compressor, but I love it for individual instruments. It has lots of character.
10. BSA Silencer - The best drum gate, period.

 

Hard to pick just ten, but I guess these represent what I reach for the most, also my screenshot kind of sucks, enjoy...

 

1. Amplitube 4
2. Vital free
3. Little alterboy
4. BFD eco (when I need realistic drums)
5. Gatekeeper
6. Gforce Oddity 1
7. Korg M1
8. Obxd free (or TyrellN6)
9. BuzMaxi3 free limiter (just when "mastering")
10. Izotope RX 7 De-hum (or Spectral De-noise) (yes, I have got a ground loop problem when I use my Minilogue through its usb).

Honourable mentions: Guru/Vocodex/Echoboy

PS: I used to make indie/alternative rock, acoustic, now old electronic music and modular-style sequences.

 

Last edited: May 7, 2024

@mercurysoto nice comprehensive list, from all the plugins I only knew of Sonible Smar:Limit !

 

1.All By Sonimus
2.All By Psychocircuitry
3.DoubleTap
4.PluginThatKnocks
5.Relab SonsigAce
6.All By Wavegrove
7.All BETTERMAKER Plugs
8.SlateTape
9.2Bplayed
10.STOCK PLUGINS Ableton LIVE 12

 

@muse2love Curious about Relab Songsig ACE, someone mentioned Rev-A in another thread as their desert island reverb, quality and controls looks on point and GUI is clean.

 

VST Instruments (limited to 3):

Zebra
Serum
NI Kontakt​

Master Bus Mix Effects:

Waves Greg Wells MixCentric
Steven Slate FG-X​

Mastering:

Weiss EQ1
Weiss Deess
Weiss DS1-MK3
SIR StandardCLIP
Weiss MM-1​

 

01. Nebula
02. Nebula
03. Nebula
04. Nebula
05. Nebula
06. Nebula
07. Nebula
08. Nebula
09. Nebula
10. Nebula

 

I wanted to include the Clariphonic! Glad it's represented in someone's list.

 

Kontakt
Serum
Repro 5
Softube Tape
Softube Transient Shaper
Softube Harmonics
Devious Machines Duck
Sonsig Rev A
Overloud Gem Mod
Ozone

 

@4096 is see that you use Repro 5, do you use repro-1 Aswell ? What made you choose it over let's say Diva ?

@ArticStorm what is AAR and N4 ? I see you didn't update from Sylenth1 to something like Dune 3 of from Massive to Massive X, can you tell my why you prefer them (I'm a huge proponent of "if it aint broke don't fix") Glad to see the free DSP56300 synths in you list.

 

Firts it is not a Reverb but rather a dimensional expander plug-in, designed to enhance the width, depth, and overall spaciousness of mixes.
I personally use it...to tighen my MONO BASS in the stereofield really fucken cool and better than ToneProject Basslane Pro

 

UVI Falcon
Zebra HZ
Bazille
Atlas
MDrummer
smart:EQ
smart:comp
MTurboVerbMB
MTurboDelayMB
MSaturationMB

 

Last edited: May 6, 2024