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

 

TDR Limiter 6 GE is always the last thing on the 2‐Buss, and essentially all TDR plugins are on my palette with Arbiter my go-to sibilance helper.

To finesse volume control on every track before group bussing there is either one or two instances or a combination of the two of Jon V Fir Comp2 and Klanghelm DC1A.

Buss comps are either Klanghelm DC3A, Klanghelm MJUC and TDR Koltenikov

Reverbs are Valhalla, delay effects Valhalla and Fab Filter Time. When I use a chorus I choose my old version of Sknote DDD Dimension

For synths I regularly use Arturia Pigments, Synapse Legend HZ, U-he Zebra and Repro. For tonewheel it's GSi VB3. Piano duties are relegated to The Gentleman or Noire.

 

Cubase on the STe was amazing if you had hardware gear. In college me and a friend pooled equipment, we had: Akai S1100 + 1100EX with max memory 32MB each, Roland D-50, Kurzweil K2000, a Chroma Polaris II (my first ever synth - fantastic), a Mackie 32:8 and various outboard. Also a PC with a Digidesign Session 8. All running off the single Midi port on the Atari. The page refresh update on the STe got slow on complex tracks, but the timing was rock solid. We almost got signed to a label. Spent many hrs programming those Akai's - fun times!

 

JHudStudio Vocal King
Waves GTR
Softube Vintage Amp Room
Sonalksis FreeG

 

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i dont use WAVES plugins anymore. in the beginning i was using maxxbass.. v equalizer, schweps pluins, jjp collection.. etc
but i stopped because i found Universal Audio.. which is better.. my opinion

 

I only work with multitracks. It seems to me that Waves made a name for itself through clever marketing, using famous sound engineers in its adverts and the fact that they were among the first to create plugins based on the interfaces of real hardware devices.

Their update policy alone is reason enough to block their website in the host file.