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None of them are particularly expensive, but all of them are top quality.

 

Ableton, Japanese Apple Computer, Utami, Iflux, native instruments, M4LMSP

 

Native Instruments.. Constantly innovative, and they create great software (and hardware, of course).


Love NI. From a DJ/performance AND studio/produce point of view.

 

DMG Audio, Cytomic, FabFilter, ToneBoosters, Valhalla DSP, Korg, D16, Klanghelm, Tokyo Dawn Records, Voxengo, HoRNet, Togu Audio Line, Audio Damage, Xfer, and loads of quality freeware like Cockos plugins, VladG, GVST, bkFX, Ignite Amps... is used here, including freeware from the aforementioned developers. Mostly great small [or small-er, and except Korg] developers that never let down anybody as far as I know.

You don't need to sell your mama for spare parts these days to be able to churn out some quality audio pollution shite.

 

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Lol, theres a lot of Kore owners that would disagree with you.

 

kore native instruments ? Never got a chance to pick one up but NI61KS works just fine

 

In no particular order:
PSP, Klanghelm, TDR, iZotope ( Iris 2), FabFilter, Acustica, Ableton, Presonus, Valhalla, U-he, Spectrasonics, Native Instruments, 2caudio, Variety of Sound & Vladg (they're free and excellent, check them out if you haven't already). aaaaand... Crysonic

 

I hate Apple's releasing a new O/S with a frequency by a factor of 0.75 and forcing/obliging incompatibilty with software I'd just cozy with - BUT, their shit practically makes my music, and my life possible. Garageband, and then Logic Pro, saved my life. If only you knew. Fuckin' life of degration, humiliation and pain, I've had - but then all the haters started shakin' in their boots, and tripping over their own knee-jerk maledicitons, when I started rockin' again, thanks to Apple. Rest in eternal peace, Steve Jobs. Also, Native Instruments is beyond my tongue-tied elegies. Kontakt is like my best friend. And the lowly freebie Replika delay is like a genie in a bottle. Plug-ins? PSP Audio, Valhalla, Fab Filter, Softube, and the mighty Waves. Damn, this stuff is amazing. Software always is advertised as being "powerful" and all – but the power isn't in the software, it's what I, you, we can do with it. Every project I complete, I've killing my ego-annihilating abusive parents, my decidedly less-than-beneficent friends, and all the practically-xeroxed assholes who'd wrongfully fired me and ruined my life, just a litte bit more. By this point, I can practically see the hillsides, for as far as the eye can gaze, covered with thousands of bloody pikes, the tips of which protrude from their mouths after having been shoved up their bootyholes, from their still-barely-alive bodies, numb from days of ultimate, consummate, mind-obliterating agony, having inched downward and the poles traveled, in slo-mo torture, upward through their corporal cavities. So, which software companies have "never let me down," you ask? Man, it's all good – whatever thins the herd. I've never felt more alive.

 

Do not forget about Sonnox http://www.sonnoxplugins.com/pub/plugins/products/products.htm
Their limiter and Inflator amazing plugins!

 

NI
Soundtoys
Ableton
PSP Audioware
iZotope

 

Fabfilter (Is there a better EQ or compression plugin out there? Killer functionality, gorgeous GUIs, rock solid stability), NI (do I really need to explain this one? Kontakt is the shit, Massive, FM8 and Reaktor are incredible synths), Xfer Records (Serum all day, if you don't know then you need to), GlitchMachines (Polygon is fooking amazing, several inspiring effects plugs, love the GUIs as well, cool dev), Spectrasonics (Omnisphere 2 is indispensable, the absolute Swiss Army Knife of synth-based sound design), 2cAudio makes the best damn reverb plugins on the planet (IMHO), U-he (pure class in the soft synth department, with some other rather nice offerings as well). I really like WOW 2 and Turnado form SugarBytes, but i could do without some of their other plugs. RIP CamelAudio, you were awesome. And of course Ableton Live, the most user-friendly DAW (IMHO and I've used several). Live really takes the pain out of automation, audio chopping/editing and MIDI sequencing. I really like working with the racks and being able to save complex processing chains, which can drastically speed up workflow. Sampler is great for resampling reese basses

 

I need to shake off my mothballs and wake up from hibernation for just a second just to say that that there is some heavy duty magical fabric that there you are weaving when you speak of impalement of those you have felt done you wrong. These mindless pieces of stupid idiotic feces and others of their ilk are always just looking for an excuse to be their dick-headed selves and live out their sick, imoral power fantasies. You just got in the way. Hate feeds that venomous cycle, continuous and reciprocated thoughts of anger and fantasies of revenge, and you are being baited to join into their black orgy of their sordid desires. They actually are feeding on you like vampires, sapping the energy created by your hate to keep them ànd the horrid world they envision alive. They create different scenarios in the hope to draw you in and keep you there for their selfish needs. Cut them off and they cannot do you any actual harm, buy into the bullshit and enable them to carry on with business as usual. Peace.

 

Cockos(+Stillwell/schwa), ValhallaDSP, Klanghelm, TokyoDawnLabs(+VladgSound), xferrecords, togu audio line in the paid realm...

too many to name one-person freeware companies.

 

Xfer, Fxpansion & Sknote

 

ViaDSP... of course..

Good thread Remix.. positive.

 

I'd say right now Zero-G, those guys kick asses badly! And how to forget about Native Instruments.
Luckly most companies are amazing and they always seem to know where to shoot.
Another fine example is Big Fish Audio, at least regarding cinematic and ambient/horror stuff, but that's because what I take, they also have tons of different stuff that are not of my interest but still great ones.
And lately been keeping an eye to Bluezone Corporation, which as far as I saw must be 80% cinematic stuff and the rest for IDM and similar.

 

Airwindows.

 

emm just let me know if i ever piss u off man.. I'll try to find another planet...

 

Not that i own or want everything they make but these are all devs i consider to be consistently good and reliable:

u-he
Klanghelm
Madrona Labs
ValhallaDSP
Tritik
Tokyo Dawn
Dmitry Sches

Pretty much everything they put out is worth trying at the very least.

 

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