Plug-ins you actually use

[multree]

Sold all plugins which I am not using. Now my setup is much smaller.. but it's great. Fabfilter, Wavesfactory, U-HE, Valhalla, Spectrasonics, Native Instruments, Xfer and some others. And now I am also use the stock DAW plugins as well.

I actually never thought about selling software. it's a strange concept for me.

Stranger than buying software?

yes martin, for me it is. I'm sorry.

What I'm saying is, I have never done it. It never occurred to me. I might try it though since there's some stuff I don't use.

[multree]

But to answer my own question:

stuff I use all the time:

Audio Thing - Noises
Baby Audio - Smooth Operator
IK Multimedia - T-RackS Bus Comp, Metering, Master EQ 432, TONEX (using my own captures), Tape Machines
Kazrog - Synth Warmer, True Iron, True Dynamics, True 252
Klevgrand - Pana, Revolv, Fosfat, Haaze2, Brusfri
Safari Pedals - Rabbit Tape, Lion Master, Dragon EQ, Sun Bear, Yak Delay, Owl Control
Tone Empire - Opto Red
Wavesfactory - Trackspacer, Equalizer, Cassette

stuff I really like but somehow never use (either because I use something else, or because I forget to use it)

Audio Thing - Type A (I love it on vocals but somehow never end up using it)
Wavesfactory - Spectre (I honestly don't know why I never use it. Every time I try it I love it but it's always just when playing around)
Voosteq - Model N (really good, but I grab other stuff. I think I'm not a channel strip kinda guy)

[jamcat]

bx_console SSL 4000 E
UADx Neve 1073
UADX Studer 800
UADx 1176 rev E
UADx LA-2A
UADx dbx 160
UADx Ampex ATR-102
UADx SSL G Bus Compressor
UADx Lexicon 224
UADx Capitol Chambers
UADx Pure Plate
Audio Modeling Ambiente
Pulsar Primavera
Relab LX480
UVI Plate
ERS 250
TR The Farm Stone Room
Eventide SP2016
Blackhole
Shimmerverb
Omnipressor
TriceraChorus
Instant Flanger
H949
H3000 Factory Mk II
PrimalTap
Lexicon PSP 42
TONEX
Modern Music Solutions S-Drive
Audiority Chorus Ensembler
Audiority Flanger 117
Audiority Chief Chorus
Audiority Dr Phase
Audiority The Sword
Cytomic The Scream
Polychrome DSP Cry Boy
Fazertone Comp 76
ARC 4
Can Opener Studio
ADPTR Streamliner
TR Stealth Limiter
TR Lurssen Mastering EQ
Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
Voxengo Sound Delay
MODO DRUM
Pianoteq
Organteq
SWAM Solo Strings
SWAM String Sections
Arturia Solina V
Arturia Mini V
Arturia Prophet VS

[mangopango]

u-he Protoverb
u-he Zoyd
4 Seasons
Fartman2
Cubase Pro Stock Effects and Plugins
arturia auto tune
Pocket Dimension freak show industries
mishby freak show industries

i think im set for life with these plugs no more buying for me anymore....

[Dirtgrain]

I don't use plug-ins; they use me, like a cheap napkin at a fried chicken and ribs place, like a plastic yogurt container that someone repurposed to hold leftover chicken soup and then repurposed it again to hold leaking oil from an ancient, small Datsun pickup. But we've all got our hobbies.

[Nug Wrangler]

Fartman2

[a9k1tp]

DAW's built in effects, Fabfilter effects and Serum 2 synth. I was very hard to debloat plugins, but I am more productive now.

[Rastkovic]

The Ableton and FabFilter stuff are my got-to plugins since years. On the additional plugin side, there is some sort of fluctuation. I'm not very sure about Bass Mint at the moment.

- Ableton stock plugins
- FabFilter everything (except Simplon, Micro)

- Cableguys FilterShaper XL, VolumeShaper 3, Kickstart 2
- Kazrog KClip 3
- Native Instruments Mod Pack, Raum
- Newfangled Audio Saturate, Recirculate
- Softube Harmonics, TSAR-1
- Soundtoys LittlePlate, SuperPlate
- Unfiltered Audio Bass Mint
- Waldorf Lector

/edit

[foosnark]

I keep track of the gear I use in most of my recordings. These are used in basically every track (for mastering and/or tracking)

DDMF MagicDeathEye
Izoptope RX6 De-Click
RJ Studios Sideminder Max (or ZL)
Toneboosters EQ Pro
Voxengo Elephant, OVC-128, Span Plus, & Correlometer
Waves Curve Equator
YuLean Loudness Meter

Most frequently used other plugins, in my last 2 completed albums plus the one in progress, in descending order. (I'm not going to go back further than that...):

Valhalla Delay
Audiority Velvet Machine
VCV Rack
Kilohearts Filter Table (using two instances for stereo or M/S boosts its count...)
Valhalla Supermassive
35 other plugins used more than once
28 other plugins used exactly once

...and lots of Bitwig stock plugins, plus Sound Forge processing/effects, including some VSTs that I don't even count instances of sometimes.

[hotmitts]

Always come back to the stock devices in Reason Studios, of course using custom combinators

[jens]

For me what I use keeps changing over time, but it's mostly the same
(at any given period in time) few plugins over and over again.

And actually these are mostly emulations of classic hardware or at least are
inspired by the latter.

Some of my most used plugins are:

- Rockrüpel

- True Dynamics (LA-1B)

- UAD LA-2

- Softube VCA Comp

- UAD Ampex

- T-racks Tape Machine 24

- PA Vixens and Friedmans

- PA Ampegs

- both Sonsigs

- V³

- Übermod

- Soundhelmet Tens

- Fuse VREV-63

- Instant Phaser

- PA ADA Flanger

- T-Racks Leslie

- Fuse El Germano

- Fuse Dozer-Drive

- D16 Repeater

- Waves Metafilter

- UAD Pultec (I really don't use a whole lot of EQ)

- Nugen Stereoizer

- Melodyne

- Superior Drummer 3


I own (and partly use) a whole lot more than these and then some (and could easily replace most any of these with at least one other plugin (certainly neither of the latter two though)), but something like this is really what it comes down to for me.
I's really mostly just bread and butter for me all day long any day of the week.

[Ah_Dziz]

I use a good bit of my waves diamond bundle on pretty much everything. Lots of the melda stuff (especially the mcompressor and Mdynamiceq). I use pitch shifters all the time and I have many, but they are all useful for making interesting textures and exploiting their various artifacts. I use all the old Unfiltered Audio FX : Dent/Indent, sandman Pro, Spec Ops etc. I use all of the NI FX from Komplete: Solid comp, La2a, driver, dirt and reaktor are my favorites. I use Zebrify all the time for midi controlled FX and audio controlled FX. I still use all the smart electronix stuff that made it to 64bit. I also use the Built in fx in all my DAWs because it's simple and generally low in CPU. There's actually very little I have that I don't use pretty regularly. I got the Arturia FX bundle last holiday season for super cheap and I have not been impressed with any of it enough to use it much. The few things that seem cool are rendered far less cool by their CPU consumption.

[Rastkovic]

What is interesting, that some of you are interested in reducing their amount of plugins, for the sake of "productivity" (I guess). Same here.

So I revisited my plugin folder yesterday and ask myself, if I could get rid of my "specialist" plugins and just work with stock plugins and bundles from one, or two plugin manufacturers. The answer is no.

Like I mention further above, I work mainly with Ableton stock and FabFilter plugins. I think that's about 75%, the other 25% are from various manufacturers. I'm always interested in reducing the number of choices, for a better workflow, but that would be a too theoretical approach for me, to limit myself, to two or three specific plugin manufacturers. Especially when it comes to reverbs.

Just some of my thoughts.

[misc007]

Instruments:
AIR XPand2 - my only rompler, delightfully crappy
Arturia Prophet VS
Audiospillage drums
D16 drum machines
GForce M-Tron Pro, OB-1, OB-X, Oddity3, ImpOSCar3
TAL-pha, TAL Sampler, TAL Bassline
U-he Repro 1/5
Waldorf Microwave
Amigo Sampler

Effects:
Aberrant SketchCassette, Lair
GHz Tupe, Vulf Compressor, Lossy, Megaverb
Audiority stuff
Audiothing stuff
Cytomic The Scream
DMG TrackComp
Eventide H910/949/3000
Kiive things
Klanghelm TENS
Korneff Amplified Instrument Processor
PSP 2445, 285
Purafied Micro Limiter, LED Compressor
LX480
Tai Chi Reverb
Valhalla Vintage
Wavesfactory Spectre

Klanghelm TENS the revb sound is amazing i like the free version better lol with the tilt eq bright and dark simple to use but i like all of their free versions better than the paid versions exp the mjuc

[jamcat]

I need to add Roland JC-120 to my list. Thanks.