Useless discussion: name ONE plugin for each category

[ampetrosillo]

Say you can only use ONE. And you can't use stock plugins. They must be third party.

I'll start.

Transient shaper: Native Instruments Transient Master
Track compressor: TDR Molot GE
Bus compressor: Klanghelm MJUC
Limiter: TDR Limiter 6
EQ: ZL Equalizer 2
Reverb: Valhalla VintageVerb
Delay: Sixth Sample Deelay
Saturation: Soundtoys Decapitator
Chorus: Martinic AX Chorus
Flanger, Phaser: never use them honestly?
Tape: u-he Satin
Bitcrusher: something by Airwindows, probably

[telecharge]

kiloHearts Essentials and you're done! - https://kilohearts.com/products/kilohearts_essentials

Not trying to party poop your "useless discussion" -- just nobody cares about my favourite shite.

[martinjuenke]

This for everything:
viewtopic.php?t=204964

[telecharge]

This for everything:
viewtopic.php?t=204964

I'm still waiting for an update. It's been over 2 weeks!

[Nug Wrangler]

Transient shaper: Kilohearts Transientshaper
Track compressor: Klanghelm DC1A
Bus compressor: Klanghelm DC8C
Limiter: Thomas Mundt Loudmax
EQ: Toneboosters EQ 3
Reverb: D16 Toraverb
Delay: D16 Repeater
Saturation: Klanghelm SDRR
Chorus: D16 Syntorus
Flanger, Phaser: D16 Godfazer/Antresol
Tape: VoS Ferric TDS
Bitcrusher: D16 Decimort

[El°HYM]

Oh, a new List...

Transient shaper: Sloth by Darkpalace Studio
Track compressor: MagicDeathEye by DDMF
Bus compressor: MHB Green by Kazrog
Limiter: Barricade 4 by Toneboosters
EQ: Equalizer Pro by Toneboosters
Reverb: GReverb by Strange Audio
Delay: CRMBL by UnplugRed
Saturation: Couture by Auburn Sounds
Chorus: Blend by Sinevibes
Flanger: LII FLANGER by auDYo engineering
Tape: Bandbreite by Sinuslabs
Bitcrusher: crunchrr by blepfx

[kritikon]

Transient shaper: Never use them.
Track compressor: TDR Kotelnikov.
Bus compressor: Any track compressor worth its salt can do buses and vice versa. Never saw the point of different compressor for different channels, therefore Kotelnikov.
Limiter: Ocelot.
EQ: Sorry, but I'm going to use stock. They all sound much the same to me, not worth spending money on.
Reverb: Valhalla Futureverb.
Delay: Valhalla delay.
Saturation: Never use them.
Chorus: Valhalla ubermod thingy.
Flanger, Phaser: Mobilohm (very rarely used).
Tape: Never use them.
Bitcrusher: Never use them.

[foosnark]

Say you can only use ONE.

No.

[cdbaksu]

Transient shaper: Softube Transient Shaper
Track compressor: UAD LA-2A Silver
Bus compressor: SSL Bus Compressor 2
Limiter: Apogee Soft Limit
EQ: Lindell TE-100
Reverb: Relab LX480
Delay: Baby Audio Comeback Kid
Saturation: SSL X-Saturator
Chorus: UAD Studio D Chorus
Flanger, Phaser: Moog Moogerfooger MF-108S ClusterFlux
Tape: Softube Tape
Bitcrusher: Lese Codec

[ampetrosillo]

Bus compressor: Any track compressor worth its salt can do buses and vice versa. Never saw the point of different compressor for different channels, therefore Kotelnikov.

Kotelnikov (even the free version) is wonderful. It's very clean and can do lots of compression without sounding bad. I prefer it on the bus though. The fact that it's so unobtrusive makes it better for "invisible compression". FirComp 2 is similar in that regard (and possibly even cleaner; I like it a lot as well). I prefer track compressors to be a bit more colourful.

[PTV]

Transient shaper: kHs Transient Shaper
Track compressor: Molotok
Bus compressor: Kotelnikov
Limiter: TDR Limiter 6 GE
EQ: TB_Equalizer_v3
Filter (my addition): DualVCF_v1
Reverb: TENS
Delay: ValhallaDelay
Saturation: Saturation Knob
Chorus: TAL-Chorus-LX
Flanger: ValhallaSpaceModulator
Phaser: MF-103S
Tape: ReelBus_v4
Bitcrusher: Bitpunk

These are not necessarily "my favorites", it's more the like firsts that come to mind

[jamcat]

Transient shaper: SPL Transient Designer
Track compressor: UAD 1176 Rev A
Bus compressor: UAD SSL G Bus Compressor
Limiter: UAD LA-3A
EQ: UAD SSL 4000 E
Reverb: UAD Ocean Way Studios
Delay: UAD Galaxy Tape Echo
Saturation: UAD Neve 1073
Chorus: UAD Brigade Chorus
Flanger, Phaser: These are 2 separate categories!
Tape: UAD Ampex ATR-102
Bitcrusher: LOL wut?

[billinder33]

Transient shaper: Bitwig's
Track compressor: TB Impress
Bus compressor: Vertigo
Limiter: Pro-L2 or Ozone Maximizer
EQ: Pro-Q
Reverb: ADPTR Utopia
Delay: Melda MTurboDelay
Saturation: Wavesfactory Spectre
Chorus: Minimal Audio
Flanger, Phaser: Minimal Audio
Tape: VoS Serato Hex FX
Bitcrusher: Kilohearts

[Download SOphist]

let´s play!

Transient shaper: Newfangled Articularte
Track compressor: FirComp2
Bus compressor: bx Townhouse
Limiter: Ocelot
EQ: usually just use stock, but just bought apqualizr2 - might change that
Reverb: Cinematic Rooms pro
Delay: Valhalla delay
Saturation: vertigo VSM-3
Chorus: usually just use stock
Flanger, Phaser: same
Tape: UAD Ampex
Bitcrusher: seldom use it, but D16 decimort when needed

[voidhead23]

Transient shaper: I don't use these. The closest I come is some drum libraries I use have them baked into the Kontakt channel, so whatever those are.
Track compressor: u-He Presswerk
Bus compressor: Also, u-He Presswerk
Limiter: Toneboosters Barricade
EQ: Toneboosters Equalizer
Reverb: Acon Digital Verberate (if we're talking about sends...channel reverb is usually Valhalla Supermassive)
Delay: Soundtoys Echoboy Jr.
Saturation: Soundtoys Decapitator
Chorus: ValhallaDSP Supermassive
Flanger, Phaser: I don't use these.
Tape: Also, Soundtoys Decapitator
Bitcrusher: NI Bite