OK, tha'ts it, I'm doing it(!) Deleting Excessive VST's

[Michael L]

I've found moving to Linux cures GAS

Finding better things to spend your money on cures GAS.

Or finding a better forum, https://www.ourmental.health/hoarding-disorder

[NWSM]

If this Linux thing’s going on, it seems GAS comes to Linux the moment you write GAS again.

[audiojunkie]

In the past two weeks, I bought Zebra 3 and TAL-JX8. I’m a happy Linux user!

[imrae]

I'm doing a Linux workstation refresh at the moment, and while the Windows drive will probably stick around for a while it's proving an interesting exercise to setup a reduced production environment on Linux side. It's great to see how much stuff has a native version now, compared with last time I tried to make this work. Hopefully the gaps can be filled by WINE-bridging a few things. (Valhalla stuff seems happy )

Of course the danger is that instead there is temptation to buy more things from U-he, Toneboosters and TAL

[jamcat]

I tidy regularly.
I ask, "Does this plugin evoke joy?"
If not, I toss it into a trash folder on another drive.

For me, I toss it if it does.
I only keep the ones that evoke melancholy and despair.

[surreal]

Okay!

UPDATE: I got my excess VSTi's deleted today. And I finally got to the point where I know what each of the remaining ones are and what they're good for and the types of sounds they have. This is really a good improvement and it was worth it. I had to get over the stress at first, but after that it got easier.

Later on, I'm going to prune down my VST effects to only the essential ones. That will be much easier than the instruments because a lot of the effects came together in full kits (like GrimmJack plugins: gClip, gHi, gLow, etc). I also only need some of the basics for effects because of what comes with the DAW (Reaper).

Overall, I'm very relieved and I was able to start messing around with the synths I still have with greater ease.
My computer doesn't have much built-in storage, so it's good to relieve some of that pressure too!

I used to test drive a lot of decent freeware synths but most of them could only do a few interesting sounds so that makes for a lot of "one hit wonders". I did keep a small few, for classic synth bass sounds for example; but it's better not being held back by too much data and too many choices.

If anybody else is on the fence, I recommend purging. Don't worry about it too much; just keep backups somewhere if you need them.

Which ones did you keep and which free plugins do you use for your bass?

[Michael L]

I tidy regularly.
I ask, "Does this plugin evoke joy?"
If not, I toss it into a trash folder on another drive.

For me, I toss it if it does.
I only keep the ones that evoke melancholy and despair.

Ah, the BONES method!

[jamcat]

No, the BONES method is when you keep only the ones that cause angst and bloating.