VSTs you can't live without.

Notron Fan · Post by **Notron Fan** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:54 am

Efx,

Stereo Room 2016 reverb
Voxengo Elephant
Voxengo voxformer
Voxengo Analogflux Suite
Fabfilter volcano
PSP Nitro
Anything tbt

Synths:

Tera2
Fabfilter One
Filterscape
(Zebra is coming)
Xphraze

[email protected] · Post by **[email protected]** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:12 am

My Faves
FM7
( and the rest of Komplete really)

PSP MasterQ
Sonalksis SV-315 Comp.

bensuthers · Post by **bensuthers** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:14 am

Audiorealism Bassline
Moog Modular V
Reaktor
Garritan Personal Orchestra

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:05 am

VST synth's -

Kubik 2.0
KarmaFX Modular
Foorius
Asynth
StringTheory
Texture
Motion

VST effects -

Digitalfishphone - Fillet's Bundle
Ephonic - LoFi + Retro Delay
Luxonix - LFX1310
PLuggo Jnr
Glaceverb - Dasample
SMEX - (Smart electronix) U name it I've got most of them.

Besides what I get from Reason via Rewire + P5's internal set and Live's custom plugs that is my definate MUST have list.

cane creek · Post by **cane creek** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:37 am

VST instruments ,

REAKTOR 5
Probably the only softsynth you'll ever need , if you use VST instruments then why don't you own it

this thing ooze's cutting edge quality theres nothing else remoatly like it , ive got the imposcars/albino's their ok but nothing compared to reaktor , Reaktors sound generators & groove boxes (massive/newscool/spacedrone/skrewell) are amazing to use in realtime in Live 5.

Spectrasonics Atmosphere
Its getting old now and still holds its own against all the newer yet inferior romplers , Superb soundquality and very usable library (i love the strings) i still use it in just about every track i make.

FXpansion GURU
ive only just bought this , but its so easy to use and tweek , its certainly a classic in the making watch this space.

, i also own Stylus RMX & Groove agent 2 which are both very good.

Kontakt 2
Witness the strength........

VST Plugins

PSP Nitro.
Tons of pre-sets on this filter/mangler and for once a plugin that sounds as good as it looks.

PSP lexicon 42
This is my favorite delay plugin , when UA release the 'roland space echo' things will probably change.

UAD-1 plugin's
Precision limiter , Plate 140 , LA-2A , fairchild compressor hell their all good , I only bought my UAD-1's a few month ago if you took it off me now i'd pack in making music.

..If you don't own a UAD-1 you'll never know what your missing.
If you buy one i'll guarantee you'll buy a second one.Who needs hardware when you've got a UAD-1

snoblind · Post by **snoblind** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:04 am

From native Instruments:
Battery 2
B4
Elektrik Piano

From Spectrosonics:
Atmosphere
Trilogy

From Arturia:
Moog Modular V2
Minimoog

zekrab · Post by **zekrab** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:51 am

Sonic charge microtonic for drums: a must have

Operator, V station, Kubik, Vanguard for synths: good sounds, easy to tweak and achieve the sound you want, not too CPU heavy (Reaktor 5 is nice but really too CPU hungry)

PSP Vintage warmer, Waves L2 and all Live FXs...

I try to stick to these plugins... the best way to make music and not get carried away.

Hey Adam what's so good with Hydratone?... must check this one.

littlepig · Post by **littlepig** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:58 am

Crystal - it is awesome especially considering that it is free!

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:27 am

AdamJay wrote:Hydratone

hey Adam havent heard of that one - where can i check it out?

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:31 am

for me

Microtonic (although impulse has been giving it a run for it's money)
Operator
Komplete2 (mainly Absynth, Pro53 and FM7)
Waves 5 (mainly REQ, RComp and L2)

Live 5 and it's new bits!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:23 am

forge wrote:
AdamJay wrote:Hydratone
hey Adam havent heard of that one - where can i check it out?

Right here:

http://www.tritonedigital.com/

Not to be missed. And I'll plug their ValveTone 62 as well. Dynamite stuff!

duncjam · Post by **duncjam** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:51 am

Instruments:

z3ta+ (resource hungry but tons of mod routing options)

V-Station (solid 'analog' synth)

Vanguard (another virtual analog with quite a different character than V-Station, so it's good to have both)

FX:

Kjaerhus Classic Series (best bread & butter fx out there for free)

SupaTrigga (I like this on acoustic jazz bass loops even better than on drums!)

dunc

marky · Post by **marky** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:35 pm

Most of all your lists are waaaaaay too long. How do you get any music made when you are constantly switching / auditioning plugin after plugin?

A few years back the most your average producer would have is a couple of synths, a drum box and some hardware effects. If you think you "can't live without" a dozen plugins, you're in trouble !

jahnlay · Post by **jahnlay** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:51 pm

Atmosphere, Trilogy, Stylus RMX, Pro 53, PSP Vintage Warmer, Steinberg's Wavelab plug-ins, my Nova synth and my UAD card with Pultec EQ.

raapie · Post by **raapie** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:53 pm

microtonic and symtohm:melohman. but I can live without these with no problem, but these are my favorites.