your favorite plugins/bundles

[empathy1]

hello friends

I've spent the last year or so fiddling with a great deal of freeware just to experiment sound-wise and see where my ears go. I'm about to man up and purchase my first plugin bundle; Waves Silver.

What are good bundles or single plugins you'd recommend that are cost effective? I'm leaning towards good bundles for workhorse items with good application that I can scoop up all at once.

suggest away!

[Richie Witch]

My recommendation is try the Waves demos first. I have a lot of stability issues with Waves products on my rig. They run fine for about 20 minutes, and then Live crashes. I've tried this with a couple of their plugins and it will consistently crash every 20 minutes or so until I remove the plugin from the project.

Could just be my setup, but I'd test them on your rig before you spend your money.

[mholloway]

anything but Waves, ugh.

- Soundtoys

- Fabfilter

THOSE are wortwhile bundles. Waves... how many times can a company release endless variations on the same effects over and over again? Waves is surely hellbent on finding out. Oh, but which ARTIST SIGNATURE COMPRESSOR PACK are you gonna pick up next month?? BUT IT'S GOT HIS PICTURE ON IT SO YOU KNOW YOUR MIX IS GONNA SOUND LIKE HIS!!!!

[empathy1]

anything but Waves, ugh.

- Soundtoys

- Fabfilter

THOSE are wortwhile bundles. Waves... how many times can a company release endless variations on the same effects over and over again? Waves is surely hellbent on finding out. Oh, but which ARTIST SIGNATURE COMPRESSOR PACK are you gonna pick up next month?? BUT IT'S GOT HIS PICTURE ON IT SO YOU KNOW YOUR MIX IS GONNA SOUND LIKE HIS!!!!

just got that soundt altar boy from the free giveaway. pretty good. i heard good things about the fabfilter bundle too.

[empathy1]

any word on izotope ozone 6? looks pretty damn good

[sana48]

cost effective you say?

definitely Omnisphere and Altiverb...

um

[lapieuvre]

I just discovered Hofa Iq-Eq, it's a compressor and an eq, but you actually see the frequencies, so it's easy to compress exactly at the desired frequency range.

[iamcluster12]

I love the FabFilter stuff (Pro-Q, Pro-L, Pro-C, Saturn, Micro), really should try the Pro-MB out too, you should check out their bundles. Also iZotope (Ozone, Alloy, and Nectar), will see all these plugins on my tracks

[empathy1]

just copped the silver waves bundle for 150 on ebay to see how i like it. im sure it will be in the arsenal for time to come. i've got my eyes set on izotope stuff next couple months.

im currently torn between Native Instruments FM-8 and Massive in terms of a workhorse synth. I've been using Operator for my needs so far, but want to expand. I've also got sonivox twist and alchemy hybrid which i don't use as often; but know are pretty powerful.

[sana48]

Massive +1

[Stace30]

Fabfilter - The whole bundle (I luv Timeless and Volcano)
Ohmforce - Ohmicide
Spectrasonics: Omnisphere, Trillian & Stylus RMX - Altogether expensive but once bought you will get your money's worth out of them.
Rob Papen - Subboombase
Native Instruments: Komplete (I've got version 6 & I luv it, I just haven't upgraded my o/s so I haven't upgraded any plugins, lazy ) - The Komplete package is well worth the purchase!

[UncleAge]

If you have the loot: Fabfilter
If you don't: Tonebooster
Both are good options.

[beats me]

Massive +1

If for no other reason than there is an insane amount of tutorial vids on how to program it, probably at least 10 times more than any other single plugin.

[empathy1]

If you have the loot: Fabfilter
If you don't: Tonebooster
Both are good options.

thank you showing me toneboosters. unbelievably affordable and well reviewed

[login]

This should be considered in relation to Live stock devices, what you need? what native Live effects could be improved?

In that sense for me soundtoys is better value than waves.