"Must have" plugins for EDM music?

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Everything you need, and more, is in Ableton Suite. Don't understand the plug-in lust that people have. Suite is more powerful and streamlined than most of its users are even aware of.

Suite is great and the synths Analog, Operator, Collision, Tension and Impulse are almost OK. It's just that when you put these next to something great, they pale into oblivion. The Max For Live synths are all dismal.

Sampler is a great tool and Electric can do the job. These alone are worth the Suite's extra costs, unless you prefer another sampler. I don't. Simpler can be useful and made to emit great sounds, though I do prefer Sampler.

But as it's just EDM who need great sounds? As we all know "EDM" is not an umbrella term for Electronic Dance-oriented Music, but a sub-genre coined and imagined by Americans unaware of their own history and great contributions to Electronic Music History…

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Well since EDM is the biggest bullsh*t genre since Americana I can only recommend bullsh*t plug ins:

Happy Placer
https://accusonus.com/products/happyplacer

Smartelectronix' Anechoic Room Simulator
http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=5

Remember, every time you produce an "EDM" track somewhere in the world a puppy dies*.


*no actual animals are harmed.

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It is not like EDM has any groundbreaking sounds, neither evolving pads orheavily modulated sounds.

It's all hard sync leads and biass basses. It's much more about processing than the synth it self, people use sylenth a lot for that genre and it is not that unique. I think distortion and saturation plugins are way more important than the synth.

Yeahy, Spire, Serum and Massive can get you there faster too.