Sonitus Gate is one of the best gates you'll find anywhere.  Sonitus reverb always seems to fit well anywhere you use it.  It makes a great place-holder reverb that you can swap out with more boutique choices later, but you may well keep it in, as it's a very neutral verb.  Also, I'm still a big fan of the multi-band compressor.  Sure, it may not be as precise as the newer linear multibands, but it has a very small resource footprint and often sounds really nice.
 
I've often wondered why CW has never given the Sonitus plug-ins a new coat of paint.  They still stand up acoustically, but look pretty dated by today's standards.

I use the delay pretty regularly, sometimes the gate...not keen on the reverb though, it sounds a bit 'brash' for my taste.
Everytime I use a different delay I always end up going back to the Sonitus one.

Not much anymore. But...
 
I like the delay a lot and the only reason I stopped using it was a bug that caused clicking during tempo changes when tempo sync is enabled. I can work around it by automating the Sync button, but it's a nuisance. But if you don't have any tempo changes it's a wonderful delay. Unfortunately, I am big on tempo maps.
 
I used to use the multiband compressor a lot, mostly as a bus compressor, before switching to dynamic equalizers. It's still quite good and very easy to use. I just like MDynamicEQ better.
 
The modulator is also very good, and I still use it sometimes as a flanger, even though I've got fancier plugins that can also do that.
 
The compressor remains my favorite in the suite, and still gets used occasionally for sidechained compression. I like the way it graphically shows the level bouncing around the knee, which is a nice convenience for setting both threshold and knee. I like that the knee is continuously adjustable. I have other comps that do these things, but the Sonitus' graphic is simpler and simpler is often better.
 
I once spent a day opening up old projects to see what I'd used way back when. Two of them had especially nice-sounding reverb on them. When I found out what I'd used back then it surprised me: the much-maligned Pantheon and the I-don't-get-no-respect Sonitus Reverb. It was a reminder that the Sonitus reverb was pretty good.
 
And all of them are very CPU efficient. Back in 2003, programmers paid more attention to optimization out of necessity. Nowadays, it's an afterthought. Unfortunately, that's also an indication of their age. They haven't been enhanced in years and probably won't ever be.
 
But the bottom line is that you can make a great production using nothing but the Sonitus effects. Let an experienced mixer using only stock plugins go up against a novice with every plugin known to man at his disposal. Experience will trump software every time.

Joe_A

Bit, I'm looking at buying mautodynamiceq or mequalizer. How good are these? 😊 just an opinion....
 

Anything Melda sells is great! Since the 11.x update, they have really taken off IMHO.
 
 

Audioicon
However, recently, I enabled the EQ on the RME UFX Plus and I was just blown away, it's 3 Band very simple but extremely clean, no color as in tube like or tape saturation like sound.

Good Day, funny you say, it does sound great I often use RME EQ while listening to a mix to see where I want to adjust and try to emulate it, also compressor, reverb and delay. I dont want to record with these FX applied, but would like to use as external effects on recordings, I had just been looking into how to do this.  Do you know the best way to do this?  
 
Otherwise I often also use various Sonitus FX. 
 
Cheers
 
 

Yes, I do. On about every song. I get pretty good bass - bass drum separation using side chain compression with the single channel compressor. I like to mic the bass drum with a d112 and either a 414 or an r121. That goes to a submix. Then the bass guitar DI and another d112 on the bass speaker cabinet to its own submix. I then create a master bass submix. I put that sonitus compressor on the bass guitar submix - then output that bass guitar submix to the master bass submix. I add a send from the bass drum submix to the bass guitar submix sonitus compresser, and output the bass drum submix to the master bass submix. I then low pass on the bass d112 at below 200 or so, and high pass on the bass di at 200 or so. I can use one of many compressors but that Sonitus display helps me tweek fast and it sounds great.

You can learn a lot about compression working through the GUI of the SONitus comp.

Though I use many different plugs, I always feel confident that I have the Sonitus plugs which are reliable to use when I need them.  Thank you for that.

Kev999
...I'll be revisiting some of them as a result of reading this thread.

Yup, same here...
 

i use sonitus,reverb,EQ compressor plug on all of my projects

I use the gate and compressor with the 160x preset