What are your "go to" Cakewalk plug ins? 
All the Pro Channel stuff is great.  The only "additional" Cakewalk plugin I use is the CA 2A and I think it is fantastic.

I'd add that the bundled Blue Tubes stuff is much better than I imagined it to be.  I use the delay unit all the time.  It sounds very natural and "analog".  The only Sonitus effect I don't really like is their delay, so the Blue Tubes was a great addition for me.

I bought (almost) every 3rd party plugin known to man.
 
No pain, no gain.

bapu
I bought (almost) every 3rd party plugin known to man.
 
No pain, no gain.

 He did, no lie.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

bapu
I bought (almost) every 3rd party plugin known to man.
 
No pain, no gain.

Between buying plug ins and posting 68,000 times - when do you ever have time to record/produce music?  

dwardzala

bapu
I bought (almost) every 3rd party plugin known to man.
 
No pain, no gain.

Between buying plug ins and posting 68,000 times - when do you ever have time to record/produce music?  

I just posted yet another song in the Songs Forum last night.
 
I Am Bapu, hear me roar.

dwardzala
posting 68,000 times

That's an average of 21 posts a day.
 
A child can do that.

bapu
I bought (almost) every 3rd party plugin known to man.
 
No pain, no gain.

So what do you not use? Could you list it?

+1 to just getting Platinum and then decide.  I had a zillion before, but have scaled back when I got a new computer and upgraded myself.  There are some extras that Cake offers, that are good too, but what's supplied is more than enough to make high quality recordings.  
 

I am still on X3 Producer, thinking of taking the plunge into Platinum. What I think is really missing for me is some good Modulation fx that are bypass-able with automation. I really like Line 6 Pod Farm for Modulation FX but it doesn't play well with Sonar, and a good ADT style plug. I also think we need a high quality meter that's up to EBU and/or other loudness specs.


A friend of mine have Producer 8.5 and it had some stuff I miss too like the pitch shifter and the vocal channel.