Plug ins you could not live without?

Forget the bundled stuff.  What makes your tracks really shine, in terms of other plugins?  And this is from a financial squanderer who has about 19 gazillion plug ins.

Me
FX
UAD - of course.  I do not use other compressors and rarely use other EQ.  Plus I love the verbs, and the nouns aint so bad either.In fair disclosure, I own all of them and run them on a UAD 2 quad.

Melda Productions - multi-band everything.  Want to just add echos to the stuff above 3000hz?  This is the way.  Ditto for chorus, flange, pitch harmonizing...

Sound Toys - the Crystalizer or whatever it is called is awesome.  Ditto for Echo Boy.  These are the closest things I have for a plug in version of Eventide's strangest stuff.  

PSP - Anything by these gurus.  But I use NO2 and Nitro and Vintage Warmer to excess.  Plus their 608 or whatever it is called multitap delay is beyond compare.

BBE - the stomp pedal collection includes a great Tube Screamer, a great chorus/vibrato and a great echo.

Synthy types of stuff
Kontakt - I have an obscene library of samples.  I love my Ondes Martnonet and Novachord samples though.  These are instruments that even I cannot get my hands on.  Plus the Abbey Road and the Steven Slate drums are beyond compare.  

Camel = Alchemy - what can I say?  It is the most awesome synth I own in soft form

G Force - pick em.  Minimonstah, String Synth thingy, Mellotron thingy... and they are cheap by most standards

Melda Productions - M Drummer - if you don't know em, look em up.  

I also have the spectrasonics stuff - the bass thingy, Omnisphere, Stylus.. I love Stylus.  I really like Omnisphere.  I am prone to use my Ricky for real bass.

Again, I own a ton of paid for stuff.  But these... I could not make the garbage I make without them.  

Oh, on bass, Mark Studio 1.  

Yours?

VoxengoSPAN
Nyquist EQ
FreeAmp2
GlaceVerb
GMulti
GTune

All freeware, and used extensively.

BFD2 - love it

Just about any EQ

Just about any compressor

I've been using IK CSR Plate and Voxengo Pristine Space for reverb.


Every now and then some modulation or delay effect.




Oh and DOD envelope filter foot pedal... yeah man.

I'd say Pro Channel but McQ would cancel all future movie nights.

So I'll say,

UAD - not necessarily all but a goodly portion of them, don't own the Lexicon
Magnetic - This is a must for drums (for me)
Slate FG-X - love this bad boy. It has replaced Ozone4 for me.
Superior/EZDrummer
Komplete 7 (actually Kontakt)
Amplitube Fender
Waves CLA Vocal processor (this is sublime on Philz voice)
Waves L3 UltraMaximizer

I'm assuming that there are certain plug ins that are just assumed to be essential and that's why they're not being mentioned.  Some might be so indistinguishable from the DAW, that they may seem to be present in every project by default.

Shirley, that's the only reason that no one, until now, has mentioned NagBap, right?

On PC:
ePhonic's LoFi - Free (love this thing!)

Z3ta - how I miss it.


On PC and Mac:

Waves GTR - Newest addition to my rig. 
Steven Slate Drums EX

Brainworx Sweepclean - Free hi/lo pass filter
Camel Crusher - Also free

VacuumSound ADT - Yet another freebie

On my wishlist:
PSP Old Timer and PSP 85
Fabfilter Pro Q

For the rest, I'm good w/ bundled plug-ins, both in Sonar and in Logic (Logic's compressor is surprisingly good and versatile, and EXS24 - having an integrated sampler RULES - it was one of the highest items on my Sonar wishlist). 

57Gregy


But I probably wouldn't know what to do with them if I had them.

None of us do I Shirley don't.

Arturia Synths - Moog Modula V, CS 80V, ARP 2600V and the Prophet V

All my FabFilter Plugs.
Magnetic.
All my UAD Plugs


EZDrummer/SD2
Lounge Lizard
Omnisphere
Trilian
Stylus RMX
Komplete7

yorolpal


All my FabFilter Plugs.
Magnetic.
All my UAD Plugs


EZDrummer/SD2
Lounge Lizard
Omnisphere
Trilian
Stylus RMX
Komplete7

Love all these except EZ Drummer.  And I don't hate EZ.  I just really love Steven Slate and Kontakt.
I don't really use the otehr stuff in Komplete 7 nearly like I do Kontakt. I have way too many sample libraries for Kontakt.  But this is the first iteration of a soft sampler I actually liked.  And that includes lots of other ones - most recently IKs - befor really going nuts over the Kontakt.



Someone mentioned VSM - I love that one too.  I actually love all my G Media stuff except for their version of the Arp Odyssey, and not because of the plug.  I was always more of a 2600 or a Moog person than the Odyssey. Minimonstah and VSM/Melloman or whatever they call the mellotron thingy are great.  And their version of the Oscar synth is just out of this world.  


 

space_cowboy

Magnetic does not sound the same to me as Studer.  It is way different.  You can punch the doog do do out of a sound with Magnetic - so drums or guitars (to me) become even more awesomer than they were.  Studer tends to be more like glue with a bit of punch.  Magnetic seems to be more like punch with a bit of glue.   

But that is just what I think.  Or as an old friend once told me "Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man"

+1.9979879686868970978574


So far I use Magnetic on all drums, I've used Studer on bass once and it added (as Maurice says) the right glue with punch. 

dmbaer


There's been a thread very much like this going on the KVR forum.  I just spent 10 minutes trying to find it to post the link, but I seem to have "lost" it. 
 
 
 

Found it:
 
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=322235

SteveStrummerUK


 
I used to have over 500 VST's and stacks of VSTi's loaded up. When I got my new computer I used that as an excuse to trim down to only those I actually use!
 
VST:
 

 
 
Softsynths:
 

 

Straummy,


If I did that for all my plugs, the single image would likely break the forum software.


I can't image what Maurice's image would do.

My NagBap version keeps telling me I need to update...

I mostly like my modest array of UAD doodads and my Bootsy freebies aside from the bread and butter plugs (Sonitus) that came with Sonar.

Reason is my predominant sound source.