Top 30 VST plugins

I stumbled onto this list of the top 30 vst plugins, as voted on by musicradar.com readers. You may not agree with all of them, which makes it a fun read and maybe fuel for discussion. While you're there, check out the top 20 soft synths and the top 13 free vst plugins. 

If you're too lazy to click the links, I'll give you the short version...

#1 plugin: Ozone (runner-up: Guitar Rig)
#1 synth: Omnisphere (runner-up: Zebra)
#1 freebie: TAL-Noisemaker (runner-up: Green Oak Crystal)

im baffled there is no nomad factory "blue tubes" ?
one of my favorite sets of plug ins.but most of them on the list i can agree with,maybe the peavey guita sim...i dont know there,its unfair ive never heard of it so i cant reall say,bitflip another great thread man.

I guarantee Bapu has them all :)

Anyone check out the top 14 vst drums? What do you think about Battery as #1? Or EZDrummer ranking higher than BFD? Or Steven Slate Drums not making the list?

Another related list: top 15 DAWs. Surely there's some controversy there, with SONAR coming it at #4, behind Reaper, Ableton, Fruity Loops and Logic.  

How about the 11 plugins you can't live without...curiously, many of the top 30 from the previous list are not on this list. If Ozone is the best vst plugin in the world, why did it not make the list of plugins responders "can't live without"?  Is it very good but just not essential?


Let's hear your list of the plugins you'd most hate to part with. Here's mine, based on which ones are most likely to appear in any of my projects:
1. SPAN
2. Pro-Q
3. Kontakt
4. SampleTank/Miroslav
5. ValhallaRoom
6. Channel Tools

Ozone doesn't make my list because even though it's a favorite, I have suitable alternatives and could therefore adapt to life without it. Same with Omnisphere: love it but it's not essential.

Thanks for the post!

bitflipper


I stumbled onto this list of the top 30 vst plugins, as voted on by musicradar.com readers. You may not agree with all of them, which makes it a fun read and maybe fuel for discussion. While you're there, check out the top 20 soft synths and the top 13 free vst plugins. 

If you're too lazy to click the links, I'll give you the short version...

#1 plugin: Ozone (runner-up: Guitar Rig)
#1 synth: Omnisphere (runner-up: Zebra)
#1 freebie: TAL-Noisemaker (runner-up: Green Oak Crystal)

I'm really lazy. Can you post the other 29 VSTs, 19 soft synths and 12 freebies.

Thx bit flipper
I got the Voxengo spectrum analyzer and it works great.
Rim

Drums
Superior Drummer
Battery 3

Synths
REFX Nexus 2
Omnishpere
Alchemy
Z3TA

Plugings
Ozone
Lexicon LXP
Izotope Alloy
Sound Toys Decimator
Nomad Magentic


Those are the ones that get on almost every track

Mine are:

Actually, who cares?...

I kinda like most of the stuff I got, whether its on some list or not. If I can't put out a quality track with them, then it ain't the plugs, it's the tune....

So was this in any order, I'm glad I have my GR4 I must update but it is my goto for delays and modulation effects.

Neb

For mine:

Pro channel

extras:

compress: PSP Oldtimer, Vintage Warmer, PA VSC-2
EQ:Fabfilter Pro Q, PSP nobleq (Pultec style)
Limit: Pro-L

My pockets are already turned inside out after purchasing Komplete 8. Most of us have to make careful selective choices about what we purchase and how it will benefit our style of music and our strategic approach to making it. 

Good research, critical reviews and personal advice on these forums can help sort it all out. Nevertheless, as Bitflipper points out, we really need to dig deep into the software that we have to exploit and realize its ultimate potential. Most of us haven't even scratched the bare surface of the hardware and software potentiality that we already have. 
 
Creativity and innovation are always the most important assets at our disposal, regardless of the software that we use, because their is no replacement or alternative for real talent and hard work.

I only have a few I would hate to part with.

Superior/EZ
UAD A800 Tape
UAD SSL Channel
UAD Limiter
UAD SSL buss compressor
Alicia Keys Piano
NI B4

 For plug-ins I'm sure things will change now that I have much more CPU power. I can finally use the Pro channel more and other native plugs that my old system was not up to the task. I've been mostly using my DSP cards for most of the processing. With a few exceptions.

 For synths, EZ drummer and Jamstix for drums, other instruments: Miroslav Philharmonic, EWQL Gypsy and RA and Garratins JABB3.
Processing so far has mostly been Focusrite Liquid Mix. TC poco CL-1, Fabrik-C, Megaverb and 24/7 that's TC's version of the 1176 
Software amps TC thirty and Tubifex. If I had enough CPU to run native. Amplatube Fender or GR4.
 UAD plugs. 1176, LA2A,Harrison EQ, Cambridge EQ and dimension D (I'll have to wait until I can do that upgrade before I can use my UAD plugs again, no available PCI slot.)
 Reverbs, reverberate or Megaverb on a few channels and TC's VSSR on the main reverb buss.
SSL Duende Buss compressor on the main buss. 
 Favorite free plugs Ferric TDS and G-clip. Those Kjaerhus free plugs are really cool too just haven't used them in some time.