VST´S:
T-Racks Singles
Voxengo Elephant /Span
Waves SSl Bundle
Softube Saturation Knob
IKM CSR
R.P- Delay
TT Dynamic Range Meter
Sonnox: Inflator-Reverb-Limiter
Nasty Dla
Ambience
PSP Vintage Warmer
Sonitus Comp

Cakewalk:
All ProChannel modules
Channel Tools
VC 64
LP 64
VX 64
PX 64
all FX Plugs 
Z3Ta
Dimenson
Pentagon
SD 3

 

VSTís:
Guitar Rig 5 
Line 6 Pod Farm
Amplitube
Toontrach SD
FM 8

From memory, which means I will have to update this later,

Stuff I have been using for some time:-
Absynth 5 (my old workhorse synth)
Battery 3
Pentagon
Triangle
SFZ (for piano - I purchased an additional sound set)

There should me more stuff on the above list but my memory fails me as it must be five years or more since I was actively "composing."

Stuff I have recently added (and not yet used in anger):-
Guitar Rig 5
Rapture (despite current issues)
Z3ta 2
Session Drummer
BFD Eco
Dimension Pro
Cakewalk Sound Center
Strum Acoustic (A|A|S)
Strum Electric (A|A|S)
Chromaphone (A|A|S)
Ultra Analog (A|A|S)
Tassman 4 (A|A|S)
Lounge Lizard (A|A|S)
String Studio (A|A|S)

The jury is still out on some of the items on the second list. I'm still having issues with Rapture, fir instance, when I try do drive it with Step Sequencer or a MIDI sequence.

I play guitar, sort of, hence trying GR5.

I took a fancy to the A|A|S (Applied-Acoustic Systems) stuff. I started off with Strum Session, which I thought was a gimmicky guitar simulator, but I was quite impressed with some of the sounds it created. There are sampled guitar sounds in Dim Pro, but the "physical modelled" sounds created by Strum Session were much more "natural" in my opinion.

So I then upgrade to Strum Acoustic, and that came as a bundle with Strum Electric. And I was quite impressed, again, but the almost realistic sounds, including the strumming sounds too (upstroke, downstroke, palm mute up, palm mute down, muted and arpeggio). I even experimented with putting GR5 in the effects bin, and I was even further impressed. So expect some real crappy MIDI guitar stuff from me soon...

Anyway, while on the A|A|S website, I was also impressed with the Chromophone (percussion synth) video demo, so at that point, I decided to consider getting the Modelling Collection. Only just scratching the surface of this stuff, but even Lounge Lizard (the electric piano modeller) sounded better than I thought, when it came to some of the Rhodes and different organ sounds.

And I've not finished there. I intend to upgrade to full BFD at some point, and there are a couple more synthetic drum VSTs I fancy getting too.


As for effects... too many to mention, now that I have also recently added all of the latest ProChannel modules (not strictly VSTs I suppose)


The shameful thing about VSTs, for me, is that my hardware is now gathering dust in a corner (Roland JP-8000, Oberheim OB12, Novation Nova, Yamaha A3000 and Korg 0/5RW). If room ever allows in the future, I will hopefully dust them off and integrate them back into the mothership...

I use the cake stuff Dim RapLE and Z3ta Vir VI One Proteus VX FREE and a ton of free synths from KVR and other places.

A lot of them work fine for what I do. especially Plex, minimoque VA, Kairatune, organized trio, monofury, elektrostudio (odsay and OR2v), Istvan Kaldor collection (Maestro and Dirtbag), HG Fortune, Krakli, ME80, Supertron,Prodigius, Voyager, oatmeal, antitransparent, synth 1, Chimera, ufo2, texture, string theory, stringer, Guzheng, Syntar, DSK indian dreams,

and then there are all the free players and synths from the commercial giants NI, IK multimedia, AAS, Alchemy, UVI, Dune, Zebralette, TyrellN6, Bazille, Triple Cheese and plugsound

on my wishlist: Korg legacy OPX pro II GSI VB3 EAST WEST Complete composers edition Native Instruments Komplete G Force mtron and minimonsta Arturia omnisphere Zebra Largo Synful AAS ilslab DCAM

I left out the D16 Group effects on my previous post. Toraverb, Syntorus and Fazortran mostly.

Sampletank (I have their bundle)
Kontakt (I have komplete elements but I mainly only use the Kontakt player and I buy libraries for it)
Diva
Sylenth 1
Z3ta 2
Rapture
Dimension pro 
Lounge Lizard
Strum Electric 
Strum Acoustic
Korg Legacy Collection
Proteus X 2
Giest Addictive Drums 
Reason (not a vst but I use it in rewire mode with Live)

Interesting... I can see that three of us, at least, are using one, or both of the A|A|S Strum VSTs. I would be interested to hear how you guys feel about using them. Perhaps I should start a separate post in one of the other non-Cakewalk forums...


p.s. xabiton - the ink in your signature doesn't appear to work

In order of most used (estimated):

Superior Drummer,
EZDrummer
OrganizedTrio
Mr. Tramp
Dimension Pro
Rapture LE
Pentagon
EZkeys

So many great VSTi's out there..

Spectrasonics:  Omnisphere, Trilion, Stylus RMX
NI:  FM8, Kontakt 5
U-He Zebra
Z3ta 2
Dimension Pro

BFD2
Additive Drums

I'd give ya a list, ol pal, ceptin that ever time I look through my plugin manager folders at all the dang plugs I got I think I should just go on and go to some sort of VST addiction counselor or somethin.  It scares me near half to death.  And, normally, I ain't afraid a man nor beast.  So I'll  just give ya the same (but paraphrased) answer Sarah Palin gave ol Katie Couric when Katie asked her what newspapers she read:

Well, most of them...you know, all of them...that are put in front of me on a daily basis or whenever.

Its not how many you have its what you use.  At least that is what the title asks.

I have a lot more that I don't use. 

Or have not used yet.

I have both Rapture and Z3TA 2 but have not employed them yet.