For me to use every imaginable combination of my VST/VSTi collection.
 
And that is calculated on mixing one song per hour 24/7 non stop.
 
I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY need to stop buying this stuff.

How long does it take to reset and rescan your plugins?

I feel that way for drums samples alone!

you know, the Beatles and the Stones didnt use the first VST and they came out sounding  OK
 

They would've if they'd been available.  The Beatles I mean.  The Stones do currently get mixed with a crapload of them.  

You got that straight.....Ol' Pal.  They would have tried everything available to them.  It's more remarkable what they did without.  

....will only take about 1,264 years......to catch your post count. 

They (the Beatles) dropped a microphone into a bucket of water. Lennon wanted to be suspended from a rope and spun around the microphone (until Mr. Martin told him about Leslies). They recorded pianos at half-speed and then played them back at normal speed. The flipped tapes over and played them in reverse. They cut up tapes and spliced them back together again. They took LSD.
 
You bet they'd have used VSTs and VSTis if it had been an option.
 
Now, I doubt they'd have had 15 EQs and 27 compressors and 6 limiters and 9 reverbs. They got too much done in too short a time to have had that many distractions.

Ham N Egz
you know, the Beatles and the Stones didnt use the first VST and they came out sounding  OK
 

The pedals Hendrix used didn't have true bypass either ... or did they?  

This fred has ben de railed.
 
It was all about me but then it gets into The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
 
Wait a second..... I'm being held the highest esteem DOH!!!!