d16 frontier soft clipper

kotelnikov wideband compressor

"Best"? Hmmmmmm...

I can tell you which ones I use the most.

1. Fruity Reeverb 2
2. Kraftur
3. Wider
4. Fruity Delay 3
5. Shaperbox 3

I can also tell you which ones are my "favorite."

1. Effectrix 2
2. Infiltrator
3. Echobode
4. Rift
5. Bass-Face

...best?

1. Serum 2
2. RC-20
3. Chromaphone
4. Soothe 2
5. Addictive Drums

(...ask me tomorrow and I might come up with a different list.)

Serum. Fruity limiter, Valhalla freq echo, distructor, and…. Serum for sure.

Sylenth1, reFX Nexus 5, Fruity Parametric EQ 2, Fruity Reeverb 2, Keyzone Classic

Vital, Tal Noisemaker, OTT, Raum, And Valhalla Frequency Echo

Native : Patcher ; Formula Controller ; Peak Controller ; Kepler Exo ; Sytrus

Free : LABS ; SurgeXT ; Cardinal/VCV ; TubeAmp ; MConvolutionEZ

Paid : Serum 2 ; Pigments ; Pro-Q ; Pro-R ; LA2A

Soundtoys/ Waves

Echo boy

autotune pro? fabfilter?

Autotune efx

U got fl itself?

Surge xt not surge cut autocorrect 😭

Cramit is a multiband compressor that I really dig.

Spitfire Audio's LABS instrument series is really cool too.

MAutoPitch is a free autotune/formant shifting plugin that I use a lot.

Decent Sampler is a pretty unique sampler made by this one youtuber, and he releases soundpacks for it based on strange instruments he finds and samples.

ZAK Sound's Retro Keys VII is an instrument plugin that emulates oldschool electric pianos, good for softer jazzier beats.

Surge is an insanely powerful free synth, def check it out.

OctaSine is a modular synth plugin, you can mess around with modules similar to old Moog and Eurorack synths and get some interesting sounds going.

Go to plug in boutique and search in the free section you’ll find some there

iZotope Vinyl

Nah... I don’t.

I'm assuming your relatively new to producing?, unfortunetly I'm unaware of free mac vst's however alot of paid ones do offer trial versions, usually they come with some type of limitation like playing a static kind of noise every 20 seconds or only working for 20 minutes before you need to start up a new instance of it, however if you get yourself into the habit of bouncing your audio (rendering to wave) which is just good housekeeping and reduces resources on your mac you should be able to play with some of the best plugins without spending a penny, from my experience preset packs work flawlessly also with the trial versions, I little tip also if you do decide to do this I usually keep a copy of the midi data along with the wave file and remove the synth from the midi version and rename it to whatever synth I used followed by preset name, I hope this made some kind of sense.

you got Ripchord? I need that Chord plugin where you press one key and it plays chords..

man do you have soundtoys 5 (bundle) for mac os ?

yo do u have hive 2 for mac?

you got soothe 2?

Look if you want a great Swiss army knife there is Helix Native.

But there are a million different specialist plugins that people use.

For instance - i am In Love with several of the different effects from Soundtoys.

I thought bias fx2 was good until I tried the neural dsp archetype plugins. I have Nolly, omega and plini.

Soundtoys stuff is good. I have the bundle and mostly use Echoboy, but some of the other stuff too.

Soundtoys. Get the bundle. It’s all the creative tools you’ll ever need.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/imximi/best_guitar_vsts_question/g43mauj/

This list is mostly for amp sims but many of them do have a set of fx. Helix Native has a ton of great fx.

For reverb the Fractal FAS-FX Reverb is excellent. Way more natural sounding than ValhallaRoom for example.

CamelCrusher is heavily used by producers on different DAWS for distortion and it’s free

SpaceBlender by Soundtoys is free for limited time. Worth checking.

I like Musio as an affordable orchestral library

spitfire labs has decent sounding free options

Tons of Kontakt librariesare geared towards cinematic styles. Especially from the likes of Spitfire Audio or Audio Imperia.

There's also a Braaam VSTi, I forget the name but it is pretty good.

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