VSTs you just bought and VSTs you plan on buying?

[tomusurp]

Just curious what everyone has bought recently, what you’re planning to buy and please review your recent purchases as well. Also state your reason for buying these VSTs. They can be free VSTs as well

For me, a buy quite a bit of plugins these days, most notable are:

Soothe2 - simply incredible for resonance suppression. I typically use them on vocals to smooth them out a bit and also sometimes on harsher synths

Trackspacer - fairly effective dynamic sidechain/ducking tool. Let’s say you sidechain a group bus of synths to your vocals, it carves out some of the frequencies on the synths that your vocal is using to make the vocal stand out more. I would only use it at a low setting so to not drown out the synths but it WORKS

Devious machines Duck - simple to use and great ducking utility for LFO shaping and design. Using it mainly to make subs and 808s smoother vs a traditional sidechain connection between kick and bass

[freshkidblaze]

I'm planning on buying Cherry Audio's next synth thats coming out on Thursday.

[Popey]

I recently bought arturia fx collection 2 which came with the new granular fx in my crossgrade deal. So far I have used a couple of the delays, all the preamp, bus force, sitral eq and the verbs. So far I am impressed and they worked out around £4 per vst with the crossgrade.

[tomusurp]

I forgot to add that I'm about to buy the Low End Theory bundle on Plugin Boutique which includes SubLab, Subbass Doctor 808 and Big Kick

The SubLab is really what I'm after. Great reviews, great sounding subs in the demos and plenty of controls

[joeyluck]

I finally bought Kontakt (50% off crossgrade) and then picked up ETHERA Gold Atlantis while on intro offer.

[dvdrtldg]

PSP Pianoverb, it's a freebie that's been around for a while now. I saw someone using it in a YouTube video and grabbed it immediately. Reverb created from the resonance of piano strings, fully tuneable & tweakable. It's excellent in all sorts of sound-designey situations. And free! https://www.pspaudioware.com/products/psp-pianoverb

I don't have too many plugins on my wish list these days, but I'm kind of interested in Waves Abbey Road RS124 compressor. I trialled it a while ago and it's a really, really great bass comp, smooth as butter (although can also get aggressive and will beautifully fuck up your drums if you want). Not an essential purchase but I'll probably pick it up at some point

[huggermugger]

Not VST's, but two experimental soundpacks for AAS Lounge Lizard. It's hard to believe that an electric piano can make these sounds - very exciting for sound design and all-round cool music.

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/caffeine/

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/insomnia/

[moneykube]

Kontakt and Komplete Control Select with the deal buying The controller Komplete Kontrol M32 ... Komplete control software costs the more than the controller. The deal is right now till April ( I think) You can buy any "A series controlers?? or is S series???-Can't remember) Anyway once I got Komplete Control Select, the deal for Kontakt came up... Half price and another 80 bucks off for having the free library Arcane. Was having a ball with Select last night... looking forward to Kontakt full version and the extra libraries tonight... Good bang for the buck and some crazy sounds I was just clicking with it last night. Happy camper.... ( and about 50 free VST I have been collecting to install... only 3 did not work !!!! ) ( lol about 80 to g=try yet to install) Much to learn and explore !!! Liking the Machine elements, Monark, and Reacter>.. that come with the deal as well as numerous extra libraries. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... keys-offer
A controller... and $2500 dollars of sounds for under 400 CAD. ( with the Kontakt deal.)

[moneykube]

After yesterday I have all the synths and fx I could ever need... bought Reactor Full yesterday>
and the expansions "The Voice" and "The Finger" LOL ( what a name)
Had 2> $35 vouchers from the previous purchases... so the expansions were definately reasonably priced.
Money better spent then buying Reason 12 IMO

[PhillipOrdonez]

Magic delay. Fun little vst3 effect i heard of from a thread here, trialled, great sounds in minutes, bought.

[MrFigg]

Not VST's, but two experimental soundpacks for AAS Lounge Lizard. It's hard to believe that an electric piano can make these sounds - very exciting for sound design and all-round cool music.

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/caffeine/

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/insomnia/

You got any idea how to install the soundpacks without installing the AAS Player at the same time? Guess I can just delete the .dll but that feels wrong.

[Steedus]

Klevgrand Borsta
https://klevgrand.com/products/borsta

Pretty cool percussion instrument based on brushed/rubbed percussion playing. It supports continuous changes in intensity for brushed articulations but it also includes round robbin single hits to make a realistic performance.

At first you just think of a jazzy brushed snare drum, which it includes for sure, but it also has a range of more interesting world and oddity instruments like frame drum, pandeiro, guira, cajon, rusty bucket, metal spade, pizza box etc.

As with Skaka, Klevgrand are doing something really cool with sample based percussion that really lifts these above a regular sample library.

[adfielding]

I recently picked up Devious Machines' Texture (not to be confused with the AudioThing plugin of the same name). Nice little plug-in for adding (surprise!) texture to certain elements, or as a drum sample trigger. So far I've used it to crunch up low-weighted bass drones, round out kicks, layer snares with claps, beef up acoustic drums with samples... it's a nifty tool, for sure. Only thing I feel like it's missing is a simple variable delay on sample triggers - I sent an e-mail to the dev to suggest such a thing, and they said it was "in the list for future improvements", which was jolly nice!

[huggermugger]

You got any idea how to install the soundpacks without installing the AAS Player at the same time? Guess I can just delete the .dll but that feels wrong.

afaik you can't avoid installing the Player. I just delete it afterwards, freeing up a little space, and it feels very right

[DaveyG]

You got any idea how to install the soundpacks without installing the AAS Player at the same time? Guess I can just delete the .dll but that feels wrong.

afaik you can't avoid installing the Player. I just delete it afterwards, freeing up a little space, and it feels very right

I seem to recall that the player installs under an odd name and has its own uninstaller so it appears in Settings and can be uninstalled there. Name is something like "swatch".

But, yes, the AAS installer is a bit crude. It even installs the AAX version of the player without asking, which doesn't take up much space but is not something I have a use for.

[Mataya]

Last VSTi was XO by XLN. Great machine. And now all I need is Bazille from U-he.

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