Are there any plugins left that are must haves?

[EGS]

Originally Posted by JCBigler

I've already got the Waves Mercury Bundle, Metric Halo Production Bundle, Eventide Anthology XII, all of the Exponential Audio plugins, whatever the Current RX version is, The Avid plugins of course. I've got Reverberate, the Plug &Mix VIP bundle, and a few other ... What else am I missing? ...

I like the IK Multimedia Total Studio Max bundle, too.

[inspire]

Unisum compressor is fantastic! Installed smoothly and easily, features are good! Moreover, you can adjust the KNEE, just superb!
And I now have a license for MDWEQ6 The Professional EQ Tool. With that, I need to deal with its iLock a bit more.
But it seems like a great plugin once I get it up and running.
I wish everyone that Santa Claus brings thoughtful and considerate gifts (plugins )!

[Sugarnutz]

The two Massenburg plugins and Seventh Heaven Professional are on my list, got most everything else. I used to master vinyl when I was a young man. I bought Samplitude Pro x8 Suite for $199 pre Black Friday and installed a fresh copy of Win 11 Pro and all my plugins/VIs. I’ve had a Behringer X-Touch I got before my D-Command, it integrates pretty well over ethernet in MCU mode. All told it’s pretty deep and comes with a lot of stuff including Sound Forge Pro 16 and Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10 and a ton of VIs. Still got PT Ultimate on my Mac and using the HD Thunderbolt Native for an interface with both systems. Found out Samplitude is EUCON enabled so I see some S1s and a Dock in my future. I’m also playing with a small network including an i7 loaded with VEPro and some UAD1 cards along with an older Dell running XP Pro and a big Gigastudio 3 system with bunches of instruments and interfaced via ADAT Lightpipe & MIDI. I don’t get rid of anything much, always a need for some electronic gizmo to repurpose. Somewheres I have some old 32bit VIs that were pretty cool and amazingly Samplitude has a builtin bridge for them. I’m far from done here.

[inspire]

Originally Posted by inspire

Two good Compressors would be clearly too much

I admit my error and take back my words.
And thanks for this suggestion:
Eric Lambert View Post
The plugins "I must have" are MDWDRC2.
I now agree that it is incredibly good! My teacher said Golden words, that you must have many good things, then you can vary according to the situation.

[ja_allen]

For me, MJUC and Waves SSL Bus Comp.

[Eric Lambert]

Originally Posted by inspire

I admit my error and take back my words.
And thanks for this suggestion:
Eric Lambert View Post
The plugins "I must have" are MDWDRC2.
I now agree that it is incredibly good! My teacher said Golden words, that you must have many good things, then you can vary according to the situation.

The MDWDMC2 itself can vary according to the situation, quite well. I'm not one to believe that there's a do-it-all compressor, but if I had to have only two it would be one of them.

[noiseboyuk]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

There are no plugins that are must haves...

Uh oh. Walls dissolve and you see green scrolling numbers of the matrix simulation...

I missed this thread the first time around, but this is obviously the correct answer to the OP question.

There are none. There's always an alternative, another way. The plugins I love the most are just cos I know them well and they reliably work for me. If they disappeared overnight I'd find others.

There is no spoon.

[mrscratchhook]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Falling back into the Matrix ...

OK so who has the FabFilter Q3 for a deal? I keep running into that plugin.

That's the one plugin that i haven't regretted paying in full for. Worth every penny, just buy it, i have it on every track whether i need it or not.

[simon.a.billington]

I'm a plugin s!ut, I'm the wrong person to ask.

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by mrscratchhook

That's the one plugin that i haven't regretted paying in full for. Worth every penny, just buy it, i have it on every track whether i need it or not.

Oh I did. Nice plugin, great UI. I'll be buying more of their stuff.