manning,

I'm just glad you are enjoying plugins. For me, 11 years ago, it was like the first time I touched a minimoog or Wurly when I had them responding to my midi controller in real-time.

My perennial freebie favorites (Some I've been using these past 11 years).

Effects:
Frohmage
Bionic Delay
Ariesverb (though the alpha or beta version - the free version - sometimes will put a huge noise spike at the beginning of the rendered audio - not a great endorsement, but it's such a rich reverb)
The Kjærhus stuff - available on the acoustica.com website

Instruments:
minimogue va
arppe 2600
The series of nagware from Genuine Soundware Inc. - used to be soundfonts.it
The Elektrostudio pack

My Songs, photos, writing,etc.
My Sound Cloud