When I entered the digital realm and discovered those magical plugins.... I started collecting just about everyone that I could find for free or for a reasonable cost. When I moved from my first DAW on a windows 95 machine, I pared back my plugin holdings to a more modest list. And when I built a machine, I decided that only the essentials would be loaded. Of course, who can determine what is essential vs "oh, that looks interesting", maybe I do need that too? I did however tend to use only a very small handful of plugs and they are my "got to have essentials". Everything I do now revolves around using these to one degree or another.

Well, I have my favorites that I do recommend. Ozone and Melodyne. Those are my "go to" plugs. I also tend to use a number of the stock Cakewalk FX in my production path. Those are the EQ's and Reverbs.

However... I recently upgraded my computer and am building again from the ground up. So many of the old things no longer work or are included in the new Cakewalk by Bandlab. I did however purchase the upgrades to Melodyne and Ozone. Ozone in particular has undergone some pretty drastic changes in what it does and how it does it in this new version. So I have to learn it a bit and figure out how I'm going to work around and through those changes.

I'm now in the process of trying to get my older legacy Ozone 4 reloaded and working on my new machine. I'm in touch with Isotope support to hopefully, get what I need. I loved the features in O4 that are apparently no longer included in O10. Gotta see if I can load my Kontakt Komplete package too. That was a handy little synth that sounded pretty nice.


Oh yeah... another cool plug is the Sheppi widener from Open Ambience Project. It's pretty sweet. definately affects the sound of your project in a nice way. Remember that a little goes a long way.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 03/29/23 04:15 AM.
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