Plugins reviews from Reddit

"I like Vital a lot and it’s free."

"- Vital"

"Vital or serum."

"Vital and gclip. Probably need to pick up serum at some point too."

"I’d say vital and gclip."

"It's like a more modern version of Serum."

"Vital all the way. Its just mad good and oh btw, ITS FREE."

"-Vital"

"Soundtoys decapitator, echoboy"

"Soundtoys decapitator, echoboy"

"Echoboy for delay"

"Decapitator for saturation"

"Easy to use delay."

"I do have all the Soundtoys plug-ins though, just because I like the taste"

"Great for digital robotic saturation."

"Superior Drummer 3 is the highest quality of drum sampler out!"

"Superior Drummer 3 and Trilian."

"Yes, superior drummer 3 and modo bass."

"Not free, but as a drummer I can tell you that you’ll never get more realistic drum sounds out of a VST than what Superior Drummer can do."

"Superior Drummer 3 - I like the drums and most cymbals."

"I have superior drummer 3, which was the best at the time."

"There is only one extension that you need for angular specific. That is Angular language service."

"Angular language service and this is must, easily switch between ts/html/scss/spec files of component with shortcuts..."

"1. Jest runner 2. Playwright runner 3. Gitlens 4. Settings sync..."

"1. Angular Language Service 1. Code Spell Checker 1. ESLint 1. GitLense (Paid) 1. GitHub Copilot (Paid)..."

"- [Conventionnal commit ](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vivaxy.vscode-conventional-commits) that allow you to format your commit messages..."

"Yes, Cloudflare super easy to set up and free."

"Cloudflare stand out as the best option for CDN"

"Clouflare is the best CDN plugin which can handle load times"

"I would recommend use Cloudways cloudflare CDN service. Best of all"

"Cloudflare enterprise is highly recommended if you’re dealing with a lot of images."

"I'm going check out the Nolly for sure."

"Nolly. it’ll sludge, chug, djent whatever."

"I would trial Nolly (marshall/5150, I use this one to get the exact tone from Three cheers/the black parade with the second amp)..."

"Try the free trial for Nolly first."

"Nolly is pretty versatile."

"Soundtoys sale has gone live which is serious value for money."

"Soundtoys is also mission-critical in my productions."

"Aswell as Soundtoys"

"I prefer Soundtoys delay for sure."

"SoundToys does a great job of having a simple default UI with secondary menus that can be accessed as needed for deeper features. Their stuff also sounds amazing."

"I'll second addictive drums 2."

"People also recommend Addictive Drums 2, and Steven Slate Drums."

"Maybe you should check out addictive drums 2 and the ample sounds plugins."

"As This-Was wrote, Addictive Drums 2 is as good as it gets for what you seek."

"Addictive Drums 2 is fantastic."

"RC20 or Decapitator or Fabfilter Saturn"

"I just chuck Saturn in at the beginning of the chain."

"The FabFilter integration takes it to another level. You can run Saturn inside the shape section, which gives you only the crucial parameters."

"Saturn is both pretty simple and intuitive to use."

"Maximus is very powerful and can deliver everything, but one has to learn to use it properly."

"I'm in love with the FabFilter plugins."

"Fabfilter DMG Shaperbox Neutron 5 seems great."

"They have consistent easy interfaces, are insanely snappy and optimised, and once you invest your time and learn them they're by far the quickest to use."

"I only use FabFilter now for mixing."

"-Serum"

"Serum!!"

"Serum!!"

"I recommend serum for pretty much anything. If you know your way around the plugin you can get like 90% accurate sounds."

"Altiverb provides great impulse responses."

"Altiverb is one."

"Altiverb is a good choice for Music and Post."

"Imo outdoor impulse responses in Altiverb kind of suck out of the box."

"Altiverb has lots of outdoor spaces, but it’s basically a filtered delay."

"Has crazy amounts of metal presets/midi grooves."

"Superior Drummer I think is objectively the best one."

"Superior Drummer… ideally triggered with a decent eKit."

"Superior Drummer"

"They’re made and sponsored by the guys from Periphery."

"I personally like a lot of the Getgood drums stuff."

"Get Good Drums sound spectacular with metal."

"I use get good drums for metal drums."

"I was simply astonished by the quality difference."

"I use their LA-2A often."

"UAD LA2A and LA3A"

"I used to use the UAD LA2A but now prefer Pro-C2."

"Reaper…….‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️"

"It works seamlessly in REAPER."

"Reaper will grow with you and is fairly easy to learn."

"Do be sure to tryout Reaper."

"Rank Math is an excellent SEO plugin that simplifies optimization."

"Rank Math allows you to optimize your on-page SEO tasks on your site without any coding."

"Free"

"Rank Math provides excellent functionality and is user-friendly."

"For security"

"I’d suggest adding a good security plugin like Wordfence."

"(free is good enough)"

"Free version only"

"Helps a great deal, when I want to focus on writing."

"A dedicated sidebar that collects your projects from across your vault."

"Longform (compiles notes into a manuscript and you can reorder them like Scrivener)"

"My favorite plugin is webstorm... I pay for my own license, vs code is trash"

"Webstorm is so important to me, I ask about it in job interviews."

"Use webstorm"

"Depending on your project"

"For speed"

"If you don't have AT then get it."

"These are the must haves which I have personally tried."

"For film post, IMHO you must have Auto Align Post (2), Izotope RX"

"IZotope RX."

"IZotope - RX Suite"

"Highly recommend it."

"It's literally my favorite plugin ever."

"Logic Drummer is great when you learn how to use it."

"Helix native is a pedal smaorgasboard"

"It's the software equivalent of their high-end guitar units."

"Helix Native or Amplitube."

"For modern rap, including artists like Quavo and Migos, Ozone 11 is a go-to plugin."

"I personally haven't needed to search outside of these."

"Even though ozone has a lot of things, they are all pretty simple/intuitive module wise. Their imager is great, clarity is really cool and has basically 2 parameters."

"Probably my most used plugin."

"Great programs."

"Addictive drums, kontakt."

"I go straight for toontrack EZbass and ezdrummer."

"I use EZDrummer, but that’s usually temporary until I can record real drums."

"I use EZDrummer. It has some extras you can get for metal kits."

"TDR Nova is a really good starting EQ plugin."

"I use TDR Nova as my DeEsser and de-Plosive."

"For EQ get re-eq from Reapack."

"BFD3 and Steven Slate."

"BFD3, although it has the licensing issue."

"BFD3 and Modo Bass."

"-Spitfire Labs"

"There’s a free plugin called spitfire labs they have very good sounds."

"Valhalla VintageVerb and Valhalla Delay are also excellent for adding depth and atmosphere to your tracks."

"Non fiddly verbs like Valhalla VintageVerb are good time savers."

"My go-tos are the free LABS instruments by Spitfire."

"Now that I've finished my rant, LABS is a must."

"Cloudways enterprise CDN worth investment. It will make everything quick"

"Cloudways Cloudflare is highly recommended CDN option"

"The PSP Infinistrip is an excellent channel strip alternative, especially when combined with the Faderfox EC4 for physical control."

"The InfiniStrip has become a one-stop shop for my processing needs."

"Cory Wong is perfect for vintage rock, blues, soul etc bass tones."

"It has 3 bass presets and is helpful to mix a bass DI signal with the main bass tone."

"My Holy Trinity: Dataview, Templater, and Linter."

"One of the most useful I’ve found is Dataview."

"I recommend kontakt for real Instruments."

"-Kontakt"

"Klaviyo."

"Klaviyos direct integration is the best one."

"Melodyne"

"Celemony - Melodyne"

"I use Xfer Serum, and Arturia Pigments for most of my lead melody."

"- Xfer Serum"

"Elevate is the best mastering limiter/maximizer/loudifier in the market."

"Elevate is awesome."

"IMO Neural can do no wrong, I am such a slut for their plugins."

"Neural dsp has great plugins"

"Elementor is the best plugin to use when designing the website."

"For design"

"Psyscope."

"Psyscope has color-coded layers."

"- Arturia Analog Lab"

"Analog lab by Arturia might be good choice"

"If you wanna go bonkers"

"Phase Plant could replace all synthesizers altogether."

"Kilohearts Essentials bundle, Vital, SixthSample Deelay and Cramit, Valhalla Supermassive those are the best that come to my mind for the keywords "best, free, production"."

"Kilohearts Essentials bundle."

"My own preferences are with Jura and Subfactory."

"Jura is really nice."

"Soothe2 or Masker(free alternate)..."

"Deessing with Maximus is not very convenient, but it works."

"XFer - Dimension Expander."

"XFer - Dimension Expander."

"I use Cymatics Origin (sometimes Memory) and Arturia EFX Refract on just about everything lol."

"Cymatics Origin is a good freeware option."

"MeldaProduction plugins are most efficient, and professional sounding plugins I’ve ever used."

"Melda Productions has a good free bundle of general plugins."

"It’s free, works offline, and supports barcode scanning. You can start with the free version and upgrade later if needed."

"WooCommerce POS does have a free version, and it’s great for basic barcode scanning and order processing."

"I can’t live without Anubis personally. Simple and essential."

"Some of the most value can be packed in a plugin <25$."

"Soundly is probably the closest you can get."

"Surprised no one has mentioned ugritone yet."

"You have till the end of the year to buy all the vst, loops, and midi that Ugritone made for a HEAVY discount."

"-Zenology"

"Zenology has good plucks."

"Sytrus has more capabilities than Flex."

"Sytrus probably has presets for the glassy/metallic sounds and FLEX should cover the rest."

"Another vote for Modnetic."

"If you just have to buy something i would recommend modnetic."

"WP Offload Media is good. We often use Bunny CDN for a lot of sites."

"The free version does everything I need it to."

"Is good."

"Is pretty solid."

"If you want Ableton native plug-ins only, google dub delay rack and many free options come up."

"You really really need fewer plug-ins than you think."

"I've been using Neutron 3 and Ozone 9 since 2019 or so."

"The sculpt and transient shapers in neutron are great at adding so bite to your guitars and some oomph to your drums."

"Ample bass ezdrummers."

"I use Ample Bass. The only thing that sucks is that I can't do trills."

"Model View ViewModel and CommonUI. They are a must have."

"I was optimizing last night and wow this plugin is great. Game changer for lots of AI moving at once"

"It’s the most underrated UE5 plugin imo, basically a material designer for babies… it’s so intuitive compared to the material editor and graph, highly recommend checking"

"Carbon Chat is hands down the best proxy-compatible chat plugin on the market, and it's free."

"Helix Native covers everything my Neural plugins (Nolly and Rabea) don't."

"Neural Amp Modeler. it is FREE and open source. I will never pay for guitar amp plugins ever again."

"The data validation plugin. Takes 5 minutes per major class and it has prevented me from accidentally shipping with game breaking data just bc I forgot to properly configure certain objects"

"The Cabinetron plugin by Three Body Technology is great because you can load in different IR's and then auto align them so they're all in phase"

"I like the Mallet Flux a lot. It's my go to for xylophone plugins. So i can definitely recommend that one."

"I love the Roland RE-201 plugins such as Outer Space you can get some mad tones when paired with a high gain amp"

"Try corkscrew by anarchy effec its free"

"I really like energy panner by sound particles."

"Elementary Sounds have just released Tish. It is phenomenal."

"The Gojira plugin is great too if you like that sound"

"Guitar Rig 5 - the Van51 I think it’s called has a pretty cool tone for metal guitars"

"Excalidraw is very useful for fast schemas"

"Bogren IDRX"

"A bit less conventional choices would be Ore and Rimba by Orchestral Tools. Ore is tune metal percussion and Rimba is tuned wooden percussion."

"I'm fond of two plugins that provide alternative file interfaces: File Tree Alternative (fairly simple but configurable) and make.md (complex, with worthless documentation, but beautiful and powerful)."

"Zynaptiq Punch"

"Backlinks, Canvas, Buttons, Columns, Dataview (this is the main one), DB Folder if you need it, Git and you can sync to a git repo, KV store if you are writing your own JS and need a place to stash stuff, Meta Bind &amp; MetaEdit for manipulating front matter, Table Generator, Style Settings, Templater, and WebPage HTML exporter if you want to export to HTML"

"Logic Alternatives that do similar things The God Particle by Cradle"

"Also the Wobbler by PSPaudioware. Crazy goofy and fun!"

"Mononote, dataview &amp; smart typography are my base recs"

"Out of the one's you mentioned, the only one I would consider using for EDM/Pop is the Vital Series by Vir2."

"Try this one out. Its free"

"Check out Rabea. It is possible it wont get as heavy as you want, but it will definitely cover everything up to heavy metal."

"Rabea, Asato, Henson, Plini... all have free trials"

"Check out the free Tukan plug-in suite."

"Sitala v1.0 for Drum samples, loudmax for Limiting, MJUCjr for simple compression."

"My personal favorite is Scheps Omni Channel because it's pretty cheap."