Stock Plugins reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 200 Reddit reviews across 12 subreddits and 31 posts to rank the best Stock Plugins brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/FL_Studio, r/audioengineering, r/LogicPro, r/musicproduction, r/makinghiphop. Top-rated brands include FL Studio (4.4/5), Logic (4.6/5), Ableton Live (4.7/5).
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Reviews200
Subreddits12
Posts31
Brands48
Products69
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#1
FL Studio
4.4
(44)
"All kickass stock plugins."
"FLEX is best and easiest, check out the Saif Sameer synthwave pack"
"Agreed sytrus is so versatile it's all you really need once you learn to tune it"
"I think most daws stock plugins are amazing."
"I love Harmless, Sytrus, Ogun, SimSynth Live/3x Osc, and Harmor."
"Sytrus is one of the mightiest FM generators I have ever used."
"GMS, patcher, 3x osc, sytrus are all OP"
"GMS is so fucking good it hurts."
"Patcher is the only right answer."
"3xosc: plenty of wave shapes, stereo detuning, envelopes and lfos for most parameters."
#2
Logic
4.6
(39)
"Logic to be equally good or even better. It was amazing."
"Space Designer itself is worth the price of Logic"
"Logic's Compressor is among the very best compressor plugins on the market, built-in or third-party."
"The best/highest quality plugins in Logic Pro are Alchemy, Compressor, Tape Delay, and Channel EQ."
"The stock comp is one of the best all purpose compressors available"
"Space designer goes hard."
"Logic’s stock compressor is the best compressor plugin, period."
"I use the Tape Delay on EVERYTHING."
"Space Designer is great sounding."
"I was always really impressed with the stock space designer plugin in logic. Really powerful."
#3
Ableton Live
4.7
(15)
"Once you go Ableton, you never go back."
"Ableton 1
Studio One and Logic 2A/2B."
"Ableton and Studio One. Ableton has the best sound design tools."
"Ableton."
"Ableton overall probs has the best stock plugins."
"Ableton has max for live."
"I use Ableton and they’re definitely legit AF."
"I use the stock devices more than anything else."
"I think Ableton's stock plugins - plus the rack view... are as good as logic's if not superior."
"...Ableton actually has the best stock plugins due to the incredible versatility of Ableton's stock plugins."
#4
Logic Pro
4.7
(12)
"Logic by a mile. It’s a full production suit and the plugins aren’t bad at all (for the most part)."
"Logic. It’s not even close. The stock Compressor is easily the greatest stock plugin of any DAW."
"Logic has so many incredible plugins."
"I’d say Logic hands down, and as a second, I’d say Ableton, because of Max4Live, which is amazing."
"Logic obviously."
"Logic by a mile"
"Their compressor is just fantastic these days."
"Logic, no question."
"Logic for sure. I use the stock eq plugin and it's great."
"Compressor, space designer, alchemy"
#5
Image-Line
4.2
(11)
"My favourite is almost always gonna be Sytrus."
"I mean.. harmor is by far the best stock plugin for making a sound from scratch hands down"
"Sytrus is very powerful, also get Kontakt Start, unbeatable for its price."
"Maximus for FL studio is a great plugin and infinitely useful."
"Sytrus is cool"
"Sakura has some nice sounds in it."
"FLEX, Sytrus, Fruity Wave Shaper, 3xOsc (unironically), Patcher"
"FLEX, Sytrus, Fruity Wave Shaper, 3xOsc (unironically), Patcher"
"FLEX, Sytrus, Fruity Wave Shaper, 3xOsc (unironically), Patcher"
"Flex is annoying because there is so little control, but has some cool presets you can get lucky with."
#6
Apple
5.0
(8)
"Vintage Tube EQ is amazing, combine it’s drive with Vintage FET compressor distortion."
"I like all of them but use these the most, Vintage Eq's, Stereo Delay, Echo, Space Designer."
"Phat FX can make any boring thing sound wicked."
"The FL stock plugins really are enough."
"Fruity Multiband Compressor & Maximus."
"3xOsc is a great stock plugin for beginning to learn sound design."
"Logic Pro X hands down, man."
"From a price:quality ratio? Logic Pro X. For $200 you get EVERYTHING."
#7
Logic Pro X
5.0
(4)
"Logic has been updating and improving their plugins for years at no extra cost."
"Logic for sure. I use the stock eq plugin and it's great."
"Logic Pro X no question."
"Logic by a long way in my opinion."
#8
Fabfilter
5.0
(4)
"Fabfilter pro c2, fabfilter pro q3, Antares auto tune for pitch correction"
"Fabfilter pro c2, fabfilter pro q3, Antares auto tune for pitch correction"
"I love fab filter for eq, saturation knob by softube for warmth and distortion."
"GO FOR FABFILTER! :D"
#9
Stock Plugins
3.8
(5)
"Use the stock plugins. I tell this to my students all the time."
"Stock will do fine, keep it simple and learn the basics."
"Yes, it is possible. Mastering uses four basic plug ins. Spectrum analyzer, EQ, Multiband Compression, and a maximizer."
"With a very good recording you can get away with stock plugins."
"You can technically get your track a presentable master level export with stock plug-ins, but you will never achieve a 'competitive' or 'commercial' sound with the free stuff."
#10
Reaper
3.8
(5)
"Reaper is also insane if you install reapack."
"Reaper, Bitwig and Reason have pretty good stuff."
"I personally really like reapers stock plug-ins. Yes they are ugly but easy to use and sound good."
"ReaFir, Xcomp, event horizon, ozzifier, readelay."
"The stock plugins are very ugly and hard to dial in, but they are usable and extremely clean sounding."
#11
Ableton
4.3
(4)
"I love Max4Live in Ableton."
"I love the multipresser. I use it everywhere."
"Ableton’s stock plugins are more than adequate to get things sounding tight."
"I've occasionally done temporary masters with stock Ableton plugins. It's obviously not ideal but it can be done."
#12
Cubase
4.7
(3)
"Cubase has everything you need."
"The stock plugins are an amazing fusion between great emulations and modern features."
"But don't sleep on Cubase stock plugins."
#13
Reason
4.3
(3)
"I like the plugins in Reason Studio, have been using them for quite some time."
"Reason."
"In terms of good stock plugins it's hard to beat Reason."
#14
Pro Tools
4.3
(3)
"Protools has a lot of analog-esque plugins."
"The stock plugins are great."
"All of them do what they’re supposed to do."
#15
Vital
5.0
(2)
"I think someone said vital, but yeah it’s free and you can get a lot of those sounds for it."
"Do yourself a favor get vital it has a free version and you can make dope rnb pads so easy"
#16
TDR
5.0
(2)
"TDR has a very good reputation for quality."
"TDR Kotelnikov and Molotok for compressors. Both free with different flavours."
#17
Bitwig
4.5
(2)
"Bitwigs capabilities out of the box is pretty nutty."
"Bitwigs stock devices are so good, and almost infinitely customizable."
#18
DSK
4.0
(2)
"DSK has some great sampled instrument plugins."
"Check out DSK plugins, they're very good for free plugins."
#19
General
4.0
(2)
"If the eq does the job, it doesn't matter if it's expensive or not. Expensive ones usually speed up the process."
"The reason for telling beginners to learn with the stock plugins because you don’t have to spend the cash to learn the basic principles of mixing."
#20
Studio One
4.0
(2)
"Studio One stock plugs have always sounded good together."
"Stock fat channel is tasty."
#21
Adobe Audition
5.0
(1)
"Adobe Audition is insanely kitted out with stock plugins."
#22
Soundtoys
5.0
(1)
"The best external pitcher plug…"
#23
Matt Tytel
5.0
(1)
"A must is Helm by Matt Tytel, a free plugin that can is kinda like Serum."
#24
Brainworx
5.0
(1)
"My current favorite EQ and it has a great compressor to go along with it"
#25
Antares
5.0
(1)
"Fabfilter pro c2, fabfilter pro q3, Antares auto tune for pitch correction"
#26
Universal Audio
5.0
(1)
"Can’t go wrong with an 1176 emulation compressor…"
#27
Harmor
5.0
(1)
"Harmor is definitely my favorite because of the that articulation window lets you do some insane sound design."
#28
Spectrasonics
5.0
(1)
"Omnisphere if u got the money. That's where metro gets most of his piano sounds."
#29
Slate Digital
4.0
(1)
"Get a subscription to slate digital"
#30
KiloHearts
4.0
(1)
"KiloHearts"
#31
Cymatics
4.0
(1)
"You can use third-party plugins even with the trial version of FL Studio."
#32
Spitfire Audio
4.0
(1)
"Electric Piano instrument (soft piano)"
#33
Districtor
4.0
(1)
"Has some good distortion modules."
#34
DAWs
4.0
(1)
"The vast majority of DAWs all have excellent stock plugins."
#35
Mixcraft
4.0
(1)
"The stock plugins in Mixcraft are the entire TB3 suite, so I'd say that's pretty high tier!"
#36
Purity
4.0
(1)
"Purity is only $50 and it has a big of everything."
#37
Analog Obsession
4.0
(1)
"Analog Obsession LALA - LA2A type compressor (free)"
#38
Tone Empire
4.0
(1)
"Tone Empire - Firechild is a dope tube compressor."
#39
Analog Lab
4.0
(1)
"You can also look into analog lab that will probably have some good sounds."
#40
3x OSC
4.0
(1)
"Last thing to look into is 3x osc. There’s tutorials on how to make rnb sounds in that. It’s a underrated plugin fs"
#41
Bitcrusher
4.0
(1)
"Many of them are already mentioned, but I would like to add Bitcrusher and Adaptive limiter to the list"
#42
Chromaverb
4.0
(1)
"Chromaverb is tasty. the vintage eq collection are also pretty damn nice."
#43
FPC
4.0
(1)
"FPC: Very useful tool to manage all your drums, especially if you take the time to set it up and then save it as template/preset"
#44
Sytrus
4.0
(1)
"Sytrus and Sakura."
#45
iZotope
4.0
(1)
"Just get a copy of Ozone Elements and let it do its job. BTW it's free right now"
#46
Cakewalk
4.0
(1)
"The stock plugins are very good and the included VST instruments are good as well... drums, bass, electric piano, strings."
#47
Waves
4.0
(1)
"I have pretty much every reverb Waves ever made, and while I like some of them a lot, and use hverb and rverb often, I use Logic’s chromaverb as often."
#48
FL Keys
3.0
(1)
"FL Keys: Just a super simple piano plugin that takes 0.01 seconds to load."
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