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now it's time for a software collection thread!

name your DAW(s), softies and whatever else you use (all music related of course)

Ableton Live 8 Suite
Valhalla VintageVerb, Room, Shimmer
U-He Diva, ACE
NI Komplete 8 (regular)
LennarDigital Sylenth1
fxPansion DCAM Synth Squad
D16 Phoscyon, Drumazon, Nepheton / Decimort, Toraverb, Syntorus
SoundIron Emotional Piano
Camel Audio Alchemy
New Sonic Arts Granite
AAS Ultra Analog VA-1
IL Harmless and Drumaxx
Waldorf PPG Wave 2.V, Attack, 4-Pole
Arturia Minimoog (freebie)

Roughly sorted by usage. Lots of 'm picked up in group buys/bundles/summer blow-outs so I've never paid the full price, except for DCAM, Diva and ACE.

EWQL (ten libraries)
Omnisphere, Trilian, Stylus RMX
Zebra, Ace, Diva
Native Instruments Komplete 6 & Maschine
DCam SynthSquad
Sylenth1
LinPlug CrX4
ImageLine Harmor
Synapse Audio Dune
Waldorf Largo
Camel Audio Alchemy
SonicProjects OPX-Pro
Korg Legacy Collection
Cakewalk Rapture, Dimension Pro and Z3ta
Noveltech Character
Slate VCC & VTM
Waves Gold
Waves Aphex Exciter
Fabfilter Pro-L, Pro-C and Pro-Q
Sonnox Oxford TransMod
Kush Audio UBK-1
URS Saturation
PSP Vintage Warmer & Old Timer
Rob Papen Delay
SoundToys Radiator
SampleLogic WaterHarp, Morphestra, Synergy X
Best Service Titan, Epic World, Desert Winds, Galaxy Vintage D
Some Tonehammer libraries
REAPER 4

I know I must have forgotten some things, but that's definitely most of it.

EDIT... Forgot:

Izotope Ozone 5
Nebula 3 Pro
Albino 3

I have A LOT of software, a lot of it is freebies but some are not.
DAW: Reaper
Tracker: Renoise
VSTi: Kamiooki, Sonigen Modular, Korg Analog, D16 drum machines, Elektrostudio Analogue Pack, Waldorf PPG Wave, Sugar Bytes Thesus
VST: Throbber, all Mokafix distortion pedals (probably the best digital distortion imo), EMT-2000, "the classic pack", Waldorf D-Pole, Cyclotron, Sugar Bytes Vogue, all Variety Of Sound

There is loads more, but I have been using these non-stop lately. It's also off the top of my head.

Sold the rest, kept the best:

- Intelligent Devices Paris
- Audacity
- Reaper
- Image Line Harmless
- Wolfgang Palm Plex 2
- GlaceVerb
- Chickensys Translator (Full)

GlaceVerb, forgot about that one. I've got it too and it's one of the best software reverbs around. Though, I had to stop using it because I had used it so much through almost every configuration that I had to get something new.

I highly recommend it to everyone.

I run Windows XP, Cubase SX3, and along with a shedload of hardware synths i mainly use the free VST's Blockfish (compressor) Ixoxdelay, and Dr Fusion (Drum synth). Also have Kontakt and EZ drummer for samples.

I still use some of the free Cubase plugins like grungelizer, A1, Monologue, Chorus, Reverb B, etc etc, is that crap? XD

Oooh. A thread for ITB peeps. I'm in! :D

DAW:

Cockos Reaper 4

Instruments:

AM Music ProSoloVST, RMI-EP, VL-122 (free)
Cakewalk z3ta+, z3ta+ 2, Rapture
Camel Audio Alchemy
CWITEC TX16Wx Pro
Elektrostudio Synth Pack, Model Mini, Model Pro (free)
Fuzzpilz Oatmeal (free)
FXpansion BFD Eco 1.5
g200kg Kamioooka (free)
GSi VB3, Mr. Ray mkII; Mr. Tramp 2 (free)
HG Fortune Altair-4, Avatar ST Pro; Fortune Cookie 2012 (free)
Humanoid Sound Systems Scanned Synth Pro
Ichiro Toda Synth1 (free)
Korg Legacy Collection (everything)
Modartt Pianoteq 4 Pro (+ all add-ons)
MOTU MachFive 3
Native Instruments Komplete 8, Pro-53, Spark, Razor,
Novation V-Station
QuikQuak Glass Viper
Rayzoon Jamstix 3
reFX quadraSID
Rob Papen/Linplug Albino 3
Schwa OLGA
Siegfried Kullmann SQ8L (free)
Sonicprojects OP-X PRO II
TAL U-NO-LX; Noisemaker (free)
Toontrack EZdrummer (+ Latin Percussion, DFH, Metalheads, Metal Machine EZXs)
u-he A.C.E., Bazille (free alpha), Zebra 2, Podolski, Tyrell N6
STL Technologies VAZ Modular 3
Waldorf Edition (Attack, D-Pole, PPG Wave V.2), PPG Wave V.3
Wolfgang Palm Plex 2 (I keep it in Waldorf folder though) (free)
XLN Audio Addictive Drums (+ all ADpaks except Reel Machines, Jazz and Session Percussion)

Effects:

Camel Audio CamelSpace, CamelPhat
d.bop Crosstalk 2 (free)
Fuzzpilz Charsiesis (free)
GSi GS-201, ShakePad, Type4; TimeVerb (free), WatKat (free)
Ignite Amps everything they have (free)
Kuassa Creme, One, Vermillion; basiQ (free)
LePou everything (free)
Mokafix Audio Metal Clone, NoAmp, Nu-Tron (free, these are the only left available, others can't be purchased since the store is closed and Mokafix is no more :()
Native Instruments Driver, Guitar Rig 5 (as part of Komplete 8), Transient Master (as part of Komplete 8)
Nick Crow Labs everything (it's free!)
Peavey ReValver HPse, ReValver HP, ReValver mkIII
Schwa/Stillwell Audio everything
Scuffham Amps S-Gear 2
SimulAnalog everything (free)
TAL everything (free)
ToneBoosters everything
TSE everything (free)
ValhallaDSP ValhallaFreqEcho (free)
Variety Of Sound (Bootsie) everything (free)


Phew!

Cubase 7
Pro Tools 10
NI Komplete 7
Spectrasonics: Omnisphere, Trilian and Stylus RMX
Voxengo: SPAN and GlissEQ
Lots of freeware plugs

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I've got lots but I'm trying to use hardware instead if possible.
The most frequent ones I still use are:

Ableton 8
Native Instruments FM8
TAL U-No-LX2
Fabfilter Pro-Q
D16 Decimort
PSP Lexicon 42

I want to give Sound Toys Echoboy a try sometime soon though.

I'm looking into Pro-Q myself - I was very impressed with the Youtube tutorial.



But I'll hold off a little until I see whether Live 9 bothered to copy it correctly, and there's another big purchase that's in the way at the moment.

ohmicide: don't forget your own list! heh

No idea if it sounds better/worse than anything else but it looks pretty, it's clearly laid out and it's flexible. Definitely gets a thumbs-up from me .

I think software synths are the greatest thing that ever happened, but I think some of you have too many.

DAWs
-Ableton Suite 8 (upgrading to Suite 9 in March FO FREE)
-Studio One Producer
-FL Studio Producer
-GarageBand
-NI Maschine (plugin & DAW)

Instruments/Plugins
-NI Maschine (w/ True School expansion)
-Arturia V-Collection 3
-Alicia's Keys (NI)
-Scarbee Mark 1 (NI)
-AddictiveDrums
-Massive (NI)
-Komplete Elements
-dblue Glitch
-Nexus
-Omnisphere

Ableton Suite 8
U-he DIVA
U.he ACE
NI Razor
IL Harmor
Madrona Labs AALTO

Any DAW plus Komplete 8 by itself is already too many; it's more than most studios would have 20 or 30 years ago.

If they were hardware keyboards or racks, you'd have a pretty stuffed studio, which brings its own set of problems (or not: these problems have solutions, provided that you spend enough money)

If they costed as much, you'd be wealthy (or wealthy no longer ).

But - they don't!

So when you judge it as "too many", are you using the criteria you'd normally judge equivalent hardware setups with?

Each softsynth has its own flavor, much like hardware synths. If you know when and how to use that flavor, of course it's better to have more of them.

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ok here's my list!

not that this is only the stuff I currently use now, I have more but most of it is either still stuck on 32-bit or I found better alternatives

DAW

Ableton Live 8

synths

Cakewalk Z3ta+ 2
DCAM: Synth Squad
Komplete 8 Ultimate (also used for effects)
Tone 2 Saurus
u-he ACE

effects

Celemony Melodyne Editor
Cytomic The Glue
FabFilter Micro, Pro-C, Pro-L, Pro-Q, Saturn
Ohmforce Ohmicide
PSP Echo, OldTimer, OldTimer ME
Sonic Charge Bitspeek
Togu Audio Line TAL-Chorus-LX (haven't used this one yet)

How do you find Z3ta? Heard good things.. what does it excel at..

I'm super careful when I buy software now.. I have very few bits, having a lot of software I find is the worst possible thing for creativity, it sucks it dry.

Me personally?

Synths; STROBE, CYPHER, MASSIVE, FM8, ABSYNTH, REASON.
The most used are Reason's synths, I put reason as a synth as I don't use it as a DAW, more of a synth with it's effects and then rewire into Logic. I am obsessed with it as a creative tool, absolutely obsessed.

The least used is Absynth as I haven't taken the time to learn it better like my other synths. It is probably the most complicated as well, which is a bit of a downer in my opinion, creativity needs simplicity.

Processing:

Cytomic Glue, UAD Quad Satellite with various plugs, to name a few, 1176 collection (****ing amazing) Manley Massive Passive (another triumph), Fatso (Good.. very good), Struder Tape (not used much, but nice for adding something to my own loops). Want to get more UAD plugs when the budget allows.. I've just spent over £30,000 on hardware over the last two years so buying stuff is tough. Bloody hell they're great plugs though.

My favourite thing, (even gets close to my hardware) is Reason though. It has literally changed my life and breathed air into my productions. It is the most creative thing on earth and now they have released rack extensions, it's just entered a whole new cool. There are already some great ones.

Cubase 5.5
Ableton 8 Suite
NI Complete 6 (Special mention to Reaktor as its my main host for Instruments)
D16 Silverline Collection, Phoscyon, Drumazon
Uhbik Fx pack
Kush UBK1 and Clariphonic
Cytomic The Glue
NI 1176 compressor
Sonalksis pack
Metric Halo plugins (in the MH2882)
Satson
Stillwell Rocket, CMX, Vibe EQ
And a few freebies

Logic 9, MainStage
Zebra, ACE, Bazille, TyrellN6
DrumSpillage, Elektroid
Reaktor, FM8, Razor, Spark, Prism
Pure Data
Capo

Reason 4

Reaper 4
Dr T's KCS 5
RTCmix
Max/MSP 6
Wavelab 4
Soniccore Scope Fusion Platform with Adern collection
Korg Oasys PCI with Harm Vissar + Orwell Collections
Emu X3
Ableton 7
Korg Wavestation Legacy

Cubase 5
WaveLab 6
Renoise

Synths:

Audjoo Helix
Gladiator
Synth1
NI 4
Sylenth
Legacy Collection

FX:

Ozone 4
Sonnox Oxford

Ableton Live 8 + Sampler
Presonus Studio One Producer
ProTools MP9
Logic 9 Express
Sony acid 9
Sony Soundforge 10
Sony Vegas 10 HD

Komplete 8 Ultimate
Maschine + all expansions
Kore 2
Sylenth
Cakewalk Z3ta
Arturia the factory
Toontrack Superior Drummer
Idrum + Goldbaby XRB
Various 3rd party kontakt libraries

UAD 2 x 2 + too many plugs
Focusrite Liquidmix
Acustica Nebula + 3rd party libraries
Peavey Revalver III


Thats it I think...i also have a few freebies from mags..including EQs and synths, but im mostly hardware synthwise nowadays

magix music maker 3.0
little drummer boy
simsynth
hammerhead
rubberducky
lame encoder
cracked rebirth and some mods
goldwave
100mb or so of samples in wav format, blips bleeps booms brrrratsm bwows etc.

I don't use much of it anymore, unless I'm out with just the MBP, so I'm a little hard-pressed to remember every plugin. Though seeing some of these lists, I don't feel like I have a truckload anymore lol. I'm definitely on the light side FX-wise, and pretty low when it comes to synths. And yes it's all legit :p

DAWs:
Ableton Live 8.3.4 Suite
Studio One Pro 2.5
Reason 6.5 (considering selling, though I really like it's synths. Just don't use it enough)
Renoise 2.8
Numerology 3 Pro (nothing like it)
OhmStudio
Jeskola Buzz (OG version for older songs, though honestly still high on my list)
Cubase 6 (really need to sell this one on; Cubase 7 has devalued it enough)

Synths:
uTonic
Synplant
Axon
Gladiator
kiloHearts ONE
Scanned Synth Pro (nothing like it)
Digits (Phase Distortion freebie)
Granite
Aalto
Circle
ABL2

Effects:
CamelSpace
Discord3
Eos
RP-Verb
RP-Delay

I have a few other plugins that I no longer use, but technically still own because I can't sell them off

DAW: Logic Pro 8 so easy and logic.

U-he Zebra 2 my main softsynth! the best in my opinion,can sound warm or ice cold, it is your choice, Diva is in my pipline

Native Instruments: Battery 3 easy to use but a little old now, Reaktor 5 one of the best and it still sounds great.

Spectrasonics: Omnisphere good sounding engine but not so many sounds in there that I can use, hardly using it any more.

Virsyn: Tera 3 sounds great but the GUI is very old and flat.

Applied Acoustics: Tassman 4 one of the fattest most analog sounding.Love the sound but the GUI is not so nice, Ultra Analog.

Korg: KLC Analog Edition.

Rob Papen: Albino 2 great synth! great for warm analog lead sounds and pad sounds.

Softsampler EXS24 (Logic Pro) but soon Kontakt or Motu, I think it will be Motu Mach Five 3.

Audio Damage: EOS reverb

ArtsAcoustic: Reverb great sounding and one of the best!

Valhalla DSP: ValhallaROOM this is one of the best reverbs!

EvilDragon! how is the Motu Mach Five3 compared to Kontakt? It looks easier to work with=better GUI in my taste and the synth engine with real Granular synthesis. I have tried Kontakt granular synthesis and it is not so good compared to Mach Five3. Is the sound warmer on Mach Five3?

DAW:
Logic 9

Synths:
DCAM Synth Quad
Massive
Sylenth
Arturia Oberheim SEM V
TAL Noisemaker
Some stuff in logic as well

Effects:
TAL Chorus
A lot of airwindows stuff
Yohng W1 limiter
Sonimus Satson
Flux Bittersweet and SS Tool
Voxengo SPAN
Valhalla FreqEcho
Ozone 5
Ohmicide