Commercial/Paid plugins

[finotti]

I've just finished my first production (with Ardour) and I used a lot of Calf, EQ10Q and LSP plugins. They all seemed great to me, but it is my first time using plugins (and a DAW and producing music in anyway), so I have not much to compare them to.

Are there any commercial/plugins worth getting in your opinion? (Or other free ones besides the ones above?) Not that I want to spend any money, but if it makes a reasonable difference in the results, I'd definitely consider saving for it.

[beto]

I like the plugins from https://www.overtonedsp.co.uk/, I use them on drums and on my master channel.

[glowrak guy]

If you use synaptic package manager, and have the kxstudio repositories added,
click the search box to gather whats available. Separate searches for

lv2
vst
ladspa
jack
alsa
midi
sound
audio

names like x-42, drow, fomp, zita, caps, tap, mda, and invada will have collections
to install.

Search results will make it easy to choose music related plugins and apps.
Installing the linux versions of daws from Harrison Mixbus, Cockos Reaper, and Bitwig
will give you a wide range of bundled commercial plugins to try in the respective environments,
each is great in it's own way.

U-he and discoDSP also have demos of their linux ports, very fine instruments and effects.

U-he linux are at http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=424953

www.discodsp.com

Mixbus (ardour-Pro?) http://harrisonconsoles.com/site/index.html

Reaper http://www.bandshed.net/packages/reaper-linux/

Bitwig https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html

What you are using is excellent, The linux plugin trove keeps growing
anf getting better. Guitarix will come with a large collection, a little ingenuity
and even a drummer, sanger, or last-call keyplunker can benefit from them.
Cheers

[jonetsu]

I've just finished my first production (with Ardour) and I used a lot of Calf, EQ10Q and LSP plugins. They all seemed great to me, but it is my first time using plugins (and a DAW and producing music in anyway), so I have not much to compare them to.

Are there any commercial/plugins worth getting in your opinion? (Or other free ones besides the ones above?) Not that I want to spend any money, but if it makes a reasonable difference in the results, I'd definitely consider saving for it.

glowrak mentioned them. Specifically from u-he you might want to look at their compressor, Presswerk and their tape saturation Satin. I use Mixbus 32C that already has compressor and tape saturation devices, which I use, but then there are times where more flexibility is needed. Also, a different kind of processing from different devices. Always using all the same processing on every trrack can be OK, although bringing in diversity in tone is also nice. I use a lot the only 'vintage' emulations available on Linux, the ones made by OvertoneDSP, the Fairchild compressor abd the Pulltec EQs. Sometimes their SSL compressor. Vintage emulations adds the tonality of the hardware processors they are based upon. So they do color the sound, they are not digitally transparent or try to be. Since I use Mixbus I also use the Harrison plugins. These only work with Mixbus, though. The spectral compressor is nice.

The DAW Essentials from Tracktion also bring different colorations. They are not emulations though.

On the reverb front I use the free u-he Protoverb from time to time. I also use u-he Uhbik-A and Harrison's. Reverb is one type of processing where tonal variations are more apparent from device to another device, even digitally.