All of the Valhalla plugins are great. I have Shimmer, Vintage, Plate, Delay, and they free survey flanger / chorus.

Can’t imagine needing too much else reverb wise, though I do like a good infinite reverb. I go to Reaktor for that.

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Wavesfactory cassette sounds really interesting. I always wanted to get myself into this cassette thing everybody is using… thx

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It’s good enough for me that I almost don’t want to mess with real tape. It’s also nice to be able to use it as a live effect without having to record and then play back. Of course that means no varispeed or tape loops.

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Lossy is the most inspiring plugin i ever used, its so rewarding

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Get in touch with me at simon@slateandash.com and we’ll see what we can figure out.

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I LOVE lossy, it has so many more applications than I initially thought on my first play with it. Super creative!

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It’s a very unique plug in. I haven’t seen any other do the same thing.
I use it after a reverb to add little glitches and textures to the ambient sound

Did you build an infinite reverb, or is there a good one in the User Library ?
I’d be interested in such a device in Reaktor…

Man I thought Id sworn off plugins. Yall are making me rethink that. :upside_down_face:

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I’ve used this one quite a bit, all of his reaktor tools are great:
http://boscomac.free.fr/index.php?p=floodverb

You can hear it here:

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That sounds good !
I’ll give it a try, thank you.

Zynaptiq Adaptiverb is currently on sale and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Although it’s technically a reverb, that only scratches the surface of the wild things it’s capable of: for example, it has a full resynthesis engine in front of the reverb that can either use live audio as its input or any frozen buffer chunk that you load into it. And there’s a post-reverb processor that can imprint the spectral signature of anything you choose onto the output of the reverb; this processor can also use live audio or any frozen audio chunk (or even user-defined scales, which quantize the reverb to chosen pitches). Furthermore, these frozen audio sources can be saved into a preset, to be loaded whenever you want to imprint those particular sources as part of the reverb process. And it’s also an unbelievably lush reverb on top of all that.

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There’s actually an infinite reverb in the standard library! If you crank the TIME on Spacemaster 2 up to max, it just sustains.

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I have a new favorite in Izotope de-clip. I recorded a track last night and loved the take but clipped the hell out of it by mistake. de-clip fixed it quickly and easily, which I didn’t even think was possible! Definitely worth the money.

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Izotope de-clip is some kind of black magic that I’m always grateful to have. I get sent podcast files of varying quality to turn into something listenable, and Rx has saved many files that I would have thought were unusable.

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Thank you very much for the tip !
As many Reaktor adepts, I’ve used SpaceMaster 2 several times, but never tried to set the reverb time to max (or didn’t notice the infinite sustain).
I’ll try this function as soon as possible.

I use DMG Limitless and Equilibrium (Sontec curves and filtering) a whole lot. Essence for problem solving, and Expurgate I’ve used a lot as an expander.

I like their plugins when I want to leave things pristine, which is most of the time.

For reverbs and fx, I typically use Relab and Soundtoys PrimalTap or Eventide H910 and SP2016.

Valhalla vintageverb, plate and delay I like too, especially on synths.
Also Nimbus for transparent chambers.

For color, UAD. Especially their SSL v2 strip and bus comp, and 550A I like when I run out of or don’t have access to hardware.

TDR Kotelnikov is great for transparent compression.

Izotope for NR.

For instruments, u-he.

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Honestly I wish I’d had it for years. Just picked up RX elements specifically to fix that file and couldn’t be happier with the results.

Okay so I caved in and purchased slate and ash cycles. It’s incredible!!! Ugh I can’t recommend it enough. It’s really malleable, so fun, intuitive and incredibly musical. I honestly haven’t taken to an instrument this fast in a long time. Immediately made things from scratch and was able to do musical things with existing songs. It’s like my favorite parts of the octatrack and clouds / morphehene / borderlands in a plug in. beautiful interface and toooons of character that can be piled on or subtly dialed in. Honestly couldn’t recommend it enough. Up there for me with Aalto from Madrona labs, wow and vulf from good hertz as my favorite plug ins.

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I, too, am a huge Adaptiverb fan. It does long lush reverbs like no other device. Watch one of their videos to get an idea of some of what it can do. It’s rarely on sale.

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