What’s your favorite synths and effects for sound design?
I am pretty much only using Ableton stock plugins, but am looking to get some 3rd party plugins too.
Digitone 2 
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Digitone 2 is not a plugin. I love my DN2 as well.
Edit: Changed the title to hopefully make it even more clear
Infiltrator 2
Volcano 2
Airwindows cool free ones:
Pitch delay
Tape delay
Glitch Shifter
DeRez3
Vibrato
Reverbs
ToTape8
Air4
Mackity
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Serum 2. Or wait for Zebra 3. I personally only use Serum2 now with some Hive 2. I dont see much need for anyhting else. Fog Convolver for Reverb as send FX was a cool tip here in the forum, i really like it, and use it now everywhere.
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It used to be Phaseplant, now it’s Bitwig. With the exception of soothe2 and one or two physmod plugins, I only use Bitwig devices now.
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Multipass
Snap heap
Corpus
Grain Delay
Serum 2 FX
Beam
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Madrona Labs - Kaivo, Sumu, Aalto - all incredible
Slate & Ash - Choreographs, Cycles
Dillon Bastan’s stuff - mind blowing possibilities
NI - Playbox, Kinetic Toys
Kentaro’s M4L plug-ins
To name a few…
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I’ve eyed of Kentaros stuff a heap of times — any recs ?
Demos sound really good, that strings conversion demo sounds totally sick.
What is the physical modelling actually doing there? Adding resonances to grains?
Pigments.
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Which one are you referring to?
Yeah, I love the Cluster LFO one. And Stranular. Oh, and Helisert. Very pricey for what they are…but very very cool indeed. Assigning parameters to an external controller (I use my Midi Fighter Twister) opens up all kinds of possibilities…
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This one. I wonder how it works.
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Me too!
No idea to be honest.
Only actually bought this one last week (it’s currently on sale, 30% off I believe)
I’ve had Sumu and Aalto for a while.
This is an interesting vid:
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Yeah so pricey – The Cluster LFO has nearly got me many a time … Just looks so good.
Better add my own 2C software
M4L
- LuckyFX Ned Rush
- Fors
- Encoder Audio
- P_4L
- Iftah devices
- K Devices Twistor
- Shoal MFX
- Ambi
- Tiny Space
- Tape
Ableton/VST
- Grain Delay
- Pitchloop
- Granulator 3
- Roar
- Lofi oddity
- Drift
- Pivot
- Beat Repeat
- Tom Erb stuff
- Atelier
- Freakshow Industries
- Aqeel Adam Sound
- Looper
- Valhalla Delay
- Blackhole Immersive
- VCV Rack
- Anything capable of MPE
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Yeah, Fors is ace. Good call
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Everything from Fors (both m4l devices and plugins), everything from u-he, everything from Valhalla.
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Synapse Audio Dune 3 and Legend HZ
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I have been enjoying several of the Unfiltered Audio offerings - Lion, Battalion, Triad, and Silo, all very nice. They seem to do sales pretty frequently too so you can get them for quite cheap (though I would say they are well worth the price and their comms at least in the Battalion thread have been more than generous).
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