Physical Modeling: Logic Audio: Sculpture, Tassman, Abelton Live: Tension, Chromaphone Subtractive : Vaz Modular, Arturia Moog Modular, Arturia Arp 2600, Unique (uncategorized): Abelton Live: Corpus (phys mod resonator) Antares Kantos, Anarchy FX (FREEWARE) Noise Reduction/Restoration: Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction (for intentional artifacts) Izotope Ozone & Waves Noise Reduction Pitch Shifting: well we have a new winner Soundhack's PVOC pitch/time/spectral pack is fucking amazing, ill be using this from now on for all my workhorse real-time pitch shifting needs Antares Harmony Engine, Melodyne & GRM Tools Spectral Manipulation: Anarchy FX (FREEWARE) Reverb: Waves Rverb & Audioease Speakerphone Phaser: Cooledit 2.0/Adobe Audition's PahserÄelay: Reaktor: 'Echomania' Native Instruments Spektral Delay
Right now I wouldn't bother listing if it's for mac or PC. I'll give my own entry later, just trying to see if there is any interest for a collection of most well regarded or liked plugins in any particular category. You can even include a reaktor patch or something like a proprietary plugin that only exists in one DAW (ie: Sculpture in Logic Pro) I put a category of 'unique' for anything that doesn't fall into any of the descriptions or provides a unique function that can't be compared to anything else.
After enough people respond, I'll make a poll for future reference and to declare a winner of each category.
Why not take a poll of watmm's favorite plugins for each category/genre? The goal of this thread is to have people state their favorite plugins in the categories I will list below. I was thinking that since there are so many goddam different plugins that do essentially the same job out these days.