Re: I removed most of my plugins

I'm on Linux, so a lot of what I do is irrelevant to Windows people. However...,

On the plus side, just yesterday I went down from 350 freeware Windows plugins to about 130 instead.
In the process, I realised that I really don't use most of those at all and really don't need most of them at all either.

On the minus side, I messed up and started installing a bunch of Linux freeware plugins (all of the VST, VST3, CLAP and LV2's in my distro).
So now I'm back up to too many plugins again and have to whittle the list down again. I got ridiculously carried away.

But I think I figured out which main ones to keep for instruments:

Zebralette
Charlatan
Vitalium (Linux Vital clone)
Surge XT
ZynAddSubFX
Yoshimi
Odin

and then only keep a few lesser classic ones like ArcDev Mainliner and MaxSynths Bass Module (even though it's crashy lately)

But since WINE isn't stable anymore for VST plugins, it's good that I took a look at the Linux offerings. Vitalium works okay. And Surge XT has been reliable for a while now. A lot of the other stuff I've been finding is too complex or too simplistic. So it'll be good to purge that junk out too.

I might keep a lot of Linux effects, but at least GVSTs are available for Linux.

Statistics: Posted by mjolnir — Sun Dec 29, 2024 4:26 pm

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