From Gina Fat-Saez at O’Reilly:

I am a plugin addict. As a studio owner, I own many of the popular audio plugins such as the Waves Gold Bundle, the Bomb Factory plugins, and Line 6 Amp Farm. Though I routinely use all of these “utility” plugins, it’s the more esoteric plugs that I turn to when I’m being creative. In this article, I’ll introduce the ones I find most inspiring.

Gina goes on to list her 20 favorite audio plugins, with pictures and sound examples:

Gina’s Top 10 Virtual Instruments:

1. Spectrasonics Atmosphere
2. Synthogy Ivory
3. Spectrasonics Stylus RMX
4. Spectrasonics Trilogy
5. MOTU MachFive
6. Native Instruments Elektrik Piano
7. MOTU Symphonic Instrument
8. Best Service Artist Grooves
9. UltimateSoundBank (USB) Xtreme FX
10. Native Instruments B4 and UltimateSoundBank Charlie

Gina’s Top 10 Effect Plugins:

1. Sound Toys Native Effects Bundle
2. Synchro Arts VocAlign Project
3. Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2
4. Waves Musician’s Bundle 2
5. Antares Auto-Tune
6. Digidesign Producer Factory Pro Bundle
7. Waves Native Power Pack
8. Audio Ease Altiverb V5
9. Trillium Labs (dist. by Digidesign) TL Space Native Edition
10. Prosoniq Orange Vocoder

BONUS: McDSP Classic Pack

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