Hidden gems for me are almost always stock plugins, or free ones. Not sure why, I think it's just because being stock and/or free makes things feel like a bit of an underdog, so when they're awesome, they're maybe perceived as being better than they really are. A bit like how people get with Reaper (you can't tell me the fanbase would be so rabid if it didn't offer an infinite-trial of sorts).
Some standouts - Ableton's Wavetable is a monster, as is Operator and Meld. Roar isn't underrated right now but you watch people forget about it just like they always do with stock plugins over time - it's killer. Electric is crazy cool. Ableton's jam-packed with awesome stock plugins but since they all their plugins look the same I think they fly under the radar - if these same plugins had cool looking GUI's etc, it'd be a different story.
FL Studio's Kepler is phenomenal and means FL Studio owners don't need to bother with JUNO emulations - it's covered, nobody mentions Kepler though (probably because it's FL Studio). An upgraded Kepler is coming soon that will be awesome too. Still with FL Studio, Multiband Delay is insane.
People love Bitwig's Grid, and it's great, but Phase-4 is awesome and worth exploring.
Studio One's Analog Delay is fantastic and competes with top-tier paid delay plugins, I prefer it over pretty much every other plugin delay I've used.
IDK how it's rated but Trackspacer is excellent too.
Why don't more people hype up Dune 3? Maybe not a hidden gem, but it's not brought up all that often in synth plugin discussions, even though it's excellent.
Some standouts - Ableton's Wavetable is a monster, as is Operator and Meld. Roar isn't underrated right now but you watch people forget about it just like they always do with stock plugins over time - it's killer. Electric is crazy cool. Ableton's jam-packed with awesome stock plugins but since they all their plugins look the same I think they fly under the radar - if these same plugins had cool looking GUI's etc, it'd be a different story.
FL Studio's Kepler is phenomenal and means FL Studio owners don't need to bother with JUNO emulations - it's covered, nobody mentions Kepler though (probably because it's FL Studio). An upgraded Kepler is coming soon that will be awesome too. Still with FL Studio, Multiband Delay is insane.
People love Bitwig's Grid, and it's great, but Phase-4 is awesome and worth exploring.
Studio One's Analog Delay is fantastic and competes with top-tier paid delay plugins, I prefer it over pretty much every other plugin delay I've used.
IDK how it's rated but Trackspacer is excellent too.
Why don't more people hype up Dune 3? Maybe not a hidden gem, but it's not brought up all that often in synth plugin discussions, even though it's excellent.
Statistics: Posted by harddaysnight — Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:12 am