>>127528741
>strong opinions about plugins
>2025
Most contemporary plugins these days are pretty darn good, even free ones. If it does the trick and doesnt sound like ass or brick your computer, who cares?

It isnt 2008 anymore when plugins had distinct strengths and weaknesses and investing in one took serious research which you had to weigh those strength and weaknesses up against your needs because they often cost a decent chunk of money.

I remember people argued to death over what was better, Sylenth or Massive and it was usually accepted that Sylenth was better if you wanted to go the house/trance music route and Massive was better if you wanted to go the drum&bass/dubstep route.

All while autists sat and twiddled with FM8 and purists still recorded hardware/modular synths. retards just pirated Nexus2 and people who's internet connections were slower than mail just spent a day downloading synth1.

These days, MassiveX, Serum/Serum2, Vital, Phaseplant, they all do the same job and they do it well enough that nobody is going to hear the difference. It's the same thing with most reverb plugins, compressors, clippers, limiters, effects and so on.