Software - lo-res recording & distribution

My home studio

I started recording songs on my Mac in 1990 using Deluxe Music Construction Set, a MIDI composition tool for the Mac Plus. I have owned a great deal of software for my home studio since then, as I have switched from a 68k Mac to a PowerPC (Vision) then to a Windows PC briefly (Cubase) and then back to an Intel-based Mac (Pro Tools + Logic). The software that is currently installed on my Mac Pro DAW is listed below.

I have owned a great deal of software for my home studio over the years, as I have switched from a 68k Mac to a PowerPC then to a Windows PC briefly and then back to an Intel-based Mac. The software that is currently installed on my Mac Pro DAW is listed below. It’s a crazy list of plugins: nearly 300 instruments and over 300 effects, and some 50 drum instruments / percussion collections – in AAX, AU, and VST formats. I should really cut back on my investment in music software.

2Gether Audio

Cheeze Machine 2
Cheeze Machine Pro
Cl4p Maker
G8tor
K1ck Synth
Re4orm
St3reo
Ticky Clav 2
Vinylla

Ableton Live 9.74
Instruments:

Analog
Collision
Drum Machines
Electric
Operator
Sampler
Tension

FX:

Amp
Auto Filter
Auto Pan
Beat Repeat
Chorus
Compressor
Corpus
Dynamic Tube
EQ Eight
EQ Three
Erosion
Filter Delay
Flanger
Frequency Shifter
Gate
Grain Delay
Glue Compressor
Limiter
Looper
Multiband Dynamics
Overdrive
Phaser
Ping Pong Delay
Redux
Resonators
Reverb
Saturator
Simple Delay
Spectrum
Utility
Vinyl Distortion
Vocoder

AIR Music Tech
Instruments:

Creative FX Collection Plus – 1.2.8.19056

AIR Chorus
AIR Distortion
AIR Dynamic Delay
AIR Ensemble
AIR Filter Gate
AIR Flanger
AIR Frequency Shifter
AIR Fuzz-Wah
AIR Kill EQ
AIR Lo-Fi
AIR Multi-Chorus
AIR Multi-Delay
AIR Nonlinear Reverb
AIR Phaser
AIR Reverb
AIR Spring Reverb
AIR Stereo Width
AIR Talkbox
AIR Talkbox
AIR Vintage Filter

Apple Logic Pro X
Instruments:

Alchemy
Drum Kit Designer
Drum Machine Designer
ES
ES2
EFM1
ESE E
ES P
Evoc 20 Polysynth
EXS24 mk II
Logic Drummer
Retro Synth
Sculpture
Studio Brass
Studio Strings
Ultrabeat
Vintage B3
Vintage Clav
Vintage Electric Piano
Vintage Mellotron

FX:

Amp Designer
Arpeggiator
Bass Amp Designer
Channel EQ
ChromaVerb
Compressor
Delay Designer
Pedalboard
Phat FX
Reverb
Ringshifter
Space Designer
Step FX
Vintage Console EQ
Vintage Graphic EQ
Vintage Tube EQ

Arturia V Collection 7

Analog Lab 4 4.1.3554
Arp2600 V3 3.3.1.3457
B-3 V2 2.1.1.3457
Buchla Easel V 1.5.1.3457
Clavinet V 1.5.1.3457
CMI V 1.5.1.3457
CS-80 V3 3.5.1.3457
CZ-V 1.1.1.3466
DX7 V 1.5.1.3457
Farfisa V 1.5.1.3457
Jup-8 V3 3.5.1.3457
Matrix12 V2 2.5.1.3457
Melotron V 1.1.1.3457
Mini V3 3.5.1.3457
Modular V3 3.5.1.3457
Piano V2 2.5.1.3457
Prophet V3 3.5.1.3457
SEM V2 2.5.1.3457
Solina V2 2.5.1.3457
Spark 2 2.4.0.106
Stage-73 V 1.5.1.3457
Synclavier V 2.5.2.3457
Synthi V 1.1.2.3457
Synthopedia 1.0.1.113
Vox Continental V 2.5.1.3457
Wurli V2 2.5.1.3457

Arturia Pigments 2.0.0.747

Audio Damage

Axon 2.03
BigSeq2 1.20
Kombinat Tri 3.0
Panstation 1.04
Phosphor 2.0

AudioThing

FilterJam
Frostbite 2
MiniBit
MiniVerb

Avid Pro Tools 2019.12
Avid Complete Plugin Bundle

BF-2A
BF-3A
Eleven MKII
Fairchild 660
Fairchild 670
Focusrite d2
Focusrite d3
Graphic EQ
Impact
JoeMeek SC2 Photo Optical Compressor
JoeMeek VC5 Meequalizer
Moogerfooger 12-Stage Phaser
Moogerfooger Analog Delay
Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter
Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
Pro Compressor
Pro Expander
Pro Limiter
Pro Multiband Dynamics
Pro Subharmonic
Pultec EQH-2
Pultec EQP-1A
Pultec MEQ-5
Purple Audio MC77
Reel Tape Delay
Reel Tape Flanger
Reel Tape Saturation
Reverb One
ReVibe II
Smack!
Sound Replacer
Space
Studio Reverb
Tape Echo
Tel-Ray Variable Delay
Tracktion Biotek
Voice Bundle
X-Form

Stompbox Effects

BBD Delay
Black Op Distortion
Black Shiny Wah
Black Spring
C1 Chorus / Vibrato
DC Distortion
Flanger
Gray Compressor
Green JRC Overdrive
Orange Phaser
Roto Speaker
Tri-Knob Fuzz
Vibe Phaser
White Boost

-Did not install lite versions of AIR plugins-

Celemony

Melodyne 4.2.4.001

GForce

Imposcar 2
MTron Pro
- ChamberTron
- Compute-a-Tune
- Hohner Piano Bass 2
- OptiTron
- Streetly Tapes Volume 1
Minimonsta
Oddity 2

Hollow Sun

130p
Altaerion
Broken
Cathotron
Cognosphere
Cronkotron
Interference Generator
Jaypea
Korg M1 + 01/W
Modular Toolkit
Novalite
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Organa
Oscillosine
Sawpad
Shangri La
Squarepad
Stringodyne
Techtron
Tesla Coils
the Advanced Noise Generator
the Dotcom Xmas Special
TriOsc
Yamaha FS1R

Izotope

Breaktweaker
Delay
iDrum 1.8x
IRIS 2.02
Spectron
Stutter Edit
Trash 2
Vinyl

Korg

Arp Odyssey 1.10
Gadget 1.74
Legacy Cell 1.40
M1 1.80
MDE-X 1.40
Mono/Poly 1.20
MS-20 1.40
PadKontrol Editor Librarian
Polysix 1.40
Wavestation 1.8

Lethal Audio

Lethal

Line 6

POD Farm 3 2.53

Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 12

Abbey Road 50s Drummer 1.2.0
Abbey Road 60s Drummer 1.3.0
Abbey Road 70s Drummer 1.3.0
Abbey Road 80s Drummer 1.3.0
Abbey Road Modern Drummer 1.3.0
Abbey Road Vintage Drummer 1.3.0
Absynth 5.3.1
Action Strikes 1.2.0
Action Strings 1.5.0
Alicia’s Keys 1.5.0
Amped
Amplified Funk 2.0.0
Analog Dreams 1.1.0
Arcane Attic 2.0.0
Astral Flutter 2.0.0
Battery 4.1.6 / Factory Library 1.1.0
Berlin Concert Grand
Bite 1.0.1
Blocks Base (for Reaktor) 1.0.1
Blocks Prime (for Reaktor) 1.0.1
Byte Riot 2.0.0
Carbon Decay 1.0.0
Caribbean Current 2.0.0
Cavern Floor 2.0.0
Choral 1.0.0
Chromatic Fire 1.0.0
Circuit Halo 2.0.1
Conant Gardens 2.0.1
Creator Tools 1.2.0
Damage 1.5.0
Decoded Forms 2.0.1
Dirt 1.0.1
Discovery Series: Balinese Gamelan 1.5.2
Discovery Series: Cuba 1.2.0
Discovery Series: India 1.1.0
Discovery Series: Middle East 1.0.1
Discovery Series: West Africa 1.4.0Driver 1.3.1
Drop Squad 2.0.1
Drum Lab 1.2.0
Elastic Thump 2.0.0
Elektrik Piano 1.5 1.0.0
Emotive Strings 1.0.0
Enhanced EQ 1.3.1
Ethereal Earth 1.1.1
Evolve Mutations 1 1.2.0
Evolve Mutations 2 1.2.0
Evolve R2 1.7.0
Expansions Selection 1.0.0
Flair 1.0.1
Flesh 1.0.0
FM8 1.4.1
Form 1.1.2
Freak 1.0.1
George Duke Soul Treasures 1.3.0
Global Shake 1.0.1
Golden Kingdom 2.0.0
Grey Forge 2.0.0
Guitar Rig 5 Pro 5.2.2
Halcyon Sky 2.0.1
Headland Flow 2.0.0
Hexagon Highway 2.0.0
Hybrid Keys 1.1.1
Infamous Flow 1.0.0
Kinetic Metal 1.1.0
Kinetic Toys 1.0.0
Kinetic Treats 1.1.0
Kontakt 5.81
Kontakt 6.21
Kontour 1.0.0
Laser Dice 2.0.0
Lilac Glare 2.0.1
London Grit 2.0.0
Lone Forest 2.0.1
Lucid Mission 2.0.0
Magnate Hustle 2.0.0
Marble Rims 2.0.0
Maschine Drum Selection 1.3.0
Maschine Drum Selection 1.3.0
Massive 1.5.5
Meteoric Rise 1.0.1
Midnight Sunset 1.0.0
Mikro Prism 1.1.0
Molekular 1.0.0
Molten Veil 2.0
Monark 1.3.0
Motor Impact 2.0.0
Neon Drive 2.0.1
New York Concert Grand
Nocturnal State 1.0.0
Passive EQ 1.3.1
Phasis 1.0.1
Platinum Bounce 2.0.1
Play Series Selection 1.0.0
Polar Flare 1.0.0
Polyplex 1.1.0
Prism 1.6.0
Prismatic Bliss 2.0.0
Pro-53 3.0.5
Pulswerk
Queensbridge Story
Rammfire 2.0.0
Raw Voltage
Razor
RC 24 1.3.1
RC 48 1.3.1
Reaktor 6 / Factory Library / Selection 2
Reaktor Blocks
Reaktor Blocks Wired
Reaktor Prism
Reaktor Spark R2
Reflektor 2.0.0
Replika 1.3.2
Replika XT 1.0.3
Retro Machines MK2
Retro Machines MK2 1.3.0
Rise and Hit
Rising Crescent
Rounds
Scarbee A-200 (Wurlitzer)
Scarbee Clavinet/Pianet
Scarbee Funk Guitarist
Scarbee Jay-Bass
Scarbee Mark I (Rhodes)
Scarbee MM-Bass
Scarbee MM-Bass Amped
Scarbee Pre-Bass
Scarbee Pre-Bass Amped
Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass
Scarbee Vintage Keys
Session Guitarist – Electric Sunburst
Session Guitarist – Strummed Acoustic
Session Guitarist – Strummed Acoustic 2
Session Horns
Session Horns Pro
Session Strings
Session Strings Pro 1
Session Strings Pro 2
Sierra Grove
Skanner XT
Solar Breeze
Solid Bus Compressor 1.3.1
Solid Dynamics 1.3.1
Solid EQ 1.3.1
Stadium Flex
Static Friction
Street Swarm
Studio Drummer 1.4.0
Supercharger 1.3.1
Supercharger GT 1.3.1
Symphony Essentials: Brass Ensemble
Symphony Essentials: Brass Solo
Symphony Essentials: String Ensemble
Symphony Essentials: Woodwind Ensemble
Symphony Essentials: Woodwind Solo
Symphony Series Woodwind Ensemble
The Finger 1.3.0
The Gentleman
The Giant
The Grandeur (Bosendorfer)
The Maverick (Steinway)
The Mouth 1.3.0
Timeless Glow
Traktor DJ
Traktor’s 12 2.0.0
Transient Master 1.3.1
Transistor Punch
TRK-01 Bass
TRK-01 Kick
True School
Una Corda
Upright Piano
Vari Comp 1.3.1
VC 160 1.3.1
VC 2A 1.3.1
VC 76 1.3.1
Velvet Lounge
Vienna Concert Grand
Vintage Heat
Vintage Organs

Novation

Bass Station 1.8
V-Station 2.0

Prodyon

Electrono
Liftor
Shortnoise 1
Shortnoise 2
Votox XS

Rigid Audio

Aquiver
Atheos
Atomicron
Cinematrix
Electro House
Felicity
Ghost
Lightyears
Limerence
Nylonist
Orbital
Plethora
Sore
Space
Space 2
Supine
Synferno
Tropical Breeze

Sinevibes

Alternator 1.03
Array 3.0.3
Atom 1.0.2
Blend 1.0.1
Circuit 1.0.5
Cluster 2.0.1
Corrosion 1.2.0
Deep 1.1.2
Diffusion 1.3.3
Dipole 1.0.2
Dispersion 1.0.4
Drift 3.2.0
Droplet 1.0.3
Dynamo 1.4.1
Emission 1.0.2
Eternal 1.0.2
Extremum 1.0.3
Filther 1.1.0
Flow 2.0.2
Fraction 1.4.3
Frequency 1.2.1
Hexonator 1.0.5
Hologram 1.0.2
Inertia 2.0.6
Luminance 1.0.2
Malfunction 2.0.1
Molecule 1.0.2
Multitude 1.1.4
Octagon 1.0.4
Oscillator 1.2.2
Reactive 1.0.2
Reshuffle 1.0.1
Robotizer 1.0.2
Sequential 3.1.1
Shift 2.0.2
Singularity 1.0.5
Stream 1.0.1
Strobe 1.1.0
Stutter 1.0.0
Switch 2.0.2
Torsion 2.1.0
Turbo 3.1.4
Turbulence 2.0.2
Whirl 1.0
Zap 1.0

Sonivox

Twist 2 2.3.31
Wobble 2 2.3.24

SoundToys

Crystallizer
Decapitator
Devil-loc
Del-Loc Deluxe
EchoBoy
EchoBoy Jr.
FilterFreak
Little AlterBoy
Little MicroShift
Little Plate
Little PrimalTap
Little Radiator
MicroShift
PanMan
PhaseMistress
PrimalTap
Radiator
Sie-Q
Tremolator

Steinberg

Cubase 8.5

Absolute Collection Instruments & FX:

Groove Agent 4 2.2.6.104
Halion 6 2.5.10.35
HSO (HALion Symphonic Orchestra) 3.50592
Halion Sonic 2.5.10.35
Padshop Pro
Retrologue
The Grand 3 2.111
RND Portico Plugins
Yamaha Vintage Collection
Sonote Beat re:edit

Sounds:

Dark Planet
Hypnotic Dance
Treibwork

Toontrack
Instruments:

Superior Drummer 2.40
EZ Drummer 2.15

Drum Kits:

Avatar 1.50
Claustrophobic 1.53
Cocktail 1.40
Drumkit from Hell 1.53
Electronic 1.52
Funkmasters 1.53
Jazz 1.51
Latin Percussion 1.55
Nashville 1.53
New York 1 – 1.20
Pop/Rock 1.54
SDX Avatar 1.31
SDX NY 1.02
Solo 1.32
Twisted Kit 1.53
Vintage Rock 1.53

UVI

Instruments

Falcon 2.0.5
Workstation 3.0.10

Falcon Soundsets

Analog Motion 1.01
Atmospherics 1.01
Cinematic Shades 1.10
Devinity 1.0.0
Digital Motion 1.0.0
Eternal Funk 1.0.1
Ether Fields 1.0.1
Plurality 1.0.
Pulsar 1.0.1
Spectre 1.0.1
Subculture 1.0.0
Titanium 1.0.0

Vintage Vault 3.0

BeatBox Anthology 1.5.1
BeatBox Anthology 2 1.0.4 (111 Drum Machines)
Cameo 1.0.3
- Cameo CM
- Cameo CX
- Cameo CZ
CS-M 1.0
Darklight IIx 1.3.1
- Page P
- Page B
- Page U
Digital Synsations 1.4.4
- DS77
- DS1
- DSX
- DS90s
Digital Synsations Vol 2 1.0.2
- DZmo
- DK5S
- DS-890
Emulation One / Drumulation One 1.2.2
Emulation II / Drumulation 1.4.3
Energy (DK Synergy)
FM Suite 1.0
- FMX1 XL
- FMX2 XL
- FMX-8op
- FMX 4op
- FMX GS
JP Legacy 1.0
- Mercury-80
- Saturn-4
- Saturn-6
- Saturn-8
Kroma 1.5.0
Mello 1.2.4
OB Legacy 1.0.1
- M-6k
- Six-12
- UV-I
- UVSR-2
- UV-XXX
- XP-12
PX Apollo 1.0.4
PX V8 1.0.1
String Machines 1.4.2
String Machines 2 1.0.4
Synth Anthology 2 1.2.3 (77 synths)
Synthox (Synthex, EK-44) 1.0
The Beast 1.6.2
- The Beast FM II
- The Beast Terminal
- The Beast Box
UltraMini 1.6.2
- UltraMini 1971
- UltraMini 2011
U1250 1.0
USQ-1 1.0
UVS-3200 1.0.1
UVX-3P 1.1.5
UVX-10P 1.3.4
UVX80 1.0.0
UVX670 1.0
Vector Pro 1.4.3
- Vector Pro 22
- Vector Pro VS
- Vector Pro VX
WaveRunner 1.4.3
- Wave Runner 360
- Wave Runner Terminal D
- Wave Runner Terminal U
- Wave Runner Orange
- Wave Runner X
- Wave Runner 2.0
- Wave Runner 2.3

Additional Soundsets

Scratch Machine 1.1.0
Sweep Machine 1.0.0
Urban X
Vintage Legends (CS70M, Synthex, Chroma, DX1, DK Synergy, K250)

Waldorf

Attack 1.74
DPole Filter 1.74
WavePPG 2.V 1.74

Waves
Horizon 11.0

Waves AudioTrack
Waves Bass Rider
Waves C1 Compressor
Waves C4 Multiband Compressor
Waves Center
Waves CLA Guitars
Waves CLA-2A Compressor/Limiter
Waves CLA-3A Compressor/Limiter
Waves CLA-76 Compressor/Limiter
Waves DeBreath
Waves DeEsser
Waves Doppler
Waves Doubler
Waves Eddie Kramer Drum Channel
Waves Electric Grand 80 Piano
Waves eMo F2 Filter
Waves eMo Generator
Waves eMo Q4 Equalizer
Waves Enigma
Waves Greg Wells ToneCentric
Waves GTR3 Amps
Waves GTR3 Stomps
Waves GTR3 ToolRack
Waves GTR3 Tuner
Waves H-Comp Hybrid Compressor
Waves H-Delay Hybrid Delay
Waves IR-L Convolution Reverb
Waves Kramer HLS Channel
Waves Kramer Master Tape
Waves Kramer PIE Compressor
Waves L1 Ultramaximizer
Waves L2 Ultramaximizer
Waves L3 Multimaximizer
Waves L3 Ultramaximizer
Waves L3-16 Multimaximizer
Waves L3-LL Multimaximizer
Waves L3-LL Ultramaximizer
Waves Linear Phase EQ
Waves Linear Phase Multiband Compression
Waves Maserati DRM
Waves MaxxBass
Waves MaxxVolume
Waves MetaFilter
Waves MetaFlanger
Waves MondoMod
Waves Morphoder
Waves MV2
Waves OneKnob Driver
Waves OneKnob Filter
Waves OneKnob Pumper
Waves PAZ Analyzer
Waves PS22 Stereo Maker
Waves PuigChild Compressor
Waves PuigTec EQs
Waves Q10 Equalizer
Waves Q-Clone
Waves Renaissance Axx
Waves Renaissance Bass
Waves Renaissance Channel
Waves Renaissance Compressor
Waves Renaissance DeEsser
Waves Renaissance Equalizer
Waves Renaissance Reverb
Waves Renaissance Vox
Waves S1 Stereo Imager
Waves Sibilance
Waves SoundShifter
Waves SuperTap
Waves Trans-X
Waves TrueVerb
Waves UltraPitch
Waves UM225 / UM226
Waves V-Comp
Waves V-EQ3
Waves V-EQ4
Waves Vitamin Sonic Enhancer
Waves Vocal Rider
Waves VUMeter
Waves Tune LT
Waves WLM Plus Loudness Meter

Abbey Road Collection 11.0

Abbey Road Chambers
Abbey Road Reverb Plates
Abbey Road Saturator
Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain
Abbey Road Vinyl
EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
J37 Tape
REDD
Reel ADT
RS56 Passive EQ
The King’s Microphones

Additional Plugins

Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter 11.0
Waves Bass Fingers 11.0
Waves Bass Slapper 11.0
Waves BSS DPR-402 11.0
Waves Berzerk Distortion 11.0
Waves Butch Vig Vocals 11.0.0
Waves Codex Wavetable Synth 11.0
Waves Element 2.0 Virtual Analog Synth 11.0
Waves Flow Motion FM Synth 11.0
Waves H-Reverb Hybrid Reverb 11.0
Waves Infected Mushroom Pusher 11.0
Waves MDMX Distortion 11.0
Waves OneKnob Louder 11.0
Waves OneKnow Wetter 11.0
Waves Smack Attack 11.0
Waves Submarine 11.0
Waves Brauer Motion 10.0
Waves Cobalt Saphira 10.0
Waves Eddie Kramer Effects Channel 10.0
Waves LoAir 10.0
Waves Scheps Parallel Particles 10.0