Hey thanks for the elaborate comment. As you rightly mentioned we all have more plugins than we need. Air Windows have been creating some cool plugins which now comes in a bundle call Consolidated. Its basically all their plugin in one VST.

Frankly speaking majority of the Bedroom Producers are hoarders of free VST plugins, myself included.
After going through all now I want to limit myself to selected 8-10 plugins. Bedroom producers have played a major role in directing us towards Quality VST plugins.

Yes, there are far less innovations but I think still there is a lot of scope for new Plugin Developers.
For instance there were a lot cool 32 Bit VST and DX plugins which I have which has no 64 bit alternatives.

WOK , Sonitus , De La Mancha, Antress to name a few.
Happy that Variety of Sound is back in business with 64 bit gems.

Anyways let me stick to the selected few … Or Will I ;)

Honestly, there are more this year, but there are less innovative ones in some cases. I think we’ve already hit the edge where there is more plugins than we need. I’m watching the majors even slow down because there’s nothing left to emulate except super rare pieces or stuff that’s already available. I dont need another 1176, but now the free ones are even better than stuff that was at gold standard level years ago like Audio Obsession over UAD. There have even been releases from majors this year of collections that just were unnecessary like Arturia’s additions of a 303 and the synths. Native Instruments and Plugin Alliance can make stuff, or do some updates, but there nothing super new from the past and plenty of indie devs are working on great small projects that really put so much to rest. And the few big (and some indie) devs that do have great stuff are honestly doing some great updates that are freeish like Pigments, Phase Plant, Synthmaster 3, I mean. I dont need more drums. I dont need more synths. I dont need more compressors or reverbs or delays. We are solid. I’d like a new arpeggiator, but I mean I’m watching Softube push a 160 or Izotope give me trash Trash. Auto-Tune struggles to give reasons to upgrade and Melda has more than anyone could ever need. Musio and EastWest are basically giving away what used to cost tens of thousands. I love it, dont get me wrong, but …

Totally out of topic.
Is it me or does everyone feel that the number of free plugins have reduced this year.
Because last year I remember getting a whole lot of free plugins.

Nice one! LOL

A cool trick is to hit the solo button on the plugin’s GUI and apply it to a parallel channel in the DAW — like as an extra chain on an Ableton Audio Effect Rack, for example — to ‘inject spank’ alongside dry or otherwise-processed signal.

Also great on drums.

Toddler Audio now

Baby Audio at 5 years old, are growing up !

Oh and happy 5th anniversary to Baby Audio, came a long way in 5 years, all the best moving forwards 🙏