Your top 3 best FX plugins of 2018

[SLiC]

The ONLY 3 fx I bought/upgraded this year are therefore the best

BYOME
Breeze 2
SP2016 (upgrade)

[cnt]

My best buys this year:

- Admiral Quality Stunning Phaser. Best phaser I've heard and used in software.
- Polyverse Gatekeeper. Nice looking and VERY exact. Easier to manage than LFOtool which I also like.
- Sonic Academy Kick 2. Well, its an instrument but anyways. Did my own kicks in other ways before or just used other peoples samples. Never getting the perfect kick from old samples you or somebody else made is history now.

[woggle]

Unfiltered Audio BYOME
Blue Cat Late Replies
Blue Cat MB-7

plus reverb and that covers a lot of territory

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

Waves omni channel
Klanghelm dc8c3
Kuassa Caliburn

[RPH]

Everything by Chris at Airwindows -- If you're not using his plugs, you're missing so many best-in-class processors that kick the *ss of many other plugs that you've spend hundreds of dollars on.

No thanks, zipper noise fest while using parameters.

1: Anything from fuse audio labs
2: Anything from toneboosters
3: Omega 458a

[enroe]

This year:

1. Nix shifter
2. Nix shifter
3. Nix shifter

Nothing shifts as good as this one!

[Apratim]

I feels like adding MXXX will be cheating but I will still mention it.use it on all my sound design channel .

Hope so it will be equivalent to all 3 spots

[chk071]

- Admiral Quality Stunning Phaser. Best phaser I've heard and used in software.

I found the feedback way too shrill.

My vote would be Eventide SP2016. Great sounding reverb. Only didn't buy it because i feel like i'm set with what i have.

[sleepcircle]

The subject of this thread is about YOUR Fx in 2018, not the Fx launched in the 2018. I.e. best of your new purchases of 2018.

OP says "what would be the top 3 plugins that were released this year."

[Cinebient]

That would be 2CAudio B2, Breeze 2.1 (plus Precedence) and N.I. Replika XT then.
However, there is FX in some synths i wish there was a dedicated plug-in for like the mod FX in Alchemy synth and the plate reverb module in P900.
Oh there are many more i like so hard to choose just 3.

[imrae]

New releases:

• Toneboosters Reelbus 4 - a subtle effect with plenty of features and good user interface
• Kuassa Caliburn - I don't even like Marshalls that much but this is a great workflow for fierce sound
• Kazrog TrueIron - Still getting to know it, but this is probably going to end up in lots of places. A nice complement to SDRR that does something slightly different.

Honourable updates:

• Klanghelm's DC8C3 was released, and makes the "easy" modes much more useful by letting you convert them into "advanced" mode at will.
• Tokyo Dawn added even more features to Nova GE and another compression mode to Limiter 6 GE

Honourable mentions:

• Airwindows. Can't get zipper noise if you only automate sends Lots of interesting new flavours of compression and saturation. NonLinearSpace seems fun too. BitGlitter is well cool.
• VCV Rack. Lots of nice stuff came out for VCV this year and it plays along with the DAW a bit more smoothly too.

[sacer]

fx: cableguys - shaperbox, sugarbytes - looperator, UA - byome
reverb /delay: u-he - copycolour, eventide - sp2016, soundtoys - echoboy
mixing / mastering: ff - pro Q3, PA - bx_masterdesk, ozone8 advance

[thecontrolcentre]

BYOME, Lindell TE100 & Airwindows Pop ...

[simmo75]

BYOME
Arouser
Crusher-X 7.5

[thelizard]

Wow! Thanks for all of the BYOME mentions.

1) MTurboDelay
2) Colour Copy
3) MSpectralDelay

(I like delays)