Who has a favorite VST?

Hello All,

I just wanted to introduce myself and pose a question. My DJ moniker is 'transfixt' and I'll be posting some mixlr and justin.tv live sets here in the near future. Just wanted to get a good idea of what people's thoughts are on favorite DAW VSTs because I am in the process of picking some and don't want to make the wrong choice. Looking forward to lots of good discussions :-D.

DAW is Digital Audio Workstation. VST is Virtual Studio Technology.

So Cubase, FL, Live, Reason, etc.. are DAW's.

VST's are plug ins. So like Trilogy, Massive, etc.. are VST's

gonorrhea

Thanks for the response curmudgeon. I am aware of the difference. I suppose the way I worded it made me sound a bit ignorant. I just recently started really getting in Ableton after spending years solely on Reason and the capabilities it has are astounding. Now that I have a good knack of the operations of the system I wanted to get my hands on some sounds that aren't noticeable as a standard factory sound bank. There are so many VSTs out there, most over $100, and I can't afford them all unfortunately. So, I was just seeing if anyone had some insider knowledge, maybe some kind of sponsorship that allows them to get them for free or is up on the trial versions. Knowing where to invest my cash would definitely be a step in the right direction.

it's so subjective because it depends upon the kind of music you wish to make- some people want to make aleatory/generative music and seek randomizations engines, others want to make dubstep and seek softsynths, other people are into physical modeling. As far as VSTs you pay for, I have had fun lately with Sylenth, U-He's "ACE", and Cyclop, and, within the Ableton family itself, Tension and Collision, but there's so much good freeware out there that you can have fun with, and if you have Max for Live you can hit the boards where people are making and sharing Max patches and instruments that run inside Ableton, so there's that as well.

http://www.stayonbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/vst_sunra.jpg

i don't know if it makes you sound like sun ra, but it looks cool.