Plugins you actually use?

[Neospace]

It is very tempting to buy plugins because they are easy to work with, but mostly they don't work as they promised and end up in a "forgotten folder" on your harddrive. So my question is: Which plugins do you actually use and are essential on every track you produce?

I will make a list of plugins I actually bought (and still use), I work with Logic so I also use some stock plugins.

Waves Aphex Vintage Exciter
Waves CLA Vocals
Waves PuigTec EQP1A
Waves Vocal Rider
Waves WLM Plus Loudness Meter
Wavesfactory Trackspacer

[Gregory]

I work with Fl Studio 20 and I mostly use the original plugins:
Fl keys
Harmless (Especially the preset: Eighties Keys)
FPC
Sytrus
Harmor

Then I use the samples I downloaded from Chris' website, which are very useful and helped me a lot during my first steps in music and they still help me even now

[CosmicBeing]

I use a variety of soft synths including Reveal Sound Spire, U-He Diva, Synth 1 (Of course), Harmor, Juno 106 EMU, Pro-53, and that's just to name a few. FL Studio all the way babyyyy!

[alfmeister]

There are so many good ones. Some of my favorite fx:

Pro-Q by Fabfilter
NobleQ by PSP
Chipcrusher by Plogue
RC-20 Retro Color by XLN Audio
Sonsig Rev-A by Relab
Shimmer, Supermassive, VintageVerb by ValhallaDSP
Replika XT by Native Instruments
TDR Limiter6 GE by Tokyo Dawn Labs

[John_Calette]

I have lots of VST-plugins, which i using only some from it. Favorites: Spire, PG8X, Juno-106, LittleOne, Nexus and etc.
I music make in FL Studio 20.

[GalaxyObserver]

On my DIstant Messages album:

Synths:
Novation V-Station (now a free download from Novation)
TAL Sampler
Zebra CM (part of the CM magazine plugins, there are some really good plugins in their plugin suite and the online magazine only subscription is pretty cheap).
Synth1
SQ8L
Sytrus
DCO-106

Effects:
Oririver
Deelay
FL Studio effect plugins
Valhalla Supermassive
Vocodex
TAL Chorus LX
BX Masterdesk
OldskoolVerb

[Dzod]

The only synth plugins I use often are Serum, Diva, Vengeance-Sound, and FM8. There are others but I hardly use them. DCO-106 is the worst Juno I've ever heard.
The majority of my plugins are fx, channel strips/eq's

SSL EQ & bus compressor. Evantide plugins. TC electronic FX. Valhalla FX.

Izotope Ozone for master strip.