[peapicker]

To echo a little, as a dev who gets paid to write software, I’m happy to pay other devs for quality software.

Quality DSP from Xfer Records (Serum), Fabfilter (Many amazing data viz plugs and good sounding compressor, limiter, gate, multi band eq, saturator, etc), izoTope (trash2 distortion) etc etc etc have been worth every cent for their clarity and performance.

Carefully shop around for some of these and you will realize that money does actually buy real quality sometimes. But only sometimes. Most quality products has free limited demos that can be very informative.

Sometimes free/libre stuff is also amazing, like Dexed. And perhaps also Bespoke - I’ll definitely be trying it out, and sending $$$ if I think I’ll use it.