Avulsion

I really like FL Studio. The price is a lot cheaper than other DAWs to purchase the "full version" (technically producer edition, anything above that is a bundle of producer and additional plugins). The stock plugins are great, you get Sytrus, one of the most powerful FM synths and Maximus, one of the most powerful compressors. That said, it grates on me. There are so many things that just take more clicks, more time, and more effort than other daws due to how FL is designed. I've ended up switching to Cubase.

Gives you access to a lot of the native plugins bitwig has to offer, with a couple weird restrictions (no more than 2 vsts and only 16-bit export). Other than that, this is fairly full-featured, and I enjoy Bitwig's workflow.

And without a good set of stock fx for mixing, this daw won't get much use from me :(

This is a very stripped down version of ableton, if you use mostly vst plugins that's fine, but if you really want to know what ableton is like, this doesn't cut it.

Absolutely the most important plugin for my mixdowns, this handles almost all of my eq needs with mid-side, dynamic eq, and midi input. It's replaced my use of multiband compressors as well.

This synth has basically become my main workhorse. My PC is able to run quite a few instances of Serum, and it's capable of making pretty much anything I want.

Being an additive synth, Harmor allows for unprecedented control over each individual harmonic, allowing some truly unique sounds to be created.

Great for making wonky basses or pads, just wish it had more modulation envelopes

Excitement, stereo spread, waveshaping, limiting and expansion... Maximus can do it all! You can even draw your own compression curves, which is incredibly useful for sound design. I've kind of moved away from it though seeing as I mostly use Cubase now and have moved on from multiband compression in general.

Gud compressor m8 makes my wobs fat yea.

Vocodex allows some great control over your vocoding. It can seem complicated at first, but it isn't too hard to learn. The one bad thing is the way the band distribution is displayed, very unintuitive.

This reverb has become one of my go-to reverbs. It sounds smooth and lush on pads and can be a great effect for fading things in and out with the wet fader.

Parametric EQ 2 is a great EQ, the frequency bars approach can clearly show individual harmonics. I used to use this EQ for all of my EQing. It's also great for modulation when creating basses.

If I'm ever in need of a small reverb that doesn't take the foreground (unless I'm doing a gated snare), this is what I reach for. It's great to just have a good sounding reverb to use on hats, pads, and background elements without needing to (or being able to, for that matter) tweak many settings.

Great piano library, very expressive and realistic. It's interesting, it sounds kind of bad without velocity variation, but add that in and it really brings it to life.

The filters sound great, and there's a lot of different ones to try, and even some that you wouldn't typically find in a filter unit.

Somewhat clunky, but works well for old style dubstep growls, filters aren't particularly great sounding.

Good for some subtle overdrive on drums or basses

Mostly been using these for the transients, chopping those out and layering them with my own sub.

A lot of good stuff, but also a lot of old things. Absynth, Kontakt, Massive, FM8, there's a lot of things in here that haven't really been updated in quite some time.

The modulation isn't quite as quick to use as Serum, but it produces some very nice sounds and the filters are miles ahead of Serum's.

Been using these for around three years, I've replaced the pads once with aftermarket pads. They're fantastic headphones and I can see why they've been a staple of the industry for over 20 years.

Good monitoring headphones, they provide nice isolation and relatively good frequency response. The 100-200hz region is a bit dry, so it can cause you to mix in extra mud, and the MDR-7506s have better highs, but overall these headphones are not bad, all my mixdowns used go through them before release.

They sound great and I got them used, so they were also a great value.

I'm not particularly good at playing keyboard, but to simply make chords or figure out some intervals this is a very nice tool.

Light, portable, long-lasting, fast, but hot in a bad way due to the intel chip. The screen is gorgeous and gives a lot of room for plugins (when you're not having scaling issues with windows). The built-in DAC is fairly high quality. Cooling can be an issue, as it is with most modern high-end intel laptops. The build quality is fair, it is metal so it feels nice, but the paint on the plastic bezel around the screen is chipping off, which feels somewhat cheap.

No bass, shrill highs. They sound like a pair of dollar store headphones, except they cost 30 times as much. They might share the looks of the DT-770 but they sound almost opposite. No wonder Behringer pulled these from the market just months after release.