The Best & Worst VST Plugins of 2023

PLEASE SUB GUYS

It's a M4L device, not a VST, but my favorite plugin of the year is Opal by Fors (it might have come out at the end of 2022 though). Super cool drum synth / virtual groove box with a really quick/easy and fun workflow. For me, the real magic is in it's sequencer... pretty sure it's my all time favorite sequencer honestly.

Thank you Mr. Beats for a great year of content !

Ozone advanced mastering assistant is such a grift. The modules are sick but izotope’s whole AI thing has always been hella unreliable

ultimate vocal remover is one of the best tools of all time. So damn clean for something that is free and relatively new to the software game

It's sums it up!

VPS Avenger 2 ?

I enjoyed it...just not as much as i thought i would!..cracked me up!...Bonus points for the hardware that most resembles a bomb! Heading to the airport now with this! ..Weaver rocks

My resolution for next year is, I'm gonna shave my shoulders. I'm just a bit worried about being too cold without my fur, you never know with this psycho-weather. Happy New Year and all that! Cheers!

Yea, AI was the buzzword this year, and of course they wanted to make a quick buck with it. During the video I was waiting for Will Smith coming on stage.

This was hilarious. Thanks for making it.

This was a bad year

bro plugin companys need to stop focusing on 'fancy graphics' and start making plugins that are actually useful and work well .. sublab is up there w the worst plugins i downloaded this year.. fully fkd my computer

idk i feel likes waves fuck up was way more egregious when you take into account that their whole structure been kinda scammy for a long ass time AND thousands of people were gonna get fucked into having to sub up if they wanted to keep getting the (paid) updates for the plugins they already spent hundreds of dollars on. (not even upgrades bc they almost never add new functionality to shit, just the regular ass updates to make sure the shit won't break on newer software, updates that do not cost them extra money for real bc every software company in business always has to put those together to keep their product on the market for new customers anyway, but that waves charges for anyway bc they're greedy as shit)

Weav you and wifey produce a great show.
It’s true, plugins are running outta moves.
The only thing that changes and stays fresh will be us!
New application of applications.
New non conventional uses.
I don’t know the name of that plugin, but if I can drop a stemmed out old dusty string sample into it, and it kicks back a reproduced synth sound that mimics it perfectly, we got ourselves a plugin!

Love the no-nonsense brutal honesty

If you bought subpac your a 🤡

uHE updated Filterscape that's pretty badass this year. Haven't used the trial but I'd say it would be one of the best this year

Shave, shave, shave,, shave!

it's because all these companies are after a quick buck, rather than actually being creative. it's cargo cult creativity. capitalism ruins everything.
free open source plugins were the best, as they are every year.

i gotta say the v-pan plugin.. it installed TWO separate drm softwares on my PC completely silently without ever mentioning either of them. so fuck that. the ai plugins don't even count, and at least they don't install bloatware. also the 'bassline' plugin that only worked for a few days, also GOYO, just straight up wanted hdd space and time spent

GET THIS MAN TO 50K!!!

You are to plug-ins what Davie 504 is to bass

@audiopilz

Bro put a Minimal Audio plugin on the best plugins of the year... That shows how bad the year has been.

BTW, when you said "there is no real idea left to make into a groundbreaking plugin", it made me think, but it's not true. I just checked Sonible Smart Gate and it is still not "smart enough". You still are going to lose snare ghost notes when you want to get rid of the hats in between snare hits. The AI plugin I need and I don't find is the "drum track cleaner".

Yo Weaver, plz review Xvox Pro. I feel like it's a really good vocal chain plugin, that came out this year.

Freakshow Industries🤔

I agree it was a terrible year for plugins. Current was really the only significant thing to come out and the only decent synth in what feels like forever. Hope Xfer or u-he roll out some new products soon

For the love of god, Weaver, stop moving the hand holding the microphone.
Also, great video.

Hilarious review🤣

Enjoyed this. Good content weaver

When's the God Particle review?

I love the idea of Synplant 2, the only setback is the engine is basically the same as version 1. So, I do hope Synplant 3 the entire synthesis engine changes.

I love your cynical humor, it's great man. much love Weaver! !

Falcon 3 has been cracxed already

Not a single one of the free Neural Modelling plugins in your best of? You must be higher than me right now.
No wonder you think its a terrible year, thats the biggest advance in decades. Neural Amp Modeller easily tops my list.

Fuck AI and use your dam ears ffs!!!

cherry audio pro solo is one of the best this year

the presets in current are garbage lol

Hey thanks for reminding me of Scalar EQ. I'm a big promoter of controversial sometimes nonsensical mixing decisions, so this should be right up my alley, metaphorically.

As far as everything going subscription... I was always taught that it would be a sign that we're heading towards a bleak dystopian future where you'd have to pay a subscription in order for your Breathable-aire face-filter to keep you alive. Therefore, I've tried to resist renting ordinary products including software, as much as possible.

the presets from current are actually really bad. there are no normal keys or pads they all have an annoying texture layer and the sounds are shid

Have you used autochorma yet?

Funny I thought about pre ordering a subpac a few years ago and decided it seemed fishy....

I love ScalerEQ!!

xln life I feel like the whole point is the use the generated rhythm not so much the generated loop but also there’s random infinite sound generator

2023 ended and no mention of the reason drama, weaver propellerhead shill confirmed

haven't bought a plugin in over a year, did pay for some updates tho