Updating my recommendations for plugins and other music stuffs.

https://www.soundtheory.com/kraftur One stop shop for loudness. Add a decent brick wall limiter after and you're good.

https://www.sonible.com/smartlimit/ fantastic multi-band limiter

https://www.sonible.com/smartcomp2/ great tool for many purposes.

https://babyaud.io/smooth-operator-plugin my goto for taming/exciting

https://soundghost.net/product/jumble/ great easy to use, simple, sample based grove machine

https://www.waves.com/plugins/element#element-tutorial-with-yoad-nevo one stop shop for old school trance and techno synths

https://www.waves.com/plugins/l2-ultramaximizer#how-to-limit-mixes-masters-peak-limiters great for individual tracks to catch peaks

https://www.waves.com/plugins/linear-phase-multiband-compressor Great for a little transparent smoothing and glue

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSaturator a must for adding loudness and warmth without eating dynamic bandwidth

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MLimiterMB useful for controlling bass levels

https://d16.pl/phoscyon2 the BEST 303 emulation I have ever used, period.

https://sixthsample.com/deelay/ might be the only delay plugin I actually need

https://www.molecularbytes.com/mbcms/index.php/products/atomicreverb great for natural subtle verbs. Activation is a bit annoying though

https://babyaud.io/spaced-out-plugin one stop shop for quick wow factor. Quick and easy to use.

https://www.loopmasters.com/ very hit or miss but the resent pack of Ukrainian vocals I got was ace.

https://www.applied-acoustics.com/chromaphone-3/ expensive but very nice

https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-nova/ too useful not to have and it's free.

https://www.naniplugin.com/ one stop shop for all distortion needs. quick/easy use. Comes with free boobs + a banana.

https://bertom.gumroad.com/l/denoiser extremely useful multiband denoiser

https://a1audio.alexhilton.net/a1stereocontrol very simple but a must for keeping phase issues out of your bass or drum bus