enjoyed your bass, thanks

My pleasure, very nice use of sample material

MDA DX10 (DX100 emulation)
Calf Organ (Similar to Package Organised, sounds identical)
Calf Fluidsynth. Simplified version of SFZ soundfont player. There’s a better one available by Camel? that’s almost identical to SFZ+, though the name eludes me for now.

As well as the Fluid GM set, I’ve used the Digital Sound Factory Examples soundfont- great freebie that almost constitutes an instrument in it’s own right.

DSP wise, I’ve used the PlateReverb plugin. Generally on vocal tracks, I leave the main track dry, and put the reverb on a delayed (1/16th bar) copy.

One thing with Windows is I had so many plugins (1000+) that it got too confusing, sometimes in music, less can be more.

I have a newer computer which I’d like to use- 16GB, quad core etc, the test machine I use at the moment is a 10 year old Dell with 4GB memory. It’s fine for ancient software, but struggles with 64 bit software.

Funny, I had the same experience at first when switching to gnu/linux. It’s like the lack of plugins forces you to explore new ways of working and get the most out of what you got.

Ardour I’ve tried before one or two times but the horizontal work flow didn’t worked out for me. For now I use renoise. But I would like to explore different DAW since renoise doesn’t support Lv2 plugins. And now Ardour support midi so I think it’s time to give it try one more time ;-)