WOW I just looked at the site: looks enticing, although had I come across it without it being pointed out it’s a plugin developer I would have thought, I can’t try and learn yet another DAW, and Ardour is so good I don’t see any reason to go through all that, and took a pass, so thanks! 
Yes, it’s pretty cool. Note that it is not a plug in developer’s website, but a collection of links to various plugin/DAW/Vst developers.
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As in my handle? Trust me it predates at least the game and likely the boat maker and most other things you will find online. It comes from back when I was a kid playing online MUDs via dial in systems (BBSes and the like). Some of which are still around (Gemstone) funnily enough.
But in terms of Linux, I have been around the open source software world and Linux for quite a while, especially Ardour and open source audio, video, and 3D, though I don’t do much 3D anymore and most of my video production has gone back to closed source software for various reasons.
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That’s even better! It’s also good to have all that on a single page or website. I didn’t even have much time to really look at anything, but the pictures of all of those plugins showing the UI’s where you can see what you will be looking at in use, was enough for me to save a link and put it in my “Get back to” folder for when I can check it out closer.
I sure hope it also has better descriptions and they are picked based on some criteria and whoever collated the collection weeded out the stuff that has sound quality issues, unintuitive interfaces and what not, because there are too many sites out there that just list everything they found to exist with no detailed info, and you have to spend days going through it, opening a great many links to go through it all only to find out how many have not been updated for years, sites that don’t exist anymore, and all that, when you can do that better in a package manager.
I have wasted so much time on many things like sound fonts and all sorts of other assets, and all kinds of software’s for which there are assets and plugins for, and I had to ask myself "What’s the point to go through the work to list all that, and then just let it sit and rot?
Here I have a good community, with experience, names who based on their posts I recognize who can save you from those tedious endeavors, and point you right to the gold! 
Well then, I may have come across you on a BBs on a dial up too a few eons ago!! I got my first PC a Sinclair z81, in well 1981! I still have my Macintosh lisa, had all sorts of 2, 3, 4, and 596’s although no 586’s by name but an AMD K6. Every flavor of wWindon’t from 3.1 to & Nt’s and all and many failed attempts to install and run Linux starting with Slackware, and Mandrake, and then whatever I could pickup from best buy or Micro Center! I didn’t make any headroom with it for the lack of time and the learning curve, but when Win 10 was announced and I read all about the dread ahead, I was out!
I looked for what was already cross compatible as to file formats, converted most all of the rest to Linux native versions, really all but my recordings from cubase since I couldn’t find a solution, wiped my OS drive, installed Ubuntu, and literally just broke all of my Windows media, so I didn’t have it to fall back on which was a big factor keeping me from getting with the Linux program! I also canceled every Microsoft everything, even my Hotmail I had from not a few days after release which wasn’t easy because so many were getting one and jamming the lines! I kept that sucker pretty much spam free for all those years (I have always used “Best practice” for privacy and security issues, backups…), and I put myself through Linux boot camp! Distro hopped for a few months felt too much windows in so many Debian based distro’s and then tried Arch through Antergos OS, with KDE and was right where I wanted to be as the power user I was who hated windows for it’s limitations and treating me like an imbecile!! Other then Antergos ending due to a “Life comes first” issue, I stuck with the community and helped best I could bring Endeavour OS to fruition, and have been on it ever since, and I love it! I should have done all that years earlier!
So now that you know all that, may I ask why you still sign your posts and replies with your handle like in the days of olde? when Your handle has a recognizable icon… Because I really don’t see that very often anymore and stopped doing it myself quite a while ago, and I really thought you were recommending an add on for a more flexible favorites menu! 
And I do see it as you being courteous and respectful, and I as an American who lived in Germany for over two decades have rare for here European manors, tact and courtesy, but being back here so long now, and getting beef and seen as a snob just for being courteous I decided to be just as rude as people I meet and adjust to whatever people give me to work with! But unlike many here I can eat with a fork AND a knife! actually 5 kinds of forks, all the knives, spoons…! 
Here are links to a bunch more of those:
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Oh dear, even more plugins! What have I got myself into? 
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I have a lot of plugins installed but tend to have a few favourites. LSP, Ardour Community, Airwindows Consolidated, x42, ZL Equalizer (excellent Parametric and Dynamic EQ) Dragonfly Reverb, Aether Reverb, plus a few non-FOSS ones which have free Linux native versions such as Auburn Sounds, Fircomp2.
My go-to resource for searching Linux audio software is the https://linuxmusic.rocks/ database.
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From 2CAudio? I wasn’t familiar with Aether Reverb, but what I found with google seems to be Windows and Mac only.
Is this the one you mean? I was confused by a commercial Windows product of the same name.
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Yes the Github one by Dougal-s, not the commercial one. It’s highly configurable so possible to get wonderful results as well as terrible ones. 
Quite CPU heavy though.
Another Cloudseed based reverb, that is lighter on CPU, is CloudReverb:
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Thanks for that link, I hadn’t heard of that one. Haven’t noticed Aether being CPU heavy. It does have more GUI elements which I find quite useful. I guess they would sound similar.
It seems CloudSeed itself has become a commercial (freemium?) Win/Mac only product now.
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