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I know how much difference a decent mixing makes, but for stupid internet music I just throw together synth factory presets, bang random notes, add a violent compressor at the end, and call it a day ( ﾟ ヮﾟ)

I googled that mercury thing, looks nice but I think I'm already sitting on way too many sounds and effects - I'd love to try Omnisphere too, but these kind of massive toyboxes would probably just get in the way of making music, you know?
I tried to explore the world of VST/AU plug-ins, but in the end nothing works better for me than to load Reason with generic patches, disregard the sound while composing, then rewire it to a DAW later, switching some parts to one the few synths I actually took the time to learn, program them, and add simple effects in ways that work for the song. Effects that encourages too much exploration too early just spoil me and makes me want to do some "creative" "ambient" "experimental" "art".