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JuceOPLVSTi
A VST instrument which emulates the Yamaha OPL sound chip used in PC sound cards from the 90s.
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Linux Studio Plugins (LSP), a collection of open source plugins.
x42 Auto Tune — my go-to autotune plugin, modelled on Zita's AT1. Very barebones, with tuning/bias/correction/speed controls, you can select which of the 12 chromatic notes to retune to, or you can also sidechain to a MIDI channel to force tuning to a particular note in realtime.
Vital/Vitalium by Matt Tytell — a beast of a spectral wavetable synth. 3 oscillators, sampler, 2 filters, 3 env/LFOs, bunch of macro controls, great in-built effects (compressor, distortion, verb, delay, etc.), and so so much more. Hats off to Matt for this, this is an achievement! Vital is free with a "basic" setup of 75 presets/25 wavetables, there are also options for monthly subscription / "plus" / "pro" upgrades for more presets, skins, and other perks. Matt published Vital's source code but isn't accepting pull requests; Vitalium is a community fork of Vital.
Delay Architect — a brilliant delay plugin with with robust, manual controls for things like pan/tuning/resonance/cutoff, as well as the patch save/loading! See also Unfa's video on this plugin.
Stone Phaser (m/s) — personal favourite, simple but effective analog phaser, with a pretty GUI modelled on Small Stone.
Guitarix — probably the best virtual guitar amp tools for Linux, it has dozens of individual pedal units for distortion/overdrive/fuzz effects. See also these standalone versions of the pedals.
Helm by Matt Tytell — another staple synth by Matt Tytell, with 2 oscillators, upto 32 voices, feedback, filter/LFOs/envelopes/arp/gates and much more. Comes with a huge pack of great presets. If Vital is the FOSS replacement for Serum, Helm is the replacement for Massive.
sfizz — a barebones sampler developed around the SFZ (soundfont) format.
Drops (alpha) — a simple sampler built on sfizz with basic ADSR/filter controls, and pretty GUI. Use with caution, still in Alpha dev!
Ninjas2 — a lovely slicer, allows automatic/manual sample slicing, and automatic mapping of slices to MIDI notes, with basic ADSR controls as well.
JuceOPL — a clean FM/additive synthesizer.
x42-plugins suite has a very nice 4-band parametric EQ. It has the nice algorithmic property that all parameters (Q width, gain, freq, etc) can be smoothly time automated without introducing any distortion / blips to audio.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal Cardinal is a modular synth / fx plugin. Create your own synth or effect with it (if you know what you're doing and have the time :-D)
I'd add Geonkick to the drums (it's a drum-synthesizer). Also, I'd add Galactic (from the excellent Airwindows -collection) and Aether to the Reverb-section.