I wrote an app earlier this month that lists all the VST effects and instruments used in a directory full of Reaper sessions. The intended benefit of this is to allow you to reinstall Windows or get a new computer and have a definitive list of what effects need to be reinstall...
I started off recording in Cool Edit Pro ("two point ohhhhhhhh"), which was a great DAW and is now Adobe Audition, which is a little too Adobe for my liking. Then, like now, CEP was terrible at dealing with samples and MIDI. I later discovered Sony Acid Pro, which was great fo...