Hi Cheeze,
I use Cockos Reaper, the people´s DAW. It is very flexible and adaptible and there are mods out there to make it look any way you want. Reaper is fantastic, its made by the WinRAR guys.
I still use some of the stock plugins, even. The built in compressor just works for whenever I don´t want to insert some character. For reverb, I use a mixture of Valhalla Vintage Verb and Hofa IQ-Reverb, sometimes Valhalla Supermassive whenever its supposed to be huge and abstract. For delay, I use Valhalla Delay, Deelay or just copy and drag a signal around. Bouncing in place does wonders here, you can really f*@ck with audio that way and be creative.