Does Cubase need other stuff?

Or Mäag Eq4. I like it.

Now about topic, I like to work with Cubase stock plug-ins but in each mix I use some 3rd party ones that I like. One important thing —to me at least, as I work with an old i7 third generation— is that with stock plug-ins the processor load is relative low. There are some 3rd party plugins that are very consuming, specially Waves ones on my side. A couple of years ago Chris Selim made a mixing course where he used only stock plug-ins for a busy song with tens of tracks. I loaded the project into my computer and verified that the processor load was 25% with the whole project. Sometimes I have this load with just one or two 3rd party plugins.