Dead Developers - who are you missing?

[Debutante]

MichaeL Gruhn - LOSER (his name, not a comment)

I'm not dead. I just quit the whole audio plugin thing. I'm surprised - yet somewhat honored - that people are still using my stuff after 10 years.

Anyways, I put my old site from 2013 back online: https://ro.cking.ch/

If there is interest I could also dig up the backups for plugins that were hosted on these other (now defunct) sites:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071214223 ... sseca.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110402005 ... hn.com:80/
https://web.archive.org/web/20151001030 ... :80/loser/

But anything prior 2006 requires too much digging for the value this would provide. Also if someone is still clinching on to some plugin I wrote in 2005, you need to move on!

Lastly - for the record - I always open sourced and always will open source any software before abandoning it. Always abandon responsibly!

HAHA!!! I'm sure I'm not the only one. My favorite plugin of yours was the 50HZKicker, that still has no equal I've found in its capacity for control. This one is still a painful loss, although it does load from time to time.

Your transient plugin was coming along very nicely, and you updated it a lot initially I remember...

...and i STILL very very very much use your ABX Compressor test to listen to different styles of compression very quickly. Probably your most important plugin to me.

Thank You Most Kindly for your efforts and R(retire).I.P

[Garrincha]

Xphraze was coded by reFX. Wizoo only did the UI, samples and presets.

Xphraze was Michael Kleps work and started live as a Wavestation clone. When Korg showed no interest he presented it to Peter Gorges from Wizoo and they decided to take it further. It then became Xphraze and as you already mentioned, Wizoo did the UI, samples and presets. I think I remember that Michael wasn't to happy with the sounddesign - at least partly.

It's a shame though, I really liked XPraze and I wished there was a new version of that thing.

[v1o]

Fielding DSP. These guys had so much potential, it’s a shame they never made another plugin after Reviver.

The guy that made Elekrostudio VST. Imagine what he could make with modern technology.

And the creator of SQ8L it’s a shame that the mysterious creator of this plugin never got around to finishing it. It’s one of those rare examples of a hardware perfect emulation.

[v1o]

Michael Kleps - ReFX

~14 years ago Michael Kleps developed Xphraze, QuadraSID, Vanguard etc. Xphraze was a masterpiece. Just imagine what this guy would have developed these days. He had outstanding creativity. I know reFX still updates Nexus a Rompler but unfortunately no new procucts for ages.

He's very much alive. Name is now Michael Hartmann. Guess he got married and took her last name or something. Can't remember how that went.

Anyway, with how little that's been done since others have left Refx, maybe Michael Kleps isn't the coder many thought and perhaps rather an employer of coders. Not sure either way

Aren’t REFX responsible for coding Vengeance Avenger?

[paradiddle]

What people said in this thread. I also miss devine machine which was coded by Nicholas Lacoumette (x-incarn, ect). Brillant coder with great ideas but seems to me he has a knack for abandoning projects. He did a software called cycler 3d which I bought but the software expired a few months after. Was really pissed but not about the money more about the software that stopped working.

Plenty more that disappeared a while back. Bitheadz, ect.

[fforet]

But anything prior 2006 requires too much digging for the value this would provide. Also if someone is still clinching on to some plugin I wrote in 2005, you need to move on!

haha, so true.

[felis]

VAZ may be dead, but you’ve not got rid of me yet! I now occasionally dabble with utilities to work with hardware samplers.

I hear from Dennis (Spin audio, post that 2C audio) every Christmas, and Antti H is an FB friend and visible in sampler circles.

You're the guy that did the VAZ stuff? Fantastic work IMO, and still one of the best sounding.
Sorry - I never purchased it.
I'm in the US, and at that time, I was pretty nervous about buying stuff from overseas.

Anyways - I still have and sometimes use the modular demo.
This thread reminded me of it, so I went back and checked the site.
Just an FYI - I was going to download the other demos and got a warning that VAZ Plus contains a virus.
There was no warning on the VAZ 2010 demo.
Edit: just went back and checked and I also got a virus warning for the modular demo.
I suppose it's possible my anti-virus program is overly sensitive though.

Horribly brash of me, but maybe if you're in an especially generous mood sometime,
you could consider removing the restrictions from the demos, so they're fully functional.
Seeing as how they're history and considered dead now.
Alternatively - maybe an update could resurrect them.

[knobcore]

VAZ may be dead, but you’ve not got rid of me yet! I now occasionally dabble with utilities to work with hardware samplers.

I hear from Dennis (Spin audio, post that 2C audio) every Christmas, and Antti H is an FB friend and visible in sampler circles.

any reason why you haven't open sourced vaz?

[whyterabbyt]

VAZ may be dead, but you’ve not got rid of me yet! I now occasionally dabble with utilities to work with hardware samplers.

I hear from Dennis (Spin audio, post that 2C audio) every Christmas, and Antti H is an FB friend and visible in sampler circles.

any reason why you haven't open sourced vaz?

Any reason you think that's an obligation?

[pough]

I miss Andreas Ersson. Great free plugins.

[sacer]

LIN PLUG

[Halonmusic]

Phuturetone.

[martinjuenke]

Home Grown Sounds

[chk071]

Novation. They're not dead, but, they really should do software again.

[Halonmusic]

Novation. They're not dead, but, they really should do software again.

Agreed!