KVR Audio

brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Mon May 20, 2013 10:01 pm

dj ray wrote:Oddity for me. Still the definitive Arp Odyssey emulation after all these years. +1 for the ReFX stuff including PlastiCZ and Vanguard.

how could i forget to mention oddity! thatone still with ease holds up today, imo. i still am amazed how analog the oscs and the filter sound, let alone that the fm and sync still sounds great...

fluffy_little_something · Mon May 20, 2013 10:26 pm

Must-have synth, hm, what does that even mean? The synth most people get because they think it is most likely to compensate for their lack of creativity and talent?

Must-have synths lead to boring results...

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Mon May 20, 2013 10:50 pm

D-Fusion wrote:and some presets on the z3ta+ was making crackling noices on my soundblaster card.

oh, i remember when the first virus mod came out. i played one of the arp presets. BOOM! my pc actually restarted! it was that cpu intensive.

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Tue May 21, 2013 12:31 am

For me it was VAZ. The screaming filter just blew me away. I had to buy it and did.

hma · Post by **hma** » Tue May 21, 2013 1:00 am

Yeah, VAZ here too. And it's still my favorite and most used synth!

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Tue May 21, 2013 1:08 am

Vaz and Sync Modular for me, but even Neon blew my mind away, just by realising the possibilities it represented. Before that I was using Simsynth, TS404 and Rubberduck

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:05 am

The first synth I got excited about was subtractor in reason. Horrible synth to me now though. But it sparked my imagination back then.

pheeleep · Post by **pheeleep** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:11 am

Pentagon I by rgc audio (now by Cakewalk). I think I bought it in 2001. Still used it when I was still making music last year. Z3ta+ as well.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:54 am

logic's first native va, whatever it was. not technically a vst.

heard it on a future music cover cd and thought, wow, so clean and pure.

yessongs · Post by **yessongs** » Tue May 21, 2013 4:35 am

back that far I was using hardware and never messed with software. Dang had a Korg poly 800 for my first synth I think it was called,

a kurzweil k2500 and a memory moog.

vata44 · Post by **vata44** » Tue May 21, 2013 4:46 am

Superwave P8

HunterKiller · Post by **HunterKiller** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:03 am

Before Zebra 2 and u-he took off and brought a slightly narrower focus to the industry with along with a couple of other changes such as the increasing focus in idiotically large sample libaries, the plugin land was wide open, everyone was swimming in all kinds of plugins, bread and butter stuff as well as some very out there experimental stuff. Lots and lots and lots of payware as well as freeware everywhere!

2003/2004 were very big years, we had millions of things by then. Really we did.
It's only when one goes back to 2002 and 2001 that things start getting sparse.

Around 2006-7 there was a change and both developers and consumers have been more selective and careful.
To some degree, maybe not visible to everyone, innovation has slowed and emulation has taken front seat as developers try to bring the software sound closer to the grittiness of the hardware sound.

ferez21 · Post by **ferez21** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:26 am

Not exactly a plug, but i used to create beats with the freeware Hammerhead, anyone remembers?

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:27 am

First synth what i liked is Rob Papen blue,and then Linplug Albino. and originally i disliked Native Instruments synths but today i know they have own special uses...

angelremington · Post by **angelremington** » Tue May 21, 2013 11:42 am

Sylenth, Nexus and Massive... Later followed by alchemy and z3ta 1 and 2

What was the first "must-have" VST instrument?