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Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:20 pm

Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:50 am

Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:06 pm

Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 6:21 am

annode · Post by **annode** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 5:43 pm

Wow! That`s one amazing collection.
I fondly remember many of them, and some I dloaded again.
Can`t KVR add this collection to their sticky or make this a sticky?
I assume the majority of these, once for sale,are NOT demos. I noticed that 'Chainer' was, and is still available for sale. ( I own it anyway, but was just curious.)

Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:09 pm

Well, I would wait till I cleaned all 800+ pages. I will need psychological assistance after that for sure, but I'm musician and I say it MUST be "safed" for the future as good as possible. The original post started may 2007, meanwhile many lost stuff came out of the ashes again.

Syntilla · Post by **Syntilla** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:04 am

This might save you a lot of effort:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... sp=sharing
Last updated November 23rd 2015.

Any dead / new links, Bob Bobward's always keen to hear about it.

Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 8:26 am

Ty Syntilla, that will sweeten the work.

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:02 pm

It's very nice of you! I've finally found Tritium, a old freeware that I used more than ten years ago and stupidly deleted. I remember it sounded good. Thanks!

Karma_tba · Post by **Karma_tba** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:45 pm

I am struggling to understand this website. The majority of serious users/musicians/producers are proponents of 64 bit DAWs and plugins, yet so much effort is being put into archiving "gems" from the past. It is obviously a fact that these plugins are overwhelmingly 32 bit. If 64 bit is driving current and future music production what is the point of collecting antiques? Are people using these plugins? Are they running a separate kit to do so? Is this some form of nostalgia? If these plugins are considered inferior due to being 32 bit why bother? Personally I have no issue with 32 bit plugins, but many here discriminate based on whether a plugin is available in 64 bit. I don't get it.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:56 pm

I use 32 bit plugins in 32 bit DAWs here. Heck, someone else said that they were using an old Amiga still
So anything is possible

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:00 pm

Well done and thanks.

Big Busker · Post by **Big Busker** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:17 pm

Karma_tba wrote:I am struggling to understand this website. The majority of serious users/musicians/producers are proponents of 64 bit DAWs and plugins, yet so much effort is being put into archiving "gems" from the past. It is obviously a fact that these plugins are overwhelmingly 32 bit. If 64 bit is driving current and future music production what is the point of collecting antiques? Are people using these plugins? Are they running a separate kit to do so? Is this some form of nostalgia? If these plugins are considered inferior due to being 32 bit why bother? Personally I have no issue with 32 bit plugins, but many here discriminate based on whether a plugin is available in 64 bit. I don't get it.

I agree with you in this particular regard: it's not whether it's 32- or 64-bit. It's how effectively and efficiently the plugin does what it's supposed to do. Is it free from self-noise, aliasing and artifacts? Is it crash-proof (meaning, does it avoid putting a strain on the DAW's resources)? Does it avoid eating up CPU processing power?

The final two big ones for me -- Does it sound good? And since my budget is small to say the least, is it free? Free as in, "costs no money", "open source", and "no awkward encryption/copy protection".

I've found several ghostware and open-source freeware plugins that fulfill these criteria. I've no interest in what 'the majority of serious music creators' do, since there's so many people that fall under that category, and they all use different things to make their music... even analog tape, and pieces of hardware outboard equipment that cost more than my annual rent.

It's clear what this thread (and KVR in general) does for me: it helps me to get the job done. I still have to work, but I'm getting the right tools to make the work go faster.

Cruba · Post by **Cruba** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:46 am

Karma_tba wrote:I am struggling to understand this website. The majority of serious users/musicians/producers are proponents of 64 bit DAWs and plugins, yet so much effort is being put into archiving "gems" from the past. It is obviously a fact that these plugins are overwhelmingly 32 bit. If 64 bit is driving current and future music production what is the point of collecting antiques? Are people using these plugins? Are they running a separate kit to do so? Is this some form of nostalgia? If these plugins are considered inferior due to being 32 bit why bother? Personally I have no issue with 32 bit plugins, but many here discriminate based on whether a plugin is available in 64 bit. I don't get it.

Well, I guess you didn't read the initial posting in the original thread. Again, this thread we are in here is just a clean & updated linklist. Original thread: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=177407

And yes: It's about kind of nostalgica. The original Old Gems thread dreaddd opend was ment to recover/show some goodies from the past that are rare, discontinued, disappeared. As you see it's 800+ pages now, other people was thinking the same.

And yes: There is no reason to ignore proper coded 32bit plugins. Maybe it will run also on 128bit in the future.

Thinking about the Mellotron, Artefake_Labs did the best job to build up a Mellotron VST that really sound near to the original and also enbedded all the "issues" of the original, like the clicksound, the pick-up head does when key is pressed and it has 1st contact with the tape.

Also there is really "just cool" stuff from the past like the nin!ja, Icecream & Jewel. This synths was rough, fun, did sound special or had an unusual workflow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAkRdve0zA

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:28 am

trimph1 wrote:I use 32 bit plugins in 32 bit DAWs here. ...

+1

Old Free VSTi Gems From The Past / in short 2016 version