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Borbolactic · Post by **Borbolactic** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:22 am

No contest: All the FLOSS devs.

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:31 am

- Wavesfactory
- Sonimus
- Arturia

Gam456 · Post by **Gam456** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:34 am

It's impossbile to make a short list

Spectrasonics - favorite synth for inspiration
UVI - Falcon a sand box instrument
Eventide - best creative bundle
Reveal - second favorite synth
Relab - my fav modeled hardware reverb
Sonic Charge - best drum machine ever
Softube - best analogue feel synth
Synapse Audio - best OB-Xa
Geforce - best Mellotron out there
IK Multimedia - best tape machine ever
Sonible - enter in the new era of IA for EQ, comp, limiter etc...
Pulsar - favorite eq and comp for master
Native Instruments - Replika XT great delay
LiquidSonics - fantastique natural reverb
D16 - great multi purpose delay
Xils Labs - great drum machine
AudioThing - a dev for exploration
Soundtoys - second creative effect bundle
Audiority - cheap, great sound effect

lolilol1975 · Post by **lolilol1975** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:21 am

El°HYM wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:48 pm Vladislav Goncharov
Herbert Goldberg
Fabien Schivre

Aka TDR

Fornicras · Post by **Fornicras** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:25 am

Arturia, Sonible and Valhalla.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:28 am

Borbolactic wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:22 am No contest: All the FLOSS devs.

No wonder that you can't name 3.

lolilol1975 · Post by **lolilol1975** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:13 pm

Here are my criteria:
- sound good
- versatile
- resource efficient (CPU, RAM, disk)
- solid (no bugs)
- unobtrusive copy protection and no crapware
- decent price
My experience is the companies that fit these criteria are also great to deal with.

A incomplete list of companies that fit these criteria:
Klanghelm
TDR
Toneboosters
Valhalla
Minimal Audio
Synapse Audio (although not cheap, but quality makes up for the price)
u-he (although not cheap, but quality makes up for the price)

There are plenty of others that also deserve to be on this list, of course, but the biggest names usually don't.

HOTF · Post by **HOTF** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 3:00 pm

TDR
U-He
Fabfilter

gjunk · Post by **gjunk** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:44 pm

Cableguys, TDR, Fabfilter are my current favorites

Scrubbing Monkeys · Post by **Scrubbing Monkeys** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:17 pm

TDR
Tone Boosters
Klanghelm

DuX · Post by **DuX** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:44 pm

U-He
Togu Audio Line
Tokyo Dawn Records

It's so hard to mention just three, so I would honourably mention Valhalla DSP, Cytomic, Klanghelm, Audio Damage, Fabfilter, Voxengo, ToneBoosters. These are all plugin developers that *sell* you plugins, you register them, and you use them. Not much fuss, no download apps, no web authorisation, and the plugins are top of the line!

whassup · Post by **whassup** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:01 pm

Gam456 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:34 am It's impossbile to make a short list

This!

Borbolactic · Post by **Borbolactic** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:17 pm

chk071 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:28 am
Borbolactic wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:22 am No contest: All the FLOSS devs.
No wonder that you can't name 3.

Unsure what you mean but put it this way: People can only play pretend for so long. IOW, reality will catch up.
IOW again, we have a lot of people often talking about all this music software that they have that they hardly or never use or don't have the time for, but how much money did they really spend on it then? Perhaps we already know the answer.

It's the system and we're in it and it's playing pretend on a number of fronts.
Also, maybe talk to Richard Stallman et al. about that sort of thing.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:41 pm

I think the last thing we need in such a discussion is (another) political discourse.

MirkoVanHauten · Post by **MirkoVanHauten** » Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:54 pm

My vote goes to all the devs supporting CLAP. Those include my actual favorites anyways.

Top 3 of your fav vst devs