Anybody famous using VSTis yet?

[brouculy]

VNV Nation uses Reaktor, Virus powercore, Junox2, ...etc.

[koorby]

Todd Lundgren is a huge fan of Reason, uses it 100% now for all his projects. Read that in SOS couple months back.

[ghost666]

I use what's in my sig below.

Errr... sorry, who r u again?

[No name]

Eminem - Sampletank.

Oh hell look what you've done now. Let's just hope the kiddies don't find this out. Otherwise you'll hear 50,000 teens using sampletank, and they don't know a damn thing about music. Just cause Eminem is using it.

[deastman]

Eminem - Sampletank.

Oh hell look what you've done now. Let's just hope the kiddies don't find this out. Otherwise you'll hear 50,000 teens using sampletank, and they don't know a damn thing about music. Just cause Eminem is using it.

And by Eminem, I assume you mean the hired producers who actually write all his music for him?

[apflaum]

assemblage 23 http://www.assemblage23.com/ is a fairly large ebm/industrial act. He uses a lot of vst's. on his studio page he cites:

Computer Music CM-101
This is a freebie VST instrument that comes with all issues of Computer Music magazine. It's incredibly basic, but it can actually make some really nice sounds.
Used on: Part of the bass from "Let the Wind Erase Me", the beepy monosynth lead after the chorus in "You Haven't Earned It".

G-Media impOSCar
I've always been a big fan of the 80's band Ultravox, and the original Oscar analog synth was one of their main instruments. Oscars were built in Britain and are kind of hard to find in the US, so I've never played one, but it sounds pretty convincing to my ears. This can get really gritty and fat .
Used on: I layered this under some of the Virus basses on "Storm" to add a little more balls. It also does some of the synth sounds in "Darker", one of the b-sides on the "Let the Wind Erase Me" single.

LinPlug Albino
The closest thing I have heard to a Virus in plug-in form. It was designed by Rob Papen who did a bunch of the presets on the original Virus, so the influence is natural. You can't quite push it to the extremes that you can with the Virus (it just can't shriek like a Virus can), but it is damn close.
Used on: The sort of 'frosty' synth on 'Human' - it's the last thing you hear play at the end of the song... The pad from "Tragic Figure"... The sort of rezzy sequence in "Apart"

Native Instruments Kontakt
Wonderful virtual sampler. It is very low on CPU drain, and all of the synthesis parameters are modular, so you only add what you need and therefore, each instrument only uses the system resources it absolutely has to.
Used on: Used extensively on "Storm" for drums and percussion.

Native Instruments Reaktor
The ultimate. This program basically lets you build your own synths, effects, and sequencers whose only limitations are what your CPU can handle. This quite literally does everything and it does it extremely well.
Used on: The choppy, metallic rhythm at the beginning of "Horizon"... the feedback effects in 'Horizon', the chopped up beat in 'Lullaby'... the voice sample in 'Cocoon', most of the filtered beats on 'Storm'. Most of the kick drums on 'Storm'. The ambient breath sounds in the beginning of 'Human'

[simonkey]

Barney from New Order uses Cubase SX, but I think he prefers his synths hardware (though that interview was a couple of years back), Bowie's used Logic for the last few albums, and I'm sure I'd read Tony Visconti saying he'd used Logic's synths on some of them. The keyboard player from Keane had a laptop running what appeared to be Logic set up next to him on Top of the Pops as I remember, and in an SOS article their producer saidthey used soft synths to fill the album's sound out. By the way, I thought Eminem used and MPC on Eight Mile for his beats?