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shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:55 am

Came across a reference to the plugin pack by FXpansion from several years ago, I remember them from the wayback, but I cant' find any info on whatever happened to them. Erased from history? Sold to a corporate concern?

Search on the site is down, I'm guessing the answer is hidden in an old thread. Seemed rude to post such a stupid question in their support forum. So I post here.

Someone solve the mystery for me, please.

And while you're at it, whatever happened to Enigmatron? Dug out a copy tonight from an old backup, weird stuff. Did a google, and it appears to be only available on the Receptor now. Old thread in support forum says it just stopped. I vaguely remember d/ling back in the day, being an old VST/DX wrapper customer. Anyone care to enlighten on why it died a secret death?

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:06 am

Eh, nevermind. Just started clicking through the support forum, found a mention in this thread that they were discontinued in 2003 and licensed to Steinberg.

Mystery solved.

Or is it?

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:36 pm

So anyway, anyone know why the effects were discontinued in the first place? Was it the Steiny deal? And what happened to Series Two and/or MindFX? And what of this Enigmatron?

Saw some mention of freewaring Series One in the thread from two years ago, can't imagine Steiny would care now if such a thing were done.

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:47 pm

The FXP fx were a big deal on fxpansion's site for ages - true.

They were going to be released in 2 phases - a helping of 4, then another helping of 4 - something like that

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:24 pm

kevvvvv wrote:The FXP fx were a big deal on fxpansion's site for ages - true.

They were going to be released in 2 phases - a helping of 4, then another helping of 4 - something like that

So I wonder where they all got to then?

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:34 pm

Cubase comes with some FXpansion FX...

munchkin · Post by **munchkin** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:55 pm

And what of Drum 9?

Looks like it's been replaced with Guru. Isn't there a dev rule about not announcing anything until it's in beta and ready to roll?

cron · Post by **cron** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:03 pm

Check your PMs Steve.

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:12 pm

Ok,

I don't know what happend to MindFX, I was totally looking forward to them, but now I think they might not be as cool and different as they would have been 2 years ago.

I've been told that GURU is not what Drum 9 will be.

Some of the stuff Drum 9 will have will blow the minds of many (if it gets some of features it is supposed to) There is a thread on KVR about it somewhere.

GURU is different that what I would imagine Drum9 to be.

From what I've seen of GURU it is so cool, maybe a sleeper hit, I'm not sure. For the way I make beats and layer grooves it is for sure awesome, and I have yet to find something that is easier to edit drum samples than in GURU.

That said, drum9 I look forward to, but MindFX....not so much anymore.

dw

Hewitt Huntwork · Post by **Hewitt Huntwork** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:13 pm

Wow, my first VST nostalgia!

Someday we'll all be sitting around talking about RMX like "remember that old thing?"

I suppose others have had similar moments already, but this is the first for me.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:28 pm

You should try going back and reading old support forum posts. Talk about a trip (VST-DX v3.0 released!!!).

Drum9 sounds big, I'm not surprised it is taking a lot of time to make.

I agree that MindFX looks less stunning by today's standards, presumably that's part of the decision to mothball them. I wonder if the effects themselves will be incorporated into Drum9?

On Series One, I wonder if there's a chance they'd be set free to the Skunkworks (nudge, nudge)?

One further question, were MindFX and Series Two the same thing?

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:35 pm

from the way I remember it mindFX had series 1 and 2.

check this out http://www.mindfx.com/

If you're on dialup it will take forever to load, but trust me it will!

dw

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:46 pm

dusted william wrote:from the way I remember it mindFX had series 1 and 2

There was a first round of effects called simply "Series One", as reviewed back in the day here.

I saw some old posts in the fxpansion forum referring to Series Two. Do you suppose they were later renamed MindFX Series One and Two? Or was there a Series Two and the two MindFX packs once planned?

willum · Post by **willum** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:51 pm

There's a great thread topic: Your Favorite Plugin Nostalgia Moment! My first votes go to:

Prosoniq NorthPole - dated 1999 and I still use that thing!

VAZPlus - The software synth that introduced me to the concept of software synths.

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:02 pm

willum wrote:There's a great thread topic: Your Favorite Plugin Nostalgia Moment! My first votes go to:

Prosoniq NorthPole - dated 1999 and I still use that thing!

god that thing was sooooo dirty it had cards printed up to go in phone boxes

The mystery of the FXpansion effects