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Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:38 pm

A long time ago, the Observer Sunday Magazine from the UK ran a series of articles called the Experts Expert. They asked experts from a particular field who they regarded as their expert. For example, the Guitarists Guitarist would ask the top guitarists who they admired and respected.

Following on from this I thought it might be interesting for plugin developers to name fellow plugin developers who they regarded as the best and why!

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:25 pm

Roger Nichols. He's bitchin.

..izer

asomers · Post by **asomers** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:34 am

Darrell Tam. all I can say about DtBlkFx is WTF.

nollock · Post by **nollock** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:12 am

The coders behind Synthmaker. For somthing so complicated to implement they have done an amazing job of making it appear relatively simple and elegant to the user.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:38 pm

I didn't even know about DtBlkFx - crazy!

As I have no developer tendencies, I can't answer this thread!

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:42 pm

nuffink wrote:Roger Nichols. He's bitchin.

..izer

Erm, I don't think he's actually a coder..

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:49 pm

Anyone can code a plugin. Roger can double their value just by rogering them. That's what I call development.

I'd love to be rogered.

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:55 pm

nuffink wrote:Anyone can code a plugin. Roger can double their value just by rogering them. That's what I call development.

I'd love to be rogered.

I guess he technically is developing developers, as the thread subject would imply.

nollock · Post by **nollock** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:29 pm

nuffink wrote:Anyone can code a plugin. Roger can double their value just by rogering them. That's what I call development.

I'd love to be rogered.

LOL!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:53 pm

Andy Simper. Puts my face in deep paleness when I see what he does.

RPH · Post by **RPH** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:03 pm

- Jeff McClintock, for making synthedit.
- Dave Haupt, for making good modules and excellent support.
- Kelly D Lynch, for making all his converter modules and all his programming advice.

And all other devs creating good music software.

O.L.T · Post by **O.L.T** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:11 pm

Developer Awards

And the Oscar/Visti goes to ...

brambos · Post by **brambos** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:28 pm

Charlie wrote:Following on from this I thought it might be interesting for plugin developers to name fellow plugin developers who they regarded as the best and why!

Many will disagree with me, but I've admired Propellerheads for their skills ever since ReBirth. In the last years of the Nineties they pulled off stuff that wasn't even considered technically possible at that time and more or less created a whole new market segment.

andy_FX · Post by **andy_FX** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:21 pm

[quote="Urs"]Andy Simper. Puts my face in deep paleness when I see what he does.[/quote]

Thanks Urs! Now for my take:

For analog modeling I vote for Antti Huovilainen (smartelectronix), David Berners (UA) and Jonathan Abelthe (UA). They can all make models based schematics and the physics of electronics - I am learning this stuff slowly with the help of Antti :) I really appreciate that Antti also publishes papers to help the entire community.

For physical modeling I vote for Markus Sapp from emagic who does a great job making realistic sounding cpu efficient models with great control parameters, and the Korg Oasis physical modeling guys as well, although I haven't had as much chance to use their stuff, I've only heard some demos.

Andrew Simper
vellocet / fxpansion

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:33 pm

Antti Huovilainen and Laurent de Soras for me

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