KVR Audio

werd · Post by **werd** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:01 pm

Thanks for all the vst's

pinkjimiphoton · Post by **pinkjimiphoton** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:38 pm

JackDark wrote:Jack Dark retired and the man behind him went on to do something else.

Here are all the albums and 42 VST JD created, free in full to download:

http://jackdark.white.prohosting.com/

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jack, you soooooooooooooooooooooooo f**king rock, dude, thank you!

ravasb · Post by **ravasb** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:13 pm

JackDark wrote:Jack Dark retired and the man behind him went on to do something else.

Here are all the albums and 42 VST JD created, free in full to download:

http://jackdark.white.prohosting.com/

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Great to hear from you. You need to visit more often. Things were a lot more fun with you around.

OughtaCrawl · Post by **OughtaCrawl** » Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:41 am

Was just wondering the same thing but now in 2018...

funny how it got real quiet once the man emerged...

also funny how many cry baby ingrates complained about his vst's over the years...

no wonder the man got bored and moved on...

oh no i saw an animated nipple and my host crashed just once...

JACK

! appear like magic again and give me a sign or some shit...

ha ha... i am serious but i also wanted an excuse to abuse the smilies...

oi...

Andy Tithesis

ravasb · Post by **ravasb** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:14 pm

Jack Dark reminds me of times that were a lot of fun and creative and usefully contentious on KVR, when synthedit, maligned as it may be, unleashed a lot of weirdness and imagination. The works being made now are great and professional in many ways, but that spirit seems long gone.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 4:48 pm

ravasb wrote:Jack Dark reminds me of times that were a lot of fun and creative and usefully contentious on KVR, when synthedit, maligned as it may be, unleashed a lot of weirdness and imagination. The works being made now are great and professional in many ways, but that spirit seems long gone.

have you looked at some of the stuff that's in the developers challenge?

ravasb · Post by **ravasb** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:13 pm

Hink wrote:
ravasb wrote:Jack Dark reminds me of times that were a lot of fun and creative and usefully contentious on KVR, when synthedit, maligned as it may be, unleashed a lot of weirdness and imagination. The works being made now are great and professional in many ways, but that spirit seems long gone.
have you looked at some of the stuff that's in the developers challenge?

There is still good stuff going on, and I still spend more time on KVR than I should, but I miss a lot of the characters behind the crazy machines, too. There is no question that the quality of music making programs is incredibly high, but they feel a little more safe and a little less off the wall. I know this is what happens as any business matures, I would just love a little creative immaturity occasionally.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:45 pm

Holy shit, time has flown.
Cant believe its almost 10 years since he stopped releasing VSTs

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:12 pm

ravasb wrote:
Hink wrote:
ravasb wrote:Jack Dark reminds me of times that were a lot of fun and creative and usefully contentious on KVR, when synthedit, maligned as it may be, unleashed a lot of weirdness and imagination. The works being made now are great and professional in many ways, but that spirit seems long gone.
have you looked at some of the stuff that's in the developers challenge?
There is still good stuff going on, and I still spend more time on KVR than I should, but I miss a lot of the characters behind the crazy machines, too. There is no question that the quality of music making programs is incredibly high, but they feel a little more safe and a little less off the wall. I know this is what happens as any business matures, I would just love a little creative immaturity occasionally.

Indeed, it's easy to forget that before our current obsession with skeuomorphism and analog emulation, the scene was overflowing with hundreds, if not thousands, of creative and unabashedly-digital plugins that were born of passion, curiosity, and love of the community, rather than for the sole purpose of trying to make a quick dollar off of the current trends. To get the mass appeal generally needed to turn a profit, you've usually got to play it safe.

You want to witness entitlement in action? Release a free Synthedit plugin in 2018 and announce it on some forums.

It's no wonder that spirit went away; we were the ones who cast it aside. But on the plus side, now we have like 14 different versions of the same SSL channel strip (based on hardware 99% of us have never actually used).

If only marketing hype actually made my music sound better... Yes, I must need better tools. There's no way it could possibly be my lack of skill or determination.

ravasb · Post by **ravasb** » Tue Aug 07, 2018 10:15 pm

Synthedit in some ways allowed a kind of punk ethos to develop. You did not have to be a genius programmer, you just wanted loud and irritating and fun, playing a cheap keyboard with one hand and drinking a beer with the other. There are a lot of really great tools, but I am surprised how many of them are based on hardware emulations, and not on much crazier and abstract possibilities that computers can now do. I look at digital art programs and most of them are not trying to emulate Leonardo DaVinci's brushes or Picasso's canvases. There are some paint emulations, but a lot of really fresh approaches to creating images.

I enjoy devs like soundemote because they are trying to make off the wall stuff at a pretty reasonable price.

Whatever happened to Jack Dark