What was the first plugins for OS/format?

[Numanoid]

Steinberg Model E Neon, was the first VSTi plug

Intriguing that the first iOS synth also was some kind of MiniMoog emu:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minisyn ... 96999?mt=8

What was the first plugs made in the format DXi, AU, AAX ?

What was the first synth plug for Linux ?

What was the first 64 bit vst plug ?

[swatwork]

Steinberg Model E, was the first VST plug

The first VST plugins were actually effects, probably those bundled with whatever version of Cubase was current when the VST spec was introduced in 1996.

VST instruments came later because the ability to receive MIDI data wasn't introduced until VST version 2.0 (1999). The first VST synth was Steinberg Neon, Model-E came later.

[Numanoid]

Mistake on my part, of course Neon was first

[aMUSEd]

Yeah but really it was just a test-of-concept plugin to get people used to the idea and show what it could do, Model E was the first proper commercial one (and NI Pro 5 came out very soon after that - they were both reviewed in the same CM issue - which I still have)

[annode]

I started with cubase in 1998. I think Cakewalk was established with DX even before then.
Here`s a 'go crazy' list of software;
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0

[LoopLords]

Neon still works on my Windows 10 setup.

[fmr]

The first plug-ins were from Waves, worked in Digidesign Sound Designer II (Mac OS), and it was a proprietary format, that was part of SoundTools (launched in 1989), and later continued in Pro Tools. Inside Pro Tools, there were two kinds of plug-ins: TDM (real time, running in DSP Accelerator cards) and AudioSuite, which was non real-time (the plug-ins in Sound Designer II were also not real time).

The plugins were Q10, C1, S1 and L1 (still part of Waves port-folio)

https://books.google.pt/books?id=AXkqBg ... ns&f=false

Later, Adobe created the Adobe Premiere format (now gone, AFAIK), that was competing with AudioSuite. Still later, Microsoft came over with DirectX plug-ins, and Steinberg created the VST technology. This one was the first one to be able to really compete with Pro Tools platform plug-ins

[fmr]

One of the first AU plug-ins (probably the first one outside of Apple ones which came included in the OS) was Zoyd, by Urs Heckmann.

AAX doesn't count, since the plug-ins were basically ported from the old TDM. In TDM, as I said, it was Waves. The first synth, AFAIK, was Virus TDM (now gone). The VIs that appeared for Pro Tools, BTW, were mainly in RTAS (a real-time sub-set of AudioSuite that runned natively).

In DX, I can't remember which was the first synth, but it was probably something from Cakewalk (maybe Dreamstation that was included since very early times in Cakewalk and Sonar).

[Numanoid]

Thanks for the info

10-15 years ago it seemed the DX format was a contender, but it kind of disappeared, why ?

[fmr]

Thanks for the info

10-15 years ago it seemed the DX format was a contender, but it kind of disappeared, why ?

IMO, lack of interest and support from Microsoft, and lack of interest from the supporters (the main ones, AFAIK, were Sony and Cakewalk, and at a certain point they started to suffer because of lack of support of VST format, since the best plug-ins appear in VST, and many developers started to even not bother with DX format). After that, disappearance is just a matter of time.

AU risks to follow a similar path. Logic Pro X is what maintains the format alive.

[Numanoid]

Kompakt (NI) and Colossus (East West) was also for the DX format

[AnX]

Dreamstation is the only synth i remember. (being DX only...?)

[fmr]

Dreamstation is the only synth i remember. (being DX only...?)

Actually, there were some synths from Roland that came after (a virtual Sound Canvas GS module, namely), and also several other synths from Cakewalk later on, like z3ta+, Dimension Pro, Rapture, and all the other synths from Rene Ceballos (Pentagon, Square, SFZ, etc.), they all came out with DXi versions included (but not DX only though). I think there were also some synths include in Project 5 that were DXi too (only). And there was the GM/GS instrument from Cakewalk/Roland TTS-1 was DX only too.