KVR Audio

sfxsound3 · Post by **sfxsound3** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:27 am

XILS-lab

How on Earth do you pronounce this?! Is it supposed to be 'exiles'? EXILES-lab? Exiles don't have where to shit, FFS, sure they won't have a laboratory! Or maybe they shit in the laboratory?!?! Is this what passes for science these days???

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:32 am

Voxengo

Distorted Horizon · Post by **Distorted Horizon** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:33 pm

Would be nice to hear the story behind the names

Obsolete236871 · Post by **Obsolete236871** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:41 pm

Apple Inc

Rockatansky · Post by **Rockatansky** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:48 pm

Native Instruments.

Love me some NI, but dat name tho. What about a Balinese Gamelan is native to Germany? What about a grand piano is "native" as in indigenous? Or is native about non-hardware? Then what about the FX? Or the control surfaces?
So confusing.

chaosWyrM wrote:ugh...im guessing its the same people who pronounce gif as jif.

So do you pronounce PNG with a soft G at the end? Pee Enn Ghee?
Because, you know, Pee Enn Jee would mean Portable Network Jraphics... Just sayin'

I totally agree with you, though. It's GIF as in gaffa tape. Not JIF as in jaffa cake.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:16 pm

Rockatansky wrote:Native Instruments.

It's a relic of when 'native' plugins (ie plugins that run on the hosts operating system and CPU) were the big new thing as compared to DSP powered ones and NI were pioneers of such plugins.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:21 pm

Rockatansky wrote:Native Instruments.

Love me some NI, but dat name tho. What about a Balinese Gamelan is native to Germany? What about a grand piano is "native" as in indigenous?

"Native plug-ins are all plug-ins that your computer´s internal CPU run."

In the late 90's I guess that was a holy grail for computing. At the time it also took a couple of hours to make a mp3 from a WAV file

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:22 pm

Hidden Path Audio

I like to know which folders the products are installed to

Daimonicon · Post by **Daimonicon** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:37 pm

Line6. Ok not so much plugins except podfarm. But line6? Ask people in general and they will guess its a telephone sex line.

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:27 pm

ITT: People just name every plug-in company.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:48 am

Not plugins, but:

2hp: if I say I have a 2hp module, I could mean that it's 2 hp (horizontal pitch, 2x 5.08mm in Eurorack format) wide. Or I could mean I have a module from 2hp, the company, all of which are 2hp modules.

All 2hp modules are 2hp, but not all 2hp modules are by 2hp.

And then there's CGS, which stands for "Cat Girl Synth". Started by a guy who, when the internet was new, posted hundreds of pictures and stories about Japanese catgirls... but also turned out to be a pretty good engineer.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:50 am

Roxy Music 2HB, means To Humphrey Bogart

neverwhere2410 · Post by **neverwhere2410** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 1:19 am

Admiral Quality. That name bugs the hell out of me everytime I see it somewhere

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 1:24 am

Googly Smythe wrote:Gobbler.
When I was a lad this was slang for a girl who s*ck*d c*ck.

I figured I was the only one who thinks this! Up until recently I've avoided Softube plugs simply because of the idiotic Gobbler license manager!

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 1:25 am

ENV1 wrote:The guy who named his outlet 'Bullshit Audio' probably wins this one.

I forgot about that one! Good call!

The most horrible plugin company names?