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cthonophonic · Post by **cthonophonic** » Mon May 27, 2019 11:22 pm

Most accounts of Sweden's tech/startup culture also mention the importance of their social safety net, which allows people more freedom to take risks on new ideas.

e.g.:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... ps/541413/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/busi ... 18641.html

Boone777 · Post by **Boone777** » Mon May 27, 2019 11:42 pm

Maybe it has something to do with Steinberg beeing the first to create vst.

mixtur.se · Post by **mixtur.se** » Tue May 28, 2019 8:55 am

medienhexer wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:11 am
elassi wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:22 am
fese wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:59 amWho is there in Sweden? From the top of my head: softtube, propellerhead, sonic charge, audiorealism. Any more?
XLN Audio, Peter Segerdahl/ZeroX (good ol' Beatcreator)...
Toontrack, klevgrand

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Kongru · Post by **Kongru** » Tue May 28, 2019 9:11 am

Could their educational systems be part of the cause? I know nothing about them, but perhaps Sweden and Germany focus more on coding and programming as part of their schooling. My IT education in the UK consisted of how to create spreadsheets and send emails.

Or it could be a cultural thing. Who knows.

steve.lindqvist · Post by **steve.lindqvist** » Tue May 28, 2019 12:12 pm

Slaapstadseun wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:21 am It is true that there are many plugin devs in these Nordic countries, but let's test if the number is 'disproportionate'. We can do this by comparing how many developers there are in the USA, for example. (We should also not forget eastern European countries - would be interesting to see how many there are in Estonia, Croatia etc).

I'll start the list:
Spectrasonics.

Didn't the plug-in development come out of UVI? The first Specatrasonics plug-ins were based on the UVI engine = France

. Slate Digital, Lindell Audio or WaveLab have also French roots regarding plug-in development. Not to mention Arturia.

But it gets exciting with the DAWs:
Logic: German
Cubase: German
Samplitude: German
Live: German
Bitwig: German
Studio One: German

One might think Europe is the plug-in working class for for the dazzling music industry in the US.

Kongru · Post by **Kongru** » Tue May 28, 2019 12:13 pm

steve.lindqvist wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 12:12 pm
Slaapstadseun wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:21 am It is true that there are many plugin devs in these Nordic countries, but let's test if the number is 'disproportionate'. We can do this by comparing how many developers there are in the USA, for example. (We should also not forget eastern European countries - would be interesting to see how many there are in Estonia, Croatia etc).

I'll start the list:
Spectrasonics.
Didn't the plug-in development come out of UVI? The first Specatrasonics plug-ins were based on the UVI engine = France . Slate Digital, Lindell Audio or WaveLab have also French roots regarding plug-in development. Not to mention Arturia.

But it gets exciting with the DAWs:
Logic: German
Cubase: German
Samplitude: German
Live: German
Bitwig: German
Studio One: German

One might think Europe is the plug-in working class for for the dazzling music industry in the US.

Reason: Swedish

steve.lindqvist · Post by **steve.lindqvist** » Tue May 28, 2019 12:21 pm

Tracktion (originally): UK
FL Studio: Belgium

melomood · Post by **melomood** » Tue May 28, 2019 1:06 pm

steve.lindqvist wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 12:21 pm Tracktion (originally): UK
FL Studio: Belgium

I knew it. I just knew Belgium & the UK were secretly dominating the plug-in development scene

yehboy1 · Post by **yehboy1** » Tue May 28, 2019 1:58 pm

steve.lindqvist wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 12:12 pm Studio One: German

Isn't PreSonus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of all places?

Or is Studio One its own branch off in Germany?

EDIT: Never mind. I see Studio One was started in Germany.

steve.lindqvist · Post by **steve.lindqvist** » Tue May 28, 2019 2:14 pm

yehboy1 wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 1:58 pm
steve.lindqvist wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 12:12 pm Studio One: German
Isn't PreSonus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of all places?

Or is Studio One its own branch off in Germany?

Indeed, the latter (Hamburg).
BTW, one of the senior developers (Wolfgang Kundrus) was originally working for Steinberg, then Presonus and now EastWest Sounds.

Why are a disproportionate number of plugin developers based in Sweden and Germany?