KVR Audio

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:37 am

The first plugin I used was Waves Q10, C1, L1 for Sounddesigner II. VST technology appeared much later...

mixtur.se · Post by **mixtur.se** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:18 am

PSP vintage warmer was my first (2001), followed by the Waves Renaissance bundle.
I used cracked plugins back in the 90s but decided to buy once I started making money on music.
Vintage Warmer was a game changer and completely blew my mind at the time.

https://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/dy ... gewarmer2/

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:46 am

Hyperprism DX plugins (as in DirectX plugin, not even a VST).. this was way way way back in the day, when Waves was just a startup.

I still miss that Hyperprism reverb. It was absolutely phenomenal.. even to this day.

The user interfaces were gorgeous back then.

ralfrobert · Post by **ralfrobert** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:52 am

https://www.audiothing.net/effects/space-strip/

... this was my first one some years ago. I got it on a sale, explored its possibilities and can still recommend it. However, I went for a more complicated path (Melda, now Bitwig) and have sold it off.

sin night · Post by **sin night** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:22 pm

I think it was PSP Nitro, when they had a sale at audio-midi dot com many years ago... before that, I used only freeware and magware (except for the daw, of course!).

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:54 pm

Audio Ease Nautilus bundle. Good times.

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:55 pm

Korg Legacy Collection. And I had to think about this for a while before I remembered it. Great question!

imrae · Post by **imrae** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:33 pm

I think it was Stillwell's Event Horizon. Holds up well for what it is, but I mostly use other tools now.

nyx · Post by **nyx** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:25 pm

native instruments Pro Five...also first vst to upgrade from when it became the pro-52

revvy · Post by **revvy** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:12 am

Audio Damage Eos.

Mixed feelings but it taught me a lot about plug-ins. Sounded superb and I loved it but the dev released an update which reset every single AU instance in every single project I'd used it in, so took me a couple of weeks to replace them.

Dev's comment to me in an email was to avoid using AUs in future. I stopped using AD instead. Biggest takeaway is stick to stock DAW fx if you can.

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:14 am

revvy wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:12 am Dev's comment to me in an email was to avoid using AUs in future. I stopped using AD instead. Biggest takeaway is stick to stock DAW fx if you can.

.. or avoid updating plugins if they work fine. Of course it could be tempting if there are new features added.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:55 am

Pluggo

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:59 am

Waves Gold, although I deleted and banished everything Waves several years ago.

The earliest ones that I still use and love is Valhalla Room and Cytomic The Glue

Pingafuego · Post by **Pingafuego** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:22 am

I think it was Nomad Factory’s British bundle, may m, 2012.

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 4:20 am

Teksonik wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:06 pm TBL (The Base Line) from ReFx sometime in 2001 or 2002. Still works to this day although of course 32 bit only.

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Wow, what a blast from the past. I'd forgotten all about TBL, but I used to love it many moons ago. Wonder how it holds up in 2021...

First third-party plugin you bought?