Which was your first plugin ?

[Leo1999]

In October 2022 the first commercially released audio plugin
will get 30 years old!
Today still available as VST, AU and whatever.

Which plugin was the first released instrument plugin?
When dx7 was released in 1984 (the 1st successful digital synth)
there was Macintosh 128k (1 st Macintosh computer),
but no pro tools or cubase yet, but google gave me following
information:

The first DAWs were conceived in the late 70s and early 80s. Soundstream, which developed the first digital recorder in 1977, developed what is considered the first DAW. Bringing together a minicomputer, disk drive, video display, and the software to run it all was the easy part.

Which is the first plugin you purchased and which old plugins do you still use?

My first plugin was Softube Tsar reverb,
I think I bought it in 2011?

[T-CM11]

[Leo1999]

In October 2022 the first commercially released plugin
will get 30 years old!

What do you mean with "plugin"? There were no VST plugins in 1992.

You are right, VST was launched in 1996,
so google gave me some wrong information.
But I also found following information:

Is Cubase the first DAW?
In 1992, Steinberg released Cubase Audio Mac, a computer-based digital audio recorder for the Mac that, like the Opcode products, also utilized Digidesign hardware. This was the first DAW to incorporate audio, MIDI, and scoring (music notation.

Midi was standardized in 1983.

I always thought Pro Tools was the first daw?!

[DCrown]

I see, it's about Waves Q10 equalizer!

I think my first plugins were Waves RComp and Glitch by?, bought them the same day.
Or was it a Waves Renaissance bundle?
Can't remember any more

[Plugintester]

my first plugin was
Cytomic The Glue
still use it !

[Dogbert]

I don't remember exactly which plugin was my first ever, but BigTick Angelina (2002) was one of the first I used, for sure.
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/angelina-by-bigtick

[Leo1999]

I don't remember exactly which plugin was my first ever, but BigTick Angelina (2002) was one of the first I used, for sure.
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/angelina-by-bigtick

What daw did you have in 2002
and what do you have now?
Do you still use Angelina?

[Leo1999]

my first plugin was
Cytomic The Glue
still use it !

I also still have and use The Glue

[Dogbert]

My first DAW was Fruity Loops. In 2012 I switched to Reaper, then I moved to Cubase.

Sadly, Angelina doesn't work anymore, I tried with JBridge, but it gets very glitchy.

[Plugintester]

my first plugin was
Cytomic The Glue
still use it !

I also still have and use The Glue

I think Tsar was my fourth or fifth plugin

[ralfrobert]

Waves Trueverb.

[martinjuenke]

Waves Trueverb.

What have you paid?
It's currently free (again):
https://www.waves.com/account/free-trueverb-dixon-beats

[ralfrobert]

Waves Trueverb.

What have you paid?
It's currently free (again):
https://www.waves.com/account/free-trueverb-dixon-beats

Bought it from eBay, key to register to my account. Maybe 10 bucks. This was 2016, as I came to digital music quite late.

I picked up the freebie, just to have it with updates. Switched to Valhalla and others, though.

[Aiynzahev]

First synth I remember buying was largo. Still have the box for it. First effect was I think Sonalksis EQ and I still use it from time to time. If they made a new bigger UI I’d use it all the time, perfectly good EQ.

[ampetrosillo]

Err... my first plugins were the digitalfishphones fish fillets.

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.p ... &subItem=5

And my first paid plugin was, IIRC, D12's ToraVerb.