Which was your first plugin ?

[rardier]

uvi plugsound and halion.

[DanKoz]

Steinberg Cubase VST 5.0 + AKG Samples

[heyheycnv]

The first reverb I recall using all the time and for years was Kjaerhus.

[JerGoertz]

[DJErmac]

The first reverb I recall using all the time and for years was Kjaerhus.

I also used his plugins at the time.

And now I deleted them all and never want to hear about them again.
In case you’re not aware...

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[Dogbert]

I also remember using Prosoniq North Pole and Prosoniq PiWarp.

Those are even older than BigTick Angelina.

[UncleAge]

Wizooverb - was my 1st purchased plugin
oldest still in use - Zebra2. bought in 2007

[Septic Underground]

Muon Tau (Pro) was the first 3rd party plugin I think. I had that one in the early days.

Next to my Creamware pulsar system which had also groundbreaking and paradigm shifting plugins (Miniscope etc) That was 1998, really such a great system back then.

[Biome_Digital]

eJay Techno. Not strictly a plugin. Actually a DAW I guess. Nevermind.

[GaryG]

I think it may have been Abakos Pro, they did a no brainer for about a fiver or something back in the mid 2000s..?
Though may have been 2nd hand licenses of AD Bigseq2 and AAS UltraAnalog from the marketplace here.

[gearwatcher]

Legacy of Cubase started in 1984 with Pro 16, a MIDI sequencer for Commodore 64 and it is probably valid to consider this the first DAW because it predates Protools - even the version that was just an audio editor and not multitrack - and it predates the first trackers because it came out before Amiga was commercially available.

The first non-linear hard disk recording audio workstation was according to Wikipedia 1989 Sonic Solutions. Protools 1991 and before there was Deck… And of course the Synclavier.
Cubase at that time was just a Midi sequencer, the term DAW didn’t really exist… No DAWs did not start with a C64, it was extremely expensive in the beginning…
My first DAW was a Digidesign 8-track hardware based beast somewhere in the late 90’s which isn’t even mentioned in most Digidesign history articles…

A lot of people still use their DAWs not for audio recording but to MIDI sequence virtual plugins.

I disagree that the line is drawn with ability to record audio. Software sequencers were very much the center of most work in studios that used them, and it's no wonder that the other central bit, the mixing desk, got MIDI automation fairly soon after automated faders became affordable enough for small studios.

But if you want to draw the line on the ability to mix audio, then Ultimate Soundtracker[1] predates public release of SoundDroid (which is the actual name of the non-linear audio editor by the company named Sonic Solutions) by two years.

Synclavier was a synth, it's audio recording capabilities were insignificant. I have no idea what you mean by Deck.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Soundtracker

[masterhiggins]

Ppg wave 2.v around 2002 I think.

[dickiefunk]

Mine the first version of T-Racks. I’ve been with the various versions ever since and love it.

[himalaya]

RGC Audio's Pentagon, if I remember correctly.

[himalaya]

Rene! Come back!