Top 3 of your fav vst devs

[El°HYM]

Dan
Tony
Peter

[cptgone]

Effects:
- Fabfilter
- Audiority
- Fazertone

Instruments:
- u-He
- SonicLab
- Audiothing
(I'm not familiar with most current offerings though, like Brian Clevinger's new synth)

Sequencers and modulators:
- Tadashi Suginomori (HY-Plugins, 510k)
- Sugarbytes
- SonicLab

[MrJubbly]

1. u-he
2. GForce Software
3. FabFilter

Honourable Mentions (in no particular order):
Kilohearts
Valhalla DSP
Sonic Charge
Plogue
Modartt
Audio Modeling
Synapse Audio
Image-Line (many of the plugins created prior to gol's retirement).

[ghettosynth]

Has every developer been listed yet? My favorite three are three of the devs who haven't been listed. At anytime if someone chooses one of those devs as their favorite, then that dev is removed from my list and replaced with some dev who has not been listed. Thus, my favorite three devs are the least favorite three devs out of all devs.

[jamcat]

My list can be found here:
https://asaudio.tech/developers/

[Srae]

I didn't get high and count all the replies in this thread:

U-he: 29
FabFilter: 20
Tokyo Dawn: 16
Arturia: 15
Valhalla: 14
Klanghelm: 11
Waves: 9
Audio Thing: 9
Softtube: 8
Native Instruments : 7
Melda: 7
Universal Audio: 5
Kilohearts: 5
IK Multimedia: 4
DMG Audio: 4

3: Eventide, Izotope, Sonic Charge, Soundtoys, Brainworx, Blue Cat Audio, Tone Boosters, UVI

2: Unfiltered Audio, Kush , Freakshow Industries, Spectrasonics, Wavesfactory, Synapse Audio, Airwindows, Xfer, The Usual Suspects, Cableguys, LiquidSonics, Full Bucket Music, Sonible

1: ChowDSP, Zynaptiq, Output, Devious Machines, Cytomic, UAD, Scuffham Amps, XLN Audio, Goodhertz, Plogue, Solid State Logic, Matt Tytel, TAL, Analog Obsession, HY-Plugin, Vengeance, Tone 2, ReFX, AAS (everyone knows test is best), Togue Audio Line, Dawesome, Audio Modeling, Hornet, Audiority, Rob Papen, Tone Projects, Toontrack, Klevgrand, BabyAudio, Voosteq, Sai'ke, Giorgio Sancristoforo, Modartt, Variety of Sound, Audiority, Fazertone, Gforce, Sonnox, Voxengo, MuTools, Sonimus

0: Hofa 1 + -1 (DCrown has some beef with Shakespeare)

The only things that matter:
-Just buy Zebra 3 without demo'ing when it gets released
-Who is KingOZ?
-Many people counted to 4
-martiu can't count
-Gam456 definitely can't count
-Fleer put his top 3 through Eventide's Blackhole
-lolilol1975 needs better plugins if he wants to compete with the top 3 top counters above
-felis doesn't know what forum he's on
-If you're a dev and want to buy your way to the top of the list, send me a plugin bundle and i'll fabricate the numbers
-jamcat is one of Urs's 29 alt accounts pretending to be a cat

The answer is still u-he.
It’s the answer to every topic on KVR.

[HowardSmith]

Valhalla
Tokyo Dawn
ToneBoosters

[Recourt]

TDL
Universal Audio
Solid State Logic

[swindus]

u-he
Valhalla
Tokyo Dawn

[Jac459]

I didn't get high and count all the replies in this thread:

Thanks a lot for this!
Kilohearts not being in the top 3 is infamous.

[Jac459]

For me the big surprise is Tokyo Dawn, I never tried anything of them. What is their flagship plugin?

[ghettosynth]

I don't know how anyone can like SSL with that screwy 3D perspective. I'm glad someone does though, because that means they're not on my list. Also glad someone likes ReFX. I'm a bit sad because that means my top 3 will be less liked than ReFX.

[jamcat]

I don’t know how anyone can like SSL with their forced automatic gain compensation on their channel strip preamps.

[DCrown]

For me the big surprise is Tokyo Dawn, I never tried anything of them. What is their flagship plugin?

No flagship, everything top notch imo.
A rare gem is TDR Feedback Compressor,
buy if you can get it second hand,
don't sell it before 2030,
then you will probably get an astronomically high price

[jamcat]

TDR Simulathe