What’s the oldest VSTi you still use today ?
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- KVRian
- 903 posts since 5 Jun, 2001
FXPansion DR-008
- Beware the Quoth
- 35531 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Still got VazModular installed, and Angelina.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRian
- 1185 posts since 2 Jan, 2004 from England
Pluginguru Unify has rejuvenated many of my old favourites. Massive, Reaktor ensembles and FM8 load super quickly and patch changes are hardware fast. FM8 and Massive for example sound incredible when dual/ triple layered (I strip the inbuilt FX before saving) and I can flick through my created presets with hardware immediacy. They use almost no CPU on my M1 Mac. Unify keeps the instrument loaded between patch changes as long as you organise libraries by instrument - I’ve found that Reaktor ensembles can be swapped out near instantly as well, so I can layer Razor/Carbon, or Lazerbass/Photone, Kontour/Form etc in the same way.
Recently I found Xpand2! Hybrid and Vacuum have beta versions for native Apple silicon, so I have those reinstalled (couldn’t find my old serial emails, but my iLok account saved the day - quite possibly the first time I’ve ever typed that!!) Like the older NI stuff, layering them up produces some excellent sounds.
Recently I found Xpand2! Hybrid and Vacuum have beta versions for native Apple silicon, so I have those reinstalled (couldn’t find my old serial emails, but my iLok account saved the day - quite possibly the first time I’ve ever typed that!!) Like the older NI stuff, layering them up produces some excellent sounds.
11, 418th in line to the KVR throne
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- KVRAF
- 3038 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Central NY

the secrets to old age: Faster horses, Richer Women, Bigger CPU's
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 17 Nov, 2022
MDA ePiano
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- KVRAF
- 9958 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
z3ta+ and sometimes Rapture. Sylenth1 is starting to get old now too, and I use that once in a while.
Anyway, z3ta+ is still pretty cool and there was an OSC for it one time:
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2011/osc-31-z3ta
I placed 11th that time. There was too much great competition ahead of my track
Anyway, z3ta+ is still pretty cool and there was an OSC for it one time:
https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2011/osc-31-z3ta
I placed 11th that time. There was too much great competition ahead of my track
- KVRian
- 1472 posts since 4 Apr, 2011 from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
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- KVRian
- 1415 posts since 1 Jul, 2023
Was using Reason Subtractor recently. Still sounds pretty awful, filter with high resonance uis horrendous but surprisingly decent 1op FM sounds available. But generally lo fi and underwhelming as it had been for, what, almost 25 years? (No idea how old it actually is but it was a great learning tool before Malstrom came to light)

