Resurrect one plugin. What would you pick?

[NothanUmber]

u-he Berlin Modular

Was that ever a thing out in the wild?

Don't think so, unless you count Bazille. That was more the "resurrect (the plan that it might finally be time to start working on) one plugin" type of hope. After Zebra 3 is done of course, so virtually around the corner!

[eLawnMust]

yeeaah... Z3TA+ will never be obsolete... Plenty of other's 'not mentioned' like White Noise Zero Vector... Also White Noise Additive... Doppelmangler not so much but good for fun... Terratec Komplexer top shelf code... LinPlug Spectral top shelf as well, Octopus not so much but still good, Albino all-around capable, Some like Cameleon 5000 even still, Tubeohm Bruno-Fluid, Tubeohm stuff always had great sounds/patches... Wizoo Xphraze was killer...

[mckenic]

I clicked on this thread to lament Absynth and LiveCut Thanks for the link to LiveCut SO MUCH! And it looks like the Tweakbench stuff is back too!

So I'll say the Camel stuff, Spectral Delay, everything from Smartelectronix and the ones that hurts most - the Ugo Audio stuff in particular String Theory and Metallurgy. Man those were great! I think building an old 32bit Win box with a midi interface just for them is a New Year project. Actually I think I might have a version of String Theoryon the old SM-Audio V-Machine thingy.....

[Weasel-Boy]

I wonder how Albino would sound like if it would still have been developed by Linplug/Rob Papen.

I believe it is. Albino 3 Legend. v3.5.3 is the most current, and on the Mac, it's silicon-compliant. Rob resurrected this beaut around November of 2023.

[NothanUmber]

jBridge (https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge) is said to support running 32 bit plugins on 64 bit Windows and String Theory still seems to be downloadable from here (https://plugins4free.com/plugin/196/). Might be worth a try

[mckenic]

Thank you!!!

[Touch The Universe]

TUBEOHM

[DrGonzo]

u-he Berlin Modular

Was that ever a thing out in the wild?

I tried to nudge Urs about it and was met with deafening silence

[El°HYM]

R E A K T O R

[ugo]

So I'll say the Camel stuff, Spectral Delay, everything from Smartelectronix and the ones that hurts most - the Ugo Audio stuff in particular String Theory and Metallurgy. Man those were great! I think building an old 32bit Win box with a midi interface just for them is a New Year project. Actually I think I might have a version of String Theoryon the old SM-Audio V-Machine thingy.....

Glad to hear you still dig them!
Rebuilding them as they were, with the exact same sound and functionality, is pretty unlikely. They depended on some 3rd party stuff, and there are things I’d rather do differently now anyway. If I get back into making plugins then I think it would make more sense to build new stuff, a few of which maybe could be thought of as “spiritual successors” to some of my old ones.

I actually have been considering making myself a new physical modeling synth, and a few other things. If they turn out well, maybe I’d release them. However I’m undecided on what approach I’d take. The plugin world has changed a lot since I last built stuff, I still don’t code, don’t use AI, etc. Also, we currently only own two 10+ year old machines and mine is a Mac - which limits visual development environment options. I’ve been a Live user for a long time so I’ve thought about M4L, or maybe give Bitwig’s Grid a try. Might be fine for me, but of course wouldn’t be helpful for users of other hosts. Not sure…still kicking around ideas though.

jBridge (https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge) is said to support running 32 bit plugins on 64 bit Windows and String Theory still seems to be downloadable from here (https://plugins4free.com/plugin/196/). Might be worth a try

It would also have to handle stuff made for single core, or else it would probably crash the host. If I remember correctly, only Rez 3 was “new” enough to support 32 bit dual core. Some of my old plugins kept triggering false positives on some antivirus software too. Had something to do with a particular 3rd party SE module. But if anyone wants a copy of my old plugins then feel free to PM me. I should still have backups.

[CrystalWizard]

Camel Audio Alchemy on non crApple machines.

[Nug Wrangler]

^what he said

[zouki]

TC Electronic Mercury-1

https://www.tcelectronic.com/product.ht ... Code=HE117

[Seafire Mk2]

Helga by Kiesel Software

It was a simple synth, but had a lovely sound.

[NothanUmber]

I still have good memories of Sonicbytes Phrazor. And NI Kore (1/2). (As subhosts you can also count them as "plugins"). One was taken off market to not compete with the other. And after the short life of the latter we now have neither anymore.