Great discontinued plugins...and alternatives?

[Auplant]

Quadrafuzz distortion

[someone called simon]

destroy FX buffer override...

[Jafo]

Sinus' MultiLens. There's a Reaktor ensemble named Nada Brahma Delay that does a lot of the same things, but it isn't really a replacement. (I probably just need to play with it more.) Put it after a pad machine, and you have a pad MONSTER!

AlgoMusic's String Synthesizer. There are many string synths, but this one just has an exceptionally sweet sound I haven't been able to replicate otherwise. There's something pleasingly irregular about its sawtooth oscillator and phaser; it's hard to pinpoint.

These are why I recently went back to 32-bit. (I'm too poor for even jBridge!)

Martinic's Combo F and Combo V. Absolutely perfect, and good for more than Doors covers.

[RirtualViot2013]

One old plugin I really, REALLY miss is Hypersonic 2.
It was released by Steinberg in 2005 and it was a small, albeit very powerful workstation at the time, similar to Kontakt or HALion Sonic these days.

Hypersonic 2 had a magic preset called "Atmos Piano" which one of my favorite producers used in like 80% of the time in his productions.
Since I did not want to lose access to it after Steinberg abandoned Hypersonic 2 in favor of the new HALion Sonic line, I installed jBridge to "make" the plugin look like a 64 bit to Cubase.
Unfortunately, even this won't keep the plugin in my workflow.
Steinberg has announced that they will end eLicenser support in 2025 and I don't see any way how Steinberg will create a Steinberg Licensing-based license for a product that they've ended support for more than one decade ago.
This means that starting 2025, as soon as my eLicenser breaks, the license will truly be gone. A reminder to the community that nothing lasts forever.

[El°HYM]

iZotope Iris 2.

[zerocrossing]

iZotope Iris 2.

Not the same, but yesterday I checked out Cube 2.5, which I was surprised to find does a lot of really good sounding resynthesis and spectral morphing.

[TabSel]

Amaranthaudio Cycle

[keyman_sam]

Shortcircuit. Boy, do I miss it.

[El°HYM]

iZotope Iris 2.

Not the same, but yesterday I checked out Cube 2.5, which I was surprised to find does a lot of really good sounding resynthesis and spectral morphing.

Cube is certainly very good; but Iris 2 always had a special place in my heart, especially for Textures and such. Also kind of lost interest in that company in general, after they ditched their best synth. Not to forget Trash 2 and old Exponential Reverb stuff.

[Bunny_boy]

Shortcircuit. Boy, do I miss it.

Is it just a case of waiting at the moment?

Obviously that doesn't help right now!

[audiojunkie]

I used to like the Rapture and Dimension Pro (especially Rapture). They were like brothers, but Rapture was a cool synth and Dim Pro was more of a rompler. Then one mac update, it stopped working. I don't recall all the details. It looks like it's not available at all anymore. hmmm.

edit: it looks like it's still available as Rapture Pro from Cakewalk.

I know I'll get flamed for this but I got Kontakt to replace Dimension Pro and I find myself still missing Dimension Pro. I loved the layering and ADSRs.

No flames here. I agree with you. I wish I had the Pro version, and I wish it could be modernized to 64 bit with HiDPI scaling.

[audiojunkie]

Shortcircuit. Boy, do I miss it.

Then you've got some good news coming.

https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/shortcircuit-xt

[audiojunkie]

SQ8L
Synth 1
Dimension Pro
Alchemy
Emulator X3
PG-8X
Crystal
Oatmeal
Directwave VST

I know these last two will cause controversy, but I stand by opinion that these are basically discontinued:

Audjoo Helix
Vital

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

No other synth have such a small size,distinguish hardware like sound and such a huge free for download library.
Don't need advertising,just wt import,more modulators and mod matrix hihihihi
Made new revision of my last sound bank for it.
Check here:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/synth1 ... /downloads