KVR Audio

kanoharuayu · Post by **kanoharuayu** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 11:04 am

I'm just curious what everyone was using back then, my fav trance techno and stuff from that era lol

ChristopherWD · Post by **ChristopherWD** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 11:38 am

Hmm... for 2000's trance I would recommend you look into the native Korg Triton plugin. The Triton is loaded with those sounds and was a popular workstation across the 2000's. A lot of people really wanted a native version back in the day.

For earlier VST's of that era though... I remember Z3TA, V-Station and SuperWave plugins being popular back then. And of course the KORG Legacy Collection was out at the time too.

Later 2000's I remember hearing a lot about Sylenth 1 and Massive.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:10 pm

Tassman(Applied Acoustic), Vaz Modular, lots of Synthedit & Synthmaker stuff. Virsyn was great. Pro 53 (NI)

Lbdunequest · Post by **Lbdunequest** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:15 pm

ReFX Vanguard, ReFX Nexus, Sylenth1, Absynth, Massive, Albino, Z3ta, V-Station

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:19 pm

I guess Access Virus is hardware but wasn't it also essential for trance sounds? Anyway, you can find it in software now for free.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:51 pm

Z3TA+, ASynth, Augur (VSynth), Korg MS-20 for me.

osofaux · Post by **osofaux** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:08 pm

Albino 2, FM7, Z3TA+, Pentagon I, Vaz, DR-008 to name a few.

Oh, and One Ping Only. Can't forget that workhorse.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:56 pm

I don’t like Trance, but for me, the plugins that I remember using the most were Absynth, Zebra, Wavestation, Discovery Pro, Z3TA+ and Sytrus. Maybe Minimonsta 1…

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:12 pm

Arturia Minimoog and Modular were around in their first version, and possibly ARP 2600.

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:20 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:56 pm I don’t like Trance

I like early 90s (Goa) Trance. I'm sure that the OP is thinking of some other kind of music, also called Trance.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:32 pm

Regarding Massive for trance, I was making a lot of vocal trance back in that period and frequenting many trance forums and I recall it being shunned by many (myself included) because it was such a CPU killer at that time. Just one or two instances would bring most of the typical CPUs from that period to their knees, so trance producers gravitated toward synths that were easy on the CPU in order to layer up 15-20 tracks or more (e.g., Sylenth1, V-Station, Vanguard, Albino, etc.).

dlandis · Post by **dlandis** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:34 pm

I'm not sure about the Trance designation, per se, from that period, but Camelion 5000 (morphing into Alchemy) was pretty big then. Tim Conrardy (R.I.P., gentle soul) was still with us and had some plug-ins, including Enceladus. The very first plug-in instrument I can recall and owned was Seer Systems' Reality (early 1990s.) Atmosphere, the predecessor to Omnisphere was introduced in 2002.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:47 pm

egbert101 wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:19 pm I guess Access Virus is hardware but wasn't it also essential for trance sounds? Anyway, you can find it in software now for free.

Yup, the Virus was pretty much the holy grail of trance synths in the 2000s.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 4:54 pm

the most popular vst in 2000?
neon?

grandmasterbird · Post by **grandmasterbird** » Sat Jul 22, 2023 5:15 pm

I remember most producers were using primarily hardware synths up until 2002-2003 onwards when the first good sounding vsts appeared and computing power ramped up. That was when software became more popular. Around that time it was Oddity, V-station, Z3ta, Imposcar, Pro52 etc.

But like I say it was still mostly boxes like the Virus, Novation synths, Roland JP’s etc….

As for pushing on towards 2008 I really don’t know…. Vanguard, Albino, RP Predator maybe…?

What were the most popular vst instruments 2000 - 2008?