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Echophonic incorporates a modulated delay line with reverb, to create glorious psychedelia. I can't think of an equivalent in the plug-in world. Turning to the effect processors proper, Delight Delay uses an onboard sequencer to control level and filter characteristics for up to 15 discrete echoes, and lets you set up groove-based and experimental effects with great ease. The result is one of the most convincing and genuinely usable virtual Theremins out there. Theremouth is technically an effect, and requires an incoming monophonic audio signal (such as your voice) to drive it. Vertigo Wave is a MIDI-driven Ondes Martenot, and not only sounds really good, offering four of the same haunting timbres as the real thing, but the clever velocity-coupled glissando behaviour and mod-wheel volume control let you easily play the thing expressively. The remaining two instruments could prove essential for film composers and Jonny Greenwood devotees alike.
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The GUI is a model in how to combine style and character with clarity - the quaint zoetrope-like animation of a dancing couple advances one step with each note message received. The attention to detail here is typical of the collection as a whole. Getting into seriously niche territory, Boxymuse does old wind-up music-box sounds, which would work equally well for a children's TV show or your next horror film soundtrack. Air Piano is superb: a spectrally skewed, reverb-bathed beauty that's a clear homage to Brian Eno's Music For Airports and effortlessly inspiring. Then, amongst a clutch of organs and pianos, Tranzistorg is a nice Vox Continental clone, equipped with drawbars, Leslie, cabinet emulation, and a deliciously vintage reverb. It has cheesy onboard preset patterns, but can be played via MIDI too.
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One of a trio of deliberately vintage-vibe, naïve drum machines, Retrobeat MkII carries 27 great-sounding, tuneable sample sets from drum machine classics such as the Roland CR78 and TR808 and the Linn Drum, little-known home-organ oddities, and synths including the Sequential Pro One, Formanta Polivoks, Korg MS20 and so on. Meanwhile, The Chiller is more or less an ARP Omni clone, generating luscious, juicy, string-like Kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre tones. It's a little brute of a thing, but very contemporary-sounding.
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Mod and pitch wheels provide real-time control of these and other parameters. The Howler dispenses with niceties like waveform selection, LFOs and proper envelope generators, and replaces them with potent pre-filter drive and 'Larsen', which feeds the output back into the filter. The two included synths couldn't be more different. There are currently 17 instruments and 15 effects available and, as there's not room to go into them all, here's a run-down of my favourites. There's also a small but significant scene of independent Reaktor users putting out their own 'ensembles', and French developers Boscomac currently offer arguably the most wide-ranging, polished and characterful suite.

It supports NI's own Minimoog clone Monark, as well as their unusual and complex Skanner XT and Prism synths.
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VPROM - I can’t imagine we’ll see an update for that.Native Instruments' Reaktor isn't a plug-in format as such - more a platform for constructing synths and effects which you can then use in your DAW - but in practice it feels like one. U-he - the few VST3 I have are a bit broken and they are advising to use VST2Īir plugins - glad to see the back of them ! Lexicon plugins - unlikely to be ever upgraded Gforce synths - all of them and some haven’t been updated for years Rayzoon Jamstix - who knows if this will ever get a substantial update ?ĪudioEase Alitverb / Indoor / Speakerphone 2 - updates historically very slow from AudioEase Native Instrument - various such as abysynth / reaktor / Battery - some are likely to be updated
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Toontrack - all plugins - likely to get an upgrade at some point ? Soundtoys - although they claim to be working on VST3 versions for months/years. I’m ignoring the fact that for some plugs the VST2 version is more stable than the VST3 here’s my list below. I think it would be good to see the size of the problem. I thought it worth starting to compile a list of VST2 only plugins.

Moreover, within the next 24 months, Steinberg’s host applicatio… But as Apple has transitioned its Mac line to Apple silicon, those Mac users will still be able to use their VST 2 plug-ins under Rosetta 2. Focusing solely on VST 3 will increase the stability of our products and allow us to fully leverage the advantages of the VST 3 platform.Īs it stands, Steinberg hosts continue to offer VST 2 compatibility. The discontinuation of VST 2 marks the final step in the transition process to VST 3.
