People use to forgot Propellerheads because its almost close, but in ios We we can use something as a plug.
Also Roland will grow a lot, and yamaha done his axn1 real close.
Some good new developers started with ios and they are migrating to other OSs with great synths... The fx are still poor.
Sorry for the fight with autocorection in portuguese

 

My Top 20 List Would Be:

FXpansion
IK Multimedia (Amplitube)
Eventide
Native Instruments
FabFilter
Xfer Records
Brainworx
Cableguys
iZotope
Voxengo
Slate Digital
Spectrasonics
Sugar Bytes
u-he
Lexicon
D16 Group
Toontrack
GForce
ohmboyz
Klanghelm

I think if they only made ONE good plugin that doesn't make them developers. They just got lucky making one really good unique plug. So that counts out illformed, lennar, reFX, and some others for me.

 

That list has nothing to do with Splice.com internally making a Top-20 of their choice. The list is automatically generated and updated quarterly on its own based on usage from tracks submitted by artists/producers and labels. So, if in most of the tracks submitted most producers where using Massive as an example, then N.I. came on top for that specific period of time.
You can also see that they also have a quarterly usage graph of each plugin, separately on that plug's info page.
Since Splice is mainly Electronic/Dance based then that list is not surprising at all. Anything N.I./Sylenth1/ReFX and Dada Life (Yeah! Sausage Fattener) are still some of the most used among EDM, IDM or whatever EM producers which makes the core of Splice.com.

 

 

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Yes Spectrasonics should definitely be there. And what about?
Softube
Kush Audio

 

Well Plugin Alliance covers SPL and Brainworx, never used any of the other people you mentioned.

 

reFX shouldn't definitely be in that list...

Lennar Digital just created ONE great synth.. but just one... and the legit users are ranting because they feel abandoned, no updates, no nothing. So the key is, what means a TOP developer?

Arturia is missing though...
They have the best vintage synth emulations.

 

ReFx, Voxengo and no space for Spectrasonics (all three) and Toontrack? Or instruments are not included?

 

in No pArticular Order

UAD
Bainworx and Softube (since they are responsible for programming a ton of stuff (spl,Elysia,UAD,Avid and so on)
TC Electronics (the old and new still sound amazing)
Soniccore / Creamware
Massey
Waves
Smartelectronix
Spectrasonics
Arturia
NI
Flux
Waldorf
Cakewalk
Algorithmix
and def Soundtoys.
d16
Genuinesoundware
SSl


used to love / forgot
TriTone Digital (Mic-Channel Emu (magic for vocals)
Nomad Factorys (blue series)
Ohmforce, Camel Audio, Roger Nichols (elemental audio)

 

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On top of all said before, I vote for Melda Production. They haven't reinvented the wheel, but their plugins are good and affordable.

My top developers: Universal Audio, Slate Digital, U-He, Melda, Klanghelm, XLN Audio, Native Instruments, Soundtoys, Cytomic. Some others may have fallen off the cracks.

 

I wish everybody on this thread could realize that Splice doesn't make a Top 20 of their own; NO, they didn't choose those plugs like I was trying to point to Mr_Anime above.

If you are a user of Splice and understand how the site works then it is quite easy to see that the Top 20 is referring to the amount of time specific plugins appear on submitted tracks/projects for a certain period of time. So, that "Top 20" is generated based on the plugins used by the producers/artists and labels which sent the track in.
Example: for KSHMR/Tiesto and Vassy - Secrets. You can not just only see the whole project but also a list and description of each plugs used in it. When you download and open that project, you need those plugs just like you'd use an Abletunes project.

Overtime Splice just count how many times each plugins appear on each submitted project and it gets ranked; so it is based on real-time data of what most of these Electronic producers submitting tracks to Splice are actually using most.

Pretty much the reason some of your favorite plugs are not listed or are listed in the low end is simply because the user base and producers/artists submitting these tracks are not using those plugs (at least not in the project they send to Splice).

 

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Slate Digital and McDsp are, for me, top developers.

 

Yes I Know how Splice Works , and that means that the most plugins that been used in the projects Are Dominated by Native instruments and that shows that most producers buys Native Instruments Products

 

I agree Only with 3 of the list:

Native Instruments
Waves
Lexicon

and I would add IK Multimedia

- NI for midi instruments
- Waves (just a small part of it - SSL) for some EQ and Compression
- Lexicon for reverb
- IK Multimedia (Amplitube) for Amp sims

this is no professional opinion... I am using them just to lay down some ideas on the fly
For any "serious" recordings or playing, I use analog gear.

 

There are too many wtfs about the list for me to post but I don't think there could ever be a list of 20 that anyone could agree on. Dada life lol

(no one has mentioned psp audioware !!)

 

Last edited: Aug 7, 2015

They asked the warez kiddies obviously. ;)

 

DMG AUDIO????? MELDAPRODUCTION??????? PSPaudioware?????

 

the more and more i see this list, the more i laugh. and the more confused i also become.

 

For me such a list would be a personal one...as a sound physician one must be master of one-self...thereby such a list would be defined by such a sound physician...for en external source to govern such a decision would be commercial stimulus of the masses.