i would like to get more information about the crucial plugin developer who are on the edge of plugin development of newer seen before tools & pushing modelling of iconic gear to new boundaries.
Severall come to my mind like Urs Heckmann (U-He), Reimund Dratwa (Black Rooster, Fuse Audio, heard he did stuff for Plugin Alliance), Tony Frenzel (Klanghelm),
Xavier Oudin (Xils Lab, Eiosis, former Arturia), Fabrice Gabriel (Slate, Iosis),
Alessandro Boschi (AA, Nebula).

Please add on, these guys deserve some light to be shed upon them, at least in a place like AudioSex!

Share interviews if you can, i would like to get more info about those coders.

 

I will start with this:
https://reverb.com/news/10-boutique-plugin-designers-you-should-know

 

I do not know for what

But: Friedemann Tischmeyer with MAAT Digital, Markus Medau with Ploytec and the three heads of Leapwing Audio are the first in my mind

 

Bootsy, Herb and Patrick from Variety of Sounds and Vlad from Vladgsound.

 

I find it interesting to get to know the guys behind the plugins, google the names for interviews to get to know which direction the route goes developmentwise, gain some techy insights maybe.

 

www.google.com/

 

Oeksound , true innovator with marvelous plugins like Soothe and Spiff. Can't wait to see the next plugin from them.

 

For sure i could find out myself. It came to mind that maybe other users could have had the same idea, sharing info is a good thing

 

turn off the forum...we dont need it anymore...we google only now

 

guys behind reaktor,absynth and massive are interesting fo sho...

do they work still at NI

pigment devs..did they work all the time for arturia or are they new employees

 

Pigments was developped by one young newcomer at Arturia. (with a help of the crew of course)
If you understand french you can search at Audiofanzine's website.
The guy have been interviewed by AF at the NAMM show this year. (vids are on YT)

(sorry I don't have the links at hand, and I feel too bad for searching today.)

 

Also not mentioned:
Fabien from Tokyo Dawn Labs,
Chris Johnson from Airwindows,
Andy from Cytomic,
Dave Gamble from DMGAudio,
Alexey Vaneev from Voxengo,
Alexey Lukin (iZotope and other his algos etc. Without him iZotope would be shittier)

 

VoS plugins dev

 

Also, as Bob Ohlsson said recently, doesnt matter what are these new brandnew algorithms, its quality progress etc, modern techniques, it is all about programm dependent, material dependent.
Btw nowaday plugins are better than older, but some old stuff still may be better than many newer ones. I m not speaking about better GUIs) bit i agree with Bob.

 

If you ask me now:

Tom Erbe - Soundhack, Pd
Laurent de Soras - Buzz, OhmForce, GForce
Sean Costello - Valhalla
Émilie Gillet - Audible Instruments
Michael Hetrick - Unfiltered, Reaktor, VCV
Leonardo Laguna Ruiz - Vult
David Viens & Sébastien Beaulieu - Plogue
Elias Kokkinis - Accusonus
Taiho Yamada - Waverazor



...but different plugs and projects are likely to come to mind at any given time.

 

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Interesting read :

https://blog.native-instruments.com/u-he-the-essence-of-awesome/

Quote (about Satin):

Satin is not based on a particular tape machine, but on old books from old German companies that contain so much old, unique knowledge about this kind of engineering and how to create these effects. Stuff you can’t capture with convolution or normal software methods. Many of the tape emulations out there get things wrong. Most tape emulations distort more as the signal volume goes up, but real tape actually distorts more when the signal level is lower. Of course you can completely overdrive tape – we all know that sound. However, the really interesting effects happen to quiet signals: Most tape emulations don’t take that into account.

 

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