Thank you! So it seems the "Sound Toys only has a marketing department" statement just above is already proving false

 

Programming to update the beta can be done easily with a few programmers. The early developers I'm talking about, these geniuses who designed the plug-ins today, are no longer with this company. That's why there haven't been any new plugins for decades. Try talking to the current soundtoys staff. They don't know about any projects or promotions they've been working on for a long time.

 

I don't know why. All I know is that they were developing an analog console emulation plug-in called 'Juice' and had even run a preview beta test. It wasn't released for some reason when release was imminent, and there were no new plugins for decades after that.

 

Interesting thanks. I understand the creators of Soundtoys themselves already came from Eventide in the first place, some peeps who worked on the H3000 etc. and then made their own company.

https://www.soundtoys.com/plugged-in-h3000/

The H3000 was a labor of love for Soundtoys founder & CEO Ken Bogdanowicz and Soundtoys engineer Bob Belcher back in their younger days working at Eventide – they designed and built this thing (well most of it, at least). Ken was the effects algorithm and preset designer, and created Eventide’s first intelligent pitch shifter. Bob designed the circuits, wrote most of the code and pulled all-nighters laying out circuit boards. Our good friend Dave Derr (owner, Empirical labs) designed the analog and converter sections. Gil Griffith (owner, Wave Distribution) evangelized the H3000 far and wide, getting this box into the hands of many thousands of top artists, engineers and recording studios.

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The Plug-ins

While still at Eventide, Ken and Bob moved on to design the DSP4000 (the next generation Harmonizer), Ken started a side business, Crescent Engineering, whose first product was a “plug-in” for the H3000 called Mod Factory which he advertised in the back pages of Mix Magazine. Mod Factory was an amazing modular effects system capable of creating some stunning dynamic effects. Eventide eventually licensed Mod Factory from Ken to create yet another H3000 spin-off, the H3500 and H3500B which included Mod Factory and the sampling option. The final two spin-offs were the H3000 D/SX and H3000 D/SE which added new collections of effects patches from top artists and producers.

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Crescent Engineering (the company under which Ken created Mod Factory) evolved into Wave Mechanics, which eventually became Soundtoys, so we could take our ideas further. Soundtoys’ SoundBlender plug-in was the first pro multi-effects plug-in available for Pro Tools, and the closest you could get to the kind of creative effects found in the H3000.

To this day, we’re still inspired by the H3000 in many ways. Ken and the Soundtoys team love creating products with this kind of longevity – EchoBoy, Decapitator and the collection of Soundtoys plug-ins capture and carry forward the tradition of creativity and uniqueness that started with the H3000. Effect Rack, the crowning feature of our latest release, Soundtoys 5, takes cues from the original multi-FX platform in its ability to creatively combine individual effects.