Which is the oldest software and vsti you still use?

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  1. elixter

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  2. clearthelaunchpad

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    I've still got the Retro AS-1, although I can't remember the last time I used it. I think that it was the first Radium release I came across, that or an early version of Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, circa 2000-2001.
     
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    ReFX Beast cuz why not :rofl:
     
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    Oxford Dynamics, Cubase and Wavelab.
     
  7. rollerball

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    My audio journey started very recently, so the plugins I'm about to list are not that I've been using for a long time, but are those which I found through threads like these. Even though old, they often are really useful.
    Here are a few of them. I'll be adding links wherever applicable:

    Effects:
    1. arcDev Noise Industries plug-in bundle: Some weird and some great stuff here. I love the ET-301 Delay, which can add a lot of colour.

    2. Camel Audio plugins: Not too old, but unfortunately discontinued. CamelCrusher is a great distortion plugin. Love the CamelPhat and CamelSpace as well.

    3. GVST plugin bundle: Some very basic but useful plugins here.

    4. LePou plugin bundle: The amp sims which sounded significantly better than what was available for free in those days, and even held their own against many of the commercial options at the time. My favourites are the LeGion and the LeCto.

    5. Line 6 POD Farm: Despite its age, there are some great guitar tones to be had here. Some of the bands I adore used the amp sims from the POD family for their tones, which are very easily achievable with this. I also have a hardware POD unit and the ability to transfer tones from the hardware to the software makes it even more useful for me.

    6. mda plugin bundle: A few good utilities here.

    7. Native Instruments Spektral Delay: A very powerful delay capable of some truly unique sounds.

    8. Variety of Sound plugin bundle: Awesome stuff that sounds amazing. Density mkIII is great on the master bus, epicVerb works great for drums, and the Thrillseeker plugins are lovely exciters.



    Instruments:
    1. 4Front TruePianos: A good-sounding, lightweight piano module.

    2. Camel Audio Alchemy: Love its sounds! Great for pads and ambiences.

    3. HG Fortune synths: Pure ambient goodness!

    4. Native Instruments B4 II and Pro-53: Great sounding, lightweight emulations of the Hammond B4 and the Prophet 5.

    5. Piz MIDI Utilities: Although not instruments, but they are all VSTis, so I listed them here. Extremely useful MIDI utilities that I definitely recommend having.

    6. reFX Vanguard: Still sounds great despite its age.

    7. Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Omnisphere v1 and Trilogy: Atmosphere and Trilogy consume very little resources on modern systems so I find them very useful. Atmosphere has lush pads which have the signature Spectrasonics sound which I absolutely love, and Trilogy is useful from time-to-time too. To my ears, the Atmosphere sounds in Omnisphere sound somewhat different than they do in the Atmosphere plugin itself, and I seem to prefer the Atmosphere. I tried for Omnisphere v1 out of curiosity, and what it offers is enough for me. Not to mention the much simpler activation process as well.

    8. Steinberg Hypersonic 2: A great all-round sound module that's really lightweight.


    Appreciate all the other answers as well. I love taking a look at things which are from a time when I was little, and which still are useful today.
     
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    Anything from Variety of sound

    ThrillseekerLA
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  10. Yuri

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    OctaMED Soundstudio v0.12 (the About says Jan 20 1999). Works like a charm on my Win 7 64-bit system, I still occasionally fire it up and listen to some old tracker songs.
     
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    The best (for me) vsti organ
     
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    Probably NI's Intakt, 'cause I did chop a lot of loops with that one .
     
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  15. Mewtt

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    Any particular reason to use 32bit version of Zebra CM? There is any difference between 32bit and 64bit version? Also, I remeber using a 64bit of Pentagon from RGC Audio.
     
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    Logic 5.5 just running very bad on win10. so im quite Sad. because the ES2 damn, such a trance powerhouse for a stock synth.

    I use Recycle from time to time. This wasnt updated in a longer time.

    64bit sounds better, because it has more bits.
     
  17. aymat

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    I typically upgrade everything as soon as an update is available so there's not much on my system older than a year. However, I still use these regularly:

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    Camel Space :wink:
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    AP Tuner
    Cool Edit Pro 2.1
    Sonnox Oxford EQ
    Edirol Orhestral/Hyper Canvas
    Korg M1
     
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