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Hey, I'm not a major person on this thread, but I was just going through old hard drives. Are there any free VSTs that anybody is looking for? I downloaded a lot of good free ones ages ago and I bet you can't find some of these anymore.
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Tweezer Reprise posted:Whatcha got? My interest is piqued. Well I was hoping you'd tell me what you wanted and I'd search these drives. But for one thing, if anybody can verify that it's abandonware, I've got the installers and codes for polystretcher, seamless looper and beatcreator. I actually bought the CD from Digital River years ago. I think these guys had to abandon their projects because of IP violations, like reverse-engineering Propellerheads' file formats. Beatcreator may save optionally in the recycle file format, I don't recall.
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May 5, 2021 16:26
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Gaspy Conana posted:got anything from Arc Dev? Might. If you recall the names of the individual plugs that might help too. Oh, this is Windows, I don't do Mac.
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May 6, 2021 14:29
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Gaspy Conana posted:got anything from Arc Dev? Okay, found the ArcDev Noise Industries folder. What are you looking for?
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May 6, 2021 14:33
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Does EnergyXT VST work all right nowadays? As I recall XT had a really nice arpeggiator built in. I also recall the head programmer went nuts. And I think I have just located all my "Classic" VSTs from Kjaerhaus, I think those were discontinued years ago. petit choux fucked around with this message at 15:00 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 14:35
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DaWolfey posted:Is there any plugin that is like a real-time sampler? So it takes live audio, slices it by transients or by time or whatever else, and lets you trigger them by midi (near) instantly?
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May 22, 2021 21:43
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Jesus that is sad, too. That guy made a couple really nice pieces of software. Can I share it, then? I think that might be the first VST I ever paid for.
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May 22, 2021 22:04
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2DCAT posted:TAL Jup owns... New Softube Juno-106 also owns Yeah, I was about to add that 2dcat speaks very highly of it LOL Offer still stands, anybody wants any abandoned 32 bit freeware VSTs I'll be happy to look on this old hard drive and see if it's there. ED: here, just for yuks: 
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May 25, 2021 20:30
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Flipperwaldt posted:I have no idea what you're referring to, but googling made me find out you can hide plugins in reaper by renaming them within reaper with a # at the front, which may come in useful at some point. Well you no longer need to brave teh KVR forums thanks to the slim slow flow of petit choux
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May 25, 2021 21:03
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Do you have any old version of Alchemy (AU), or is that a no-no, since it's with Logic now? No AU just vsts.
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May 25, 2021 22:45
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Oldstench posted:Turns out with the VC and tokens I had I was able to get it for $2. Seems like a good deal. I think it was originally priced at $100 or more? Yeah, I'd say.
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Jun 18, 2021 21:48
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Thank God I'm not the only one with this issue. But, as "Bob" says, too much is better than not enough.
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Jun 19, 2021 01:30
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OutOfPrint posted:Same, but then I get distracted by a bunch of free stuff like this and this, one thing leads to another, and, oops, have enough songs to start another album. Holy cow!
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Jun 19, 2021 03:21
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veepfake posted:Does anybody have a VST suggestion that'd make sounds similar to an album I dig -- Wink With Both Eyes by Blanche Blanche Blanche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQGdu9dO1iU? And if you need any old and/or broken Casio keyboards, hit me up.
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Jul 23, 2021 19:40
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veepfake posted:thanks for the help guys No, seriously, you can get a bunch of good free synths that could do some approximation of that. I'd try a moog emulator maybe.
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Jul 24, 2021 12:11
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Agreed posted:I like their Arp 2600 and Memory Moog emulations. They aren't the ultimate of authenticity to the original hardware (I think they kind of build these internally based on Voltage Modular), but they are good tools and fun to work with IMO as a break from soft supersynths. Cool attention to workflow and aesthetic also. Wow, thanks. Way back when I was first discovering DAWs and VSTs using Modplug, Psycle and Energy XT (and a sequencer that came with BeOS called XRS), I felt like audio software and VST design was one of the greatest artforms we have going on and likely more beautiful and inspirational than any music likely to be created with any of them -- not to diminish any of the music. But the steady flow of new VSTs has affirmed this feeling.
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Pollyanna posted:There's reasons to not use Renoise, to be fair. Piano rolls make your intervals and progressions first-class citizens in how they're presented, which helps a lot when you're just starting out with composition and music theory. Trackers are a lot more abstract and I find it difficult to sketch on them, but they're perfectly good for actual production. That said, I'm sure other DAWs like Reaper have FX chains with compressors, EQs, LFOs, whatever ring mods are, etc. REAPER has a simple drum sampler and you use multiple instances of it, I think there's a template somewhere. Reasamplomatic, I think, and you can use as many instances as you want. As far as percussion VST recs, I have a strong attachment to microtoniq. With the former you can do delicious handmade layers, and it has round robin too, and with the latter you have a pretty much perfect electronic drum machine.
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Don't know if anybody cares to hear this ITT but I've been trying out two new MIDI controllers over the last few days, the Akai MPK Mini and the Zeppelin Labs Altura. Right now I'm running the Altura, a Theremin based MIDI controller (with a very nice arpeggiator as well!) into my computer and into an old freeware favorite, Superwave, just because I hadn't tried the Altura with the computer until now. It is a perfect tool for creating atmospheric sounds. And though there's the labor involved, the soldering and everything, it was still ~ $69. I want to be clear, I have no intention on playing a Theremin as a melodic instrument. That looks too much like work. And I'm going crazy for arpeggiators RN, the two devices I named above both have them, both have very nice ones. In fact, the MPK Mini has a pretty great one, really easy to use and to control. I am very pleased with both of these. Last night I played on the MPK with another old freeware VST fav, Oatmeal. And Drumatic, Hard Boiled Wonderland, and Microtonic. All to good effect. I'm just a little bit looking forward to playing a device with an arpeggiator with another one, and seeing what might come forth from that. But anyway. petit choux fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Nov 7, 2021 |
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Pollyanna posted:Would be nice to program it. Sample the random, play it three times, then reroll the fourth. Then do that again, but do a second reroll for the second fourth play. Instant AAABAAAC! Bam!
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Nov 8, 2021 15:56
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watho posted:a fun thing to do with arpeggiators is set it to random and trigger percussion samples with drum rack type instruments Much fun to be had with arps, that's for sure. I remember that was one of my favorite things about Energy XT, back before it went sideways. I still have it as a VST, haven't used it for years.
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Achmed Jones posted:
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Nov 8, 2021 20:55
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And so at last, it is upon us.
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Nov 16, 2021 17:38
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As foretold, Black Friday is upon us.
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Nov 16, 2021 23:06
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UncleBlazer posted:Another plug-in shop, like plug-in boutique etc. I bought hardware from jrr now and then over the years. They're big.
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Pollyanna posted:I got a BSP recently (thanks petit choux!) and now all I need are some MIDI cables and I will actually have a use for my tiny synths. RN controlling a worn-out Roland XP-10 with this MIDI theremin, which has a decent 1-7-step arpeggiator on board. That goes into REAPER, and into Izotope Mobius filter and Jack Dark's Shattershot, MDA ring mod, Smartelectronix' Supaphaser -- not all at once. How's that for a blast from the past.
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Nov 28, 2021 16:43
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havelock posted:Edit: deeply enjoying myself making only stuff for me (not trying to be overly negative) This is all right. I think people don't seem to realize that making music is the end in itself, not selling it.
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Jan 3, 2022 17:50
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McCoy Pauley posted:Nice -- thank you for the detailed write up. Very interesting. I think I'll keep my eye out for deals on the Micro -- sounds like it would be very handy. Old dead man needs his beeps and boops
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McCoy Pauley posted:I'm really just a bunch of ROM. It's one of them, ah, philosophical questions, I guess. But I ain't likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain't no way human.  It's the very best.
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Jan 21, 2022 06:57
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Him reading it was my very first mp3. Lots of folks criticized that version, it's my favorite. In his young stoner voice.
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Radiapathy posted:I only own a single Izotope plugin (VocalSynth), but they're offering me a "loyalty offer" to get some of their bundles at a steep discount until the end of the month. I have a few of their VSTs and they hound me every day with loyalty offers. I only buy their more toy-like ones though, I've had such fun just playing a Trump speech through stutter edit so many times. Anybody ever play with reMIDI?
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Hey VST thread, been wondering if there is some sort of VSTI that can compose MIDI based on some kind of looping, patterns, anything? Just kinda wondering what is out there. TIA
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Trig Discipline posted:Something like Instacomposer? Or am I misunderstanding the question? No, not really. (ED: wait a minute, Imma watch this whole video, maybe I'm wrong on this) Well, since I remember you in the hardware synth thread and we've both been watching user so math with his Euclidean composing algos or whatever, it put me in mind of things from days past that could use some algos. I think there were a couple kinda cool programs, way back in the early days of freeware and such. It was completely non-musician oriented, that were designed for doing polyrhythms, and I was wondering if there are VSTs in popular use nowadays that generate progressions or just harmonies algorithmically, and if there were any that did it with just MIDI notes, as well. Does this help expand on my question for you? Also, any good VSTs or VSTIs aimed at polyrhythms specifically, maybe more percussion oriented? Here is another Q that will probably get some answers. Is $100 good for Pigments?
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I'm noticing the people who made Instacomposer also have several other plugins available that sort of match my request, and I am eager to hear about any more. I just got sucked into ADSR/Sweetwater sales and I'm trying to have some self restraint. ED: still haven't made it through the whole video, but it does sound good. I notice these guys are on sale a lot over at ADSR right now, anybody familiar with this software? petit choux fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Okay, did a little searching, here's one of the leading candidates so far: https://intermorphic.com/wotja/tutorials/item/_old/video-jadito.html
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free Trapt CD posted:Somewhat related to the above, anybody know of something that can dynamically reallocate midi input within scales? While searching I came across a couple programs that called themselves scalers that may suit your needs? I believe there also used to be such things in REAPER scripts, but those aren't VSTs. And IIRC, way back in the day, both Asseca and Nicfit made VSTs that did nothing but various operations on MIDI. I think some of these may suit your needs. You should be able to find them on KVR and stuff. petit choux fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Jul 25, 2022 17:00
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Wow, it's so weird realizing I'm old this way. It looks like Asseca's plugins are pretty hard to find RN. I'll have to look into this, I still have them and one of his VSTs is pretty much in every project, his MIDI monitor.
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free Trapt CD posted:I'm most familiar with Pro Tools, which probably doesn't help! But recently got a hold of Cubase 12, so if that's got the necessary stuff it's a fine excuse to finally learn how to work the drat thing properly. Also have 7 copies of Ableton Live Lite, but who doesn't these days? And Im one of those someones but I'm in the middle of a move right now and everything is terribly disorganized right now. I'm sure I'll find it sometime soon. ED: Currently extracting all my nicfit dll's from an old dvd. petit choux fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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Okay, stayed up late rummaging through crates and finally found a dvd with a large collection of my old VSTs, probably mostly junk but including Nicfit's collection of MIDI utilities. It took a long time to decompress, it's a pretty large zip. Anybody interested PM me. Oh, also got my copy of Energy XT still! Hope Machine is doing all right.
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Here is a link to my zip of Nicfit's MIDI tools. Actually I think they're there in duplicate, sorry. There are lots of other great ones and since there's been a request I'm going to try to set up hosting for all my antique VSTs. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j78DXltLmg4Rgf5Y6FEb8WC-lCLas0yp/view?usp=sharing
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And I don't plan on uploading all my old VSTs tonight but here, this is all the Kjaerhaus "Classic" plugins, IIRC some of these were really good https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nl0mmWY3cdY0_AFbaZXJzpK3mf3Dl76l/view?usp=sharing
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