One pitfall of so many instruments and effects is option paralysis. I'm in the process of creating a template of basic sounds and effects for song composition. Otherwise, I end up producing instead of writing.

cool fact: Max, the audio programming environment famous for Max for Live, is named after Max Matthews.

We ❤️ VST!! My favourite right now is Chipsynth MD, you can take patches from Mega Drive games to use in songs with no more need to have an adapter plugged into the real thing but hardware is cool too!😊

I was hoping someone would make this video. Mega props

Hell yeah brother can’t wait to put my Dad on some of your game since he introduced me to music and my first guitar at age 6

This was such a great watch! I was watching on my XBOX but had to pull it up on my phone so I could comment and let you know how much I enjoyed the video, great work mr. squash

Good video. 👍 I appreciate that you showed some of the articles which guided your research. Thanks!

Well done. A fascinating video, well researched and professionally presented.

Crazy how much ground work was needed in the first place to achieve that leap in technology - again crazy

Have you investigated CLAP plugin standard? Really cool stuff, especially considering the features Bitwig has.

What a fantastic history lesson on something we take for granted today!

I have always wondered when exactly did the VST begin taking over the way Electronic Genres were produced and this Documentary pretty much confirmed what I had thought, which was around the Late 1990’s. The VST has revolutionized how people make music and how in a way Traditional Synthesizers & Effects, Compressors etc have been brought to the masses in the form of emulations. As great as this has been, at least you can still buy Hardware-based products, like the legendary ARP 2600 which also exists in Software form from developers like Arturia. Another thing to consider though I think about VSTs is that you don’t really get the same ‘feel’ the tactility that hardware always brings to the table, and that with software on a computer, you have to boot it up first, Install (only one time) and Load it to use an emulation of say a Prophet 5… where as an actual Prophet 5 you can simply use it right away once you just connect the speaker/headphones & Power! Also the VST as powerful as they can really be can be so visually over-whelming that it can get in the way of the creative process because you might be trying to understand how to navigate you way around its particular workflow in creating sounds so you would need a break from the screen for a while.

Nice !

A couple errors in the video. Nothing major, but I wouldn't want people to be misinformed. Bell Labs was not owned by Nokia until sometime in _this_ century, long after their prime years. "Digital" instruments & effects existed before _software_ instruments & effects, which existed before "virtual" plugins (with means simulated knobs, I guess). The DAW existed before Cubase. Non-linear live show programming existed before Ableton. Live remixing existed before digital and virtual DJ equipment.

Great video.

Imagine how much better or worse the world would be if the original (and very expensive) autotune hardware device had never been converted to a VST plugin and widely shared on warez sites in the early 2000s. There have been several genres of music that couldn't exist without VSTs and the internet.

love the video you sound do one lv2 and clap plugin formats

What you can get for free nowadays would have cost you millions in actual hardware.

Did you say Bell Labs was a subsidiary of Nokia …???

Check upcoming CLAP Format, aswell AU for mac and LADSP for linux. VST originally came from Steinberg, which did make it kind of proprietary. That is not good for free software develpment if dependence to companies exist. Thats the reason VST from its very basics is crap to be honest. The benefit is just, so many people used the Steinberg SDK to come up with lots of free plugins and alternatives, so that Steinberg said, ok. ;-)

What about VST3?