Old VSTs

[Progrez]

I want to know where I can get some RAW old VSTs that they used to use back in the day?

The current stuff doesn't really appeal to me and do you know what they used to do to improve the shelf life of the tracks compared to now?1990's - 2007 and 2008 sound is what I am looking for various style/sounds but not electro house or EDM or trouse mainly trance like Perasma - Swing 2 Harmony (Deserves An Effort Symphony Dub Mix), NUNRG sound, Space Brothers sound, Chicane sound or Kamil polner sound, MK-S sound and old Ferry Corsten and Fire & Ice and Airwave sound where both of them had those crisp percussions and basslines

Older tracks sound more addictive compared to the new ones

 

[Jetflag]

Torrents/ illegal downloads or forums like kvr are your best chance as most of what you want have been deprecated.

there are some good emulators out there though

 

[LostLegend]

To be honest you can recreate most of those synth sounds with modern software.
A free synth like Vital can get you most of the way there if you know what you are doing.

If you know how many oscillators, unison voices, what type of filter the synth you are trying to recreate has, you can get pretty close. There’s even free wave tables modelling the osc’s of some of these famous synths floating around the net.

The hardest part I’ve found is getting the filter sound right. Ableton has some great filter modelling built into it’s stock synths, but these require having Ableton in the first place.

@EnigmaState might have a better grasp of this than me!

Novation did put the legacy vst versions of the classic V-Station and Bass Station on their site a couple of years back for free, but have since sadly taken them down. You can still download them from some free plugin sites, but trying to get a license code for them seems to be an issue.

Personally I would recommend the JP6K vst for starters. It’s only 25 euro and is modelled on the JP8000 and is probably the closest to the sound of the actual synth you can get in software form.

https://www.adamszabo.com/vstplugins/jp6k/

Here’s my attempt at the Thrillseekers Synaesthesia lead I posted in Magdelayna’s remix thread:

synaesthesia lead 2

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Phoscyon 2 for that 303 emulation acid goodness:

Phoscyon

Bass Line

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Diva by U-He would be a good all rounder for a classic sound as well as its different sound generators and filters are modelled on vintage gear. It is fairly expensive though.

Granted these are modern VST’s emulating older gear, rather than being old VsT’s

The Synth1 vst might be worth a look. It’s been around since the late 2000’s and is modelled on the Clavia Nord Lead. It’s also free:

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/synth1-by-daichi-laboratory-ichiro-toda

More importantly they’ve kept it updated with a x64 version as well.

If you do manage to source other older VST’s, you need to make sure they are still compatible with your DAW. Some newer DAW versions won’t let you run x32 vst’s without additional software.

 

[EnigmaState]

Most of these old VSTs are obsolete and unsupported so whilst I dont condone downloading them off torrent type places, its probably your only option.
Some of the challenges you may have is getting them to work on a modern DAW.

I have recently built a PC with Windows XP and Cubase SX to house as an archive some of these old VSTs. A fair few of mine I had kept from back in the day with my licenses.
Superwave plugins are decent SuperWave

I find with these older plugins you can see on an EQ analyser theyre a little more warmer and not a top heavy as modern plugins.

 

[Pulser]

Osiris (Free) for most of my 2000 - 2005 Pulser sound and Xenia (free) for some Insigma sounds The Usual Suspects - DSP56300 Emulation

Also used ReFX Vengeance a lot, NI Reaktor, Nexus 1 & 2, Synth1 and Sylenth1 (best ever VSTi for Trance IMO). Ohm Boyz effects (mostly free now).

2000-2005 was a transition so we still used hardware, Virus b (bass, pads and leads), JP8000 (leads and pads), Novation Bass Station or TB-303 (had a couple of those) for bass and arrpegios. Novation Supernova (used for the original version of Open Our Eyes), Roland, Korg or Yamaha romplers for pianos and pads (JV1080, Korg Triton, SY85 or CS6x etc). Yamaha TX81z (Lately or Solid bass - Olmec Heads Spiritualised basline). I also used NI Battery extensively for drums but before that it was an Akai sampler (S950, S1000, S3000). FX were usually cheap Lexicon reverbs (Reflex or Alex) or a Yamaha Rev500 etc.

In all my years I honesty put that sound down to the summing and preamps of a basic outboard mixer (usually a Mackie 8 bus or Soundcraft Ghost). The separation you get from that alone is the sound you're looking for. Still not managed to get it in the box but trying

 

[Progrez]

Torrents/ illegal downloads or forums like kvr are your best chance as most of what you want have been deprecated.

there are some good emulators out there though

Most of these old VSTs are obsolete and unsupported so whilst I dont condone downloading them off torrent type places, its probably your only option.
Some of the challenges you may have is getting them to work on a modern DAW.

I have recently built a PC with Windows XP and Cubase SX to house as an archive some of these old VSTs. A fair few of mine I had kept from back in the day with my licenses.
Superwave plugins are decent SuperWave

I find with these older plugins you can see on an EQ analyser theyre a little more warmer and not a top heavy as modern plugins.

Can't get torrents here the federal government banned it here in Australia and Australia has become like China and Russia. I will have to see I want to know what kind of daw and everything they used back in the day. Thank you for spending the time to reply guys.

 

[erickUO]

Cheap alternatives:

Freshly Squeezed Samples has free soundbank for V-Station that replicates older sounds, these ones are included.
https://soundcloud.com/adamszabo%2Fadam-szabo-v-station
Z3ta+ is also popular in the 2000s and you can get it for free in a special edition of Computer Music Magazine.

I find many built-in synth presets didn't do justice. You may want to check their 3rd party soundbanks to hear its full capabilities.

 

[Jetflag]

Can't get torrents here the federal government banned it here in Australia and Australia has become like China and Russia. I will have to see I want to know what kind of daw and everything they used back in the day. Thank you for spending the time to reply guys.

Well, Australia isn’t just a colony of prisoners, it’s also a colony of prison guards.

fortunately there is a wonderful thing called TOR and another one called VPN

 

[Progrez]

Well, Australia isn’t just a colony of prisoners, it’s also a colony of prison guards.

fortunately there is a wonderful thing called TOR and another one called VPN

I will look into that, and I also want to know what kind of drums Airwave used back then. I just love his old sound. I did ask him about this when I was working with him, but he can't remember them and sold most of it because he was going through some personal issues at the time. He had to sell it off. I know he used Cakewalk back then. There is just something about that old Airwave sound I love from 1999 - 2004. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't degrade over time? So the rawness wouldn't be there because it's been copied so many times.

V-One - Clouds In The Sky/Dead Cities (1999)

I want to know how he made those percussion sounds. They sound so lovely and nostalgic.

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