Rndigital Signature Bundle Full Of Unfinished

Here are five abandoned plugins of yesteryear that were still crying ourselves to sleep over.

Sadly, though, this wasnt to be expanded on, as the Danish outfit pulled the plug shortly after.

Boo. Native Instruments Spektral Delay.

Essentially a very fancy delay effect, it was very much slanted towards sound design rather than workaday echo effects, turning input signals of all kinds into ambient soundscapes by carving the left and right stereo channels up into up to 160 frequency bands for individual processing and modulation.

Alas, theres never really been anything like it since, although MeldaProductions excellent MSpectralDelay plays in the same ballpark.

While its great that these three legendary devices are still around in any form, CamelPhats supremely effective combination of distortion, filtering, EQ and compression, in particular, is still sorely missed by many veteran PC-based producers, who have had to find other ways to beef up their beats since, none of them quite the same as Camels perfectly realised classic.

Slicing the input signal into grains that could then be pitched, shaped, randomised and played back at variable speed via a handful of intuitive controls, with the brilliant Rhythmic mode making musical sense of the results, this unique creative powerhouse was a delight to mess around with and a constant source of inspiration.

If we could choose one plugin from our list for resurrection, this would probably be it.

Their greatest hit was a collection of over 100 instruments and effects, originally developed in their MaxMSP programming environment, but made universally useful through conversion to VST, AU and RTAS.

With such descriptive names as Squirrel Parade, Fragulator, Cyclotron and Monstercrunch, Pluggo was a glorious grab-bag of distortions, delays, synths, granular processors and much more, brought together within the host DAW by the Pluggo Bus plugin and cross-plugin modulation routing.

Has your creativity never quite got over the demise of a particular plugin Let us know in the comments.

Rndigital Signature Bundle Full Of Unfinished

Away from the day job, Ronan is a keen producer and drummer, with a particular passion for 90s hip-hop, jungle, breakbeat and jazz, a hard drive full of unfinished projects and a plugins folder that one day he honestly will get round to tidying up.

Hes also the dep percussionist for seminal 80s90s Italo-house outfit Black Box.