As a computer scientist and musician, I’m enjoying designing DSP algorithms and plug-in concepts. It’s a pleasure for me to share my efforts with other people without having to worry about commercial interests. In each of my effects there is a special technical design, workflow or concept combination I haven’t found in existing tools. Many developers these days just stick to old concepts, but you will never see a straight copy of existing gear from me. I always add some innovation, or find a way to evolve and take it to a new level.
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Hi, just want to say that the demos of epicverb sound great. I’m looking forward to trying it out. Good work.
These plugins are really awesome! Being a free-vst scavenger I must say these are the most impressive plugins to date. I’ve been using them on everything and am totally impressed!
Thanks! I owe you guys one!
Cheers
-Greg
Just had to say your plug ins are fantastic! I use them all in production, especially Rescue. Saved my hyde more than once:) Thanks so much!
Hi bootsie. Big fan. If you would please email me I am doing a review of your plug ins for the site and for a magazine. Wanted to know if we could do a interview. Either way good job on the plugs!
Just wanted to say a big “Top Work” on these plugins. Commercial quality for free is unbelievably great.
One tiny little problem with the BootEQ in Nuendo 4.2.2, and this will probably hold true in Cubase 4 as well:
The GUI is too thin to allow the hosts preset saving dialogue to appear – this stops me from creating my own presets as I cannot access the “Load/Save” icon at the right of the preset name.
Apart from that, these are truly great tools.
This is already adressed and will be fixed with the upcoming update of BootEQ.
it’s time to port them to OS X
Please please please – make this OS X compatible!
Did I forget to say please?
Big respect for your epicVerb. Im mostly into analog stuff and only use softsynths and software effects for fun, but this reverb sounds to me like a hardware digital reverb from known companies and will make me think of using it in my productions.
Very good work. Thank you for sharing your creativity and work with other people. This is the true spirit of sharing ideas.
Will try your other effects in a time.
Again, thanks and respect.
All the best.
First off I have to thank you for the great gift that these plugins are…These are better than the ones I’ve bought from the bigger companies by far,,,,You did a beautiful job on the GUI side as well….Boy I wish I could code like that…These little gems are supersweet,I’m surprised you’re not selling them…Anyways thanks so much again….gush….gush
Hey Bootsie, I’m really impressed with the GUI of all the plugins, great work. Not one of al the commercial plug-ins I have are that beautifull! (I’m still testing the sound but it’s wonderfull) . I do have one question. Is the RescueAE still available, I can’t find it here and the link for the presetbank in the download page doesn’t work?
Thank you for these great pieces of software.
Sven
The latest Rescue download also contains the RescueAE version. I will fix the preset file link for it later.
Nasty LF rocks!
amazing plug!
It’s perfect for bass drums, particularly for dance music, it adds so much boddy and punch to the lowend!
Thanks for all your great plugins, can’t wait to try the new Epicverb! Keep up the good work.
Do you code your plugins in C? I’m interested in toying around with some plugin ideas. Any advice on where to start? What to read? What to avoid?
Thanks,
Bernie
Sweet plugins by the way. Density is one of the best I’ve found.
Great stuff, Bootsy
Thanks for all the hard work.
hey… your plugins look hot, any chance to get it on Mac soon…?
Bootsy, great plugs…seriously! I’m a professional artist/engineer and was really blown away by how good these were. I do have a bit of an issue I was wondering about?
Using Sonar 8 producer edition, some of the plugs do not show the preset positions on the knobs. The presets work and the tones are changing as I scroll through them, but it does not show me the positions of the knobs in the event I wanted to tweak someting. They are all at the off position…even when changing presets, some knobs on some of the plugs don’t move to show me where they originally were, understand?
I can’t recall at the moment which plugs did this, but other than that, they are incredible. I’ll post another message about this to you once I pinpoint which plugs seem to be doing this and will supply a few screen shots if need be. If you need to email me, please use the address supplied and we can discuss things further if you want. Thanks again for giving us the chance to enjoy these plugs!
Sincerey,
Danny Danzi
http://www.dannydanzi.com
http://www.myspace.com/dannydanziband
Hiya,
just wanted to leave you a message how much I love the stuff you do. Rescue is one of the things where you know the developer was knowing what he was missing in the vst-world and I dont need to mention epicVerb, it’s a fantastic sounding reverb. I hope one day you will get back what you bring into this big community of musicians and producers. Thank you!
Hy Bootsy,
Just a few words to your plugins: they are very well sounding
EpicVerb gives me a fantastic room to my sounds and of course “magic”. The only thing i have to do is to update my PC (new CPU, i still have my AMD XP 3200+) because of the huge workload
I am very surprised about the drive and saturation-features on the other plugins …. hardly notice an effect, very subtle… just a little bit as it should be…. not like some other “professional” plugins which tends to dull the sound rather
Thanks for the tools
AMAZING. AMAZING. the eq NASTY DS and DENSITY are giving me that roundedness that i never thought i could get in digital land. seriously i am so impressed – these are WAY better than a lot of my big $$$ plugs. more character – more believable 3d and girth.
I LOVE THEM. thanks so much – you are a very generous genius.
cheers -
jon
Hi Bootsy,
just want to leave my thanks for your plugs and your work. You sure know that your plugs are eye to eye and sometime above to the big ones. You are dam.. right. GUIs are exceptional, handling easy, concepts innovativ, presets usable and the results superb. A lot of people still think: costs much, must be good. You prove them all wrong.
It’s always amazing how easy I get the results I was looking for from your gear. Your presets are a good starting point at all. And for me I see, that there was a musician engineering. And you did (and are doing) a “real good job”.
chapeau
Eddie
I just tried the BootEQ MK II, and being quite down to earth I don’t like to overstate things, but this IS the EQ-plug in I’ve been waiting for! It sounds just fantastic. the saturation – unlike with existing plug ins – really sounds like it should sound. There’s only one thing, PLEASE considder making AU-versions for my mac at home!!!!!!!
Hi!
I just wanted to shout it out loud: “Thank you very much!!!”
I can’t finish a track without using at least one of your VSTfx’s. Now I have to rework all the songs. I can’t listen to them anymore! Your plugins have changed the whole process of mixing my projects
May I have a request? I can’t find simple “Products” page with detailed description of each one plugin. Is it hidden somewhere or it simply doesn’t exist?
Thanx a lot once more,
Stepaan
Hello
Really awsome plugins. Using booteq and rescue a lot. Still can believe that you can get such a good quality products free of charge
. Wish you all the best and keep up the good work. Cheers.
Regards
Wojtek
your Plugins are besser than most of my other commercials one. reLLY gREat. Genius
hey there, great plugins, i’d like to make a donation – please send me an email with your paypal address and i’ll send something through.
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^^ what Dan said…
Maybe you could put a PayPal link on the downloads page for dudes who wanna show some love with their pocket book.
I think it’s good Karma to support smaller developers in this way. Especially for excellent work.
If not a PayPal link, send me your PayPal e-mail info and I too will send something your way.
Peace…
Hi,
I am an editor of japanese monthly magazine.
I’d like to introduce your plugins in the next issue.
Could you gime me an e-mail?
I talk to you details.
Thanks!
Hi, let me just say, your plug-ins have not just improved my music, but has actually increased my enjoyment of the process exponentially. Thank you! I was wondering, do you think you could recommend one or 2 compressors to that be worth trying out?
First of all, I want to say THANK YOU for all your plugins and for making it free for us. This has become my main go-to plugins, especially the Density, BottEQmk2, Rescue, nasty LF and HF.
but I want to report a bug to you: I tried LF to do a mix yesterday, and discovered a denormal problem when I put them on a group bus track inserts (I use Cubase 2 SX). I also find that epicverb is a bit of a CPU hog
I hope it helps on your future development.
keep up the great work
So, you are a P4 user, right? I will check the potential denormal issue with LF again.
Hi, how do you add the epicverb presets if you don’t have a vst3 folder?
those are just different split versions of the internal bank converted by susiwong for the new Cubase versions.
Hey Bootsy,
I’m just wondering how you came by the name “Bootsy”.
Are you a fan of Bootsy Collins or is it just a coincidence?
LOL.
Cheers.
Or may be you wear a lot of boots.
LOL.
Ha ha . . . . . .
It’s definately a reminiscence to the 70’s decade, which had that special vibe and funk, you know …
I thought so.
First of all- let me thank you for your giving spirit.
Was thinking it could be cool if you licensed your plug-ins or technology to some company like Propellerhead to use in their new Record software. Think it may be a nice way to extend the program and get more exposure for your work.
Thanks again for your hard work.
Your TesslaSE Plug is rock solid.
Thanks
Hi , I am NOT able to download any plugin from this site. After reading so much about the high quality of these plugins I want to work with them…
Can anyone help???
I found these images on FaceBook, taken from the Radio Museum at Gothenburg by a friend of mine at Orban Europe. I really just dropped my jaw when I saw the design on this one radio… and thought maybe you also can take something away from the images as I have.
anyways, here’s the 3 pics of this one radio…
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1092/88311252248385588121087.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/926/88311252248345587121087.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5968/88311252248465590121087.jpg
And I do realize it loses its appeal a little bit when it isn’t in 3D in front of you, but maybe with a bit of the clutter removed and/or with a bit more space added to it… but not too much… it could be a fantastic GUI
Anyways, good for inspiration I hope. Much love,
J
Probably a stupid question, but I run into library not found error when using the plugins.
I have to use 98se because I use a yamaha dsp2416 hardware mixing card, and a lot of the projects are on software from that era.
Is there any way I can install the correct libraries on 98SE to use your tessla and other plugins? Or is that a huge pipe dream?
Thanks,
Me2.
unfortunately, Win98 is not supported by the framework I’m currently using.
Hi man,
is there a possibility to contact you via eMail? I’d have some suggestions for plug-ins derived from a rather rough concept of mine. I’d just like to hear a “professional” opinion on that, if it’s worth working on for instance… Don’t want to post it here because of its text volume (not that much actually but too much). If you’re too busy right now so be it. If not write to me.
Can’t you put up a mailinglist or something?
Love your stuff..
thanks
Deine Plugs = Der Hammer
Hab selten so gut klingende und vielseitig benutzbare EQ´s gehört. Respekt!
Density ist auch Spitzenklasse, wenn da noch ein Schalter mit unterschiedlichen Verfärbungstypen für die oberen Mitten/unteren Höhen dran wäre… das wäre genial (klingt imho noch zu sauber)
Tausend Dank nach Frankfurt
Bootsy,
I’m using Ferric TDS in Nuendo 3.2. Every time I load it into an insert slot, Nuendo bombs and kicks me out. Using it in Wavelab works fine. Any ideas as to what may be wrong ?
Unfortunately no and I do not have Nuendo here in my test suite, so I can’t reproduce or test this at the moment.
Nuts. I’ll try some of the other plugins to see.
I tried all your plugins in my current project. They will all stay there! Thanks for your great work
Hi Bootsy,
thanks for your good and musical plugs. Something i would love to get my hands on is the worlds first, mastering grade, Vari-MU VST compressor. If someone can do it, it has to be you, with your great DSP skills.
Can you tell us whats in the pipeline right now ?
/Best from Andy
Hey Bootsy!
Thank you for your wonderful plugins!!
I appreciate your time and patience, time and effort for creating these plugins for us to use. I use these plugins on almost every track.
Could you possibly give me a release date for your “nasty xtc” plugin? I’m very curious about this!
Again, thank you very much!!
Allana
unfortunately, there is still no date yet. I’ll gonna write about it, soon.
I’ve been mastering for 12 years now, and yeup… I now use at least 2… no wait 3 VoS plugins on almost every track.
For example this dark melodic death metal i mastered last night…
http://tinyurl.com/yjga4ce
Among my high-res EQ work and several other plugins used, was also VoS plugins:
TesslaPRO
NASTYtableTop
NastyHF
BootEQmkII
ResqueAE
and FerricTDS
which collectively turned a dull flat mix into what you hear.
Without the VoS plugins, it would take much more work to get what would probably not have quite the same magic to it, with that pristine quality. Most of the VoS are not only capable of being used for mastering work, but dare I say blows away everything else at any price for the functions they perform. And for that… VoS is making mastering engineers that don’t get much attention VERY happy. I’m one.
Great job, Jesse!
Hi Bootsy,
Your plugins are great! I do like the sound, you created. They are gifts, and you are gifted, too!
only some problems: DensityII and TeslaPro can’t remember my custom settings in SAMPLITUDE PRO. I have to recall them every time from the saved presets.
Am I the only one having this phenomenon?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Bootsy,
Count me in as another big fan of your work. Was wondering:
1) 64-bit VST builds. Any plans? Pretty pretty please?!
2) Some of your plugs still take ages to load (NastyLF, NastyHF, etc). I remember you mentioning something about font enumeration holding up startup in one of your updates, and indeed on my fresh Windows 7 install NastyLF takes about 5 seconds, as opposed to my 3000+ font old Vista install, which took like 2 minutes.
I love your work but the crash-tastically long startup times made me hesitant to use your stuff — though I am noticing that epicVerb and Density don’t have this problem. Do you have any plans for going back and tweaking the Nasty series?
Thanks!
Tom
right, you’ve spotted the font problem. This will be fixed in all my plug-ins but the Nasty Series comes last (BootEQ and epicVerb will be next). I hope it doesn’t take too long …
Awesome work man! Thanks for the plugins.
Hi,
I currently am using Adobe Audition in Windows XP, and some of your plugins work (and work great!), but others do not work at all – DensitymkII, FerricTDS, and TesslaPro are the ones that I had trouble with. When I try to open them up, I get a dialog box that says “Schematic Load: Type Not Found”. I then click OK, and I get the same dialog box, I click OK, get the same thing, etc. Any ideas as to why this may be happening?
Thanks.
will check that …
Hi, I have downloaded and tried over the last 10 Years tons of freebie Software and must say there’s ALOT of crap out there.
Your stuff is certainly exceptional, soundwise fully professional and I couldn’t believe it’s for free.
My deepest respect for your genious and generosity.
hi, i just want to say that i’ve never really tested your plugin, but now that you’ve won the kvr challange i wanted to give it a try… very nice
i did some mixes with them yesterday and your saturation plugins are a real timesaver to get everything to fit together..
i just wanted to ask 1 thing, the TesslaSE is already really noticable when you load it and put it to “0″ (which is 1). sometimes, when you just want to fatten up a sound this is already too much. maybe you should make a switch or something so you can go below 0 also? i think that would make it a real “all purpose fattening plugin”
hi bootsy love your work would u like to start a company with me email me. thanks