Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Get the Bundle Here - bit.ly/4w6MooC
Steinberg VST 30th Anniversary Sale - bit.ly/4yT295n
More Steinberg Plugins - bit.ly/4xhM5s7
Producers, Steinberg has rereleased 5 of the very first plugins - ever - as a free bundle that you can grab on Plugin Boutique right now, today!
This is to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the invention of the VST and let’s be honest, the technology has been a massive part of our lives ever since and has transformed the music we love in ways no-one could have imagined.
So, what’s in the free bundle?
Karlette was released shortly after Steinberg introduced the original VST 1.0 specification in 1996. It was one of Steinberg’s flagship early VST effect plug-ins designed to highlight tempo-synced delay processing. It was a pioneer for VST effects because it was one of the first plugins to feature DAW tempo synchronization across four independent virtual delay heads, each with separate volume, panning, feedback, and dampening controls.
NEON is a simple 2-oscillator 16-voice subtractive virtual analog synthesizer that was released alongside the VST 2.0 specification in 1999. NEON introduced MIDI instrument handling to DAWs and is officially recognized as the world's very first VST Instrument (VSTi).
VB-1 - which stands for Virtual Bassist 1. Unlike modern bass plugins that rely on gigabytes of sampled audio, VB-1 used real-time physical modeling algorithms to synthesize string vibrations. It featured a unique graphical interface where you could visually drag the pick position and pickup location along the bass body to change the tone and pick-click attack.
CS40 is a 6-voice polyphonic analog-style softsynth which was loosely inspired by the vintage Yamaha CS synthesizer aesthetics. It was quite infamous among early Cubase users for its strict skeuomorphic UI
… the knobs required you to click and rotate your cursor in a circular motion rather than the standard modern up/down mouse drag. That has thankfully been updated for this release.
And finally, LM-7 is a 24-bit acoustic and electronic drum machine VSTi which served as the lighter stock counterpart to Steinberg's standalone LM-4 drum module. It came pre-loaded with classic sound sets including Roland TR-909 emulations, acoustic pop kits, and basic Latin percussion presets, giving early 2000s Cubase users instant beat-making capabilities without needing external hardware samplers.
#steinberg
#vst
#musicproduction
Get the Bundle Here - bit.ly/4w6MooC
Steinberg VST 30th Anniversary Sale - bit.ly/4yT295n
More Steinberg Plugins - bit.ly/4xhM5s7
Producers, Steinberg has rereleased 5 of the very first plugins - ever - as a free bundle that you can grab on Plugin Boutique right now, today!
This is to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the invention of the VST and let’s be honest, the technology has been a massive part of our lives ever since and has transformed the music we love in ways no-one could have imagined.
So, what’s in the free bundle?
Karlette was released shortly after Steinberg introduced the original VST 1.0 specification in 1996. It was one of Steinberg’s flagship early VST effect plug-ins designed to highlight tempo-synced delay processing. It was a pioneer for VST effects because it was one of the first plugins to feature DAW tempo synchronization across four independent virtual delay heads, each with separate volume, panning, feedback, and dampening controls.
NEON is a simple 2-oscillator 16-voice subtractive virtual analog synthesizer that was released alongside the VST 2.0 specification in 1999. NEON introduced MIDI instrument handling to DAWs and is officially recognized as the world's very first VST Instrument (VSTi).
VB-1 - which stands for Virtual Bassist 1. Unlike modern bass plugins that rely on gigabytes of sampled audio, VB-1 used real-time physical modeling algorithms to synthesize string vibrations. It featured a unique graphical interface where you could visually drag the pick position and pickup location along the bass body to change the tone and pick-click attack.
CS40 is a 6-voice polyphonic analog-style softsynth which was loosely inspired by the vintage Yamaha CS synthesizer aesthetics. It was quite infamous among early Cubase users for its strict skeuomorphic UI
… the knobs required you to click and rotate your cursor in a circular motion rather than the standard modern up/down mouse drag. That has thankfully been updated for this release.
And finally, LM-7 is a 24-bit acoustic and electronic drum machine VSTi which served as the lighter stock counterpart to Steinberg's standalone LM-4 drum module. It came pre-loaded with classic sound sets including Roland TR-909 emulations, acoustic pop kits, and basic Latin percussion presets, giving early 2000s Cubase users instant beat-making capabilities without needing external hardware samplers.
#steinberg
#vst
#musicproduction
