Instant Anger…

Eventide has finally released a native version of the Anthology suite of plugins. About half of them have been native for a while, but it’s nice to have the whole set. They might seem a bit quirky to people that didn’t spend every waking hour in a recording studio in the 80s and 90s, as most of the plugs are directly modelled on the Eventide Clockworks hardware equivalent, but that said, in many cases there is no equivalent commonly available. If you make IDM, in particular, this is a desirable collection; many of the plugs have Richard Divine presets that are essentially “Instant Autechre.” (In point of fact, several of his presets are named as such directly.)

H3000 Factory is my favorite of the set. I use it when I’m closing in on the end of the production process, and there is a hole in the arrangement. You can run pretty much any sound through this plug, and just skip through the presets until it sits.

Caveat Emptor: I did the UI update for Ultra Reverb, and partial design for Octavox and Quadravox. (Ultra Reverb is another special member of this collection. Reverb as a creative tool, rather than a room-maker.) There’s a 30-day special on this package for cross/upgrading that you should definitely take advantage of. For the price, probably the single best bundle of plugs available. ’Tis here.