Steinberg is celebrating 30 years of its VST standard by telling us that "the '90s are back" and releasing the Classics Collection. This is a new free bundle that features five fondly-remembered plugins from the ‘90s and early ‘00s, one of which was the first VST instrument ever released.
This was (and is) a simple two-oscillator synth known as Neon. We’re old enough to remember when this arrived (in 1999 as part of the Cubase VST 3.7 DAW update) and it did a fine job of proving that the ‘software instrument’ concept – which many still doubted – was credible.
