Open Deck Tape emulations

[David_Miles_Huber]

Quite simply, would you guys consider bundling the Open Deck Tape emulations within Nuendo and Cubase install package?

[Semarus]

This might be relevant.

Rupert Neve Designs and Yamaha Vintage Plug-Ins no longer supported

Dear forum members, After discontinuation of sale more than 2 years ago, finally after a total period of more than 13 years since its launch in 2011, the Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5033/5043 and Yamaha Vintage Plug-Ins (EQ 601, Comp 276, Comp 260, Vintage Open Deck, Vintage Wah, Vintage Phaser, Vintage Flanger, Dual Phaers and Max100) will no longer be supported, effective July 1, 2024. Both plug-ins sets will not be ported to Steinberg Licensing for technical reasons, however, they will cont…

[DosWasBest]

@David_Miles_Huber

Quite simply, would you guys consider bundling the Open Deck Tape emulations within Nuendo and Cubase install package?

I imagine it’s not Steinberg’s choice to make. Rnd owns the code & controls what they’d want to charge SB to use it.

[Semarus]

It’s branded by Yamaha actually, but it’s VST 2.x and they don’t seem interested in bringing it up to the VST 3 spec.

[THambrecht]

I wouldn’t want to use these.
There are much better plugins available these days from numerous companies..

[Fredo]

@Semarus

It’s branded by Yamaha actually

Branded by Yamaha, but licensed from Rupert Neve.

Fredo

[Semarus]

Vintage Open Deck, which is the topic of discussion and in the title of this thread, is a part of the Yamaha Vintage Plug-In Collection was conceived by Yamaha and developed in-house by K’s lab. The RND plug-ins contain intellectual property belonging to RND which is thus licensed from RND, but that has nothing to do with Yamaha Vintage Plug-In Collection.