Wait, there’s Aphrodite tunes that were made with (the help of) an Amiga?!?! I have to know more, please, I beg of you, elaborate 
there you see his amiga setup. as you see, he has an akai hardware right above his amiga.
another original by him.
Notable users
- Drum & Bass producer and DJ Aphrodite who was also part of Urban Shakedown, used two Amiga 1200’s running OctaMED to create a range of his early hits such as “Dub Moods”, “Summer Breeze”, “King Of The Beats”, joint productions with Micky Finn such as “Bad Ass” and the remix of ‘The Jungle Brothers’-“True Blue” and also including his first album, Aphrodite.
- UK Hardcore / Jungle Producer Bizzy B - Was also one of the early pioneer producers to use Octamed, With his Brain Records and Brain Progression Labels Debuting Many early Hardcore and Jungle Artists using Octamed on the Commodore Amiga.
- Drum & Bass producer DJ Zinc used OctaMED to create “Super Sharp Shooter”
- The hardcore techno/jungle producers Urban Shakedown used MED 3.0 running side by side on two separate Amiga 500s to create all of their early tunes including the 1992 British top 40 hit, ‘Some Justice’.
- Early in his career Venetian Snares used various versions of OctaMED on both the Amiga and PC.
- British drum & bass producer Paradox uses OctaMED in the studio and live on stage.
- The 2009 album “Amiga Railroad Adventures” by artist Legowelt was produced with OctaMED on an Amiga 1200.
- UK electronica producer Matt Barker, using the artist moniker Epicentre, learnt his trade on the Amiga and made the jump onto OctaMED for his first few tracks in the late 1990s.
- Welsh born group “Unleashed” produced an album “Gasshouse Guerillas” almost entirely on the Amiga using OctaMED
- Calvin Harris used OctaMED to produce the entirety of his first album, I Created Disco.
- Rob Haigh, better known as Drum & Bass producer Omni Trio, used OctaMED to produce his early singles “Mystic Stepper” and “Renegade Snares” as well as most of “Deepest Cut”.
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Ohhhhh!! Thanks for this awesome post. I had faintly heard about Urban Shakedown back then, but I never knew Aphrodite was involved with that. And I had no clue there was so much more!
Hi Everyone.
Thank you, Renoise team for all your work. Renoise is the best music tool in the world.
I know this subject has been brought up before and you are working hard on it. Still, a lot of responses have been that there are not so many VST3’s and VSTs done using VST2 still work just fine. However, now that Steinberg has completely killed and buried the VST2 framework, it is very difficult for people who want to develop new plugins to do VST2. I just wanted to highlight this perspective. For what it’s worth (exactly 1 avid Renoise user’s opinion…) VST3 support is the number one feature request for me : )
Keep up the great work!
Cheers to all
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So as we understanded, next update ist the prio of vst3 for renoise 3.3
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If that is true that is good news. I’d keep using it either way, there is plenty of other features that keep me busy. But I’d like to be able to write a VST plugin and use it in Renoise.
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This is also what I understood. 
I want to use the Roland Cloud instruments.
so… any chance for a functional wrapper to use this one in renoise ? (or VST3 instr. in general that is)
https://www.thewavewarden.com/odin2
it’s the pick for this OSC round and the dev is not allowed to publish it as a vst2 instrument as steinberg prohibits that for “new” devs.
so yeah… it might meanwhile become quite handy to have VST3 support at times. i guess we’re still somewhat in a transition phase between VST2 and VST3, but EOL is closing in.
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+1.
I guess VST3 support will come with the next release
Odin sounds great. Did you try the presets that where uploaded to kvr?
The dev comes from Karlsruhe (like me). That was quite a surprise
oh, the karlsruhe connection ^_- maybe u can make friends with him and obtain the VST2 version of odin? 
(which exists as he mentioned @kvr, but he’s not allowed to release)
at least i found a way to use it in renoise thanks to a tip on the KVR forums:
“Element”, a vst2 plugin which can be used as a vst3 wrapper.
a free version can be obtained here, if interested:
it seems to create some overhead as it seems, as a single sawtooth osc was already hovering at around 6-7% of CPU 
automation only works when the desired params are midi mapped in element beforehand.
saving and remembering settings when loading the xrns also seem to work OK.
i’m also hoping for native VST3 support with the next release… this is certainly not the ideal use case, but for the moment it might just do the trick.
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I’m on Linux, so that wrapper doesn’t work.
There are so many synths meanwhile for Linux it will take me years to learn them. Zebra for example is crazy. I think I have to take sone time regularly to do some sound design. I’m getting a bit bored of switching through and modifying presets.
I use Linux, (Debian Buster 10.3) and am a member of the Surge Synth Team, primarily as a tester for their Linux builds
There have been some major developments with respect to VST3 and Linux. Currently Reaper, Bitwig 3.2, Carla 2.2 and now Qtractor (still experimental) support VST3
JUCE6 has resolved the runloop issue with Linux and now it’s quite easy to build VST3 instruments using their framework. JUCE6 has yet to be released however the Surge Synth Team has built VST3 versions of the SurgeEffectsRack and the Tuning Workbench Synth for Linux using JUCE6. Surge will also be deprecating VST2 support as of the next release version 1.7
Once JUCE6 is released Waveform and Radium will add VST3 support in short notice.
Currently in Linux there are u-he synths, Auburn Sounds plugins, ryukau/VSTPlugins (at github), mda plugins and SST’s Surge Synth, SurgeEffectsRack and the Tuning Workbench that exist in VST3 format
I managed to build OB-Xd as a VST3 and it loads and works in Reaper, Bitwig 3.2 and Carla 2.2
All that to encourage Renoise to add VST3 support for all platforms, Windows, OSX and Linux
My question(s), is their a time frame to add VST3 support for Renoise? And if so when can we expect this addition?
I love surge, i saw the effects in bitwig. As far as i know where the effects build vor vcvrack but i used them in bitwig…
I think tactic has mentioned that VST3 support is being worked on. I imagine it would be the main feature of Renoise 3.3
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sounds fair enough. i just started a new renoise track and tried to implement the tape-cassette 2 plugin in the master.
first time i even realised that renoise doesn not support vst3 hahaha
well, its done when its done. and
keep on truckin, taktik. ;D
That’s interesting! I built surge myself to get the vst2 version, and now Odin is open source I might have a go at doing the same. I actually have permission to distribute vst2 plugins from Steinberg, so if I do get around to it, and the Odin2 author doesn’t mind, I’ll post back here.
If anyone’s interested, I made a VST2 build of Odin2 synth and popped it up here:
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Bump , more and more plugins from new developers are vst 3 only becasue they can’t obtain a vst 2 license from steinberg anymore
Plasmonic from rhizomatic software ( the guy that coded native instruments absynth ) has just been released and it’s awesommooohh , but vst 3 only
SO c,mon , let’s make renoise vst 3 capable