

Not satisfied with turning the world of effects processing upside down, in 1999, the company followed up with a massive update to their VST technology that allowed for the use of virtual instrument (VSTi) plugins.

Cubase VST 3.0 offered up to 32 tracks of digital audio and an effects rack that could manage four of the bundled VST plugins: Espacial (reverb), Choirus (chorus, natch), Stereo Echo and Auto Panner. In 1996, Steinberg celebrated their brand new plugin format with a massive update to their flagship DAW. Steinberg released the open source VST SDK, creating a truly revolutionary standard in the process. Before VST, DAWs included effects in their own proprietary formats.
