Spx90 symphonic plugin?!

In the 90s the spx90 symphonic patch was ubiquitous after Nevermind. It was pretty popular before then too, if you listen for it on early Creation and 4AD releases. Paul Neyrinck, the digidesign 3rd party driver guy, has ported it to a plugin. The blurb about the $89 plugin they created explains the history of this effect and supposedly the reason why it has defied software developers and even yamaha for years. The the spx90 1, 2 and fx500 do it right although you can kinda fake it if you have other pieces of 80s junk and set them up right. Their marketing propaganda is actually loaded with cool info for those who don't know much about the notorious symphonic algorithm.

I downloaded the demo last night when I was taking a break from checking spotify masters for one of our members and did some a/b listening with my spx90 and it's got the motion alright. It does the whole bass widening trick and is virtually indistinguishable in a dense ITB mix once you compensate for any additional latency from roundtrip conversion in and out of the black and green dinosaur.