[chris carter]

I've used them personally. Most of them don't sound like the real thing (as least the stuff where I know what it should sound like) - they only have a 'similar vibe', or are in the 'general ballpark'. If he actually made stuff that sounded just like the real thing (something difficult for even big profitable companies to do!) then he would have been snatched up in a second. I have found zero uses for most of them. But some of them do actually come in very handy. They are (were) free, so you can't expect everything to sound good adn usuable on lots of stuff - you have to dig through them and see what works for you. There are some free plugs that do similar things that are better (blockfish and spitfish, for example get used very often). But in the grand scheme of freeware plugs, about 99% of which are totally and completely unusable for me, some of these actually get some use here and there so I have to give him credit where credit is deserved.

As far as I know, they were done by one guy in his spare time who lives in Taiwan. He's not a company or someone with resources or anything - just a regular Joe. He did it for fun to learn about making plug-ins so it was a constant experiment. He would make something and share it and get feedback. There would be new updates like every two weeks (or less sometimes) and he'd constantly pull the plug on some plug-in that he felt wasn't worth continuing. It was kind of interesting to see the quality go from garbage to a few very useful plugs over the course of time.