Maxim, (http//www.abel.co.uk/~maxim/) is run and produced by Paul Kellett, and provides a variety of useful tools and utilites for the discerning audiophile. From plug-ins to samples and onto software,  Paul has managed to bring everything you need all onto one page.
We asked him a couple of questions about what he does and how he sees the future of free plug-ins.

> Why did you start creating your own plug-ins?
Because with VST it was suddenly easy to do. You can concentrate on writing the effect, and not worry about reading the audio from disk or how many bits/channels it's going to be.  I also had a lot of ideas for plugs that no-one else was making, and that probably wouldn't be commercially viable  anyway.

> What do you think of Commercial Plug-ins?
A lot of them are very good, and draw on the vast experience that some of the companies producing them have, particularly the 'big' effects like reverb, dynamics and vocoding.  But now the freeware/shareware plugs are forcing the companies to be innovative, to make their product stand out and be worth the money.

> How do you think the Free Plug-ins community on the Internet will grow in the future?
Sooner or later there will be free plugs to rival any commercial plug.  It's getting easier to integrate MIDI and audio and the host sequencers are getting more sophisticated, but there is huge potential yet to be explored - both in emulating existing analogue stuff and going beyond that with interactive and intelligent software.  It's fantastic that every year as computers get faster, the existing plug-ins use less and less CPU time, and more new ideas become possible.

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