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I'm just discovering my pallet.
So far I've used: Alchemy (Full) Padshop Retrologue Zebralette Kontakt Sample Libraries SD2 But I just bought the upgrade from Kontakt to Komplete, and I'm loving FM8 and Absynth, so I'm sure those will find their way into my productions, too. ---- "Be excellent to each other." Dax IX (Music) | Ambient Online Cubase 7, A Few VSTi, Win8 Pro 64, AMD FX-6100, 32GB RAM, 3.25TB total HDD, SSD |
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I forgot to list the ones I use in my earlier post.
virus Ti massive dune corona synth master |
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I have loads of synths but have lately been using these the most...
Korg M1 Sample Tank 2 Alchemy Player BFD Echo I've also been using the Minimoog V since the giveavay and don't intend to stop. ---- "Most people who experiment with drugs are not lying in the streets, suffocating on their own vomit. If you want to see some of that, go to the Pub on Saturday night at closing time." ozwest |
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OK - that is the $64,000 question. I've passed up some super deals on soft synths like Razor and z3ta2+ and others. I'm just too into the guitar software but I really love all the quality VSTi claviers! ---- J.S. Bach... the Einstein of music. Listen to my music... http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?AID=439965&T=7205 |
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| ^ | Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Member: #120543 Location: Fredericksburg, VA USA | ||
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highkoo wrote: When you guys were young and started playing guitar, did you ever think that youd be paying more for your PC and plugins than your guitar, or spending time learning three DAWs and how to route midi? I now have what I dreamed of in the eighties. I was layering Casios. As soon as I heard of digital recording, I dreamed of lossless layering. I composed on my Atari 1200 XL with sounds made from routines. I dreamed of having more control over my computer. I would describe my vision of a workstation to people and express concern that everyone and their dog would flood the market with "music"  once they were available.---- "Most people who experiment with drugs are not lying in the streets, suffocating on their own vomit. If you want to see some of that, go to the Pub on Saturday night at closing time." ozwest |
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glokraw wrote: At some point you transition from listening, to knowing and
utilizing your strengths, and then you budget your life to enjoy doing what you love. The number of instruments is less important, than the number of hours using 'something', in an enjoyable or productive way. Reject partisan arguments, based on somebody elses mismanaged reality. Some use 50, some 10, some start from scratch on the one. None are wrong, none should brag. Ask yourself what you are doing, and what you hope to be doing in ten years. The wider the gap between the two, the more you need to change. Cheers Whats grown man wisdom doing on KVR?  |
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androidlove wrote: highkoo wrote: When you guys were young and started playing guitar, did you ever think that youd be paying more for your PC and plugins than your guitar, or spending time learning three DAWs and how to route midi? I now have what I dreamed of in the eighties. I was layering Casios. As soon as I heard of digital recording, I dreamed of lossless layering. I composed on my Atari 1200 XL with sounds made from routines. I dreamed of having more control over my computer. I would describe my vision of a workstation to people and express concern that everyone and their dog would flood the market with "music" once they were available.I had it pretty good back then. I purchased at least one guitar a month because I could. I have a degree from the defunct Detroit Recording Institute (where all the motown guru's went after Gordy left town) was a studio musician and second engineer. I had one of the first commercially available 4 track recorders for home use. It was strange because sony wanted to market a specialized cassette just for the recorder. I had to break the thing for it to accept regular cassettes. Later I got a 4track with midi sync. I was in hog heaven. Something to ponder. No latency, no crashing. You learn to get things right quickly rather then being able to cover them up later. I'd sync my Alesis hr16 or my Korg super section or anything with a sequencer and have the time of my life. Mixdown on the fly to my VCR I was much more dedicated to recording and enjoyed it more. Jamming buddies would marvel at my home studio and I'd laugh coming from a professional studio environment. ---- Oh no, that's next door. It's being-hit-on-the-head lessons in here. |
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Typically the ones in my sig.
I've also been experimenting with some new purchaes - Diva and Rob Papen's Blade which will probably find their uses. ---- Hardware: Akai MPK61, MFB-Synth II, Roland JX-8P, Virus TI Snow, KORG MS2000R, Roland SH-01 Favorite software: Sylenth1, Synth1, Messiah, ME80, OPX-Pro II, Zebra 2, Diva, Reason, Studio One V2 Pro |
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Surprised no one mentioned Nexus. I'm not a Nexus person but I would imagine it's bread and butter for some. |
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tapper mike wrote: @Erik
I remember reading this interview with Steve Howe of Yes where he talked about all the guitars he owned. He said he came to a realization one day that regardless of which guitar he was playing he still sounded like himself and no guitar was going to change that. It didn't stop him from buying more oddly enough (or me) I've got way to many plug ins to count and use practically none of them. The ones I use the most are the ones that take me to the sound I want to play the fastest (but not always the best) I'm less concerned with having a billion presets and more concerned about finding one I can use in the shortest time possible so I can play. Most days I just dream of having a Kurzweil PC3k all the famous sounds laid out in front of me so I can find the sound I want for the song I want to play. I'm less adventurous in tonal pallettes just give me something that works so I can focus on what I do best playing music. Thanks! You really hit the nail on the head. And as an admirer of Howe, you came with the best argument possible! ---- Cubase 6.5 64bit | Windows7 | Selected set of VST&VSTi |
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Currently working on my new live setup on a new machine(i7-3930k) and so far installed diva,ace,alchemy,fusor, diversion, predator, blue, minimoog-v, subbbass, geist,tremor and loopmash) and playing them all at the same time from my 88 key controller and the sound was huge. This is using 20-50% percent from cubase cpu meter with all gui open, so I have some room left.
My only problem right now is to remember which other synth I own and still have to install. Next step will be to buy more stuff, only to support these cool people bringing us all this fun stuff as I definitively don't have an addiction problem  |
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schnapsglas wrote: Surprised no one mentioned Nexus. I'm not a Nexus person but I would imagine it's bread and butter for some.
As soon as someone is brave enough to say they use it the next post will be, "OMG but it's not a synth," and that'll be the end of the thread.  ---- "What embecile composed this list :/" |
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Omnisphere and Zebra2.
Wait: there's something else?? ----  |
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| ^ | Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Member: #5913 Location: Vancouver, Canada | ||
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I don't really do a lot of music using synths, but use them for making sounds.
So in that case, I've used U-he Zebra the most. Synapse Audio DUNE a lot. and U-he Diva as well. I've also used GForce impOSCar2 quite a lot. I'm still struggling with CamelAudio Alchemy though...unfortunately. Did only a week or so with Xils-Lab Oxium so far. Nothing else really. I sometimes play around with the Korg synths for some inspiration, or to try to emulate certain sounds from them using other synths. |
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| ^ | Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Member: #162477 Location: a inharmonious society | ||
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when I first started using vsts I downloaded most or all the free ones out of the KVR archives and for hours on end spent time trying different ones only to realize in the end they were the same synth edit modules with a different interface...  |
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