glokraw wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:49 pm When Broke broke, Synth1, ProteusVX, Firebird, Surge, DecentSampler, Vital, Drumburst and MTPower drums, the IK, U-he, NI, and KV331 freebies, fed into the BlueCat free plugin collection, is a pretty nice pool to cool off in
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Not to mention all the free Kontakt library's, that are powered by the Free Kontakt player.
Actually, you don't need to spend a dime to make music.
May be just for the computer and a midi keyboard and some headphones sooo....
Say you're broke...
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- KVRAF
- 2461 posts since 26 Jul, 2004
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- KVRian
- 595 posts since 14 Apr, 2019
These threads are hilarious in that there's no mention of the KVR OSC. Which is a monthly competition run right here at KVR for the past 15 years using only free synths and effects where you have to list everything you use. There is also a website that has all the entries.
How can none of you be aware of the kvr osc?
How can none of you be aware of the kvr osc?
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- KVRAF
- 2632 posts since 10 Jan, 2005
Valhalla.... most of it IMO can be decently replaced by SuperMassive and some other freebies (Variety of Sound plate/epic clouds, Dragonfly, OrilReverb, Klanghelm Tens Jr ecc,)ampetrosillo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:33 pm You're broke. You want to make music. You don't want to compromise, but of course you're broke, so you need to. There are lots and lots of free VSTs, and many of them on par with commercial software. Others still can be made to sound good, but might not be as pleasant to use as some commercial alternatives. But, I'm guessing, most of you have some commercial software that you feel cannot be replaced by any free VST, software you would invest your little money on because you feel that you need to. Which is it?
I'll start.
Valhalla reverbs (at least VintageVerb and Room, although Plate is great too but I could do without it).
MJUC (a really great compressor, I feel you could get away with using this on any source and it would work fine).
One convolution reverb (the free ones are all too limited).
Reaper.
I don't feel I need to buy any softsynths (and in fact I haven't bought any).
Maybe the TDR bundle (just because it's very reasonably priced and they're are great plugins, their free versions are wonderful but for example Nova GE does add very useful features).
That's it really, for me.
MJUC... isn't MJUC Jr enough for most cases?
Convolution reverb... is ConvologyXT too limited?
About soft synths, should you need any, lots of ground covered by SurgeXT, Vital, Charlatan, NoizeMaker etc...
All in all that's a good time for making music being broke...
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- KVRAF
- 3528 posts since 1 Sep, 2016
They explicitly asked which of your paid plugins do you feel can't be replaced by free ones, and my answer basically was "almost all of them".Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:19 pm But the premise of the question is basically: your budget is very low and you're willing to compromise, but still want good enough stuff to make music with. The question is not, what freeware isn't bettered by a paid alternative.
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- KVRian
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
If you were very low budget I'd say the one thing to spend out on, is the right DAW for you, that makes all the difference to workflow. You could get by on free plug-ins but workflow is of the essence. I've tried with free DAW options but I'd still go on the KVR sales page and pick up a cheap Studio 1 license rather than use something which I didn't find intuitive.
Somebody else might love the workflow in Cakewalk or whatever of course so that's just me
Somebody else might love the workflow in Cakewalk or whatever of course so that's just me
- KVRAF
- 16399 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
Plus, Komplete Kontrol’s now include the full Kontakt 7. When I got my cheap little M32, it also came with a nice suite of instruments.
- KVRAF
- 16399 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
I’m surprised no one mentioned Analog Lab Play. It’s the most analog sounding of the free options, IME.
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- KVRAF
- 2632 posts since 10 Jan, 2005
It has too few presets and too little control. For example, if a patch has the arp/sequencer enabled you can't turn it off...
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Mister Natural Mister Natural https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=164174
- KVRAF
- 2834 posts since 28 Oct, 2007 from michigan
by the OP's premise : I'd get LIVE12 intro for $100 and be done with it. Plenty of instruments and fundamental EFX to cover all the bases there and 8 tracks to work up.
Peace
Peace
expert only on what it feels like to be me
https://soundcloud.com/mrnatural-1/tracks
https://soundcloud.com/mrnatural-1/tracks
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- KVRAF
- 15517 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
Yeah, on that note, supercollider is free. A friend of mine is a noise artist and he just writes software to make noise. I'm quite certain that he's never in his life spent a nickel on software.
https://supercollider.github.io/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW1otBbTh-E
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- KVRist
- 489 posts since 24 Nov, 2008
ChordwarePA Lite is free.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33178 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
- Beware the Quoth
- 33178 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
this mention of the KVR OSC is hilarious in that the actual question is what someone would use if given a choice, rather than being told what to use to meet the constraints of a competition.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand