Spot the odd one outthecontrolcentre wrote:1) Blueberry
2) Strawberry
3) Raspberry
4) Blackberry
5) Banana
And I dont mean Pinkberry & Redberry
What is your top 5 VST Plugin?
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
And I dont mean Pinkberry & Redberry
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
hehe. I see what you've done therethecontrolcentre wrote:I always thought Banana had a more analog sound ...
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
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- KVRAF
- 7788 posts since 20 Jul, 2004 from Clearwater
Hhhhhmmmmmm... not sure what "VST plugins" are...
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- KVRist
- 319 posts since 19 Mar, 2004 from vienna
you forgotthecontrolcentre wrote:1) Blueberry
2) Strawberry
3) Raspberry
4) Blackberry
5) Banana
as position 6
BILBERRY
www.myspace.com/tombalcony
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- KVRist
- 319 posts since 19 Mar, 2004 from vienna
you forgotthecontrolcentre wrote:1) Blueberry
2) Strawberry
3) Raspberry
4) Blackberry
5) Banana
BLUEBERRY
www.myspace.com/tombalcony
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240
- KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
No I didn't ...premiumcrap wrote:you forgotthecontrolcentre wrote:1) Blueberry
2) Strawberry
3) Raspberry
4) Blackberry
5) Banana
BLUEBERRY
www.myspace.com/tombalcony
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- KVRAF
- 1580 posts since 22 Apr, 2011 from The House of Zaid
Here's my list
1. Butter
2. Chocolate
3. Bacon
4. Sugar
5. Ice Cream
1. Butter
2. Chocolate
3. Bacon
4. Sugar
5. Ice Cream
Has anybody ever really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240
- KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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- KVRAF
- 6272 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
1. Guitar FX/Amp sim - After extensive back and forth, Amplitube 3 edges out Guitar Rig. (Nomad Factory's Rock Amp is fun but limited, and AmpLion just doesn't have the tone thing down. IL's rack and the original PODfarm plug aren't x64).
2. Sampler- Kontakt-All the other good stuff needs this to work. Some decent stuff in the included library (Akkord guitar, nylon guitar to name two) but the 3rd party support is key. Halion/Halion Sonic has the better library and preset catalog, IMHO but there's no compelling reason to get any 3rd party stuff in that format. Ditto Sampletank 2, plus it's not yet x64 and the overall sound suffers from the inherent limitations. Dim Pro has some real bright spots as well (love the basses), but overall functionality is limited.
3. Guitar sim - EEG Stawberry. The latest version is very playable and comes with a great selection of FX presets to emulate a variety of very convincing sounds. Runner up, Pettinhouse will always have a place on my hard drive. Excellent sampling, great articulations (more than EEG, actually) and a lot of fun to play. But EEG edges it out with the FX which go further to spur creativity, at least for now. Real guitar is great but not a lot of inspired 'real' playing is involved. Kontakt's Accord is perfect for some convincing, though canned, rhythm. Selected packs from Liquid Distortion are also in my mix, with the Amped Ripper guitar being the absolute best buy (under $20) with the most convincing lead sound. [note: all of these need Kontakt to run. See No. 2 above.]
4. Synth - Zeta 2. Brilliant sound, and now with a browser where you can actually find things that you need. I find myself reaching for this little beauty more and more. The smaller CPU hit puts it just over runner-up Alchemy which, while amazing in its own right, takes a bigger resource commitment. Other great synths in rotation, in no particular order: FM8 (great all'rounder), Prism (great off-the-beaten-path stuff), Absynth (great pads and ethereal).
5. Mix tools/channel strip stuff- Ozone 5 (basic) is now my top plug for this. I had trouble using versions 3 and 4 appropriately, but the new stuff in 5 makes it much simpler to just dial in each of the components, and I find myself using it much more for the individual FXs. Still love the T-Racks 3 stuff, though, especially Opto Compressor and the Fairchild emu. Nomad factory is good, but better, I think, at providing saturation. Max AMT and Trackbox get the most use here. Finally, but not least, is Mixcontrol which I'm still learning to use. Good results though, in a nice compact package.
This only asks for the top 5, so a lot of stuff (individual FX, individual instruments (i.e. best piano, etc.) etc.) is left out.
Cheers
-B
2. Sampler- Kontakt-All the other good stuff needs this to work. Some decent stuff in the included library (Akkord guitar, nylon guitar to name two) but the 3rd party support is key. Halion/Halion Sonic has the better library and preset catalog, IMHO but there's no compelling reason to get any 3rd party stuff in that format. Ditto Sampletank 2, plus it's not yet x64 and the overall sound suffers from the inherent limitations. Dim Pro has some real bright spots as well (love the basses), but overall functionality is limited.
3. Guitar sim - EEG Stawberry. The latest version is very playable and comes with a great selection of FX presets to emulate a variety of very convincing sounds. Runner up, Pettinhouse will always have a place on my hard drive. Excellent sampling, great articulations (more than EEG, actually) and a lot of fun to play. But EEG edges it out with the FX which go further to spur creativity, at least for now. Real guitar is great but not a lot of inspired 'real' playing is involved. Kontakt's Accord is perfect for some convincing, though canned, rhythm. Selected packs from Liquid Distortion are also in my mix, with the Amped Ripper guitar being the absolute best buy (under $20) with the most convincing lead sound. [note: all of these need Kontakt to run. See No. 2 above.]
4. Synth - Zeta 2. Brilliant sound, and now with a browser where you can actually find things that you need. I find myself reaching for this little beauty more and more. The smaller CPU hit puts it just over runner-up Alchemy which, while amazing in its own right, takes a bigger resource commitment. Other great synths in rotation, in no particular order: FM8 (great all'rounder), Prism (great off-the-beaten-path stuff), Absynth (great pads and ethereal).
5. Mix tools/channel strip stuff- Ozone 5 (basic) is now my top plug for this. I had trouble using versions 3 and 4 appropriately, but the new stuff in 5 makes it much simpler to just dial in each of the components, and I find myself using it much more for the individual FXs. Still love the T-Racks 3 stuff, though, especially Opto Compressor and the Fairchild emu. Nomad factory is good, but better, I think, at providing saturation. Max AMT and Trackbox get the most use here. Finally, but not least, is Mixcontrol which I'm still learning to use. Good results though, in a nice compact package.
This only asks for the top 5, so a lot of stuff (individual FX, individual instruments (i.e. best piano, etc.) etc.) is left out.
Cheers
-B
Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...
So many plugins, so little time...
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- KVRian
- 1439 posts since 25 Nov, 2008 from Seattle, WA
As a relatively new convert to Ozone, I have to say that if I was on a desert island (with a DAW, of course) and I could only have one plugin to complete a mix, it would be Ozone 5 Advanced.
I totally cheated, of course because with Ozone, you get a bunch of individual "component" plugins. And I'm pretty sure I'm using them in a way iZotope didn't intend, as individual track plugins. But the thing is that they work... only the maximizer in IRC3 or with Transient Recovery really seems to add serious latency (and the EQ in linear phase mode, but that's totally expected).
But I found that on my mixes, they have become my go-to plugins.
The EQ is phenomenally useful. Like Fabfilter Pro-Q, it has a great graphic readout, allows you to hone in on a particular band to hear what you're fixing, does linear phase, and analog modes, has mid-side, stereo, and left/right. All of that is comparable. But it also can take snapshots and do matching. Here's a post on how I use the EQ to blend two mics on a vocal to get the best of both mics and make the vox pop out of a really dense mix:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/7848081-post39.html
The stereo imaging is the best I've found and as someone who mixes and "masters" (ducks for cover) his own stuff, I find I never use it at the mastering phase, but use it to great effect to move things out of the center. For example, on my latest track I have this killer Trillian bass patch that I crank up the distortion on for the chorus. And I automate the stereo spread parameters on the Ozone stereo imaging plugin to get it out of the way of the vocals as the distorted sound picks up a lot of overtones and starts to collide with the voices. Listen to the first chorus and I think you'll agree that the vocals still stand strong against all of that noise.
http://lightsfadelow.com/track/hurricane
I also used the Ozone 5 reverb plugin, stereo imager, and mid-side EQ on the Orchestra buss that you hear toward the end of the song above.
I use the "exciter" (which is accurate but terrible marketing) as saturation in lots of places. On the track above I used the Invisible Lift preset on teh exciter on the master buss, to A/B with and without you can tell it really makes a difference. I also used it on the bass in Small:
http://lightsfadelow.com/track/small
And of course you can use the dynamics as a gate, a compressor, expander, and a limiter. But who doesn't have 5 compressors already so it's a little less exciting to use that in any other context than Ozone. But, in the desert island game, it's a freebie.
And I should point out that the multiband is really nice to have on these plugins. There are lots of saturation plugs, dynamics plugs, stereo imaging plugs, etc. but having the ability to just apply the effect to certain bands is pretty nice. In the example above, I force the deep bass dead center but really widen out the higher bands that conflict with the vocals.
So I pretty much think I could mix a whole song with just Ozone 5 and be perfectly happy... and I'm beginning to get close to that, just because once you get used to the interface, the multiband, etc. it's easiest to just keep going back to those plugins.
(EDIT: forgot to mention this, but I've said it elsewhere, I think Ozone 5's maximizer is now the best on the market now that they have IRC3 and transient recovery... and fixed a few little issues with the latest Ozone 5 update.)
A couple other really cool plugins are RP-Delay and RP-Distort. There's a lot of talk about Saturn these days, but Rob Papen released this really cool little toy called RP-Distort for free (to existing customers) and I have to say it's more fun than Saturn. The main "guitar" sound on Hurricane, the song I linked to above, was a clean Omnisphere guitar patch through a preset on RP-Distort. And that amazing ping-pongy sheen on the vocals in Small comes from RP-Delay. These are seriously cool plugins that don't get much airplay.
Since this is the effects forum, I won't go into detail, but I'm just in love with Omnisphere, Trillian, Geist, and now Iris.
I totally cheated, of course because with Ozone, you get a bunch of individual "component" plugins. And I'm pretty sure I'm using them in a way iZotope didn't intend, as individual track plugins. But the thing is that they work... only the maximizer in IRC3 or with Transient Recovery really seems to add serious latency (and the EQ in linear phase mode, but that's totally expected).
But I found that on my mixes, they have become my go-to plugins.
The EQ is phenomenally useful. Like Fabfilter Pro-Q, it has a great graphic readout, allows you to hone in on a particular band to hear what you're fixing, does linear phase, and analog modes, has mid-side, stereo, and left/right. All of that is comparable. But it also can take snapshots and do matching. Here's a post on how I use the EQ to blend two mics on a vocal to get the best of both mics and make the vox pop out of a really dense mix:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/7848081-post39.html
The stereo imaging is the best I've found and as someone who mixes and "masters" (ducks for cover) his own stuff, I find I never use it at the mastering phase, but use it to great effect to move things out of the center. For example, on my latest track I have this killer Trillian bass patch that I crank up the distortion on for the chorus. And I automate the stereo spread parameters on the Ozone stereo imaging plugin to get it out of the way of the vocals as the distorted sound picks up a lot of overtones and starts to collide with the voices. Listen to the first chorus and I think you'll agree that the vocals still stand strong against all of that noise.
http://lightsfadelow.com/track/hurricane
I also used the Ozone 5 reverb plugin, stereo imager, and mid-side EQ on the Orchestra buss that you hear toward the end of the song above.
I use the "exciter" (which is accurate but terrible marketing) as saturation in lots of places. On the track above I used the Invisible Lift preset on teh exciter on the master buss, to A/B with and without you can tell it really makes a difference. I also used it on the bass in Small:
http://lightsfadelow.com/track/small
And of course you can use the dynamics as a gate, a compressor, expander, and a limiter. But who doesn't have 5 compressors already so it's a little less exciting to use that in any other context than Ozone. But, in the desert island game, it's a freebie.
And I should point out that the multiband is really nice to have on these plugins. There are lots of saturation plugs, dynamics plugs, stereo imaging plugs, etc. but having the ability to just apply the effect to certain bands is pretty nice. In the example above, I force the deep bass dead center but really widen out the higher bands that conflict with the vocals.
So I pretty much think I could mix a whole song with just Ozone 5 and be perfectly happy... and I'm beginning to get close to that, just because once you get used to the interface, the multiband, etc. it's easiest to just keep going back to those plugins.
(EDIT: forgot to mention this, but I've said it elsewhere, I think Ozone 5's maximizer is now the best on the market now that they have IRC3 and transient recovery... and fixed a few little issues with the latest Ozone 5 update.)
A couple other really cool plugins are RP-Delay and RP-Distort. There's a lot of talk about Saturn these days, but Rob Papen released this really cool little toy called RP-Distort for free (to existing customers) and I have to say it's more fun than Saturn. The main "guitar" sound on Hurricane, the song I linked to above, was a clean Omnisphere guitar patch through a preset on RP-Distort. And that amazing ping-pongy sheen on the vocals in Small comes from RP-Delay. These are seriously cool plugins that don't get much airplay.
Since this is the effects forum, I won't go into detail, but I'm just in love with Omnisphere, Trillian, Geist, and now Iris.