Hi all,
this is my first post.
I'm not a musician but passionate about electronic music.
I have had several hardware synths in the last 25 years: poly 800, D50, TX81Z, SY77, Akai samplers, Korg Z1, virus Indigo and many more. I like to tweak sounds and learn the technology behind on how create a sound.
I heard u-he plugins run on Ableton software, especially Zebra.
I think this is the best synth software on the market but I don't know how many soft synths exist in the world and if they sounds like an hardware synth.
What I don't like about computer music is the fact that you have to: turn on the pc, wait 2 minutes, wait for updates, wait for loading the software: Cubase, Ableton, Logic, etc. Sometime you forgot to turn on the audio box, sometime to turn on the midi keyboard.
Finally after 10 minutes about your system is on and perhaps it will generates waveforms, but if there is a windows/osx background process the sound stops and your computer hangs.
Ok, my questions are:
what's the best computer that works fine and start up in few seconds like an hardware synth?
The new Retina Mac Pro is it ok? What software is best between Reason and Live?
Will Zebra run on Reason?
Will Zebra be ported on hardware?
Best regards
help me to decide
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- KVRist
- 97 posts since 30 Jun, 2012
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- KVRAF
- 5200 posts since 17 Aug, 2004
Dude i think you have some ancient computer or someone who did presentation for you has some ancient computer.
Latest computers boot within 15, sec (mine is year and a half old and it boot in 15sec), then you literally have to make double click with a mouse to run your application from Desktop and there you are running
All it takes is about 40 seconds for me to start and make music. That surely isn't long time.
If it does take 10 minutes for you to start a computer then it's time to change something.
I have also a lot of hardware and workflow wise hardware CAN NOT compete with software when you are comparing "convenient workflow".
At the moment you are probably right, yes Zebra is best synth out there.
It won't work on Reason, maybe U-he will port something like Zebra to Reason via Reason RE but at this point you need to check U-he website to see minimum system requirements to run Zebra.
Reason, or Ableton or something in between is very relative question. While Reason can look similar it is not. Surely you can do amazing stuff with it but it can't host VST, AU plugins so you better make your decision based on trial and demo of products you seem to like.
After you demo some of them extensively just pick one which suit your workflow.
Latest computers boot within 15, sec (mine is year and a half old and it boot in 15sec), then you literally have to make double click with a mouse to run your application from Desktop and there you are running
All it takes is about 40 seconds for me to start and make music. That surely isn't long time.
If it does take 10 minutes for you to start a computer then it's time to change something.
I have also a lot of hardware and workflow wise hardware CAN NOT compete with software when you are comparing "convenient workflow".
At the moment you are probably right, yes Zebra is best synth out there.
It won't work on Reason, maybe U-he will port something like Zebra to Reason via Reason RE but at this point you need to check U-he website to see minimum system requirements to run Zebra.
Reason, or Ableton or something in between is very relative question. While Reason can look similar it is not. Surely you can do amazing stuff with it but it can't host VST, AU plugins so you better make your decision based on trial and demo of products you seem to like.
After you demo some of them extensively just pick one which suit your workflow.
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- KVRian
- 910 posts since 21 Aug, 2011