I am addicted to VSTs

[fluffy_little_something]

I think one reason behind that addiction is potential. One wants to be able to make every sound on earth so to speak, everything one has ever heard on other people's music. Of course, one rarely ever needs to tap that potential, but still... Being prepared for the day that never comes, like synth survivalists

I am going the opposite way now, selling some plugins and simply deleting the rest that I never use anyway. If I have not used a plugin in months, I will likely not miss it. I want to have no more than half a dozen synths and half a dozen effects in my folder. My DAW comes with its own effects, so I never deliberately bought effects, anyway. Sometimes effects are part of bundles, like with Chris Kerry's bundle. But I never used those effect plugins and I won't miss them.

But those cheap plugins (10 bucks or so) are not even worth selling.

[JJBiener]

I think one reason behind that addiction is potential. One wants to be able to make every sound on earth so to speak, everything one has ever heard on other people's music. Of course, one rarely ever needs to tap that potential, but still... Being prepared for the day that never comes, like synth survivalists

Actually, I don't buy plugins to recreate sounds I've heard. The potential is in creating sounds no one has ever heard. That is the challenge. That is the fun. That is why I don't buy every VA emulation out there. I buy the synths with unusual or unique synthesis techniques.

[ontol]

[samsam]

I think some of us have two parallel hobbies: making music and collecting plugins. It just so happens that sometimes buying plugins is easier than and a welcome distraction to making music.

[jdoo]

<Stands>
"I am Joe - and I too suffer from GAS."

In 1979, I took out a $3,000 loan to purchase keyboards. There were new and exciting synths coming to market. After outliving my welcome in the local music shop - I finally broke down and picked up a DX7, a Yamaha mixer and some speakers. The group I was playing with loved it. I loved it. That $3,000 is about $12,000 in today's dollars... counting for inflation. It also -- provided me with the DX7's limited (by today's measures) set of sonic capabilities. It was state of the art... was game changing.. but was expensive.

A few years ago... I picked up Apple Logic, a couple of keyboard controllers, and started buying AU instruments. Comparatively, I am spending pennies - and getting a BOATLOAD more sonic capabilities / and sounds. The keyboards are a load lighter than my original DX7 <- a system i finally broke down and sold last year.

GAS? Yes. And yes.. i realize I am one of those old farts, saying "we had it tough back in the old days" -- however.. there is some truth to that. GAS today, by any measure -- is an order of magnitude cheaper. Not only that - but the sound abilities of synths (software and hardware based), are just a lot more predictable, and offer richer textures.

[trimph1]

^ and you can't use any of it.

it occurs to me that most of my purchases seem to be more purpose driven recently. This is a lot more constructive.

[damoog]

I'm not a gas person but I love buying.


List of gear I own

1. Abelton live 7 full
2. Abelton live suite 8 upgrade full/ online max for live full
3. Reason 4,5 full. Also Reason sample packs.
4. Reason 6 online upgrade buy.
5. Presonus studio one 2 professional )(Fader Port)
6. Native instruments Maschine - Expansion packs as followed (Vintage heat, Platinum bounce, True School,)
7. Komplete 7 full. (Absynth Twilights, Session strings, Urban Arsenal, Urban Arsenal 2, Damage)
8. Komplete 8 Ultimate upgrade full.
9. Pro tools 9
10. Pro tools 10 upgrade
11. Waves platinum edition
12. Izotope Nectar
13. Big fish Urban Rig
14. Big Fish Guitar Soundscapes
15. Big Fish Kings of the south
16. Big Fish Plush
17. Big Fish Pop 'N' Soul Guitars
18. Big Fish Pop Rocks
19. 2'C Audio's Breeze reverb Download
20. Diginoiz Drums for Maschine
21. IK-Multimedia total workstaion bundle (Miroslav Philharmonic Library, Sample Tank 2xL, Sample Moog, Sample Tron, Sonic Synth, Amplitube 3 Full, CSR Reverb)
22. J-Bridge
23. Loopmasters (Dope Keys Vol.1)
24. MVPS LOOPS - (Acoustic Blends 2, Battle Beats Vol.1, Blowin money, Felony music, Fret guitar loops, Hip hop fever, Hook city pop bangaz, Love ballards,)( M-paq kits- (Golden Keys Vol.1, Soulful guitar kicks,)(Sounds in HD Vol.1, The big Apple stories, Under Da Hood, Urban Swagga Vol.1, A town DrumKit, LAX Gametime Vol.1)
25. P5 audio samples - (Dr. Rehab hip hop loops, Lollipop Divas loops,)
26. Prime loops - (Bulletproof Hip hop Grooves, Complete 808 & 909 Drum Machines, Guitar Anthology, Planet of the orchestra, ATL Starz, Hip Hop Militia, Melodic Guitar Hooks, Platinum Piano Ballards, Takeova, Takeova 2, Urban Ikoz, Vocal Allstars Victory, Urban dance Combo, XXL Drums,)
27. Rewire VST
28. Sonic Couture - Pan Drums, Crowded Choir, Xtended piano,
29. Traumah Drums (All kits)
30. Nomad Factory - (Magma)
31. Arturia - V3 collection full
32. VST - DIVA
33. VST - Z3TA- 2
34. VST - Zebra 2
35. Best serice - Poetic acoustic guitars
36. Camel Audio - (Camel Crusher, CamelPhat, Camel Space,)
37. VST - Nexus (Guitars, Apres Ski, Dark Planet, Hollywood,)
38. Omnisphere
39. Trillian
40. Music lab - RealGuitar 2 Bundle including (Real strat, Real PC,)
41. VST - Sylenth1
42. VST - Tone 2 Saurus
43. Wusik station full
44. Mbox pro
45. Neumann tlm-49 microphone
46. Akai - MPK 88 keyboard
47. Yamaha HS- 80's studio monitors
48. 2- 27 inch Samsung SA350 monitor screens
49. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
50. Custom built PC as follows (Antec case, Quad core i7, Asus p6t motherboard, 12 gb corsair ram, 3 TB internal HDD, 850 watt powersupply, External Western Digital 2tb HDD, and 3TB Green Phantom Drive)
51. Camtasia studio 8
52. Melodyne - Editor
53. Mach Five 3 sampler
54. Izotope Iris + 5 Library
55. Martin Hd-28 V acoustic Guitar (G7 Capo) (Many picks) (Cleartone light strings)
56. Alchemy synth
57. Slate digital - Tape machines
58. Slate Digital - Steven slate drums
59. Fx- Expansion - BFD-2
60. Ivory - Grand pianos
61. Novation Ultranova
62. Universal Audio UA - 6176 preamp
63. East west - Gold pianos
64. Komplete 9 Ultimate upgrade
65. Reason 7 Upgrade
66. Superior Drummer 2.0
67. Fl studio 11 Signature series
68. Mac Pro videos - Jeremy Ellis Finger drumming
69.

lol,was that copy and pasted or did you do that from your head?

[Agathodaimon]

Jesus, after reading all this i thought i had problems with always checking out new VST's and stuff, turns out am not THAT bad, am actually kick ass

But keeping all those useless VSTs and stuff you don't use just have there laying for no reason - isn't that called hoarding ?

[tropicalontour]

Imagine how terrible a business writing VSTs and selling sounds sets or samples would be if project studio musicians only bought what they absolutely needed. The industry would go down the pan overnight

[jethrobull]

I love em,buy everything, have options, keep the Indie devs alive! Heck,we only live once and we can't take it with us.

[vata44]

I love em,buy everything, have options, keep the Indie devs alive! Heck,we only live once and we can't take it with us.

The thing is I find having so many things I don't have to learn fully or even slightly on a deep level is a hinderence in many ways now. Each GUI is kind of a mystery in and of itself.

But yes, enjoy!

[Tricky-Loops]

The thing is I find having so many things I don't have to learn fully or even slightly on a deep level is a hinderence in many ways now. Each GUI is kind of a mystery in and of itself.

This, and even (the majority of) freeware plugs are accompanied by a more or less detailed manual. I would estimate that I haven't read more than 60 % of all manuals in my plugin folder...

[vata44]

The thing is I find having so many things I don't have to learn fully or even slightly on a deep level is a hinderence in many ways now. Each GUI is kind of a mystery in and of itself.

This, and even (the majority of) freeware plugs are accompanied by a more or less detailed manual. I would estimate that I haven't read more than 60 % of all manuals in my plugin folder...

I haven't even read 1%... I guess that could be a major block in itself, LOL.

[Crackbaby]

A machinedrum seems to have cured my GAS


Err.. no, it just flipped me to the more expensive hardware world

[tibah]

Comes down to what you're able to handle in terms of quantity. Seeing tutorial videos, plug-in folder including every developer on earth? Well, I'm not that guy.

I had a huge blast with GAS back 2 years ago. Right now, I have a very simple guideline. Income = Outcome. Bought a synth? Sell a synth. Works for me at least. Along with a certain inner survey - Do I want it? Do I need it? What makes it different? Sound? Performance? Handling? Would I be even into without this deal / offer?