Let's flex our plugins.(The less is better or the opposite)?

[jancivil]

I'm the opposite, I go around with blinders on as to plugins, either there's a specific idea I'm throwing money at or no.

[DrGonzo]

I keep whittling down and then gathering again. It's no longer about the music.

Yeah, but it's a part of doing sound design though, and from where I see it - those things often go hand in hand. I don't believe in having a spartan minimalistic library of plugins. But an unkept jungle is not helpful either.

Finding that balance is damn hard.

[Googly Smythe]

In my studio, what the music demands is what the music gets, whether it be 1 plugin or 1001.
There's no virtue in minimalism.
It's much the same attitude of early-birds toward those who sleep-in.
Speaking of which, do you know the moral of the story of the early bird that caught the worm?
The worm shoulda stayed in bed.

[SHall1000]

Trying to stick to a few of the bigger bundles doesn’t “feel” so bloated and overwhelming and it certainly makes keeping the software updated easier.

[machinesworking]

I'm about to get a new laptop that should be as powerful or much more so than the Mac Pro here, I'm happy to keep the Pro this time instead of selling it like I normally do when upgrading allows. Precisely to keep it for my plug ins that don't port to M1 Macs.

I'm a maximalist, I've got about 498 Au's, 400+ VSTs. I get the reasons people get overwhelmed with too many choices but that's not how I work at all. I participated in a webinar with a guy who works for a TV series, heavy time schedules to get music out. His system was a new Mac Pro with DP on it running three slave PC's using VEP, over 10TB in sample libraries all loaded up in a 250+ track template. I thought that was great! The immediacy of having your entire sample library available in less than a second is appealing.

I get why people love forced limitations, I can get why it helps, but for whatever reason any of my impulsive or indecisive attributes are not attached to searching my plug in list. It doesn't stop me from learning how to use a plug in etc. If it did I would sell everything and use just one orchestral library, Diva, Lion, Plasmonic, Equator 2, Pigments, Falcon, and Kontakt. It's pretty much what I use anyway.

[Obsolete462444]

I'm somewhat of a novelty addicts who constantly checks the internet for newly released plugins. Hence I have too many (particularly freeware) plugins, samples and impulse responses, but over time I tend to delete some to have a more usable collection. It helps to know what you have and not having to struggle with too many choices.

I tend to keep the plugins that are rock-stable, have good sound characteristics, are easy to operate (UI / UX design), have unintrusive copy-protection and come from a reliable developer, who supports products in the longterm instead of abandoning them. So if I have the choice between two plugins that roughly do the same, I would keep the one that fullfils those criteria more.

[jancivil]

I see 134 things in 'Components'. wondering just how much I use of it, looks like 28 this year and last, one of them like once.
Last year my ship came in and I bought some things. gonna use them. I'd like to have a couple of things people indicated in the starlings murmuration thread but I have to stop spending.
this thread is the same thread as the 'anyone feel your productions are better having less' thread essentially.

[harryupbabble]

with my wished-for software that i call "daw project instruments randomizer", the more vst instruments you have the better?

so let's say that track #1 of your daw project is for the bass part.
if you you have 100 vst bass intruments in a folder then the randomizer might randomly pick bass instrument #069 from that folder, or it might be bass instrument #xxx.

so let's say that track #2 of your daw project is for the drum part.
if you you have 100 vst drum intruments in another folder then the randomizer might randomly pick drum instrument #xxx.

and if the vst instruments do have presets then the software can also randomly pick a preset from that vst instrument.

so the software will do that all at once to all the remaining tracks of your daw project and automatically saves the result.

the problem is that there's no such software?

[vurt]

with my wished-for software that i call "daw project instruments randomizer", the more vst instruments you have the better?

so let's say that track #1 of your daw project is for the bass part.
if you you have 100 vst bass intruments in a folder then the randomizer might randomly pick bass instrument #069 from that folder, or it might be bass instrument #xxx.

so let's say that track #2 of your daw project is for the drum part.
if you you have 100 vst drum intruments in another folder then the randomizer might randomly pick drum instrument #xxx.

and if the vst instruments do have presets then the software can also randomly pick a preset from that vst instrument.

so the software will do that all at once to all the remaining tracks of your daw project and automatically saves the result.

the problem is that there's no such software?

in before

have you tried bitwig?

[harryupbabble]

seriously, bitwig can do that?

i have reaper 6 and cubase 5 lite edition. they can't do that?

i'm determined to learn only reaper but if such a separate software exist then i might buy it. it would be my second internet purchase ever with reaper being first.

speaking of reaper, i gotta go and relearn midi pooling. ciao, y'all.

[vurt]

no idea, never tried it.
but it is usually the answer, or "have you tried reaper?" but it was pointless asking that.

[jancivil]

"the problem is that there's no such software?"
just a friendly reminder: the problem there is you are looking for a way out of having and executing ideas

[harryupbabble]

"the problem is that there's no such software?"
just a friendly reminder: the problem there is you are looking for a way out of having and executing ideas

it has nothing to do with how to compose the notes. i already have a method for that.

it has to do with saving time auditioning sounds of instruments. and the joy and surprise of weird combinations, potentially.

[jancivil]

I don't have a method, that seems like shoes too tight to dance to me. You're saying the very same thing you've said for years here, so let's hear the results of the method. None of my business in the end, of course but that's not time-saving methodology, that's several years of the same unfocused talk. I'm trying to teach you a life skill. but, it's lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink time, save as it ever was

[harryupbabble]

dang, i wanted to reply to jan's post and had typed all the stuff below and the thread got locked before i finished.


jancivil
KVRAF

Post Tue Jun 08, 2021 12:06 am
I don't have a method, that seems like shoes too tight to dance to me. You're saying the very same thing you've said for years here, so let's hear the results of the method. None of my business in the end, of course but that's not time-saving methodology, that's several years of the same unfocused talk. I'm trying to teach you a life skill. but, it's lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink time, save as it ever was






jan... i mostly work on my method(s) in between speed scrabble games.

it's often not my primary interest but instead secondary.

so, i think i should make it primary again.
i will quit scrabble for about a month.
quit kvr too till july.

i always thought in the past to "find a method that worked first, then use the method to make tons of song"

but just to see and as a challenge to myself, i will try to use my current "not quite ready" method to actually make a full song. the result is probably going to suck, as per usual.

logging off at the scrabble site. logging off here too. right now.

be back in july. ciao.