Is standalone important?
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- KVRian
- 672 posts since 18 May, 2007
I prefer when there isn't or at least I can choose not to install a stand alone. I never use them. even fiddling as if I am fiddling around suddenly want to record then since I have taken the slight extra time to load the plugin I can just tap record and don't loose a thought with extra time
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- KVRAF
- 16735 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
I use standalones when they add value to the plugin external to the host environment. Someone mentioned beatmakers, sure, also guitar processors, e.g. Guitar Rig, and any plugin that's also itself a serious work environment, e.g. Reaktor.
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- KVRAF
- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
Late to the party but no, you most certainly do NOT need to get over it.pinki wrote:I always tend to buy software instruments that have a standalone version and not just vst/au. But some big instruments don't have it- like Omnisphere and Zebra.
Yet smaller companies such as Loomer and FAW manage it. Why can't Spectrasonics and U-he? Have they done market research and found out nobody is bothered about having a standalone version?
I just really like being able to play an instrument without opening a DAW, and it matters to me. Should I get over it?
I like my standalones. I don't need them, but they are handy.
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- KVRAF
- 13745 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
+1hibidy wrote:Late to the party but no, you most certainly do NOT need to get over it.pinki wrote:I always tend to buy software instruments that have a standalone version and not just vst/au. But some big instruments don't have it- like Omnisphere and Zebra.
Yet smaller companies such as Loomer and FAW manage it. Why can't Spectrasonics and U-he? Have they done market research and found out nobody is bothered about having a standalone version?
I just really like being able to play an instrument without opening a DAW, and it matters to me. Should I get over it?
I like my standalones. I don't need them, but they are handy.
I'm not a musician, but I've designed sounds that others use to make music. http://soundcloud.com/obsidiananvil
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1201 posts since 2 Nov, 2006
+1 - no standalone Reaktor would be not goodghettosynth wrote:I use standalones when they add value to the plugin external to the host environment. Someone mentioned beatmakers, sure, also guitar processors, e.g. Guitar Rig, and any plugin that's also itself a serious work environment, e.g. Reaktor.
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