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What are your favorites? Have you ever purchased instrument packs? any recommendations? |
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How much have you got, what do you want to do? |
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I just want sounds. Lots of sounds for stuff like mellow ambience or abrasive metal screeching, screaming. Circusy synths and low monk chant drones like Lustmord. I got a decent amount in my savings. |
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Well... you aren't going to find them here no matter what your savings are. |
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I am off to bed staz. It was my last effort before dropping. |
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You could make eveything you described with a copy of Absynth, or better yet, Reaktor. |
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thanks, i'll do some reading on those :) and if anyone has a favorite VST, please name it here! |
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...anyone else besides Negative Nancy? Just lookin to hear your favorites. |
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weird... I typed that message as a response to Jivverdicker like 2 hours ago and it didnt go through. |
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all the Arturia stuff is pretty good |
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has la page of samples and two free VST's that I adore. |
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well shit |
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i'm a big fan of arturia's CS-80. i believe it's the synth that was used for pretty much all of the bladerunner soundtrack. some nice ambient sounds + even better ...it has an arppegiator (<--is that a real word???) |
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'arpeggiator' |
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NI Massive, the z3ta. Korg Legacy Collection, Absynth 3 |
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Yes it was. |
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Try out Atlantis. Someone on this very board mentioned it and I think its superb. Its also free. Cant remember the link though, sorry. |
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Everything under Smart Electronix is bloody awesome. The Buffer Override VST by one of the members makes my kick drum sounds like its blowing its nose, fucking brilliant. |
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yeah the CS-80 is amazing. That's what they used for the second version of the Dr Who theme in the 70s (not the Ron Grainer/Delia Derbyshire original). Stevie Wonder and ELO used it loads too. I'm thinking of getting the Arturia Jupiter 8 too. Unless someone knows where to get it for free. |
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chk my blog for a free vst eztravaganza... |
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im currently using following vst: fm8 - my all time favourite synth and probably the one i use most often -badass bass, lush pads it just has all. the editing is a bitch because it's fm, probably the most complex sound generation mehod ever but the possibilities are endless and if you study it well you can achieve actually every sound on it. also the arpeggiator which works as a built in sequencer is superb with it's triplets function. 10/10 as for me. absynth 3/absynth 4 - i have the number 4 installed but i somehow use it less than numer 3. number 4 has one great addition that ni added in their latest series od synthesizers - the browser where you can browse presets by categories so you find quickly one you need and you can get editing fast. but somehow i like the osund of the 3 more. dunno maybe it's just a presonal thing. reaktor 5 - i love it but i use it mostly for making sequencers and live playing stuff. i love the sounds of some of the synths (a few are free to download form the user library section on the internet site like "3x" or the emulation of the ems-synthi which is ludacriss) carbon 2 from the library is nice, also is gaugear with very intersting sounds and of course you have the ability to make your own synths. but as i said - i use it rather for sequencing pursposes as i have to admit that i just cant find the time for all this tweaking and patching my own personal synth. also i hate the fact that you always have to open an instance of reaktor and then the ensemble in it. there is a quite big preset problem with that. when you have a few instances of the same synth you somehow have to save every tweaked preset by hand or otherwise it will be gone after restart. that's why i love standalone slid synth like for example fm8 or absynth - i open up 7 instances, tweak around, save the file in my host and when i open up every thing works perfectly fine. |
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korg legacy collection - worth every penny and you can get it lately for a bargain price. worth the ms-20 with the dedicated midi controler alone. lots of hours of tweaking fun and great for livesets. i use it mostly for bass sounds which just fit in a mix perfectly. the polysisx is nice too but somehow not actually used in any of my tracks right now. the wavestation on the other hand is a great addition as it can give you very complex sounds. it's a bitch to tweak but you can make some very nice pads and evolving soundscapes with it. sytrus vst (out of fruity loops) - it's now able to buy this little fella as a standalone ready to open in any host. it may seem shitty at the beginning because of some fatal presets that some trance-dorks must have made but this thing sounds really great. editing envelopes is very easy and the onboard effects are nice. you have like a dozen filters to use and they sound awesome. i use this synth mostly for dubby-delayed sounds like in early basic channel recordings. i use it in every track i guess at least once. massive - i could say that i use it but i hate it. it's like stuffing all ni synth ever into one box. nice on one hand. bad on the other when a single instance chews 40 percent of my cpu. i use it sometimes because you can achieve a few sounds similar to the reaktor 5 ensembles which i described above and massive doesn't have this minuses reaktor has. i guess it's worth the money. discovery - a cheap synth that's meant to emulate the nord lead. i saw a test on youtube or somewhere else and it was even pretty close. i guess that when you don't have much money to buy some od the ni stuff you could buy this one as an entry level synth - you will love it. from free synth i actually use only 3. sts-26 and protoplasm (from the http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/ site) which are great for soundscapes and z3ta+ - a must have free synth. everyone loves it - pendulum uses it for every record. i saw dnb leads made on futuremusic magazine - wicked stuff. |
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so summiong up i highly recommend fm8 - it's my absolute favourite. in my tracks i mostly work like this - fm8 for most of the sounds, short ones, basses but mostly pads and leads. absynth 3 is used in my tracks to add some deep movement in the background as too much of fm8 sometimes makes the track sound to analog. absynth adds a bit organic sound too tracks. ms-20 for bass sounds, no other options. sytrus for delaying dubby short synth stabs. the rest of the synth is rather sporadically used. |
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Thanks for all the info guys... especially sadist, that was quite helpful. I'm still lookin at all this stuff but I'm leaning toward starting with Absynth and going from there. |
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I like FM7 better, a simple thing as having to double mouse click to load a patch on FM8 annoys dà hell out of bejisuz. |
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