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right, i wanna start using music software again. favourite virtual instruments???? anyone??? what do i need, i got my eye on a pro 53 and novation v-station |
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Anything by native instruments is a good bet. Go for pro53 |
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Although I like the FM7 more, and Intakt, absynth and guitar rig are the best. |
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guitar rig, you say?? |
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favourite vsti's - Zebra, Chameleon, Reaktor, Albino and Absynth are my ones of choice. Ableton Live, Digital Performer and Reaktor are my workhorses. Generally speaking anything by Arturia, Native Instruments, Spectrasonics or G Media is going to be good. |
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yeah, native instruments, i just decided i kinda not like novation's bassstation sound |
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flamenco guitar.... or QY100. (in my experience) or Qbase otherwize. (home studio) |
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i'm wondering how will you make beatz with a synth like pro53 or novation? |
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Play with the noise+sine waves and their filters and adsr. There are like, 50 different presets for beat sounds. |
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pro 53 and novation v-station - both nice |
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for that retro sound: arturia cs80v, arturia moog, and absynth to smooth out the dodgy bits - NI battery/NI intakt for drums and detritus, and the (FREE) kjaerhaus classic line of plugins for effects. synth1 is a nice free bit of kit as well. |
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What makes Battery/Intakt better than Kontakt? do some really cool effects and instruments, and they're all free. |
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yeah... I forgot about the arturia synths... moog modular v and the minimoog both sound great... cs80v is amazing. List of VSTi I suggest; Absynth FM7 Vokator Pro53 Moog Modular V Minimoog CS80v Rhino z3ta imOscar scorpion3 VirSyn Cube Discovery 1 & 2 Elektrik Piano Intakt Kontakt RM4 Groovecube Exiton TBL Bassline Neon I know there are a lot that I missed. But these ones are ones I can suggest right now. All good at their own things... some better than others, but these are all ones I have had either much use it, or find have found much potential with. If you are going to go for ambient music, get absynth first above anything else. You can texture any sound with a pad made in absynth, and the end will be much richer and more appealing. For making beats, absynth is also great. Look at some of the patches that richard devine made, and you will see. If you just want a sampler, I would say go for intakt first, cause that is easier to learn and work with than most of the other samplers out there. You can just load individual beats, or load loops, and cut them up and map them accross the keyboard. And it doesn't take more than 5 seconds to get all your samples maped, unlike other similar programs that take about half a minute or more just to set up one octave range. For effects, that is more difficult. There are so many. Wav's are all good, and guitar rig sounds really nice (although I haven't used it in music yet). |
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Kontakt is meant more for working with a single sample, and Intakt is meant for working with many. They are both superior in their own way, but I get much more use out of Intakt. |
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Sorry, forgot to add reaktor, the king of them all!!! |
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i'll say it again, as regards effects: the kjaerhaus 'classic' line. free, and studio quality compressor, delay, chorus, limiter, and all the other usual suspects. i'm lazy so i'm not googling for the damn things, but giving them away for free is borderline crazy, such is the quality. |
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love the kjaerhaus plugs |
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Cheers for the heads up. Will check these out tonight |
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