VSTs - What you use and why?
VSTs - What you use and why? Posted on: 24.10.2012 by Terica Radue Hello All,So I've been working on my production now for a little over a year and I'm finally starting to get comfortable with my setup and starting to hone in on an organized workflow (ill Gates you are a genius) The genres of music that a typically dabble in are dubstep, hard dance, and trapish experimental dubby grooves (mimosa's most recent ablum like). Anyway to VSTs, I own Komplete 8 and use MASSIVE and FM8 on almost all my tracks. I do have a few friends who play guitar and run their stuff through GuitarRig5 when we try to collaborate. I will say although I'm not usually one to jump on bandwagons, MASSIVE is absolutely amazing. For subbass and mid-basses it really can't be matched. I have a question about a particular VST synth that has caught my imagination. This synth would be iZotope's Iris. It's a sampling based re-synthesizer. Pretty much you can put samples into it then isolate certain frequencies of a particular sample and blend it with other samples and add other oscillators with them all while viewing what the sound would "look" like. It looks very intriguing and I feel I could get some very interesting soundscape type pads or weird freqed out fx. If anyone has used this synth or owns it your opinion would be greatly appreciated. It would also to be awesome to hear about any other VSTs you use whether its effects or instruments. | |
| Random X 10.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Tarekith
This, Massive and my Roland MC-303. |
| Willa Schwallie 10.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
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| Willa Schwallie 10.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
Cons: The install is a bitch or at least it can be, you'd believe "oh just pop in the dvd's" but my install made some alias folders that i had to go in a manually delete. Not a big deal, but kinda lame. Not really a con but to kinda be expected, you need a beast of a computer to run it. I mean you can layer patches in multi mode if you want, so you need a pretty heavy duty processor and a hefty amount of RAM. I run mine on an I7 quad core with 16gb of RAM, no issues. Also hard drive space, we're talking over 80gb of stuff with Omni and Trilian, Omni is like 55gb itself. So i have 2 1TB harddrives with one dedicated to all my music stuff. Anyways hope that kinda helps, Omni/Trilian are definitely worth the extra money imo and are just plain fun to use, which is kinda the main point for me...having fun |
| Alana Holloran 20.01.2013 | Generators: Massive, Sylenth, Harmless, 3xOsc, Nexus Effects: Bitcrusher, BoomComb, CamelPhat, Camel Crusher, Ohmicide, D16 Devastor, WOW Massive is my favorite. I sometimes use FM8, but I still can't figure it out completely. x3 |
| Rebbecca Fennell 17.01.2013 | An old freebie I just started using - fxpansion orca. Simple as hell, sounds fucking great. |
| Nga Mcquarter 17.01.2013 | Basicly: -reFX Nexus 2 (Lots of Prog House presets, my main genre) -Sylenth 1 (Basses) -MiniMogueVA (Analog Synth) -NI Massive (Working on Electro Sounds) -IceCream (Chiptune) -All the Tweakbench VSTs & Plugins (Also for Chiptune) -Harmless (Chords) -Dada Life's Sausage Fattener (This is a Plugin, but it's just AWESOME as a limiter) It's not too much but I believe it's OK for a beginner like me |
| Danna Peper 10.01.2013 | All Waves total package FTW.. There are so many great plug-ins within that bundle. =) Regards, EKSi |
| Nell Wrolson 09.01.2013 | if you're looking for something free & bit different I'd recommend: DSK Indian Dreamz DSK Asian Dreamz synsect AM TB30X CMT Bitcrusher This page has quite a lot of good stuff if you're going for a more lo-fi/video game sound: tweakbench.com |
| Rea Kilbarger 15.12.2012 | Sylenth 1 is probably the single best purchase I've made. Other than Logic Pro and Waves of course. |
| Annamae Tablada 20.11.2012 |
Razor instead gives me a solid sound i can modulate and sculpt with other saturation and filter plugins.
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| Estella Waber 10.11.2012 | I use Razor for pretty much all my basses. I know most everyone loves Massive but I find it sounds too generic. Razor instead gives me a solid sound i can modulate and sculpt with other saturation and filter plugins. Izotope Alloy is another VST i use heavily, it's great for really bringing sounds to life. Some people just use Ozone but the zero-latency mode is great to jam out melody ideas on a synth when you have your instrument sound worked out. |
| Random X 10.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Tarekith
This, Massive and my Roland MC-303. |
| Willa Schwallie 10.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
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| Carlee Pickard 10.11.2012 | Thanks for the info Connekted, you can install all the extra patches and what not on an external hard drive right? My only issue with my current computer (MacBook Pro 15' Retina) is the hard drive space itself - only 256gb. I have a 2TB external USB 3.0 drive I use to save all my samples & banks in. |
| Willa Schwallie 10.11.2012 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
Cons: The install is a bitch or at least it can be, you'd believe "oh just pop in the dvd's" but my install made some alias folders that i had to go in a manually delete. Not a big deal, but kinda lame. Not really a con but to kinda be expected, you need a beast of a computer to run it. I mean you can layer patches in multi mode if you want, so you need a pretty heavy duty processor and a hefty amount of RAM. I run mine on an I7 quad core with 16gb of RAM, no issues. Also hard drive space, we're talking over 80gb of stuff with Omni and Trilian, Omni is like 55gb itself. So i have 2 1TB harddrives with one dedicated to all my music stuff. Anyways hope that kinda helps, Omni/Trilian are definitely worth the extra money imo and are just plain fun to use, which is kinda the main point for me...having fun |
| Carlee Pickard 09.11.2012 | O/T: I was just about to post a similar thread and saw this . I am actually stuck between getting Omnisphere or the new Alchemy. I know Omnisphere is double the price, but I was wondering if any of you guys had thoughts on the matter? M/T: I own Sylenth1, Wobble (Which I don't really use) and the Komplete Ultimate 8 package, and I really do use almost everything it came with! Just to add different variations and what not to my sound! |
| Janyce Henningson 09.11.2012 | Got this a while ago: http://www.u-he.com/cms/diva Amazing, but it makes my computer cry when I use it... |
| Nikole Resende 09.11.2012 | My go to plug-ins at the moment are: NI Kontakt, especially Vintage Organs and Vintage Keys, as I just like using "organic" (vs. synthesized) sounds, and they are really good for that NI Vintage Compressors, I really like the simplicity of their interfaces and even though I have control over less parameters it feels like it's much easier to get the results that I want than with ableton's compressor Arturia Minimoog - first of all it was for free (thanks again, arturia..) and second for me as a sound design newbie the reduced options with basically 3 oscillators, filter- and amp-envelop it's really great to work with, as it keeps you from getting lost in a gazillion of routing and modulation options. And last but not least the analog-ish sound is really great I use Maschine for all of my drums right now, but I just discovered the "humanize" feature on Battery which seems great to add a more organic feel to your drums. Then, after watching this: I feel tempted to try that out myself, as right now I regularly end up loading different versions of e.g. kickdrums into ableton, and as I usually export the drum patterns from maschine to ableton as audio clips, changing the sound of a certain element is a pain in the a.. So if any software developer, maybe from NI, should be reading along: having a "sound select" feature like in the drum rack/sampler trick inside battery while having full control over the sounds through maschines pads and step sequencer would be a REALLY cool feature... |
| Willa Schwallie 08.11.2012 | My 2 favs atm are Omnisphere and Trilian they can be super easy or super in depth to use and they sound fantastic. I also use FM8, but not really into Massive anymore. I like throwing Camelphat and Izotope Ozone on alot of stuff. Been looking into getting the Soundtoys Native pack, stuff looks nasty...in a good way! |
| Cassidy Galindez 07.11.2012 | ratshack reverb. it makes it big but can be a bit of a harsh mistress |
| Rebbecca Fennell 06.11.2012 | u-he ace, ohm force ohmicide, u-he uhbiks, and softtubes vintage amp. oh and audio damage kombinant. ace is my go to synth. a lot of bullshit is said about "analog sound" but i feel like ace really has the old filth i would get out of a jx3p or sc 6 trak and best of all - you can tailor just how much you want (an osc cap failure knob, crosstalk knob and even a "circuit bending" knob. more u-he, uhbiks is a bundle, love the eq and the grainshifter. enough parameters to really explore, but not at all limited.. ohmicide and vintage amp i love the dimension they can add to an instrument, just filthy, they can just add a lot of life to sterile sounds. |
| Dorie Scelzo 06.11.2012 | Discovery Pro Dune TAL Bassline Arturia Minimoog V Original And I really need to do the Maschine 1.8 update and play around with Massive again. I didn't like it enough to pay for it, but it might be fun free. I'm very close to going in to play with a Minibrute, though. But, if I do, there's a good chance I'll be hooked on hardware and either buy one or go start trying to find a Nord. Edit: Totally forgot the reasons. I chose them because they were affordable (or free) and supposed to work like hardware synths that I want………and the minimoog was free and kind of iconic. |
| Stanley Topoleski 06.11.2012 | if it makes a sound i will use it. if it makes a sound i like i will use it again check out some of the free stuff like glitch and synth 1, also some of the major ones like nexus and sylenth are awesome... |
| Luciano Hyppolite 05.11.2012 | analog, operator, sampler, massive, fm8, b4, reason(not a vst but it sounds aweeeesome) |
| Estrella Rozzo 05.11.2012 | I use Maschine and since recently I also use Massive (because of the sweeeeeeeeet move made by NI!). But right now I still use most of the presets to play around with. Not too familiar with the softsynth to make decent patches yet. Have about 2 year novice experience in Reason, which luckily gives me some understanding about the basic features. More interested to start out with hardware synths. But the investment + low level of skill I posses is kinda holding me back. |
| Analisa Starz 03.11.2012 | I use Sylenth1 and Virus PoCo, awesome combination! |
| Sydney Lashway 02.11.2012 | Superwave P8 and the Performer were two of my absolute fav VSTs however, they don't seem to have mac version which is sad |
| Arline Receveur 25.10.2012 | Massive, Sylenth and Curve are my go-to's. Use them day in day out. |
| Nedra Fresneda 24.10.2012 | Maschine, Sylenth, Kontakt, and Minimonsta mainly, I like the sounds I can make them spit, hate endless lists of vsts. |
| Celine Surico 24.10.2012 | Seems I switch SW plugins and synths every three months.... Just now it's mostly Logic's built in SW synths as every time I use them I realize how good they really are. |
| Monserrate Rupnow 24.10.2012 | I'm a big Omnisphere fan, the iPad integration is awesome and it's as deep or simple of a synth as you want it to be. Sounds absolutely fabulous too. I like Synplant a lot of simpler stuff and for it's just plain awesome interface. I wish more developers would come up with unique and interesting ways to make sounds other than just copying the standard subtractive synthesis formula. |
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