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DreadCthulhu posted:Anybody got a favorite vibrato VST they swear by that can be nicely automated? I just bought this, seems nice tonally. On sale the price is fair I reckon. Gave it a quick test and did some automation, all the parameters automate (at least in Bitwig) but if you swap the algorythm on either side it clicks. It does this by hand too but whatever. Rest of it seems to automate alright. Can swap between tempo sync and not which I like. https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/4123-Tube-Modulator
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Philthy posted:Yeah. I thought he was full of poo poo and told him theres no way they would move the older version over to my account. Then he texted me and told me to check and sure as poo poo I've got V Collection 5 on my account and I've been using them since. That is cool as hell.
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So could you upgrade for cheap now?
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Simone Poodoin posted:Anyone use XLN XO? Seems really cool but is it worth the price? Yes and yes but XLN has regular discounts so with a bit of patience you should be able to shave off a few percent of the price. If you have a large set of samples in a plethora of formats, copy (not move) all .wav single hits in a folder and let XO scan it. It is an infinite drum machine and arranger and every pattern is fresh. Renderin to stems saves CPU and the sequencer is deeply tweakable. It is really cool and gave me a much needed kick to start making tracks again because beats are not my strongest point.
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Cool, thanks. I will keep an eye out for sales.
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I played with kontakt and reaktor players to see if I should get komplete 12 select or kontakt 6, and they both seemed really bad. Like, most of the instruments that came with them didn't make me want more, they made me want to use serum or ableton's analogue or vprom or whatever instead And that's my story about not buying anything during NI's latest sales
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Laserjet 4P posted:Yes and yes but XLN has regular discounts so with a bit of patience you should be able to shave off a few percent of the price. Yeah other than having a really clean interface designed by people who are clearly infoviz nerds, it's also really flexible with its routing. So it's easy to, say, route the kick to its own track with separate eq/effects/ driving a ducking compressor. Or you can render patterns to midi and play them back into XO. Or a whole lot of other things.
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Achmed Jones posted:I played with kontakt and reaktor players to see if I should get komplete 12 select or kontakt 6, and they both seemed really bad. Like, most of the instruments that came with them didn't make me want more, they made me want to use serum or ableton's analogue or vprom or whatever instead Heres my NI sale story. I bought Kontakt 6 this sale, you can cross-grade then get 1/2 off the crossgrade price. Got a rad Kontakt Player library from a developer SoundIron whose approach I love for 40$ and saved a few hundred. Theres a lot of really great organic/live/acoustic instruments and timbres available once you pony up. Primarily because NI makes (or used to, not sure if its still that way) it brutally expensive to make Kontakt Player libraries, so you need to pay the piper to buy the libraries 3rd parties develop and sell. Some dude making a vibratoed double bass ensemble that you can move from 3-16 players fluidly in real-time using the mod wheel, or the particular type of piano tone that you want, even a piano thats systematically destroyed piece-by-piece and recorded at each step . A (THE) dude with a Stradivarius violin. Or some kind of weirdly specific niche-poo poo. Once I bought Kontakt 6 I bought SoundIron Cacophony, after 20 years recording orchestras and instruments so exhaustively they put all the unusable but worthwhile weird bits in a library, tuning up sounds, ambiences, fuckups. I dig it. Even at that price its a lot to pay as a multi-sample player so you can purchase multi-samples. But its nice to finally pay the piper. I've bought a lot of Kontakt libraries over the years  Ps. Just hyped, i always dreamt that a sampler meant I could just sample an orchestra. That idea blew my mind, my results were perhaps not orchestral quality. The built-in Kontakt libraries are likely a decent approximation of organic/acoustic instruments, but I suspect its all more appealing when you supersize to the Komplete meal for just a few dollars more.
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Kontakt's factory orchestral bank is licensed from VSL, despite the lack of true legato (I believe their Horizon series for Kontakt 2 in 2006 was the first ever example of real-time legato scripting) these are solid samples - extremely dry and malleable. With the factory woodwinds you might get better results than with NI's Symphony Series, which is just a waste of hard drive space (especially for that ridiculous price). The best reason to upgrade to full Kontakt is being able to binge on all the free poo poo on the internet. Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Ruffian Price posted:
this is also super true for REAKTOR - the user library is stocked full of emulated retro synths, weird experiments and combinations of the two
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This reminds me of a story from way back. I got hired to play guitar for a "project" with usher and his mom or something (I can't remember it's been 14 years, this was post "Yeah" 2006 I believe... ) Usher was late to the jam session he postponed and when he got there, I was talking to the engineer about Reaktor plugins and One of the maybe 5 sentences usher said to me was 'Reaktor is tight' The other sentences were not tight. Usher fired me later upon deciding he didn't want to do the project anymore. Whatever Reaktor's tight.
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Philthy posted:Yeah. I thought he was full of poo poo and told him theres no way they would move the older version over to my account. Then he texted me and told me to check and sure as poo poo I've got V Collection 5 on my account and I've been using them since. Hey thanks again for this! I just straight up wrote to them and asked if I could give my old license to my nephew but keep my new one. They said yes for V5 but not for V6, since my V7 license is tied to V6 via upgrade. Anyway, long story short said nephew now has V5. Pretty awesome!
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I bought waves l1 and the 1176 comp at 40 percent off (so $30 each) and they gave me a voucher for a free plugin, valid for anything thats $30 with the 40 percent off sale. Any recommendations? Producing 95% electronic music. I already own the redd Abbey road console emulation too. The Abbey road chamber reverb sounds kinda interesting. Is the waves element synth any good?
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I spent a little time with Element and didn't find it did anything spectacular, not a bad synth by any means but there's so many VAs out there. It really depends on what you already have. FlowMotion, the FM synth may be worth a look though I haven't tried it, just to expand the pallette a bit. In the $30 range: -H Delay is a very solid workhorse delay that does clean as well as character. NLS is good for adding some grumpiness to overly polite sounds if you want more 'analogue' in your sound. Infected Mushroom's Pusher is great all round to liven stuff up, whether on individual sounds or on busses. It's a multiband exciter/clipper/makebigger-er https://www.waves.com/plugins/infected-mushroom-pusher MetaFilter is fantastic, loads of options there to be as subtle or as brutal as you want. (assuming like me your DAW has er, lackluster stock filters. Come on Cubase, that's like the one thing you need to sort out now stock plugin-wise) DBX160 is rude if you want a character compressor NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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Kramer Master Tape is discounted to $30 as well! I love that loving thing, it adds an amazing crunch to transients when pushed. You can just link output gain to input and treat it like a saturation knob. Fantastic on drums, but not subtle enough IMO to use on actual masters
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Ruffian Price posted:Kramer Master Tape is discounted to $30 as well! I love that loving thing, it adds an amazing crunch to transients when pushed. You can just link output gain to input and treat it like a saturation knob. Fantastic on drums, but not subtle enough IMO to use on actual masters
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Trig Discipline posted:Hey thanks again for this! I just straight up wrote to them and asked if I could give my old license to my nephew but keep my new one. They said yes for V5 but not for V6, since my V7 license is tied to V6 via upgrade. Anyway, long story short said nephew now has V5. Pretty awesome! Sweet! Arturia really is a slick company. Now I don't feel so bad. I mean, I've got a lot of their hardware already, but V Collection is pretty special.
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NonzeroCircle posted:I spent a little time with Element and didn't find it did anything spectacular, not a bad synth by any means but there's so many VAs out there. It really depends on what you already have. FlowMotion, the FM synth may be worth a look though I haven't tried it, just to expand the pallette a bit. Ruffian Price posted:Kramer Master Tape is discounted to $30 as well! I love that loving thing, it adds an amazing crunch to transients when pushed. You can just link output gain to input and treat it like a saturation knob. Fantastic on drums, but not subtle enough IMO to use on actual masters Yo thanks for the quick replies! I'll get some demos for these and try them out. Metafilter sounds pretty cool, I don't have any creative filters other than talfilter. I'll try out the Kramer tape too - I have a couple of saturation plug ins but nothing I'm in love with.
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Been getting into Orchestral sounds recently. This ends with me buying Metropolis Ark 1 right?
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This ends with you amassing a collection of expensive one-trick-ponies, and then, as you futilely try to mix them together, trying to fill the gap with ensemble sketching libraries that repeat content you already had 
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I did the questionnaire thingy for the free BBC Symphony Orchestra on Spitfire's site, interested to see how that is when I get it (there's a 14 day waiting period. Or you can just buy it for £49).
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NonzeroCircle posted:I did the questionnaire thingy for the free BBC Symphony Orchestra on Spitfire's site, interested to see how that is when I get it (there's a 14 day waiting period. Or you can just buy it for £49). Oh dang, thanks for bringing this up! I filled out the survey too. I already have a dozen orchestral libraries but the demo on the website sounds pretty great for a freebie!
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Never hurts to have more flavours of strings. The Free Orchestra by PROJECTSAM (runs in free kontakt player too) has some fun bits as well as useful ones, and Spitfire's own free Labs stuff is something I wish I hadn't overlooked for so long--the snippets from Tundra are great. I obviously caved and upgraded the Komplete Select I got with Maschine like 2 weeks ago to the standard version and it turns out that Guitar Rig 5 is... A lot better than I remember?! Takes some finessing and isn't as instantly impressive as STL's Tonality series but it's nowhere near as horrid as I remember, and also has probably the most options of any ampsim for utterly removing any trace of guitar from your tone if that's your bag.
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I've been an eye out for upgrades on my 7 year old cheap laptop and have just been offered an amazing deal on a new MacBook, like 1/3 of the price. However I've always used Windows and not sure if I should just keep looking for a Windows laptop to ensure all my software works. A few Qs for any mac producers: It looks like reaper runs natively on Macs now, anyone used it on there? What's the deal with plugins? My brief googling shows that .vst files are fine but .dll stuff is Windows only. I think most of my paid plug ins will work but I do rely on a lot of older freebies, no bridge or wrapper or anything to get those to work?
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VSTs need to have been compiled for mac. Many have versions for both platforms, but VST is a packaging format - the thing that's packaged needs to be for your operating system. This also applies to VST3 and p much anything else
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Achmed Jones posted:VSTs need to have been compiled for mac. Many have versions for both platforms, but VST is a packaging format - the thing that's packaged needs to be for your operating system. Doesn't Reaper open VSTs natively? Edit: nm, I'm probably looking at mac-compiled VSTs. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Reaper on macOS has a 1:1 identical interface and preferences menu (as far as I can tell) to the Windows version, so it even mentions "dll files", but yeah, it'll only scan and use .vst packages and Audio Units.
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Ruffian Price posted:Reaper on macOS has a 1:1 identical interface and preferences menu (as far as I can tell) to the Windows version, so it even mentions "dll files", but yeah, it'll only scan and use .vst packages and Audio Units. It wasn't mentioning dll files, but quite literally VST and VST3 instruments from the FX menu. I just assumed that it was handling the conversion, not that I had a bunch of mac-compiled ones, which I apparently do.
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This is a very good thread and I just want everyone to know it. If there is a ML discord or something set up, let me know.
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Rusty Kettle posted:This is a very good thread and I just want everyone to know it. If there is a ML discord or something set up, let me know. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=505960226 I think I'm ok reposting this here. Let me know if not.
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Valhalla Space Modulator is free https://valhalladsp.com/shop/modulation/valhalla-space-modulator/
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MASSIVE X sucks, right? It sounds good but that interface sucks and it's slow even on a powerful machine.
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well why not posted:MASSIVE X sucks, right? It sounds good but that interface sucks and it's slow even on a powerful machine. I own it and some sound packs and honestly still use Serum a bunch instead. I don't know if it "sucks" per se, but I'm pretty used to Serum.
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crimedog posted:Valhalla Space Modulator is free Thanks, this thing is awesome!
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Free Vocal effects/compressors until July 19 https://www.loopcloud.com/cloud/blo...gn=stayinspired coupon code STAYIN
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I wouldn't say Massive X sucks. If you already have/know something like Serum or Pigments (or other bread and butter wavetable synth) there's probably not much incentive to pick it up. If you're looking at individually buying your first bread and butter wavetable synth, Massive X may not be my first choice either. But if you're getting it cheap (e.g. as part of a $99 Komplete 12 upgrade sale) or as part of a new Komplete purchase, it's a powerful tool to have available and a fine alternative to the others for filling that wavetable synth role. I'd agree the interface isn't as intuitive as something like Serum and others, but part of that is it's more modular, and I found it wasn't too hard to pickup as someone who had experience with the original Massive. I think its biggest downside is there isn't nearly as much youtube content for learning Massive X as there is for something like Serum.
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Newbie with a Keylab here, could anyone recommend some good free/cheap drums, especially vintage jazz/funk kits? Can't seem to find what I'm looking for in Ableton's defaults. Also interested in a decent saxophone VST, if anybody knows of one.
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I quite like Massive X for sound design purposes rather than the basses and leads I use Massive for. I have come to see it more as a spiritual successor to Absynth and in this role I think it excels, there's some bonkers stuff at at hand. I think the half baked launch really didn't help it, missing basic poo poo like a manual or visual envelopes. I have only had it a couple weeks so thankfully all the stuff that soured "the community" (aka YouTube) at launch was fixed. It would have fared much better even with the dodgy launch if it wasn't called Massive.
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ADSR is running a summer sale now. Of what's on sale, I have: Instruments
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Anyone else have any recommendations? I'm interested in Super VHS and the AudioThing Springs reverb, specifically if it can get a good, splashy surf sound used on guitars.
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SoundSpot is running a 90% off four or more plugins sale now. Union is a solid synth, Kinetik is my go-to guitar compressor, and FireFly is great on drum busses.
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