what are your fav VSTs?

i'm kinda new to vst capable programs, but i've been hearing alot of good stuff about renoise so i figure i'd check it out,

i learned on rebirth/reason but i'm excited about getting into vsts i just have no idea which are good, essential, w/e,

enlighten me please!

First check out the free VST plugin list that is stickied to the top.

Arturia CS80v

Arturia Minimoog

Subduer

Oddity

Korg Legacy (polysix in particular)

Ohmforce Collection for effects and fuckery

V-Station, Albino, ARP2600v and Absynth are worth having too.

Crystal and Minimoog VA are both awesome.

drumatic, synth1, dx10

absynth 3 and the v-station. . . that's it. . ever

i'm guessing i have to download absynth? apparently it's expensive

another question: like i said ive only really used reason, ableton a little bit, and im thinking renoise might be kinda cool,

but like how do you automate vst's? like in reason i can automate a knob or w/e to turn when i want it too, i have no idea

how to get that capability out of vst's

so lots of people agree absynth and this v-station is good? i'll try and get those,

i was messing around with the minimoog for hours it's pretty awesome although the arpeggiator was kinda

tricky to get working

albino, korg legacy collection.. umm. absynth is a really good synth but not everything can be automated via a host, if that's important to you.

i don't know about renoise, but most vst hosts allow you to automate all the parimeters on vstis, so read the instructions...

AudioRealism Bassline for the acid.

Loopazoid as MPC style drum machine.

AO DKL as a simple sample based drum machine.

TBL Bassline quite reasonable.

Kontact vst

I don't tend to use a lot of VST 'cause my pc is pretty slow.

  Shining Rock said:

i'm guessing i have to download absynth? apparently it's expensive

 

another question: like i said ive only really used reason, ableton a little bit, and im thinking renoise might be kinda cool,

but like how do you automate vst's? like in reason i can automate a knob or w/e to turn when i want it too, i have no idea

how to get that capability out of vst's

 

so lots of people agree absynth and this v-station is good? i'll try and get those,

i was messing around with the minimoog for hours it's pretty awesome although the arpeggiator was kinda

tricky to get working

I just use mostly freeware, get what you can out of these, because they are really good these days, but investing in reaktor is a good idea (not that I have).

But it depends on the host how to automate a VST. Most can do direct gui tweaking. Or you may have to map a CC of your controller to a parameter and record the CC messages.

waves gold/platinum bundle.

awesomeness.

  Shining Rock said:

another question: like i said ive only really used reason, ableton a little bit, and im thinking renoise might be kinda cool,

but like how do you automate vst's? like in reason i can automate a knob or w/e to turn when i want it too, i have no idea

how to get that capability out of vst's

renoise has nice automation and you can automate whatever you want in it.

as for favorite vsts...dunno, smartelectronix stuff is cool, various very interesting plugins.

reaktor, kontakt, moog modular v

thanks alot everyone, you've illuminated my understanding on alot of this confusing stuff,

i can't wait to try out some of these vst's...

im curious though, i've tried re-wiring reason through ableton and using them both, would it

be possible to play something through reason and put VST's on it in ableton and then record automation

via the VST's in ableton acting on the sounds from reason? or would it not be able to record that, thanks,

also i'm feeling pretty noobish but i'm pretty sure i'm not using my midi controller to the full extent of its capabilities,

like i use it for basic stuff, fiddling around, assigning knobs, but i know i haven't even touched the surface as far as

it's features go, and am unable to assign it to work in VST's it seems (i tried to assign a knob to some paramater on the

excellent glitch vst but it wouldn't register) any help would be appreciated, thanks everyone for sharing in your vast

knowledge

don't worry about it, just make tunes with it and you will gain knowledge along the way. you don't need to know your gear inside out before starting to make music, it's part of the making music thing.

AudioRealism Bassline Pro (Best VST EVER)

Arturia MiniMoog

Korg MS-20 (from Legacy Collection)

Korg Polysix (" " " " " " )

rob papen albino 2.

I feel I gotta give a shout out to MicroDicer, the only rex-playing VST I've ever got along with: http://www.concretefx.com/MicroDicer.htm

If it wasn't for this beauty I'd do all my breaks in audio. Things like Intakt may have more features but for speed and ease of use, I can't get enough of this one. So it's one of my fave VSTs and it's dead cheap too, only about £20.

  Iain C said:

I feel I gotta give a shout out to MicroDicer, the only rex-playing VST I've ever got along with: http://www.concretefx.com/MicroDicer.htm

 

If it wasn't for this beauty I'd do all my breaks in audio. Things like Intakt may have more features but for speed and ease of use, I can't get enough of this one. So it's one of my fave VSTs and it's dead cheap too, only about £20.

Dang that's wicked-hot, nice one man I'm getting this for sure. :heart:

  BCM said:

AudioRealism Bassline Pro (Best VST EVER)

is it really that good ?

  edge said:

  Iain C said:

I feel I gotta give a shout out to MicroDicer, the only rex-playing VST I've ever got along with: http://www.concretefx.com/MicroDicer.htm

 

If it wasn't for this beauty I'd do all my breaks in audio. Things like Intakt may have more features but for speed and ease of use, I can't get enough of this one. So it's one of my fave VSTs and it's dead cheap too, only about £20.

 

Dang that's wicked-hot, nice one man I'm getting this for sure. :heart:

Yep, it's been invaluable in moving to Ableton (which has no rex player :omg: ) from Fruity (which has a lovely rex player)

And being able to drag the midi file directly from the plugin into Ableton is just the absolute tits, such a handy feature