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apyssjw

Nothing. I’m officially plugin-in’ed out. Unless something absolutely ground breaking and earth shattering comes along, realistically speaking I don’t need another plugin until the day I die. I’ve bought certain plugins that I thought I’d use and haven’t used them once.

It kind of helps that I beta test for Universal Audio and get all of the Spark plugins gratis. Check them out if you haven’t already. They’re rapidly porting everything over to be AAX, VST3, AU ready.

I would love for FabFilter’s multiband compressor to go on a steep discount, but that’s a pipe dream. Considering what they charge for their stuff, I’m starting to find equally if not better tools for a much better price.

    apyssjw I have more soft synths, compressors, eqs, delays, reverbs, saturators, colour tools, and tape emulations than I’ll ever need. If I can’t make music with what I have, there’s something seriously wrong. But new plugins are fun. 😅

      apyssjw …I jumped through hoops to get that working, bought a full copy of Reason 12, waited ages for the native non-Rosetta version to come out etc. Think I’ve used it twice 😆

          …fancy the Synplant 2 upgrade, the original synth is so cool, but this looks mental

          If I needed another sound design tool, I’d be all over it.

          Unbroken1 that’s the spirit🙂

          I’ve bought a number of things, not used them for years and then come back to them. Spectrasonics stylus is in that bucket. It feels probably like old technology imho, but am using it loads.

          That said there’s other bits which are still on the shelf. I bought a copy of melodyne when it came out and haven’t found a use for it.

              apyssjw That said there’s other bits which are still on the shelf. I bought a copy of melodyne when it came out and haven’t found a use for it.

              I used to use Melodyne loads but I probably haven’t touched it in two years. That said, about a year ago I snagged it on on a deep discount. It’s a good thing to have in your arsenal. I tend to use it more for pitch correction on vocals - which clearly I don’t work a lot with - than its time stretching capabilities.

                  loopdokter yeah, I used it a little to make time stretched noises - but not much more.

                    9 days later

                    ArchimedesQ not sure I’d be able to turn it around in a month. I feel like these comps would do much better if they put a longer time frame on things.

                    But will be messing around with them.

                      16 days later

                      So, I’ve gone and bought a Syntakt. 303abuser was right all along, it is absolutely fantastic. Never really got on with creating drum patterns in either Ableton/Push or with Maschine. And this little box of tricks is really what I needed to kick start the old creative process again. We’ll see….
                      I understand that I am talking to myself and no-one will read this. But for anyone thinking of getting a drum machine, then this thing is very easy to learn. Overbridge linking to Ableton was almost a doddle, as I needed to install a previous version due to some issues with the M1 chips. Other than that a massive thumbs up.

                        Henry …love my TR8s, excellent fun for jamming with, but I’m not using it in production work at all.

                        Really loving just firing up a drum rack loaded with samples triggered by a MaxforLive sequencer, then editing the shit out of whatever audio comes out.

                        Really need to circle back to the hardware at some point tho.

                          Henry Good man, isn’t it fantastic? The only problem is that when I pair it with the digitakt, my other hardware goes pretty much unused. So easy to get ideas down and it all sounds so good. You can maybe argue with the hats, but a little layering goes a long way.

                          Just starting the ground work for another album and spent this morning sampling from the ST into ableton, adding fx, and resampling. We may have a line on a dub vocalist too, which would be amazing if it pans out.

                          Also, nice work on this one 😉

                              Henry to kick start the old creative process again

                              Excellent.

                              I bought d16’s Lush 02 as I had a heavy crossgrade discount really, SH101 based synth. Of course I didn’t need another synth - but it sounds great and has pushed me in another direction, which is just what you want from a new bit of kit.

                              Henry I understand that I am talking to myself and no-one will read this.

                              🙂

                              Has everyone seen the new feature on soundcloud which pushes your music to 100 accounts which should have a similar interest. Is an interesting concept - though I’ve only read the holding page on it and not seen it in action.

                              It usually autoplays some trap / rap when I’ve been demo-ig my own private tracks on there so am not overly optimistic of the accuracy of their data.

                                    apyssjw Has everyone seen the new feature on soundcloud which pushes your music to 100 accounts which should have a similar interest.

                                    Saw something about that when I signed up the other day, didn’t pay any attention but may revisit

                                        Mad_Cyril It’s for tracks of up to 10 mins and doesn’t guarantee plays. But is recognition that most of the content posted to it gets no or very little engagement.

                                        If I’m looking at AI from a what can it do for me perspective tools with the aim of creating engagement are something that’s more interesting than something that will mix a kick and bass for me.

                                          303abuser
                                          Still in the very early days of learning my way around it. But really impressed so far. So easy to generate polyrhythms and adding variation. I just want to focus on learning this in the short term and then start putting stuff together in Ableton. My only gripe is that the sound quality sounds slightly muffled vs my Arturia and NI VSTs. Maybe there’s something I need to change in Overbridge to optimise it.

                                          Looking forward to hearing your new stuff. Vocals will be a nice touch. :

                                          apyssjw
                                          That’s an interesting synth. I can’t justify another VST, although I do have a demo of Plasmonic which is basically Absynth from the same developer. If they drop a chunk off the price off for Black Friday I could be tempted. I really miss Absynth since I moved to Apple Silicon.