What VST plugins do you use?

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Komplete and omnisphere for me.

Omnisphere is really good with the Ren because its internal effects are great and u can therefore save presets with comprehensive effects setups with a patch. This is helpful as the Ren doesn't have a channel strip browser to save effects and instrument settings.

So with the Ren I use omnisphere alot.

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I have a bunch of vst instruments like massive, sampletank, basstation, etc... but I miss those crisp sounds out my fantom, ease of layering and adding fx, also finding the sound I want. Most the sounds were very usuable. Coming from a hardware synth rompler or whatever, whats a good vst with good quality for hip hop and ease of use etc... With massive and sampletank and other vsts I have to go digging just to find a good sound and click through so many lists of instruments, its insane, and there are very few usable sounds without tweaking them they sound very bland.

Massive is decent, sample tank and my other ikinstruments vsts all have huge lists I have to sift through of very boring sounds to find the good ones. Basstation is a beast, has every bass I need almost, all the patches are good and a lot of hip hop bass. I'm hearing good things about hypersonic and omnispectrics or something. Anyone can suggest something for me? I'm so new to vst instruments and synths.


I really just want a plugin instrument with a decent library that covers most instruments, and is easy to find sounds, layer them, add fx, good gui so I dont have to squint and click a million places just to see a list of sounds

I too was into the romplers from the yamaha's,rolands etc.. but I hated the lack of efx, or the limitations, even had the kronos for a while, but similar issues we're still around in the modern boards, a keyboards voice mode, isn't the same as their sequencer mode..U lose the ability to retain MFX,all the great cwork done to a patch in voice mode, lost in sequencer mode, Korg being the better outta of all of them, the kronos, was alot better then older Korgs for this, but still not great imo.. to me that sucks,recently over the years I've been able to find some really good sounds by layering the favorite sounds/ synths I've gathered inside Kontakt and other vsts , much better then what I've ever had in keyboard romplers.

Sampletanks def got a sound, might take a few patches to get that big sound, but there aren't those limitations you find in romplers, n sampletanks old.. S3, is supposed to be shown at Winter Namm 2014, u might wanna check it out.

M5v3 is a beast,if your into building your own sounds, scratch that, anything from UVI is leagues ahead of most,so def give them a shot, but they have a heavy price tag.

Honestly, I think if Yamaha and Roland, we're ever to go software, they would be huge to musicians,but I think they are too stubborn, n feel they must carry on a hardware tradition. Imagine a modern day Motif or Fantom software rompler, not a rip off halion sonic, but a true emulation of their stuff, that would be slick, but I doubt they would ever do it.. till then , create your own sounds, tweak them till they do it for you, cuz honestly, thats all they are doing in their keyboards.

cheers

Korg M1
Komplete
Roland/Cakewalk VSTs

I have used cakewalk since the 90s. It was the first PC recording software I got when I moved from recording to multiple Alesis ADATs. I decided to finally upgrade to Sonar X3 and it came with a host of usable VSTs and a gang of FX. (The instruments and FX alone was worth more than small cost to upgrade.)

TopdaT wrote:Cakewalk makes some nice plug-ins, I have Rapture, Dimension and use them all the time and they have great sounds and expansions. The next plug-ins I am going to pick up are Z3ta 2, Nexus and Massive I hear that these three have great sounds.

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