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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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Jul 6, 2020 15:51
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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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Jul 8, 2020 15:20
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I got the plugin pack, but haven't messed around with it too much. The saturation and reverb units are solid, though, especially for free.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:09
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Joke's on me for buying a couple cheap Kontakt instruments with just Kontakt Player. I get 15 minutes of editing and playback before having to restart Reaper. That's enough for me to use it for programmed midi lines, but sucks for exploring an instrument. Does the full version go on sale regularly? $400 is really steep.
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Jul 23, 2020 02:19
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Thanks everyone. Yeah, I hosed up there, but I can wait for the next sale to upgrade. I'll look into the cross grade path, too.
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Jul 24, 2020 01:19
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excellent bird guy posted:Just wanted to say, lmao Antares Auto-Tune is $400, what a stupid expensive price. Can confirm ReaTune works fine for the tone deaf hobbyist.
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Jul 25, 2020 02:35
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Here's a list of 14 free autotune plugins. The free version of Grallion 2 has some neat spatial features in it, but I haven't played around with it enough to give it a recommendation.
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Jul 25, 2020 16:29
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Anyone have a suggestion for a Paino VST that's better than Keyzone Classic (free or cheap preferred)? It's fine for a placeholder but I want something a little better for a finished song. Air Music's Mini Grand is solid and currently in a bundle for $20: https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/58-Inst-Bundle/1685-AIR-Creative-Collection That also includes a really good B3 sim that I've been using quite a bit, too.
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Nov 8, 2020 04:30
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If you're looking for a cheap Decapitator like saturation that will most likely get you 85% there, Audio Assault's Head Crusher is on sale for $7. I quite like it.
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Nov 20, 2020 02:56
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prom candy posted:Do any of the major acoustic drum VSTs (addictive, superior, ez, etc.) tend to go on sale on black friday? I have the packs that came with Ableton but it'd be nice to have something really full featured for when I'm doing rock/rnb type stuff It isn't one of the heavy hitters, but I've been using and satisfied with SONiVOX's Universal Big Bang for a little while now, and so far its handled new wave, post punk, surf rock, funk, and 80s lofi goth rock really well. It's on sale for $4.99.
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Nov 20, 2020 21:50
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Trig Discipline posted:Komplete also has some really good drum libraries, and I think there's a holiday sale on now. 1/2 off. I picked up Kontakt as my big purchase for myself this season for $200.
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Nov 21, 2020 16:46
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Pretty much. It's a powerful, easy to use sampler that is easy to make libraries for, so there are tons of incredibly high quality sample libraries for it. I'd rather use vst synthesizer plugins for synths for the flexibility, but for stuff like strings, horns, and other, weirder poo poo, it's hard to beat. I picked up Audiothing's Organetta on sale a while back which is a sampled toy organ from the 60's complete with a mix knob for the sound of the fan. Can't get something that out of the norm anywhere else.
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Nov 21, 2020 18:00
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I have two of the four freebies they are offering. Royal Compressor is nice, but doesn't do anything really special. It saturates nicely when pushed, but it tend to go for a light touch with compressors and don't get much out of that. Fundamental Bass, on the other hand, goes on every synth bass track I make. Being able to select a frequency at which to split the signal between bass and treble, with bass and treble both having independent stereo imaging letting me keep basa frequencies dead center mono and anything above the cutoff at some point in the stereo image that doesn't clash with anything else in the same frequency range, is incredibly powerful, especially with a strong envelope filter.
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Dec 13, 2020 03:27
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I use this, but have seen it (and got it) cheaper that the $20 sale price here: https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/air-music-tech-db-33-virtual-organ-instrument/ I'm very satisfied with it.
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Feb 24, 2021 02:06
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Plugin Alliance is running a coupon code for any plugin outside of a handful for $29.99. Bx_Masterdesk and bx_console N are really nice for that price, with Masterdesk being the last plugin in my mix bus on my standard template. VSM3 is an awesome saturated that I've been using frequently, too.
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Feb 28, 2021 22:21
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For reverb, Orilriver is a great free verb, and Devil's Spring from Lostin70s is the best free spring reverb sim I've ever heard. I use that over some paid spring reverbs I have for surf guitar lines.
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Mar 13, 2021 01:24
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ADSR Sounds has Melda's MTurboEQ as its free with purchase promotion this month. Here's their on sale listings, annoyingly not showing prices, but you can still sort by price. https://www.adsrsounds.com/sale/plug-ins-sale/ I'll probably pick up that SONiVOX vocoder for $15 to get that equalizer. I could always make a song more annoying with something like that. Wave table synthesis is something I've been meaning to explore more thoroughly. One of these days I need to sit down and watch a few videos on it, because right now I can't wrap my head around it beyond pretty basic sounds.
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May 2, 2021 21:24
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If you can't afford Decapitator, Audio Assault's Headcrusher is close to it for $7. XCTR is a really nice multiband saturated for that price, too.
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May 18, 2021 02:12
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The GVST suite is really nice for basic, free, and old. GHi is the first plugin on most of my tracks as a simple, resource light high pass filter.
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May 20, 2021 04:26
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2DCAT posted:TAL Jup owns... New Softube Juno-106 also owns The Cherry Audio DCO-106 is really nice, but it's somehow the most CPU heavy synth I own. It can eat up 4-5% of my CPU alone, whereas my second biggest heavy hitter, BIAS Amp, eats 2%. x64 Reaper has jbridge automatically configured, so running 32-bit plugins work out of the box. I can see why it would have a fail safe for not automatically switching out .dll for .vst3 or 32 for 64-bit versions, though. Ita probably the same logic I'd it sees two plugins with the same name but different contents.
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May 27, 2021 02:55
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Discussion Quorum posted:Thanks for the feedback above. Between Vital (which looks great) and the free Native Instruments stuff, I imagine I will be limited by skills rather than "stuff" on the synth side for a long time. ADSR has an AIR bundle with Mini Grand (sampled grand piano, sounds great but its ~2GB if I remember right), Hybrid 3 (modern synth with a nice sequencer), and Velvet 2 (Rhodes emulation) for $10, with FirePresser as the monthly freebie (nice compressor, allowing blending of 4 types of analog modelled compressors). $10 is a hell of a deal for any one of those, let alone all 4. I definitely recommend it. https://www.adsrsounds.com/product/software/air-music-tech-aip3-intro-software-bundle/
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Jun 5, 2021 17:52
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah these are perfectly serviceable. But it's worth noting that they haven't really been updated in about 10 years, and regularly go on sale for $10 or less. Huh, didn't know that. That explains the lack of updates beyond Big Sur compatibility. Still, old isn't bad, and my last and next album both use Air Music and Sonivox stuff on almost every song. That said, if anyone knows of a synth that can thread the needle through functionality and old, dusty junker found in a closet after 40 years better than VacuumPro, I'd love to hear it. I picked up Knifonium last big sale, but that doesn't quite scratch the same itch, and more modern synths sound too pristine for the heavily punk influenced stuff I make.
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Jun 5, 2021 21:04
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I keep saying that I'm going to try and master a synth, specially Serum, and I never do. Same, but then I get distracted by a bunch of free stuff like this and this, one thing leads to another, and, oops, have enough songs to start another album.
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Jun 19, 2021 03:08
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Iris is definitely worth it. How is Breaktweaker? I think I got it free or in a bundle a while back and haven't gotten into it yet. Incidentally, Cherry Audio is running a sale on their synths for $29 per, and the PS-20 has become an instant go-to for me now. It's fantastic for a trashy punk sound.
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Jul 6, 2021 23:17
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I learned a valuable lesson yesterday: make backups of my vst folders off of my Windows drive. My OS got hosed up and it took about 4 hours getting everything reinstalled and authorized. At least I kept my revisions on a separate drive.
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Jul 13, 2021 02:51
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Turns out my OS got hosed up because I tried installing a SONiVOX product, which installed an older, conflicting version of PACE on my computer that bricks Win10 PCs. I've installed plenty of their stuff before which worked just fine, but I guess I took one too many spins and finally got the bullet. I tested this by creating a restore point and reinstalling Big Bang Universal drums, their quite nice sounding and cheap in a bundle drum kit, which bricked my PC. This is weird as hell as I've used UBB for the drums on my past two albums with no issues, but oh well. That means I need a new sample based midi drum kit plugin. I can make do with Kontakt, but I would prefer plain ol' VST. Does anyone have any recommendations? Here is some music I make for reference: https://soundcloud.com/michaelnixmusic
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Jul 19, 2021 20:36
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NonzeroCircle posted:Slate Drums 5.5 is my go to for "real" drums. I think this is going to be the one for me. I don't need that level of control over mic placements, but I can't say no to that. Ironically, I got my old drum vst working, but I'm still going to get SSD so I don't nuke my computer again. drat good thing I have a separate drive for recording. As for synthesizer sounds, hahaha welcome down the rabbit hole, we're all mad here. Vital is still the top tier free synth, but take a look through these. Vital doesn't come with presets, and if you're new to synthesizers, it can be daunting. Starting with something with presets is probably your best bet.
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Jul 24, 2021 16:11
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free Trapt CD posted:Is there a Hammond B3 VST/sample library anybody here can vouch for? For free, HaNon B70 and Collab3 are good. For Farfisa and Vox Continental freebies, Combo Model F and Combo Model V are great. They may not be 100% authentic, but they sound good and are free.
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Jul 25, 2021 00:12
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Waves makes you pay for plugin updates after one year. I don't know how long the plan lasts, but, yeah, that's what that is. For the record, I have a bunch of amp sims, but GTR isn't the best. It has a dual amp setup which is nice, but none of the amps feel natural to me. Electrum and, of course, BIAS blow it out of the water. SwankyAmp is a great free amp sim. I use it over the paid stuff when I need something quick.
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Jul 25, 2021 04:39
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Plugin Alliances' plugins are both incredibly good and hilariously overpriced. Luckily, they run sales almost daily and subscribers to their newsletter get pretty regular $20 off coupons, so you can get some really expensive stuff affordably. The Vertigo VSM-3 and bx_masterdesk were on the mix buses of every song on my last album, Console_N, their Neve console emulation, was on most of the songs, and Knifonium is a wild synth that gives me weird sounds I can't get from anything else. Those guys go crazy with their bx line. The Console_N isn't just an emulation of their in house console, but they modeled each of its 72 channels to get the infinitesimally small differences between them. For a while, they had their Ampeg SVT-VR Classic bass amp sim free, which I used on this song for a really nice driven bass sound. It's my go to not-free bass amp sim. Incidentally, the reason I'm harping on free vs paid plugins is that I'm working on a little video series on how to make decent enough for release sounding songs as cheaply as possible with the gear I have. It won't be ready for a while yet, but it's a fun challenge.
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Jul 25, 2021 06:55
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The Cherry Audio DCO-106 Juno emulation is $25 on Plugin Boutique as part of CA's big summer sale. Their thing is to model the original hardware as closely as possible, then update them to add features not found on the hardware, like making the Korg MS-20 polyphonic, changing the weird terminology on its patch panel, adding a three section sequencer, and a bunch of effects because, gently caress it, they can so why not, on their PS-20. Goddamn I love the PS-20. It's so delightfully trashy.
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Aug 7, 2021 02:12
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gently caress bought the wrong one someone get Pauly Shore out of my loving house
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Aug 7, 2021 04:00
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AirWondows stuff is great, but I really wish he had an easier to navigate site so I could read descriptions of what each does without sorting through blog posts. I've been delving into them for a video series I hope I have time to make soon.
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Aug 7, 2021 20:32
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Agreed posted:I reckon this is it, Airwindows Cheat Sheet Awesome! Thanks, that's just what I needed.
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Aug 7, 2021 23:02
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The Artiria V Collection is not on sale right now. Here's the response I got from Plugin Boutique: "Huge apologies for this, unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the Arturia V sale has had to be pulled from the site for the time being. Please keep an eye on our newsletters and the Deals page to make sure you are notified when the sale comes back online. "Sorry again for any inconvenience caused." That's a pretty sizeable mistake, and one they haven't corrected in a follow up email. Probably for the best I don't spend $300 right now, though.
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Oct 17, 2021 15:25
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Labs is great, but I think there's some licensing for the BBC Orchestra library that the free version can't be used for paid or sold work, only free, non-professional stuff. Plugin Boutique sent me another email saying that the Arturia deal ending early was due to a "miscommunication" between the two of then. They made good sending me a one time coupon for the original deal, and I was in the process of signing paperwork for a new job when I got that email, so I got myself a little victory collection of 28 softsynths.
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Oct 18, 2021 20:38
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Does anyone know of an oil can delay vst? I found the Tel-Ray Delay, but that looks like it's aax only.
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Oct 26, 2021 04:22
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Agreed posted:Plugin Boutique has Pulsar stuff on sale with a few options for a free add-on. Now I got this freaking Echorec plugin and it sounds awesome, and has a super thoughtful UI with great tooltips also. I have never tried Softube's plugin but I feel that this delay is very distinct in its sound, well worth checking out. I am really liking it as a saturator/tone conditioner in its "Off" delay mode too, that's a cool addition. The Audiority Echoes T7E is my go to vocal delay. It feels like a halfway point between delay and reverb, giving what I run through it a sort of rhythmic smear. It's more subtle than most delays, but it's great gor thickening parts that need a little more power.
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Nov 18, 2021 03:54
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Blue Lab is halting development and are offering all of their plugins free while their server is still up. I haven't had the chance to use them yet, but there's some cool looking stuff in there.
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Nov 20, 2021 04:34
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My go to when programming drums is to do it in Hydrogen, then export them into a midi file and transpose them in Reaper to match up with whichever drum plugin in using. It's a little roundabout, but I haven't found a Reaper compatible midi editor that allows me to build and place patterns and only a handful of drum plugins that allow it, and that's the fastest way for me to program a song
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Nov 27, 2021 04:12
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