I'm just curious how many softsynth you currently have in you're plugins folder? Not effects, just synths, and it doesn't matter if they are free or commercial. I personnaly have 11 and sometimes find it's too much. I'm just trying to guage where I stand.
Here's a list...I went pretty much all freeware a week ago (after about 4-5 months of searching,researching, then testing out every little synthedit and other crapola plugin in the universe)
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10 or 12.
I probably only use 3 or 4 regularly, though, with the rest only seeing occasional duty. Mostly its about the subtractive instruments and FM8. The Romplers make the occasional appearance.
Now a days, I'm really selective in determining if i need anything new. So far, Absynth seems to be the only synth out there that I know of that I don't own and would bring something new to the table. Maybe Reaktor too.
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PPG Wave 2.v
Attack
Minimoog-v Original
Adventus 1.5 (A cheap synth plug I bought back during my itb trance days never used it again)
Reason's synths
and a bunch of freeware plugs (too many to list)
Though I usually sample or sequence/play my hardware synths when I work ITB.
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31 a combination of free and commercial stuff and that is counting Reason as 1 big synth the IK bundle stuff as 1 plug since I run it all in SampleTank My Kontakt libraries as 1 plug and the Korg Legacy collection as 1 plug in.
Crap... not sure how to count some of mine like the SampleTank variations.
Aalto
Alchemy
Diva
Zebra, Zebralette
ZebraCM
Tyrell
ACE
FM8
Massive
Razor
Sampletank, Sonic Synth, SampleMoog, SampleTron, Philharmonic
Minimoog V Original (that free POS that was given away)
GPO, Jabb
Largo
Way to many. Mostly free stuff, but tal audio, the stock logic synths, komplete bundle (mainly massive and kontakt), omnisphere, and albino are all I really use.
However I recently moved everything into a folder called "VSTPlugins.old" and now I'm slowly moving back those that I actually use. So when a song throws an error message about a missing plug-in, or I actually want a particular plug-in in a song, I'll move that back. Currently I have 16 plug-ins in that folder.
Tremor, Omnisphere, Absynth, Albino , DCAM, Iris, Largo, Minimonsta, Reaktor and XILS 3, so 10.
For me, this is more than enough, the sonic area I can cover with these is enormous. When I get my Virus Polar I'll more than likely be removing more, though Reaktor and Omnisphere will always stay I guess.
Here's a list...I went pretty much all freeware a week ago (after about 4-5 months of searching,researching, then testing out every little synthedit and other crapola plugin in the universe)
Anyway, here are my synths...
etc...
Thanks for the pics and info Schwarzwald! I enjoyed the comments too, my buddy and I were cracking up so bad.
Is anyone else having issues with the tal uno-62 in logic 9.1.7 in lion? There seems to be a lag when drawing midi notes with an instance of this synth....weird. It's doing it with Tal elec7ro as well.
Gosh, I don't know - maybe a dozen, dozen and a half all told. The ones that see the most use I guess are Zebra, Diva, NI Massive, DCAM, PPG 3.V and Omnisphere.
Most anticipated future releases: Zebra 3 and hopefully (a) new synth(s) from Andy Simper sometime following "The Drop."
DCAM, Massive, Firebird+, Reason and some zeta 2 lately(wasn't too found of zeta 1 but got some cool sounds out of zeta 2)
If I'm in a techno mood I like ABLPro and Rebirth.
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Absynth
FM8
Massive
Omnisphere
Sylenth
99.9% of the time I use . . .
Sylenth for Bass/Leads
Omnisphere for Pads
Absynth for random stuff like bells/pads/etc
Then I use samples for drums and stuff like that. I also use samples for strings sometimes but . . . dont use acoustic strings much these days.
So my list isn't very large in the first place but . . .
You really need to find 2-3 synths you REALLY like and just stick with them. There is absolutely no reason I need anymore than the 3 I listed that I use all the time. Sylenth totally cuts through a mix, omni pans out nicely in stereo pads, absynth is like my all rounder and weird effects synth. And thats it . . . thats all I ever use. And people are constantly asking what I use in my music because they like the synth sounds.
It may not be popular here, but I've actually invested in some patch libraries and they really helped a lot for some good sounds to start with, then hone in on what you like.
And just to stir the pot, I think Sylenth sounds so good, that it almost sounds as good as a good Roland Analog synth.
Massive and FM8 are really popular w/ the dubstep crowd
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