Do Over - the Essentials
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- KVRAF
- 6254 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
I love having tons of different colors in my crayon box. I often find that even the stuff that is clearly duplicative tends to inspire in different ways.
That said, washed up on a dessert island (with electricity and a broadband connection) I could get by quite nicely with just this: Cubase 10 DAW and Halion 6.
Expanding out a bit further, I would want (but not need) NI's Komplete U12 and one of the Izotope O8 bundles.
Glad I'm not on a desert island though...
Cheers
-B
That said, washed up on a dessert island (with electricity and a broadband connection) I could get by quite nicely with just this: Cubase 10 DAW and Halion 6.
Expanding out a bit further, I would want (but not need) NI's Komplete U12 and one of the Izotope O8 bundles.
Glad I'm not on a desert island though...
Cheers
-B
Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...
So many plugins, so little time...
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- KVRAF
- 6254 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
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- addled muppet weed
- 105895 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
if you've got broadband, why not just email someone for a rescue?
methinks youre on the run rather than stranded...
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- KVRAF
- 7802 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
I sense another thread spawning from this...
"Top software to use while in the Witness Protection Program."
Still a +1 from me that Cubase & HALion would be enough. I would still want my Pianoteq Studio Bundle though.
Beyond that, given that it was starting from this date, I would therefore lose Alchemy 1, and I wouldn't buy anything that only worked on one OS ever again. Further elimination is nothing that uses PACE/EDEN/iLok or is NFR (since IMO, both ultimately have a philosophy of a STD).
Even eLicense falls under that, although it's at least curable.
Without Steinberg my choices now would be able to work on all three OS's (without WINE).
Then my choices would be Pianoteq Studio Bundle and Zebra 3. With a granular/spectral synth to be named later. Because the current options mostly don't fit the bill for me. Although Bitwig might do it, I no longer trust using in-DAW plugins. Also not sure I trust Bitwig in general yet. But Reaper is one of those 3 OS in beta I might consider. BTW, I do have Ardour/Mixbus, but not everything is plug and play there and has more than once, presented me with creating controller maps.
- KVRAF
- 8829 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
I would waste too much time to wade through my unused plug-ins and I still would like them most likely...
My desert island set would probably just have Bitwig and Max/MSP... Still enough to explore.
I definitely like all Madrona Labs, Reaktor, Halion and some specials like Loom and Iris 2...
My desert island set would probably just have Bitwig and Max/MSP... Still enough to explore.
I definitely like all Madrona Labs, Reaktor, Halion and some specials like Loom and Iris 2...
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1289 posts since 25 Jul, 2009
I wasn't really thinking about a DAW when I started this thread.
But like a couple others have said, after thinking about it a bit,
I too would be OK if I only had Cubase 10 and Halion 6 to use.
Edit - nope....gotta' have the ramps, tracks, lfo's, env's, and RV in Matrix 12V,
the FM and RV in Synclavier V, and the comb filters and RV in Largo.
But I could definitely draw the line there.
But like a couple others have said, after thinking about it a bit,
I too would be OK if I only had Cubase 10 and Halion 6 to use.
Edit - nope....gotta' have the ramps, tracks, lfo's, env's, and RV in Matrix 12V,
the FM and RV in Synclavier V, and the comb filters and RV in Largo.
But I could definitely draw the line there.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105895 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
- GRRRRRRR!
- 15970 posts since 14 Jun, 2001 from Somewhere else, on principle
Well, I've got 5 hardware synths so if I could only have five softsynths, they would be -
- Thorn as the backbone of the set-up,
Hive as the trusty sidekick with a few different tricks up it's sleeve,
Vacuum Pro because it's the nastiest sounding synth I've ever used,
TRK-01 Bass for something quick and easy, and
ArcSyn because it can kinda, sorta do what Wasp does in the bassline department.
NOVAkILL : Asus RoG Flow Z13, Core i9, 16GB RAM, Win11 | EVO 16 | Studio One | bx_oberhausen, GR-8, JP6K, Union, Hexeract, Olga, TRK-01, SEM, BA-1, Thorn, Prestige, Spire, Legend-HZ, ANA-2, VG Iron 2 | Uno Pro, Rocket.
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- KVRAF
- 16373 posts since 24 May, 2009 from A galaxy, far far away
- KVRian
- 955 posts since 18 Apr, 2006
vitocorleone123 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:21 pm It’d be what I now have after trying many many out. It's actually a bit hard to not buy more and get back to where I was. But so far I'm resisting.
Repro
Diva
Hive
Legend
Omnisphere
Kontakt
Hardware: SE-02
I'm surprised. You both seem to really like diva (as it made the list), yet you pick another Moog emulation, too. This is the bare essentials and you guys are picking two moogs. Are you not satisfied with Diva's Mooginess?
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- KVRian
- 1286 posts since 7 Dec, 2013 from Earth
When I installed my new PC last year I told myself I would only install the plugins I actually use. Unfortunately this didn't last long and I'm now at a point where I have even more plugins installed than I had on my old PC, so I guess my do-over failed
Damn GAS
Damn GAS