mark soliday wrote:
quoted 3 lines I've been under the impression that soft synth warez,> I've been under the impression that soft synth warez,
> as nice as cheap as they are don't carry the "umph"
> that hard warez offer. Am'I wrong or...
Both have advantages and disadvantages.
There are plenty of 'names' out there in IDM land making crazy shit with
soft synths like reaktor, building up custom ensembles who's only
purpose is to completely mangle sound in new and unusually ways.
Ae's weapon of choice now days, from what I hear.
I know of a local idm producer who's been pushing the envelope by using
up to 6000 individual (and unique) samples in his tunes and has pretty
much gone 100% computer based, selling most of his gear and buying a
third computer.
Personally, I love soft synths but still sport wood over gear,
especially the new virtual analogue stuff. We (me and my posse of
hoodlums who have a studio together in Echho Parke) have tons of old/new
gear but the ms20, nord lead and Z1 will always be favorites.
I finally broke down and bought a virus b a few weeks ago and it's
simply amazing. The depth of this box is astounding and with the 3.0
upgrade it turns into an completely mad filter box/vocoder. All knobs
send midi, so it's perfect for use with any computer based software that
responds to midi control, like audiomulch or reaktor. Controlling the
virus in cubase or logic is a dream.
The funny thing is, the 'virus' reaktor ensemble is one of the reasons I
bought the actual hardware!
Other great things that you're going to start seeing pop up in these
machines (and their ensuing software upgrades!) are feature that are
typically 'computer' style dsp effects, like bit-reduction and shaper
distortion.
boner!
borkc
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