So... Ive recently took a more serious dive into production, I used to just mess around with Ableton, now within the passed 2 weeks, between what Ive done solo and with a friend, we've got about 4 tracks that are near and over 50% done.
Im using Ableton 8 and NI Komplete 6 (strictly Massive and FM8, for some reason theres a compatibility issue with Battery, Live 8 and Windows 7, so I just use the Live drum machine).
What Im really looking for are VSTs that are great for making melodies, nothing can substitute having an actual/physical synth in front of you and playing out the cords yourself, but you use what you can. Maybe I havent messed around with FM8 enough... if you guys can suggest certain presets that you like in FM8, that would be awesome too, thanks.
KilldaDJ
vst peach is good for 8bit nintendo sounds :)
owien
it depends i found nexus to be very good for melody's fm8 is better suited to bass and layering
DJ_Rafnel
Sylenth1 is by far my go to synth for anything besides Pianos and choir type pads.
Very warm sound.
PS: Rangers FTW! Are you from NY?
LoveHate
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Originally posted by DJ_Rafnel
Sylenth1 is by far my go to synth for anything besides Pianos and choir type pads.
Very warm sound.
PS: Rangers FTW! Are you from NY?
whats your go to for pianos?
anyways like previous dude said sylenth1
DJ_Rafnel
Nexus haha...can't help it...with a little EQ work...the pianos sound great.
I try to stay away from it for most everything besides Pianos and some Pads though. I hate not having total control.
kitphillips
Well if you have komplete 6 you have everything you need... Why aren't you using reaktor and absynth? Look in the reaktor UL for some stuff that will suit your productions, its an amazing tool. If you can't make melodies with the komplete bundle then you're doing it wrong. Those synths are still my go to synths and I've had them all for 5 years now. Absynth is also great once you work out how to use it. Although I tend to use it more for fill elements than as a melody synth, I've only just realised its utility for my music.
The only other things I'd recommend looking into are things like the arturia VSTs and the spectrasonics ones, they're on top of their game in their respective fields (Rompling and analogue emulation). Other good ones are imposcar, rob papens synths, gladiator, z3ta etc. but you really already have everything you need... Do you have a midi controller? Thats the most helpful thing for making melodies...
Live's drum machine is going to work better than battery btw, it has far better integration.
atxbigballer1
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Originally posted by Vlad
if you guys can suggest certain presets that you like in FM8, that would be awesome too, thanks.
Camel Audio Alchemy
Waldorf Largo
NI Absynth 5
LennarDigital Sylenth1
Hall of Fame:
VAZ Modular (old and still amazing)
rgc Zeta+ (now only $19.99. Best $20 you will ever spend I you not)
G-Force Minimonsta (old and still kicking ass)
G-Force impOSCar (ditto)
G-Force Oddity (ditto)
Ichiro Toda Synth1 (ditto)
Then theres the new Spectrasonics stuff (Omnisphere/Trillian) which looks like what Atmosphere an Trilogy should have been.
VSTs these days are insane compared to what they were like 5 years ago. Some of them are CPU rapists though. The oldies like impOSCar still sound amazing and doesn't kick your computer in the nads.
Subtle
These are my favs
Nexus
Omnisphere/Atmosphere
Vanguard
The rest are pretty average i think, hence i use a Virus ;)
Derivative
I tried the OP-X Pro demo today and I'm still blown away. The gui looks like and the website looks amateurish so I just ignored it for ages thinking 'whatever, I've got an Xpander anyway'. Then it started creeping into alot of people's 'best sounding softsynths of all time' lists so I got curious.
It really sounds like an Oberheim and it behaves like one too. It has trim pots for osc and filter tuning as well as envelope length per voice so you can make each voice subtley different like a real analogue synth. And you can modulate those trim pots so you can simulate drift.
CPU load is a bit high but dayum. If those StudioProjects guys make an M-12/Xpander clone based on OP-X pro, I'm selling my Xpander.
