electronic music VI

musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:27 am

HI, I am a media music composer, and do most on my compositions on acoustic and ethnic music and also some jazz and orchestral, but recently I have been getting more requests on electronic music, so I am in the quest for a good VI. I had Reason in mind, but I am open to all suggestions.

Matcher · Post by **Matcher** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:03 am

Yeah, Reason is a do-it-all-box, and I've used it succesfully with electronic music production. Still, Stylus RMX would be my choice for electronic drums and percussion. For some excellent softsynths, I recommend for example ReFx Vanguard, GForce Imposcar, Spectrasonics Trilogy and Atmospehere (no UB yet though) and Logic's synths.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:28 am

musicarteca wrote:HI, I am a media music composer, and do most on my compositions on acoustic and ethnic music and also some jazz and orchestral, but recently I have been getting more requests on electronic music, so I am in the quest for a good VI. I had Reason in mind, but I am open to all suggestions.

Alex, are you talking about a VI like Spectrasonics for "electronic" sounds?

Shoosh

jgest · Post by **jgest** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:52 am

check out linplug vi's albino/blue
http://www.robpapen.com/synths/blue/
http://www.robpapen.com/synths/albino/

of course an access virus will always get you highbrow in the electronica realm

musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:39 am

Shooshie wrote:Alex, are you talking about a VI like Spectrasonics for "electronic" sounds?
Shoosh

Yes, anything that contrasts with natural instruments samplers and emulators.

GWJ · Post by **GWJ** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:17 am

Stylus RMX loaded with some Beat Bandit is a good combo for electronica, techno rhythms. Also MX4 give's an un-natural sound set that's strangely warm.. Atmosphere for airyness...

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:22 am

Reason is good but you will have to work with REWIRE to use it in DP:

ReWire Tutorial Article Digital Performer
http://www.propellerheads.se/news/tutor ... rticle=dp0

Easy enough, but kind of annoying, I think.

I would look at the following, they all work directly in DP -- there are downloadable demos of all of them I beleive. There are sound samples too:

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Korg Legacy Analog Edition:

http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=KLCAE2007

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Rob Papen Blue that has already been mentioned

http://www.robpapen.com/synths/blue/

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NI Komplete Synths -- this is a fantastic bundle -- MASSIVE, ABSYNTH, FM8, Pro-53 all in a very affordable bundle:

http://www.native-instruments.com/index ... letesynths

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MOTU MX4 -- A product that is amazing, also mentioned before:

http://www.motu.com/products/software/mx4/

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musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:51 am

Thank you, those are really great references, I'll check them all out

Kubi · Post by **Kubi** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:38 pm

Three VI synths that are must-haves in my book:

U-He Zebra 2 (if I had to pick one synth only, this'd be it...)
Native Instruments' Absynth (though I like Absynth 3 better...)
Camel Audio's Cameleon 5000

And the mother of all electronic VIs, Native Instruments' Reaktor 5 - With literally hundreds and hundreds of pre-made synths and effects the only electronic VI you'll ever need, and that's without getting into rolling your own... but it can be a processor hog.

Crystal is an excellent synth that's completely free, so you got to grab this one... there are a bunch more free synths out there, many of them quite outstanding. To take advantage of them all, be sure to get Audioease's VST-wrapper - considering how many free VST's there are, it's an excellent investment!

Plus don't forget that using more radical processes (filtering, granular processing, and various time-based processing) you can easily turn your fake acoustic sounds into fake electronic sounds...

musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:57 pm

Kubi wrote:Plus don't forget that using more radical processes (filtering, granular processing, and various time-based processing) you can easily turn your fake acoustic sounds into fake electronic sounds...

Interesting, could you name some of those radical processors?

musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:58 pm

Does anyone have comments on the Metasynth?

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:49 pm

OK, I'll play. How much do you want to spend?

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:42 pm

emulatorloo wrote:Reason is good but you will have to work with REWIRE to use it in DP.

Korg Legacy Analog Edition.

Rob Papen Blue that has already been mentioned.

NI Komplete Synths -- this is a fantastic bundle -- MASSIVE, ABSYNTH, FM8, Pro-53 all in a very affordable bundle.

MOTU MX4.

This is a good list.

There are, of course, many others that could be added, but this covers a lot.

I think Reason plus NI Komplete will give you the bread-and-butter here.

musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:45 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:OK, I'll play. How much do you want to spend?

$500 max

Matcher · Post by **Matcher** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:17 pm

musicarteca wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:OK, I'll play. How much do you want to spend?
$500 max

IMO you should try out Reason and the NI synths bundle. For the price, they offer a lot. If you don't have any electronic drum sounds to work with I'd go for Reason.

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