virtual instruments

[Mcrob]

Who uses them for producing hip hop tracks? I receive this lil booklet on cubase sx and sl and I saw a few interesting looking Virtual Instrument programs. For thoses that uses them give me so info on them

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[Thelonius]

Well, well, well, the world of VST. I use VST's. They are created by steinberg but are cross platform. I use VSt's in Fruity Loops and Cubase SX. There are some very good companies that continue to deliver great VST's for instance, Native Instruments, or Waldorf. Native Instrumens account for most of my VST's. Kontakt for sampling, Pro-53, Absynth, FM7. With these I have a large amount of instrumetns with the capability to use EMU and Akai Cd's. I use Fruity Loops as a VST also inside of Cubase for drums sometimes and Native Instruments Battery to play chopped loops.

I will say that for a serious user either use a dedicated PC for VST utilizing VST System Link in Cubase SX or if unable a fast processor with 1 gigabyte or more of Ram, Because they eat up system resources.

Do research, go to Steinbergs website or my favorite Tweakheadz.com. or pick up Home Recording or another mag that features soft synths.

I save money because I can buy a midi controller and have a gang of sounds at my disposal instead of Racks of synths and a expensive keyboard. Which I wouldnt mind don't get me wrong.


Thelonius

[Some Guy]

Virtual instruments is the greatest thing to happen to music production. I'm running 100% virtual and I have every sound I could possibly want. Theres hundreds of good VST companies but some of the best are Native Instruments, Arturia (MoogModular), LinPlug, SampleTank & SonicReality, etc. Theres too many to name. If you're just getting into virtual you need to check out Reason too. Its everything you need to make heat. Well almost everything, you still need talent :cool:.

[mike kilo]

virtual instruments are great for someone
who don´t got enough money to buy hardware
synths. but they sound a litlle artificial.

[hardboiled]

depends on the user if they'll like it or not...you can get good results out of vst's but do you enjoy working soley off a computer?some people prefer hardware..

[Mcrob]

To me it doesn't really matter. I just want good sounds to compose with. Analog would be excellent though.