Your favourite tools & toys

[EdRyan]

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Celemony Melodyne. Only have the demo, which can be quite fiddlesome with its random noise. Its easy-ish to get round by setting up an aux, sending to it, then using the aux to feed the input of another audio track...record the corrected audio..and in the words of Ramsay...DONE. I will be purchasing this soon !
Also really handy for showing notes,kets etc that I'd otherwise spend ages getting not quite right. This is a must have app...

RP Predator. This thing is seriously evvviill. I love it's arp programmer, the layout and 'it' just in general.

Linplug ChronoX. It's absolutely scandalous what this synth can do. Quite possibly, the best sample based synth engine you'll ever come across. It doesn't seem to do normal sounds, so it might not be a 'goto' like other apps. But for spacey, trippy, ambient,quirky noises and much more..then thing is great !

Novation V-Station. I'm loving this death. The beauty of it is it's simplicity and authenticity to the real deal. It may pale in terms of specs compared to modern soft synths, but it's still capable of some epic sounds. Turn the arp on, turn the delay feedback and distortion up...and listen to it go hell for leather !

PSP Nitro. Gotta be one of the nicest eq's about at the moment. Get it right, and your mixes will come alive with punch and drive. The 'Car Radio' preset is a killer place to start as well..

[sureno]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

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Celemony Melodyne. Only have the demo, which can be quite fiddlesome with its random noise. Its easy-ish to get round by setting up an aux, sending to it, then using the aux to feed the input of another audio track...record the corrected audio..and in the words of Ramsay...DONE. I will be purchasing this soon !
Also really handy for showing notes,kets etc that I'd otherwise spend ages getting not quite right. This is a must have app...

did you sort out that problem in the end with the drifting vocal?

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

PSP Nitro. Gotta be one of the nicest eq's about at the moment. Get it right, and your mixes will come alive with punch and drive. The 'Car Radio' preset is a killer place to start as well..

Nitro is easily one the best filter plugs available IMO. The PSP Master Q is another one of my favourite PSP plugs.

[EdRyan]

I'm always getting confused with Nitro & Neon. Nitro is their filter effect, Neon is the EQ. Nitro is a wicked filter, so shapable... Neon is the EQ ! THink they do more then one version.

Master Q is on my want list !

[sureno]

Originally Posted by EdRyan

I'm always getting confused with Nitro & Neon. Nitro is their filter effect, Neon is the EQ. Nitro is a wicked filter, so shapable... Neon is the EQ ! THink they do more then one version.

Master Q is on my want list !

There limiter is awesome xeon or something, they got so many funky names!!!

[Wilty]

I still haven't actually managed to put an anywhere near finished track together yet so I'm probably not really qualified to comment here, but I have fun abusing:

Glitch-Brilliant fun, been tweaking around with it for a month or 2 and get different and more messed up results every time

Sidekick-Because I can watch tutorials till the cows come home but can never get ducking and keying as well as this little beaut can. I know I'll need to learn eventually but this is a godsend at the moment

V-station-As Ed said, holds its own really well, versitile and most of all it was cheap. Like a budgie. A bargain budgie.

Cubase4's Roomworx-Reverby fun, just getting into mangling this and C4's in house compressors together to make some ridiculous drums.

Like I said, I'm still right at the start and still waiting to get into my own space again so I haven't been at it as much as I would have liked, but these are what I've been tinkering with lately.

[sureno]

Originally Posted by Wilty

I still haven't actually managed to put an anywhere near finished track together yet so I'm probably not really qualified to comment here, but I have fun abusing:

Glitch-Brilliant fun, been tweaking around with it for a month or 2 and get different and more messed up results every time

Sidekick-Because I can watch tutorials till the cows come home but can never get ducking and keying as well as this little beat can. I know I'll need to learn eventually but this is a godsend at the moment

V-station-As Ed said, holds its own really well, versitile and most of all it was cheap. Like a budgie. A bargain budgie.

Cubase4's Roomworx-Reverby fun, just getting into mangling this and C4's in house compressors together to make some ridiculous drums.

Like I said, I'm still right at the start and still waiting to get into my own space again so I haven't been at it as much as I would have liked, but these are what I've been tinkering with lately.

nice choices Wilty you don't have to be a pro to appreciate a good plug in dude, if it works for you well then thats what counts

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by sureno

There limiter is awesome xeon or something, they got so many funky names!!!

Yes xenon is the one. Lovely plug but it requires an ilok so it's a no go for me.

[sureno]

Originally Posted by Monarch

Yes xenon is the one. Lovely plug but it requires an ilok so it's a no go for me.

dont you like iLok?

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by sureno

dont you like iLok?

I am a heavy software only user. The only two software packages I might waive my disinterest in hardware keys for are Samplitude and Cubase.

But plugins...no. That might change as there are a lot of high end plugs that use Ilok for copy protection but until some point in future...non

[sureno]

Originally Posted by Monarch

I am a heavy software only user. The only two software packages I might waive my disinterest in hardware keys for are Samplitude and Cubase.

But plugins...no. That might change as there are a lot of high end plugs that use Ilok for copy protection but until some point in future...non

ok??? i can understand some lagg issues but i think iLok just checks on start up

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by sureno

ok??? i can understand some lagg issues but i think iLok just checks on start up

It's a dislike I have for any additional copy protection that is not 100% software based. There are so many options that do not require additional hardware or USB ports taken up that I just side step software packages that must have a USB key to operate.

[sureno]

Originally Posted by Monarch

It's a dislike I have for any additional copy protection that is not 100% software based. There are so many options that do not require additional hardware or USB ports taken up that I just side step software packages that must have a USB key to operate.

cool, you'll get one eventually

[cane creek]

Originally Posted by Monarch

It's a dislike I have for any additional copy protection that is not 100% software based. There are so many options that do not require additional hardware or USB ports taken up that I just side step software packages that must have a USB key to operate.

Yes but all the software based security gets cracked , as of late ilok doesnt thats why companys use ilok and you'll see more companys leaning towards ilok.