VST Instruments?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:03 pm

I may be working with Cubase in the future and I was advised (affordably) to go with the VST instruments, and load and sequence them in Cubase.

Can these instruments be as realistic and reliable as a high quality keyboard or sound module?

And if they’re good, what name brand to look for? I’m pretty sure they have low quality as well as high.

And I’m also (as mentioned in a previous post) looking for high quality drum kits: kick drums that punch, thick snares, crisp hi-hats, etc. And I didn’t know whether to spend alota cheese on a Roland MV-8000 and just buy samples (is it even worth it?), or trust in the VST Instruments.
Or am I comparing Day and Night as far as quality is concerned?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:36 pm

Hardware and software instruments both have their advantages and disadvantages, however, sound quality is NOT a relevant aspect.

These days software instruments are easily at least the equivalent of their hardware brethren in the sound department.

You're looking for drums, but you don't say what style. If you're looking for acoustic drums, then the state of the art is:
BFD at www.fxpansion.com or
Drumkit From Hell Suprior at www.toontrack.com

You want more dance drums, then use some decent sample CDs with either:
DR-008 at www.fxpansion.com or
RM IV at www.linplug.com

Trilogy from www.spectrasonics.net has all kinds of Basses covered (acoustic, electric and synthetic).

Great freeware synthesisers are:
Synth1 from http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/5005/softsynth/ and
Crystal from www.greenoak.com

Loads and loads and loads of other great synthesizers. Personal favourites of mine are V-station from www.novationmusic.com and Atmosphere from www.spectrasonics.com

A great sampler is Kontakt by www.native-instruments.com. There are so many sample libraries available in this and compatible formats that any wish can be sorted.

Bloody hell mate, there is so much software about, much is brilliant, much is OK, some is dodgy. Try some freeware to get used to stuff first, then try and be a bit more precise about what kind of sounds you're looking for.

Happy hunting!

Cheers, TheCaptain.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:20 pm

http://kvr-vst.com

As the name suggests, its all about VST (and other format) software instruments.

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