Nick Blanc

I think David from MixBusTV has the hardware unit and has it in high regards. I wonder how the software will stack up.

According to their email, you have to find it yourself. Well, not on my watch...? https://www.zenhiser.com/collections/trance/products/kick-free-trance-beats

I'm somewhere in between with presets and/or making it myself from scratch. If I have particular sound in mind, I'm usually much quicker using a preset and tweaking it a bit. Also, browsing presets opens up some musical ideas I wouldn't have come up with myself, so it's an inspirational tool. But having some hardware synths without preset capability forced me to create my own stuff, which in the end is much more statifying/rewarding. It also forced me to learn more about synthesis. Somehow Vital makes sense in that regard. When I was dipping my toes in wavetables, it was Vital which made it 'click'. I'm sure some other synth could have done the trick, but Vital played the part, and played it very well.

I have friends who are on the data driven side of marketing (or better yet, marketing communication) and this shift is very noticable. You can laugh all you want at all the unnecessary so called customer journeys, but it is real. A friend of mine has this habit of, when he is called into a strategic meeting, to just ask "what would the customer want and what do you want?" I cannot count how many times he told me that they could not answer. He doesn't ask this to be a jackass, just so he knows wether or not he can provide them with data and what kind of data would be important. But I get the feeling that more often than not, large companies 'do marketing' just for the sake of it.

Haha I'm sorry, but yes! No no, I got my marketing bachelor because the topic interested me, just to learn very quickly that the real world wasn't my thing. Maybe I got a wrong start at a large financial multinational, but I lasted about 1,5 years in the marketing world. So that's it for my experience. But I still enjoy the topic so I am reading your posts here with great interest.

I tend to agree with Peter here. I'm also from a marketing background, now working in WFM (currently governement employed, just to get revenge for paying tax ?) and nowhere near the experience he has. But looking at XLN, they seem to be doing well. It may not seem like it if you focus on just a couple of products. But don't foget that RC-20 is basically the weapon of choice of EVERY hiphop producer / beatmaker. That is a HUGE market. And XO is very high regarded in the EDM world. Not (yet) 'RC20 hiphop status', but it's relatively new, so give it time. I'm not sure about the numbers, but looking at VST usage in hiphop and EDM in comparison to adding drums to rock (I'm downplaying it), I know where my focus would be.

I have a 22. But I leave everything at neutral and just use it as a multi-input for drummachines and instrument mics because I ran out of inputs on my FC 18i8 interface ?

Sorry then, I couldn't find it right away. Mods can delete this one.

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I'm really wondering this too. I have pretty much all of the 'vst supersynths' (Sylenth, Serum, Diva, etc.), apart from this one. The price always held me back and I'm not sure what is so special.

Witchcraft ?

Quite a lot yes. Corpus, which is similar to Objeq Delay. Analog is built by AAS and is an absolutely great synth. As is Tension. And Electric. Which is...an electric piano. And I've never used it.

Thanks! Since I'm not in a particular hurry to add visuals, I can wait.

About a year ago they seem to have updated it. "VS version 1.1.0 is a major update with lots of exciting and hotly requested new features, including a built-in video recorder to export your visuals to disk as MP4 video files."

Sale is until 18-9, so act quick. Normally €99, now €49,50 https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer VS - Visual Synthesizer Easily create visuals that react to your music and MIDI. Trigger, change and modulate parameters from both audio and MIDI sources, to inject movement into each layer’s "polyphonic visual voices". From ambient geometric loops, to rhythmically pulsating patterns, VS extensive modulation options ensure you are always in control. Aswell as a standalone app, VS - Visual Synthesizer comes in a range of plugin formats, which can be run inside a DAW like Ableton, to react directly to your compositions, live in realtime. In terms of MIDI interaction, this gives you huge potential to create amazing visuals right inside your DAW.

Indeed, a while back I was a bit of a snob I think. I wanted to have the third party stuff, because it had to be better right? Well no. It may be better in a certain particular situation, sure. But I find myself grabbing the stock stuff more and more. And with Suite, I'm sure I haven't even scratched the surface. Not to mention the sound libraries that are included (+70GB). Even Spitfire stuff.

Max lumen!

There is no way I'm adding a blacklight to any room in my house...

There is A LOT of useful native stuff in Ableton Suite. I have loads of third party stuff, but when I made the switch, a lot just became obsolete. Well not really because we keep telling ourselves we like choices before we buy our 24th EQ. Just the stock (glue)compressor and EQ alone get used a lot. Not to mention the creative FX that are included. The LFO suits my workflow so well. Redux is great, I use the amp more than Guitar Rig or Amplitude (well it's made by Softube , so ok...), reverb and delay are so easy to dial in, drumbus is still awesome, making racks and parallel chains is so easy, sampler and drumrack are my weapons of choice, the numorous MIDI probability and modulation options are overwhelming, external instrument just works, analog is a great synth, Max4Life is just an endless playground with SO much useful stuff (and a lot of it is free). My 'only' wish is that they would add more send/return tracks. Sometimes I reach the limit of 12. Just make it 24 and I'm good.

Nope, started with 12U in the summer of 2020, got the 13U upgrade in june 2021. So I guess I will look at the 14CE upgrade in 2023? Must have slept a year ?

This is a great deal and seems like a no brainer. But with rising energy costs I'm on a very strict 'not in my wishlist, not buying' budget. And even if it was, I'm basically holding off every non essential purchase. Let's wait a few months.

I always go that route with NI. I wait a year for a sale. But I think last time they had a winter sale comparable to their summer sale, so I might have gotten that one? Have to check my Excel sheet.

Indeed, and for me personally the newly added stuff is very interesting. So much so that I'm contemplating upgrading from Ultimate to Ultimate CE. But not full price, waiting for a sale.

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It was, but I believe it wasn't available for a while.