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Post by 101 on Jun 19, 2023 14:47:39 GMT
First, just let me say I am as guilty as anyone in the past for making music with VST instruments. But I have come to the conclusion that they destroy all the frequencies of the instruments that they portray. If ever you wanted to hollow out the sound of a track - put a VST on it.
There was a good BBC radio 4 article once about a hospital doctor who would volunteer to go round to any families house and fill in their garden pond to prevent any tragedies. I feel the same way about VST's. And would willingly help uninstall VST instruments on peoples personal computers.
If there was a VST addicts anonymous club, I would chair it. It's a bad habit, but I'm strangely drawn now to tracks with obvious VST's, Garage band drums, String synths. you name it. I have become unhealthily fascinated by VST assisted yacht rock, appalling country and western and the naked tragedy of synthetic synth music.
It always fascinates me as to what on Earth the artists were trying to convey.
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Post by pt3r on Jun 19, 2023 15:33:00 GMT
VST assisted yacht rock had me in stitches and I hope to never have to undergo VST C&W, this sounds worse than waterboarding.
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Post by 101 on Jun 19, 2023 18:36:58 GMT
All tracks made with VST's should be required by law to append '(With my VST's)' after the track title.
C&W 'She was my lonesome Cowgirl' (With my VST's)
Yacht rock ' You're the biggest part of me' (With my VST's)
Electronic 'Spiral worlds of Galaxos' (With my VST's)
Puts it into perspective I think.
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Post by admin on Jun 19, 2023 20:11:17 GMT
Honestly, I have dozens of VSTs on my PC and hundreds of Synth apps on my iPad. But I've never been able to make a single song with any of them. I just don't even know where to start!
But give me a few modules and a handful of patch cables and I'm rocking in no time!
Horses for courses, most likely.
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Post by 101 on Jun 19, 2023 20:23:20 GMT
With the rock type stuff. The first thing you notice is how top heavy the sound is. Especially guitars & bass. The VST drums sound like the drummer is 3 inches tall.
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Post by keurslagerkurt on Jun 23, 2023 10:49:45 GMT
Sometimes this impossible dry vst can have it's own interesting aesthetic imo. It can be almost punk to use an Ultra 'midi piano' style sound š (Looking at you, Oneohtrix Point Never)
Or take Steve Lacy, who imo makes fantastic music, largely with his iPhone, guitar/bass plugged in directly, garage band for drums,.. i kinda love that as well, you need to rely on songwriting alone to make your track great, which is pretty mindblowing tbh.
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Post by pt3r on Jun 23, 2023 11:05:42 GMT
This is so refreshing to watch but not a real surprise to me, I've seen my son and his mates record proper death grips style rap tracks using the mic of a gamer headset because they don't have the money for a proper soundcard + mic. I really dig this 'lo-fi' make with what you have approach to music making. Which we all tend to loose once we have the disposables to buy lots of gear. Still, yacht rock should not exist.
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Post by 101 on Jun 28, 2023 16:20:31 GMT
Nice Ric.
DJ Scotch Egg. Made some cool tracks just using 4 Nintendo Gameboys.
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Post by Gaƫtan on Jun 28, 2023 18:24:57 GMT
I haven't made music on the computer for a long time but back in the days I used to love VSTs. I would make a game out of trying all the free ones I could find. I did some pretty decent sounding tracks honestly, and it was like 15 years ago (although I list everything so there's nothing left to listen).
edit : here were my favourite: Minimogue VA (I cut my synth teeth on it !), Drumatic Vintage, Simulanalog Guitar Suite
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Post by pt3r on Jun 28, 2023 19:49:15 GMT
Whoah DJ Scoth Egg gave me instant Atari Teenage Riot flashbacks, I love this stuff.
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