I still wonder how many ppl can hear the difference between a properly programmed VA and a properly programmed RA in a dense mix..

Years ago I spoke to a distributor of sample CD's in NL, according to him sample libraries based on synthesizers sell like a 80 year old worn-out wrinkled tit in highschool. Regarding sample CD's, people want acoustic instruments like orchestras, choirs, solo instruments, guitars, drums, ethnic inst...

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0:46 - to boldly go where no sane person has gone before?

i dont want a flame war Learn the difference between "flame war" and "discussion". I wasnt saying VA's are better than RA's. I own a dot com modular, if I didnt like analog I wouldnt use it. I like both apples and oragnes though. Nor was I, I wast just saying that your point "Although nothing does ...

Then again, what's "better" ..?

It's a bit like a pair of compasses to draw a circle. A manufacturer of those could say: "my compasses do a perfect circle, and the circle can't be improved by the competition, ever!"

If you're not afraid of deep sound designing, try FM8. You can do about anything with it. 909 bass drums and snare drums are a cookie, and you can tweak and shape them beyond the real 909. With zillions of snappy envelope possibilities you can precisely shape a bass drum to make it punch through a m...

ELPsteel wrote:I already have a Yamaha Motif, but the digital sounds just don't cut it for me.

Blame the sound designer, not the sound engine.

Rates should be per minute rather than per song.

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells has only 2 tracks. (and yes, they're individual songs forged into two big tracks, but still..)

With internet, everything can be had. Legal and otherwise. Morally I'd say: test 'm all and eventually buy what you *really* use (unless you're happy with freeware stuff). Somehow I always have high hopes that a proper license gives me the right to nag for features @ the programmers.. :P Keep in min...

You want a technical or a moral answer?

Same thing. Ease of use is subjective. A violin is not very easy to play for most people, yet Vanessa Mae can literary dream all her finger's positions and all the relevant strokes. (ok, not a very smart example I guess :D) All people who're using some tool of that list I gave all claim their tool i...

-yet- But ok, since the epic shipment of fail has arrived already: the point was that there is no best software. Ask people around here what software they use and you'll end up with: - Cubase - Logic - Sonar - Protools - Ableton - Fruityloops - Trackers etc. In random order and in random quantities....

No no, not my signature.. the *replies* under this post..

*sigh* shipment o' fail for the original point

Choose one of the 10+ possibilities, written under this post..