#81

Should the work stand on its own? I guess
Looking at my Keystep which I got before I knew all this. V. hard question if one doesn’t want to end up at a disadvantage for the sake of morals. But different to the one about favourite plugins :]

#82

Yeah, that one and PrimalTap are the two best character delay plugins.

I think the H910 sounds way better than any of Eventide’s delay pedals or most anything in Eurorack. Too bad they haven’t ported the algorithm, which includes some early digital modeling.

#83

considered this on and off for years. curious if there are other harmonizers folks would throw in the ring?

edit: interested more in sound-design than spreading vocals, etc.

#84

Check out Antares, they have a lot of fun pitch tools like (of course) Auto-Tune and Harmony Engine.

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#85

native instruments reaktor of course! 200 euros for all that goodness is an absolute no-brainer, even if you don’t plan to actually build anything with it,the factory library and user library is a full on universe to explore! with the addition of the “blocks” paradigm in version 6 is now a must have (the west coast and kodiak blocks are a-ma-zing as well as the great EuroReakt series by @trickyflemming)

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#86

Thanks! I am extremely fond of the Toybox Blocks as well. There are a lot of features I’ve been dying to have in Reaktor, like live granular resampling, importing wavetables, gesture recording, etc. David hit it out of the park with that set, and they make a really great pairing with Euro Reakt.

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#87

I’ll toss in a late +20 chars for Reaktor being super awesome and i wish i had a reason to upgrade to v6 lol

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#88

Realizing that this is slightly form over substance, does anyone have a recommendation for a sampler plugin that would put me in the ballpark of a Digitone? Logic is my main DAW (I’m envious of Simpler). Things about the Digitone that appeal/things that I’d like:

  • Kit metaphor (really don’t want the overhead of fighting a default assumption that I’m mapping samples across key/velocity zones)
  • Modulation/Automation of start/end/loop points
  • Modulation/Automation of reversed sample playback
  • At least basic sample editing within the plugin

Bonus points if I can hook up an LFO to start point within the plugin.

#89

Perhaps this?

Haven’t used it in ages, but I remember liking it at the time.

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#90

Anybody have a good text to speech plugin to recommend? Free or paid. The one that comes with FL Studio is alright but it’s difficult to work with because it won’t let you close it until you render the speech into a wav file, at which point it’s obviously uneditable. I’d rather have something I can work with more dynamically and tweak.

I’m looking mainly for robotic sounds but I’d like something that can do more realistic voices as well.

#91

Haven’t tried it myself but I’ve seen buzz about the Plogue Alter Ego, which is free.

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#92

There’s one called bitspeek which is really good. I believe Once Upon a Synth did a review recently

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#93

I have and have loved this plugin (haven’t used it recently) - it doesn’t quite “text to speech” as much as it “speak and spells” your sound. i’m sure if you processed speech with it, you’d get a good result.

absolutely fun tool, you do kind of have to love the sound tho.

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#94

The Plogue Chipspeech plugin is lots of fun. It does more vintage speech synth sounds than the Alter Ego.

Another free one, VST Speek

#95

This may be more trouble than your looking for but I have had great success and lots of fun with the speech synthesis engine of the plaits port in VCV Rack. Super free.

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#96

This might not be what you had in mind but for a powerful sampling plugin have you considered Redux?
https://www.renoise.com/products/redux

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#97

This looks so freaking cool. It seems so powerful that I don’t think I would ever get even a fraction of the value out of it. But it seems like so much fun if you’re up to learn it!

#98

Soundtoys are the plugins that I use the most, and they’re having a great sale right now. Specifically, Echoboy and decapitator are plugins that I’d have a tough time living without.

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#99

I came here looking for potential alternatives to the Octatrack in regard of how I’d like to use it for live-looping/sampling and that might be it ! Thanks for opening my shakras !

#100

I think Geist may be in my future, but I’ve also got a DIY norns on deck so waiting to see if that scratches the itch. That said, does redux let you randomize parameters, particularly sample start? That wasn’t clear to me from the manual.