After everyday lot's of questions online & offline, here are some usefull tips which will help you to orintate in world of music production. 1.What is the best synth for musical production? There is no such.Every synth having its own character and timbre. Try different synth engines,be patient & you'll find what suits you the best by profit,sound & structure! 2.What can you advise @ the begining? Try machines with simple subtractive synthesis - Novation V Station suits good for beginners to understand main principles of synth structure! 3.What can you advise for more experienced users? Maybe it's time to look for hardware synths? Or try Arturia Moog Modular,ARP 2600,Yamaha CS-80 - one of the best sounding vsti ever with complex system & heaven for soundesigners! Also they are history - Jarre,Schulze,Tangerine Dream played on them,don't hestiate to tuch a history ;) 4.The most seriously sounding virtual instrument? There are couple of such,but it is still question of taste: try Arturia products,Spectrasonics-Trilogy,Omnisphere,Native Instruments-Absynth,Massive,Korg Legacy Collection - they are good! 5.Is there vsti instruments which are sounds exacly like their hardware prototypes? In Fact -NO! There are lot of synths: V-Station,Minimonsta,Pro53 etc which are emulating hardware guys,but they sounds not the same - near,but computer processor cannot build all warmness,deepness of hardware gear. 6.Where can I find this vsti synths? Simple.Around the web on huge tones of resources.The best is audionews.ru Register your account 7.Best virtual fx processors? Over years I've grown up from platform to platform & find waves one of the most usefull,complex & powerfull 8.Where can I learn technics? Web is magical instrument for find anything you need.It's more question of advise. 9.Where can I find money for buy gear? Well,you can end to smoke & drink beer! It will save 1000$ every year - seriously! 10.Where can I find inspiration? In other words I call it "Magic". 11.Which sound card I need? The most popular question ;)) 12.Promotion? Myspace.com - is the best platform for musicians for now,also share music,releasing music, perform live acts, 13.Education SoundDesign,mixing,arrange etc are the most important questions,but also not less improtant to know notes,how harmony builds & can play on anything (keyboard,guitar,vargan,pot;))) 14.Hardware synths? You can buy used gear on ebay.com as I done! Also older Viruses a,b,c, Novation K-Station,A-Station,Supernova,Nova are very good & universal! You can buy one of this synths,for lats say, 300-500$ on ebay.com depends on luck,your country & shipping payments.It's not so expensive & will extend your musical mind. 15.Best Studio Monitors? I spend years before I find speakers which I really like! Onboard presets are always a good starting point,but not a final result.I'm talking about both - fx & synths. |
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