DAWs, Synths and VSTs

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Man, I lost so many VSTs. I've really wanted to get a good Cable Guys VST or a better Piano One VST. But its been hard and I don't wanna shell out the $300+ I've had to pay in the past for a good VST. Ableton has some okay ones for free. Their drum pads are shit mostly.
 
Heres a question.
Is there a decent comb filter plugin for linux?

I have calf plugins but I dont think it has a comb filter
 
Turd Cow said:
Is there a decent comb filter plugin for linux?
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(ED: On closer inspection it looks like you can't install Audio Units plugins on Linux, my bad)

You could just try setting up your own, a comb filter is essentially a very short, tuned, delay, so just as an example you could duplicate the track, insert a delay plugin on one of them and tweak the delay time and feedback until you get a pleasing result.. There are other more elegant ways you could do it depending on your needs and workflow eg: inserting a delay with a wet/dry mix on the original, using an aux etc.
 
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The Bovinian Derivative said:
The meme in the synthwave community is that you pirate your FL Studio until you get enough money from your first release to actually buy it. It comes bundled with the Harmless plugin that can be tweaked to make decent synth sounds.

There's a free VST called Synth1 that can potentially do anything, but It's not something I'd recommend to those starting out, just look at it. Dexed is also something people recommend for synthwave stuff, but I personally never tried it. Most other synthwave VSTs people use are proprietary and can potentially cost a kidney.
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nobody making synthwave will ever make money off their music
 
why the fuck wont Carla recognise my Windows VSTs on Mint or Arch REEEEEEE
 
I've been enjoying the drum vsts from Ugritone. The stuff is geared towards the punk/metal side of things, so may not be especially suitable for electronic music, but they provide a reasonably natural and authentic sound for what they're designed for
 
instythot said:
I've been enjoying the drum vsts from Ugritone. The stuff is geared towards the punk/metal side of things, so may not be especially suitable for electronic music, but they provide a reasonably natural and authentic sound for what they're designed for
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Nice bit of variation as well is always welcome. I think the deluge of deathcore and metalcore bands in the last 15 years using DFH was getting daft.
 
How much CPU do DAWs typically use? I have Ryzen 3600 and 16 GB of RAM and I wanna know if that's enough.
 
DAWs themselves tend to have very small resource footprints, it's the plugins that will push your rig and what plugins you use depends on what you're doing.

Samplers and synths are very easy on the CPU and RAM, though the more sophisticated samplers need an SSD ideally to load samples quickly. Things like amp sims and convolution reverbs really tax the CPU.

That said, I used a similar setup to the one you quoted to mix several commercial albums in Reaper with up to a hundred audio tracks with all sorts of plugins and real-time processing and it worked, so you should be fine for most uses.
 
Spunt said:
DAWs themselves tend to have very small resource footprints, it's the plugins that will push your rig and what plugins you use depends on what you're doing.

Samplers and synths are very easy on the CPU and RAM, though the more sophisticated samplers need an SSD ideally to load samples quickly. Things like amp sims and convolution reverbs really tax the CPU.

That said, I used a similar setup to the one you quoted to mix several commercial albums in Reaper with up to a hundred audio tracks with all sorts of plugins and real-time processing and it worked, so you should be fine for most uses.
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The most demanding sample libraries are orchestral libraries like VSL, Spitfire, EWQLSO, etc. There’s a reason why my rig has 128 gigs of RAM. Back in the old days, composers used to keep a Power Mac G5 running in the closet with samples loaded into RAM at all times, slaved to their actual composing rig using a client-server arrangement in something like Vienna Ensemble Pro. Modern RAM and SSDs have rendered this method almost completely pointless. The DAW host rig itself can be powerful enough to run everything and load it up very quickly.

Certain arrangements of plugins can be demanding enough on the CPU to lead to buffer underruns. If someone’s doing some chiptune thing, the CPU load will be tiny, but if they’re using multiple layers of mastering plugins, EQs, softsynths and samplers and all that running simultaneously, it certainly helps to have a Threadripper.
 
Sometimes I think about doing a cover of Montlygon - It's Happening for a bit of fun.
Anyone wanna suggest some good TTS tools I should try for the main vocal?
 
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