Sorry for being selfish here. we can collab boi? can't we? no ?

 

Spitfire Audio

Big libraries, good sounding but I have never used one of them for a real project. Orchestral tools or Metropolis series are more than enough.

 

whats youre record in using LFO#S ...i read it has 500...

only for scoring or real orchestral composer..imho
but they have also few small ones...scary strings when i remember right..

 

KungPaoFist you would get along with reaktor 6 new block view for modular too...
or again just use the razor,spark,polyplex like stuff

 

fullbucket

 

Ableton Live. Everytime I look at a picture of the GUI my brain doesn't make sense of it at all, it looks weird, so I can't (immediately) understand why people say it has a good workflow. Look, there are too many possible reasons why people like or dislike things and first impressions are very hard to change.

 

I doubt I've cracked 100 LFOs in a poly patch, I could if I wanted for sure but that means pretty little to me.

 

Same here. I think it has something to do with the way they sampled those synths, they sound very dirty and no EQ magic can really help there. They do not sit well in a mix. Their early versions years ago were a lot cleaner sounding and also lighter for the cpu.
The other reason is many of their sampled synths occupy a big chunk of the frequency spectrum, natural for real synths as well so you can quickly run out of "space" for maneuvering. Adding two very harmonically rich synths can already be too much for them to compete for space and the more you start to mangle the frequencies the more problems you can have, your mix might sound unnatural.

 

I get ya, Live kind of works on two levels and not everybody sees it the way they've designed the software. I personally use it one way that works for me, but I understand that not everybody is "in tune" with the developers.

 

Serum...

I think it must be related with the type of music you do. Omnisphere has some amazing third party libraries. It's one of my favs. I have some tracks with 6, even 10 instances of it.

 

Pro Tools
I know people hate P.T but it's really comfortable and efficient to me.

 

That's exactly what I remember saying after trying to force myself to use Logic for 6 months. I'd even bought a Mac because I assumed it would be an awesome DAW because that's what "all the pro's use". I began to really hate Logic but then bought Studio One where the workflow feels "Logical" to me and stuck with that.

 

Any software that's described as 'built from the ground up', 'cutting edge', 'going forward' or any number of bollocking wankprase nonsensical meaninglessisms... a bit like that sentence there.
obviously, once I've found out what the software actually does, despite the verbiage, I'll use it if it's useful.

 

Serum, nice synth, never used it though.
Arturia, nice to look at but again, never used.
Hardware, Alesis Ion in the cupboard for 10 years.

 

The DAW I've never rly got is Pro Tools. And by "got" I mean not feel completely disgusted by. It's (in retrospect) illogical cos everyone and their dog uses it and I prolly should join teh hype train from 1992, but it's the fact that it's green (!) (prolly just an impression) and that you have to drag instruments from a mixer that annoys me so much I can't use it. (I'm a bit annoyed by Reaper thinking everything is "FX", but not so much that I wanna wildly close it if I accidentally open it.) Bitwig because you can't (AFAIK) use Kontakt or Omni or Independence, which I guess feels a bit moar logical.

 

Why so hate on serum and sylenth? I hate those old Nexus 2 cracked expansions. The leads all sound so similar and on top of that is the horrible delay and reverb which is like on every preset. Some presets are good tho but they all sound stolen sylenth presets.
Pro tools more like pro errors, haha. I never read much good about it.
And this plugin called Movement by Output. It manages to f... up my CPU in a single instance on an almost empty project.

 

And the long awaited Ample Guitar 12. I have a very old 15 mb Kontakt 12 strings from Spectrasonics that sounds far better without the fancy gui.

 

And I was so sorry for not buying am Alesis Ion when they appeared.

 

I know I'm going to get heckled for this, but Kontakt! I fucking hate Kontakt!

 

@MarkSlater somewhat off topic, but its a synth I know I should love, but dont..... cant put my fingers on exactly why, but... its in the same boat as serum in my mind.