VST Plug-Ins

[Suzy]

Does anyone on here use them?  If so, what are your favorite ones?  I especially like free ones, either VST or VSTi.  If interested, I use Cubase 4, Sonar 8, SoundForge, Acid, and Reason.  I think the Blueline effects are really cool.  They do their job well, are simple, and free!

Kristi

[tekla]

Nah, I just use my digitech but I'm not doing it for real anyway.  Most of the industry people seem addicted to ProTools which takes VST plug-ins, but I never ask as I'm bored the instant I know they brought a computer instead of real musicians.

[Suzy]

Well I have a couple of my own CDs plus I have recorded and mastered seven projects for others so far.  But mostly a hobby.  These are primarily mixdown tools.  If you look at ProTools or any of the others, they are so much the same any more, it just depends on what you are comfortable with.  Unless you are doing things that IMHO should be done by live players, there is not a dime's worth of difference in capabilities.  Just find the interface that works best for you.  They all use VST.

Which Digitech do you have?  I have used their stuff back since the days of the RP-7.   FWIW, I have an M-Audio Delta 1010, and a Presonus Firestudio Project.  With both in the rack it just depends on if I want to use a mixer first or use the built in pres that are in the Firestudio.

Kristi

[tekla]

I have an RP-50 which was given to me, (more liked tossed at me by a VFGP - very famous guitar player - saying it was junk) when it came out.  The delay is such that it will not work for live stuff well (later models seems to have fixed that somewhat) but for the crappy way I play in my bedroom, or adding a little bit of hugely distorted guitar though a Marshall Stack, with reverb to me and my friends playing Michael Row the Boat Ashore, it seems to be good enough.