Members steveg Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Hi Craig, I started reading your articles and books back when you had to wait a month for the US Mail to arrive to get them! Always been a big fan from GP, EM, etc. and really appreciate your many contributions over the years. I have a question that I would appreciate your input on. I am an accomplished guitarist/composer and experienced recording engineer (day job is computer consulting). I just purchased a 24" iMac and am working on buidling my new personal studio. I am coming from a Windows system with a MOTU 896 and Vegas software. I would like to have an integrated environment, i.e. LOGIC, where I can do Audio, MIDI and notation together (Loops, etc are a plus) and am leaning toward using a software sythesizer for keyboard and guitar synth triggers. Having worked in many complex environments and I am really wanting something that is well integrated, intuitive and repeatable. While I love hardware synths and outboard gear, I want this system to be all about composing and tracking- hit the red light and go! For example, I took the iMac out of the box and three hours later had already completed a many layered acoustic guitar recording with Garage Band- that is a very good thing and I want to extend that simplcity into a more professional software setup. Can you recommend what might be a good software synth with the following hints: Love old style analog stuff, owned a Memory Moog for years ( love to tweak). Need solid and practical strings, piano, horns, drums etc. for composition w/o tweaking I want this to all be fully professional sounding, but very well contained. I have an extensive traditional guitar rig as well and if the computer based modelling bears out, this could also become a live rig (moved onto a laptop model). Thoughts on Logic versus other studio software? Any feedback is appreciated! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 What software synths are you interested in so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steveg Posted December 28, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 I have looked at the websites extensively for Sonik Synth2 ( http://www.soniksynth.com/Main.html?prod_SS&requirements ) and Native Instruments ( http://www.native-instruments.com ) I like the demo sounds of SonikSynth, but it appears to be more of a sample player, not quite sure if you can really "program" the analog type stuff I didn't like the sounds of the Native Instruments demos, but I like the way the tool kit appears to work, i.e. a true sound design envirnoment. Hardware wise I like old analog synths, Triton, Motif, Radias but don't want to deal with external hardware and moving sounds/tracks between devices Any other options or input is welcome! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steveg Posted December 29, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 29, 2006 Anyone have a favorite overall software synth? Any opinions on LOGIC for Mac OSX compared to other similar packages?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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