Drumroll please.....For my main system, I settled on Native Instrument's Komplete 5 bundle & their Kore 2 controller. This was a GREAT deal! Some of the pieces or instruments in this bundle could have cost half the purchase price of the entire set if I bought them separately (others would have cost a quarter of the price). As it was, for just under 10 bills, I got:
- Reaktor for some really big synths--and for the ability to design custom instruments
- Battery for a kick-butt drum sampler
- Kontakt for a great general midi instrument collection AND great industry standard sampler
- Guitar Rig 3 for great guitar efx
- Pro 53 for some vintage synths based on Prophet 5
- Elektrik Piano (self explanatory)
- B4II - for that Hammond sound
- Akoustik Piano --let me just say that as a pianist, having a Bosendorfer, Bechstein, & other great pianos at my disposal is really keen
- Massive for wavetable synthesis
- FM8 for FM synthesis (think Yamaha DX 7--I used to Drool over this when I was in school)
- And Kore 2; Kore 2 is really neat--it's a touch responsive hardware controller that's been designed to connect with their Kore 2 instrument, which comes bundled with a great set of synths & sounds and allows for sound variations controllable at the touch of a fader.
...but, I still plan to use Reason (as I have been) through Cubase (via Rewire technology) for the stuff that it can handle really well.
...but it's just one tool in the proverbial toolbox now.
Neat Stuff.
And, now Second drumroll, please, what else?
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