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Originally Posted by MBTC
Know what you mean on over abundance of synths and sounds. Now all I need is time to learn in depth all the stuff I have. I will say Padshop is a very different kind of beast from Absynth. But like you said it would mostly be of interest to folks that were planning on using that type of sound often.
Although sometimes I think I'm already well into over-kill, there are a couple of positives to having an insanely rich palette of soft-synths to choose from: (1) acquiring a new software synth is cheap and the newness of it is inspiring. It scratches that "new audio toy" itch without spending lots more on an expensive hardware board that tends to be less flexible, takes up space / creates eronomic/logistics issues, and ends up getting ebay'ed in a few years to make room for something else. Not overspending on hard gear saves me a ton of money. (2) Having lots of tools in the toolbox in theory guarantees a certain level of uniqueness to your tracks. If I owned nother but a Virus, a Prophet, and a Moog, at some point, *without a lot of programming effort* (operative concept), all my music would likely start to sound like it came from those three keyboards. With a crap load of softsynths at my fingertips, that sort of profiling or creature of habit syndrome is never a problem.
Downside is of course the tendancy to not get deep enough into each synth to do it justice. I'd say that's where I am currently, and working to remedy that.
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The trouble is you can get too bogged down into things & never make any music. I'm more of a sampler guy than a synth guy because with sampling there aren't really very many limits anymore. I can get just as inspired by a 2 bar phrase from some old vinyl I just bought from the salvation army store for a dollar than I can get from a very over priced hardware synth
The main theme for this track for instance was ripped from an MP3 I got off amazon for 99c. You really dont need virus's, moog's, prophets etc. if you are only composing. Playing live then you need to show some rack & have the stability but in the studio, not so much. Just my 2c
