Vst's to get started

[The Egghead]

What ones would people recommend?
So far i've got korg legacy, purity,edirol orchestral and a few others.
Used to produce back in the day but left it for ages, getting back on it now tho.

[Demos]

albino
battery 3
hypersonic (if ur on pc)
predator

[Grimes]

nokia 3310

[Reference]

nokia 3310

you get bare analog bassline sounds from them things

errm try find a working copy of native instruments massive,
korg legacy,
3x0sc (already on fruity)
albino 3
blue
edirol orchestral, or eastwest gold (someones gonna need a rapidshare for that!)

[Lord Justice]

Where abouts would I be able to get these VST's for FL Studio?

Would be great if someone could let us know, really want to get on with producing something of some sort of "quality"

['nuum general]

Use the Vsts that come with fruity to start with & learn how to get the most from them first. Then maybe move on to something more complex. Sytrus is pretty versatile & 3x Osc is not bad for bass sounds

[Lord Justice]

I'm liking sytrus, but it's just not the sounds that i'm looking for. Any links to where I can get these other VST's?

[Deset]

Yeah starting off with sytrus is the best way forward...

Vsts i would reccomend are:
EWQL Gold & Edirol Orchestral - For the strings
EWQL Choirs + Word Builder - Type anything and a choir will sing it for you!
Nexus 1.0.9 + Expansion Packs - Comes with good bass and strings
Dimension Pro - Good all rounder that has bass, leads, strings, drum kits, etc
Hypersonic - Good leads and bass's (and is a cunt to install)
Edirol Hypercanvas - Very old but use it for the SFX it has
NI Massive - Good bass presets for lazy people like me
EastWest Stromdrumz - High quality drumkits of all sorts and sound effects

['nuum general]

I'm liking sytrus, but it's just not the sounds that i'm looking for. Any links to where I can get these other VST's?

If you learn to use it I'm pretty sure its capable of making most sounds

[Deset]

If you learn to use it I'm pretty sure its capable of making most sounds

Yeah thats true... takes a while to figure out what does what and alot of trial and error to get good sounds

['nuum general]

Yeah thats true... takes a while to figure out what does what and alot of trial and error to get good sounds

It seems long to begin with but learning how to create sounds pays off as you don't need to waste time trawling through presets

[Lord Justice]

Thanks people. Just working on something at the moment on FL Studio using the sytrus stuff. It's good stuff, but like you say you've got to learn how to use it. I'm really new to this, i started fooling around on FL Studio around christmas time. Think i'm slowly progressing, finally got a midi cable for my old keyboard I have so I can slowly improve on my melodies.

Now to my point, drumkits. I need help developing a drum kit. I'm terible at this part as it just sound like the same sound just being repeated. any tips on creating the drums? and the hats too?

[Jammie Dodger]

Massive does it great tbh.

['nuum general]

Now to my point, drumkits. I need help developing a drum kit. I'm terible at this part as it just sound like the same sound just being repeated. any tips on creating the drums? and the hats too?

Quantization is what you need to do. With drums I find its a case of listening to stuff & hearing how people arrange them. Layer your drums as well to give them a thicker sound

[Deset]

google up wav drumkit samples

heres some i used to use:
http://www.breakbeat-paradise.com/
www.warbeats.com

When i started i just basicly reproduced other peoples beats just to get myelf familiar with the style then messed around adding extra hats and snares.

[Deset]

Quantization is what you need to do. With drums I find its a case of listening to stuff & hearing how people arrange them. Layer your drums as well to give them a thicker sound

This

[Steez]

EastWest Stromdrumz - High quality drumkits of all sorts and sound effects
Them Dr. Dre drums :evilgrin:

[DJ Watson]

Albino 3 is what i use!!!
To me i think thats the best one out there

[slumdog]

i downloaded some vst's now my logic 8 aint working awa dat man

[critic of musical arts]

i downloaded some vst's now my logic 8 aint working awa dat man

happened to me aswell fucked up my logic 8, i just went back to FL on pc, cos i can't be bothered to spend pure p's on vsts at the moment i'm not serious enough

[croydonbeats]

It's really worth finding an ultra-simple analog-style VST synth - 2 oscillators, 1 LFO, filter, couple of envelopes... and then really playing with it until you know how oscillators and filters and envelopes really work: until you can start to know how to get a particular (simple, mayby not very contemporary-sounding) sound out of the synth.

The reason for that is, software samplers like Kontakt, recent VST synths like Massive... 90% of them still use similar concepts: oscillators (or sampler modules) make a sound, envelopes shape various parameters in time, LFOs wobble things in and out, filters chop out different frequencies...

I found that, knowing how to program analog synths, I could get some quite tasty (although also simple) sounds out of the Fruity 3-osc... then I'd stick that through a couple of FX (distortion's a good place to start, does Fruity still have Blood Overdrive?) and usually I could get a bassline going that way. Also, it helped when I came to learn Reaktor, which is just about my only VST instrument now...

Mags like Computer Music keep giving away collections of VST instruments at the moment. No idea what the quality's like but I bet there's some fun to be had there?

[hard2thecore]

Most vst presets are shit to be honest and any producer will recognise the sound unless its original. You can use any to make your own sound though just tweak the fucker add FX.

I use 1 called nexus at the min with cubase but cant get it to work in FL

[Deset]

u cant get nexus to work on fl???!.. its the main one i use on there.. when you have all the expansion packs you wont need any other vst

[TempahProductions]

dont worry about all the plugins listed i have them all and its better to learn to use the ones u have make ur own sounds learn about lfos waveforms just start with one at a time and build ir plugins as u go along fam

[HiTMAN22Productions]

Hypersonic 2
predator
albino 3
orchestral
trilogy (for bass)
plugsounds (bare bait doe)

[brokenkeyz]

styrus, 3osc

[daspecimen]

following on from what croyden beats wrote, i found that the vsts provided with computer music more than serve a purpose.

They aren't supposed to rival commercial software but for freeware some of it is pretty bloody good. Im particularly fond of CMplay and Hutkins CM.

I personally found that when starting out limiting yourself to a few vsts was far more beneficial than flooding my machine with loads of top quality vsts I never explored past the presets.

[SRC411]

Native instruments have this vst up for free kore player, comes with 300mb of presets & u can buy more.

http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=koreplayer

I think you need to register with them to get it. and they send the serial to your email.