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stainless:
who's using what?  happy with the sound (as in realistic... )

I've got Komplete 7 and Sampletank 2, plus all the stuff  that comes with Digital Performer (and admittedly i've only used a bit, as I'm lean more towards actual instruments that 'synthesizer), and I have a Yamaha s08 and Korg X3... which have a plethora of strange sounds

Strings-  pretty good, and fairly believable

Keyboards- a little more variations than I have with the Yamaha and the Korg- I do have a Rhodes and a Hammond, so I'd have to say the virtuals are "close", but a Hammonds a Hammond and a Rhodes is a Rhodes and well so it goes

horns... still searching- I got an additional horn package fr for the NI Kontackt, but it's just OK... just ordered the Chris Hein "Compact" which I hope sounds as good as the demos

world instruments... I really don't know what they really sound like....

drums... lots, but as I play with a drummer I like him best

same for bass

being a guitar player... I've never even listened to the guitar patches

How bout you? what's in you tool box?

kip4:
not the best but i use xg
i have a yamaha cs2x
yamaha mu90r (rackmount synth)
and a controller keyboard midiman
and too many free virtual instruments to mention that i never use
the mu90 gets the most use

stainless:
I think we all probably have too many free VI's and VST's we never use... and I'll wager even some we've never used beyond opening, putzing arfound and closing...

I know I have patches I've never listened too... and others that are soe ..."unusual" I have no idea where or how you'd use it in a composition

I bet I could free up some disk space?

gaz7224:
I've got:

Korg M1R
Korg Triton-Rack
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha FB-01
Roland TD6
Roland M-DC1

Cubase comes with a lot of software synths, but I mainly use the hardware Korgs and the TD6.  I use the DX7 as a Midi Controller, but I like the E-Piano in it.  Distorted guitars are generally naff in every synth I've got, but clean guitars are usable for me, and the TD6 has a pretty decent nylon string, but obviously compared to the 'real thing' they sound to processed and too clean.  The FB-01 and DX7 are old synths, but a lot of fun to play with.

I need a decent keyboard for the Live-Room but I'm not sure which one to get, or whether to just get a really decent controller keyboard for the live-room, and just buy a new rack-mount or software synth.  I prefer rack mount synths rather than the keyboard versions, but I guess having all the synths in the control room would make them less accessible to clients, whereas having a keyboard/workstation in the live-room would make it easier for people to flick through sounds on their own.

Not sure how to get midi from live-room to control room.  I was gonna just use midi cables, but they make wireless midi systems now, so might try that.  Wireless always makes me nervous though regarding reliability.

stainless:

--- Quote from: gaz7224 on October 29, 2011, 05:01:55 PM ---I Wireless always makes me nervous though regarding reliability.

--- End quote ---

Then I'd stick to hardwired!

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