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I'm a long time stand fan. I remember when I got my first pair of lead filled targets and blue-tacked a set of speakers to them.

What a difference.

The Eiosis vocoder does quite a nice cylon impersonation. But it's a little pricey at $280 dollars. Still a lot cheaper than the vocoder it's based on--the EMS 5000 @ $25,000.

I'm a big fan of anything Bose makes, super comfy and sounds great. probably not what most people would recommend but then again i wouldn't recommend mixing on headphones anyway.

but if you're gonna, I'd use Bose.
Man, I gotta chime in on that, google for "Bose sucks" and learn why.

"Bose ...

The slicer in fl studio is based on zero-x's beatcreator. Its similar to recycle in that it's a standalone slicer/dicer.

But its also kind of nifty.

Korg Legacy Collection

Zebra 2

Virsyn Tera 3

Fabfilter Twin (va)

Hmmm.

Do they have to be in wave format or can you do with SF2?

EMU/Creative had a disk of useful samples for a pretty good price. 500 sounds for $19 or something like that here.

Of course to use them you need a sample player that can load soundfonts or a sample conversion program.

They've missed the mark if they're targeting the gay market. The last time I saw one used live was at a friend's traditional heterosexual Chinese wedding. I can vaguely remember a song about a gift of a Chicken.

Have you tried energyXT? (win only)

It's the swiss army knife of hosts that can run in live as a vsti.

One of its features is an arpeggiator that is actually a transposable step sequencer that can trigger vst instruments inside of energyXT.

Efx,

Stereo Room 2016 reverb
Voxengo Elephant
Voxengo voxformer
Voxengo Analogflux Suite
Fabfilter volcano
PSP Nitro
Anything tbt

Synths:

Tera2
Fabfilter One
Filterscape
(Zebra is coming)
Xphraze

This may be overkill, however...

Art Vista Grand

If you are in the US, Guitar Center has a great deal on the AMT8 from Emapple. 8x8 usb--so it works with latest pcs/macs. $149

I have a unitor8 mk1 and love it...but its serial only.

About the only thing you give up with the AMT is smpte sync.

camelphat and camelspace are a couple of plugs you should check out for some nice mangling possibilities.

E-FX modulator too.

Imposcar is great for $99.

Virsyn Tera 2 can get very hard and nasty in really good ways.

Filterscape is really good...but you might want to wait for U-He's Zebra2.

Reaktor...well, a man could get lost.

ConcreteFX's Kubik, worth checking out.

Can non USA people log into Emusic?

Emusic is a subscription based mp3 service that has a trove of Indian film music on it from the lable Saregama/The Orchard.

They have an offer for new subcribers that lets you sign up for a month and download 40 mp3s. If you cancel, you get to keep the mp3s ...

Wouldn't stomper be great for generating drum sounds to load into impulse?

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/stomper/whatisit.html