Upgrade to suite vs buying VST's

[ltlwezboi]

I just bought the educational version of ableton live for cheaper, not realizing that it does not include operator, analog, tension, etc. When i was on the 30 day trial, the only instrument i used was operator and i didn't get a chance to experiment with everything else. I don't know whether or not operator and the other instruments are worth the extra 300-400 i'd have to pay, or if i should just buy another vst for the same price.

1) what do operator, analog, tension, and analog do?
2) Short list of $100-$400 vst's and plugins?
3) your opinion on what's better

THANKS!

[kanuck]

2 questions:
what kind of music do you make?
Will you be playing live?

Generally it's considered that Ableton's instruments are good but there are better. But the advantage of using the native instruments in stability and integration. I for one am not a big synth user and I also plan to use ableton mostly for live work, so i stuck with the Suite instruments. Perhaps down the road when I more into synths i'll pick up Omnisphere or Komplete

[ltlwezboi]

Although ableton is made for live set's, as of now i am more geared towards producing and remixing.
and yes i will eventually be playing live


::EDIT::
I make house/dance/dubsteppy(so a wobble bass is needed)/trance/progressive house music.

[bosonHavoc]

i think operator and sampler alone make suite worth the upgrade

o ya and don't you get max4live for free if you upgrade to suite right now?

[eddiex]

i think operator and sampler alone make suite worth the upgrade

o ya and don't you get max4live for free if you upgrade to suite right now?

totally agree operator and sampler definitely make upgrading worth it!!

[ltlwezboi]

So in comparison to other synths, is operator good? I don't know the difference

[AceLuby]

So in comparison to other synths, is operator good? I don't know the difference

Operator is a great synth and very low CPU. It was the first synth that I learned and has helped me understand synthesis. You can get some crazy stuff just out of operators, instrument racks, and live effects.

[eddiex]

So in comparison to other synths, is operator good? I don't know the difference

Operator is a great synth and very low CPU. It was the first synth that I learned and has helped me understand synthesis. You can get some crazy stuff just out of operators, instrument racks, and live effects.

yeah me too("first synth that i learned and has helped me understand synthesis").....if you do upgrade make sure you buy "nicks tutorials" for 15 bucks on operator......pretty awesome.....helped me a lot

[amonaco]

decisions decisions. i hate that... I need to test my plugins on my new PC to see how bad they are. they could get pretty bad on my old one

[ltlwezboi]

Maybe i should get suite, and then get NI's Massive? sigh this is difficult. =/

[kanuck]

Maybe i should get suite, and then get NI's Massive? sigh this is difficult. =/

get them all
start with suite.. save up and find a good deal on komplete. I don't have komplete but i believe there's no physical modeling synths in the package. Although you might be able to build one with reaktor since it's so modular..

[ltlwezboi]

i think i'm gonna get suit within the next few days cause i also realized that the instruments conserve cpu as well haha