Live and soft-synths?

Simon Lewin · Post by **Simon Lewin** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:19 am

I'm interested in getting a copy of Live 4 - I've downloaded the demo and I'm very impressed.

Before I purchase, I just wanted to double check how it works with soft-synths. Can these be used without using Reason/ReWire?

I don't have any soft-synths yet (Live will be my first song-writing set up) but just wanted to check how easy they are to incorporate.

Sorry if this is a rather basic question!

Many thanks,

Simon

beachnote · Post by **beachnote** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:37 am

you can use any soft-synth that uses the vst standard - which is pretty much all of them.

and yes, they can be used without reason. as a matter of fact, reason is similiar to live with some soft-synths built into it, and it does not support vst intruments (soft-synths) like live does.

in other words, live is better. cause it can use any vst instrument or effect, and it can even use reason as a slave and give you access to the soft-synths within reason. eeehhh, if that makes any reasonable sense.

peace

majestic · Post by **majestic** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:49 am

beachnote wrote:you can use any soft-synth that uses the vst standard - which is pretty much all of them.

And it also supports AU, so you can use those few "AU-only" instruments as well. In other words, you'll have a very wide range of soft-synths to choose from.

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:09 am

this is even a more basic question
in live demo there is simpler and impulse.
as i am totally ignorant can some clarify this for me.
impulse and simplier are these soft synths?
i like live but the sound coming out of these is pretty cruddy and low quality
i have seen program like digital performer that have a thing called mach5 which seems to be a soft synth and has great quality.
can i add more of these "things" like simpler and ones with better quality to live ?
if so how and what do people recommend

remember i did warn you that thios was a pretty basic dumb question but hey I have to start somewhere..

cheers

beachnote wrote:you can use any soft-synth that uses the vst standard - which is pretty much all of them.

and yes, they can be used without reason. as a matter of fact, reason is similiar to live with some soft-synths built into it, and it does not support vst intruments (soft-synths) like live does.

in other words, live is better. cause it can use any vst instrument or effect, and it can even use reason as a slave and give you access to the soft-synths within reason. eeehhh, if that makes any reasonable sense.

peace

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:45 am

A few freebies are Synth 1 / Superwave8 /Crystal / PolyIblit / Motion 2.8 etc etc ....
Then there's all the Native Instruments collection ,Absynth ,Albino ,Cube ,Tera etc etc and the Moog Modular V and so on and so forth (not cheap but superb none the less).
All more than capable and really don't dis the simpler and impulse machines until you've started chopping up and chucking you're own source material into them.
Both come in dead handy trust me

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Live and soft-synths?

Live and soft-synths?

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