Throughout my time as a music producer, I’ve tried countless plugins. It isn’t just a vst sampler, it can be any sound you want it to. But the huge quantity of sample packs makes this an infinite universe of instruments. Not only is the plugin itself fantastic – a state-of-the-art sampler. For any music producer, Kontakt is an essential tool. This is one of the largest and most powerful plugins and sample libraries around.
I tested 20 products and found Native Instruments Kontakt to be the best. This is great because it opens up access to the wider community, but it also means that there are some terrible, amateur-quality plugins on the market. Thanks to developments in technology, creating VSTs is relatively easy, and has become a process available to anyone with an interest in music and some computer literacy.
The issue with this is that the VST market is saturated, there are so many plugins that do the same thing, it can be hard to choose the right one for your needs. For any sound or music-related tasks, you can guarantee there’s a VST. These days, there’s a VST (virtual studio technology) for pretty much everything. Also, when using the stand alone as an editor and replacing the audio, the changes take effect immediately and I don't have to render the project to hear if I got it exactly the way I want it to sound.VST Plugins, love them or hate them, are one of the most important tools available to the modern music producer and help speed up the production process. It takes forever to load Melodyne's 64bit plug-in, it seems. The main reason I use the stand alone as an editor, is that I don't have to wait for the plug-in to load every time I open up whatever project I'm working on. When you buy the 'Essential' version, you get the stand alone and the plug-in.
How to use melodyne 3 as a vst how to#
(Kenny Goia explaining how to use an external editor).Īnd does this only work with standalone Melodyne because, as far as I know, I only have the plugin (set to buy the essential version tomorrow when my trial period ends)? That looks a bit complicated to me, especially as my "Russian" is non-existent. Thank you in advance for any advice you have to offer before I buy the plug-in. Is there a way of freezing the tracks containing Melodyne to make them "lighter".Īs far as I can see I am not using any of the sophisticated features of Melodyne but what things am I likely to miss when I am left with the bare-bones essential version? Can I still edit the vocal and back-up vocal in the same window, for example? Is quantization still available. Secondly, Melodyne takes up a lot of energy, does anyone having any tips on how to minimise energy consumption? Is all the editing I do with Melodyne (pitch tuning, stretching/shortening notes, copying/pasting notes, quantizing, formant,…) retained in Reaper? I mean, do I have to do anything else to incorporate all the changes into the Reaper project ready for rendering? If I use Reatune, everything is retained in Reaper unless I bypass Reatune for some reason. I intend to buy the essential (cheapest) version.Ī few questions to you more knowledgeable folks, if you do not mind. I have been trying out the 30-day trial version of Reaper and am quite pleased with the plug-in so far.