Cubase Essential 5...

TelePaul

...is available as a cross-grade/upgrade/whatever from SE3. Since buying those IK plugs, I've been thinking about my DAW and the software aspect of the music chain. Does anybody have any info on the Halion player that it comes with? Would I be better off buying a stand-alone sampler like Kontakt or something similar? I like the idea of bringing in a few synths over acoustics/electrics.

Quiggers

stick with se3, se5 doesn't offer much for the money and there are plenty of free sample playback vsts, cmplay, ni kore player, e-mu have the proteus modules as a free vst now too,
also buy a copy of computer music, its full of free vst's and samples,
next issue is out at the end of the week, i've never bought a sample cd or a soft sampler, that mag gives me more than i need for less than €10 a month.

As for cubase, its only the full version that includes the tuning tools and the halon player is the same as ni kore player, so why spend money on it?

And if you want synths, then its a soft synth you need, again i'm gonna plug the CM disc, it comes with a synth called dominator which is my go to synth, also cutdown versions of alpha and zebra which are well respected softsynths in the dance world.

TelePaul

Quiggers wrote: »

stick with se3, se5 doesn't offer much for the money and there are plenty of free sample playback vsts, cmplay, ni kore player, e-mu have the proteus modules as a free vst now too,
also buy a copy of computer music, its full of free vst's and samples,
next issue is out at the end of the week, i've never bought a sample cd or a soft sampler, that mag gives me more than i need for less than €10 a month.

As for cubase, its only the full version that includes the tuning tools and the halon player is the same as ni kore player, so why spend money on it?

And if you want synths, then its a soft synth you need, again i'm gonna plug the CM disc, it comes with a synth called dominator which is my go to synth, also cutdown versions of alpha and zebra which are well respected softsynths in the dance world.

Thanks for all that. What you're saying is that I'd be better with a free host and a sample library built from magazine dvds? The problem I had last time was that one of the DVDs I got needed Kontakt to play almost everything.

Quiggers

what i was saying was that cubase se5 isnt that different to cubase se3, so i wouldn't change my host.

Music Tech mag often bundles kontakt samples, generally you need the newest version too, so i dont get that mag, I buy computer music and future music, they give the samples as audio files that you can load into any sampler, including the free samplers on the computer music disc.

Like i said, for €10 its worth a go, if your still stuck in 6months then maybe look at upgrading your software.

Maybe i'm looking at this the wrong way round, is there a specific task you want to do that cubase se3 cannot do?

TelePaul

Quiggers wrote: »

Maybe i'm looking at this the wrong way round, is there a specific task you want to do that cubase se3 cannot do?

No I think you're spot on. With the exception of upgrading to more than four simultaneous inputs, I was just looking to exploit the electronic side of things a bit more...synths, samples, strings, that sort of thing.

TelePaul

Sorry to bother you again - and your advice was spot on, got Kore Player and it's exactly what I was after - but it's possible to use numerous patches from the one instance of Kore? Or do I have to load Kore as a VST instrument every time I want a new patch?