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Man, I've said it before because I was involved in
starting one of these theads a while back while debating whether to move to the
laptop, but I'll say it again because I love saying it, but a VST host and a key
set of VST effects will $#@!*&#@ your sound up more than anything I can
think of for a fraction of the price of multiple equivalent hardware
units.
Example: EnergyXT VST Host - http://www.xt-hq.com/ - $50
Mangling VST effects:
Lexicon PSP42 - http://www.pspaudioware.com/indexen.html?url=http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/psp42.html; -
$150 (though you can get 42 and 84 for a package deal of $
Lexicon PSP84 - http://www.pspaudioware.com/indexen.html?url=http://www.pspaudioware.com/plugins/psp84.html; -
$150
Cycling '74 Pluggo Suite (some amazing mangling
effects in this) - http://shopping.netsuite.com/cycling74 $200
Antares Filter: http://www.antarestech.com/products/filter.html -
$200
MHC Space Effect 2.0 - http://www.mhc.se/software/plugins/spaceeffect/ -
$100
Mathons Chopitch - http://www.mathons.com/chopitch.htm -
$30 (a steal for what this does)
TOTAL: $880 + let's say $1500 for a
notebook = $2380 (or heck, run all this on the muse
receptor)
This is the best $880 I've ever spent on effects
for mangling my guitar. I've only tapped the surface using the above effects,
and not even close to tapping the possibibilities of layering effects, or
putting in series. It is mind boggling. What are you going to buy for $880
in a hardware unit that will do what the above does? My VF1? Not even close. An
Eventide? Maybe, but there are still gaps, and the Eventide is still
outrageously expensive. Someone name one hardware unit for a similar
price that will do what all the above will do on a notebook. Name it
and I'll buy it.
And you can mangle your sound in realtime using a
MIDI contoller hooked up to your notebook via a MIDI interface...or do it
manually with your mouse like me (which is easier if you are looping). I'd
love to try a tablet PC and do it with my fingers.
Now, know this requires moving to a notebook for
effects, but what the heck...it was VERY easy to setup the above on my system. I
could buy a new notebook and migrate my VST system to the new unit in less than
an hour, re-installing programs and just copying over my config files...no
problem.
Kris
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