chillbot
Sock Muppet
Thought I'd post this here for no good reason. Just as an oddity or as a patch museum for perusal.
I have a very unique/odd template, I think, for a number of reasons:
1) I mix everything out of the box and use a lot of hardware gear.
2) I write purely "production" music, whatever that means (I'm never sure). It means I can't do mockups, I don't even try to sound like a real orch. So my orch section is severely truncated and limited as to what it can do.
3) But, I work very fast.
4) I am asked to write anything and everything from orch to metal to jazz to country or rock to ethnic/world and so I have a little bit of everything in my template.
5) I use Sonar. Still. And Sonar doesn't have nested folders. Still. So even though I own a thousand libraries, I try to keep myself to around 250 tracks max to make it somewhat manageable, with about 70 of those being audio tracks and plugins not listed here (Omni, Stylus, Engine, Zebra, etc). And hardware synths. I'm likely switching to Cubase in the near future.
6) I've had this same template layout for 15+ years now and obviously it's evolved a lot over those years but if there's a patch/library from 20 years ago that I haven't found anything I like better, then I'm still using that ancient and decrepit old patch. And a lot of my workflow is leftover from a slightly different era.
7) Some patches at this point I just can't live without.
8) I have three slaves on which these libraries/patches are permanently hosted. I don't use VEPro in server mode, I use my slaves as external hardware synths. They receive midi and the audio is routed out to my mixers. About once a year I go through my template and tweak and reshape and add new libraries.
EDIT: Need to update this with current spreadsheet (3/23/21)...
I have a very unique/odd template, I think, for a number of reasons:
1) I mix everything out of the box and use a lot of hardware gear.
2) I write purely "production" music, whatever that means (I'm never sure). It means I can't do mockups, I don't even try to sound like a real orch. So my orch section is severely truncated and limited as to what it can do.
3) But, I work very fast.
4) I am asked to write anything and everything from orch to metal to jazz to country or rock to ethnic/world and so I have a little bit of everything in my template.
5) I use Sonar. Still. And Sonar doesn't have nested folders. Still. So even though I own a thousand libraries, I try to keep myself to around 250 tracks max to make it somewhat manageable, with about 70 of those being audio tracks and plugins not listed here (Omni, Stylus, Engine, Zebra, etc). And hardware synths. I'm likely switching to Cubase in the near future.
6) I've had this same template layout for 15+ years now and obviously it's evolved a lot over those years but if there's a patch/library from 20 years ago that I haven't found anything I like better, then I'm still using that ancient and decrepit old patch. And a lot of my workflow is leftover from a slightly different era.
7) Some patches at this point I just can't live without.
8) I have three slaves on which these libraries/patches are permanently hosted. I don't use VEPro in server mode, I use my slaves as external hardware synths. They receive midi and the audio is routed out to my mixers. About once a year I go through my template and tweak and reshape and add new libraries.
EDIT: Need to update this with current spreadsheet (3/23/21)...
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