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Thanks for the comment (and the compliment..!). We'll see what can be done. Please understand, however, that any 'customisation' of the Forum has a high penalty associated with future updates, and the policy is always to limit this as far as is reasonable. Thanks in advance for your comprehension.

Good morning, BBBB, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good afternoon, Stu , and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Pedro, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Spoil-sport. And, to be fair, he was warned, you know..!

+1 for this ^^. Kontakt is my most-used Vst, and covers enormous swathes of ground. Well worth acquiring (I bought my Full license from a BC Marketplace ad...) My thumb is up for Spitfire, too.

A start indeed it is, young Padawan.

Here's a starter for ten, if you want to play around with stuff ... FullPack4950.zip It's a series of treatment modules. There's a URL in there if more info is needed.

I've well over five thousand Vst's, and at least two thousand more waiting to be 'tested'. Don't say you weren't warned.

Best Free VST Plugins ... DSK Music ... Vst 4 Free ... Well, I tried to warn you... (Stay away from Synths, though; three lifetimes won't be enough...)

Be careful; be very careful. There are Vst's galore out there, and very soon the hard disk is full, and you can't find the one you want in Reaper (or any other DAW...), it's so choked up. How do I know..? Ha..! Decide what genre you're after (Instruments..? Fx..? Treatment..? Drums..? The list goes on...). OK, instruments. Modern band stuff (Guitars, bass, keys, brass...)..? Orchestral (No, I can't list here; there's really too much...)..? Ethnic flutes, steel drums, didgeridoos..? No..? OK, Fx. Dirt boxes..? Delay, reverb, phase, flange, whatever... Treatment..? Compressors, mastering tools, de-noisers... Tell us what interests you the most, in the first instance, and we can go from there. Be aware: this way, madness lies. Be careful; be very careful. Hope this helps.

Schubert, most especially the 9th.

I should have kept my Hofner President Florentine, and would snap up another if ever I come across one, but the longest-owned is 'My Old Lady', my Hofner Comittee, loving restored, bought from a tat-shop, Weybridge, for £75 in '69 or '70 (it's all so hazy now...). She had the headstock snapped off thanks to me carelessly leaning her in the corner of the room and an over-active nephew, but was made good as new again (or better...) by a fabulous luthier in Nantes (Alain Raifort...) over a period of several years..! I have many guitars and basses, but she is 'The Special One'...

Good afternoon, Ozan, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Here is my contribution to the June 2020 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by the previous winner: Leonard Smalls..! It started off as a search for inspiration, as I had no 'handle' on it. As a bit of a change, I turned on my keyboard, dialled away the 'acoustic piano' I usually play, and stumbled upon an 'electric guitar' setting. Using this, I picked out a riff I had in my head. Hmm... Potential, maybe, but my piano is in my modelling 'den', and not connected to my PC. No worries, I have a Fostex hard-disk 8-track recorder; I'll dig that out. Once I'd worked out again how it works (s'been a long time, and I'm old..!), I got the riff down. No click, metronome nor beat, just raw keys. Downstairs to my pica-studio, to export the result into Reaper. Hmm... It's a bit 'ropey', compared to the metronome. I spend some time fiddling about with the files, chopping bits up here and there, but decide, eventually, to ask Our Eldest to play the riff instead. Once I'd set up the gear required to do that, I thought to try it out to get the sound I wanted. Might as well record it, whilst I'm at it. Three takes later (one track, doubled track and one 'extras' track...), no need to trouble the lad; it's done and dusted. Stick a bass on (well, two, while I'm in the mood...) and a drum track, scrub the original 'keys' guitar and it's finished..! Drums programmed with Superior 3, two mystery basses and three 'live' takes of my Xavier guitar, through a Boss compressor pedal, Boss Fender Deluxe pedal and a Germanium Big Muff pedal. All mixed in Reaper, with the usual post-production mastering with Ozone. I'm not sure if my 'inspiration' hits the spot, but it was more fun to do than I'd thought at first, so... Result..! Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy. Edit : Best played rather on the 'loud' end of the phonic spectrum, but not so much as to damage your hearing, please. Good speakers (monitors...) are preferable; ear-buds probably less good, unless they're super-duper ones.

It's free to download from powerdrumkit.com..., so not a factor in choosing a DAW. It's very worthy (and free...), with a few 'grooves' that are easy to pull into the DAW. The sounds are convincing; although there's only one kit, so it fits the composition or it doesn't. A good choice for those inexperienced in drum VST stuff, and well worth its price. One very nice feature is the ability to send the mixer output to separate tracks in the DAW, which allows specific Fx, for instance; many 'simple' kits can't do that, so, if a 'slap-back' is wanted on the snare alone, or a light phaser on the cymbals, this is a Good Choice even amongst the free kits out there. I have several VST drums (I'm a drummer, so...), which I use extensively, but this one is useful as a 'plug'n'play' kit when I just want to hear what the beat sound like. I'd choose another (expensive...) VST if I want to dive in further, but this one does a Good Job just the same. Can't go wrong for the price; it's a 'no-brainer'.

It's free to download from powerdrumkit.com..., so not a factor in choosing a DAW. It's very worthy (and free...), with a few 'grooves' that are easy to pull into the DAW. The sounds are convincing; although there's only one kit, so it fits the composition or it doesn't. A good choice for those inexperienced in drum VST stuff, and well worth its price. One very nice feature is the ability to send the mixer output to separate tracks in the DAW, which allows specific Fx, for instance; many 'simple' kits can't do that, so, if a 'slap-back' is wanted on the snare alone, or a light phaser on the cymbals, this is a Good Choice even amongst the free kits out there. I have several VST drums (I'm a drummer, so...), which I use extensively, but this one is useful as a 'plug'n'play' kit when I just want to hear what the beat sound like. I'd choose another (expensive...) VST if I want to dive in further, but this one does a Good Job just the same. Can't go wrong for the price.

Good evening, Conor, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good afternoon, Djptek, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Gordy, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Harry, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, Phil, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.