Must-have starter Ableton plugins for the newbie?

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Greetings!



I would like to get started creating music in the following genres:


  1. hard dance / trance
  2. dirty electro
  3. dubsteb



    I would appreciate any recommendations as my Ableton Live 7 install (PC) is pretty bare-bones, it does not include any synths or plugins.



    I have been told, for example that sylenth and nexus are must-haves…
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NI Massive is used alot in Dubstep - but not the easiest to begin with - Sylynth is a great all rounder - Nexus seems to be the trance must have but qute pricey



But f your new, why not find a free synth vst to learn, just google



Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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Firstly nothing is a must, every DAW these days is more than capable at making every genre of dance music.



and secondly you’ve joined the best forum to ask :slight_smile:

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^^^ What Jon said.



But Slenders recommendations are spot on also.



I run Ableton suite which alone has enough synth power for anyone’s needs (Analog Operator etc).



But I also have Sylenth cos it’s amazing, and will be getting Massive also as when I was on a PC that was my goto ‘nasty’ synth.

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What the others said.



Sylenth for all around. Massive for Dub & Electro Stuff. Nexus for trance.



They are all great synths that wont kill your bank. And they are pretty easy 2 use.

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My studio partner has massive and Predator for making chunky house up to hard dance. Personally don’t like the sounds of Predator but MASSIVE is a monster. even with the presets.



I would say from experience and being a almost newbie to get the most out of it you need to understand some of the programming side of things to get what you want.

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U-he ACE is one professional, sexy sounding monster of a synth but you’d better be packing some big hairy balled processor and a **** load of RAM! :w00t:

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Massive is the standard for dubstep because of the macros (i think) and for electro, I would go with DCAM. Other then that, Sylenth is the only other one that I would get.

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If i was starting again I would probally start with this



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its a free plugin that sounds pretty great with lots of presets available online.

I started about 8 months ago and when you start buying stuff with loads of modulation and lfos its very easy to get lost. So just try to master something basic!

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Another pretty awesome synth, which can create almost everything is Zebra, though it def is not a beginner’s synth

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[quote]gavisthename (06/10/2010)[hr]U-he ACE is one professional, sexy sounding monster of a synth but you’d better be packing some big hairy balled processor and a **** load of RAM! :w00t:[/quote]



really the demo was very light on my cpu (mac)

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VERY helpful responses, thank you all!