I think I was at my most creative and prolific around 20 years ago, with my best stuff being released around 2007-2008. I started dabbling with Cakewalk around 200, which later became Sonar.
But then Sonar took a direction that really messed up my workflow.
But not long after I suddenly had an unrelated career.
And then I had a family to take care of.
In other words, life got in the way. Plus I had permanently migrated to Linux, and despite many attempts I couldn’t quite get into it.
However, thankfully I found Bitwig, and I feel like I’m not at a place where I can start doing it properly again. But of course, all the synths and plugins I used way back when are probably out of date. So any tips for replacing these?:
Native Instruments Guitar Rig - Guitar effects and processing
Edirol Orchestral - Orchestra oriented softsynth
Steinberg Hypersonic - general purpose softsynth
Drumkit from Hell - Drum softsynth
Also, is there anything new in terms of tools, techniques, and processes that have emerged during the past 20ish years I should be aware of?
Vital is my favourite synth. It’s similar to the popular Serum, but it’s free / has upgrade tiers. You can find lots of presets on their forums and discord.
Nice. I love the ability to tweak sounds on the waveform level.
You can try Guitarix for the guitar effects and amp simulation: https://guitarix.org/
Nice one. I’ll try and see if I can get it up and running with pipewire.
I don´t know if you are interested in using granular techniques, working with sonic grains etc. In case that you are, here is a link to download my comprehensive e-book about granular sound tweaking. I´ll give it away for free: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dj3av5q141ln5zi/In the World of Grains.pdf?dl=0 Cheers and peace! Rolf
