Inspired by a disucssion we were having in the Software Deals thread, I wanted to start this.
Slate + Ash Cycles is currently on sale and we were discussing alternatives to that. Cycles seems like it’s ideal target mmarket is ambient producers, but I would love to hear anyone who disagrees and uses it to make dance music like leftfield House/Techno/Garage…etc.
Additionally there is a prodouct by Dawsome called Novum which looks pretty cool. Curious if anyone has compared both?
For more context, from that thread I said this:
"I like to take samples and change them into new sounds. That is a huge part of how I write my tracks so when I saw Cycles I got really intrigued by it. I feel sometimes like I am spamming Tantra2 on the end of some tracks, just to make them sound even weirder and I’d like to try something new.
Track I am finishing now has Granulator 2, I used it on movie dialogue to kind of push it back and turn it into a sound bed. Granulator 2 is really really good.
I also bought an effect called Graindad, which is amazing. I am using that on a main vocal part. I usually randominze it until I get something close and then tweak it. It is a great alternative to a reverb delay, but is more of an effect than a sampler. Highly recommend if its on sale. It also can make super long tails that go on forever and clutter up your track, so its best to automate the on and off. Sometimes that can be awesome though, so I find myself recording those sounds sometimes to an audio track and then filtering it so it’s not taking up so much space."
Not sure how many of you all like to work this way but I would love to read what you all like to use and any thoughts you have on the plugins named plus others that you love as well.