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The beast
Awesome synth that I use A LOT. Not being a sound design expert by any means I mostly use the presets (which there are a lot of good ones), and then tweak them to my liking. The lead sounds from my songs 'Last Summer' and 'Harmony' has been made by me loading a voice sample into the Noise section of the synth and then adding compression and reverb through the built in FX rack.
149
Midi Keyboard
This has been my main midi keyboard for the last four years, works great! It's a bit bulky though and I could probably do with something thinner with less features. I mainly play the keys so I think I've just discovered like 15% of what it's able to do. I've started to use the drum pads on it more as of late though, and that is a great add on. Has nice pitch and modulation wheels!
149
Workhorse
I use Kontakt a lot for electric bass or when I need symphonic/orchestral elements, great sounding instruments. For pianos I mostly use the add on packs 'Alicia Keys' or 'Una Corda', but the standard ones sound pretty nice too. If you hear any electric guitar sounds in of my tracks it's also most commonly from the ilya Efimov guitar instruments for Kontakt, that I really like
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149
Great piano sounds
Just recently bought this plugin after been watching Youtube videos about it for quite some time, and it's truly amazing. The piano sounds are incredible and with a lot of different presets it's easy to find a timber that fits the track I'm working on. It includes a lot of different piano instruments: Pianos, rhodes, clavinette, toy pianos, glockenspiel, vintage digital synths. It's my go to now whenever I need very authentic sounding keys, which is quite often.
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Great vintage studio monitor
I use these as my main monitors (for now). I switch between my them and my Sennheiser hd-25 headphones to check that everything sounds right. Seeing as I live in an apartment building with quite thin floors, these are great cause they don't produce that much bass so I can play a bit louder without shaking the whole place up. They're also really good at bringing forth the problems in the mix so it makes it easier to hear what needs to be adjusted.
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actually most of us would mix on the NS10s really quiet and then go over to the big monitors once ina while as a reference and then check the mix in mono on a singe auratone cube... the NS10s have the mid detail, they cause you to mix brighter and deeper, and they don't fatigue your ears at all assuming you don't hit them so hard that you can't hear yourself speaking over the music. The big installed JBL and Urei type speakers in large commercial studios that were around in the NS10's heyday will blow your ears out really quickly even at very low volumes.
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FL Studio 20
Been using FL Studio since I started producing music on a computer back in 2011. Really love the workflow and how fast I'm able to realise my ideas with it. This also comes partly from the amazing piano roll that's simple and quick but at the same time very advanced. One downside may be seeing as it doesn't have a channel fixed arrangement window, it takes an extra effort to make the projects really organized, which usually leads to my projects looking quite messy cause I'm quite lazy... but I'm fine with that aslong as I can work fast.