Keyboard Magazine: Soft Synth Hosts
Keyboard Magazine -- Soft synths can give us gigging keyboard players a serious case of tech envy. The plug-in world has obvious benefits — cutting-edge modeling and sample libraries measured in gigabytes, not megabytes, for example. Beyond that, there’s sheer variety, and not having to buy a whole new synth to get ... a whole new synth. We know we want ’em, so why aren’t we gigging with them already?
We’ll look at four solutions that inspire enough confidence for even the most diehard hardware-head to go soft onstage — see “Need to Know” on page 55 for a summary. We put each through the basic paces: installing and authorizing plug-ins, configuring them into splits and layers, mapping hardware controls from your MIDI keyboard to common sound settings such as filter and envelope, and finally, seeing how they hold up in the heat of battle ...
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