Guitar woes

Not that I ever liked the damn thing, but my Washburn KC70 is knackered. No sound so I guess something 'technical' is broke. I suppose I could get it fixed. Or. I could just explore using samples. Hey if its good for the Young Gods its gotta be good for me. Right?

Meantime I am starting to explore some of the other 'soft' synths. Lets talk Reason.

Reason is my workhorse. My musical Swiss Army Knife. I use it all the time and I use it first. It is so easy to use and is pretty much all I could use if I were so inclined. There is one small chink in Reasons armour. The sound quality just isnt quite right. It is hard to put my finger on it but it lacks that sparkle. That something special that makes it stand out.

I do feel a bit of a nit picker saying this. It is SUCH a good tool. And you cannot argue with how very little it costs your PC in CPU cycles. But the sound isnt quite there.

So I have started to use Absynth 3. I first used it on a bass sound for a track and that change rescued the track. It really lifted the whole thing. Absynth loves CPU though so use sparingly. The quality of its sounds encourage you to go overboard but do that and your system will be brought to its knees.

Oh and 80% of the supplied sound libary is junk. Why do they assembly libraries full of demo cak?

Next up: Kontakt 2 and guitar samples.