• Seefra 1@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    Analogue simulation: Surge FX’s tape Calf Vinyl

    Compressors, gates and equalisers: Anything by LSP

    Limiter: x42 seems to be a clean and save limiter LSP seems to be more tunable and a bit dirtier and potentially louder.

    Saturation and distortion: Several good options on surge fx

    Guitar sim: Guitarix.vst (also includes a Neural Amp Sim host)

    Synths: Surge Zynaddsubfx Odin2

    Sampler: Liquidsfz DrumGizmo (very resource intensive)

    There’s ofc tons of stuff I haven’t tried, but these work very well for me

  • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    LSP (Linux studio project) for all the basics like EQ, Compression, Multiband Compression

    Airwindows for tone and effects

    Surge XT for synthesizer

    Liquidsfz to play soundfonts like virtual playing orchestra

    TAL vocoder for when you want to feel like the coolest guy in school

    • Seefra 1@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      I used to love Calf, but plugin version seems be have its GUI broken on some plugins for quite some time and it seems to be rather hard to fix judging from what I read online. LSP is more feature completely for most usecases anyway.

      Also I read sometime ago that calf has some serious phasing problems? Sounds good to me but I’m not an expert.

      Some calf plugins I haven’t been able to replace yet, like the stereo tools, and the psychoacoustic clipper.

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Just regular Arch with pro-audio meta package. I literally put no effort at all to set that up, just some basic stuff from ArchWiki to optimize performance

  • BerenstainsMonster@kbin.earth
    3·
    13 days ago

    Love the stuff by ChowDSP.

    AudioThing and TAL have some handy freebies.

    There’s a whole treasure trove in Airwindows’ stuff.

    I get a lot of use from Reaper’s stock plugins, particularly the EQ, compressor, and limiter.

    Reaper users can also help themselves to community-made JSFX.

    Vital is my go-to synth.

    Cardinal synth is super powerful and a fun can of worms.

  • speed_skirmish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago
    • LSP Plugins for mixing
    • Dragon Reverb
    • Surge XT for a modular synth
    • sfizz for sfz instrument playback
    • Bonus: for cover art and logos I used GIMP, the G’MIC plugin, and Inkscape.

    Edit: Formatting and some additional entries.

  • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    As a recent Linux convert and guitar player, my Scarlett 2i2 works like a charm and I’ve been running Guitarix into Reaper and using Tuxguitar (the actively maintained fork off GitHub) for practicing. Tuxguitar is functional but truthfully I’m missing Guitar Pro, which I purchased a license for years ago. Will GP work within Wine/Bottles? I was concerned about latency but Tux has me looking at getting GP to work.

    More on-topic; Guitarix has been functional enough though admittedly I should spend more time learning about it. I had pirated NeuralDSP’s Archetype Abasi plugin on Windows but didn’t have much luck installing it. Granted, that was shortly after my switch from Windows and I could potentially try again but for this would prefer to remain within the Linux/FOSS realm. Any suggestions for that sort of highs gain/modern metal sound?