The USB Stick Studio, revisited...

[alphacat]

...Looks like the original thread here has been removed ( ) that had the freeware studio-on-a-stick using Reaper and some free plugs...

So when I saw this, naturally the first thing I thought was: what could be better than having a DAW on a stuck so you could plug it into a PC wherever you are and get to work?

The answer is: having the whole PC and your DAW on the same stick.

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=259824
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Now granted, I know that Linux is a different beast altogether for most of you... but you have to admit this is a potential game-changer, especially given the open source aspect.

[Bassf4ce]

That is amazing, but in the daw world 128 mb of ram won't get you that far. My choice of daw for this would probably be reason(Isn't free though). Do they have reason for linux? I so-pose you could just use some linux program that could run it.

[alphacat]

Reaper.

Thing is, 128 mb of RAM on one of the two big flavors of OS (WIn/Mac) may not be much, but since Linux doesn't have all of the bloat those OS's do (no processor power wasted on perpetually running iTunes updaters, fancy icon graphics, etc. etc.) then suddenly you don't need nearly as much dedicated background RAM... this may mean you're not going to be able to do too much else with it, but I wouldn't complain about having a dedicated music machine. I can always use my smartphone for browsing, email, all that mundane crap.

[Bassf4ce]

I hate Reaper, it was cluttered, and messed up my flow. Even though it is linux, I still don't think it would run massives and a bunch of other plugins that well.

[alphacat]

That's too bad. I love Reaper - it changed my workflow for the better in almost every way. I don't see it as being cluttered at all... Everyone's different though.

You do know you can make Reaper look just about any way you want - you're not confined to the stock layout - right?

Also, I may be mistaken but I do believe Massive has been confirmed as working (all NI products are supposed to work in fact), although it might still be a little spotty for non-code type people to implement honestly. I know Reaktor and Absynth have definitely been successfully set up with outstanding results - very low latencies.

[Electric_Head]

Just a quick statement regarding Massive.
In all honesty this trend of massive massive massive is getting old.
The amount of freeware synths out there that are as capable and lighter on the system.
I think this is a great idea and limiting your worklfow can be nothing but advantageous.

[Crimsonghost]

Just a quick statement regarding Massive.
In all honesty this trend of massive massive massive is getting old.
The amount of freeware synths out there that are as capable and lighter on the system.
I think this is a great idea and limiting your worklfow can be nothing but advantageous.

CM's curve comes to mind. There also going to be putting out there version of Synthmaster next month. I have the full version and it quickly became my go-to synth.

[alphacat]

Just a quick statement regarding Massive.
In all honesty this trend of massive massive massive is getting old.
The amount of freeware synths out there that are as capable and lighter on the system.
I think this is a great idea and limiting your worklfow can be nothing but advantageous.

CM's curve comes to mind. There also going to be putting out there version of Synthmaster next month. I have the full version and it quickly became my go-to synth.

Tend to agree. Most pplz using these hi-end synths get lazy; find a good-sounding preset, tweak it a little bit, slap it on a standard double-drop song structure blah blah blah. Further, after a while everything starts to sound the same sonically. There are so many ways of getting interesting sounds and the journey is at least half the joy imo... there are a handful of freeware synths that I've used for 10+ years because they're just that cool and have that many possibilities. Don't get me wrong tho - I still want to buy Alchemy eventually and still drool whenever Papen releases anything new, but they're definitely not the end-all be-all that some people treat them as.

[Ruuben]

what freeware synth would you reccomend n links please!! thanks!

[NinjaEdit]

Probably the u-he ones, Tyrell N6 and Zebralette. There's also the NI Komplete Players with MikroPrism, and the Alchemy player.

There was this thread.

[Efrafa11]

The prices seem pretty cheap.
Paired with buying reaper and some free synths it would come out cheaper than massive .

[Electric_Head]

That's the point efrafa11.
And definitely as capable.