Hey I just started producing recently, I bought Cubase Artist 12 so I only have the VSTs it comes with (Halion Sonic SE, Retrologue 2, Padshop 2, Groove Agent SE 5) and some free ones from here and there and I need more instruments/sounds. I just saw Absolute 6 went on a 50% sale and my understanding is that it’s a bundle of a lot of VSTs/sounds from Steinberg. Do you think it’s a good purchase as a starting point? Again, I’m quite new so I’m trying to make sense of things, any advice would help!
For what do you need more sounds? With cubase artist you have more sounds you‘ll ever use! If you can define a special sound you won’t find in the artist plugins, you can buy a specific plugin for that. But for a newbie I would suggest make music with the tools you have. I‘ll guess you‘ll find 98% of the sounds you need in the stock plugins in cubase.
yes, learn the basics first. It’s a common beginner’s mistake to buy sounds and plugins that you then don’t use