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!

  • svengali05@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Sandiz83@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      yes, learn the basics first. It’s a common beginner’s mistake to buy sounds and plugins that you then don’t use

  • Seledreams@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel like Komplete is still more interesting than Absolute when it comes to the value it bundles

  • zaxxon71@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve got a lot of steinberg products but don’t have absolute 6 if I buy it do you get all of the groove agent expansions?

  • mavck@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I love Absolute and I think it is a great foundation if not the best foundation you can have to keep yourself busy for a while.

  • Aggressorot@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think there is a trial period with every Steinberg product. You can try them out and see for yourself.

    From my experience with the trial, I only tried Halion 7 and its a powerhouse and has vast amounts of usable presets.

    • Asselberghs@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There is no Trial for Absolute which makes sense, since it’s a bundle of VSTs, but I am fairly sure that there is a trial for each individual VST in Absolute.
      So in essence I believe you are correct, just not a trial for the bundle itself.

  • Wrong_Ad_6022@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    4 million free vsts out on the Internet. Look on you tube for videos with titles such as free vsts for cubase 2023.

  • Novel-Toe9836@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Absolute is amazing - hidden gem! Backbone is worth it all in my opinion and if it’s on sale, really valuable if it was all I had to use it would be all you need.

    David