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So do I, FWIW.
Unless you are going to record your analogue synths to analogue tape then at some point you are going to have to digitise it.
Plugins sound pretty good these days- I don't personally think you lose much using plugin effects at all, but the interface difference (mouse/kbd vs knobs and faders) means you make different choices.
Also, being able to instantiate multiple plugins means you tend not to work as hard with them, rather than getting the most out of the single analogue delay you might have.
I like building little workstations with fewer options than I have in my main DAW- a synth or sampler + a few effects, maybe a filter, a wah pedal, a looper.
That workstation is a 'creation station', that the performances that I do from it get tracked into the main DAW.
I just built something fun (the idea that I stole from Cortini, who probably stole it from someone else) where I use an old Tascam 4 tape track to 'play' chord progressions.
Say I have a 4 chord song with the progression Em, G, D, C.
I loop each chord with a looper and record that loop onto each track for about 5 minutes.
I can then use the sliders of the 4 track to play the chord progression, which can be fed into effects units I currently use my FX8 with- filter, octaver, wah, delay, reverb and tremolo mostly.
I can then resample/loop that using the FX8's looper.
It is exceptionally cool.
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Either add them as insert effects then, balance the direct and effected levels within each effect plug-in
or blend in the effects via an Auxiliary Buss.
I have a couple of Creamware ASB series modules. Despite being semi-digital, they throb like good 'uns into Apple Logic Pro in a way that Roland JV and E-Mu Proteus ROMpler sounds never quite manage.
My workflow with analogue synths is a) play part using zoom multifx if required, b) record midi part in DAW then c) record audio part in DAW without FX while twiddling knobs etc, then d) apply fx in DAW. Another advantage of using hardware FX is you can use zero latency monitoring... for er zero latency. If you monitor with vst fx the signal has to go through the soundcard buffers etc.
I just use a zoom g3x because that's what I had so it is ok for many effects but unfortunately not so good for delay, so if you find a delay pedal that works well, let me know!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!