Ambient "Desert Island Kit"

[MetaDronos]

You have to survive artistically on desert island. You can have hardware (because you have enough solar panels to run it).
It can be hardware synth, it can be computer.
Now you have to choose your "desert island kit" for making ambient.

Only one hardware AND software synth.
Only one hardware AND software effect.
Only one soundware (if you choose to survive with computer)

It is assumed that DAW of your choice and microphone/portable recorder survived as well.

My kit is:
Synth: iZotope Iris
Effect: Voxengo Pristine Space
Soundware: Audiobulb Ambient

What are your kits?

[Toaster]

Software - Loomer's "Strings" Hardware- Virus
Effect- Valhalla Shimmer, EHX Catherdral Reverb

Oh yeah.

[Ciberithm]

DAW - Cubase
VST - U-he Zebra
Effect - Uhbik-G granulator
Soundware - Adobe Audition, but I am going to have to check out other soundware. Audiobulb Ambient looks interesting.

[Negative Spectrum]

DAW - Ableton Live 9 Suite
Soft Synth - Symphobia 2
Effect - Valhalla Vintage Verb

[Thought Experiment]

DAW - Reaper
Synth - Zebra
FX - Valhalla UberMod

[AtaRaxis]

DAW-Live 9, Synth- Analog 4, Effect- Timeline

[V0RT3X]

DAW: Ableton Live 9 Suite
Synth: Reaktor 5
Effect: Metasynth (More of an effect for me since I would process my sounds in it.)
Soundware: None Id make my own



Ok so basically I would have then..

Ableton Live
- 54GB of sounds Including Session Drums, Drum Machines, Retrosynths, the Orchestral Instruments collection and more.

- Analog, Collision, Electric, Operator, Sampler, Tension, Drum Rack, Impulse, Simpler
Also includes External Instrument device

- Amp, Cabinet, Corpus, Arpeggiator, Auto Filter, Auto Pan, Beat Repeat, Chord, Chorus, Compressor, Corpus, Dynamic Tube, EQ Eight, EQ Three, Erosion, External Audio Effect, Filter Delay, Flanger, Frequency Shifter, Gate, Glue, Grain Delay, Limiter, Looper, Multi-band Dynamics, Note Length, Overdrive, Phaser, Ping Pong Delay, Pitch, Random, Redux, Resonators, Reverb, Saturator, Scale, Simple Delay, Spectrum, Utility, Velocity, Vinyl Distortion, Vocoder

- Maxforlive comes with Convolution Reverb, Convolution Reverb Pro, Mono Sequencer, Buffer Shuffler 2, Drum Synth (13 devices), LFO, Envelope Follower, XY Pad, Multimap, Device Randomizer, Control Device MIDI, Envelope MIDI, LFO MIDI


Reaktor 5

Synthesizers	25	All kinds of synthesizers, from subtractive, additive, FM to wavetable-based synthesis and physical modeling
Sound Generators	3	Totally unique, self-playing soundscape generators
Grooveboxes	9	Sample/ synth-based drum machines with built-in sequencers
Sample Player	2	One Drum Sample Player & one Beatslicer for cutting up loops and triggering loop slices
Sample Transformer	6	Advanced tools to mangle samples in countless creative ways, including powerful granular re-synthesis tools and sequenced groove generators
Sequencer	8	Various experimental / generative sequencers for use with other instruments to trigger chords, grooves, melodies, or to modulate sound parameters
Effects	22	Creative multi-effects with unique sound shaping potential

Metasynth
MetaSynth is an award-winning electronic music and sound design studio for OS X. Its six "rooms" provide six unique environments for creating and manipulating sound. There is much more to MetaSynth than creating sound from pictures.

[aoVI]

DAW: ProTools (has some good VIs/effects)
Softsynth: Alchemy
Synth: CS80
Softeffect: Nomad Magma (Not my favorite, but it has a wide variety and I am only allowed 1)
Hardware effect: Eventide H3000

[robojam]

Probably nothing like that. If I was really on a desert island I think I'd prefer to have some acoustic instruments. If it had to be 3 I think it would be an acoustic guitar (assuming I had a bucket of spare strings too), a flute of some kind, and a diatonic harmonica.

[Negative Spectrum]

I'm gonna have to change my soft synth to Absynth 5, I love this synth, so much so that I wrote the entirety of my last album with it.

[aoVI]

Well, if it is going to be a real desert island, I want to change all mine to edible gear.

[Thought Experiment]

Well, if it is going to be a real desert island, I want to change all mine to edible gear.

:eek: How could you even think of such a thing?

[aoVI]

I was trapped on a desert island for 14 years. I had to eat my Prophet V and several stomp boxes.

No matter how long they were boiled, they still were tough to chew.

[AtaRaxis]

Shoulda brought soft synths

[DanielDavis]

I think this works within the confines of the rules:

An acoustic guitar and an OP-1.