upgrading my home studio plug ins

[locnine]

hey everyone,
i run a protools based system and am looking for some good plug-ins for reverb, delay, etc. that has analog warmth and a vocal pitch correction plug-in. some kind of maximizer would be great to get my levels up too.

at first i was going to build my new studio plugs around auto-tune 5 but then i read melodyne was pretty user friendly and possibly better. then when i started looking at everything, the waves gold bundle looked nice... however in waves gold, the tune plug in is their light version and i think messing around with the full version would be nice (and most likely needed for the vocals i'm recording!). sooo, now i'm a little confused about the best way to go: auto-tune, melodyne, or waves tune?

the waves renaissance bundle also caught my eye because it has a lot of analog warming plug-ins. again, however, they included their light version of the vocal pitch correction software.

lets say i'm going to drop about $1000, give or take (more likely give!) on upgrading the plug-ins for my home studio... any suggestions? i'm looking primarily for good reverb, compression, delay, eq, a flanger and a pitch correcting plug in.

thanks for your help!

[EnlightenedHand]

I think you'd likely enjoy the benefits from a TC Electronic Power Core or a UAD-1.

Liz

[locnine]

thanks liz! i'd read about uad's and thought they needed a hardware option. i use a powermac g5. will the uad-1 fit? i'll check on the tc electronic power core. appreciate the input!

[Swami Digital]

Does UAD make a pitch correcting plugin? You could always go with that + Melodyne though.

I would go with a bundle along with DSP hardware, just because once you start layering those plugins your computer will feel the strain. And those hardware + plugin bundles give you good value.

-D

[locnine]

ok, hadn't thought of the hardware plus plug-in bundles... actually don't know much about them... my computer already feels a strain on the plugs i currently use i have a dual 2.7 ghz processing setup with 2gb ram. would increasing the ram help with managing more plug-ins and more tracks? that's probably another heading all together.

[Swami Digital]

4 GB RAM might not be a bad idea since RAM is cheap. A dedicated plugin platform would help even more. I only run 2GB on my Macbook Pro, but the Powercore X8 and my external synths take a lot of load off.

-D

[deken87]

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