New to protools, and I'm super confused about instruments???

[lesbrunn]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Started out doing my MIDI work in PT then brought Digital Performer into the equation because I listened to those who said the MIDI work in PT wasn't quite up to snuff. After about a year of that dual nonsense I'm now back to working pretty much exclusively in PT for everything. PT can do it all if one has the patience to work with it.

As far as my favorite vi's in no particular they are:
NI Kontakt 5 (sampler)
IKMM Sampletank 3 (sampler)
Air Velvet for Rhodes
Arturia Synclavier V
Arturia Moog Modular and MiniMoog

+1. I'm back to doing everything in PT; I want to simplify my life...

[lesbrunn]

Some VI's that I use (in no particular order):

Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Atmosphere, Trilian, Trilogy, Stylus
NI Komplete (lots of VI's there)
Arturia (I have most of their VI's)
Synthmaster
Uhe VI's are good, but usually CPU-hungry
Serum
Avenger
Steinberg Halion (and Hypersonic!) Dark Planet is great for pads.
Cakewalk Rapture
Air (Loom, Hybrid, Strike, Velvet)
Addictive Keys
Dmitry Sches (Diversion, Thorn)
Sonic Academy Ana 2
Rob Papen Albino, Albino 3, Predator, Blue, SubBoomBass
Plugsound (I have the old ones)
Sylenth
Nexus 2
Vanguard
Dune
UVI
Reason
Linplug VI's

The list isn't complete, but these ones get a lot of use. Even with 64GB of RAM, PT acts funky sometimes when there are many VI's loaded, so on heavy MIDI/VI sessions I use VE Pro to host VST versions of most of them. Very smooth, PT's relieved of the load, and I commit when I'm done programming. On lighter sessions I load the AAX versions directly into PT.