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[DrNo7]

Hi everybody,

I have a noob question but seems like either I am missing something (like the dict/map of the title) or it is a daunting task to find the correct plugin for a particular result.
The context of my need: I wanted to do a small project to take a piece of melody and remix it in a complete different style. The original being a simple piano part, I thought that it would be just a question of playing it with the new rhythm of the variation, adding some rhythmic ref and polish it.
My problem is: I know what type of sound I need (some synth, some textured bass beats) but I have no clue which of the gazillion VST plugins should help. And even choosing a music style is getting me closer to which list of plugins would be applicable.
Hence my question: is there any source of information where I could use a music style or artist and get a list of VST plugins I could use to get relevant sounds ?

Thanks in advance for your guidance and sorry if I am taking the problem from the wrong end.

[IIO]

the idea that certain software is targeted to a certain style of music is probably not a very widespread idea.

yout best bet is to ask for suggesttion for the concrete case. if you describe what you are looking for it will be easy to recommend something.

alternatively you could install the ca. 40 commercial, polyphonic instruments and then go for trial and error.

[DrNo7]

Thanks IIO for your reply. I know that one plugin could be used for multiple styles. Hence my noobish assumption that some knowledge base.
In my case, I was trying to identify in the Children (dream version) from Robert Miles:
=> the kind of echo/delay applied to the piano and harpsichord
=> what is used for the beat starting from 2:00 (found some kind of techno-ish beat in the default instruments but not quite the same)
=> what instrument is used for the heartbeat pulsing on the chords (also after 2:00)

Those would be the ingredients I will need to apply to the basic beat+synth I recorder with the midi keyboard to give it more texture 

Thanks for your help wading through plugins whose names don't help me much for now.

[IIO]

=> the kind of echo/delay applied to the piano and harpsichord

hard to name a certain plug-in, but from the audio i can tell how it was roughly made:

all the repetitions - probably the 100% wet output of an inserted echo - are sitting in a small room, while the input is not.
furthermore, at least for the higher notes, the repetitions are probably wandering a bit from the mid to the left, and then behind that there is a blumlein shuffler (that is mostly waves S1 in MacOS 9) which transforms the moving stereo postion of the echos into an increasing width.

you could do the same by using automation on the stereo imager as well for this track. the pinao figure is rythmically always the same and so you could just copy the automation parts around.

what is used for the beat starting from 2:00

i looked up what he used, it should have been a 01w or a K-2000.

because the K-2000 also uses sampling, it could be anything. with a little bit of filtering, shaping and pitchshifting you can easily transform a 909 into those drumsounds, but it could also be material from a sampling CD.

what instrument is used for the heartbeat pulsing

tge bass on the offbeat? that is kurzweil. sawtooth, distortion, lowpass, and then the same short room reverb as the piano sound has.

Thanks for your help wading through plugins whose names don't help me much for now.

my approach always was install everything, try everything, then you know what they do and if you like it. but i am aware that this is not so common.

most commercial music is made from presets or modified presets, but that doe not mean you can recreate it 100%. because what matters for the sound is the combination of 3 of 4 things.
what also matters is the mix.
and dont overrate the meaning of the originals. you only feel they are standard and you only like them because you have heard them 100 times already.
you can as well just find you own sound and it will be as good as any possible role model.

for a nice, soft piano like the piano from the korg 01w forget the steinberg grand plug-in. the default kontakt 2.0 piano played at vel 35 or lower will come closer. or one of those roland players or sampletank free piano...