Bundle Items you never use

I'm looking forward to buying the Melda Mastering bundle some day.
 
There are 3 items in it that I think I'll use occasionally, or more specifically that I'd like to have some experience learning how to use in case I occasionally find something to use them on.
 
I keep looking at the rest of the stuff and thinking I'll never use it and that I don't even want the clutter in my Plug In list, but the math makes it seem like they are just free tag alongs if you know you want to use the 3 items that I have my eye on.

That seems like a real good point. Thanks for explaining how the bundle can be beneficial in this way.

Back to OP:

Addictive Drums for me. I wasn't happy about their DRM protection. And installed it I my everyday PC, changed MB, proc, and added several HD and an SSD, now I can't authorize it on that PC anymore. I didn't realize I had to de-authorize this when i upgraded everything. Reading some of their forum posts I got the idea I am SOL.

Lounge Lizard: Never had a use for it. I may have cranked it up once.

I forgot about "Strum"

Another one I don't use.

Glyn Barnes
Loosely related to this thread what VST and VSTi did you get as part of a bundle and never use?
 
Battery 4 - This came with Komplete but I have not found a use for it. It seems to be very good at EDM type of sounds but the type of sounds I am after seem to be done much better elsewhere.
 
Spark - from the Arturia V collection. Again decent sounds for the EDM brigade, in fact to my ear some of the best electronic drum sounds around, and maybe even some I could use for other styles but it all seems to be tied into its drum machine interface. I was glad to get a computer based program with a PRV and get away from the horrible limitations of drum machine programing.
 
Addictive Drums - From X3, tried it but just did not warm to the sound, I can't ever see using it in place of Superior or BFD3.
 
Overloud THD2 - From X3, I think its the interface that puts me off, I should persevere with it but I usually just call up Amplitube.
 
Session Drummer - From X3, to be fair I have used this once when I wanted some electronic drum sounds, but I have better else where.
 
 
 

I have never been able to get past TH2's interface either. Sounds great but just never touch it.   Not fan of the spark drum machine aspect either, but i mostly use it as a sound module and program sounds in PRV, step sequencer or just trigger via  drum pads.
 
I rarely use SD3 since I got Geist, but every now and then when i simply need and a simple multi-out 808 kit it works.

TH2 is the Ducks nuts, it's awesome. I have Th2 Full, S-Gear, Revalver 3, 3dot5, 4, all Studio Devil, GTR, Guitar Rig 3, 5, Amplitube (all modules/Packs, bar half a dozen stomps), and I would rate them
TH2
S-Gear (Great Sound and feel, just needs the Bell's and whistles of TH2)
Revalver
GTR
Studio Devil
and a BIG gap to
Amplitube
Guitar Rig
 
Addictive Drums 1/2, I got the full versions, and a heap off AD Packs, but I decided not to buy anymore, BFD (any version) just blows it out of the water. I tried to like it and use it, but always end up replacing it with BFD. I will use it for the the Reel Machines AD Pack for electronic type music, which is not really my thing, but I sometimes dabble there, but I just don't like the sound of AD, maybe because it's processed, but then I recently got the Oblivion expansion for BFD which is Processed and it is just AWESOME, maybe AD is over processed or just badly processed I don't know, but to me it's just not in the same league as BFD
 
I am thankful to Sonar/Cakewalk through it's bundled stuff for introducing me to things like TH2, Melodyne, Dimension Pro, Rapture, Z3TA 2 (last 3 Cake products I know), All of which I purchased Full versions of because I just loved them to bits, but apart from the Pro Channel stuff, which I brought all the Cake modules, I don't really use any other bundled stuff.
 
 
 

Whatever I don't use just means I have not had a use for it (yet!).

This would be a longer thread if it were about Komplete.
 
Kinda odd for many years I blew off what was in the Kontakt factory library and watching the Kontakt series on MacProVideo there's actually a lot of nice sounds once you start investigating.
 
I was surprised NI made a Battery 4.  Usually any drum library is made for Kontakt.  If you get tired of the numerous drum romplers this would be the app.  A few years ago I wanted to create my own Death Metal drum kit and I found sites were drummers sample their kits that you could download.
 
Sometime I don't use stuff in a DAW because I don't know it's there.
 
 
 

Yeah, I don't like TH2's UI either.

There's a particular bundled item that I'm making a point of not using - Addictive Drums. It took a ridiculous amount of time to install and required an online connection the whole time. I have more than one computer running Sonar and I didn't bother installing it on the others.

Fwiw komplete ultimate 10 with komplete kontrol lets you get easy access to all sounds plugins with a few keyboard pushes . Been finding gems like never before..

TerraSin
Dimension Pro and Rapture
They are old, outdated and sound like crap compared to what other companies have out, imo.

I'm curious how a synth sounds outdated? I can see some of the preset patches on a synth sounding dated, but the synth itself is going to sound like whatever the person programming it dictates. I was not so much questioning your opinion so much as hoping for elaboration to help understand. My synth programming skills are minimal, but if i take Rapture and make common synth sounds in use by modern producers (a simple 808 style kick for instance) it sounds pretty much like any other synth.

Disclaimer: Let me start by saying that I'm certainly not a synth god. I love sound design as much as the next person but more often than not I buy preset packs from others because I don't have the time to sit around doing something that I know others could do better than I could anyway.
 
What it boils down to is how the program can modify the waves it's using, the effects it has built in, matrix controls, LFOs, modulation, etc. and how the program itself works with the data it is told. For instance, in audio you can have two compressors that have the exact same variables on what it will do to the sound it's given. You can set these exactly the same in each and end up with completely different sounding results because of the way it emulates that sound in each. The same can be said for synthesizers.
 
Rapture could be good but it needs updated. I don't think there's been any updates on it in like 6 years. Someone might correct me on that one but I believe it's been that long if not longer. It also needs a massive interface update and those are things I'm not sure Cake wants to spend the time on now that Zeta+ 2 exists which in itself isn't a bad synth at all, but I find myself using it less and less for things like Serum.

Most of the presets I use I've bought from third parties. The presets that come with any synth (exclusing Omnisphere) have been unusable. The thing is, when I do delve into sound design, I can generally make something good sounding that I end up really liking but I have a perfectionist personality and it can sometimes take me weeks to get a single sound simply because I keep tweaking it. It's not logical for me to work on most of my own because of this. Plus, when you have a pro sound designer like John Lehmkuhl (PluginGuru.com) making things similar to what I'm looking for who can also add a lot of modulation you would have never thought of, it just makes more sense to me.
 
The waveforms don't change, what is being used to change them can have a very different effect on them though. For example, Serum has the ability to add your own waveforms. What is done to those waveforms via oscillators, LFOs, and effects are what make the VST shine so much. It's being able to modify waveforms into something new.

I don't use Dimension Pro a lot these days most of that sort of work falls to Kontakt, but its still a decent source of sampled instruments and sometimes it has what I am looking for.
 
Rapture is another I only use occasionally, I tend to go for classic analogue emulations like MiniMonsta, XILS4 and the Arturia V collection, but I is a pretty decent synth and the Clive Anderton expansions are great.
 
When I want more modern sounds I like Z3ta 2. Most of the presets do not appeal to me at all but once I got my head around programing it from scratch it became much more useful to me.