Sadly, I need to replace my LP with a VST for live situations. I don’t have room to bring it with me anymore. I am looking for a VST that I can reprogram my patches in and sounds decent. I dont want some overly complicated VST such as moog modular. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Make room for it! 
I don’t think you can find a VSTi that comes close to the sound of a Little Phatty..
Well there’s always Arturia’s Mini-Moog VSTi. Depending on what you mean by not enough room, you could go for a Creamware 1U rack mount synth that’s a digital recreation of the Mini-Moog. Then if you were doing any control changes you wouldn’t have the latency of a VSTi. The Creamware rack synths run about $500. About a grand if you buy them with a full set of controls.
THe Moog Modular isn’t complicated at all…Unless you want to patch your own from scratch. Its just as easy as picking a preset and going to town. I think though in my experience, it lags a little bit and thats with plenty of ram, the buffer down to minimum and with a midi controller.
too bad about the LP though.
“Reason” is a great program and most people are using Abelton Live nowadays.
You shouldn’t have to get rid of the LP though…just download whatever program you need.
I would definitely say Arturia Minimoog too
Reaktor’s “Fat Cat.”
how come you dont have room to bring it anymore?
the lp hardly takes up any space at all!!
youll regret not having it on your gigs, not only does it sound stunning and cuts thru 1000 times better than a vst, it has bags of stage presence as well.
And whilst on the computer subject 9 out of 10 gigs i see when people are running laptops end up crashing within the first 3-4 tunes due to computers playing up…
try to do stuff live and not rely on lappys. thats the real challenge these days.
be brave!
GForce Minimonsta
MinimogueVA is remarkably good for free. Live I would still use the real LP if I could though. There’s no substitute. 
Zebra 2 - the filters are insane and the routing possibilities are sweet
thanks for the replys, im keeping it on strage, nothing else compares. I just really with there was some advance midi support so I could effectivly use it as a controller as well. 
Another vote for Zebra. The 2.2 version has a completely new set of presets by Howard Scarr, which even contain a number of emulations of the LP. They don’t sound the same but they’re not at all bad. It’s far and away my favourite soft synth. And created by a pleasant, responsive, small company too (sound familiar?)
You cannot replace the LP with a VST. No virtual analogue synth will come close. I have tried it. The Arturia Minimoog is good until you hear an original analogue Moog, the GForce Minimonsta is better, but still not as good as the original. The closest you can get to a Moog with a digital VA-Synth is the Nord Modular G2. But this is not a VST-instrument and it will take up as much space on the stage as your LP. Nevertheless I would like to encourage you to try these instruments next to each other: the Moog LP, the Arturia, the GForce and the NM G2 Demo.
Better still, try the Zebra preset Thank you Bob next to the LP Thank You Bob. How close is close enough?
Hi Kungfugeek,
I’m selling my copy of Arturia’s Moog Modular 2.0. I no longer use it now that I have the LP!
PM me if you’re interested.
(I’m also selling my copy of Arturia’s Arp 2600 as I’m about to get an Arp Odyssey 
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I’ve made some awesome Reason NN-XT sampler patches from my LP. I’ve had some friends play them and most of them couldn’t tell it wasn’t the LP.
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Unless you really need the money from this sale to buy the Odyssey, I’d strongly suggest waiting until you’re familiar with the Odyssey before being sure about selling the Arturia.
In addition to obvious advantages like polyphony and the sequencer, the Arturia’s extra features add a lot to the instrument. As you have several filter options, and the tracking generator, you have possibilities that the original 2600 can’t match, let alone an Odyssey.
I compared the Arturia with the Timewarp 2600 emulation, which is supposed to be closer to the original, and I have to say the Arturia is sonically superior and more versatile, regardless of how accurate it may be as a virtual 2600.
Of course it depends on what you need for your particular music. If you don’t need the Arturia Modular V through having the LP I can see why you may not feel you need the extra features of the 2600V either. But from my own experience I’d definitely advise waiting until you’re sure.
Here is the way I set up my rig.
Nord Electro 73, Moog Little Phatty on top via 2nd tier,
Casio Wk-3500 on another stand.
two yamaha 15’s behind me, and a soundcraft gig rac amp to power the speakers.
i am in my own keyboard world. takes up about maybe 7 square feet? (speakers inclusive)
The Nord G2 is awesome. The presets it come with don’t sound quite as Moog like as the Minimoogy_G2 that you can find on the electromusic.com forums. That is an excellent synth! I’m looking for ways to get the sequencers in the Nord to speak to my Moogerfooger modular system…
I love the Minimonsta as well. But live, the Phatty is great and reliable…