favorite soft-synths

yeah Synth 1 is great! You can get some really useful presets from kvr-vst as well. Maybe a bit thin, but with a few fx on it sounds great.

My recent fave is the MS-20 from Korg Legacy. That's got some phat sounds.

I still like the Pentagon. Lots of knobs, but easy to program, and a pretty wild pitch envelope.

I never seem to find z3ta as useful as others say it is. I find the sound of a lot of the presets too complex to use in a track - the ones with rhythms etc. I should look on kvr for more presets... Nice realtime waveform shaping though.

redzebra
 
icodon said:
Don´t kill me guys, I know this question would be silly...

Those soft sinths are software or hardware??
Is there any sinths we can get for free???

Sorry about my production´s knowledge........... :?

Thanks

ReFX: beast and claw, good sounding-eazy to use free synths.

http://www.refx.net
 
saxopholus said:
Mate, Waves IR-1 or any other convolution reverb (Voxengo Pristine Space ($139), SIR (free), etc) and get some free impulses from Voxengo (http://www.voxengo.com/impulses/). Or even make your own with their Impulse Modeler (http://www.voxengo.com/imodeler/). Nice one Voxengo!

i love the results i got from SIR, but the delay makes it pretty unusable for me. Do the commercial ones have the same problem? I suppose you dont care anyway, with your flashy full PDC :D
 
The thing about the Waves and the Voxengo ones is that they both have an efficient mode which will cut down the cpu load and they don't seem to have the same synching delay as SIR, although the developer is working on a zero-latency version. Efficient mode sounds fine to me esp cos I often only apply a little wet signal.

PDC? :blink:
 
plugin delay compensation

nuendo 2 reputedly has total PDC resulting in total sample accuracy even if you get into complex groups and send arrangements, which is reputedly a big deal. at least steinberg think so. me - i've noticed things phase when i run sounds through two channels parallel and put certain compressors or whatever on one of them. so there is a use for it, obviously. ppl on the nuendo forums seemed to think there were drawbacks also (eg drop outs when you toggle plugins on/off, as it recalculates the delay compensation required) so i hvent really made my mind up really
 
The dropping out is pretty minor tbh, although of course it depends how hardcore ur computer is or the complexity of the project.
 
your mum said:
Absynth. The rest are shit.

In your considered opinion, naturally... ;)

Sorry dude, I just can't justify throwing thousands of pounds at expensive analogue gear when to my ear it doesn't actually sound any better...

J.
 
JPsychodelicacy said:
your mum said:
Absynth. The rest are shit.

In your considered opinion, naturally... ;)

Sorry dude, I just can't justify throwing thousands of pounds at expensive analogue gear when to my ear it doesn't actually sound any better...

J.
i cant justify throwing any money at any hardware stuff except maybe a midi controller. i mean i do have some hardware, but more than i actually need.
i'd rather have a phat midi controller hooked up to imposcar with a pitch bender and screamin filter, all for the cost of the controller, than racks of expensive hardware synths. yeah they look cool, and i'm sure theres some great sounds, but i'm doin great with my software thankyou!
and by the way all check out my new stuff at www.freewebs.com/fromem_ory
 
JPsychodelicacy said:
your mum said:
Absynth. The rest are shit.

In your considered opinion, naturally... ;)

Sorry dude, I just can't justify throwing thousands of pounds at expensive analogue gear when to my ear it doesn't actually sound any better...

J.
Which analogue synths have you worked with?
Maybe you can justify spending some money on sorting your ears out? :lol:
If you can't tell the difference :!: ... fair enough.

Peace.
 
Alesis Andromeda (briefly), Pro-One, TB-303, Juno 60.

(Admittedly all working with other people, so I never had the chance to get 'into' them properly).

I agree that they *can* sound better in *some* cases, but to me they've never sounded *hundreds or thousands of pounds* better than the softsynths I've used. I suppose they sound better if you're trying for a vintage sound like Gary Numan, but for psy-trance, I don't see the point myself.

J.
 
I have to say again - Absynth 2 is INCREDIBLE. I'm stating this for the benefit of anyone looking to purchase a decent plug in that works above and beyond your creative capacity..



Amen.
 
JPsychodelicacy said:
I suppose they sound better if you're trying for a vintage sound like Gary Numan, but for psy-trance, I don't see the point myself.
J.
We'll just have to agree to disagree then.

Peace.
 
Fairy nuff. :D

(TBH, I'd prolly feel the same way if I *had* thousands of pounds to spend on analogue gear, but as I don't and probably never will...)

J.
 
Reaktor

Easily the most versatile I would contend. Shame that my computer barely runs it. I really need to upgrade! Reaktor just has so much raw power, shame its such a CPU hog.
 
I dont see where analogue gear came into it anyway , absynth was another vsti last time i checked
 
your mum said:
Which analogue synths have you worked with?
Maybe you can justify spending some money on sorting your ears out? :lol:
If you can't tell the difference :!: ... fair enough.

Peace.

<devils advocate>

if you't cant make a virtual analog synth sound good :!: ... fair enough.
 
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