Soft synths
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Topic: Soft synths
Posted By: Mourndark
Subject: Soft synths
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 12:00
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Can anyone recommend any good ones? (and not too expensive!) I don't know much about them, but I have hit the limitations of my casio WK3000s abilities and would like to expand. |
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 02 2008 at 17:28
My synth's too old to recommend and I don't have any experience with new ones, but I can recommend these soft watches:  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: nightlamp
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 16:12
| I don't use any, but I've heard a couple friends swear by Reason. Arturia's Moog emulators look pretty delicious, but I can't speak for the sound or ease of use... |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 17:13
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What do you want to do? What kind of music? Are you deep into programming? However, if you are willing to tweak analog patches and crazy vintage sounds in a symphonic/ electronic/canterbury/space rock style then Arturia's Moog Modular V is the best. If you're into pads and textures, go for FM7. It's maybe the best softsynth ever done. It could sound both analog and digital. There's a lot to tweak (I mamaged to get a very convincing Grand Piano - and this thing is no sampler!), but you can just load/import millions of patches and off you go. ------------- |
Posted By: Jaydubz
Date Posted: January 28 2008 at 00:00
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Once again, Reason 4 may be the perfect fit for you. The "bang for your buck" cannot be beat in terms of synth variety (within a single package). I own most of the "great" softsynths, and love them as much as any of my hardware synths - but I find myself lately returning to Reason again and again to compose ~ it's that zen-like simplicity! http://www.myspace.com/casellastudio - http://www.myspace.com/casellastudio
In my Myspace player is a new Reason 4 sketch I finished today (ALL done in Reason 4!)  The fat synths are THOR - Reason's newest lethal weapon!------------- "Music is the best." ~ FZ |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 15 2008 at 13:34
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"Soft synth" is too generic to truly recommend so I'll take it as "Virtual Instruments". I would highly recommend those: GForce M-Tron
A fantastic, beautiful sounding and absolutely autentic digital soft version of the Mellotron. The sounds are NOT emulated but transcribed from original 'tron tapes. A must.
GForce Minimonsta
A wonderful emulation of the Minimoog. Very powerful sounding and with expanded sound control capabilities.
Native Instruments B4
Excellent Hammond organ emulation, including Leslie speaker, distortion, etc.
Native Instruments Akoustic Piano
Very cool classical pianos recorded acoustically.
Propellerhead Reason
This is a many-in-one proposition, it includes very fat sounding synthesiser (great sound quality), a very cool visual interface to build your rack, plus you get a sampler with all kinds of sounds including pianos (acoustic and electric), a full orchestra, etc. Fun for weeks...
Good luck!
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 15 2008 at 14:02
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Reason is pretty cool. You can have a lot of fun with it. I've played around with it for years but have never been able to produce anything of substance with it. However that's just my limitation since I'm an old fart and still need an actual 'hard' synth to make decent music. In my case I have a Yamaha Motif, which I would think you could pick up used for not much more than you would pay for Reason.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 08 2008 at 12:39
| I don't use it as much as I should, but I have enjoyed VAZ Modular. |
Posted By: Jaydubz
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 23:49
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M-Tron rocks! ------------- "Music is the best." ~ FZ |