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Novation V-Station
hi ........
this the best Plug that i useing for FL Studio ..........
Novation V-Station
Plugin version of the hardware K-Station.
VSTi for Windows, Audio Unit for Mac OS X.
V-Station sounds can be downloaded into the A or K-Station and vice versa.
Liquid analogue sound based on the K-Station sound engine.
Powerful 3 oscillator sound engine with Noise and FM capability.
Arpeggiator with synchronisation lock.
Simultaneous high quality effects including Reverb, Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Panning & Distortion and EQ Filter.
400 user programs - 200 factory presets.
8 note polyphony per instance.
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A very nice VSTi, you can create a wide variety of very nice basses, leads, arps, pads, strings, brasses and organs with the V-Station. The V-Station has a lot of buttons and knobs, but tweaking it is quite easy, even for a VSTi-n00b like me. Within minutes you'll be creating some funky sounds. The Value For Money factor is quite good (the price stated on KvR is wrong, the actual price is a lot lower, I belive ). The only thing I really don't like about this VSTi is that it's not very stable. Often when I use it in FLstudio it gives me stranges errors and crashes. Even though the customer support has been very, very helpfull I haven't been abel to fix it yet.
for more info take look here.............
http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/404.html
no doubt about it, for 60 quid reFX vanguard is the best vst ive got. it can do hard psy trance leads - sync saw wave and peak wave, band passed, long sustain, no attack, short delay, no release + inbuilt delay + inbuilt reverb, cutoff at around 8 oclock. whack the inbuilt arp on it and voila - you have goa trance lead. or get a couple of synced saws, detune up, long sustain, little bit of delay. voila. nasty hard house lead. or use some of the noise waveforms to create instant effects, sweeps, swooshes etc. and theres a trance gate on it for insta rolling basslines. theres nothing this instrument doesnt do and it costs peanuts. easily the most used instrument in my setup. its just a shame that when you crank the polyphony up it munches your CPU like a battle frenzied cookie monster. but thats to be expected i guess.
also some guy on this forum made an instrument called supersaw 0.6. its free and its totally awesome for creating *monster* detuned leads. its better than supersaw plus and it heaps the detune on like superwave trance pro can only dream of doing. have a couple of these sitting in opposite stereo fields, crank up the osc mix and detune and this fills the entire room with loud cygnus x style fuzz. beautiful.
agonyx is another trance beast. this is amazing for hard psy trance basses and washed out pads/leads. i think you only need to donate 5 dollars to get a full license so its absolutely recommended.
Vanguard absolutely rules.... i mean i have fm7, z3ta, pro52, pro53 and others which are all great. But if i had to pick one it would be vanguard
I just found out that there is a freeware synth loosely modeled after the JP-8000 called Superwave P8 (supposed to be an older prototype of SW Trance Pro?).
Oke got this from a magazine, just some softsynths (not just VSTsynths) sorted on their form of synthesis. I found it quite intersting. 
Text taken from DIGITAL MUSIC MAKER MAGAZINE SE: SYNTHESIS
ANALOG & MODULAR ANALOG
Beginning the process of imitating analog synthesizers in software is simply a matter of creating simple wave files - such as sines, sawtooths and squares � although filtering and processing them in a way which sounds as smooth as a genuine analog instrument can be a real challenge.
Since many of the classic synths of yesterday were analog, specific software imitations of hardware instruments are common. Some software imitations are more true to the original than others, sometimes simply for copyright reasons.
EXAMPLES:
Access Virus Indigo TDM for TC Powercore hardware
Arturia CS-80V (Yamaha CS 80 modulation)
Arturia Minimoog V (MiniMoog emulation)
Arturia Moog Modular V (Moog Modular System emulation)
Discodsp Discovery v2.1 (Clavia Nord Lead, roughly)
E-Magic ES1 & ES2 in Logic
G-Force ImpOSCar (polyphonic OSC OSCar emulation)
G-Force Oddity (ARP Odyssey emulation)
Korg Legacy MS-20 (polyphonic MS-20 emulation)
Korg Legacy Polysix (Korg Poly 6 emulation)
Linplug Albino 2
Native Instruments Pro53 (Sequential Prophet 5 emulation)
Novation Bass Station
Novation V-station
Nusofting Mothership Astrobelt
Propellerheads Subtractor in Reason
ReFX Vanguard (replaces Juno X2, a Roland Juno 106 imitator)
Steinberg JX16
Steinberg Model-E (MiniMoog-a-like)
TC Works Mercury 1
SAMPLOID
The trend among keyboards and modules over the last few years has been towards samploid designs � in other words, sounds are based on sampled waveforms which are then processed. So far, there are relatively few samploid software packages, but numbers are increasing.
EXAMPLES:
Spectrasonics Atmosphere
Steinberg Hypersonic
ROLAND TB-303 Style
The Roland TB-303 Bassline was one of the first synths to make the transition to software imitation, probably because it made a fairly simple sound, but the hardware version has become much sought-after and expensive on the second-hand market. There are many shareware and even freeware imitators in addition to the examples mentioned below.
EXAMPLES:
Propellerheads ReBirth RB338
Steinberg Neon
MODULAR
These synths allow virtual patching of different elements, so the user can create a unique voice in software � not to be confused with modular analog systems, which offer patchable alignments of relatively simple modules. One other software modular, the powerful Clavia Nord Modular, runs only on its own associated hardware.
EXAMPLES:
Applied Acoustic Systems Tassman 4
Software Technology Vaz Modular
VirSyn TERA 2
FM
Frequency Modulation synthesis was the method developed by Yamaha for its DX range of keyboard modules. Several software packages offer a limited form of FM synthesis, but there seems to be only one licensed imitation of the actual algorithms which make FM controllable and musically meaningful
EXAMPLE:
Native Instruments FM7
WAVETABLE
This is one of the most interesting forms of synthesis, offering digital waveshapes (which can include simple imitations of analog waves) that can either be filtered, or stepped through in wavetables during the course of a note. This can create everything from analog imitations to complex cycling sounds.
EXAMPLES:
Korg Legacy Wavestation
Shinen SHN-1
Steinberg Waldorf PPG2V (PPG Wave 2)
GRANULAR
Granular synthesis is a rare technique which can create anything from smooth to gritty and distorted sounds.
EXAMPLES:
Pluggo Cycling �74
Propellerheads Malstr�m in Reason 2.5
Rasmus Ekman Granulab
ADDITIVE
Another rarely seen form of synthesis, which cropped up in hardware on the Kawai K5/K5R, the Kawai K5000S/W/M, the expensive NED Synclavier and Fairlight, and in limited form on the Korg DSS1/DSM1. Theoretically, it�s based on adding many sine waves at different pitches (usually 64 or 128) under the control of individual envelopes, though some software versions also bend pitches or, like VirSyn Cube, morph from one set of waves to another.
EXAMPLES:
Camel Audio Cameleon 5000
ConcreteFX Adder
Discodsp Vertigo
Symbolic Sound Kyma, an expensive hardware/software resynthesizer
VirSyn Cube
PHYSICAL MODELLING
Seen in hardware synths such as the Yamaha VL1 and VL70M, the Korg Prophecy and Z1 and the Technics WSA1, this processor-hungry synthesis method holds mathematical models of the response of the strings, pipes, drumheads and other instrument parts, and allows users to combine them to create authentically acoustic sounding hybrid instruments, the likes of which have never existed before. Physical modelling can be a complex process � but Tassman 3, for instance, holds 50 different physical models and 1000 presets just for starters, making it an ideal first choice.
EXAMPLES:
Steinberg Flex
Synapse Audio Plucked String
Zero-G Vocaloid
PERCUSSION
There are many software drum machines on the market, some even offering enough variation of sound to qualify as percussion synthesizers. Below are some of the best.
EXAMPLES:
FXPansion DR008, and BFD acoustic drum module
Native Instruments Battery
Sonic Charge Utonic
Steinberg Waldorf Attack
Swar Systems SwarPlug (Indian Percussion)
LOOPING/SLICING
There�s a lot of software on the market dedicated to the creation of loops and beats from various sound sources. Most of these have plenty of sound-processing ability, so could be regarded as synthesizers, having something sonically in common with the wavetable types.
EXAMPLES:
Bitshift Audio pHATmatik Pro
Image Line FL Studio
Steinberg Xphraze
VINTAGE
The imitation of classic electro-mechanical keyboards. However it�s done � using any combination of additive synthesis, sampling or digital signal processing � the intention is to specifically replace the sounds named (and often very large, expensive and unreliable) classic keyboard instruments.
EXAMPLES:
AAS Lounge Lizard (Fender Rhodes and other electric pianos)
E-Magic EVB3 (Hammond) and EVD6 (Clavinet) in Logic
Gforce M-Tron/Megatron (Streetley Electronics Mellotron emulation)
Native Instruments B4 (Classic Hammond hardware emulation)
Scarbee WEP (Wurtilzer electic piano library)
UVI Charlie (Hammond B3, Elka and other organs)
edit: I have never completely read this thread os if something similar has been posted already, just ignore my post
a good addition to the roland tb303 emulation thing is
audiorealism bass-line
i think the website is www.audiorealism.se. running a google search for 'audiorealism bassline' doesnt seem to return any hits. you can get a demo off the site. put simply, its is the best tb-303 emulation you will ever get without actually buying the real deal. the gui looks just like it too.
The Virus Powercore looks very impressive. 
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| Originally posted by Timothy The Virus Powercore looks very impressive. |
. Ive been trying to get a demo version to this cause i dont want to cough up 450 bucks for something im not happy with. If its good itll solve my problem of which synth to buy- buy the Nord Lead 3 and soft version of the Access
I just want to mention something about pads and evolving atmospheres here...
there has been a lot of talk about Spectrasonic Atmosphere module which I have and it's nice but it was expensive. I am into sound design. I like to create atmospheres. I have NI's Absynth and let me just say to any of you who are into synth programming and atmospheres, don't waste your money on Atmosphere. Get Absynth. With Absynth you have full synthesis and NO samples like Atmosphere so everything is organic. However, if want to use some samples it can even load them too! If you run two instances of Absynth you have virtually what Atmosphere is when running a DUAL patch except with Absynth you have entire control over all sythesis down to each patches 6 Oscillators. Absynth 3 soon to come also has a 'unison' function on each osc which will make it the bomb for HUGE trance leads! Can't wait.
New VSTi very very nice
for more info go here ...
http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/index.html
what does VSTi stand for *ducks*
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| Originally posted by Euphorica what does VSTi stand for *ducks* |
check this out http://www.virus.info/
That's REAL VST instrument 
Absynth , Vanguard and Atmosphere are the best out there.
As for the Free ones, SuperWave P8.
Any other good free ones?
Synth 1 ist imho the best freebie, followed by free alpha
This thread is embarrassing - you have to search through its 14 pages to find any of the newer VSTs, and the original post is extremly outdated & many of the pics don't work.
Is my thread going to replace this one or did I waste 4 hours of my time?
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=233907
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