Hi!

Morhpology http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml...phtml?sku=ZG304
and
Outer Limits http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml...phtml?sku=ZG313
or
USB Xtreme FX http://www.ultimatesoundbank.com/usb/exec/xtremefx

Other than that there is a nice old sampling cd named something like BT twisted textures that does the job, should be cheap by now also.


Viktor

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Originally posted by PlasticSoul What's an alternative option instead of Spectrasonics Atmospheres for creating that mellow voices and well.. atmospheres, hehe... in the breakdown? VST names please... Atmosphere is so expensive and big, I need something less "sized", hehe... I'm using Albino too... Thanks in advance...

Crystal

If you're looking for choirish sounds or strings, pads and the like, you could also try out the Steinberg Hypersonic.

Don't underestimate the use of some (perhaps free-to-find) wav samples that you can use as string, pad or choir patches. Works very fine for me too.

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Originally posted by PlasticSoul What's an alternative option instead of Spectrasonics Atmospheres for creating that mellow voices and well.. atmospheres, hehe... in the breakdown? VST names please... Atmosphere is so expensive and big, I need something less "sized", hehe... I'm using Albino too...

I was wondering the same thing. I'm all about lush pads. So this helps me too. Z3ta has some pretty good mellow and lush pads with lots of atmosphere. I suppose you already know about that one though.

Thats easy! Absynth 3. Its hard to beat if for creating evolving atmospheres with it's incredible envelope programability. Two instances of Absynth running layered is like a patch in Atmosphere but with Absynth you get control of everything and can program your own too. Atmosphere is only sample playback. But I love Atmosphere also and used it constantly.

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Indeed Z3ta+ is decent in this area but doesn't touch Absynth as far as envelope progamability. I have yet to see a softsynth which has as complex envelope editing as Absynth and evolving pads and atmospheres is all about the envelopes. For short and less complex pads Z3ta+ is very good and sounds great. A couple Z3ta+ instances layered could be all ya need. Not to mention it's just an all round awesome synth that every trance producer should have.

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I tried the Absynth demo. First of all, the presets were totally unusable to me, I mean they were all too weird and "out there" for Trance. I'm not very good at creating my own patches, even on simple synths, Absynth seems extremely complex to use if you are into sound creation. I found it about impossible to even tweak the presets, I mean there are so many variables I can't find everything. So how are you supposed to get good Trance pads with Absynth? I suppose you can buy Trance soundsets, right? I'd hate to dismiss a VSTi that might be usefull to me.

well i would go Z3TA, ABSYNTH 3 AND REAKTOR 5.

Although not to sure if you can design mellow atmospheres with reaktor but i think you could its pretty versitile.

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Originally posted by zodiac9 I tried the Absynth demo. First of all, the presets were totally unusable to me, I mean they were all too weird and "out there" for Trance. I'm not very good at creating my own patches, even on simple synths, Absynth seems extremely complex to use if you are into sound creation. I found it about impossible to even tweak the presets, I mean there are so many variables I can't find everything. So how are you supposed to get good Trance pads with Absynth? I suppose you can buy Trance soundsets, right? I'd hate to dismiss a VSTi that might be usefull to me.

Well the reason it seems so complex is that the layout is very different than most synths out there. You have different screens for programming whereas most synths have everything right on the GUI front panel. Anyhow, yes it does take getting used to the layout but it's layouts is really quite cool and to me it's like programming some kind of alien console on a spacraft or something hahah. But yeh, the factory sounds aren't exactly the most useable for trance stuff like the Z3ta stock sounds. However, don't fool yourself though, Absynth does everything and does it well. I think it's one of the first synths out there able to do full surround 5.1 also. IMO it's the best synth for evolving atmospheres because of it's complex envelope editing. There are many soundsets available for FREE download and if i'm not mistaken there are 2 atmospheric sounds sets that come with it.

I have to clarify one statement I made earlier- 2 instances of Absynth running is NOT exactly the same as a dual patch in Spectrasonics Atmosphere module. why? because a lot of sample sounds in Atmosphere were made of multiple patches from some of the nicest sounding analog synths in existance and layered to create those great pads. In one sound patch you could be hearing 'who knows how many?' classic synths layered which ofcourse each have their own character and sound coloration. With one single VSTi synth you don't get that. But then I don't know of any hardware synth out there that can do what Absynth can do either.

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