This thing is unreal!

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for your extensive rundown on soft synths. I'd like to add two that I use a lot on commercial remixes / productions.

1. ImpOSCar (http://www.gmediamusic.com/)

and

2. Oddity (also http://www.gmediamusic.com/)

They sound as fat as it gets and blend well with the mix. Have fun!

Flex Mulholland

Ok i need a little help ,with making a good Trance production, i make a lot of good melody's and other stuff,but i have problems with making good kicks and basslines,i don't have nice machines for this, ok i have the Vanguard and pro 53,so if somebody have a few good tips for me...let me please know .

- Knowledge about your vst synths so you know which parameter does what. I would say this is your staring point. Often you can use the vsti's native features/fx to tweak the sound pretty much how you like it. So tweak those knobs, learn.

- Paramteric EQ. Unless you blindly build a tune around a certain sound, be it a kick, you need to tweak the frequencies to make it sit right in the mix. You will almost certainly need to cut/boost frequencies in a bassline to make it sound just right. Disregard any tips you've read saying you shouldn't boost frequencies, it's bull. It's all about how you want it to sound. Oh, and don't overdo eq'ing on kicks. A gentle lift around the 100hz mark is often enough if you want a bit more punch to a flat kick.

- Compressors. For kicks and bass. To bring up the quieter parts in a sequence (densening the sound), add snap to attacks.

- Detuner. For bassline, if not applicable in native synth. A free detuner would be mda Detune, which is quite good. This is of course no must-use, but will help you phatten up a sound you like, but just doesn't sounds as phat as you'd like.

Chorus/flanger/phaser. For bass. Does pretty much the same as detune, but to more or less extreme.

- A nice collection of sample cd's. For kicks. 99.98% of kicks are wrong for you or complete crap, so needless to say you need samples and more samples.

- Lastly I will point back to the first paragraph, just to underline the importance of it

A few pointers.

i understand this all,still learning offcourse, but i'm working with fruityloops and for kicks i only have Fruity drumsynth and for basslines i use the Vanguard,...where can i find good samples for kicks ? And that compressor of fruityloops ,makes not to many difference

Vanguard comes pretty close to those basslines i want,but just not that i want,maybe it's my fault ' ok is it possible to make a bassline with the Vanguard like Mat Silver vs. Tony Burt - Waimea,Thrillseekers,Aalto - Taurine(super8 rmx),Above & Beyond..that kind of stuff ???

do a search for these 2 topics....there are plenty of threads that discuss layering and compression of kicks and creating basslines

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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

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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 Malström 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

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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.