anybody know any good synths with solid presets and minimal tweeking

Well Gladiator 2.2 by Tone2 has ALOT of presets to choose from as well as ALOT of options to tweak and even design new sounds.

http://www.tone2.com/html/gladiator_2_vsti_au_synthesize.html

For new users which don't have enough knowledge about sound design I would propose Nexus2 from reFx - easy to use without a lot of tweeking.

Cheers,

Darek

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Hey Darek, good to know you're in the same location

Hows this? LOL

Last edited by dj_k1 on Feb-01-2011 at 05:52

Not really digging the demo, sounds retro

Sound and looks great

Cheers my friend and nice to have you here.

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Last edited by TranceLover007 on Feb-01-2011 at 06:16

just commenting, not asking for anything

Lol, no problem (at last with me lol)

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If you use Reason and Record, they sell a Thor refill which is well-suited for many EDM genres.

Sylenth1 is a great VST as well.

whats the name of the refill pack for Thor?

Deep and progressive House synths?Surely no further than Native Massive, Absynth and FM8, the Korg Legacy Digital Collection is impressive too.

Sylenth1 is really effective for quick sounding Deadmau5, Dinka and Paul Keeley sounds but it tends to border on the Trance front for me...not suited for Deep House synth sounds though with minimal cut-off frequencies...it can give a good effect on some notes.

I wouldn't recommend Gladiator...it does have a retro sheen to it and for me it's only suited to Trance, I know you can edit the Synthesizer itself but it still has that borderline Trance rave sounds.

Rob Papen Predator is good although will need tweaking with EQ and compression to make it fit into the mix as the frequencies can be dull...Im actually impressed with the Rob Papen series as the tweaking is easier than other Synths and can get some really decent sounds from there which are suited for House.