|
soft synths
|
View this Thread in Original format
| jammer42777 |
Hello,
I will be attempting to get start writting trance music
Most of my music will be melody driven, with backbeats and synth sounds backing up the melody.
My question is which soft synth will be most apporpriate (my budget is $400 for a synth) I'm leaning more twoards soft synths since I would rather just load a sample into the softsynth and play it in cakewalk using the soundcard. If I went hardware I'd have to sequence the track in cakewalk, use the hard synth as a tone generator, and record the riffs as wav (one track at a time)
I've been leaning twoard "atmosphere" (Although I'm not sure if it has an audio IN) Reaktor, or atmosphere.
So which soft synth on the market (that will takes WAVS as input) would give me the most creative potiential.
Thank you for your time,
--Joshua |
|
|
| velo |
| Good softsynths for trance are refx-vanguard,rgc-z3ta and novation-v-station(especially for lead sounds).For pads you can use Albino or atmosphere.Hope that helped a little...;) |
|
|
| Tranc3 |
| There's a sticky about this titled "The Best VSTi Softsynths":rolleyes: |
|
|
| Massive84 |
are you spending 400 for EACH synth? does this mean you go over that amount? or is your budget 400 dollar totally?
if the second...il recommand Vanguard, it's very good heard decent stuff from it.
also Albino, and Pro53..
as for atmosphere ,i heard its great for pads and ambient stuff, but not for leads.
also check out the demo of this
http://www.access-music.de/products...=viruspowercore
this one looks nice, and ya there are some decent free soft synths..check out the sticky..
i hope you got a good PC :) |
|
|
| velo |
| Unfortunately you cannot check out the demo of Virus-powercore. You have to get yourself powercore-card for that first, wich is about 600,- . Access-Virus is about 400,-.:nervous: |
|
|
| Digital Aura |
:D VANGUARD
hands down.
Thats it.
CLOSE THREAD:cool: |
|
|
| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Digital Aura
:D VANGUARD
hands down.
Thats it.
CLOSE THREAD:cool: |
for the price vanguard is best ($79 USD) but when it comes down to sound even v-station sounds better than vanguard...
Spectrasonics Atmosphere sounds the best out of all of the none hardware powered VSTis becuase it's sample based.. I've been able to get some sick leads, basses, and pads out of it.. but it's sample based so all you can play with is the ADSR.. |
|
|
| MrCowski |
My views:
Overall value:
Z3ta+ (only $150, it's a steal)
Very usefull, but expensive:
V-station
Everyone loves it, though it aint cheap:
Atmosphere
Also good:
Pro53
For cheap:
Vanguard |
|
|
| alanzo |
Yeh.. z3ta is probably the best sounding OSC based VSTi.. but it's a little hard to program since it's get LOTS of knobs and crap.
like I said before, it's possible to get great pads/leads/basses out of atmosphere, but it's a little weird to work with becuase it's sample based and has no internal FX.. |
|
|
| The Designer |
| quote: | Originally posted by jammer42777
Hello,
I will be attempting to get start writting trance music
Most of my music will be melody driven, with backbeats and synth sounds backing up the melody.
My question is which soft synth will be most apporpriate (my budget is $400 for a synth) I'm leaning more twoards soft synths since I would rather just load a sample into the softsynth and play it in cakewalk using the soundcard. If I went hardware I'd have to sequence the track in cakewalk, use the hard synth as a tone generator, and record the riffs as wav (one track at a time)
I've been leaning twoard "atmosphere" (Although I'm not sure if it has an audio IN) Reaktor, or atmosphere.
So which soft synth on the market (that will takes WAVS as input) would give me the most creative potiential.
Thank you for your time,
--Joshua |
I would recommend the Vanguard for a beginner. It's an easy straightforward synth to program.
You were also looking for a sampler plugin. Kontakt would be your best choice( takes WAV's as input ). It costs $400, ...... |
|
|
| Dj Thy |
| quote: | Originally posted by jammer42777
Hello,
I will be attempting to get start writting trance music
Most of my music will be melody driven, with backbeats and synth sounds backing up the melody.
My question is which soft synth will be most apporpriate (my budget is $400 for a synth) I'm leaning more twoards soft synths since I would rather just load a sample into the softsynth and play it in cakewalk using the soundcard. If I went hardware I'd have to sequence the track in cakewalk, use the hard synth as a tone generator, and record the riffs as wav (one track at a time)
I've been leaning twoard "atmosphere" (Although I'm not sure if it has an audio IN) Reaktor, or atmosphere.
So which soft synth on the market (that will takes WAVS as input) would give me the most creative potiential.
Thank you for your time,
--Joshua |
I think you have a little misconception here. A synth (hardware or software) synthesises sound (duh), meaning it will generate it's own sounds, through oscillators (how it generates the sounds and how you can tweak them depends on the type of synth : subtractive, additive, FM, ... I won't explain that here). So generally a synth doesn't have an audio in, as it makes it own sound. When you find synths with audio inputs, it's usually to use the effects/filter/envelope/... section on the audio input.
To keep it simple, you don't load up samples in a synth. You just tweak the oscillators, amps, envelopes, filters etc to create your sound.
What you probably mean are samplers (exist in hardware and software too). Samplers are pretty similar to synths, they can have filters and envelopes, etc... too, except with samplers the "sound source" aren't oscillators, but samples you load in. If it's a sampler you're looking for, I reccomend Kontakt, although Halion, sfz and EXS24 are very good too.
So the question is, what do you mean with synth? |
|
|
| Digital Aura |
LOL..
I expected THY to do something like that! ;) |
|
|
|
|
