favorite synths.

siriusbliss · Post by **siriusbliss** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:59 pm

I'm looking for a really lush, big synth patches - non 'techy', overly filtery sound, but closer to strings sounding.

I'll be using it with my guitar synth.

Which synths are good for this? So far, all the synths and modularII patches I've tested are too 'techno' sounding.

Maybe I'll just have to use the STS5000 and find some good samples.

Thanks

MOFO · Post by **MOFO** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:34 am

CS80v might be worth a look.

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valis · Post by **valis** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:07 am

Wavelength Europa

Zargmusic Solaris

Zargmusic Ambient

Creamware Pro-One (soon to be relaunched as ProTone I believe)

there are several excellent flexor patches which would work (or just the flexor filters, perhaps Phil when that comes out).

I've also heard people say they can even get usable results out of 'bluesynth' (perhaps with some additional external filtering?).

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wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:08 am

my "uberPLASTIC" can be very lush sounding and I have included some string patches in the preset list.

cheers,

stephen

http://www.track0.com/wavelength/

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:10 am

On 2004-05-30 05:07, valis wrote:
Wavelength Europa

Wavelength Ambient

Creamware Pro-One (soon to be relaunched as ProTone I believe)

there are several excellent flexor patches which would work (or just the flexor filters, perhaps Phil when that comes out).

I've also heard people say they can even get usable results out of 'bluesynth' (perhaps with some additional external filtering?).

hehehe... thanks for the promo, much appreciated! however, although i did some of the presets for the Ambient synth's release, it is a "Zarg" (John Bowen) synthesizer. The "Europa" is 100% mine, though.

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sun May 30, 2004 9:16 am

If you use midi guitar and you have/get Modular III, I made a patch that receives on 6 channels, made to take full advantage of the midi guitar features.
You can get it here: http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=15&0

Ciao

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:38 am

Try the ensember VSTi at http://www.concretefx.com. A lush string synth.

valis · Post by **valis** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:25 am

On 2004-05-30 05:10, wavelength wrote:

hehehe... thanks for the promo, much appreciated! however, although i did some of the presets for the Ambient synth's release, it is a "Zarg" (John Bowen) synthesizer. The "Europa" is 100% mine, though.

Oh cripes I can't believe I did that lol. Edited.

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Sun May 30, 2004 12:26 pm

I think most Scope synths use far too much DSP for big, warm pads (10+ voices), so for this one you'd have to go native. The absolute best pad machine is Spectrasonics' Atmosphere. It has every kind of pad you could imagine, plus tons of ambient sound FX and other things. Lots of stuff included. It's a great buy! They have MP3 demos on their site.

(If you do really want to use something on Scope, I think Vectron is excellent -- it also uses far less DSP than the analog synths.)

Have fun,

Shayne

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Post by **hubird** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:14 pm

Atmosphere is a good one indeed:
you can work fast, great and huge library included, enough fast editing possibilities involved, and automation provided

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun May 30, 2004 5:40 pm

I often layer some outboard crap with a few voices of an SFP quality synth - usually comes out big together.
I have some extremely great sounding string pads on the DX7 and the Casio VZ8, strange, but true - the surprise of the unexpected

cheers, Tom

siriusbliss · Post by **siriusbliss** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:44 pm

Thanks for all the great replies.
I knew I would be glad I started this thread

I'll be checking into the models mentioned.

Greg

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:31 am

get Morpheus patch for modular. Dude, if this doesnt help you i have no idea what will

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:09 am

Another vote for Spectrasonics Atmosphere, I realize this is not a SFP synth but Atmosphere is to good to be denied

Nothing like having 6 gigs and about a 1000 patches with amazing textures, lush pads, obscure leads, motions, evolving pads, orchestral strings (only a couple but they sound BIG), live & analog pads and strings.

I could go on for a while, its a great synth, and best off all, you get anazing sounds right out of the box, light tweaking to taste, the sounds are incredible dry, add effects and this VST becomes a monster.

It does has a few negative, but the Pro's far out weigh the negatives.

Cheers!

Post by **hubird** » Mon May 31, 2004 5:05 pm

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon May 31, 2004 6:01 pm

Get Saturn

Plato · Post by **Plato** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:28 am

Have you checked out the sample CD that used to come with Pulsar.....there are some good pads on it, and a string program called 'All Strings' which is very good (as long as you take the time to loop all the samples).
Also try using some of the samples in a Modular Sample Osc-based patch....you can get some great results.

Post by **hubird** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:02 pm

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:41 pm

Much as I dislike NI, Absynth is excellent for pads and gets good polyphony without crippling the CPU.

siriusbliss · Post by **siriusbliss** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:12 am

OK, so far I'm NOT yet totally blown away by Wavelength's and Zargmusic's synths - although I can see a lot of possibilities there. I just don't have TIME to create patches - been doing it for 25 years now.

Still going to check out other synths/modulars, but so far Atmospheres is enticing.

Greg

PulsarI/SRB/PowerSampler