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Originally Posted by aof21  Arturia stuff is good. So is Native Instruments, particularly maybe FM7/8.
Also, one thing with Reason is that a lot of the stock patches are really bad, but you can find some people who make refills that have a lot better patches in them, so don't disqualify Reason on the fact that it might sound bad at first. You can get pretty good sounds out of there if you get some better programming or take the time to program it yourself. Good sounds usually require quite a few modules chained together with fx, etc. Unfortunately, i've never really gotten any softsynth to sound particularly beefy when just playing a raw waveform. |
All this is true as far as I'm concerned. Try not to discount Reason COMPLETELY, but experiment using it as a rewire device. Especially because of it's synth capabilities. if you make your synth patches thought out combinator patches, they could come out sounding as beefy or brittle as you want. One of the things I liked about it when I used it was the fact that I could add such a high amount of machines to my Reason instance before my computer would bog down (and my computer is NOT particularly good). I use primarily vst's now and they hog the system much quicker.
As far as vst's go, I like
FM8
synth1 (free)
Impossicar
D16 Phoscyon
Arturia CS-80V
and more I have a brain-lock atm...