14th December 2009
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#1 | | Lives for gear
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Thread Starter  | Latest and Greatest VST Instrument
Any one keeping up with the latest and greatest VST synths out there? Im looking for nice phat sounds. I have GForce stuff but any that are latest and greatest and came out very recently?
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14th December 2009
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#2 | | Lives for gear
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14th December 2009
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#3 | | Lives for gear
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14th December 2009
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#4 | | Gear addict
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Originally Posted by Yoozer  | wow, they're nice. I don't normally go for softsynths but I may make an exception there.
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#5 | | Lives for gear
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i recently purchased XILS at audioMIDI.com for 20 $.
A wonderful EMS emulation and a true nobrainerdeal.  | |
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#6 | | Lives for gear
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Whats best for synth stabs? aka. I get cool stabs on Gladiator just on the 'lead' patches.. anything better with that bright modern sound?
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Its not the latest and certainly not the cheapest but is probably the best vst synth in that price.
Cameleon 5000 VST from Camel Audio , easily one of the best synths I have worked with during my decade of software only music production. Cameleon 5000 - Additive Synth - VSTi Instrument, Audio Units plugin
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#8 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Dr.Wu i recently purchased XILS at audioMIDI.com for 20 $.
A wonderful EMS emulation and a true nobrainerdeal. | Yeah. +1
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14th December 2009
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#9 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by CJ1973 Any one keeping up with the latest and greatest VST synths out there? Im looking for nice phat sounds. I have GForce stuff but any that are latest and greatest and came out very recently? | imho right now it's omnisphere.
if you have a fast computer you should try it. trillian is great too ...
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#10 | | Lives for gear
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on the Omnisphere tip.. don't forget "if you have a lot of RAM"
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#11 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by mattsearles on the Omnisphere tip.. don't forget "if you have a lot of RAM" | Yeah my comp is a Mac Pro Core 8 with 10GB RAM... but isnt Omnisphere been around for a while now?
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14th December 2009
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#12 | | Gear Head
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With Omnisphere version 1.1 there is a Light version that you can run that significantly reduces the amount of ram needed to run a patch. This will help users that don't have tons of ram or are not running in 64 bit yet.
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15th December 2009
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#13 | | Gear interested
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Camel audio alchemy is EXTREMELY awesome. Sample manipulation to the future.
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15th December 2009
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#14 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Parsecaudiotron Camel audio alchemy is EXTREMELY awesome. Sample manipulation to the future. | Listened to the demo and it sounds awesome. How long has this VST been around? Is it relatively new? Im trying to get some real latest stuff if possible..
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15th December 2009
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#15 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by CJ1973 Im trying to get some real latest stuff if possible.. | This shows the silliness of that quest. Why would something be better just because it's newer? You're looking for a particular sound; pick what you can use regardless of if it has been made in 2006 or 2009.
Alchemy was released in September 2008.
If you insist on new and want something bright, Waldorf Largo might be of help, too.
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didn't know about the light version.. I think Omnisphere has been around for about a year.. I have 6 GB on an 8 core mac pro and it isn't always enough.. depending on the instance count and all of that.. I've heard reports of memory leakage.. but don't know if that's been fixed
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#17 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Yoozer
If you insist on new and want something bright, Waldorf Largo might be of help, too. | Hi
Yes just trying to be a little different with the newer sounds as they are alot brighter... Largo definitely seems to sit in this category. I find that a VST say such as Sylenthe is so warm but is starting to sound 'done' if you know what I mean.. I have a few analog such as Oberheim Xpander, SE1x, Juno106, so I am looking I think for something more brighter and cuttier. I have GForce Odditty, ImPoscar, Gladiator by Tone 2 and Rapture as my current VSTs.
Thanks!
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15th December 2009
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#18 | | Lives for gear
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+1 for DCAM
No doubt.
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2nd January 2010
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#19 | | Lives for gear
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Anyone listened to the following?
1. Gladiator
2. Sylenthe 2
3. Vanguard
Any preference? Also any cool VSTs that came out in the past couple of months??
HAppy New Year !!
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2nd January 2010
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#20 | | Gear nut
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I'll second the recommendation of ACE by u-he.
It's built for fidelity rather than efficiency--it can burn up a lot of cpu cycles. So don't go expecting the minimal cpu hit of something like Synth1. It can bring powerful processors to their knees... Which will have you on your knees--because the sounds it makes are quite wonderful. Zebra 2.5 from u-he was released in December. Zebra is much more efficient than acesynth and seems to attract a lot of talent on the part of preset designers.
So as far as latest and greatest goes, there you have it.
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2nd January 2010
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#21 | | Lives for gear | Quote:
Originally Posted by CJ1973 Hi
Yes just trying to be a little different with the newer sounds as they are alot brighter... Largo definitely seems to sit in this category. I find that a VST say such as Sylenthe is so warm but is starting to sound 'done' if you know what I mean.. I have a few analog such as Oberheim Xpander, SE1x, Juno106, so I am looking I think for something more brighter and cuttier. I have GForce Odditty, ImPoscar, Gladiator by Tone 2 and Rapture as my current VSTs.
Thanks! | why do you have to refer to all software synthesizers as "VSTs"  | |
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2nd January 2010
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#22 | | Lives for gear
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| Image Line's HARMLESS 
Pay what you want ($9.00USD minimum).
Sounds great.
Additive synth engine doing subtractive synthesis.
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2nd January 2010
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#23 | | Gear Head
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Yuk Vanguard has to be one of the worst ive heard!
I quite like that Waldorf Largo and thought Sylenth was nice and clean sounding. Zebra2 was another good one.
If i didnt have many hardware synths and the Sonic Core DSP system with many high quality synths those 3 would probably be my choice.
But overall im not a big fan of vst instruments.
Arturia and NI are the worst offenders imo because they have this way of manipulating people with lots of advertising and fancy graphics. Not a fan at all
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2nd January 2010
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#24 | | Lives for gear |
you can hate on vanguard all you want but i love the format filter
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2nd January 2010
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#26 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by cramseur Image Line's HARMLESS
Pay what you want ($9.00USD minimum).
Sounds great.
Additive synth engine doing subtractive synthesis. | I may buy this just out of curiosity. 4 or 5 years ago I had this idea of emulating a subtractive synthesizer using an additive engine, where all the stages (oscillators, filter, amplifier, etc) were emulated by just messing with the partials. Unfortunately, I never had the time or drive to implement it myself. But it's exactly what Harmless seems to do. I have too many synths already and don't need another one (especially not a softsynth), but I have to see how the concept works out in practice.
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2nd January 2010
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#27 | | Lives for gear | Quote:
Originally Posted by CJ1973 | hm well lets take a look at this link.. Quote: |
Steinberg's Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is an interface for integrating software audio synthesizer and effect plugins with audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. VST and similar technologies use Digital Signal Processing to simulate traditional recording studio hardware with software.
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Competing technologies
Apple Computer's Audio Units
Digidesign's Real Time AudioSuite
Digidesign's TDM
LADSPA, DSSI and LV2 for Linux
Microsoft's DirectX
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2nd January 2010
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#28 | | Lives for gear
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Exactly and if you read my initial post, its about the latest 'VSTs' and why I want that is I use Cubase 5 on Mac and have used VST based technology, hence my request for VSTs. Since CUbase (Steinberg now Yamaha) invented the whole VST technology and since I have been a Steinberg user for almost 15 years, I use VSTs. Not TDM and not AU. VSTs.
eg. I am looking for a type of Soap. There are various types of soaps. But I get suggested Shower Gel instead. I do not use shower gel. Quote:
Originally Posted by alehoe hm well lets take a look at this link.. | | |
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2nd January 2010
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#29 | | Lives for gear | Quote:
Originally Posted by CJ1973 Exactly and if you read my initial post, its about the latest 'VSTs' and why I want that is I use Cubase 5 on Mac and have used VST based technology, hence my request for VSTs. Since CUbase (Steinberg now Yamaha) invented the whole VST technology and since I have been a Steinberg user for almost 15 years, I use VSTs. Not TDM and not AU. VSTs.
eg. I am looking for a type of Soap. There are various types of soaps. But I get suggested Shower Gel instead. I do not use shower gel. | i understand you're looking for a VST but you don't have to refer to all of them as VSTs...
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2nd January 2010
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#30 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by alehoe i understand you're looking for a VST but you don't have to refer to all of them as VSTs... | I do not particularly refer to all of them as VSTs. Can you point it out? You may just have misinterpreted me. However, bigger picture tells me that most people get the idea here. Having said this, just a note that typically alot of Cubase users use VSTs. Traditionally and todate, based on the very advanced midi capabilities Cubase (along with Logic) have been on the forefront of midi and virtual instruments. So most people when mentioned VSTs do really get the bigger picture. I think you get the picture too why don't we just move forward. and if it feels so important that you have a final say for your own misunderstanding of my post, just go for it. But feel free to add a point or 2 on the latest VST's you may be aware of so atleast our conversation is productive. Thanks!
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