19th January 2013
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#1 | | Gear Head
Joined: May 2012
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Thread Starter | What are the best VSTs for 2013?
Can you list the top 5-10 most popular, most technologically advanced, best sounding VST instruments for 2013?
Thank you so much!
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20th January 2013
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#2 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2010 Location: Great White North
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Do you mean 2012? We're only 19 days into 2013...
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20th January 2013
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#3 | | Gear addict
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d16 lush is a good new one.
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20th January 2013
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#4 | | Gear Guru
Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Oz
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Originally Posted by shponglefan  Do you mean 2012? We're only 19 days into 2013... |  | |
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20th January 2013
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#5 | | Lives for acid
Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Me!bourne, Australia
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Originally Posted by shponglefan Do you mean 2012? We're only 19 days into 2013... | How time flies!!! It feels like last year was only 3 weeks ago!
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20th January 2013
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#6 | | Gear maniac
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Same one as last year; Reaktor...
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20th January 2013
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#7 | | Gear Head
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Maschine...period!
Massive
FM8
Deputy (free, 32/64 bit)
The Mouth (Reaktor)
Phoscyon
YMMV
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20th January 2013
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#8 | | Lives for gear
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VST3 is the best VST for 2013. It's like, 125% better than VST2.4.
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20th January 2013
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#9 | | Gear Head
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Originally Posted by cryophonik VST3 ...It's like, 125% better than VST2.4. | Crap, that's almost as good as Analog (which is 130% better than VST 2)!
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20th January 2013
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#10 | | Lives for gear
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The new Mackie emulation by UAD. Its awesome! Its soo good its not even listed on their offical product line up.
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20th January 2013
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#11 | | Lives for gear
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Bump also curious!
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20th January 2013
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#12 | | Lives for gear
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There was a thread here last May (among many others I'm sure) about favorite synth plugins. At some point in the thread the most mentioned ones were Diva, Omnisphere, Sylenth, Alchemy, and Massive.
MusicRadar had a reader poll a little over a year ago; the top 10 were Omnisphere, Zebra, Sylenth, Massive, Reaktor, Alchemy, ACE, Nexus, ImpOSCar, Absynth.
"Most popular", "most advanced", and "best sounding" don't necessarily overlap (though many of the above do show up in the intersection). Less popular but technically and sonically interesting recent softsynths include Chromaphone (physically modelled percussion), NI Razor (additive, hundreds of partials with a macro interface), NI Prism (hundreds of resonators with a macro interface). Aalto (semi modular with some Buchla inspiration) has gotten some good mentions.
If I take the 2013 literally, the best are Diva, Zebra, ACE, and Bazille -- U-He has recently published betas of new versions of all their stuff. Bazille is a virtual modular (akin to ACE) with the twist that the oscillators are FM operators (with phase distortion and "fractal resonance" as well) that's been in beta for years that might finally see an official release this year. Until then it's free, and well worth checking out.
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20th January 2013
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#13 | | Gear maniac
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To me, the oddities of synthesis methods and the benefits of sample RAM/ROM are where plugins shine. Razor, Prizm, Aalto, Massive, Kontakt, Omnisphere, Trilian, String Studio etc are inspirational kit right there. For simpler methods like subtractive, I'd prefer a knobby box, (although if it sounds good to my ears I'm not an analogue snob).
Additive, granular, FM/PM, waveshaping, massive-library S&S... That's the true highlights of software synths. Big or downright weird soundscapes and sonic journeys, metallic, synthetic. Added to that the near-infinite modularity of effects chains... Lovely.
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20th January 2013
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#14 | | Lives for gear
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Best for 2013, probably Zebra3 in q2
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20th January 2013
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#15 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by login Best for 2013, probably Zebra3 in q2 | Sigh, I wouldn't count on that. Urs Heckman, Jan 15 2013: Quote: |
As of now I can't imagine Z3 shaping up this year (2013) anymore. The required work on the gui framework is massive, and that's before the actual design process. I'm not too scared of the dsp work, but the overall design of features and workflow is a frightening task.
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20th January 2013
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#16 | | Gear Head
Joined: May 2012
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Thread Starter |
oh you 
I meant what are the best NON-SYNTH VST instruments! I know nothing about synthesizing/DJing
Like guitars, keys, brass, drums, strings etc etc
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21st January 2013
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#17 | | Moderator
Joined: Dec 2004 Location: in a low orbit
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no but Aalto is a good one
also I'm quite fond of the PPG for the iPad
to add to the examples already mentioned
one thing: these are MUSICAL instruments, "best" is subjective
"sound good" is subjective
"technologically advanced" does not automatically equate into "a more capable instrument"
that's why I love music production 
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21st January 2013
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#18 | | Gear nut
Joined: May 2012 Location: Mexico City
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Aalto
all of the XILS Labs stuff (XILS 3, PolyKBii, Synthix, Oxium)
SEM V
Those are my favorites anyway...
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21st January 2013
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#19 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Mar 2007
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KV331 Audio's Synthmaster 2.5 SynthMaster 2.5 Awarded 'The Best Software Instrument of 2012' by MusicRadar
Best Sounding, and very flexible VST Synth I purchased late last year.
According to the developer, it is going to be upgraded with lots of new features during 2013 !
So, it would be my recommended VST Synth to invest into for 2013
Cheers,
Muziksculp  | |
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