Carlito Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Hi guys and gals. Last night I downloaded the Demo version of Seer Systems Reality, and was very impressed with the variety and quality of the sounds. Here's my question : Are there any other choices for a simple,yet good sounding software with a variety of synth types and tons of sounds to choose from? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Heins Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Native Instruments FM7 is a nice easy one to use. Or you can try the Absynth demo from Native Instruments and see how you like that one Darkon http://www.billheins.com/ Hail Vibrania! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Reality was my first soft synth. For a variety of sound sources in one package you might try Reason or FruityLoops. Robert This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_3guy Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Originally posted by Darkon the Incandescent: Native Instruments FM7 is a nice easy one to use. Or you can try the Absynth demo from Native Instruments and see how you like that one DarkonI'll put a vote in for FM7 to cover DX-7 & FM sounds. I would like to second Reason. B4 is great for Hammond stuff & EVP73 covers the Rhodes beautifully. If you are a Logic person, you can get the fleshed out version, EVP88, because it has Wurlitzer's, also nicely done. If you like to do Rhodes, Wurlitzer's but don't do Logic, there's Lounge Lizard. There's freeware Clavinet that is bang on, Ticky Clav. Here's the link http://bigtick.pastnotecut.org/index.php?action=PROD&pcode=120 I can't believe it's still free! For analog synth sounds you might as well get Reason & benefit from everything else it does. You use the Rewire feature to marry it up with your sequencer of choice or just use the sequencer in Reason. Reason is an incredible value, works nice & smooth. Stock Sounds are very good to excellent with lots of refils around so you can make it bigger & better. If it did audio, I'd switch & make it my main sequencer. Steve www.seagullphotodesign.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningbusch Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Atmosphere. If you want simple, quality and a variety of sounds this is one hard to beat. I was trying to figure out why Atmosphere was fitting so well in some of my mixes and I believe it's that most of the Atmosphere sounds are true stereo samples. They are often fairly complex, detailed sounds, the kind that take tremendous effort to create initially. VAs and ROMplers are mostly mono, and then use chorusing, layering, etc to create the illusion of stereo. Not the same thing. Anyway, beautiful stuff. Busch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Heins Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 I'll second on Atmosphere, just a full sounding rich experience all around, just be prepared to give up 3 gigs of space for the soundset it requires, but once you hear and use it you won't mind Darkon http://www.billheins.com/ Hail Vibrania! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowly Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 None of the sofe synth I downloaded works, such as the B4 demo. What program is needed to run underneath the soft synth? Kcbass "Let It Be!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progfusion74 Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 The B4 should work standalone, but you might need to route it to the right outputs and setup the midiIO. prog http://www.indiegrooves.com/dnm/images/dnm_small.gif My Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MortenJ Posted July 13, 2003 Share Posted July 13, 2003 Rob Papen's Albino is also great. http://www.robpapen.com Morten Access Virus TI keyboard,Alesis ION,Yamaha Motif ES 6,Roland Fantom XR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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