Broad synth question for lack of a better section

[bewildered]

Im working with reason 2.5, and after two months of playing with the 2 synth's i had come to a realization: they both make crappy sounds. When i say crappy, i mean more along the lines of cartoonish, not usuable. like if you ever heard a professional use these sounds you might laugh and then ponder how much of a mess breaking the cd would make.

can anyone reccommend a synth program that makes "pure" sounds, ones more akin to the beauty and depth of analogue sound, and less of the wacky electronic sound? think along the lines of radiohead, boards of canada, four tet etc....

 

[brzilian]

Look at the Arturia products. They've produced softsynths of classics like the MiniMoog and Yamaha CS-80.

http://www.arturia.com/en/default.php

I've always like Native Instrument's stuff also - their Yamaha DX7 softsynth (FM7) is pretty damn cool!

http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?&flash=7

 

[bewildered]

yeah, im playing with absynth right now. pretty cool, hard as hell to understand though. i see that abysnth lets you build your own sine wave from the ground up, whereas reason just gave you some presets and some modulation options and thats about it.

gonna give reaktor a try as an alternative to reason being the huge waste of time it was. hopefully reaktor will at least have more versatile drum machines.

 

[Paul881]

I have absynth and cameleon which are really cool. Plus Atmosphere which is not so much a synth as a customized sampler buts its strings and evolving synths are to die for

 

[c7sus]

This outta do it!

http://bigbriar.com/detail.php?main_product_id=163

 

[bewildered]

evolving synth's? what do you mean by that?

electric blue is only $3300? wow what a deal. i could prob pay an engineer less than that to build me one. im playing around with arturia;s minimoog now.

when i tried to install absynth or arturias stuff, they asked which plugin do i want to install: VST, DX, or RTAS. whats the point of these plugins, and which one should i choose?

 

[dachay2tnr]

when i tried to install absynth or arturias stuff, they asked which plugin do i want to install: VST, DX, or RTAS. whats the point of these plugins, and which one should i choose?

DX is native to Cakewalk products - that's the one you should choose.

 

[c7sus]

electric blue is only $3300? wow what a deal. i could prob pay an engineer less than that to build me one. im playing around with arturia;s minimoog now.

I guess you get what you pay for.

I'm not here complaining about crappy sounds from my synth.

The way I see it, you're trying to use the $150 answer to the $2500 question.

It just doesn't work.

I've seen used Voyager Performers go as low as $1650US or so. Average is about $2k on Ebay.

 

[Paul881]

evolving synth's? what do you mean by that?

It means layered sound textures that change over time Check out the demos:
http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/atmosphere.html

 

[bewildered]

electric blue is only $3300? wow what a deal. i could prob pay an engineer less than that to build me one. im playing around with arturia;s minimoog now.

I guess you get what you pay for.

I'm not here complaining about crappy sounds from my synth.

The way I see it, you're trying to use the $150 answer to the $2500 question.

It just doesn't work.

I've seen used Voyager Performers go as low as $1650US or so. Average is about $2k on Ebay.

so your saying the only way to create truly unique synth music is if your rich?

DX is native to Cakewalk products - that's the one you should choose.

i posted in the cakewalk forum cause i didnt see a forum that would house my question, and since this gets the most traffic.... I plan on using native instruments line of products for the time being, so which plugin should i choose for that?

 

[Paul881]

i posted in the cakewalk forum cause i didnt see a forum that would house my question, and since this gets the most traffic.... I plan on using native instruments line of products for the time being, so which plugin should i choose for that?

What host program are you using? Reason?

 

[bewildered]

NI reaktor

 

[Paul881]

NI reaktor

Then you need to look at the manual for Reaktor to see if it uses VSTi - if so use that for your synths.

If you use Sonar, you can use Reactor plus any other synth either as VSTi and/or Dxi inside Sonar, using Sonar as the host.

Best suggestion would be to find a Reaktor forum

 

[c7sus]

I'm not saying one has to be "rich"-- I'm a helluva long ways from having $$$-- it's just that you're asking a CPU to be a low frequency oscillator.

That's not what they do.

At least not nearly as well as an analog LFO.

 

[rjt]

Try some of the rgc synths..... they have Triangle for free:
http://www.rgcaudio.com/

Also, I am a big fan of Albino2....
http://www.linplug.com/index.htm

Lots of other out there too!

Take Care