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Fraser	Date: October 29, 2007 @ 1:33 PM Well? I'm tired of Sytrus. It's too complicated to program and creat synths, as well as having crappy bass presets. Sytrus peeks too easily with high pitched sounds, which makes tweeking this synth annoying. Maybe if you actually know how to program this thing, it may be useful. The only thing I like about Sytrus, it is good for a real good saw sound. Vanguard has some cool techno sounds and sounds pretty sweet with a modded filter attached to it. It's quite easy to program, and real easy to gate. It's a bit hard to get new and different sounds on it, since I usually can only get old school trance sounds out of it. Also, when multiple vanguards are playing in a song, they take away from each others quality. After three or more of them are playing, the quality of the sound turns to crap. 3xOsc or the TS404 are different in a lot of ways. They can get wierd and techy sounds, but are lacking in the polysynth area. I haven't explored all too much with these instruments, but I can tell you that they are easy to use, and easy to get certain monosynth sounds out. Toxic III and Poizone are pretty cool synths. When I heard these, the preset pads they have are not too powerful, but still sound nice. The short synths are well made, but the synth strings aren't very nice. These instruments take up a lot of power on my comp (Maybe I just have a crappy computer...?) They're nice instruments, although not too easy to program, and not too easy to modify. I have also used BooBass, Plucked, Fruity Keys, SimSynth, and the Wasp. These are not the best quality vst's, and don't have a very large range of options. Really, I'm wondering what the best VST is. I'm tired of Sytrus, Vanguard doesn't have good sound quality, and I need to experiment with more instuments. If you use a VST that I have no mentioned here, could you describe it? Include the sounds it is best for, its weaknesses, its complexity and user friendliness, price, where you got it, additional comments, etc. I've seen different VST's on UTube, but I haven't been able to find them.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 29, 2007 @ 2:18 PM u-he Zebra 2 or Native Instruments Massive are what i would recommend for your style of music, they have some very 'phat' sounds and they have some amazing routing/oscillator/filters to play around with. A good freebie with some nice sounds for electronic music is Crystal VST.
orgasmotron	Date: November 6, 2007 @ 2:10 AM anything at all by Native Instruments is awesome and you can always try before you buy by searching for native instrument torrents on the web. most of the good ones will be available (absynth, reaktor, battery, etc.) so give them all a whirl and then if you like them (and have a few hundred bucks to spare) be sure to buy them! also i've found finding random lil' freeware VST's on the net can give you some real cool sort-of techy sounds, due to some inferior coding and algorithms used. Another thing you can look into is new fx vst's for use on synth vst's you already have. through a nice fat distortion, some thick chorus, and maybe some crazy glitch effects on a simple pad you made in any synth and it may just sound even cooler then you thought possible.
orgasmotron	Date: November 6, 2007 @ 2:11 AM haha.... "found finding" - wonder if microsoft word autocorrect would have something to say about that.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: November 6, 2007 @ 4:17 PM Massive is very CPU intensive synth but it has 'economy' options to lessen CPU load which you just up to best quality for the final mixdown. Depends what you want. Massive and Zebra are analog subtractive based synths with some wavetable algorithms added for a diversity of sounds, they are good for analog sounding bass and leads and pads, Absynth (also NI) is a great synth for ambiences and pads being based on wavetables. Other possibilities are Albino and Sylenth. All of them have demos, try the demos and see which you like best. There's also a cut down version of Zebra for free (it has less oscillators and routing options) if you buy Computer Music magazine, which is awesome for zilch.

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