Decent VST Synths?

[Donkey Fly]

Hi,

I've been wanting a good Synth VST for a long while - Children Of Bdom-esk - but i can't find any that are free anyway.

Can anyone reccomend me one?

 

[Ihsahn1981]

This one is very good: http://www.ultimatesoundbank.com/ultrafocus.html?doc=support

 

[devouredremains]

I'm not a CoB fan whatsoever so I've never payed attention to their synth sounds whenever I've heard them but check this out this synth

http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=37

It's by far one of the greatest sounding softsynths I've had the chance to use. Keep in mind it's intentionally very dirty sounding.

 

[Ihsahn1981]

Btw, this it THE source for anything vst: http://www.kvraudio.com/

 

[grywolf627]

Crystal. It's great, and it's free.

http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/

 

[Donkey Fly]

Awesome


Thanks guys.

 

[Donkey Fly]

Ok, i tried them synth but couldn't seem to get the sound i want.

I was a sound like -

That intro sound.

Anyone?

 

[jesus69lol]

Ok, i tried them synth but couldn't seem to get the sound i want.

I was a sound like - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbr89uDTr9Y

That intro sound.

Anyone?

That's going to have more to do with how you dial the sound in than the synth you use.

 

[KillFrenzy]

You mean the intro sound?

That's going to have more to do with how you dial the sound in than the synth you use.

It can be easily done with a ton of synths out there. Try Superwave Performer. Crystal and Rumpelrausch Taips Crazy Diamonds are perfect for that too.

 

[Ben Johnson]

It's a modified patch on a Roland JV2080, called "Staccato Heaven." It's made up of a 4 separate waveforms - a twinkly bell pitched up an octave, a lowpassed steel drum sound, a metallic whistle sound, and a warm pad. Mix to taste.

 

[Metaltastic]

Damn Ben, how the hell did you find that out?

 

[Ben Johnson]

I have a JV2080, and I just went through it, listening for familiar patches. A lot of Janne's keyboard sounds on that album are pretty much unmodified, factory presets - except for the lead sound, which was made by Jens Johansson (YJM,Stratovarius).

 

[albertors]

et voila! Confirmed, Ben is right. It's kinda hard to get the same versatility old-fashioned modules like the JV serie have on VST instruments..there is that "something something" somewhere..but it gets boring to search among billions of super-modulated crazy digital sounds..when all you want is a sound that just works.

Crazily enough, some samples inside Logic EXS instruments sound kinda appropriate for the old-school "lemme play!!!!" approach. Reason's got chops as well in a very simple package. Sample-wise..mh maybe Spectrasonics Atmosphere? But you're going to get into a shitload of patches and Megabytes that just makes it sloppy.

Maybe those "general" sample collections like the ones made by PlugSound can work..still no way to match the brick-like contents of a real expander. JV-1080, JD-990 even the TOTALLY underrated S2R by GEM works great...and they're getting SO cheap.