Native Instruments FM8 - "Solid, stable synth"
There were no compatibility issues getting Native Instruments' FM8 installed and running in my DAW, Ableton Live 8 (there is a stand-alone version as well). As with Absynth and Massive, FM8 is a bit …
GForce Software GForce Oddity - "sounds are great"
The Oddity from Gmedio Gforce has worked great on my pc running windows vista and on my laptop which is running an older version of windows xp. I havent had any issues with this software plug in or a…
Ableton Operator - "Could be better."
As I purchased and installed the Ableton Live 8 Suite package - which includes Operator as an instrument - getting started was as easy as waiting for Live to be done and opening an instance of the sy…
Native Instruments Massive - "Very Capable Program."
Getting Native Instrument's Massive set up in my DAW, Ableton Live 8, was fairly easy. However following the installation, like some comments have touched on, the sudden exposure to a complicated set…
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HG Fortune ProtoPlasm [Freeware] - "Awesome!"
HG Fortune's ProtoPlasm Synth is an "Athmo, Soundscape, Pad & Texture Synthesizer", featuring one dedicated Attack Oscillator with 50 waveforms controllable by adjustable velocity amount, Super Modul…
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NorthernBeat Daedalus [Freeware] - "Cool Freeware Synth"
NorthernBeat's Deadalus is a polyphonic VA(virtual analog) synthesizer. The synth features two oscillators, two filters that you can route to essentially whatever you want. There's also ring modulati…
Maik Menz TranceDrive - "A Cool and Well Rounded Free Synth"
Maik Menz's Trance Drive is a windows only VSTi plugin instrument. It is a subtractive synthesizer aimed at Trance and other electronic dance music. It features 3 main oscillators, each main oscillat…
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Majken Chimera [Freeware] - "Awesome Free Synth"
Majken's Chimera is a synthesizer that bases all it's sounds on noise. Everything coming from Chimera is based on white noise filtered into notes using different filters. I love this synth because it…
Arturia Moog Modular V - "Moog-Tacular"
This is a Digital version of a Analog piece of gear that has been around for ages. If you are into analog sounds and synths and you love vintage gear then the Arturia Moog Modular V will be perfect f…
Native Instruments Razor - "nice sounds and patches"
Native Instruments came out with Razor a few years ago and immediately I wanted to know what it was about . Mainly because I know Native Instruments repuation for putting out great synths, vst’s and …
Native Instruments Massive - "A powerful, visually appealing synth"
Native Instrument's Massive is one of the companies best standalone synthesizers, and it is truly very massive , very powerful, and very flexible. It is all synthesis-based, with no samples used (oth…
Andreas Ersson PolyIblit - "a good buy"
The Andreas Ersson Polylblit is a vintage synth that can still be used in todays music depending on what type of music you are into or that you create. There are a lot of vintage sounding synths , m…
GForce Software Minimonsta - "buy it"
The Mini Monsta is a virtual subtractive synth that sounds amazing and it really surprised me on how good the sounds actually where. It is very powerful and you can do all types of stuff with the sou…
AudioRealism Bass Line - "if you have the money"
This virtual synth is focused just on BassLines, and it does it very well. At first glance I didn’t think that It would be able to produced real authentic sound baselines but boy what I wrong. It can…
