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Softsynth for Ambient-Music
Help neededA friend of mine asked me for advice regarding a soft synth for ambient music production. As I am mostly a Reason User, my experiences with virtual synths are limited.
Do you have some good advice for my friend? If possible add links to sound examples.
Thank you
Btw... he is a pure mac user.
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Don't know if they exist for mac but these are killer (and mostly free):
sts 24 sts 26 protoplasm cygnus
Crystal all the way. Modulation madness and can even load sf2's as oscillators. If you can't make a soundscape or pad with that synth, you've picked the wrong hobby :) (for you lazy people, you can have it breed a new patch out of twe existing ones) Was developed for mac first. Another freebie for mac is Zoid and tripple cheese(by u-he) . They're both kind of weird in design, so should work fine for ambient stuff
i think its zoyd instead of zoid !i can email it to you liquidbass ! greets they also have a soft synth called crystal and zebra its from germany and mac and pc ! here is an mega good link for apple mac osx au soft http://www.pure-mac.com/audio.html http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/download.html http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/freeware/mac/
automat http://www.alphakanal.de:4356/zoyd but no "UB" version :( http://www.u-he.com/zoyd/yeah crystal http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/download.html Absynth and reaktor from native instrument
Reaktor from Native Instruments ... that's a no-brainer another nice one is Camel 5000 ...........http://www.camelaudio.com/cameleon5000.php
The prologue from steinberg. is a very versatile soundscape synth It comes with Cubase but i think you buy it from the steinberg website. The patches are not so good you need to work that synth, but once you understand the procédé you can make amazing scapes 'n drones! with it!
Why the hell is nobody talking about Native Instrument Absynth ? It's for me the most complete instrument to make ambient music for an affordable price.
Why the hell is nobody talking about Native Instrument Absynth ?It's for me the most complete instrument to make ambient music for an affordable price. maybe it's true but Reaktor is more versatile.....
So... to get things together
Algorithmic VSTi by HG Fortune
http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/
Crystal
http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/
U.HE synths
Various:
http://www.pure-mac.com/audio.html
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/freeware/mac/
http://www.camelaudio.com/cameleon5000.php
Native Instruments:
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=producer&L=2#c48458
Steinberg Vsti: