Luckily, you can still get deals on plugins with rent-to-own options or subscription plans. Brought to you by the team that built LANDR Samples, Chromatic is a loop-based virtual instrument that turns sampled sounds into playable parts at the touch of a key.
Using a MIDI controller , Chromatic lets you go hands-on with exclusive, artist-approved loops and manipulate them with effects in real time. With an expanding library of inspiring loops built by top producers, Chromatic lets you browse by mood to find the perfect sounds to start a song or fill out an arrangement. If you like loops but you prefer an alternative to the cut and paste workflow of traditional packs, Chromatic is a great choice to get ideas fast.
Try Chromatic free. Spectrasonics Omnisphere is one of the biggest names in software synthesizers. This massively powerful instrument packs an almost overwhelming amount of functionality. If all else fails you could get lost in the sheer number of presets and discover some incredible sounds without ever once needing to do any tweaking. Xfer Serum is usually next on the list of the most essential soft synths. Serum is a wavetable synthesizer.
Unlike the hardware synths of the past that rely on wavetable technology, Serum has no processing limitations—and it shows. Even for simple waveforms, its expertly implemented wavetables sound ultra-clear and clean. Serum has a dedicated user base and plenty of third-party sounds available, including great free presets from respected sound designers.
Its easy to use virtual-analog subtractive design will seem familiar and intuitive, even to new users. Its extremely fat sound has defined a generation of producers and continues to be a great option for plugin synthesis. Some are free, some are expensive and some cost very little. Not every VST synth is made equal. On some synths, you may find big and usable sounds, right on the get-go.
And on some other synths, you could get sound that sounds too amateurish until you spend time tweaking and inserting effects into it. Check out this video, where Tim Cant a really hilarious producer shows us insights into the five of probably the most popular software synths in the world today. Now at version 2. But it brings an impressive range of oscillators and synthesis types, and an even more impressive range of third-party preset developers. Spire is an extensive VST plugin as it allows for complicated modulation options while sounding extremely big.
What these two do to the waveform is determined by the synthesis type, which is selected at the top of the oscillator. Reveal Sound, the maker of Spire also claims that the plugin is used by artists such as Dash Berlin and Hardwell. A quick thing you should know about Spire is that it uses quite a bit of CPU processing and in our opinion, we think that could be improved — perhaps in its upcoming version updates.
There are also three blocks of 10 send effects, nine filter types and two additional phase-modulation oscillators to load up on top of the two main wavetable oscillators. The Roland Juno series of the s is nothing short of iconic. Almost 40 years on, producers are still checking second-hand stores to get their hands on one, and there have been many impressive emulations over the years.
There really is very, very little to choose between them, and as each original Juno sounds subtly different anyway, the sonic lines between software and hardware blur further. Read the full review here. There are plenty of polysynths in this collection, but also some emulations of electric keyboards, monosynths, and a piano. V Collection 8 ticks all the analogue and digital boxes. With the addition of a vintage sample library, vocoder and two iconic synths, this is a must-have for anyone chasing the vintage synth sound.
Serum is an advanced wavetable synth with wavetables, 10 effects modules, drag-and-drop modulation routing and custom wavetable creation.
Omnisphere uses its unique STEAM synthesis and sampling engine to deliver over 14, inspiring sounds that you can manipulate using granular, wavetable and FM synthesis, among other timbre warping techniques.
You can load up to 20 oscillators per patch and modulate them using eight LFOs, 12 envelopes and 34 filter types, with the Flex-Mod modulation matrix helping you get detailed with sound design. There are then 58 modulatable effects units to further develop your patches.
Even now, nine years after its original release, producers are taken aback by its pristine, detailed sound, and its performance against vintage analogue synthesizers. The Trimmers panel allows you to go all-out on making Diva sound more analogue, with voice detuning per oscillator, voice drift and more.
The built-in effects and arpeggio are fun to experiment with, too. A recent update makes the GUI much sleeker, and new presets are regularly being made by users to keep you inspired with fresh sounds. In our review of SynthMaster 2.
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