Can anyone point me in the direction of a (preferrably) freebie VSTi that does the evolving textures/pads thing?

Many thanks

Igor

Crystal

Artphase_VSTi http://sk-lab.narod.ru/Artphase_VSTi.exe

or zip http://sk-lab.narod.ru/Artphase.zip

here you can read some users comments:
http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18284

levit71 wrote:

Can anyone point me in the direction of a (preferrably) freebie VSTi that does the evolving textures/pads thing? Many thanks Igor

NOTHING, not even Absynth (as far as I'm concerned) beats Crystal. You will never need another 'evolver' ever again - though you might find it hard to spend money on a commercial VSTi after this...

Dingo865 wrote:

levit71 wrote: Can anyone point me in the direction of a (preferrably) freebie VSTi that does the evolving textures/pads thing? Many thanks Igor NOTHING, not even Absynth (as far as I'm concerned) beats Crystal. You will never need another 'evolver' ever again - though you might find it hard to spend money on a commercial VSTi after this...

Crystal is great but can't sound like other synths ,
so dont be so fanatic Dingo865

Like the others have said, if you're looking for evolving textures, you can't beat Crystal.

SK wrote:

Crystal is great but can't sound like other synths , so dont be so fanatic Dingo865

Never claimed it sounded like other synths - could you quote it please? In fact, I could hardly find a single synth that can exactly reproduce the sound of another synth.

I merely addressed the 'evolver' part of the question, and the capabilities Crystal offers.

...and I like being fanatic about Crystal. It's so exceedingly rare in life to find something of such superior quality that's being offered for free out of the goodness of the developer's heart - it reminds me of the old days when people did kind things just for the heck of it. Besides, true fanatics rarely put smileys at the end of their mad raving - but maybe a sense of humor is getting to be of short supply as well...

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You will never need another 'evolver' ever again..

Dingo I mean only that
dont need make limitation for ourselves

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In fact, I could hardly find a single synth that can exactly reproduce the sound of another synth.

Yes Im agree with you

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Besides, true fanatics rarely put smileys at the end of their mad raving - but maybe a sense of humor is getting to be of short supply as well...

I think we all here are synths fanatics

Thanks very much for the advice, fellas. I guess Crystal with a sprinkle of Artphase is the way to go

Igor

If you're looking for a darker kind of pad, you should check out Morpheus as well.
http://www.funkelectric.com/~cockaigne/

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levit71 wrote:

Can anyone point me in the direction of a (preferrably) freebie VSTi that does the evolving textures/pads thing? Many thanks Igor

NOTHING, not even Absynth (as far as I'm concerned) beats


Love Crystal too, but Check out Absynth 2.0...you might have to eat your words

crystal vote here as well

Elogoxa's Sun Ra.

Ive just seen this Sun Ra ( havent been to their site for ages ) whats it like, is anybody using it?

its jolly good

you can get some evolving sounds out of synth 1 - its not just for dance music

sun ra is for those experimental pieces IMHO
and not really in the same boat with absynth or artphase at all
I've been 'playing' it a bit lately (which consists mostly of loading wav files into it and twiddling knobs) and I'm leaning towards making loops out of what it does.