rare gems

[pascual]

there's all this best of, or top five synth forums, which i don't mind at all, but how about a bottom of the list underground synth gems that tend to be overlooked....
here's my five:

-quantum 64. hardly use it, but when i need a little monster, this always impresses me.
-impulse. beautiful sub bass preset.
-tapeworm. warm flute to the max.
-cellofan. with a little tweaking, pretty nice cello
-trionimox. ugly red, lovely sharp leads. a bit buggy.

pura vida.

[Xenos]

Don't laugh... one-ping-only. Seriously, I find it helpful to go to when I can't seem to get that creative spark going.

[FaX]

I Quantum 64 myself.

[The Chase]

- People rarely mention Morpheus and it's very powerful for atmospheres, FX, and Pads.
- ymVST is awesome for chippy sounds and the GUI is super fun
- Regula is a nice unorthodox psuedo-V/A synth that doesnt get it's praise's worth
- Cable Guy's Curve - very good-sounding wave-shaping/additive synth that uses little CPU

[bambooman]

tobybear VST-chess

http://www.tobybear.de/p_sourcebag.html

also see my old thread:
the weird VST/fx collection

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1354077

[Z3R0T0N1N]

contralogic leto - jen sx1000 inspired VA that makes some sweet synthbass and lead stuff. I don't load it very often but when i do it always stays.

EFM synthia - EMS Synthi clonish thing; really quite good, and not eight million dollars like that one from german EMS.

EFM MiniSE - nifty minimoog clone, nice filter that will even self oscillate if you ask it nicely.

[core]

+1 impulse, still sounds great to me. The lead in the middle part of garbage collector was done with impulse
+1 leto, it's great for leads

[projectdan]

Vectrik,its one of the best pad synths Ive heard. Was released just before Cofx joined Rob Papen, so seems to have got mostly overlooked.