KVR Audio

hivefleetmegalon · Post by **hivefleetmegalon** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:40 pm

I'll throw in two more (I believe they're polyphonic): ProtoPSG and Photon? Both have that "quirk" factor I'm looking for, and seem stable enough on my ancient system... choosing a synth is a lot harder than I thought it'd be.

Nahkranoth · Post by **Nahkranoth** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:27 pm

ProtoPSG is a chiptune synth. We've already had one

Photon seems ok.
Here's a pair of screenshots to confuse things a bit

Pink VSTi. I'm in love with it:

And this:

And another one:

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:32 pm

Hold steady and dig in Hivefleetmegalon .. this is your choice ... dont be hurried, and dont get too distracted .... remember, it's not about what folks like .. it just has to be usable by as many of us as possible. If your fave happens to be a monosynth, then like it or not, we'll all just have to cope and get on with it

Anyway ... hi from Shepperton folks, looks like my connection is working, and I'll get that voting thread up tomorrow.

olikana · Post by **olikana** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:37 pm

good free synths which still havent made it into an official OSC:
elek7roV2(not even elek7ro1 technically )
sq8l
xhip
magical8bit
asynth
karmafxmodular

objectman · Post by **objectman** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:19 am

Go with your heart Hivefleetmegalon. ... You're our only hope.

hivefleetmegalon · Post by **hivefleetmegalon** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:30 am

thanks for the reminder olikana-- I'd kind of forgotten SQ8L (must remember to punish self). I was searching the KVR database, tried out a few synths. I was going to choose Majken's Chimera, but the zip file seems corrupt (although I was downloading the old single core version-- I've noticed he has a new multi-core version, but that wouldn't do me any good). So as much as I like the synth, I'm not gonna say "that's it!" and then no one can extract the .dll--
so I'm going to take a stand for SQ8L. Very fat n' warm, polyphonic, and a ton of useful sounds. OSC19, SQ8L. Now I can stop fretting and clogging this thread with my indecision.

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:04 am

SQ8L... great news.

Terrific sounding synth, another top 5 freeware imo.

Nahkranoth · Post by **Nahkranoth** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:12 am

Great choice, hivefleetmegalon! If even this synth won't inspire me then I should quit forever

Steplton · Post by **Steplton** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:33 am

olikana wrote:good free synths which still havent made it into an officaial OSC:
elektroV2(not even elektro1 technically)
sq8l
xhip
magical8bit
asynth
karmafxmodular

+1 for xhip

V'ger wrote:SQ8L... great news.

Bad news for me.

Good sound, but martian interface

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:20 am

Yes shame about the GUI, but still possible to edit. Just look at the presets.

Steplton · Post by **Steplton** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:36 am

V'ger wrote:Yes shame about the GUI, but still possible to edit. Just look at the presets.

Presets are good. But I do not like to use presets. I prefer to create my own sounds.

objectman · Post by **objectman** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:40 am

Steplton wrote:Presets are good. But I do not like to use presets. I prefer to create my own sounds.

... if only I had THAT much confidence!

Right. Gauntlet down buddy! I'm going to manufacture some of my sounds this time round!! You're ON!!

...

ahem.

...

*blink, blink* ... To make your own sounds, you have to twiddle the virtual knobs, right? In different directions!?

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:54 am

I meant look at the presets for what can be done tweaking.

tattiemannie · Post by **tattiemannie** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:35 am

I seem to remember sq8l was ruled out of a previous comp .... cant remember why ...

Steplton · Post by **Steplton** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:55 am

tattiemannie wrote:I seem to remember sq8l was ruled out of a previous comp .... cant remember why ...

to hivefleetmegalon:
xhip!!!!!! XHIP !!!!!!!!!!!

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