I want a workhorse synthesizer like Korg Triton

[kevvvvv]

Triskal

I found a clean Telecaster sound-alike patch that wipes the floor with anything similar that the Kontakt Factory Library has to offer. And the Proteus installer is like what 65 megs?

Hmmm ... I wouldn't use a tele sample as a tiebreaker. I'm sure you're not.

But Proteus was a great expander rack in its day.

While browsing Spectrasonics I found some nice omni links to share - please enjoy

http://www.spectrasonics.net/video/vide ... TypeID=all

http://www.spectrasonics.net/video/vide ... rumentID=1

http://www.spectrasonics.net/company/filmtv.php

and this

http://pluginguru.com/guru-products/omniverse-patches

[Arglebargle]

I'm thinking Omnisphere + Zebra

Note that I have not used either. But that's what my gut is telling me.

Is there much you can't pull off with that combo?

Um... yeah.

Acoustic drums
Electric and acoustic bass guitar
Clean guitar
Brass
Orchestral (with the exception some legato string sounds)
World instruments
Percussion
Traditional pianos

There's a vast swath of things you can't pull off with Omnisphere and Zebra. Omni is great but not a bread and butter ROMpler.

[Arglebargle]

I don't think there are many products on par with workstation sounds, for the simple reason that the big keyboard developers had to deal with minute ROM limitations for decades, so they got really really good at making the absolute most of small sounds. Software devs have never had that problem.

[HM]

Proteus VX has proven to be a real gem. I'm mad at myself for not trying it out earlier. I did know that it existed.

The good old E-MU sounds stand the distance, just wanted to chime in and say
some of the old folks, and new ones, work on this old material still, in case you want to dig up more, check out "Digital Sound Factory", they just had a sale, guess its over, but likely to be repeated,(I am after proteus-bundle),.

You might very well like some of the Ensoniq stuff as well, (Love my KS32),.

Would mention Cakewalks "Rapture" also, just bought that for 20 USD, don't
know if the offer is still there, I have not tested it probably yet, but it
has some good basic qualitys, took it as a no-brainer

[T-CM11]

HALion Sonic is part of Cubase now, since version 6.5 (sort of - it's named HALion Sonic SE).

No it's not. SE is like a (very) "light" version of the full Halion Sonic. It (SE) is the follow-up to Halion One.

[realmarco]

the triton is a Rompler all its sounds are based on a few megs of sampled waveforms.

IK multimedia's sampletank, and its expansions, would be what you are looking for.

Sampletank ups the triton by using much more detailed multi-sampled instruments without the effort of using a sampler.

Also, d'ont forget most presets on the triton use ALOT of effects (chorus,reverb,flanger,phaser,EQ etc)

which sampletank can do and save combinations of multi-effect settings.

u can turn them off of course and use your DAW's insert and buses if u want.

[fmr]

HALion Sonic is part of Cubase now, since version 6.5 (sort of - it's named HALion Sonic SE).

No it's not. SE is like a (very) "light" version of the full Halion Sonic. It (SE) is the follow-up to Halion One.

I can't say how light it is because when it came on board I already6 had HALion Sonic full, but I had been able to access all the sounds (but then, maybe that's because I already had them installed previously). However, I'm certain it's considerably more than the HALion One, because those sounds are just a subset of the whole SE pack.
Anyway, I maintain my suggestion: for the purpose in mind, HALion Sonic is the best option. But I would second some other options, like Dimension Pro, and Mach Five (but that last one would be way more expensive). Kontakt with some libraries (notably the ones from Digital Sound Factory like the Proteus Pack) would also do the business.

[bobbybland]

I'd recommend Sampletank, but I can't read the Gui,it's quite too small and they've never fixed it for us blind folks. Maybe at Sampletank 3, 10 years later,we can offer a recommendation.

[Triskal]

Actually in case of IK, Sonic Synth sounds very nice. It's made "in cooperation with Sonic Reality" which makes me think that it's not really an IK product but rather a Sonic Reality product. I tried the free version of Sampletank and wasn't that impressed. Sound demos sound very nice tho.

[MrDuke]

It's funny when you look at the specs of a Triton today: polyphony 62 notes, a 32MB wave ROM (!).