Best Ensemble/Divide-Down/Paraphonic VST/AU Synth

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Synthsquad Amber might be worth checking out! It's a bit older but i think it does what you want.

http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=62&tab=183

If you want a bunch of well sampled ones you might really like this.

http://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/vsm
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V0RT3X wrote:Synthsquad Amber might be worth checking out! It's a bit older but i think it does what you want.

http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=62&tab=183

If you want a bunch of well sampled ones you might really like this.

http://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/vsm
He said that he is looking for an alternative to AMBER which is unusable on his system.
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I got both Amber from Synth Squad and Xils Lab V+ where both seem to be really nice. Besides that i also got some sample based stuff and the paraphonic mode in my Waldorf Pulse 2.

Not really software in means of VST but the upcoming Waldorf Streichfett hardware synth will be a DSP based String Synth (not sure if there are many or any other DSP based hardware synths of that type...) with a proce of an expensive software synth (around 249 € incl. VAT).

Streichfett is not an exact emulation of a certain vintage string synth while it is inspired by some of them. It will include an Ensemble and a Solo section (like in the Delta) which could be layered and/or split. Opposing to fixed presets like in e.g. the Solina the ensemble section uses a knob to continuously morph between the sounds.
The "Animate" FX in the effectss section could modulate the position of this morphing.


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I know it's been mentioned previously in this thread but definitely Loomer String for me. (I preferred it over Amber)

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WOK wrote:
BlackWinny wrote:While we are at it... could you tell me what is the exact date of the last update?
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2010 May 04

And then there is the little brother ESTRIMA from 2013-01-30
Thank you!
I'm gonna add the date... and also a new entry in my other list (Sounds of the 80's) for another synth of your collection which very representative of the last 70's early 80's : SAM.

I take the opportunity to point a little error in some of your pages (for example the page for Cromina). You write "... strings sound of the 60s and 70s. Solina, Crumar and Logan where the names...".

In fact it would be far more exact to write "... strings sound of the 70s and 80s. Solina, Crumar and Logan where the names..." because none of all these string synths did exist in the 60's, they all were made during the second half of the 70's. The Logan (Hohner) String Melody I was created in 1973, the Logan (Hohner) String Melody II (the most known) was created in 1977, the Solina String Ensemble was created in 1974, the Solina String Synthesizer was created in 1975, and the Crumar Orchestrator (called Multiman-S in Europe) which was the best known model of all the Crumar life was created in 1977. None of these mythic sounds did exist in the 60's. In the 60's the bands used essentially the Vox Continental Combo Organ, the Farfisa Combo Organ, the Mellotron keyboards, and all the declinations of the Hammond organs.

So it would be more exact in your pages (not only for the Cromina) to say that they are focused on the 70's-80's. It simply a suggestion... but 10 years of difference is not negligible...

Without forgetting the KVR product pages, of course...

I'm gonna add the date you gave me for the Cromina in the list (and mention Estrima in the comment). And also I'm gonna add an entriy for UNCLE SAM enhanced Synth Module, a SEM emulation (and mention its two brothers in the comment) in my other list (Sounds of the 80's).

Your Dronos Drone Sound Generator Plugin reminds me my twelve year old in 1971. Nostalgy...
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BlackWinny wrote:I take the opportunity to point a little error in some of your pages (for example the page for Cromina). You write "... strings sound of the 60s and 70s. Solina, Crumar and Logan where the names...".
In fact it would be far more exact to write "... strings sound of the 70s and 80s. Solina, Crumar and Logan where the names..."
Correct - don't know how this got there... :oops:
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Interesting little thread, full of synth-string aficionados.

Glad to see these things still enjoyed.
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loving all these suggestions and demos of these great strings makes me almost want to give up guitar and just play strings, except I love the mixture of both.

Santana's Europa had great string synth sound in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtn4a3bClLA

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yessongs wrote:loving all these suggestions and demos of these great strings makes me almost want to give up guitar and just play strings, except I love the mixture of both.

Santana's Europa had great string synth sound in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtn4a3bClLA
It's always an emotion to hear this awesome tune that I have heard for the first time at the radio at the spring of 1976, it's been almost 40 years...

Nostalgy, still nostalgy... All these wonderful years...

And Zappa? Who knows Zappa in the new generations? A genius of the guitar, all those of my age remember him, but he was also a virtuoso of the... Synclavier!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siq2qkINyPY&feature=kp
also excellent classic use of string synths in this tune as well. Jan Hammer programmed some excellent synth sound in this as well.


IMHO its even better than Europa and a similar but better IMHO guitarist that I love even more. Di Meola is a chops monster and he turned me onto Astor Piazzolla who's compositions are excellent as well in fact I am working on relearning this one might even record it when I get around to learning all the parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdmZqRMZ5ss

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Some German stuff: :wink: http://youtu.be/oM8Xq6-ba68 :D
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For me its

Joy Division - Atmosphere i want that drony Euuuuuhhhhh
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BlackWinny wrote:So here is the result of two days searching for the best emulations of String Synths. I have probably passed beside some other goodies which are therefore missing here, but I have deliberately omitted all those which are totally anecdotical.

Below you have:

[EDIT]

The things seem now a bit clearer...
I guess I'm more interested in string synth more for the way they make the sounds (rather than the sounds they make), but I really appreciate BlackWinny making and maintaining this exhaustive list, and for everyone else who offered minor corrections. I learned quite a bit from reading this and listening to the songs.

Isn't there a way for KVR to make this a "sticky" or something so we can always find it and refer to it? You know, like that "Old Free VSTi Gems from the Past" (but without that thread's 764 pages!). I think a lot of people could get some use out of this.

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planetearth wrote:
BlackWinny wrote:So here is the result of two days searching for the best emulations of String Synths. I have probably passed beside some other goodies which are therefore missing here, but I have deliberately omitted all those which are totally anecdotical.

Below you have:

[EDIT]

The things seem now a bit clearer...
I guess I'm more interested in string synth more for the way they make the sounds (rather than the sounds they make), but I really appreciate BlackWinny making and maintaining this exhaustive list, and for everyone else who offered minor corrections. I learned quite a bit from reading this and listening to the songs.

Isn't there a way for KVR to make this a "sticky" or something so we can always find it and refer to it? You know, like that "Old Free VSTi Gems from the Past" (but without that thread's 764 pages!). I think a lot of people could get some use out of this.

Steve
It would be an excellent sticky thread, yes, if the administrators agree, and there is another notable argument very neat... it is that this thread has never known any quarrel! It has always been nicely friendly without any exception since its beginning. If they read it, thank you to them to consider that option of making a sticky of it. But if there isn't any admin in the readers, I don't know how to ask them. If someone knows...

And there was also in the recent days my work to make a very complete list of the "sounds of the 80's" which had been also very appreciated and which led to an as friendly and as enthralling thread which could be a sticky as well.
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Great Thread!
I am somewhat late to the party.. but here are the tunes that inspired my journey into string machine territory and finally led to the development of my own Night Flight VSTi:

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Night Shift (starting form 0:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMngQ2-VOzs

Horace Andy - Spying Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDOLUrPICsI

cheers
Daniel / Interruptor

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