Synth1 need Toto Africa sounds!

[hbrookes]

Hello All,
I am not a keyboard player but have a small studio and we are trying to re-do Africa by Toto. I found Synth1 which is a great start but I dont program and would like a starting point for the Brass type intro sounds?
I found 25,000 sounds but I will be here for days!...lol

Thanks for any help...Harry

[experimental.crow]

Hello All,
I am not a keyboard player but have a small studio and we are trying to re-do Africa by Toto. I found Synth1 which is a great start but I dont program and would like a starting point for the Brass type intro sounds?
I found 25,000 sounds but I will be here for days!...lol

Thanks for any help...Harry

i suggest you stop an old man along the way ,
hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies ...

[egbert101]

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[wagtunes]

Hello All,
I am not a keyboard player but have a small studio and we are trying to re-do Africa by Toto. I found Synth1 which is a great start but I dont program and would like a starting point for the Brass type intro sounds?
I found 25,000 sounds but I will be here for days!...lol

Thanks for any help...Harry

25,000 sounds?

There is an online user library, which is actually a collection of smaller libraries made by a number of different designers that you can download in one zip file.

It is quite large and virtually impossible to find anything useful.

[ATN69]

Steve Porcaro used many synths like mini moog, Jupiter 8, Prophet 5, etc, and all though I am not sure what synth he used for Africa, I would say that OBxd is a good bet. You can even get it for free here,

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/ob-xd- ... y-discodsp

OBxd is famous for it's brass sounds.

EDIT: Just for the fun of it I created a similar brass sound with OBxd. Unfortunately OBxd can't save presets unless you use the save preset functions in the DAW. I have FL Studio so if you have FL Studio to I can share the preset

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BUJ7bK ... sp=sharing

[wagtunes]

Hello All,
I am not a keyboard player but have a small studio and we are trying to re-do Africa by Toto. I found Synth1 which is a great start but I dont program and would like a starting point for the Brass type intro sounds?
I found 25,000 sounds but I will be here for days!...lol

Thanks for any help...Harry

In the "Godly Famous Bank" Patch # 50 is "Toto Africa Brass"

You're welcome.

[arkmabat]

Where can this huge zip file be found?

[wagtunes]

Where can this huge zip file be found?

All over the Internet. Just do a Google search.

[waltercruz]

Steve Porcaro used many synths like mini moog, Jupiter 8, Prophet 5, etc, and all though I am not sure what synth he used for Africa

Probably CS-80

https://www.mixonline.com/recording/cla ... ica-375305

[Mutant]

If you like this:
https://app.box.com/s/s59b02x3rozthuthvhbw8j2vxws76ef4

Then i can find that project tomorrow when i wake up.
It is Xhip though, not Synth1.

[egbert101]

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[wagtunes]

There is an online user library, which is actually a collection of smaller libraries made by a number of different designers that you can download in one zip file.

It is quite large and virtually impossible to find anything useful.

Thanks. Sounds dodgy though. Besides, there's like six factory banks with 400 presets each

Nothing dodgy about it. It's a free synth and many people have generously donated their talents to the project. Granted, there's a lot of overlap and with the limited naming scheme and no real organization, it's tough to find things. But there's nothing dodgy about it. It's one of the reasons the synth is so popular because of all the patches available for it.

[egbert101]

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[Teksonik]

It is quite large and virtually impossible FOR ME to find anything useful.

There I fixed that for you. You confused opinion with fact.

Synth 1 has been one of the most popular freeware synths for over a decade and a half. There is a reason for that and there is a reason why so many people spent so much time making patches and sharing them for free with the community. If Synth 1 didn't sound awesome it would have died a dozen years ago.....

Oh and don't forget you can get about a dozen instances at the same time and barely move the CPU meter.

[wagtunes]

It is quite large and virtually impossible FOR ME to find anything useful.

There I fixed that for you. You confused opinion with fact.

Synth 1 has been one of the most popular freeware synths for over a decade and a half. There is a reason for that and there is a reason why so many people spent so much time making patches and sharing them for free with the community. If Synth 1 didn't sound awesome it would have died a dozen years ago.....

Oh and don't forget you can get about a dozen instances at the same time and barely move the CPU meter.

Yes, by all means, Synth1's patch naming system is a work of genius and these libraries are all indexed with clear documentation of what each patch is.

Gotcha.