Warm digital synth

[masterhiggins]

Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V could deliver some amazing results. The PPG filter is based on a model of an analog filter and could create some amazing results based on the tons of wavetables. The filter is totally different to the other Waldorf filters in e.g. Largo.

If found second hand Camel Audio Cameleon 5000 could be a nice choice too. Additionally to the additive engine it got a formant filter and some other filter modes too.

Another very good "digital but warm" choice could be the Korg Wavestation plugin.


Ingo

Hi Ingo! I was absolutely blown away by the audio demos from Analog Vs. Digital for Blofeld, but I can't seem to find any of those sounds in Largo or PPG Wave. Is the Blofeld just that much better? I don't actually have a Blofeld unit so I don't know. I've been using Largo and PPG for cold digital sounds as that seems to be the easiest things to craft.

-Sam

[Ingonator]

Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V could deliver some amazing results. The PPG filter is based on a model of an analog filter and could create some amazing results based on the tons of wavetables. The filter is totally different to the other Waldorf filters in e.g. Largo.

If found second hand Camel Audio Cameleon 5000 could be a nice choice too. Additionally to the additive engine it got a formant filter and some other filter modes too.

Another very good "digital but warm" choice could be the Korg Wavestation plugin.


Ingo

Hi Ingo! I was absolutely blown away by the audio demos from Analog Vs. Digital for Blofeld, but I can't seem to find any of those sounds in Largo or PPG Wave. Is the Blofeld just that much better? I don't actually have a Blofeld unit so I don't know. I've been using Largo and PPG for cold digital sounds as that seems to be the easiest things to craft.

-Sam

Hi,

IMO the Blofeld is better than Largo indeed, for example it got the PPG filter model that i use for most sounds in the Blofeld bank.

Some of the sounds in the Blofeld bank (or comparable ones) could be found in my factory bank for PPG Wave 3.V or in the free Largo sounds here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/banks.php?s=author&id=176645


Ingo

[Crackbaby]

Would it be crazy to use Blofeld without software (ie creating your own sounds with just the hardware?)

[zerocrossing]

...Harmor is good but is not similar. Alchemy is near but...

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Thank you and sorry my english

I think you need to spend less time looking for a new instrument and more time learning how to program Harmor and Alchemy. Those sounds are possible... actually I think Harmor sounds warmer and better than the K5000.

[yessongs]

I see someone beat me to it on mentioning the korg stuff it is really cool and a must have considering how many presets come with those vsti's especially the M1. Also I would recommend Rapture it can do some cool pad stuff especially if you add the galbanum piscis expansion etc... Synthmaster is also good and there are lots of cheap presents available and good demos to listen to that will convince you of that just go to their soundcloud page.

[Mogular]

I find putting Cytomic The Drop after just about anything immediately starts to bring a sense of warmth into any harsher more digital sounds. Doesn't make it sound analog but gives you a very musically satisfying hybrid.

[toitoi]

Try free SQ8L http://www.kvraudio.com/product/sq8l_sq ... d_kullmann

or PG8x https://sites.google.com/site/mlvst0/

[DevonB]

thanks for all!

I don't like zebra... sorry but the sound is very thin (for me).
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Did you listen to the Padsheaven demos above? Those sound thin? Wow, ok...

I will say there are, or at least were in the older demos of Zebra, a ton of thin sounding patches. That's because of the patch programming, not because Zebra is thin. Minimal programming with simple synthesis sounds will pretty much make any synth sound "thin". Not sure what the Zebra demo comes with these days, but check out the Howard Scarr (HS) patches for sure. They are a world of difference compared to some of the patches. Considering you're wanting a digital sound, Zebra is one of the best in the right patch programmers hands.

I'd also check out Sylenth1 for a good strong "digital" sound.
http://www.lennardigital.com/modules/sylenth1/

Devon

[additiveboy]

Thanks for all! very interesting answers

[Robmobius]

Some of the tone two stuff is quite warm.

Saurus is quite nice.

I'm not too big on Largo tbh - Sounds very digital to me, and gets muddy as hell.

Shame, because it could have been a truly monstrous synth. Its filter and unison are are very nice.

[JoeCat]

Photone:



Don't know how it compares to the Kawai, but I always think of its sound as "warm-digital"
Of course, it means an investment in Reaktor, but if you happen to be heading in that direction anyway at some point...

(was designed by Mike Daliot - after his Reaktor work he went on to design some "Massive" synth I've never heard of )

[Froqqer]

I think you should just warm up hamour.

[daExpert]

None of them are warm, they are all COLD!

[fluffy_little_something]

Makes me wonder what is it that makes a sound come across as warm, or not, regardless of the kind of synthesis used. Irregularities?

[theodore_whitmore]

Makes me wonder what is it that makes a sound come across as warm, or not, regardless of the kind of synthesis used. Irregularities?

As a best guess I would say that the semblance of a real instrument (static resonances, few enharmonic partials outside of the attack phase, a preponderance of even harmonics and a smoothly falling level with harmonic order) tugs at a deep connection with a sense of humanity and hence warmth. Instruments that break from that semblance (glassy pads, metallic sounds with lots of enharmonic partials) don't invoke humans playing instruments and so sound machinelike. Cold.