Rompler for pads/choir/atmospheres (D-50:ish)

[robotmonkey]

I think UVI has a similar Plugin to it here http://www.uvi.net/en/vintage-corner/di ... tions.html

Got UVI Digital Synsations free with something else recently, installed it on a virtual test machine (it needs PACE crap) and must say I can fully understand why they are giving it away for free. It's completely underwhelming and huge disappointment. Definitely not worth the full asking price and not even worth with discount.

Digital Synsations does no favors for any of the sampled synths. The selection of sounds is quite uninspiring (Ensoniq VFX was total fail) especially as it takes whopping 10 gigabytes. It's not that it sounds bad but just the selection of sounds is kind of "meh?" and there's not that much of them. Programming options are also very limited.

If you want those kinds of sounds better get real Korg M1/Wavestation, DSF Ensoniq soundbanks and FM8. You would be spending your money much more wisely.

[BBFG#]

I think UVI has a similar Plugin to it here http://www.uvi.net/en/vintage-corner/di ... tions.html

Got UVI Digital Synsations free with something else recently, installed it on a virtual test machine (it needs PACE crap) and must say I can fully understand why they are giving it away for free. It's completely underwhelming and huge disappointment. Definitely not worth the full asking price and not even worth with discount.

Digital Synsations does no favors for any of the sampled synths. The selection of sounds is quite uninspiring (Ensoniq VFX was total fail) especially as it takes whopping 10 gigabytes. It's not that it sounds bad but just the selection of sounds is kind of "meh?" and there's not that much of them. Programming options are also very limited.

If you want those kinds of sounds better get real Korg M1/Wavestation, DSF Ensoniq soundbanks and FM8. You would be spending your money much more wisely.

+1
In remembering the D-50, I do recall the complaints people were making about it shortly after it's release. Cheap and noisy op-amps, gritty samples and more. Definitely inspired a whole lot of love-hate in those days. Roland's attempts at improving it only morphed it into things that could never compare. Maybe if they sampled (or modeled) those cheap op-amps like companies that sample leaky vacuum tubes? But I personally think that while it earned its place in the annals of 'synthdom', I don't necessarily find any need to replicate what many of us hated with it. Many of the VIs do it so much better now without any Roland or Spectra association attached to it.
For me, Alchemy, ZebraHZ and Gladiator2 put the 'D' series in their proper place... history.

[gigadreamer]

What about this one?
Really cheap at 15 eur and sample-based one!!
http://www.irishacts.com/?download=d50-emulation

Indeed, if you need something like JD-880
this demos sounds not half bad!
http://www.irishacts.com/?download=infi ... -planetary
http://www.irishacts.com/?download=infi ... st-contact

there was first this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ksa8P ... UEcE8XgKXQ
but now discontinued and replaced with this one
http://www.irishacts.com/?p=4088

[T-CM11]

Rob Papen Blue 2 is almost exactly what you seek.

Really? Part of the signature sound of these late-80s/early-90s synths is their pseudo-rompler status, so they are best approximated using an instrument with rompler capabilities, not a generic VA.

I don't think Blue plays PCM samples...

Blue 2 a generic VA? Then e.g. FM7/FM8 must be generic VAs too. I learn something new every day...

Anyway, Blue 2 looks like the soft synth closest to a Yamaha SY77/TG77.