Really? Ok, so I get it, these threads are really read as "name a synth that either, someone else hasn't named, or that I really like"

SQ8L could hardly be considered "fat" or "warm." It's interesting, for sure, in a cold and reedy way.

If half (I'm being generous) of the synths in this thread are warm and fat then so is just about any synthedit plugin cranked out in an hour by bored teenagers.

And OPX-99? Cmon, Peter, I know that you've put a lot of sweat in it, and you go out of your way to demonstrate that it sounds very close to the OBX in many ways, but seriously, the OBX is a 12db/oct filter, warm perhaps, fat, not in the same way that Diva or Ace are fat.

To my ears the Korg plugins are THIN, not fat. I've yet to hear a poly6 emulation that captures the sound of the SSM-2044 effectively.

heh, yeah, you're right. I guess I was just +1'ing (or in that case +1,000,000'ing) anything that sounds good, given how many awful sounding synths are getting mentioned here.


Agreed.


It's not clear that the OP is asking for fat in the way that DIVA and ACE are fat. The OP needs to quit resisting DIVA.


Agreed. DIVA does better Korg than any of Korg's softsynths.

80's 90's? = FM8
Warm, fat? = Sylenth
80's, 90's warm & fat? = Minimonsta, Diva

The OP isn't going to run DIVA on a 3GHz P4. At least not w/ any cycles left to do anything else.

Shame on you!
May you be spat on by a thousand camels and licked to death by a hundred pregnant goats!

You call that a curse, some people call it ecstasy.

If you mean OP-X PRO-II with OPX-99: This one has not just a 12db filter, but a dual switchable 12/24db lp/hp/no state variable multimode filter, just to correct that. Only the basic OP-X has just a 12db filter.


Listen: OP-X PRO-II - Holiday Bass
Listen: OP-X PRO-II - Floyd Signs Bass
Listen: OP-X PRO-II - Fretless Bass
Listen: OP-X PRO-II - Minimoog Dry Bass
Listen: OP-X PRO-II - Minimoog Reverb Bass
Listen: OP-X PRO-II - Taurus Bass

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There are lots of warm and phat va synths.
I have something better though.
It's hot, and obeshe.
No need to name it, as you only want warm and phat

Hello, any of our synths could do - http://www.discodsp.com/

I'd also recommend Asynth if you want to go the freeware route - http://antti.smartelectronix.com/

So many people mistake it.
In that age, thick solid bass sounds ware made by DX/TX.
Even minimoog is not solid like that especially low end.
SCI Pro-One is solid but not used so much.
Simple FM's modulated sounds are just like analog.
Sometimes a layer of analog and FM technique was used.

So you need FM and VA.
I recommend Saurus and DX10.
Because Saurus is the best analogue emu VA and DX10 is enough to fill low end.
If you can afford more, buy Saurus and Sytrus.
But Sytrus's GUI is terrible.

Meant to be this month, seriously - read that on some forum, maybe D16's.

Yes, they renamed it to Lush-101 because of the soundalike name for a slang UK word for a toilet.

Has no one mentioned ACE yet?
It's very affordable and is perfect for analog-ish sounds

And +1 for Tryell!

Cheers
Dennis

You might want to test the Xils3 LE is a FULLY modular VA synthesizer, and it cost only ..... 30€

Then you can upgrade ar any time for its big brother Xils 3 with a special price.

Sound examples of the Xils 3 [url]here[/url] : two players with sounds in isolation in the first one, then minitracks in the second one. LtZ

ACE is a cpu killer, I think that's why people haven't mentioned it. Actually, I thought that I did mention it, but maybe I deleted the part that did.

Don't get me wrong, I love ACE and Diva, but neither is appropriate for a system with limited CPU.