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Audio~Geek · Post by **Audio~Geek** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:10 pm

Sophia http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1236.html
Analog Warfare 3 http://www.amvst.com/index.php?name=Downloads
Get Unifyer 2.2 while you are there too.

DavenH · Post by **DavenH** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:11 pm

Sytrus has 3 serial waveshapers - QED

exquisiteoath · Post by **exquisiteoath** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:15 pm

Yes, Sophia's great... a realy gritty grimey sounding synth. I found it very hard to program and am all about my own patches, so I didn't stay with it. But it's worth trying out.

I've tried the AWvst VSTi's and am not in love with them... they are very digital, too clean and techno-europop for my tastes.

AKJ · Post by **AKJ** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:28 pm

for drums: ugo ironhead

Nevandal · Post by **Nevandal** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:38 pm

Nine Inch Nails uses:

Minimoog for a lot of the bass sounds (Burn, Head like a Hole)

Prophet VS for a lot of stuff...it's used on the song "Closer"

Both of these synths are emulated by Arturia. Minimoog V, and Prophet V. Check 'em out!

Also, on the Fragile album, Trent used the Nord Lead synth...that was his "go to" synth and you will hear it all over the album. DiscoDSP makes a pretty good emulation of the Nord Lead 2, called "Discovery". I highly recommend it.

Trash is also a great program for distorting drums, guitar, etc.

There was a lot of sampling on "The Downward Spiral". He hired an assistant to sample 3000+ movies and just record the interesting sounds!

Use lots of bitcrushing, compression, distortion...be inventive with your use of effects.

The sound more comes from how you use the tools rather than what tools you use.

A lot of NIN sounds are very, very, very, very, VERY processed with lots of effects!

ravasb · Post by **ravasb** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:40 pm

Karnage is pretty good, too. It is at the Krakli site. There are some other great things there.

Casar1973 · Post by **Casar1973** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:01 pm

Hey guys, thanks for all the comments and suggestions, that's quite a bit to check out!

Yagushi · Post by **Yagushi** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:56 pm

There's always the awesome freeware equivalents (more or less) of the synths that Nevandal mentioned:

ASynth = Minimoog
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1065.html

Augur = Prophet VS
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1066.html

Synth1 = Nord Lead
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html

dreaddd · Post by **dreaddd** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:12 pm

hi there

theres also a VSTi called Industrial Tones from MHC, on the payware side..they have a downloadable demo upthere on the homepage
cannot testify tho its real industral-ness, properly talking.,..
for industrial also i d add if none still quoted them the little goodies from ArcDevNoiseIndustries....im loving that stuff even having not much use for it...only critique : the GUIs are too small sometimes..i almost cannot read on some of them;P
try from him Ghidrah and HoseBeast for a start....then get lost on tweaking Resomatic or Cyclotron mangling randomly ..then start using his Mainliner too for synth drones

other developers well known for "scary" sounds may be HG Fortune and Novuzeit / Darkware...you ll find plenty of FSU devices for your audio at his page, for free of course (the darkware, novuzeit is payware , even if quite cheap)
Peace

Nevandal · Post by **Nevandal** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:23 am

Yagushi wrote:There's always the awesome freeware equivalents (more or less) of the synths that Nevandal mentioned:

ASynth = Minimoog
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1065.html

Augur = Prophet VS
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1066.html

Synth1 = Nord Lead
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html

Yep! Synth1 is great...Auger is pretty cool but I have a hard time understanding it...kind of in depth compared to Subtractive synths....haven't tried ASynth, though...I do have the Minimoog V

SARcazm · Post by **SARcazm** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:31 am

Can't stop recommending it, but CM Dominator has a great edge for industrial.

Add the new Ohmicide and you got it made.

Blue Wind Project · Post by **Blue Wind Project** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:38 pm

OMG !!!! I had totally forgotten
this little gem
H.G. Fortune SWAMP, not sure about the
regular version, I have the SWAMP SE
* THX Big ' G ' *

This little gem is FANTASTIC at making those
weird industrialized sounds.

exquisiteoath · Post by **exquisiteoath** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:51 pm

I won't use HR's stuff for my current projects as I'm very focused on staying within a set of known samples (percussion) and waves (Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle, Pulse, Pink Noise, White Noise) But MY GOD!!! if you don't have that restriction, Swamp, and in fact ALL of his goodies are fantastic. wonderful atmospheric easily modulatable, multi-layered fantasmagorias of sound. If you haven't already tried all of his free synths.... do eeeet, do eeeet now.

Blue Wind Project · Post by **Blue Wind Project** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:18 am

exquisiteoath wrote:I won't use HR's stuff for my current projects as I'm very focused on staying within a set of known samples (percussion) and waves (Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle, Pulse, Pink Noise, White Noise) But MY GOD!!! if you don't have that restriction, Swamp, and in fact ALL of his goodies are fantastic. wonderful atmospheric easily modulatable, multi-layered fantasmagorias of sound. If you haven't already tried all of his free synths.... do eeeet, do eeeet now.

Yeah...tell me about it ! H.G. gave me the SWAMP SE for my
birthday last year, told him I would do a bank, and never
got around to it...opened it today and for the first time
really got to messing around with it, and am currently working on a bank.

I have also made 2 banks for the Protoplasm Pro
the STS-21 pro and the STS-26

Hellbilly · Post by **Hellbilly** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:10 am

Yeah the STS synths from HG are great, i've got sts 17 and sts 26 and love it.

Asynth + a distortion of your choice is great. I know Antti is cool so i might check out augur, i always forget to.

Heck, any synth + distortion = awesome

VSTi for "industrial" sounds?