Looking to buy a ~$200 soft synth. Which one?

[Happy Frog]

A couple ideas for you.

Get an issue of Computer Music mag. Donload freeAlpha and ZebraCM. Add lots of delay and reverb.

For ZebraCM, go here: http://www.u-he.com/PatchLib/zebra.html#zcm and download these two sets by Selector and ZebraCM Teksonik.

[reusenoise]

A couple ideas for you.

Get an issue of Computer Music mag. Donload freeAlpha and ZebraCM. Add lots of delay and reverb.

For ZebraCM, go here: http://www.u-he.com/PatchLib/zebra.html#zcm and download these two sets by Selector and ZebraCM Teksonik.

Must agree,in CM magazine you can found Dune CM and Synthmaster CM + many others good stuff.

Download BeatZampler http://www.zampler.de/ and Plogue Sforzando
http://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando/ two nice free SFZ players and they comes with nice sound library too

[Monib]

+1 for CM Stuff... Save the $200 for the NI Komplete sale that happens every year. And then you'll get plenty of softsynths .