Best synth $50-100

[Igro]

.. he knows it's borked but "it's the DAW developers fault" that his plugin has issues, therefore he ain't gonna fix it because it's SEP.

It's just that no other plugin I have does this, or anything remotely similar. So I highly doubt it's the DAW dev's fault.

But it's Gol, you know...

[ferez21]

I just stopped by to say that Rapture is a beast and it costs 19.99$ till the end of the month.

Good night everyone.

[Agathodaimon]

how about save money, update pc?
No offence mate, but you cant stay forever with an old pc right?

[breakmixer]

Re: Harmor: he knows it's borked but "it's the DAW developers fault" that his plugin has issues, therefore he ain't gonna fix it because it's SEP.

Here's another good reason not to buy I.L. products apart from the non transferable products(because they have free lifetime updates that never actually get updated).

I like Toxic Biohazard but the way they do business just puts me off of them as a company, I own Toxic Biohard, Harmless, Drumaxx and Vocodex and do not have any installed anymore, I would sell them in an instant now/but they don't allow it officially...

[faun2500]

Re: Harmor: he knows it's borked but "it's the DAW developers fault" that his plugin has issues, therefore he ain't gonna fix it because it's SEP.

Here's another good reason not to buy I.L. products apart from the non transferable products(because they have free lifetime updates that never actually get updated).

I like Toxic Biohazard but the way they do business just puts me off of them as a company, I own Toxic Biohard, Harmless, Drumaxx and Vocodex and do not have any installed anymore, I would sell them in an instant now/but they don't allow it officially...

Yeap, I am stuck with an IL plugin I can't sell. ALL the other plugin companies let me sell my stuff but not this one.

I would think hard before buying anything from them again.

[wesleyt]

+1 on rhino. I just got updated, and it sounds gorgeous.

If I could only have one synth though, it would be my first: Zebra. It is amazingly versatile, and sounds beautiful.

If I could only have two, the second would be Alchemy,

[D N A]

Synthmaster is the monstersynth , and it's in your price range (99 %) - http://www.kv331audio.com/

if you're into the 90s and need to have tons of presets, try Korg M1 (http://www.korg.com/Legacym1) - 50 $

FAW Cirlce (http://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/circle/) - 60 $

or visit "kvr forum market" section (on this forum) for second hand (more analogue ) stuff - I bought, via Market, Truepianos for like 60 $ (for me it now costs almost 200 $, VAT tax etc.), Linplug octopus for 50 $ (new costs 150 $), and tons of other interesting deals, ie. NI Massive for 80 $.

A lot of my plugins are second hand or / and deals.

[Examigan]

Spire is an example, even though there's only 100, there are so many good ones out of that 100 that i know what it CAN do that i love it.

Thanks Theo.

About Spire: I like it, but it just uses too much cpu for me. Hopefully they are working on making it a little more efficient. I know I wasn't the only one complaining about that one.

[breakmixer]

I would think hard before buying anything from them again.

I decided I just will not. I like to support decent devs like d16, Xils-Lab, Sonic Projects, GForce, U-He.

Even prefer buying from N.I. Arturia and Steinberg than I.L.

Another 3 devs not playing by the new transfering rules are Sonivox, Wallander and Musicrow, I want to sell my Wivi Band, Vintage Strings MK III and a couple of other bits but cannot - I don't want to even use them as when I was on my arse financially a couple of years back they didn't want to help and let me sell them - so they won't get any more of my money ever now I'm back on my feet.

Sorry for Off Topic...

Anyway, I'd say good cheap plugins(always under $100) - my top vote goes for ACE, Tal Uno LX2 and Korg Legacy...then any thing by Xils-Lab, D16, Sonic Projects, FXpansion if on sale below $100.

GForce and U-he never have sales as far as I know - I'd grab Imposcar 2 if they had a $100 or less sale.

[Examigan]

I would think hard before buying anything from them again.

Anyway, I'd say good cheap plugins(always under $100) - my top vote goes for ACE, Tal Uno LX2 and Korg Legacy...then any thing by Xils-Lab, D16, Sonic Projects, FXpansion if on sale below $100.

GForce and U-he never have sales as far as I know - I'd grab Imposcar 2 if they had a $100 or less sale.

Thanks for the ideas.

ACE is cool but uses a bit too much CPU for my setup.

I have OP-X Pro II already, and use that one a lot.

The upgrade to impOSCar2 I think is around $95 which was another one I had thought of.

[jdoo]

One option to consider is the Korg Legacy Collection. Not the individual bits (which sell for $50 / piece), but the entire collection. Korg is running a bundle special right now. You can purchase the entire bundle for $199.00. Or.. Upgrade from an existing package (like the M1 Le that ships with the nano series) for $99.00 - http://www.korguser.net/shop/software/#klcspbundleup . Another option for around the same price, is the Korg microKEY61 which ships with the Legacy bundle. However - that is even further from your price range. Anyway - if you can extend your price range slightly, i think you'd have a boatload more options..

Total cost = $150.00. This is 50% more than you wanted to spend, but you'd be gaining a controller, and the following Legacy Synths ( MS-20, Polysix, Mono/Poly, M1, WAVESTATION and MDE-X ). Quite a bundle.

[Numanoid]

I like Toxic Biohazard but the way they do business just puts me off of them as a company, I own Toxic Biohard, Harmless, Drumaxx and Vocodex and do not have any installed anymore, I would sell them in an instant now/but they don't allow it officially...

Yeap, I am stuck with an IL plugin I can't sell. ALL the other plugin companies let me sell my stuff but not this one.

I would think hard before buying anything from them again.

The way they do business, you mean?:
-Life time free updates,
-no copy protection dongle,
-any purchased IL product can be used on as many machines the users wants

...and that's no good for you? What other major plugin company allows that?

I love my IL products, thinking about selling them has never entered my mind

[Tricky-Loops]

I like Toxic Biohazard but the way they do business just puts me off of them as a company, I own Toxic Biohard, Harmless, Drumaxx and Vocodex and do not have any installed anymore, I would sell them in an instant now/but they don't allow it officially...

Yeap, I am stuck with an IL plugin I can't sell. ALL the other plugin companies let me sell my stuff but not this one.

I would think hard before buying anything from them again.

The way they do business, you mean?:
-Life time free updates,
-no copy protection dongle,
-any purchased IL product can be used on as many machines the users wants

...and that's no good for you? What other major plugin company allows that?

I love my IL products, thinking about selling them has never entered my mind

...and they have good support, at least in my experience. I wrote in their forum and used the support live chat, and they helped me immediately.

But I only buy things from Image Line which are good and which I can keep. I don't buy every available plugin just because of a sale...

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I love my IL products, thinking about selling them has never entered my mind

just as well right ??...anyways, there are other reasons for people to sell software other than just not liking it...i have had to sell various pieces of software over the last few years, not one of those sales were due to disliking the product or the developer

[Numanoid]

just as well right ??...anyways, there are other reasons for people to sell software other than just not liking it...i have had to sell various pieces of software over the last few years, not one of those sales were due to disliking the product or the developer

I would rather consider selling my ass, before parting with IL plugins