KVR Audio

manducator · Post by **manducator** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:31 pm

I have had lessons about subtractive synthesis and we used Tal stuff in school. I would recommend them.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:52 pm

Protege, emulation of the Prodigy, clearly laid out GUI and lack of confusing controls, but only Win though:
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/easy-pr ... lz/details

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:08 pm

I recommend this and download links found third page.
http://www.amazona.de/amazona-de-freewa ... ell-n6-v3/
ps. Podolski is bit complex when you want pwm i think and bit too limited to my taste... another good one is Synth1 but i dont have time search link for it...

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:21 pm

Synth1, no doubt.

For Mac and Windows.
Easy to use and to understand.
All that you need, basic Oscillators, Filters types, ADSR, Modulations, LFO, and a few effects, all for free.

Good luck and have a nice day

Dan Powers · Post by **Dan Powers** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:50 pm

Wow! Lots of great suggestions! What a helpful forum!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time. I'll be downloading and trying out all of these over the next few days. I'll let you know how it goes.

fluffy_little_something · Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:30 pm

yessongs wrote:Can't understand the lack of respect for Prodigious it smokes all the others mentioned so far when it comes to shredding leads and it has the best solina string sound I have heard on any free synth.

I vaguely remember trying that synth, it had quite some noise and some elements of the user interface were hard to read, Seems the developer has canceled his site, anyway.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:33 pm

UHE Tyrell if your computer can handle it. It's a seriously powerful synthesizer!

yessongs · Post by **yessongs** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:16 am

fluffy_little_something wrote:
yessongs wrote:Can't understand the lack of respect for Prodigious it smokes all the others mentioned so far when it comes to shredding leads and it has the best solina string sound I have heard on any free synth.
I vaguely remember trying that synth, it had quite some noise and some elements of the user interface were hard to read, Seems the developer has canceled his site, anyway.

What is up with his site hope this guy hasn't given up on developing his products. Prodigious and poly 2106 are both useful and nice sounding plus he also had a boat load of vst FX.

here is a link to it at this site. http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=1328maybe he is just hurting for money to pay for hosting and or perhaps he felt others with sites like this could host the DL and there would be no need to pay for such a thing.

Honestly I have tried all the synths mentioned in this thread and none of the free synths out there can produce a lead tone any where near the ones I hear from Prodigious. The factory bank is loaded with useful lead sounds. I tend to like leads like that fit in shred fusion metal and prog rock. There is one lead tone in the factory bank that sounds like a lead used in Dark Side of the Moon. See if you can find it and name the song it is in.

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:20 am

Dan Powers wrote:Wow! Lots of great suggestions! What a helpful forum!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time. I'll be downloading and trying out all of these over the next few days. I'll let you know how it goes.

In my opinion, you'll save a lot of time and trouble if you go straight for TAL NoiseMaker.

You might want to save yourself the trouble of downloading TyrellN6. It may be relatively easy to understand for beginners, but it's a CPU hog, and it will probably cause more problems--and deter more potential, budding synthesists--than it's worth. Even the developers know it's not as "optimized" for CPU usage as it could be, but they're not doing any more work on it. Bottom line: It sounds nice, but it's a pig.

Charlatan has a straightforward interface, but I've never found any of the sounds all that inspiring. There are a lot of presets available, but...meh (again, in my opinion). And, it's only for Windows.

The TAL stuff all sounds good. NoiseMaker has an extremely simple user interface, and there are 32- and 64-bit versions for Windows and OSX.

Steve

bpblog · Post by **bpblog** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:54 pm

hmmm, Primer was created exactly for teaching purposes:

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2013/11 ... tandalone/

it's free in standalone mode.

there's also this:

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/So ... nthesizer/

it's standalone, too.

yessongs · Post by **yessongs** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:21 pm

http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4 ... -Poly-2106 http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4 ... Prodigious

another found link to prodigious and poly 2106 demos sound great not sure why anyone would not want to use this synth. shame the dev let his site disapear he had a good looking site and one of the demos for poly2106 was shine on by pink floyd which is found still at the dev challenge site link below

prodigious demos

developer challenge link
http://www.kvraudio.com/kvr-developer-c ... 9/#dc09_41

poly 2106 demos on the 2012 developers challenge page can be found here scroll down to hear them http://www.kvraudio.com/kvr-developer-challenge/2012/

These synths would be great to use for the next OSC. In fact these are both far better sounding than some of the vsti selections they have had a competition with recently. For instance, I cant even get tunefish to run on my windows 8 system in sonar x2 so it is worthless as far as I am concerned.

Ichad.c · Post by **Ichad.c** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:25 pm

Another +1 for NoiseMaker. Easy to understand, and a tad more fun that the rest.

fluffy_little_something · Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:03 pm

yessongs wrote:http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4 ... -Poly-2106 http://www.pluginboutique.com/product/4 ... Prodigious

another found link to prodigious and poly 2106 demos sound great not sure why anyone would not want to use this synth. shame the dev let his site disapear he had a good looking site and one of the demos for poly2106 was shine on by pink floyd which is found still at the dev challenge site link below

prodigious demos

developer challenge link
http://www.kvraudio.com/kvr-developer-c ... 9/#dc09_41

poly 2106 demos on the 2012 developers challenge page can be found here scroll down to hear them http://www.kvraudio.com/kvr-developer-challenge/2012/

These synths would be great to use for the next OSC. In fact these are both far better sounding than some of the vsti selections they have had a competition with recently. For instance, I cant even get tunefish to run on my windows 8 system in sonar x2 so it is worthless as far as I am concerned.

I guess it is hard to remain active as almost nobody donates anything for donationware, most think donationware = freeware.

Anyway, another free synth that can do leads like distorted guitars etc. is Hahaha CS33.
http://www.pethu.se/music/instruments.html
There is room for improvement, though, especially regarding the user interface.

Advice sought - Good freeware subtractive synth