KVR Audio

muki · Post by **muki** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:36 pm

ah! a list-thread

adding
waves flow motion

george · Post by **george** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:38 pm

Discovery Pro of course.

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:40 pm

discoDSP wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:38 pm Discovery Pro of course.

What is your favorite additive synth?

Korg Supporter · Post by **Korg Supporter** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:07 pm

_leras wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:32 pm I don't really go looking for FM type sounds but will dip into FM8 from time to time and it still sounds great imo.

Also Bazille, though I look to that mainly for odd textured sounds. I think I've barely scratched the surface of it tbh, let alone exploring the FM aspects.

Another synth that sounds, to me, to have similar timbres is NI Razor, though it isn't FM it does a good line in cold sounding pads.

And I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Sugar Bytes Aparillo. I've never used it but it looks like a really fun FM synth to play.

Aparillo is great for mimicking analog (even Prophet)-style xmod sounds!

Korg Supporter · Post by **Korg Supporter** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:12 pm

martiu wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:40 pm
discoDSP wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:38 pm Discovery Pro of course.
What is your favorite additive synth?

One, I think you are confusing Discovery Pro with Vertigo (or I guess you are just asking them). My favorite addtive synth is Harmor. It is CPU-friendly, sounds great, and allows for almost every parameter to be modulated with its own LFO and envelope! Sadly, the plugin version is abandoned. PPG Infinite is no longer being sold, but that is a unique synth! Loom II sounds cool (and I think it is Air's best synth), and so do NI Razor and ZynAddSubFX. There is definitely a shortage of additive synth plugins, including ones that actually produce harmonic sounds, and I cannot wait for Martinic's RMI emulation and Madrona Labs Sumu to come out soon!

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:17 pm

If we're going strictly by name, F'em wins it, hands down.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:28 pm

Korg Supporter wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:12 pmPPG Infinite is no longer being sold, but that is a unique synth!

I miss all the PPG synths. Each of them is unique in its own way and quite capable!

Korg Supporter · Post by **Korg Supporter** » Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:11 pm

pdxindy wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:28 pm
Korg Supporter wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:12 pmPPG Infinite is no longer being sold, but that is a unique synth!
I miss all the PPG synths. Each of them is unique in its own way and quite capable!

I managed to buy all of the iOS apps but only could afford two plugins. WaveGenerator has a neat sound that is clean, smooth yet gritty, and is a modern continuation of the classic PPG sound. The plugins sound nothing like most out there. I'm also angry that the Linplug plugins are gone, and I never had a chance to buy Spectral or Octopus.

jdoo · Post by **jdoo** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 5:36 am

For me, by a wide margin - the Arturia DX7 V. I owned a DX7 for 20+ years, and sold it when money was tight, some years back. The Arturia emulation stayed true to the internals, to where SysEx dumps from Yamaha are compatible. This opens it up to 20K DX7 patches that are freely available. Yeah.. duplicates-city.. but nonetheless, just a plethora of fantastic free patches are shared. Arturia has enhanced the original in pretty major ways, but it's the timbres that are a draw for me. A close second is Synclavier V. Yeah yeah.. i sound like an Arturia ad.. Im not. Same thing though. Patch compatibility makes the Synclavier able to read freely shared Synclavier patches from over the decades. In fact, there is still a Cameron Jones Synclavier shared timbres site (FaceBook I think). Anyway - Im stuck in nostalgia land, and those two won me over.

crickey13 · Post by **crickey13** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:04 am

Korg Supporter wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:00 pm
crickey13 wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:14 am ZynFusion hasn't been mentioned yet and it's pretty great. Obviously also Dexed and Exakt Lite as far as free ones are concerned.
Zyn Fusion only had 8 2op FM pairs. It can be compiled for free.

I thought you could chain these 8 operators, my bad.

george · Post by **george** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 9:53 am

martiu wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:40 pm
discoDSP wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:38 pm Discovery Pro of course.
What is your favorite additive synth?

Vertigo 5.0

Back on topic, I also really like discoDSP OPL because it's very easy to program and has a very straightforward GUI.

DNnX · Post by **DNnX** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:21 am

discoDSP wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:38 pm Discovery Pro of course.

Does discoDSP still have Phantom source code?
Just for my curiosity

george · Post by **george** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:32 am

It should be somewhere.

_leras · Post by **_leras** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:32 pm

jdoo wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 5:36 am . The Arturia emulation stayed true to the internals, to where SysEx dumps from Yamaha are compatible. This opens it up to 20K DX7 patches that are freely available.

FM7 the original NI emulation had that way back. FM8 also does.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:34 pm

The strange thing is that Yamaha FM-X can't read original DX7 patches! So they provided a convertor online!

FM8 is great for its low CPU usage and I love its presets! I can find most that I want. So, with little or no tweaking I already have all I want! It is from the first synths (with Massive and Absynth) that I insert. I doubt my music needs more than that! But I'm stupid, so that I buy more and more synths

What's your favorite FM synth plugin?