MSoundFactory

If you don't afraid spending some time to learn how to made sound in this one of most complicated synths - you'll be rewarded by huge number of options to shape your sound. Basically all Melda FX plugins are inside ready to use (doesn't matter if you have license for them or not). But I must warn you - it's not easiest synth I was using. In fact is one of two most difficult synths I have.

If you don't like to craft your own sounds - there is also LE version, much cheaper, where you have access to all sounds with limited option to tweak them. What are limitations? Well, at start, let me explain something that isn't obvious when you first time run this synth. You have two types of sounds - first are regular presets which are available in "Global Presets" menu. It's not the same as Meda Instruments, even if they're made using the same options. Global presets are basically normal presets like in any synth - no graphics, no tweaks (except deep edit if you have full version, not LE), just sounds. And there are instruments - and this is something different. Imagine that you have any synth with macros, so you create your own prests and assign some knobs to these macros, so user can change your preset in the way you designed your macro knobs. Most of synths have 4 or 8 macro knobs and that's all. In MSoundFactory you can assign up to 256 macros to any element in your preset. And then you can add your graphics to these macro knobs. And then, when you assign all your macros - you can create instrument (your mega-preset with its own knobs). And you can create presets inside this instrument using your macro knobs (because you have so many assigned parameters, you can create even your own complex synth!). And from time to time Melda adding (free of charge) additional instruments into your MSoundFactory (LE and full). And it's not always just different type of generated sound, these instruments can contains large base of samples as well, so you may expect a lot of different stuff (sampled strings, drums, pads etc).

So, as I said, if you have LE version, you have limited option to tweak sound - you may tweak all instruments using their internal knobs and even save your own presets, but you can't dig deeper and tweak global presets or edit parameters in instruments that are not connected to knobs. So - even LE version have lot of option, especially if you're not sound designer.

What can I say - it's not an easy synth, but it is great. Will not be a love at first sight, but it will be sooner or later. If you are patient enough to learn it.

Ah, one more thing - imagine that you have full version if MSoundFactory and your friend have only free version. If you create your own instrument, you can share it to your friend and it will work! No limits like in Kontakt Player, no full version required. You decide if you want to share your own self-made instruments for free or if you want to protect them by your own serials (and sell them for example).