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Well I finally bought into FM8. It beats the hell out of most of my synths and truly competes with my Prophet 08 and Jd-800.
It is probably still one of the best synths on the market and I wouldn't be surprised if it is being used by major studios.
FM synthesis is not dead since you can obtain any kind of result with patience and experience. The sounds you can obtain are remarkable.
A tip for newbies, try to see how far you can go with just 2 operators using feedback and mess with the ratios.
Stay away from the filter in the beggining because you will get bad habits from your analog synths. If you mess with the filter too soon, you will miss the point.
2 operators will really get you far. Use the effects, noise and the X operator to beef it up a bit.
Can sound like a complete orchestra if you put enough time into it.
I can safely say this competes easily with Massive.
I currently own Tera 3 and this is the only synth I probably will need.
I tried Zebra and can say it is in the same class (both being different).Read Review
Well I finally bought into FM8. It beats the hell out of most of my synths and truly competes with my Prophet 08 and Jd-800.
It is probably still one of the best synths on the market and I wouldn't be surprised if it is being used by major studios.
FM synthesis is not dead since you can obtain any kind of result with patience and experience. The sounds you can obtain are remarkable.
A tip for newbies, try to see how far you can go with just 2 operators using feedback and mess with the ratios.
Stay away from the filter in the beggining because you will get bad habits from your analog synths. If you mess with the filter too soon, you will miss the point.
2 operators will really get you far. Use the effects, noise and the X operator to beef it up a bit.
Can sound like a complete orchestra if you put enough time into it.
I can safely say this competes easily with Massive.
I currently own Tera 3 and this is the only synth I probably will need.
I tried Zebra and can say it is in the same class (both being different).Read Review
Orchestral
Reviewed By yul [all]
November 1st, 2002
Version reviewed: 1.01 on Windows
Pretty much the best available all-in-one orchestral plugin besides million dollar sample sets. Extremely satisfying sound. 17 outputs supported. Results may vary.
Look, if you need a fast/simple/cheap way to make high quality orchstrations, this is it. The only improvements I would want to see are faster enveloppes as classical iends to be very precise...Read Review
Look, if you need a fast/simple/cheap way to make high quality orchstrations, this is it. The only improvements I would want to see are faster enveloppes as classical iends to be very precise...Read Review
Plex - Restructuring Synthesizer
Reviewed By yul [all]
September 26th, 2002
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows
I personnaly love it because its resembles what impressed me most in a hardware rompler like trinity i.e airy and breathy.
Anyone can stack strings over a piano but its a lot harder to make the sounds move also. This synth does it.
If you really want to go to la la land, try stacking 2 instances, like a combi mode, on the same channel and add ext. reverb. wow
The individual samples arent that great but the magic really happens when you assign 3 different ones. The qualitites of each samples are kept only.
Also very stable and low CPU on my Athlon XP 2000+.Read Review
Anyone can stack strings over a piano but its a lot harder to make the sounds move also. This synth does it.
If you really want to go to la la land, try stacking 2 instances, like a combi mode, on the same channel and add ext. reverb. wow
The individual samples arent that great but the magic really happens when you assign 3 different ones. The qualitites of each samples are kept only.
Also very stable and low CPU on my Athlon XP 2000+.Read Review