

firstly, do you like the sound of the synth? if you buy a synth for any less reason than the sound of it you will never be happy with it and end up selling it. Spend a decent amount of time with the demo of each synth because there are a few factors that you need to consider. I'll definitely check the demo out flatfinger. You know, something that has insane capabilities and lots of sounds is Camel Audio ALCHEMY. I'm just trying to build up a nice but no too expensive set of plugins: Good patches would be nice but I don't mind having to sculpt my own sounds. Instead of hunting through four or five softsynths until I get the sound I'm looking for, I'd prefer just one or two versatile one. When it comes to vst fx I'm all set with Reapers own fx plugins & a few go to freebies like the Kjaerhus Audio set.īut when it comes to free synths though, I'm just not completely satisfied with what's out there. Something that would give me similar bass sounds to massive & yet be flexible enough to give me descent lead, pad, arp etc. I'm looking for a synth that satisfies the more electronic side of my musical tastes. Not really a workstation Synth per-say I have the free Kontakt player A few weeks ago I needed a plugin with some nice ready to use presets (as I'm not a synth programmer) for sounds like bass, strings, orchestra, synth leads, and got great suggestions at KVR forums. I think you are looking for some kind of workstation VSTi. You do need big drives if you go that path though. Something like Kontak or dimension would mean that you could always expand the pallet by getting a sampled/expansion sound set. Really, a good sampler can set you up with ridiculas amounts of sounds, and most of them can do great synth sounds too. Surge is a fine instrument, but hasn't had the stratospheric popularity of something like ZEBRA ( which isn't an easy thing to program.modular) so as much as I like surge I couldn't reccoment if you don't design patches. If not, then you need to consider the popularity and thus, the availability of quality patches. The real question could be Do you do you design/program ? I'd really appreciate opinions on this from fellow Reaperites :) The two I have my eye on so far are u-he's Zebra 2.5 & Vember Audio's Surge. So Im looking for an all-rounder, Something that performs well with Bass, Leads, Pads, Arp etc. Just buying Massive & Fm8 is still gonna cost about £350.


I'd love to get the Komplete 6 Pack but just dont have that kind of money. Ive Demoed Massive & Fm8, & really liked them. I also Like to throw some synths into Rock Stuff too. I usually make Rock / Metal style music but am also partial to a bit of Dnb / Electronic Music.
