Good synths for soft,soulful,ambient sounds...

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:23 pm

the freer the better. Recommendations?

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:36 pm

was going to say absynth, but hardly free (unless you torrent it or something).

pangaea · Post by **pangaea** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:54 pm

fliPPo wrote:hardly free (unless you torrent it or something).

topcatt · Post by **topcatt** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:06 am

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:42 am

Pretty much any of the good free ones are capable. Try Crystal 2. It's a wavetable subtractive synth. I've made some pretty nice sounds in it in the past, and you can load your own wavs to use.

Triangle 2 is another great subtractive synth. It's a little bit grimier a la pro-53, but you should also be able to get some nice leads out of her. It's monophonic so pads are out.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:33 am

i love wavetable synths. Just about any wavetable synth will give you killer ambience if you know how to milk your sounds.

dougd · Post by **dougd** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:53 am

Here are two freeware VST string synths, perfect for soft, soulful ambience:

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1041.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1331.html

Also look around on that KVR site, it has tons of other free synths, effects etc.

untold · Post by **untold** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:09 am

any synth

playing a melody or chord that moves you

using a patch that might have:

- a long release time
- treble filtered out
- the bass filtered out

and possibly sequenced:

- quietly in the mix
- an octave above or below other elements
- swimming in reverb
- loosely with lots of velocity variation

misk · Post by **misk** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:00 pm

FM7 is pretty cheap these days

atmosphere is amazing, but expensive! also, resampling always works wonders...

b-lam · Post by **b-lam** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:30 pm

for these type of sounds i like to use sampled strings/vocals/stuff and wack them in the sampler... reverb, delay, eq... works a treat
this is also cus i'm too impatient for endless synth programming....

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:53 am

B-LAM wrote:for these type of sounds i like to use sampled strings/vocals/stuff and wack them in the sampler... reverb, delay, eq... works a treat
this is also cus i'm too impatient for endless synth programming....

Straight up. That's been the formula lately here too. I make all the basses straight from scratch, but i've been trying to be creative with sampling for other layers.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:09 am

TopCatt wrote:ATMOSPHERE if you can be botherd to 'aquire' 2 gigs spread out onto 5 discs...it is big though...the very first preset sound is the one when you turn a playstation 2 on...

my personal fav

arcticsunrise · Post by **arcticsunrise** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:53 pm

hg fortune synths

NinjaEdit · Post by **NinjaEdit** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:19 pm

flippo wrote:was going to say absynth, but hardly free (unless you torrent it or something).

Bounce from the 30 minute demo.

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:33 pm

Oatmeal is an excellent free synth as is Zebralette.
Both are great for ambient sounds, fx, etc.
Zebralette is quite interesting and has some unique features and a great sound, smaller version of Zebra 2.

ehbes · Post by **ehbes** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:03 pm

jonahmann wrote:
flippo wrote:was going to say absynth, but hardly free (unless you torrent it or something).
Bounce from the 30 minute demo.

Do you really think op cares 5 years later....c'mon now

Artie_Fufkin · Post by **Artie_Fufkin** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:10 am

I care. I'm gonna check out zebralette now. And your post hasn't helped anyone; it just clutters the thread.
I think picking a good reverb can be more important the synth itself, especially if it's a plain old patch that can be done with any synth.

ehbes · Post by **ehbes** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:14 am

Artie Fufkin wrote:I care. I'm gonna check out zebralette now. And your post hasn't helped anyone; it just clutters the thread.

Yes, every post on dsf except for mine are competent focused on the questions at hand

twilitez · Post by **twilitez** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:15 am

arcticsunrise wrote:hg fortune synths

+100

His stuff is amazing.

NinjaEdit · Post by **NinjaEdit** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:13 am

Maybe try a convolution reverb with a random sound effect as the impulse response.

Oherwise for reverb, I also recommend... Absynth.

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