[email protected] wrote:Hello everybody , I'm new to MPC Renaissance & VST ... I'm looking for top VST synths .... The VST delivered with the machine sound a little to much metallic for me ... I'm looking for the best VST plugins ... so any suggestions are welcome... what's your TOP 10 ?
many thanks, Fred
The Presets are metallic? or the Raw oscillator sounds are metallic?
Software synths don't cost a lot for a reason. IF anything, you aren't paying for the PRESETS (sounds that are already made - because they're easy to make), what you really are paying for is the potential of the synth. A software synth company can have a team of 10 members making presets for a synthesizer so that future consumers can use it & find it inspiring. 10 members will have different tastes, different ears.. They wouldn't spend weeks making 5 amazing quality presets - it would cost too much labor, it would waste time, and be harder to sell. Instead, they would spend about 1-3 minutes making a preset.
10 members x 3 minutes = 30 preset patches already made in 3 minutes.
Now after 1 hour... that's:
10 members x 60 = 600 preset patches
Let's fit 1000000 presets in a software synth which take up 10 kb of space or less.
Why do I mention time investment into creating a sound?
Take the Roland JUNOs.. goto your local music store and play around with it. (Doesn't matter if we're comparing hardware / software.. you can make both sound completely the same to a non-professional ear). Roland, Moog, Kurz, Korg, Virus, ..they will all sound inspiring. I might be jumping the gun right here but after selling and demo-ing alot of keyboards and synth, I'd say: reputable manufactures with limited harddisk space will always have better sounding, more-time invested synths.
You can obtain a software synth with 100000000 sounds, with only 3 of them being "inspiring". It's normal. It always happens. It can also be just your taste in music & what you're looking for.
Every synth will always start metallic-sounding. Synths are another word for oscillators.. which in most cases come in 3 basic wave forms: sin waves, square waves, triangle waves.
a sin wave will sound soft and smooth
a square wave will sound like a nintendo
a triangle wave will sound something from a trance / techno music
The power of synths are really amazing:
Our job with the synth is to use those 3 types of waves, mix them together, and create a sound of:
1. dog
2. growling
3. explosion
4. chorus sound
5. synth pad
6. bass
7.
...possibilities are endless.
Of course, you can always use the presets, adjust the equalizer, add some 3rd party filters to really shape the sound. It's all in the way YOU shape the sound.
My Top 10:
1. Native Instruments Massive
All we really need are 1,2,3 oscillators, maybe not even the 3rd. It's the filtering and effects that really matter.
