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Written by Slavko Stojnic
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
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Page 1 of 3  Nowadays you can download really huge number of free VST additions from Internet. Most of them don’t deserve a second of our attention but there are several real jewels that are quite innovative and often they have enough quality to beat many commercial solution and effects. On this occasion we have singled out the following.
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JX-220 and JXSynth 1.2 are synthesizers in retro analog model style.
They have nice but not so various sounds. JX-220 and JXSynth 1.2 are
simple and usable for usual electronic bass, pad and lead sounds.
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Despite unpleasant interface, Synth 1 has astounding quality sound,
good arpeggiator (for automatic variations of played tones) and huge
number of preset sounds available for download. It successfully
reproduces “natural” and “electronic” sounds.
We recommend you to
download and to try on all preset banks so that you get the picture how
wide spectrum of possibilities is. Shortly, Synth 1 can do it all! Ok,
almost all.
Sounds of Nature is interesting instruments packet for creating
credible “natural” sounds like: wind, rain, thunder, insects, birds and
similar sounds that can be helpful for making soundtrack for video
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| Crystal is really great VST synthesizer capable of reproducing the widest spectrum of sounds with quality and dense output. It uses very original approach in sound shaping using envelopes and it can provide you a lot of unique and not seen so far solutions during composing and playing music. |
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polyΙblit is synthesizer with nice and characteristic tones (bass, lead, pad) and it is mostly attended for electronic music although it can pull out some piano sounds.
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| daHornet is virtual analog synthesizer. It gives exceptional quality, dense and pure output. Despite simple interface DaHornet has a lot of possibilities. On same web site beside DaHornet, you can find several very useful VSTs. |
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Chip32 is low-fi synthesizer attended for attaining 8-bit tones like for example is SID chip sound from ancient Commodore64 computer. We have to admit that this is very successful emulation and thanks to few “modern” options and parameters it can have wider application. Chip32 is good for strong basses and all kinds of sounds from video games. |
| Superwave P8 is successful fusion of “old-fashioned” analog synthesizer and contemporary monster-synths parameters. It offers multitude of useable sounds especially in area of electronic music. |
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reFX Claw synth has a very impressive output. It reproduces bass and lead sounds, resembling to those that Benny Benassi have been using, in last couple years. So if your goal is to make impression on listener just go ahead and download it! |
Osiris-6 is interesting synth that mostly makes electronic sounds and it looks ok. It has good arpeggio and RNG (random note generator) sections.
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Lallapalooza is synthesizer of wonderful sound with very usable presets. On same site you can download even BuzComp Free – packet with 4 linear digital compressors that will do a great job without changing sound pitch.
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| Minimal is very interesting rhythm machine with built in bass-synth. It
is capable of reproducing a very wide spectrum of rhythmic sequences. |
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Grapheed is special VST instrument (VSTi) that uses samples, granular synthesis and delay effect with special 32 step sequencer. Grapheed makes unique results by recycling existing sounds. If you want your music to sound different than you definitely should download Grapheed and experiment. It is very useful because it can create something new and interesting even using the worst old loops. |
| Drumatic VE and Drumatic 3 are rhythm machines. Drumatic VE combines legendary Roland TR-909 and Tr-808 samples with additional synthetic sounds. Thanks to this, it reproduces advanced, modern and dense sounds of everyone’s favorite drums. Dramatic 3 instead of samples uses all tones that are synthesized by itself which only brings a lot of options and variations and makes enough space for experiments. |
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