Software Synths?

zenmasterbrian · 13th February 2007, 09:39 PM

Search comes up negative.

Looking to learn all about software synths, espeically open source.

Are there any forums that specialize in such?

Sonusthree · 13th February 2007, 10:08 PM

Hi,
I haven't looked for a while now but you should find something of interest here. It's a very good magazine actually.

http://www.soundonsound.com/forum

neutron7 · 14th February 2007, 05:26 AM

there are a lot of VSTi and other plugin standard for PC and mac (there are audio plugins for linux but not there)
synths at www.kvraudio.com including a few free ones. i am not sure if any of the free ones are open source. but there are forums there as well where you could ask. almost every softsynt developer posts there when they release or update any softsynth.

there are free VSTi hosts avaliable that can run them. also some software "synthkit" that lets you roll your own from pre made modules

Optical · 14th February 2007, 08:17 PM

I second the KVR website, it has everything soft synth and fx realted.

Finding the right synth for a particular sound, however, is a tricky task and requires a lot of experimenting.

Searching the KVR forums will give you a lot of your information, but keep an eye out for products (although not free) by 'Native Instruments' - They have a modular softsynth environment called 'Reaktor'

You can essntially build any synth you want in there

Otherwise there is 'Synthedit' which is a similar sort of thing.

And of course you can get the vst open source development kit from steinberg if you want to program yoru own vsti's in C++

dy · 25th November 2007, 07:43 AM

You can download some free VST in this forum

http://www.audiody.com/bulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7

13th February 2007, 09:39 PM	#1
zenmasterbrian diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2006	Software Synths? Search comes up negative. Looking to learn all about software synths, espeically open source. Are there any forums that specialize in such?

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dy diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2007	Free VST from Audio Forum You can download some free VST in this forum http://www.audiody.com/bulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7

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13th February 2007, 10:08 PM	#2
Sonusthree diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brighton,UK	Hi, I haven't looked for a while now but you should find something of interest here. It's a very good magazine actually. http://www.soundonsound.com/forum

14th February 2007, 05:26 AM	#3
neutron7 diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Toronto Canada	there are a lot of VSTi and other plugin standard for PC and mac (there are audio plugins for linux but not there) synths at www.kvraudio.com including a few free ones. i am not sure if any of the free ones are open source. but there are forums there as well where you could ask. almost every softsynt developer posts there when they release or update any softsynth. there are free VSTi hosts avaliable that can run them. also some software "synthkit" that lets you roll your own from pre made modules

14th February 2007, 08:17 PM	#4
Optical diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Auckland, New Zealand	I second the KVR website, it has everything soft synth and fx realted. Finding the right synth for a particular sound, however, is a tricky task and requires a lot of experimenting. Searching the KVR forums will give you a lot of your information, but keep an eye out for products (although not free) by 'Native Instruments' - They have a modular softsynth environment called 'Reaktor' You can essntially build any synth you want in there Otherwise there is 'Synthedit' which is a similar sort of thing. And of course you can get the vst open source development kit from steinberg if you want to program yoru own vsti's in C++

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