| OT: Cool (free) softsynths [message #63567] |
Sun, 22 January 2006 11:13  |
emarenot
Messages: 345
Registered: June 2005
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Since I've been having such a good time playing with these free little
softsynth beasties, I thought I'd throw out some of my impressions for
anybody that's interested.
First off, there's ALOT of free synths out there. I think I've got about
twenty now. I'm running them in a simple version of Orion. Many of the
synths seem to be made with a program called "SynthEdit." This probably
(partly) explains why many seem to sound the similar. So far I've got a few
favorites: Evol, two synths by a guy named HG Fortune (STS-21, and
Protoplasm), and another called Synth 1. I just downloaded Crystal, which
may be pretty cool too, we'll see. I'm amazed at how responsive even my
SBLive card is. I haven't gotten more than a couple instances yet, but the
card is hangin' in there at 10-13ms. Kind of surprising for such dated
technology.
Well, just wanted to pass along some good gear vibes. I imagine most of you
folks are probably already hip to all this. The first synth I messed with
was an OB1 with four SEM modules, now I've got almost a score of synths in
one Athlon based SEM -and their all free! Killer.
MR
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| Re: Cool (free) softsynths [message #63586 is a reply to message #63567] |
Sun, 22 January 2006 09:54  |
Aaron Allen
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Mike, for max performance out of that card, you should be running the KX
project drivers.
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
AA
"Mike R." <emarenot@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:43d3af1e@linux...
> Since I've been having such a good time playing with these free little
> softsynth beasties, I thought I'd throw out some of my impressions for
> anybody that's interested.
>
> First off, there's ALOT of free synths out there. I think I've got about
> twenty now. I'm running them in a simple version of Orion. Many of the
> synths seem to be made with a program called "SynthEdit." This probably
> (partly) explains why many seem to sound the similar. So far I've got a
> few
> favorites: Evol, two synths by a guy named HG Fortune (STS-21, and
> Protoplasm), and another called Synth 1. I just downloaded Crystal, which
> may be pretty cool too, we'll see. I'm amazed at how responsive even my
> SBLive card is. I haven't gotten more than a couple instances yet, but
> the
> card is hangin' in there at 10-13ms. Kind of surprising for such dated
> technology.
>
> Well, just wanted to pass along some good gear vibes. I imagine most of
> you
> folks are probably already hip to all this. The first synth I messed with
> was an OB1 with four SEM modules, now I've got almost a score of synths in
> one Athlon based SEM -and their all free! Killer.
> MR
>
>
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| Re: Cool (free) softsynths [message #63589 is a reply to message #63586] |
Sun, 22 January 2006 13:45 |
emarenot
Messages: 345
Registered: June 2005
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Aaron, how the heck do you know all this stuff!!?? Amazing man.
Thanks again.
MR
"Aaron Allen" <nospam@not_here.dude> wrote in message
news:43d3c7f9$1@linux...
> Mike, for max performance out of that card, you should be running the KX
> project drivers.
> http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
>
> AA
>
>
> "Mike R." <emarenot@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:43d3af1e@linux...
> > Since I've been having such a good time playing with these free little
> > softsynth beasties, I thought I'd throw out some of my impressions for
> > anybody that's interested.
> >
> > First off, there's ALOT of free synths out there. I think I've got
about
> > twenty now. I'm running them in a simple version of Orion. Many of the
> > synths seem to be made with a program called "SynthEdit." This probably
> > (partly) explains why many seem to sound the similar. So far I've got a
> > few
> > favorites: Evol, two synths by a guy named HG Fortune (STS-21, and
> > Protoplasm), and another called Synth 1. I just downloaded Crystal,
which
> > may be pretty cool too, we'll see. I'm amazed at how responsive even my
> > SBLive card is. I haven't gotten more than a couple instances yet, but
> > the
> > card is hangin' in there at 10-13ms. Kind of surprising for such dated
> > technology.
> >
> > Well, just wanted to pass along some good gear vibes. I imagine most of
> > you
> > folks are probably already hip to all this. The first synth I messed
with
> > was an OB1 with four SEM modules, now I've got almost a score of synths
in
> > one Athlon based SEM -and their all free! Killer.
> > MR
> >
> >
>
>
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| Re: Cool (free) softsynths [message #63733 is a reply to message #63567] |
Tue, 24 January 2006 19:45 |
Bill Lorentzen
Messages: 140
Registered: June 2005
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Crystal is great.
Bill
"Mike R." <emarenot@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:43d3af1e@linux...
> Since I've been having such a good time playing with these free little
> softsynth beasties, I thought I'd throw out some of my impressions for
> anybody that's interested.
>
> First off, there's ALOT of free synths out there. I think I've got about
> twenty now. I'm running them in a simple version of Orion. Many of the
> synths seem to be made with a program called "SynthEdit." This probably
> (partly) explains why many seem to sound the similar. So far I've got a
> few
> favorites: Evol, two synths by a guy named HG Fortune (STS-21, and
> Protoplasm), and another called Synth 1. I just downloaded Crystal, which
> may be pretty cool too, we'll see. I'm amazed at how responsive even my
> SBLive card is. I haven't gotten more than a couple instances yet, but
> the
> card is hangin' in there at 10-13ms. Kind of surprising for such dated
> technology.
>
> Well, just wanted to pass along some good gear vibes. I imagine most of
> you
> folks are probably already hip to all this. The first synth I messed with
> was an OB1 with four SEM modules, now I've got almost a score of synths in
> one Athlon based SEM -and their all free! Killer.
> MR
>
>
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