Looking for Virtual Instrument / Soft synth demos
 

I am just starting my discovery of the VI/Softsynth world and it's been quite stimulating. Already downloaded a demo of Albino and that was cool. I'm looking for demos of more traditional preset sounds and loops (keys, drums, strings, horns) that I can trigger through my midi device. Of course I'm also interested in exploring the cool electronica sounds too but my overall question is:

where can I download soft synth sound library, loops and synth demos before I invest hundreds of dollars on them?

Any help is appreciated.

System is:

Windows XP
1gb Ram
PIV 3.4 Hyper Thread
Pro Tools M-Powered 7.1

Already have the lite version of Ableton live and Drumcore.

Thanks.

Dave in the OC

Re: Looking for Virtual Instrument demos
 

Go to Native Instruments website and get their demos- Kontakt is your best be for traditional sounds, Absynth for exotic electronica.
Virsyn Tera have an rtas version; anything else I use is via the VST-RTAS adapter or is one of the Orchestral/percussion/keyboard sample libaries that's loaded into a Kontakt instrument and thus there's no demo.
Cheers
re_mute

Re: Looking for Virtual Instrument / Soft synth demos
 

Hey Dave,

There's a new soft synth coming up shortly, it is called SynthMaster.
Check out http://www.kv331audio.com/downloads.aspx in a couple of weeks.

Please note that the LE version is NOT a demo, it is a full working version with 3 limitations:

1. 5 voices/plugin instance
2. 2 plugins per session
3. 10 bits audio input resolution

If you're wondering what SynthMaster is capable of, here are some demos:

1. First, here's the demo tutorial video:
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...rtutorial1.wmv

2. It has a 16 band vocoder. Here's how it sounds:
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...tervocoder.wma

3. It has a very flexible arpeggiator, with upto 16 steps:
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...rpeggiator.wma
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...giator_9_8.wma

4. With SynthMaster, you can turn your mouse into a 2D MIDI controller:
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...rMouseDemo.wma

5. SynthMaster supports microtuning, which enables the user to use scales such as Arabic/Turkish scales:
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...orastmakam.wma

6. It support additive/subtractive/fm/am/pm/osc sync synthesis. There are 3 oscillators, 4 modulators, and 3 filters with stereo outputs:

http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...erDrawbars.wma
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...erFilterFM.wma
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...rStereoPad.wma
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...gioCtrlLFO.wma
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...gishFatOsc.wma
http://www.kv331audio.com/synthmaste...alogfilter.wma

As I said, I'm hoping that the free version will be available shortly, around the end of the month.

Best regards,

Bulent Biyikoglu
President, KV331 Audio

Re: Looking for Virtual Instrument / Soft synth demos
 

Sample Tank 2 FREE is, well, free. But it's also a demo for the full version. I like the piano. I have not purchased the full version but this is making me consider it. It can be hard on the CPU but you have a much better CPU than I.

http://www.sampletank.com/Main.html?STFreeDwn

Xpand! (I'm not excited, the '!' is part of it's name ) is only $10 From Digidesign. It's best feature IMHO is you can easily layer upto 4 Intruments to create new sounds.

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...51&itemid=4784

Re: Looking for Virtual Instrument / Soft synth demos
 

Get the wrapper as mentioned above then go to www.kvraudio.com and search free synth VSTs. There are loads of good ones. I am very partial to Analog Warfare 2, Crazy Diamonds, Oberon and Plugsound free.

Re: Looking for Virtual Instrument / Soft synth demos
 

Hi all,

Finally, the wait is over SynthMaster Free is now available. You can download it at:

http://www.kv331audio.com/downloads.aspx

With the final release version we have some bug fixes and 2 new features:

1. Variable polyphony between 8-64 voices.
2. Variable number of "unison" voices between 2-4 voices.

We believe that SynthMaster will be a "must have" soft synth plug-in in your sessions. Try it, you'll love it

Re: Looking for Virtual Instrument / Soft synth demos
 

......again, it would be great to have a Mac version, and an RTAS version at that!