Best Soft Synth Please

[Dutchmuzik]

What is your favorite soft synth for ProTools/Logic Audio. Mostly into Pop/Dance Music.

[wolfhound]

I don't know a lot about dance music, but I just got Reaktor3 and it is completely insane. Really, so good. --wolfie

[drenched]

Retro as1 is wicked. and cheap...If you can afford it try bruno,reso, or virus

[SteveSZ]

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What is your favorite soft synth for ProTools/Logic Audio. Mostly into Pop/Dance Music.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I got virus when I upgraded to a Mix+ system and I love it. Pros: It sounds great, it's easy to find your way around the programming parameters and the presets are mostly pretty good for dance things. Cons: It's weak at emulating "real" instruments. Considering the fact that you're doing a lot of dance stuff that's probably a good thing.

Considering that you can get a number of instances in a session (stereo and mono) the $600 price that I've seen for it doesn't seem too steep. I've also found it easy to use for creating "stings" and so on in sound design situations.
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Steve SZ

[uno1234]

Virus is really amazing, and integrates beautifully into TDM. I don't care for native softsynths like retro-- they just don't feel right. I like having everything right in Pro Tools.

Roland or someone should get smart and make a TDM synth that actually emulates real instruments (like a B3 emulation for TDM where you could make ProControl faders act like drawbars). I would snatch it up in a second.

[mpayne]

Somebody already did - they're called Native Instruments, and the B4 is amazing - for TDM you'll need to use the standalone/DirectConnect version, or use Logic TDM w/ ESB

Malcolm

[Irene]

I know what uno means though!!!!

[Mark Fassett]

My favorite by a long shot is Ab synth.. it's amazing.