The magic of software virtual instruments ! Recreating known piece of hardware, emulating famous synth, trying to capture the spirit of a machine, attempting to copy the sound and feeling of an instrument!
Here’s a compilation of all the articles about free VST plugins that try to emulate the most famous synths, plus links to the freeware plugins that are the only one to recreate a kind of machine (they didn’t get an article). Below is a list of best free VST emulations.
Surge by Vember Audio is the best free synthesizer VST plugin right now. It is an insanely powerful hybrid subtractive synth with a dual synthesis engine, three oscillators per voice, eight algorithms per oscillator, two multi-mode filters with eight filter types, twelve LFO modules per voice, eight FX slots with ten different effects, and more. Arturia’s proprietary technologies, TAE® and Phi, ensure that each instrument sounds and behaves exactly like the original. Pigments 2 is also included in this bundle due to the Analog Lab 4.
Dec 27, 2018 Free Download specifications. Standalone synthesizer and a VST / AAX plugin. Prophet V comes in two shapes and sizes, namely Prophet 5 (polyphonic synthesizer with a. Sep 10, 2019. Get the guaranteed best price on Software Synths & Samplers Software like the Arturia Prophet V Software Download at Musician's Friend. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. Prophet 5 Interface The virtual emulation offered in the Prophet-V 2.0 is an exact replica of the original instrument and uses the same subtractive. Sep 11, 2017 Don't even get me started on The Prophet 6's distortion. That sounds amazing to me, and there's no software distortion that I'm aware of that even comes close. I found that having Zebra HZ, with it's Diva filters, was a better synth for what I do, but I could afford to have the Prophet 6 and use it for what it is, an analog poly.
Here you can find free virtual alternatives to the classic analog synths :
MiniMoog, Arp 2600, Arp Odyssey, Synthi VCS3, Obeirheim OB-X
There are also your favorite FM / Vector Synthesis / “digital” synths :
Yamaha DX7, Prophet VS, PPG Wave, Ensoniq SQ80
The usual techno/trance suspects are here too :
Roland TB303, Alpha Juno, Juno 60, JP-8000, Korg Mono / Poly, Clavia Nord Lead 2
We did not forgot the Jazzy/Funky/Rock famous instruments :
Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, Farfisa combo organ, Hohner Clavinet, Wurlitzer E-piano, Mellotron & Arp Solina.
And even the antic Theremin + some funky toys : Speak and Spell & Stylophone.
This is work in progress, i’ll add free VSTi plugin if we find some new free recreation of well known synthesizers.
All the VSTi in this list are freeware.
Here we go :
http://www.fullbucket.de/music/monofury.html
http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/ + check my preset banks for Synth1 !