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The 20 best VST plug-in synths in the world today

New for 2011, MusicRadar users' ultimate soft synth collection

Ben Rogerson, Tue 22 Nov 2011, 3:33 pm UTC

Off-the-wall plug-ins are par for the course for Audio Damage, so it's hardly surprising that their very first 'proper' synth is based on the Apple II-based alphaSyntauri, a vintage model that was pretty peculiar in its day and only seems more so nowadays.

Like the alphaSyntauri, Phosphor uses additive synthesis as its sound source. In a nutshell, we're talking two oscillators, each with 16 partials.

There are plenty of clever additional features, too, and although it doesn’t have the most flexible architecture, Phosphor boasts bags of personality. Whether it's being used for fake bass guitar plucks, FM bells, gnarly bass noises, sci-fi pads, 'poorly computer' FX or wonky leads, it's unmistakable - and we love it for that.

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  • Andrei KosseOmnisfere best, thank you, Eric Persing !!!
  • Jan EdmanRealy good synth never gets bored with it makes you very creative
  • Daniel KarabtsovNice, Thanx!!!
  • Nikita Revinthe best is nexus 2 with her professional kit , and dubstep kit. :)
  • Kevin De SwertsThe posibilities are endless. If you take musicproducing a little bit serious, omnisphere is a MUST HAVE!! Actualy all the stuf of spectrasonics is amazing. Thank you.
  • Santo De LucaGoooooooooood!!!
  • Circuit RecordingsThese days, Synth Software are endless in dance music from house, dubstep, drum n bass or techno. On protool I use most of the above and even use vstation as bass. Depending how you feel in your mind of what type of element of synth you want to use depending what kind of tune you want to produce, Believe me or not, when you use synth like tone2 or what, you always change your music at that moment rather than what's originally in your head in the first place. Rob papen, spectrasonic and native has always been on top of the game, But others has joined the top marks such as refx, fxpansion, lennar digital, tone2 and others. my best synth are endless because they all do different things.
  • Damian ŁaskawiecNexus on 8th place? :O suprising.....
  • Bidaim Shabanihey broo wt c up
  • Bidaim Shabaniay need to donwlod fm8 how kent donwlod if you kent to hellp meey
  • Ronni ZagThere are many plugins theese days that you can dou very intresting thins... some of them are reaktor, ace and Fm 8.
  • David AbrahamGreat list, I may have missed it but did any drum synths make the list?
  • Ronni ZagThe secret is one....Learn all the capabilities of your synthesizers and you will bring out the best!!the combinations are endless
  • Aron WitbeenShit...
  • Dario Sprai Rigoncooool
  • Miwo-Producer Bigmulacrazy stuff.
  • Deepak MeenaSpectrasonic omnisphere is quit a good option for vst user.
  • Calhoun TubbsEWQL, anyone?
  • Igor FandeevOmnisphere super!!!!!!
  • Matthew DeleeLoveing it
  • Fotis SplashThey are all good :) especially nexus 2 and sylenth, thank you very much for this one, ill try smth new at last :)
  • Kenny Strikathey re the best I ve ever used....
  • Muzic DenZ3ta+2is pretty damn intersting.
  • Frank Torreare there any good free ones?
  • Anuj KashyapOH TERI WHAT A MIDI.

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