Tribe.net. Local Connections john http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#686844d4-30f0-4b75-b05a-163c02afe5e0 2009-07-09T00:41:54Z 2009-07-09T00:41:54Z

I second crystal. Theres lots on KVR that rival the paid synths. Theres a free clone of the Roland SH 101 which is cool, its called TAL-bassline.

john 2009-07-09T00:41:54Z Reverend Zed http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#005ff4bb-42e6-42d1-b096-909814f90522 2009-05-31T06:43:50Z 2009-05-31T06:43:50Z

Crystal's the shit. Love it, use it a lot. Also, the free version of Kore is pretty damn good too.

Reverend Zed 2009-05-31T06:43:50Z damien http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#df7bb14d-db1f-4a14-bdce-b691f5500f23 2009-05-30T19:36:25Z 2009-05-30T19:36:25Z

crystal is free and works on both PC and Mac. http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/download.html and it has some interesting features in it as well.

damien 2009-05-30T19:36:25Z Señor Pájaro http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#f62901d2-ad4f-43cd-8937-faf1e15f0ee6 2009-05-21T02:39:12Z 2009-05-21T02:39:12Z

reaper is free/donationware. i.e., pay if you like, don't if you don't...

Señor Pájaro 2009-05-21T02:39:12Z $item.owner.firstName http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#e1e6ff50-41b9-46f7-875c-c5cac562811c 2009-05-20T04:08:13Z 2009-05-20T04:08:13Z

"If you want quality, pay for it" That is absolutely not true. There are literally hundreds of high quality free plugins available. Most of them for pc but some very good ones for the mac as well. Automat being one of them. One of the highest quality free soft synths ever designed (according to reviews and user comments, that is) is Green Oak's "Crystal" and that's actually for both platforms. There's also u-he's Triple Cheese which sounds excellent. If you want tons of extra features and high quality gui's then yea, that quality you usually DO have to pay for. But with the plethora of high quality freeware out there it is perfectly feesable to make just as good of tunes as (almost) anybody else and with out having to pay for shit except for a daw and a system to run it all on. I'm sure there are freeware daw's out there too but I don't know what. I do know of some very cheap and still powerful daw's though. Cockos "Reaper" being the 1st one that comes to mind.

$item.owner.firstName 2009-05-20T04:08:13Z Carl http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#90ab26c6-804d-4bbb-bebc-63fb562fcb51 2009-05-18T21:06:49Z 2009-05-18T21:06:49Z

A surprisingly great sounding free synth right here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Plugins/Clearsynth.shtml And of course, the granddaddy of free synths...the only synth you made ever need: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html ...Unless of course you're on a Mac!

Carl 2009-05-18T21:06:49Z Señor Pájaro http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#7467f452-2177-4629-b590-e89b66e2e37c 2009-05-18T02:48:30Z 2009-05-18T02:48:30Z

i hesitate to disagree with you, but in this case i have to -- i'm using primarily freeware synths in my music now. i didn't respond to this thread because i don't use things that work the way he wants (or maybe it's just that i don't think that way, so it's not occurring to me what to recommend?) KVR audio is always posting about great freeware -- along with the stuff for money.

Señor Pájaro 2009-05-18T02:48:30Z sAro? http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#dd06b5d1-c4d8-4132-85aa-82beea3eb2df 2009-05-16T12:25:41Z 2009-05-16T12:25:41Z

Well, since there have been no responses, I have to say it. If you want quality, pay for it. I'm sure there is some freeware out there that may work, but I doubt its quality sincerely. Synths are not simple and complicated programming costs.

sAro? 2009-05-16T12:25:41Z Nova http://ableton-live.tribe.net/thread/43459e5c-eb9e-4740-852b-5cfb829fb6be#f38205dc-837c-42c3-a822-43332f516df9 2009-03-26T05:59:55Z 2009-03-26T05:59:55Z

Anyone have any free VST synth recommendations? I am looking for a basic waveform generator-type as well as one that will work with a MIDI keyboard controller. Thanks!

Nova 2009-03-26T05:59:55Z