Vintage Synth Emulations put to the test

[force]

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for anybody thats interested

[dirty_bass]

Very interesting.
I worked for years in a purely analog studio.
Sequencing, recording the lot was analog.
And I never though computer based stuff could come close.
Until I started using it.

In some of these comparisons, I actually thought the soft versions sounded more analog than the originals.

the exception being the audiorealism versus the real 303, which no one has yet matched.

[force]

A few years ago, a mate and i were saying how good it would be if you could get ,say a 'Jupiter 8', and other old analog kit onto a single PCI card !!!!!

Little did we know

[dirty_bass]

The odd thing baout htose tests, is that the soft synths that came off worst.
Were rolands emulations of their own machines!!!!

Doesn`t surprise me though, roland has been a woefully random and out of touch company for a long time.

[force]

yeah odd that, and slightly embarrassing.

I ****in love the sound of the poly6 tho, used to have a real one many years ago :cry:

[dirty_bass]

yeah, me too.
and a poly 800

[RDR]

I wish they'd have done the mono/poly instead.. i got one and man do i love that synth, its a monster.

[force]

yeah, me too.
and a poly 800

Poly 800 was my first synth. bought it along with a Yamaha RX21 drum machine(Oh those realistic drum sounds)!!!

And yeah Dodgy, a monopoly vst would be creamy chocolate.

Those korgs had a sound unto themselves