Re: freeware vs commercial AU development?
Re: freeware vs commercial AU development?
- Subject: Re: freeware vs commercial AU development?
- From: Artemiy Pavlov <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:27:52 +0300
Hello!
I would like to suggest you a few things.
First, buying a synth for it's looks is really foolish. Most of not
all offer a trial or demo version which you can usually tweak for
about two weeks. Usually it takes a couple hours to understand
whether it's worth it.
The synths out there that are really great I'd say are Sculpture
(bundled with Apple's Logic), and also the TimeWARP2600. There is
many interesting stuff from Arturia and LinPlug, worth trying out
too. BUT, one thing to ask is, why do you need really many many
synths? Unless you are plan developing commercial patch sets for
them, just pick the most appealing to you and tweak the hell out of
them.
As about freeware: there is a synth called Automat which is quite a
nice one, you will like it's sound for sure:
http://www.alphakanal.de/snipsnap/space/Automat
All the best,
Artemiy.
On 12 Aug 2006, at 9:04 AM, jbrave wrote:
I discovered when I "switched" to mac from pc a few months ago,
while I was waiting for my new G4 laptop and coreduo mini to
arrive, the simply huge amounts of freeware VST synthesizers for
the PC, many of which are far more creative and interesting than
most of the commercial ones I've used. There doesn't seem to be
that many free AU synths out there and, with a few exceptions, the
commercial synths I've experimented with seem to *look* much much
better than they *sound*.
Are any of you developing freeware? Those of you working on
commercial projects, how much of you company budget goes towards
the visual design versus the sound generation side of the product?
Some of these products have UI's that are just gorgeous, and make
you immediately pull out your credit card and buy them, only to be
really disappointed in the sound or how much CPU they eat for
breakfast...
Joel
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