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80s dance/ synthwave suggestions. (I appreciate you all)
First I just want to say thanks to all of you who have been a part of this forum, I’ve recently have been speaking and chiming in, but without all of these post I would have never made as far as I have with my creations. Every time I have a problem there is someone here to help. You all are kick ass humans!
Now no more mushy stuff;
I have quite a bit of synths my list is extensive and I don’t have any trouble finding sounds I need. However, I feel like synths are endless and it is good to get opinions from time to time, with that being said. What is your favorite synth to generate or make 80s inspired dance synthwave music. My list of synths currently is as follows
Pure synth, Sunrizer, retro piano, Phasemaker, Animoog, bleass, model d, SynthMaster one, poison 202, zeeon synth (personal favorite for these sounds), magellan 2, OPL.
With a few new synths coming out and a few on sale I’m interested to see if any of those come up in this conversation.
If you would just like to share you favorite synths too, that’s awesome. I make every type of music from rap (1st genre I started back in 97) to folk to rock to my new favorite obsession 80s synth wave. Lol
Hope this all find you all well.
Mr. Roses
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TAL-U-NO-LX and Zeeon would be worthwhile additions to your list.
Zeeon even has a free community-made synthwave preset bank.
Such a pity there is no CS-80 on iOS.
Literally has that same thought before about the cs-80, would be lovely.
Imma check out TAL-U-NO-LX out for sure, thank you.
I have zeeon and love it the BB synthwave pack is fire.
I like for synthwave Montpellier, Pompei, Darwin and Lexington from Korg Gadget.
I would say it doesnt matter what synth you use for synthwave, its more about the FX. some tape machine warble, saturation, and noise, some dark filters and reverb etc.
But i would also say tal uno x. its a juno60 emulation, which is one of the kings of synthwave in my opinion.
Most definitely understand where you’re coming from with this. Most of the magic to the song is in the FX etc. My fx and plug ins are pretty stocked.
What be your recommended apps for some of what you listed?
You don’t say!!
I was looking at syntronik a week or so ago, didn’t make the purchase yet. This might be purchased today.
Syntronik is an excellent collection of of ROMpler synth sounds. I am currently working on an 80s synth power pop track that uses almost exclusively Syntronik .
Volt by Kai Aras. As @Slava said, Gadget has a ton of synths suitable for the genre. Digital D1 if you’re after that D50 sound.
Try TB Reelbus, Saffron and for reverb Alteza for ambience and Kleverb for a quality algorithmic verb, TB Reverb is nice too.
Looking forward to hearing this! Love your work.
Looks like I should have gotten Korg Gadget when it was on sale lol.
Loving those suggestions on the auv3s loving the look of TB reelbus, most definitely getting it, I love toneboosters stuff.
+1 on the TAL-U-NO-LX. This is a 1:1 emulation of the Roland Juno 60–highly recommended. Another great one is the KQ Dixie. It is essentially a 1:1 emulation of the Yamaha DX7. It even loads and plays the thousands upon thousands of original presets. Another good one for 80s sounds is String Ensemble. It is essentially a emulation of a Solina. The Solina is found all over 80s music—especially the early 80s.
What about samplers? For synthwave stuff you might enjoy some PPG Wave, Fairlight and E-mu II samples, plus Linn, 505, 606 & DMX drums amongst others. Obsidian's my choice, but there are a few good options now. I'm hoping that TAL-Sampler will eventually come. Samples treated with 'mojo' effects can sound good!
RX950 can add a little spice, and FAC Chorus and Eventide’s MicroPitch can add some more. I also love the Nembrini Delay3000, ToneBoosters' Reelbus and DDMF's Envelope reverb is great for retro stuff.
Maybe just stop there and get to know them all better? That's more synths than 99.9% of the people making synth music in the 80s had.
+1
the amount of sounds I get out of my model d (hardware) alone still surprises me, I’m always discovering something new on it
Some other iOS vintage analog synth emulators are the Arturia iSEM, KORG's ARP ODYSSEi and iMONO/POLY. The OBXd still lacks the ability to save presets, but it's a very good Oberheim OB-Xa emulation.
Others mentioned the TAL-U-NO-LX for JUNO 60, the KQ Dixie for DX7 emulation, and the Audiokit D1 for Roland's D50.
The 80's was an interesting time for synths because it began with true analog synths, and ended as synths were becoming digital. I believe the analog synth circuit designs of the time were responsible for the "sound character" of a lot of the 80's music. The recording and effect technologies of the time also certainly contributed.
From a sound engineering perspective, I think one could say creating and recording electronic music with analog circuitry and use of tape and other analog recording gear, introduced a lot of instability to the sounds used for making the music of that time.
I'm only mentioning this because I'm interested in studying and emulating analog instability using iPad Apps. This is an aspect of sound creation that I'm not sure most iOS users are aware of.
For the sake of conversation... Let's use a sample from a vintage synth as an example. To our ears, we recognize the sound as a singular event in time. We then proceed to use that sound to record a song.
By doing that we are using that singular moment of sound from the vintage synth repetitively in our song. But that sound will not necessarily emulate the subsequent variations in sound character that one would have when using the actual analog hardware and circuitry of the synth that sample was made from.
This is because vintage analog synths uses circuit designs that required multiple same-circuits to achieve features like paraphony or polyphony. The result is that many vintage synths were essentially just multiple mono-synths wired together to make up one instrument. This meant that each time a player struck a key, the sound they heard was often created by a different group of circuits. The end result was an instrument that often had variations in each voice due to an inherent drift of tolerances of the electronic components used to construct the synth.
Our modern digital iPad computers make sounds from computer code. If a software designer want's to emulate analog drift, they have to identify exactly what that means for the sound character, then they have to write code that will recreate that sound character.
If an iOS synth is designed to create perfect waveforms, and produce identical sounds on every key strike, the result can resemble the sound of an analog synth, but if one was to do a side by side comparison between the soft-synth and the vintage hardware, they may notice the analog drift in the hardware synth, and that it has a different sound character because of it.
In the 80's, Roland did a really good job of developing very stable analog circuit designs, and in my opinion, have sounds that don't have the same degree of variance as some of the other vintage synths. Synths like the early Oberheim's on the other hand, seemed to have used analog drift purposefully to achieve their own signature recognizable sound character, that many people can distinctly identify as an Oberheim sound in 80's music.
Arturia's iSEM has a section for simulating voice variance for those who might be interested in experimenting with the idea.
Drambo can be used to construct vintage sounding instruments, but it's modular and takes some time to learn, and requires some understanding of the sound design principles used in vintage synths.