any recommendations on a synth for OS9?

antomccarthy · Post by **antomccarthy** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:26 pm

Hi,
I'm thinking of investing in a software syth for me mac
ibook G3 600mHz, 640Ram,
and was wondering is anyone out there running soft synths on a similar machine and if they have any recommendations? I've tried out NI Pro -53 on PC and liked it but I know the NI stuff is really heavy on the old processor, anyone have any thoughts? I'll be running it on live 4 for the moment,
any stories would be great,
cheers,
Anto.

rrrobc · Post by **rrrobc** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:03 pm

groovecube exciton!

[outofocus] · Post by **[outofocus]** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:08 pm

mercury from tc-works was a very fat sounding thing.

but with live 4 you should also operator give a try.
cpu load is not much more than the others if you adjust some settings.

antomccarthy · Post by **antomccarthy** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:09 pm

cool, I'll check out those synths, thanks for replying, operator is not an option, I really don't like the way it sounds (no insult intended).... but I will try it out properly! thanks again for the help, much appreciated

stew · Post by **stew** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:52 pm

For the longest time, I have been running NI Dynamo on my 600MHz iBook to create loops. It wasn't fast enough to run multiple instances of it at the same time, but it was good enough to create loops that I could reuse in Live (1.5 at that time).

dirtystudios · Post by **dirtystudios** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:16 am

If you can find them, anything from Koblo will leave you stunned. Either the Gamma, Vibra or Stella. They may be hard to come across (ebay maybe), as the company went out of business a while back, but they were some of the the thickest sounding softsynths I've heard even to this day. They're the one thing I miss about os9.

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