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I need Synth Brass VI (Prince/80s style)

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I'm looking for a great VI plugin for Synth Brass. (big and meaty).

A la' Prince's "Lolita" and other sounds like I have in my Yamaha Motif.

I need this in Plugin VI format.

Any suggestions?
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Re: I need Synth Brass VI (Prince/80s style)

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Best bet is an Oberheim type VI; second best is a Prophet type VI. Third choice is FM synthesis, and fourth choice would be a Jupiter/Juno type clone.

Prince was especially fond of Oberheim synths and drum machines during the 80's and after.

I use hardware analog synths for most of my synth brass work (various DSI products such as the Prophet 12), but when looking to soft synths, I tend to audition patches from Arturia Oberheim SEM V, Jupiter V, Prophet V (and especially Prophet VS), and Native Instruments FM8.

Sonic Projects has its OP-X emulation of the OB-series synths from Oberheim, but it requires Native Instruments Reaktor to run. They have a Windows-only version with more features, which was built using an open source synth toolkit.

Once you select the sound you want, be sure to avoid block chords if you want it to sound articulate and fat/deep. I don't necessarily mean using different patches for harmonized single-line tracks (although that also works great), but at least not having every note in a chord align precisely at the same tic each time. You can use DP's Quantize feature to achieve this too.
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Re: I need Synth Brass VI (Prince/80s style)

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mhschmieder wrote:Best bet is an Oberheim type VI; second best is a Prophet type VI. Third choice is FM synthesis, and fourth choice would be a Jupiter/Juno type clone.

Prince was especially fond of Oberheim synths and drum machines during the 80's and after.

I use hardware analog synths for most of my synth brass work (various DSI products such as the Prophet 12), but when looking to soft synths, I tend to audition patches from Arturia Oberheim SEM V, Jupiter V, Prophet V (and especially Prophet VS), and Native Instruments FM8.

Sonic Projects has its OP-X emulation of the OB-serues synths from Oberheim, but it requires Native Instruments Reaktor to run. They have a Windows-only version with more features, which was built using an open source synth toolkit.

Once you select the sound you want, be sure to avoid block chords if you want it to sound articulate and fat/deep. I don't necessarily mean using different patches for harmonized single-line tracks (although that also works great), but at least not having every note in a chord align precisely at the same tic each time. You can use DP's Quantize feature to achieve this too.

awesome. I'll check all these out.

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