Synth 1 - Old Synth, but now 64bit, New tricks, and a Great preset manager!

[marlowg01]

Hey all,

I stumbled, or rather re-stumbled across the old Synth 1.  HOWEVER, it has been reworked as a 64 bit and has better effects, etc., and can be downloaded here:

Synth1 - Daichi Laboratory https://daichilab.com/synth1/
 

AND, there is a place where you can subscribe and get access to 25,000 presets:

25,000 Synth 1 Presets: A Treat to all Music Producers | Techno Addicts Blog (techno-addicts.com)   https://www.techno-addicts.com/uncategorized/25000-synth-1-presets

Direct link for those who don't want to subscribe here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/si3klmmxeshy2ce/25%2C000_Synth1_Presets_%28UPDATED_2020_Download%29_%281%29.rar/file

 

AND, there is a librarian that can work with the presets in a wonderful way:

Downloads – Neutrino Sky  https://neutrinosky.com/downloads/

These presets are really wonderful and easily hold their own against plenty of high caliber commercial plugins.

Hope you all enjoy these as much as I do!

 

[Fleer]

64 bit at last 

[TheSteven]

None of the download links are working, at least for me, on the new website.

The links work on the old web site:
https://daichilab.sakura.ne.jp/softsynth/index.html#down

 

[SmokeyJ628]

Pretty sure it's been 64-bit for years

https://www.kvraudio.com/news/ichiro-toda-releases-synth1-vst-64-bit-for-windows-1-13beta1-and-synth1-au-for-mac-os-x-1-13beta7-26319

[Doug Rintoul]

41 minutes ago, SmokeyJ628 said:

Pretty sure it's been 64-bit for years

https://www.kvraudio.com/news/ichiro-toda-releases-synth1-vst-64-bit-for-windows-1-13beta1-and-synth1-au-for-mac-os-x-1-13beta7-26319

Yup. Even on the daichilab website, the latest 64 bit version is dated 11 July  2014. Not even sure how new the daichilab.com website is. The downloads point to the vst4free website, but vst4free is now plugins4free. Not sure when that switch happened.

Edited May 21, 2021 by Doug Rintoul

[chris.r]

9 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said:

but vst4free is now plugins4free. Not sure when that switch happened

probably right after Steinberg claimed all rights to it's name  

[abacab]

Good shout out!!! 👍

And yes, there's nearly an unlimited supply of free patches for Synth1. Has been a very popular and versatile subtractive synth, modeled after the Nord Lead digital synth.

But I've been using the 64-bit version of Synth1 for years, so 64-bit isn't really that new.  And the developer has not been involved in the project for quite some time.

But the biggest issue I encountered was with that humongous collection of patches and how to navigate them. But fortunately,  a KVR user by the name of NeutrinoSky came along and wrote a nifty librarian for it. The librarian runs as a wrapper for Synth1, that imports, tags, and categorizes that whole mess, so you can search and audition patches without ever opening the Synth1 GUI. But if you wish, you can quickly open/close the Synth1 GUI at any time with one button click on the librarian if you want to make an edit.

The Synth1 Librarian is an outstanding piece of work!

The developer also started a project to make a commercial librarian for Dexed and a few other synths, but got a big setback by the Steinberg VST2 license restrictions. As a part-time developer he never had acquired a VST2 dev license (no longer available), but one would be required for him to proceed with the latest project. Thanks Steinberg! 😟

 

Edited May 22, 2021 by abacab