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I don’t have space for all of Full Bucket’s Synths here – but at different times have tried all of them. It might not have the analogue-recreated accuracy of imperfection, but it’s the spirit of the original through and through. Which means it sounds speaker-blowingly, old-school brutal for some patches. The free version doesn’t claim to be 100% accurate, either, but it’s very very close. Navigating Mono/Fury is therefore a bit easier.

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The user interface is much simpler and closer to the real hardware in some ways – because Korg’s added a lot of graphics for the preset browser and some effects built in, as well as the software keyboard. Learning to program the FB-3300 is a daunting task – it comes with a set of presets, thankfully, so you’re ahead of those first electronic musicians…įor all intents and purposes, the FB-3100 is one-third of the PS-3300 sound engine, with a single VCO voice structure but full keyboard polyphony. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the emulation, but it sounds deeply impressive, is stable and has a scalable GUI so you can actually see the hundreds of parameters you can control. If you’re a fan of Tangerine Dream, ELP, Yes or any of the psychedelic/prog artists that made synthesizers cool (or not), you’ll love it. This is a truly big synthesizer with great analogue character – you can only imagine what it was like playing one on stage or studio in the 1970s. Not only that, each key has its own VCA, VCF and envelope generators. The original was a beast, with effectively three PS-3100s in one box, a dedicated 48-key keyboard and a total of 144 oscillators*.

Can be resized easily, low CPU overheadįB-3300 is a real gift for fans of classic 1970s and early ’80s synthesizer music.

Impressive analogue emulation, 48 voices, 3 oscillators per voice.

For space reasons, I’m not featuring them all here… FB-3300 Itching to see what’s on offer? Go and visit the source: Here are all the Fullbucket VSTs (Windows and Mac, with AU versions too) you can download. It’s expanded and opens up the rather arcane programming in a way that people who stuck to patches on their 800s (like, er, me) will find enlightening. The most recent addition to the family is the quirky ’80s Korg Poly800, in the form of Fury800. Joining them are some classic Korgs – the Mono/Poly, Trident, Sigma and Delta, and a few original creations.

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Yes, that’s a ‘free’ download of a 48-voice analogue monster that would cost tens of thousands to acquire, let alone maintain – if you could find one in the first place.

Headliners here are the Korg PS synths, replicated in FB-3300, 32. These aren’t one-off summer projects that sound awesome and have been abandoned, either – regularly updated with professionally-programmed soundbanks, they’re the sort of thing that makes you wonder how big firms can get it so wrong or neglect their plugins for ages. Musician and programmer Björn Arlt dealt with the lust for unaffordable classic synths by creating virtual versions and has released an astounding number of them as donationware.

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Top of the list for free VSTs has to be the epic work by Full Bucket Music. Classic synthesizers, name your price – Full Bucket Music If you don’t have a VST host, there are some recommendations at the end of the article. My main DAW is a Mac, hence the bias here – but there are some options for Windows users too, and as it happens all of the VSTs below offer Windows versions.

A polyphonic analogue classic, the JX-8P – PG-8X by Martin Lüders.

u-He’s baby Zebra, some cheese and the legendary Tyrell.

Full Bucket Music – analogue Korgs and original concepts too.

This will grow to be a long list – fortunately for us, there’s a lot of really cool stuff to get started making music without spending money, as long as you have a computer. The latter in particular is a real resource hog, the trade off for circuit-accurate recreations of classics like the D-50 and modern synths too there’s a virtual System 8 in the package. Not everything I use is free, obviously, and I’m comparing my experience of these free VSTs with the likes of Arturia V-Collection and Roland Cloud. Some are glitchy or need a bit of work, but the majority are as good as any commercial, expensive package. These days, though, it’s really hard to justify going all out to get every synth you findin a secondhand shop or carboot sale, because virtual copies aren’t just available – they’re good.Ĭrazy thing is, too, a lot of them are free or donationware. Got a fierce case of GAS? I sympathise, I’ve suffered it for years – my Gearslutz ‘owned’ list is either epic or depressing, depending on your perspective.

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Plus a few I can’t because they’re PC-only, but still cool.

These are the ones I use myself regularly.

Free musical instruments? No catch, no spam.