Synapse Audio Poly-850 shareware VSTi plug-in

[MetroSonus]

oh it sounds like the poly 800, but with none of the character.

[plixness]

The double voice of X-Poly definetly improved Synapse's Poly. I wrote a review of it, but links don't seem to work, probably due to spam. Anyhow: it just got greater.

[sauermusicDE]

@plixness Where did you write it? On sonicstate? On kvr? On harmony-central? Just mention the major name of the page and I'm sure people will find it.

[plixness]

@sauermusicDE It can be read on Original Sound Version. Just search for Original Sound Version google and look up Synapse in their search engine.

[nvbrkr]

Sorry for the negative comment, but I don't think this sounds like a Poly-800. Not that there even needs to be a terribly realistic emulation of it, but I'm not hearing it in this case.

[sauermusicDE]

@nvbrkr In the meantime Synapse Audio created a more enhanced version of the Poly-850 called X-Poly. Among other improvements it has new preset patches.

[franfarnezi]

Its NO freeware. Only shareware are in the Synapse site.

[sauermusicDE]

I already explained in my description that we are talking about the demo version of a commercial plug-in here. Although demo versions are always "freeware" (Did you ever see one which you had to pay for?) I corrected the video title to your pleasure and to avoid further irritations. But I will add the word "freeware" to my tags so that people still can find my video if they can live with the limitations of the demo version.

[v1o]

This doesn't sound as thick as the other demos of the hardware unit. Its much brighter but less presence in the low end.

Have you tested this side by side with the real 800?

[sauermusicDE]

I agree with you. You describe the differences exactly. There are only a few plug-in's that come close to their original hardware counterpart anyway. Nonetheless the Poly-850 sounds quite good compared to some other "wannabe-analog-sounding" plug-in's. Creating a "thicker" sound is no big problem (for example by using an additional chorus effect or stacking more instances of the plug-in and detuning them slightly against each other).

[v1o]

@sauermusicDE Oh yes that's indeed true. Most VST software emulations sound similar but not exacting to the original hardware analog unit. Even Arturia's CS80 doesn't sound quite like the real one. One exception I've seen is the SQ8L VSTi, its sounds about 98% like the ESQ-1 and can even load its patches.

[akropiss]

sick

[sauermusicDE]

yes, it's really cool.

[korgpolyex800]

Nice work and great to see a VST of the Poly-800! Although I am wondering how you determined the frequency characteristics of the VCF because Korg never released any specification on the VCF behavior. How did you model the VCF?

[sauermusicDE]

I never said anything about the "frequency characteristics" of the filter section and I'm not the one who created this plug-in. The fact that the Poly-800 only has ONE global filter for all voices is well known. On the Synapse Audio homepage there's an info that this characteristic feature was realized on the Poly-850 as well.

[korgpolyex800]

I was referring to the actual slope and response of the single filter. But I'll check it out on the Synapse web pages and see what they have to say about it. Thanks.