I believe it would be a great idea and Synth1's development and maintenance can be vastly improved by the participation of its users. Bugs will be spotted and eliminated much quicker, creating custom GUIs, adding custom features and bettering the existing ones will be an activity of a whole community of Synth1's admirers. What is even more important, this can assure that it never becomes abandoned freeware with unavailable source code, like so many good but lapsed plugins out there.

I present to you what I've been working on for the last month.

https://www.thispatchdoesnotexist.com/

This site allows you to generate preset banks for Synth1 using an AI I built and trained myself. I hope you find this interesting, and if you make any tracks using it I'd love to know!

(PS: This project was heavily inspired by Nintorac Audio's This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist. Make sure to check that out if you haven't already!)

I just recently started getting into it. I'm challenging myself to make a full song, with only samples and this synth, no presets, all patches made from scratch. It's much less of a challenge than I expected, honestly! This thing is amazing, especially for being free. It'd be worth it if it costed money as well. Kudos to the devs!

Hi all,

"Synth1 Librarian" works with Ichiro Toda's "Synth1" Analog VST instrument for Windows. In a nutshell, it makes it easier to navigate and search for patches, and it uses heuristics to 'suggest' similar sounding patches.

To understand how to use it, check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBF74Cg6E_s

2018/01/25: You can download the installers from here: https://neutrinosky.com/downloads/

I've included some installation steps, which appear during the setup process.

2018/01/14: The latest version is much more stable than a month ago. This is the first public release of this software, so expect some bugs. If you report back any major issues, I'll do my best to fix them for you.

Enjoy!

Hello! The title is pretty self-explanatory. I have a friend who switched from PC to Mac and was wondering if anyone was able to get the VST version (not the AU version) of Synth1 working on MacOS 12.6? Mostly for backwards compatibility reasons. Currently I'm only able to get it to "open" in Rosetta, with the UI not loading in. If anyone's been able to get this to work and would like to share how, please let me know. Thank you!

Polygon Dreams ver.1 contains 20 presets with vintage vibe for Synth1 VST plugin. If you are making music yourself, i would be glad to hear your feedback.

Polygon Dreams download link (available for Bandcamp followers)

Direct link

I'm working in Logic Pro. I placed the AU in my library folder. After making my computer validate it, it says "successfully validated" like everything else in the plug-in manager. But it doesn't show up in my plug-in list.

Also, even though the validation went through, the validation log showed a string of errors while testing about Global Scope Parameters. I don't know what those are, but here's a link to what I saw: https://imgur.com/a/iUkAO6F.

Has anyone gotten Synth1 to work on Apple M1's? Let me know. Thanks!

If you enjoy using Synth1 while being able to see what you're doing, you may want to stick with Catalina... forever. Unfortunately, under Big Sur, Synth1's GUI is completely blank--although the actual synth itself works just fine, and if you click around blindly on the blank window you can still interact with the controls. If you click "Configure" in Ableton and then just happen to click on a parameter in the plugin, that works too. Clicking in the area of the preset selection box will still bring up the list but it won't actually list the presets, just the banks and descriptions (and clicking out of it crashes your whole DAW...)

To get a better idea of what was causing this, I launched both Ableton and FL through a terminal, and added a Synth1 instance to see if it would spit out any errors. Sure enough, it calls a long-ago-deprecated NSView method convertPointToBase, which in theory could still work but in practice would be very finicky. It also spat out a flood of error messages related to the JUCE framework. Doing some Googling revealed that blank GUIs are not uncommon on older versions of JUCE.

So anyways I just wanted to give everyone here a heads up about this. Luckily I run macos in a VM so switching back was no problem for me, plus after seeing all the new privacy concerns in Big Sur I decided I would stick with Catalina for a long time.

I am making hip-hop stuff and using synth1 librarian and the 25,000 free samples pack. Any specific categories/synths (don't know what they're called but each individual sound) I should look at? Thanks

Hey All,

Does anyone know if Synth1's developer Ichiro Toda is still around. I'm the developer of VST host Cantabile and know of reproducible crashes with the x64 edition of this plugin in multiple hosts that I'd like to help get fixed. I've tried emailing him at the email address listed at the bottom of this page, but no response.

Brad

Just discovered this absolutely AMAZING vst. I am an amature at best but this synth has been a gift from god. Any tips or tricks?

Hi there everyone!
This is my first time posting on here but I've used Synth1 for 4 years.

My Synth1 Bank

This is my custom Synth1 bank, I've used it multiple times over my songs over 4 years.

It has sounds for all genres but it's more geared towards world, retro, and dance music.

I downloaded the most recent update for Mac, put the VST and AU files in my VST and Component folders respectively, and Logic is still saying that it's incompatible. Has anyone gotten it to work?

I am trying to install Synth1 on Ableton Live 10 on MacOS.
The Synth1 website by Daichi Laboratories only has a Windows option, and the website for the Mac one does not seem to exist anymore (https://thanks.yahoo.co.jp/#downmac) .
If anyone has the MacOS and AU 1.13 files or know where to get them that would be great!

Any chance someone knows someone who can port over S1 Librarian to the Mac OS? Pleeeez?? People would be willing to pay, I'm certain.

fresh install. have not added any presets (though i have a ton and will need info on that next) But plugin crashes only after i hit the bottom left windows to go through presets. Any info or work around?

Logic pro 10.4.8 catalina os

Synth1 (only one i found). v1.13beta

thanks

I started this project back in the summer, and it's at a stage where I'm finding it useful. I made a video showcasing how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBF74Cg6E_s

Looking for feedback, to decide if others would be interested in it, and whether I should invest more time working on it...

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Hello there!

So I just got Synth1 up and working. I'm using Logic 9. First, Logic tells me the synth isn't approved, or whatever, and every time I open logic, it says "there are unnapproved AU".. Or along those lines.

But the synth works, non the less. Well, sort of. To paint you a picture, I'm now literarily TERRIFIED of briefing the different presets now, with my headphones on. Because; sometimes, there comes this godawful, obnoxiously loud, distorted white noise-ish sound that sounds like Hiroshima, Satan and a U2-concert combined, even with my headphones off. Even if the sound is on minimum. The synth is basically ruined for me now, cause I'm not exposing my being to that ever again. Until I find a solution and makes that sound be gone from the universe forever.

Has anyone encountered this?