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reFX Vanguard Analog Synthesizer

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16 Artists Use This
Skrillex

"@nynex Ableton Live and most of my go to VI's are pretty standard.. Massive, FM8, Sylenth1,Vanguard,Pro53, Gladiator. Nothing too fancy"
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W&W

Wardt of W&W states "if we want that old-school trance vibe, we go to the old synths, like Zeta, Vanguard and V-Station".
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Headhunterz

On the artist page on the reFX site, Willem Rebergen of Headhunterz gives his testimonial and writes, "...and of course never to forget the Vanguard, with which I learned to make my very first sounds."
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The Glitch Mob

"We use reFX vanguard quite a bit."
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Benga

Benga has a window with Vanguard open in it at the 1:47 mark of this video. The signature green "LCD" panels can be seen to the left of its shield-like logo.
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Angerfist

Using Vanguard in video
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Mike Oldfield

REFX Vanguard was used on the album *Light + Shade*, as indicated in the liner notes.
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DubVision

Vanguard can be seen at 41:57 of their tutorial for "Turn it Around", on the bottom left, as one of the plugins featured in their chain.
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Michael Calfan

This Plugin can be seen at 21:49 in this YouTube video, showing Michael Calfan's Studio setup.
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Paper Diamond

When asked about his favorite VSTs, Paper Diamond mentions reFX Vanguard at 0:39 into this video interview.
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Chicane

Also known as ‘soft synths,’ they are plug-ins which fulfil the same role as dedicated hardware. Chicane brings these on his laptop when playing live.
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The Upbeats

exclusive the upbeats interview for russian dnbarena: question 6: what kind of software and hardware do you use in studio? upbeats: ....logic, our primaries is: kontakt, vanguard, albino,Amplitube ? Guitar rig. what about hardware- only one gear we used everytime it's our sound interface motu828 also we have few synthesizers . like old juno or korg legacy, but we don't use that last time
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Stadiumx

Work... @dcbjewellery #stadiumx
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forgotten future

Listen on the equipment page of artist's website, also seen in studio photos and interview videos. Version number is not confirmed.
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Mouse On Mars

The Vangaurd Analog Synth is visible in this article's photographs
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Hiroyuki ODA

He answered in this page.
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14 reFX Vanguard Analog Synthesizer Reviews

s0undh0und

254

I Got It Promotionally, but it's pretty cool!

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over 5 years ago
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ash9

288

An oldie, but a goodie!

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over 5 years ago
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gchiaren

Interesting, it doesn't look like like an "oldie" interface-wise. What's it good for? Leads, pads, bass, other? What gap would you say this fills next to something more ubiquitous like Sylenth1?

over 5 years ago

20hertz

149

You can really make some Acid shite with this beauty :D

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almost 6 years ago
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miked312

185

Sounds ancient, like a rusty piece of Soviet analogue gear. Probably the first VST to be adopted by the hardstyle producer base early on in the 2000s.

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about 6 years ago
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n421m

136

This plugin like Sylenth1.

I like various banks of Vanguard.

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over 5 years ago
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transquanta

246

Trance and EDM

This is my favorite soft synth for making all manors of electronic music. I love the amount of control an ease of use. The filters are excellent as well. I love using the trance gates to add all sorts of reinforcements to my dance music.

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about 3 years ago
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djwhitepepper

222

Basses

I haven't delved too deeply into it, but I enjoy using Vanguard for DJ Mustard basses and occasionally weird leads.

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over 3 years ago
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stormy_weather

162

I use it in everything.

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about 6 years ago
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sczitaka

140

Very good sounds

Arps and effects are amazing

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almost 5 years ago
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idolate

221

Amazing synths

This has some of the best synths ever! totally recommend it to new people!

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over 4 years ago
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zosvanzindell

151

refx

A lot of people disagree with vanguard as a synth I think it's got potential and a really big sound library it's apps and leads can sound incredible also bases and some pads it's nice to see a synth from refx that is a romper bases plug in

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over 5 years ago
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dgc_official

215

Great

Sounds very close to an actual virus ti synth its great for that aggressive suicide commando sound

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almost 2 years ago
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cadohan

179

vst-i

refx

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over 5 years ago
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axvard

264

reFX Vanguard Analog Synthesizer

Vanguard is a VSTi and AU software synthesizer by German independent publisher reFX. Released in 2004, it is a virtual analog synthesizer with three oscillators, 32 waveforms, up to 10-times unison, a filter with a number of frequency responses, delay and reverb effects and stereo pattern controlled noise gate and arpeggiator, making this plugin useful among the electronic dance music producers. Most functions can be automated, such as cutoff frequencies, resonance, ADSR, and LFO. Vanguard works with any VST-capable host and features the Trancegate and Arpeggiator tools. The audio engine and a part of the factory sounds from Vanguard were programmed by Markus Krause from Tone2 Audiosoftware. This synthesizer is used by many[citation needed] electronic dance music producers, however is not as prevalent as reFX's Nexus 2 ROM plugin. Nexus2 is so called because it replaced the upgraded 2007 package for Vanguard called "Nexus ROM" in early 2008.

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over 2 years ago
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