Different

Synplant is created by Magnus Lidström, the man behind Sonic Charge, who also came to prominence with the Malstrom synthesizer included free with Propellerhead's Reason. Under the hood, Synplant is actually a fairy conventional (FM? I dunno?) synth, but what makes it stand out from the crowd of synth plug-ins is its innovative user interface. The idea basically is that the user simply pushes and pulls at graphics until they get a sound they want! The core sound is represented by a 'seed' at the centre of the interface. Each seed grows 'branches' (nicely animated wavy fern things). As the branch is pulled, it changes loads of synth parameters FOR THAT NOTE on THAT KEY only. So, in other words, it's possible to create a synth patch where every sound on every key is different, which is a departure in itself! If one particular sound takes your fancy, you can 'replant' the seed so that all the keys now share that sound. The process can be repeated endlessly until you've reached a sound you like. If you get a sound that's almost right apart from one thing, you can dive into the synth's 'DNA editor' window, which gives you finer control over things like envelopes, filter cutoffs, amplitude modulation levels and so on, like a 'normal' synth would. The global controls on the front panel control broader things like FX wet/dry level, atonality, tuning and so on. The modulation wheel often offers up surprises, and the whole plant can be spun with automation to give evolving sounds too...

I love Synplant mainly for its sound; it's sort of cold, digital, but somehow organic and quirky at the same time. It also sounds very 'modern' in the sense that it's not trying to slavishly recreate a MiniMoog or whatever; it sounds like something that could only really exist in the 21st Century. It's almost impossible to predict how tweaking the branches will affect the timbres, and it's very liberating to just use simple tactile controls and your ears to create new sounds. Sometimes it's worth just hitting the 'create new random seed' button and seeing what it can come up with!

It can be a bit quiet and weedy sounding, which I usually fix with compression. Still, this makes a change to a lot of modern soft synths which immediately blow out your channel strip (yes, looking at you, Arturia!) and you have to instantly turn them down...

Fascinating

Bought on a whim as a deal when I bought micro-tonic to use with the Teenage Engineering Tonic Pocket Operator. Fooled around with it a bit and it does produce very unusual sounds that I could see being useful but a very unusual GUI and workflow made it hard to be sure what your input would result in. If you dig deep into the DNA of this it could be rewarding.

Sonic Charge Synplant

Grow Synplant is a software synthesizer with a genetic approach to sound creation. Instead of creating patches the conventional way by turning dials and knobs, Synplant lets you explore a world of organic sounds by planting seeds that grow into synth patches. Mutate Once you are ready to get your hands dirty and dig deeper into the anatomy of Synplant you will have the option to crack open your sound seeds and modify their underlying genetic code. Create The purpose of this product is to move focus away from the sometimes intricate and difficult process of sound synthesis and instead let you develop sounds by simply using your ears. You will find that creating synth patches with Synplant will be as easy as listening and deciding what you like and then having the sounds evolve in the directions you desire. Although Synplant is exceedingly easy to use, whatever you do, do not let its relative simplicity fool you. Beneath its straightforward and playful interface you will find a versatile synthesizer of the utmost quality with lots of character.

absolutely out of this frequency spectrum

Ha Ha bit of an exaggeration possibly ... Like the cliche says though " all that can hinder you is your own imagination " I use it all the time despite my want to try something else ... Vital for experimental electronic dabbling

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Best Synth For Risers

This synth is awesome for doing synth risers in the build up for a track! Thanks to @nicky_romero for showing this in his video of how he made "Toulouse". Thats the reason why I bought this synth because I loved the sound of his rising synth a lot! And I've been able to replicate my own very awesome sounding version of this riser so this synth really does work awesome for that! Highly Recommended

FX

Really use it when i wanna some crazy fx sounds, i really don't know how to make chords out of this plugin.

Strange sounds :D

As Axwell once said, Synplant is great for creating 'strange' sounds.

great buttt...

i think this vst could use a bit more creativy

Wow...

The final touch that we were missing before come out! 5 start ambience and buildup possibilities!

Synplant

this is definitely the best synth around for making Ambient or freaky sounds.