Sosnowski Synthesizer demo and review

The demo above was created in Cubase, using five layered loops and one layer that was being played live with a midi controller, each layer using only sounds from the Sosnowski Synth, (all presets with very little tweaking involved).
As far as VSTi's, (virtual studio technology instruments),go this one is pretty decent, and for a paid virtual synth it's fairly cheap, ($21 here in Australia), in comparison to what other VSTi creators are charging this is a bargain for sure, and it's fairly comprehensive, (below are some examples of the usual kind of pricing you'd come across for these kind of things).

I've done alot of free VSTi scavenging in the past and found some great wierd little instruments that people have made and are giving away but going down the payed route is far less time consuming and you get something more well rounded and also garaunteed to actually work.The Sosnowski Synth wascreated by David Sosnowski, a "veteran programmer and contemporary composer", there's a link to his site from the ssynth site with some of his music up for you to have a listen.A couple of Google searches back up the fact that the guy exists, and his music is an interesting listen, the synth itself has a bit of a bias towards classical sounding presets, midi-classical anyway, which seems to be what this Sosnowski guy is interested in and from what I heard, uses really well. I was especially impressed with the percussion presets, really nice bassy heavy sounds, lovely stuff.

Don't be put off by the classical presets if you're more of a standard synth sounds person, or a glitch lover, the tweakability of this synth, (creating sounds with 4 oscillators, each able to be tweaked to your liking, a couple of filter envelopes and some effects; chorus, reverd, echo, pan and transpose and your standard attack, decay, sustain and release knobs for the whole thing), means you can make your own sounds pretty easily and there's quite a bit of a scope for doing that.

There are 128 presets all up, organised logically into groups of instruments that relate to each other, ontop of this you can create your own sounds, (as I said),  and you have three banks to save them in, which is pretty generous. If your using this thing as a standalone instrument in a live setting there's also four little preset storage buttons under the preset select button top left,  these days you'd probably be running the thing through a DAW live or at home but the fact that you can use the thing as a standalone is nice anyway, certainly doesn't hurt to have the option.

Probably the coolest thing about this synth is the little sound wave window which shows you what your sounds look like and also the little visual EQ panel with draw bars and four draggable points to EQ your sound visually rather than through more knobs or sliders, this impressed me because it mirrors what you can do in Cubase in the effects tab, and Cubase sets a pretty high standard, (Steinberg invented VSTi's, they know what they're doing). I know these are not the only two peices of software to use this technique but I'd say Steinberg were atleast early adopters and any followers are welcome in my eyes because it works.

I recommend atleast trying out the free version, (which has all of what the paid version has, except that the sound will cut out  for two seconds once a minute),just to see if it's for you.This is a decent little synth that does alot for not alot of money, and, as with all good synths, has it's own character to some extent, with plenty of room for tweaking and shaping your sounds.

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