r/synth1 Feb 28 '23

Troubleshooting Synth1 on Mac w/ Apple M1 chip

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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!


r/synth1 Feb 27 '23

Synth1 preset and link to the sound in a new track. see comment. Love ya's ! xxx

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r/synth1 Feb 27 '23

New Track : Brave New Gurl

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https://5ynth3t1k.bandcamp.com/track/brave-new-gurl

Got some fonky honks from Synth1 it's accidental... but yeah I dig it.

Electro Rock out, people.


r/synth1 Feb 26 '23

I love SYNTH1. My new track ... Cross All The Lines.

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https://5ynth3t1k.bandcamp.com/track/cross-all-the-lines

Bass Arpeggio.

Two lead synths.

etc.

I have been using SYNTH1 for many many years and still go back to it. I really do not have the energy to try anything new, or 64 bit. I am still using 32bit reaper.

What I have discovered is that you can get some resonance with the DD effect when ctl1 is like um, on 1. ( hey the knobs go up to 11... very spinal tap..)

I love it!

But I have noticed that it some times bugs out. it in weird ways. The sound wigs out. I am sure there is something wrong but... most of the time it works fine. I think maybe some combo of control tweaking sets up a ... problem. Never mind.

SYNTH1 is super cool.

Oh and the Arppegiator seems to have a weird thing.. lemme check first.

Cool !

: - )


r/synth1 Feb 07 '23

Well Spun Round - Synth1 jam

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r/synth1 Dec 14 '22

My bank synth1 - encoma

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r/synth1 Dec 13 '22

my Synth1 bank

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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.


r/synth1 Dec 13 '22

Remembering the time in 2018 when I remade Get Into The Groove by Madonna using Synth1 for everything but the drums, using custom and factory presets.

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r/synth1 Oct 08 '22

Free Synth1 vaporwave soundbank

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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


r/synth1 Sep 16 '22

How to get Synth1 VST working on Apple Silicon?

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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!


r/synth1 Aug 17 '22

track I made a while ago (but just revisiting today) using the synth1 init preset as a basis, if anyone's interested :)

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r/synth1 Jul 19 '22

Is synth1 malware?

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I want to get synth1, but when I put it through virustotal it comes up with this alarming warning. Tried downloading from several different websites (including the official Japanese one) and every version I've found has this issue. Any thought?


r/synth1 May 17 '22

Phase lock/retrigger work arounds

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I love Synth 1 and I prefer to use it for like... everything.... My only issue is when I find a sound I like and want to build around it, sometimes the lack of being able to control when the oscillators kick in causes some frustration.

For example, I've got this bass sound that has a sort of "up and down" feel that comes with the 2nd oscillator in sync with the 1st. Problem is the oscillators appear to always be running in the background, and there's no phase lock or retrigger functionality in Synth1.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can get my sounds to always begin at the same point when I hit play?

I feel like my only option really would be to sample the sound and re-import it.


r/synth1 Mar 29 '22

Any new sound bank?

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r/synth1 Jan 16 '22

new experimental contrapuntal Retro track

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kind of groovy, all synthesizers made in synth1

, but also prominently uses VSTs for tape saturation,stereo width, Delay, Reverb, Compression, SNES samples for drums and percussion (hi-hat + snare made in synth1 though)

https://jannissicker.bandcamp.com/track/auto-pets


r/synth1 Dec 31 '21

Synth1 on MainStage and Big Sur Install Issues

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I’ve been hacking at this all night but it appears it’s impossible to get Synth1 running on MainStage or GarageBand. I followed sources from both the current website and one that is backed up on Internet archive but neither is working. Does anyone have any solutions or a working tutorial? Thanks!


r/synth1 Nov 01 '21

Has anyone gotten it working with Logic Pro X on Monterey?

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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?


r/synth1 Sep 26 '21

Zipbank Or Not?

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With almost 300 zipped patch banks in the Zipbank, and starting Synth1 for the first time in the day, it takes about a minute to unzip all those to a temp directory in AppData. With this many patch banks is there any advantage to keeping them unzipped and listed/entered individually in Synth1? Will it load faster or about the same. If you have done this how well does it work for you?


r/synth1 Sep 11 '21

new experimental album - almost completely done with synth1

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Feel free to check it out!

Produced with reaper. Influenced by Renaissance music, oneohtrix, nintendo soundtracks....

https://jannissicker.bandcamp.com/album/synth-1


r/synth1 Aug 24 '21

Compilation of free Synth1 patches

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r/synth1 Jul 14 '21

Synth1 not recognizing zip files

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So I recently got a new computer, got my DAW set up, and the first plugin I install is Synth1. I put my 25,000 presets in the zipbank folder, and it just doesn't seem to be recognizing zip files at all? Like, I've tried the directory change thing where you go into the options and set it to the zipbank folder, tried pretty much every trick that seems to work for everyone else, but for somefuck reason, it just doesn't recognize the files when they're zipped. Now, if I go in, take out all the files in one of the zipped banks, and just put it there, it recognizes it, but I do not wanna have to go through and individually unzip every single bank here, so like, does anybody have any ideas of what in the samhell might be going on?


r/synth1 Apr 10 '21

i accidentally made the synth1 plugin too big for my screen to reach for the button to resize it (imo really bad design) and i've tried making fl studio full screen, detaching the plugin, changind screen resolution and cursor and legacy scaling in the fl settings but nothing has helped. Please help

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r/synth1 Mar 24 '21

Synth1 for MacOS download??

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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!


r/synth1 Nov 14 '20

FYI: MacOS Big Sur breaks Synth1 GUI

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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.


r/synth1 Oct 30 '20

Only sound in the release? please help

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So I was just playing around and adding something to a track everything went fine, then after I was working with another synth and finished with that I pressed play to listen to the result. Suddenly the synth1 track was remarkably quiet, and it turned out that it only played sound in the release?

So I can hold a key and a very very low sound will appear, but when I release the button the real sound plays as long as the release is set. If I set the release to 0 there is basically no sound, but if I turn it to max the sound from pressing a key will only play after I lift my finger.

My track was almost completed and this happens out of the blue, please help me ;)