A software synthesizer, also sometimes known as a virtual synth, is a computer program designed to create and control a variety of sounds. The concept of the modern synthesizer was defined by Robert Moog in the mid to late 1960\’s, but software synthesizers did not become popular until the late 1990\’s.
Here are the most recent posts at Synthtopia about software synthesizers.
Free Music Software: Peff has introduced Monologue – a free monophonic analog synthesizer Reason ReFill: The Monologue Refill is a monophonic analogue synthesizer library for the Reason 4.0 NN-XT sampler. The sets include the standard sawtooth, square, triangle waves. Also included are a fixed rate pulse width modulation set, and hard sync sawtooth set. Other… Read More Free Reason ReFill – Monologue
100% korg ds10 – Silent Night was uploaded by: ChrisLody
Duration: 235
Rating: 
… Read More Switched On Silent Night
Image Line has introduced Harmless, a software synth that creates the sounds of subtractive synthesis through additive synthesis. “Everything is fake,” says Image Line, “the tone generator, the filter & its resonance, the phaser, all performed on the harmonics, before partials are computed.”
Hollow Sun, the guys that are sampling an extremely rare Hammond Novachord polyphonic synth from the 1930s and recreating it as a virtual instrument, have released a new audio demo based on the samples they’ve made: [display_podcast] Let me know what you think of the sound of a 70 year-old synth!
Circuit Synth was uploaded by: mdaines
Duration: 171
Rating: 
… Read More Tiny Modular Synthesizer For The iPhone, iPod Touch
Yudo has announced that Vocoder Synthesizer SV-5, a vocoder and synthesizer emulator for iPhone and iPod Touch, is now $2.99 in the iPhone App Store, a 70% price cut from the original price.
More Free Music Software – Odo Synths has released version 4.0 of 38911 Bytes, a free virtual synthesizer plug-in for Windows that’s based on the classic Commodore 64. See odosynths.com for 38911 Bytes and some other interesting free software synths.
Ohmforce has a Christmas present for you – and you don’t have to wait to unwrap it: Here’s our 2009 Christmas gift for the music production scene: the Performer Edition of our Symptohm:Melohman powersynth is now freeware, you can download freely download it from here. What are you waiting? Don’t be the last to grab… Read More Merry Christmas From Ohmforce – Here’s Your Free Synthesizer!
Mr. Alias Pro is a new software synthesizer which exploits the properties of digital audio to achieve “extremely bad sounds.” Mr. Alias Pro is available as a VST plugin for Windows (32-bit) and Mac OS X (and Linux, if anyone ever asks), and as an Audio Unit for Mac OS X. Mr. Alias Pro is… Read More New Software Synth For Mac & PC Specializes In “Extremely Bad Sounds”
Psychic Modulation’s Metatron is a free 2-oscillator “analog” synth with an arpeggiator that works alongside a gated modulation sequencer for creating unique rythmic patterns and sounds. The oscillator section uses waveforms that double up to create a phasing effect similar to pulse width, but for each waveform. This along with a powefull unison detune section… Read More Free Software Synth For Windows – Metatron
