Neutrino Sky

If you have Synth 1, this is a must have.

Especially useful is when you find a patch you like, it will show you patches it thinks may sound similar which is great because so many people name patches with names that are misleading or non descriptive. The suggestions it gives are mostly spot on.

Only down side is it encourages you to collect more and more Synth 1 preset banks and then loading times become so long it looks like the program has stopped working when in reality it may take several minutes to finish loading all the preset banks.

I downloaded and installed the 64-bit version and used it in Reaper for 1 day. Really liked it. The second day it would crash reaper when I tried to use it. I uninstalled and re-installed and Reaper would not recognize it. I had it scan the folder with the dll and Reaper crashes. The program was really useful, and made synth 1 feel new again. I'll try the 32-bit version and see if that might no be buggy?

It's no small statement to Synth1's power that there are thousands of presets available in the wild, but there are so many that it's essentially impossible to navigate them all. Synth1 Librarian has done much to tame this powerful beast, and to bring those thousands of presets within useful reach.

On top of all this, the developer NeutrinoSky donates all proceeds from donations to the project to worthy causes. Download, use, and donate. There's no downside here. A great project to contribute to.

I've been using Synth1 Librarian for about a year, and it sure makes finding a patch for Synth1 a lot easier. When I first installed it, it worked perfectly. However, now it will not load at all and I can't figure out why.

I have a Win 10 pro machine, 8 core, 16 G RAM. I use Reaper as my DAW but also Cantabile 3 as a VST host. I had not changed anything on the computer, but Windows updates are notorious for messing up existing software. And I think that's what happened here. Also tried another computer... more on that later.

Here's what happens... when I run Reaper, it will find Synth1's dll fine and will run the plugin... but it will not show the librarian at all! It does, however, show Neutrino Sky in the developers list. There are no errors given or any reason.

What I've tried so far...

1. re-installed synth1 (downloaded it again from author's website... same version that I already had).

2. re-installed the librarian (I downloaded the newest version .exe).

3. put Synth1 in the SteinbergVstplugins folder, and ran the Librarian setup from there.

4. ran the init for synth1.

5. started Reaper... cleared and re-scanned the vst's.

6. Reaper shows Synth1, but NOT Synth1 Librarian.

Same as before (and I've tried both the 32 and 64-bit versions of Reaper... makes no difference) on my Window 10 Pro desktop machine.

However... I also have it on a laptop running a Win 10 update from Win 7. I seldom use this machine anymore because it's getting old and slow. But I still have Reaper on it and a lot of my free plugins, including Synth1 and Librarian. When I tried to use the Librarian on Reaper on this machine, it took about 3 - 4 minutes to load the Librarian, but it did finally load and I was able to select presets from it.

Sorry for that longwinded intro... but I'm wondering if anyone familiar with Win 10 Pro might have an idea what I could look for? I really don't think it's a problem with the librarian app... but another example of MicroSoft's updates messing up our computers (which they seem perfectly ok with!).

Thanks for any help.

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This is a cool librarian software, in my experience on win10 64-bit with Reaper, it works well.

Synth1 was always the best freeware alternative for synth plugins, .

but I stopped using it years ago, just because i missed a great preset browser inside it.

Now with this librarian, Synth1 is in my plugin folder again.

In the past I also did some Synth1 trick (e.g created an Excel macro, to generate random patches for ten banks).

With this librarian, I'm able to find the right presets among thousands of presets.

For example I liked the distorted guitar sounds of ReFX Slayer (yeah, I could use it from FLStudio), .

and now I can click on "guitar" in this librarian, and easily find some brutal distorted guitar sounds among the Synth1 presets.

The other freeware synth I use is Dexed. also have a "limited" patch manager - I only wish there were some simlar librarian to that.

This is a super cool addition to the already legendary Synth1, and if you also like it, please consider a donation of your choice.

Very very nice! Thank you! works like a charm. Nice design. Can't wait until you go do this magic on other oldies and new ones.

Add a " new bank builder" with dragging and dropping the presets and like I said capable of more plugins would make this a totally payable plugin.