The mighty, authentic sounding, virtual analog emulation of the Nord Lead synthesizer called “Synth1″ is finally available as a beta version VSTi to mac users. For years this has been the fav of many plugin hoarders and for good reason – it sounds great. Even better is it’s unbelievably low CPU usage, meaning you can load up a dozen of these into your favorite host and still have room left over for the more cpu-hungry plugins. The developer, Ichiro Toda hosts the download from his website (in Japanese) and can be found here: http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/

The Synth1 mac beta page: http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/#downmac

The direct link to download – http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/Synth1mac113beta5.zip

~Written by Mark Kunoff