Dimension Pro as a live synth/performances

It is four-voice multitimbral via midi channels. However, I believe you'd have to go in and edit the SFZ file to spread the sounds across the keyboard, or set up your controller as split for midi channels.

Yes, but DimPro itself is practically not multitimbral in the way you might perceive a typical workstation as being multitimbral. In other words a Roland Fantom has patches and then multi-timbral performances which are combinations of patches each on their own MIDI channel (which can be the same). While you can split the elements of DimPro into multiple MIDI channels, you can't have a number of DimPro patches within one instance, each on its own MIDI channel. Of course you can have a number of DimPro instances each on its own track within your host. But their are other software romplers which are more designed for this kind of thing.

Yeah, I figured you'd want to know that. I was too lazy to post a couple. Here's a couple of links, but there are quite a few more I would guess. I will leave it to more knowledgeable forum members to fill in the details.

1) http://www.ultimatesoundbank.com/plugsoundpro.html

2) http://www.sampletank.com/Main.html?prod_ST_XL

3) http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=bandstand&ftu=7f9061fa7c49a7b

4) There was one from Wizoo which I can't locate now. The company's been taken over by M-Audio and Digidesign. Maybe the product was discontinued.

Hypersonic, that's it. I always thought that was a great idea. Too bad it didn't continue forward with development. Sometimes you just want to make some music, not program synths. Right about Kontakt 3. The thing is, the OP seems to want a more straight-forward interface. Thus something maybe less powerful than Kontakt but more straightforward as regards the multi-timbral aspect might be more suitable.

A sound I'm really nuts about is that Prophet lead Gary Numan uses in stuff like Cars, that high modulated fat sound.

Do you mean that spooky string-like sound throughout? If so, it was a PolyMoog.

Is that anywhere to be found in a Sonar plugin?

Sonar7? This will work in Rapture / LE. In Cars.prog
Use the mod wheel to kick in that Electro-Harmonix phase shifter heard during parts of the song.

Basically, Rapture just kicks *ss for mimicking analog of any type I think. So it would be very capable of mimicking the "Cars" sound you're talking about.

Ok, found it, sorry, still getting to know my way around things. The file is Car'ish, but so far my program in VSM is much closer. It helps ofcourse to have Polymoog waveforms at your disposal :D

thanks,

Jan