I'm a guitarist in need of good vintage/analogue synth and Hammond organ sounds,some piano sounds would be great too but I'm mainly after synth and organ sounds.I have X1 Studio with Rapture Le and Diminsion Le.I want the best sounds I can get for around $300,less if possible.
 
 Here are some things I'm considering ;
1.upgrade to Rapture Pro and Dimension Pro
2. Native instruments Vintage Organs and Retro Machines Mk2
3. Arturia Analogue Labratory and VB3 or NI Vintage Organs
4. Addictive Keys,Arturia Analogue Labratory,VB3
 
 What do you think of these options? Are there other possibilities? How is the quality of Rapture and Dimension Pro verses the other products I listed?

You can't go wrong w/ Arturia for synths. Top-notch stuff. I wouldn't be w/o their MiniMoog.

I do own NI's Vintage Organ. It is a nice one, but there are alternatives which are just as good. Retro Machine has been on my list for a while - it does pack many of the classic essentials.

Dimension Pro and Rapture are great but I wouldn't necessarily think of them for bread and butter sounds, even though there are a couple of expansions.

NI Vintage Organs have a decent B3, but their older B4ii is the best.  Unfortunately it is no longer around.
The best bang for the buck, in my opinion, is GSI's VB3; it only costs $50 EUROs and sounds great.  However it is still just 32bit, but runs well in Sonar's bitbridge.  Here is the linnk:http://www.genuinesoundwa...a=showproduct&b=24  You can download a demo version that works and try it out to see if you like it.  GSI also have an old FREE version called Organized which sounds very good as well, and it is FREE. It is on their legacy page: http://www.genuinesoundwa...a=showproduct&b=37


There have been several threads over the years here about B3 organs.  I will see if I can find them and post a link or two later. 

[EDIT:  Here are two previous thread to consider:]
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1924788
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2485732 



Good luck.

Native Instruments Vintage Organs are my "goto" organs.

I've not tried GSI's VB3, but I did have the free version at one time before buying Kontakt and Vintage.  I also tried a few Gigastudio compatible organs and a few other freebies.

Vintage was the best, IMO, out of those.

Thanks for the suggestions.Right now VB3 is winning for organ sounds on price alone and I've liked all of the demos I've listened to.For synth sounds its a toss up between Arturia Analogue Labratory and NI Retro Machines.The Arturia stuff sounds realy good but Analogue Labratory doesn't have much/any tweakability unless you own the individual synths.Retro Machines has more tweakability but doesn't have as many sounds as Analogue Labratory.The ability to tweak isn't as important to me as sounds are but,I'd like some adjustable parameters.

If you are able to stretch your budget Komplete 8 at $399 would be the best one stop solution. You get Vintage Organs, Vintage Keys, Retro Machines and several acoustic pianos. But thats just for starters, there is the whole Kontakt factory library with choirs, orchestral instruments, sampled synths etc,etc. 

Also included is Reaktor, Absynth, Massive and FM8, four very different and powerful synths.

It also opens up the possibility of using the many free and low cost Kontakt libraries and Reaktor ensembles, FM8 patch banks etc. that are out there.

Alternatively

For grand piano by my goto these days is SampleTekk's Black http://www.sampletekk.com/proddetail.php?prod=STDELIVER-039-KONT Normal price is $99, but their spring sale starts in a couple days so you should be able to pick it up for $50. Note this is the only SampleTekk piano that will work in the free Kontakt player.

Z3ta+ 2 is well worth looking at as is Rapture

 What about GSi's KeyPerformer?

Just wanted to put in my two cents--VB3 is like the best thing ever for organ sounds! I honestly don't see myself needing any other organ emulator plugin any time soon...

  After doing some research I've found that Analogue Labratory is more tweakable than I thought.Its looking more and more like I'll be able to go with option 4 as long as everything is still on sale when I get my $.

+1 for stretching the budget to Komplete. You get so many great organ sounds - Retro Machine is excellent, and the Scarbee Mark I, A-200 and Clavinet are superb. Plus there's Vintage Organs which includes the B-3, C-3 and M-3 among others. 

Not only that, but you also get a great big bag of top class instruments and effects like Reaktor, Kontakt, Prism, FM8, Absynth, Transient Master, the Traktor effects, Guitar Rig etc. The value is just out of this world.