U-he Philharmonic for DIVA is a collection of presets taken from Fred Welsh's book Welsh's Synthesizer Cookbook.  If you're familiar with that book, you'll understand exactly what this is all about.  If not, and if you're a dedicated subtractive synthesis practitioner, you owe it to yourself to get a copy.

The Synthesizer Cookbook includes around 100 "recipes" for a two oscillator synth.  It assumes just one LFO is available and specifies nothing about additional modulation beyond that.  It contains settings to create imitation sounds for a variety of real-world orchestral instruments, plus it has a collection of synth pads, leads and basses.
I've included 66 presets here, mostly omitting the untuned percussion recipes which hold little interest for me.  These should be considered to be "starter" presets.  They incorporate no effects and there are no mod-wheel or similar external modulation settings other than all of the presets offer conventional velocity sensitivity mapped to amp level.

I've made every attempt to recreate these presets as originally presented, with one exception.  Many of the recipes called for two pulse waves with different widths.  To accomplish that, I had to use DIVA's three oscillator option, and it seemed sinful to let that extra oscillator completely go to waste, so I added in a third waveform at a very modest level.

I don't know how close I managed to come to the original intent.  My recreation of the filter cutoff levels and the envelope times should be right on the money.  But other things like LFO speeds are very much in the "best guess" category.
I'm not crazy about many of these presets.  The pads and leads in particular are not terribly exciting to my ears.  Few of the traditional instruments sound very realistic either, but some are wonderful synth sounds.  Be sure and check out the dulcimer preset and the three choirs (mixed, male and female).  Even without effects, they sound pretty glorious to me.

To install, unzip the U-he Philharmonic for DIVA directory to ...DIVA Install Directory.../Diva.data/Presets/Data.

Enjoy.
