ableton & synths

[allurbassbelong2us]

what would be a good synth to use with ableton, i am decent at using ableton and I thought I would ugprade to a proper $200-300 synth although I know that is still cheap. Thanks for all the help and sorry if this is a noob question

[joshisrad]

Software or hardware?

[nowaysj]

That is pretty expensive as far as I'm concerned. For a vst that is. Personally, I'd just stay in ableton, pushing my knowledge of the tools in there.

[Ghost of Muttley]

Stock ableton doesn't have any synths, I'm not sure how much the upgrade it is but it's not far off that, O.P would be better off doing that

[render]

it has operator, a very powerful stock synth to have.

[Ghost of Muttley]

Nah it only has simpler and impulse doesn't it?

That's what i meant with my post anyway, upgrade to suite is worth it almost for operator alone.

[JoshuaCasper]

Depends on what kind of sound you are looking for...

I think Native Instruments - Massive is incredibly versatile and generates very high quality sounds...

[bassinine]

ableton suite:
Operator - FM Synth
Simpler/sampler/impulse - samplers.
Analog - VA synth

operator is better than massive (overpriced). camel alchemy and fm8 are really good as well.

i would upgrade to suite though. also comes with tension, collision, electric (orchestral sounds). anddd... amp, a new cabinet emulator... actually sounds really good for feed me sounds.

[Anne Droid]

operator is great. I have used operator and massive and if it was between the two i would def take operator.

plus the rest of the suite is great

[JoshuaCasper]

OHHHHH, my bad, i thought we were talking about third party synths... I have ablton suite and all the stock vst instruments are dope...

[Kasshern]

Hi everyone,

i've got the ableton suite and all the synth coming with it have a very characteristic sound and IMHO often under used in dubstep .

@Bassinine electric is not for orchestral sound it's more like a rhodes and mallets type sound emulator.

[bassinine]

Hi everyone,

i've got the ableton suite and all the synth coming with it have a very characteristic sound and IMHO often under used in dubstep .

@Bassinine electric is not for orchestral sound it's more like a rhodes and mallets type sound emulator.

pianos and mallets aren't orchestral sounds?

[Today]

Predator

[Kasshern]

Excuse me it's an emulator for electric piano : http://www.ableton.com/electric
When you talked about orchestral sounds i was thinking more about Violin,Cello,Horns,etc....

[joshisrad]

Hi everyone,

i've got the ableton suite and all the synth coming with it have a very characteristic sound and IMHO often under used in dubstep .

@Bassinine electric is not for orchestral sound it's more like a rhodes and mallets type sound emulator.

pianos and mallets aren't orchestral sounds?

XD
NO
rhodes and wurlis are not orchestral sounds

[joshisrad]

TC still has not responded whether he wants software or hardware..

[bassinine]

Hi everyone,

i've got the ableton suite and all the synth coming with it have a very characteristic sound and IMHO often under used in dubstep .

@Bassinine electric is not for orchestral sound it's more like a rhodes and mallets type sound emulator.

pianos and mallets aren't orchestral sounds?

XD
NO
rhodes and wurlis are not orchestral sounds

wow, you think i don't know what a rhodes is? yes... it's mainly used it blues and it's electric. it's still a piano, and a piano is an orchestral instrument (i didn't realize not being extremely specific made me wrong?).

i was saying that tension, electric, and collision - TOGETHER, contain MAINLY orchestral sounds. which is true, they mainly emulate orchestral sounds - but i never said that's all they do.