Heavyweight Synths

[Electric_Head]

Theres some great presets

not sure if they've been put on yet but there are going to be a couple of presets i made being included with circle.

still i feel presets aren't good simply because it is what someone else has created with the synth and you can't rate something on what someone else can do with it.

Totally agree with you there but on that note I feel that the guys creating presets are generally top-notch designers if anything they certainly know what they're doing.
So with that in mind I feel presets often give a good indication of what the synth can do if even it only scratches the surface.
From a basic modulation and routing standpoint I think it takes the cake for ease-of-use and user friendly layout.
I don`t stress too much with creating modulation routings.
I found circle to be such a breeze though.

Load a bass preset.
Turn on an lfo.
Drag the colored ball from the lfo to the frequency/

Viola

wobble wobble

Great fun

[symmetricalsounds]

Totally agree with you there but on that note I feel that the guys creating presets are generally top-notch designers if anything they certainly know what they're doing.

i'm alright.....



seriously though, however good you are it's still just doing what you know. plenty of people with fuck all sound designing experience have come up with great sounds.

just saying it's all bout what YOU can do with a synth.

[Bonsai]

I'm not gonna be using that presets that often as i've made a nice wobble can't seem to find where i can change the octave but i ll just change that when i use my midi keyboard with it i cba for the moment as it's a hardware synth i use as a midi keyboard. I've made anice basic wobble out of it and come cool doctor p style yop noises, once i change the octaves down it should sound pretty good, and layer up the sound, but circle for ease of use is great and it's got some nice effects too as well as great wavetable modulation

[whatshisface]

Surge is one of my favourites atm, easy to manipulate sounds from presets! Which is kinda cheating :p

[symmetricalsounds]

can't seem to find where i can change the octave

coarse tuning dial, around the top left.

[futures_untold]

I think the easier a synth is to use and route, the more likely one is to get interesting sounds out of it beyond the basic 'virtual analogue' patches we've been hearing for years.

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I suppose if Reason is considered as one big modular synth, it compars favourably with some of the VSTis out there. None of Reasons individual synths can stand up to the better VSTi synths when it comes to features and modulation routing flexibility.

[paravrais]

I think the easier a synth is to use and route, the more likely one is to get interesting sounds out of it beyond the basic 'virtual analogue' patches we've been hearing for years.

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I suppose if Reason is considered as one big modular synth, it compars favourably with some of the VSTis out there. None of Reasons individual synths can stand up to the better VSTi synths when it comes to features and modulation routing flexibility.

I think you have to look at reason as a big synth though. Or rather look at it as a program with one synth in it, the combinator, and the other synths etc within that are just types of oscillator and filter you can assign :p

[Bonsai]

Thanks I've made my mind up now 'll get circle unless i see z3ta+ drop down in price again and then after the holidays i'll buy massive.
Loving having abitcrusher built in on circle been making that doctor p yopi yoyyoy sound,

[Electric_Head]

I think another bonus is that circle has a vowel engine built in.
Makes yoys pretty simple as well.

[Bonsai]

Yeah i agree it's pretty cool they added that in having to have a seperate application open is quite annoying.
We should get a few circle videos up on youtube i've noticed there isn't many, does dubstep forum have a channel?

[Bonsai]

This is still really annoying me, circle i would have to buy from best service which is based in germany but you can pay in £ but on cakewalk i could buy from the uk but i didnt like the demo of z3ta+ it just didnt seem to work

[crapthings]

u-he ACE that's an awesome synth.

[Bonsai]

I've bought circle now, loving it, easy to use and i can get great sounbds out of it

[buttock]

+1

[Wave Mekanix]

I use logic as my DAW and treat ableton live as a big as sampler/synth, making that my heavyweight. Its usually just running a big stack of Eq'd samplers. Its just so easy to layer and effect samples in there, and then use my other, better 3rd party effects. Some might not consider that synthesis, but thats all a soft synth is; a few oscillators, some algorithm to fake some transistors and some minor effects. Id rather chose my own effects. build it from the ground up. Reaktor's made to do that stuff, but I loathe that program. Just something about it rubs me the wrong way. Reason comes close but not really, you either like the sound or not. If i had to pick a synth thats represented on the screen as one fake 3d picture of a would be synth, Id have to choose logics es2. Its fairly complete

[futures_untold]

MY housemate also uses the sampler in Live alot to do single cycle sampling. As you point out, with large stacks of effects, this is pretty much like a 'real' synth.

[qwaycee_]

basically right now i only use crystal and this one called dirty harry. dirty harry cost like $15.

i'm interested in vember audio surge though.

[AJGR]

waldorf largo:





and

dcam synth squad cypher

that is the correct answer.

other than these two i love

Reaktor - it can be anything you want it to be.
Thor - i love Reason and Thor is my go to synth.
SubBoomBass - simple but i love what it does.

because of boombass i'm giving Albino and Blue a try. Albino seems very good for the wobbles and it's really easy to get the hang of, but Blue is a bit more tricky and i don't like the interface.

[shankstep]

Are these compatible with Reason?

[5-0-what]

sytrus that is all