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Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:04 am
by sixth sense
See I'm the complete opposite I can't get anything nice out of an additive synth such as massive and whenever I do it seems that I've heard the sound somewhere before with FM its something new every time well at least in my experience it is :D

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:43 am
by SunkLo
Massive has zero additive capabilities, it's a subtractive wavetable synth.

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:48 am
by sixth sense
Yeah I didn't mean to say massive this is why I shouldn't smoke then come on the forums I think one thing and type another was thinking morphine because it's the last additive synth I've used they got similar names :lol:

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:13 am
by SunkLo
Done the same thing with Morphine before :lol: :w:

Pretty good synth as well, although it does suffer from the same plasticy sound that FM synths have. Throwing em through a chorus or waveshaper, something to give it a bit of hair, will lively up the sound. I like how with additive you can shape the frequency content so easily. With FM things seem to jump from boring to alien rape too quickly. Once you start modulating modulators everything can go to shit pretty fast

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:19 am
by nowaysj
Need I point out that sytrus has it's own waveshaper?

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:31 am
by sixth sense
Well I'm eager to get into this additive synthesis just don't really know of any good virtual synths out there haven't looked into it all that much plus it's hard for me to find something that will help with with my work flow have any recommendations of demos to try out?

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:43 am
by SunkLo
SunkLo wrote:ALCHEMY 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Basically does everything apart from FM. Additive, granular, analog, spectral, sample manipulation. Modulation is pretty intuitive. Additive engine is similar to Morphine's

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:50 am
by meer
Sytrus, Synth1

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:28 am
by back2onett
nowaysj wrote:Need I point out that sytrus has it's own waveshaper?
And its own chorus, delay, reverb and 9 voice unison
and additive synthesis
and FM/AM synthesis
and you can import your own single cycles
and it has 3 chainable filters

:D

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:20 pm
by Metzo
back2onett wrote:
nowaysj wrote:Need I point out that sytrus has it's own waveshaper?
And its own chorus, delay, reverb and 9 voice unison
and additive synthesis
and FM/AM synthesis
and you can important your own single cycles
and it has 3 chainable filters

:D
Sounds pretty sick! might have to download a demo to see what its all about :)

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:35 pm
by qwaycee_
SunkLo wrote:
SunkLo wrote:ALCHEMY 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Basically does everything apart from FM. Additive, granular, analog, spectral, sample manipulation. Modulation is pretty intuitive. Additive engine is similar to Morphine's

+1

alchemy is next level. i love fuckin with samples so i guess thats my thing-a-ling.

i also rep crystal. crystal is sick.



but as far as people bashing massive (which i don't think was happening in this thread necessarily...just in general), as far as the "everybody uses massive and all sound the same...massive is weaksauce" sentiment. it's not massive that's the problem, it's the people using cracked copies of massive that want to make brostep. they is the problem.

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:42 pm
by Assassin
U-he zebra CM edition. Powerful as fuck. Free as fuck.

Though I might have a look at alchemy.

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:00 pm
by legend4ry
nowaysj wrote:
MAYBE reaktor. I'm jazzed on it.

Lets be honest, thats a bit of a cheat answer, reaktor can do anything and everything haha.


At the moment for me its Sylenth 1. I'm writing everything on this beast.

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:31 pm
by Metzo
I'm a bit surprised no-one said Albino, thats up there with my top synths.

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:35 pm
by Metzo
legend4ry wrote:
Lets be honest, thats a bit of a cheat answer, reaktor can do anything and everything haha.


At the moment for me its Sylenth 1. I'm writing everything on this beast.
Yo man, haven't tried Sylenth 1, I'll have to give the demo a go....btw I had a listen to your tracks....nice production man :) keep it up!

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:09 pm
by nowaysj
legend4ry wrote:Lets be honest, thats a bit of a cheat answer, reaktor can do anything and everything haha.
I know, right. I hate it when people say what I just said. :)

I don't know if it does everything well. In terms of prebuilt devices for reaktor, I haven't found a whole bunch of things that sound good to me. But I have recently found some. And for that, I'm jazzed.

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:14 pm
by freakah
Metzo wrote:I'm a bit surprised no-one said Albino, thats up there with my top synths.
Was just about to put that lol. Albino is my fav vsti :)

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:04 pm
by joemakin
albino or discovery pro

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:15 pm
by nowaysj
discovery pro?

Re: Fav soft synth?

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:18 pm
by the dub lemon
At the moment Zebra, FM8, Massive (in that order)