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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

Software or hardware?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Kasshern wrote: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?

Predator

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....

bassinine wrote:

Kasshern wrote: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

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

joshisrad wrote:

bassinine wrote:

Kasshern wrote: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.