The U-he team has a strong presence on their KVR hosted forum,Urs(founder lead developer) and Howard(programmer) are always answering questions,totally helpful, they and the U-he team listen and respond to their user base. It sounds like an ANALOG SYNTH not a V-synth,it might be my new favorite,lol. They are just about to release Repro 5 (Prophet poly)bundled with Repro 1(mono),pre-release price for both is $99,it sounds truly amazing! Zebra 2 w/DZ sounds amazing and it is easy on the computer resources.ĭiva as well is one of the best soft synths out there,a ,it s my personal favorite, it sounds so damn analog! Presently Z is about to be updated to Zebra 2.8 and anyone who purchases Zebra2 with Dark Zebra will get Zebra 3 when it's released for free. Dark Z used U-he's Diva filters it just sounds gorgeous. Myself I have turned into a U-he fanatic,Zebra2 w/the Dark Zebra add on is an amazing Synth bundle. Unless you're using Logic as your DAW imo as great as Alchemy is,it's not worth the the hoops you'd need to jump through to work with it presently. So yeah, I'm kind of like, the NI stuff I added didn't really do anything for me - and then with that realization I had, I couldn't justify spending 500 on something like that.Absynth is a great synth,a classic in the softsynth world but as Cuttime mentioned it's been around as is for quite awhile,many users are begging for it to be updated. Sure it takes the time to do it - but if you've got 20,000 presets to go through to find that one damn sound you remember you liked.well, IĬan probably create it in the time it takes to find it! I think a lot of people just "get tired" of what they have because all they do is use presets, so to get "more sounds" they buy more sounds - rather than learning to tweak what they haverīut at least, in Massive and Kontakt, I haven't heard anything that I couldn't create in something I've already paid for or downloaded for free.
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If I ever need anything more, I'll go download the free ones again. So I've got a Roland FA that can pretty much do anything and more that the VSTs can do, and what it can't I can go to RetroSynth or other Logic Synths. I find this more rewarding because ultimately my music has my sounds in it. I think if you'd consider paying for things, it would be some presets you need that you can't find elsewhere (and this would be primarily for great realistic acoustic sounds) or additional things like effects that others don't have.īut I deleted all that stuff because honestly it's just too many options.īy limiting my options, I can focus on sound creation rather than "preset perusing". Wavetable, etc.) all have a kind of "sameness of sound" - you play with a Moog for hours and you'll find out while you can make an infinite number of sounds, they all still have some "Moog-ness" to them.īut I'm scrolling through all of these presets in Massive, and I'm thinking, these are all just variations on sounds I already have in Retro Synth - which actually has Subtractive, FM, and Wavetable! All I got do to is tweak them.Īnd things like Green Oak's Crystal do some amazing longer term things - evolution of sound over time - that many others don't do. Sure, synth engines and methods (Subtractive vs. Now granted, it's hard to create acoustic instrument sounds from scratch as well as many of the pre-made ones, but for other synth sounds - no - especially if there's no basis for comparison. Instead, if you learn to sit down and tweak parameters, you can make anything you want.Īnd every single preset in any one of these things are just things other people tweaked for you and saved already. You get information overload - option overload. I would spend hours looking for the "perfect" preset - and then I'd add some other "perfect" tracks only to find the first one didn't really sit well in the mix. Once I had all of these I just simply had too many choices. I've downloaded a ton of free VSTs - Crystal, U-He stuff, OB-Xd - and even Synth1 which has a very old 4-bit looking interface but sounds quite good. So they think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. They just simply think that this is the way you use synths. I just got something where I could download some NI stuff to see what all the fuss was about.Īfter running through a bunch of presets, I realized what all the fuss is about - young people, who didn't grow up with older synths, simply don't realize older synths exist (outside of over-priced vintage things like old Moogs - they're unaware of Fantoms or Motifs and things like that) and they have no basis for comparison.
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