If you have the choice ... which one and why ?

Thanks

Tera 2 is D'Cota++. However, its a lot more expensive (given the deals on D'cota these days) and needs more effort to get into programming. But it is very very powerful.

i already have Tera 2 so it's not much of a question.

But one aspect that would need to be answered is if D'Cota can use all the presets available for Tera. I suspect it can, but I don't know for sure.

I think if that's true, and I had it to do over again, I might go with D-Cota at the lower price.

Tera 2 in some ways seems a bit overblown, there's a builtin sequencer/mixer with 16 channel multi-timbral support. I suspect the price point might be much more reasonable without those features. How many people actually use those features? Does anybody actually bother with all those percussion presets (2 banks) and setting up beats in the sequencer?

maybe D'Cota has all that as well???

I've seen calls for stripping those features out for a Tera lite at a lower price point.

As far as I know there's still a bug with multiple instances of Tera -- one can affect the others 8-d setings -- which tells me two things:
1) there are users who prefer to use multiple instances of Tera, even though it could be used muti-timbrally
2) the multiple instance case probably wasn't tested much because Virsyn thought people would use its mutitimbral features

dahwoud wrote:

If you have the choice ... which one and why ? Thanks

D'Cota is essentially "Tera 1 Light".

Advantages are that some sites are blowing out D'Cota at cheap prices and it's less complex than Tera. I'd suspect it sounds as good/rich/etc as Tera.

Disadvantages are that it doesn't have the features and may or may not use the presets from Tera, and that it doesn't seem to be as popular, either.

If I was going to spring for one of the two, I'd save for and get Tera 2. I have MicroTera for analog/spectral, and I have plenty of other decent-sounding VA's already or "on my candidate list".

Doug

Tere 2, no contest. It does so much, sounds good and is very stable. Match it with a drum sampler and a ROMpler for basic instruments and you need nothing else. Tera 2 covers subtractive, formant, FM, etc...

Robert