Which synths have unison ?

[fgimian]

hey there guys, I am looking for a synth that has a unison mode. What I mean by this is, you select your waveform and then may add a unison of upto 8 or 16 voices for that waveform. When you add the higher number of waveforms, you get a beautiful detuned fat sound. The synth must support non-synced waveforms so that the sound doesn't sound like a flanger effect.

To my knowledge, the following do this...
- Kjaerhus Audio Spectra
- Native Instruments Pro 53

Any others folks ?

Appreciate your help a lot

Cheers
Fots

[The Chase]

Synth 1

Many of the killers
Toxic, which I prefer over the 2 you mentioned.

[tconrardy]

Octopus

and maybe UNISON by Concrete FX..but have to check

ODO's unknown synth gets pretty fat tho

[ravasb]

Sytrus

[ew]

Absynth 3 (not 1 or 2, though)
FM7
A lot of Reaktor's synths. If they don't already, adding unison is a module drop and a voice number change away
Tera
Moog Modular V
Xphraze
All the Vaz synths

ew

[fgimian]

SWEET, thank you all so much for your help, I'll check out all the synths mentioned.

Cheers
Fots

[_starcraft_]

xhip!

[fgimian]

thanks a lot starcraft, i'll try those too, so far I love Tonix a lot. I was trying to avoid Native Instruments due to the copy protection they use. I love LOVE Virsyn TERA but it's a little too expensive for me.

Cheers
Fots

[BONES]

But better than all of the above mentioned, yes all, is the venerable [and now free] JX Synth. If you're after teh biggest, baddest unison of them all, this is the one to get. SOme synths [Synth 1 and FabFilter Twin come to mind] have a function called unison that is really some sort of chorusing effect. It sounds dreadful.

[fgimian]

BONES thank you so much, i'll check it out right now

Cheers
Fots

[PaulSC]

SOme synths [... FabFilter Twin come(s) to mind] have a function called unison that is really some sort of chorusing effect. It sounds dreadful.

Bones' statement about Twin is totally false; it achieves unison effects by stacking detuned voices, not by "some sort of chorusing effect." The result sounds spectacular.

[smart]

- GMedia Minimonsta
- FabFilter Twin
- Image-Line Sytrus

[The Chase]

SOme synths [... FabFilter Twin come(s) to mind] have a function called unison that is really some sort of chorusing effect. It sounds dreadful.

Bones' statement about Twin is totally false; it achieves unison effects by stacking detuned voices, not by "some sort of chorusing effect." The result sounds spectacular.

His statement about synth1 is false, too. It stacks 6 (or 8...i dont remember) oscillators on top of eachother.

Come on bones synth 1 has a beautiful unison.

[fgimian]

yes it just seems that fabfilter also spreads it in the stereo field too, very nice. So far my favourites are FabFilter and Toxic. Toxic can do so many different types of sounds, I think it's a lot more versatile, but the GUI of FabFilter is to die for, just love it ! Main problem with FabFilter's unison is that it can't be detuned as drastically as the other synths I've tried which makes it less useful for trance.

I'll try GMedia Minimonsta too

Cheers
Fots

[_starcraft_]

lol jxsynth unison is DREADFUL.(very flangery and synching oscillators which is exactly what the open poster didn't want)
and fabfilter unison/detune is good up to 4 voices then the calculations are messed up above that....consequently increasing voices and detuning them donsn't give the results u expect and sound goes into flangery/synching/ phasey territory.