So people are agreeing that Sylenth1 is better than a Virus?

Because it is really two powerful synths in one, A&B, and each one of those A&B channels have layered, arps, and effects, that can be tuned/detuned, or synced in or out. Then you have the controls, so say Aftertouch can change the phase&LFO of synth A, while also changing the Freq&OSC of synth B, or whatever you like. I did some subtle stuff with ARP's A&B moving around each other, little bit of Velocity and it is intense, some After Touch it goes warped, lots of After touch it goes mental.

You can fake this stuff and do better, not hard to do, and once setup is easy to do again and again. Get a simple good free synth like miniMogue, one on track A, one on track B, add whatever pre midi effects you need, Arp's chords, etc. Then whatever post effects. I just learnt: You can even use midiconvert to map the aftertouch from the synth, if it doesn't have aftertouch settings, and send this singal to the post effects on the VSTi.

This to the best of my knowledge is what makes the sylenth good, no magic, just two powerful synth's in one, but the combining of them and effects is expontentially good. Lots will disagree, but sound is simple, waves, frequency, tone. It is like when someone takes a sound of a click and with a bunch of delays and effects it sounds like a elecrtic guitar, and only the best trained ear would know.

I had a friend working on Slayer that was tweaked to prefecton on a sensitive keyboard, he recorded a tune with it. And out of a bunch of talented muso's, pitch perfect and the like nobody spotted the fake guitar, saying it was brilliant, asking the name of the guy to do a session. I see it on the post's here, someone comments about level of the guitar on a mixdown, and the reply is that it isn't a guitar but a VSTi, and you see people getting wrapped up about this synth, this tone, the quaility of this. Too much talking about and not enough doing, do they think they will wake up one day and the perfect synth will be there ready to use, even if that happens their will always be something else, these people will always have an excuse.

Ask yourself what do you want to do? R&D the methods and workflow, conclude and aquire technology tools, create, enjoy and don't look back. Otherwise it will never happen.

I came to this site years ago, became member recently and is very helpful for somethings, but hard to avoid the idiots constantly talking the same rubbish about the same plugs, for years. I think about developing plugs but don't, why not, because I think of a great tool, google it and guess what, it already exists and is free. Just saved myself 3-6 months work.

Just get on with the creative stuff and less, dick swinging please.

So people are agreeing that Sylenth1 is better than a Virus?

I have to disagree with you. If you go through a lot of the amazing presets in Sylenth a lot of them don't even use both A & B... they only use A. Sylenth's oscillators and filters are what make it amazing.

Yes, and you have the added bonus of it being a native soft synth that's extremely CPU efficient so you can run many instances.

Can you record a basic waveform from Sylenth without effects and filter?

So it seems to me than there's no difference between digital hardware, DSP chips, and VSTs, it's all still 1s and 0s. If Sylenth1 can sound better than Virus, then all that hype coming from the new hardware digital synths like Blofeld, Virus Ti, Novation junk, Roland SH, etc... all of them talk about how amazing their analog modelling technology is.

Sylenth1 should prove it's all a buncha crap. Hardware means nothing. If Blofeld sounds great, if Novation stuff sounds great, it's not because they are hardware synths. The quality lies in the programming. If the quality lies in the programming, there's no point in developing or buying an expensive hardware digital synth. Digital hardware synths might as well be overpriced VSTs in a box.

This proves that if you're going to buy a hardware synth you better spend that money on true analog unless you are dieing to have the specific sound of an analog-modelling hardware.

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So people are agreeing that Sylenth1 is better than a Virus?