Your language is not particularly useful in helping you with recommendations.Soarer wrote: I have been using Hive lately and also made a number of presets with it. Then I wanted to recreate those presets in Omnisphere 2 since I’d prefer if I could just do it all in Omnisphere. But I cannot get the same results. Sometimes it’s close but it’s not the same (at all). I find that Omnisphere often sounds quite hard and a bit cold (did try with big unison and detune).
With Hive I get these crispy attack textures and the synth sounds more “soft” i.e. not so hard. I think the synth has character and it just sounds better to me.
Take any two synths with some differences and you're going to find this to be true. If you use that to justify purchases then you're credit card is always going to be out.
Of course for any specific sound of any complexity it's not going to be "the same." That doesn't mean that the synths don't have features that cover a similar sonic territory. It also doesn't mean that some other synth will do the job as well as Hive, or whatever synth you're currently interested in. Any recommendation is statistical in nature. It means that the balance of similarities outweigh the differences. One can only make recommendations based on what people SAY that they are interested in. I'm not familiar with too much IDM or ambient that makes extensive use of unison type sounds.
So, based on your own language, that you were interested in IDM and ambient, among others, and that you already had Omnisphere but also Diva, it is a reasonable conclusion that Hive will not cover sonic territory that is significantly different or useful to you.
