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All Reviews by M-Prod


By M-Prod
On 21st July 2008
Version: 2.0

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LennarDigital Sylenth1

Finally, the osx version is out. After rediscovering this amazing synth I have to do my first review.

User Interface
Great and easy interface. Layout is superb. Design could be cleaner to my personal opinion. I'd also prefer the possibility to see part A en B together in one view.

Sound
Well this is what it all comes down to.. The best sounding softsynth ever. Bought it for windows last year after reading a praising review. And how right they were.. Then switched to osx in January and had to wait for the new osx version. After using many other synths I now realize how much i missed it. Suddenly i find the sounds i need instantly. 8, 9 or more sylenths or more in my projects, for bass, lead, ambient, drum sounds, fx..

Features
It's a great VA synth that exactly does what it's supposed to do. I don't consider many features a plus, I consider the right amount of features a plus and that's what this synth has. It makes me want to make sounds, where I was a preset junky before. It's very light on the CPU too.

Documentation
Fine manual (never needed it, but flipped through it for this review).

Presets
Great presets and a lot of them. Inspiring, rough edgy, smooth.

Customer Support
I contacted lennard by mail on a few occasions and he always answered me within minutes! Very friendly and helpful and solved my (license) issues immediately.

Value For Money
Great for two reasons. First it's an amazing product.. Second, the osx versions was free for former windows users. I've seen that different in other products (which i don't mind because porting takes time and effort)

Stability
Never problems whatsoever.

I hear he's working on other plugins.. expect great things from this Dutch guy!
 
Last edited : 21st July 2008     
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