Stranded on desert island and you can only have 1 VST synth...which one?
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
I think this was a post topic way back in 2004 - but I wanted to see what people would choose and why since technology has moved on to where we are in 2016?
I will be limiting myself to just one synth as a creative experiment as I have never tried and I simply have too many VST synths (I think I am some sort of synth hoarder or something) that I am struggling to focus on finishing any tracks.
In my case it may have to be the old Alchemy (before Apple) - partly because it is really flexible in terms of modulation, it is a pretty good sounding synth, and it has the ability to load in samples and do some Granulization and some Additive to boot.
I admit I was torn between the following in my collection:
Alchemy
NI Massive
Serum
NI FM8
Omnisphere 2
UHE Zebra
Synthmaster 2.7
NI Reaktor 6
Cycling 74 Max 7
FL Studio Harmor
UHE Diva
UHE Bazille
NI Razor
NI Rounds
So what VST synth would you pick and why?
I will be limiting myself to just one synth as a creative experiment as I have never tried and I simply have too many VST synths (I think I am some sort of synth hoarder or something) that I am struggling to focus on finishing any tracks.
In my case it may have to be the old Alchemy (before Apple) - partly because it is really flexible in terms of modulation, it is a pretty good sounding synth, and it has the ability to load in samples and do some Granulization and some Additive to boot.
I admit I was torn between the following in my collection:
Alchemy
NI Massive
Serum
NI FM8
Omnisphere 2
UHE Zebra
Synthmaster 2.7
NI Reaktor 6
Cycling 74 Max 7
FL Studio Harmor
UHE Diva
UHE Bazille
NI Razor
NI Rounds
So what VST synth would you pick and why?
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- KVRAF
- 35671 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Lol.
I don't even wanna know how many of such threads i've seen since i joined KVR... anyway, it's fun. I would say Spire, because it's pretty versatile, nice unison features, great sound, quite CPU efficient since the 1.1 update, great effects... i'd surely be able to make whole tracks using nothing else, so that would be my choice.
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- Banned
- 2238 posts since 19 Dec, 2014
pdxindy wrote:I don't consider Reaktor a synth...
Among synths... Bazille
it is a VST though, and it's in his shortlist.
so ya, Reaktor.
(inb4 further hairsplitting)
Last edited by Daags on Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRAF
- 3186 posts since 18 Mar, 2008
Alchemy 2
Being thinking of getting with the program/Logic X, pretty much Alchemy is selling whole thing, can see myself using it exclusively even now without whole desert island story, what an nice stock synth that is.
Being thinking of getting with the program/Logic X, pretty much Alchemy is selling whole thing, can see myself using it exclusively even now without whole desert island story, what an nice stock synth that is.
This entire forum is wading through predictions, opinions, barely formed thoughts, drama, and whining. If you don't enjoy that, why are you here?
ShawnG
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- KVRAF
- 2236 posts since 25 Dec, 2005
OnePingOnly could give you the opportunity to send fairly accurate SOS signals.I guess that's the one to choose.
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- KVRAF
- 2960 posts since 9 Dec, 2011 from falling
u-he Diva
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- KVRAF
- 22893 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
I guess I'd have to say Falcon. But only if you put a gun to my head as there are a number of synths in my collection that I'd hate to be without.
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- KVRAF
- 3278 posts since 22 Jul, 2009
- KVRAF
- 2696 posts since 19 Apr, 2005 from The City Beneath the Sea
Wusikstation V6 to V7, and random samples washed up in bottles on the shore.....

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- KVRAF
- 2169 posts since 7 Dec, 2005
+1chk071 wrote:Lol.I don't even wanna know how many of such threads i've seen since i joined KVR... anyway, it's fun. I would say Spire, because it's pretty versatile, nice unison features, great sound, quite CPU efficient since the 1.1 update, great effects... i'd surely be able to make whole tracks using nothing else, so that would be my choice.
- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
Omnimotherfuckingsphere
No - scratch that, I will be using Ableton Live Suite, all my guitars and amps. So... I don't even need a vst synth.

No - scratch that, I will be using Ableton Live Suite, all my guitars and amps. So... I don't even need a vst synth.
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