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BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Mon May 11, 2020 2:37 am

Alchemy 1

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Mon May 11, 2020 4:51 am

A poll without a fish is a bizarre poll!

dune_rave · Post by **dune_rave** » Mon May 11, 2020 4:55 am

my pick: avenger icarus zebra

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon May 11, 2020 5:17 am

what a shoal of pollocks

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Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon May 11, 2020 6:46 am

My Top 3:
- Synapse Audio DUNE 3
- Tone 2 Icarus
- Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V (missing in the list)

also missing in the list are PPG WaveGenerator and PPG WaveMapper 2.

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Mon May 11, 2020 7:39 am

Where's PPG v3? Still my favorite wavetable synth.

FarleyCZ · Post by **FarleyCZ** » Mon May 11, 2020 7:55 am

Zebra is my favorite synth for it's modularity, but I still have to give it to Serum. Steve nailed it on so many levels. Phaseplant, Dune and even Surge are very close, though.

FapFilter · Post by **FapFilter** » Mon May 11, 2020 8:16 am

voted for (drum roll) the one i bought

The prospects of Icarus sounded nice, so i briefly conpared the demos of this to Serum.
Pigments was out of question for me, because i'm not a biggest fan of Arturia's copy protection and i've never been a fan of Massive.
Between the two the decision was made purely out of my gut feeling, because i was really toying with both for maybe just 30 minutes or so.
Icarus spoke a little more to me, though maybe my preference for underdogs helped a little too.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Mon May 11, 2020 4:22 pm

I still stick with Serum. Tons of fun with it recently. And, you know, fun is important.

Massive X is a very strong competitor overall, but I would pick it for reasons other than wavetable engine.

nIGhT-SoN · Post by **nIGhT-SoN** » Mon May 11, 2020 5:18 pm

I agree, Serum pretty much nailed it in every single way, it's amazing after all these years it's still powerful enough to do most stuff. I just wonder what Serum 2 will bring, till then I'm having so much fun programming in v1. It's my favorite synth right now.

Spencer Maddox · Post by **Spencer Maddox** » Mon May 11, 2020 5:53 pm

I'm NOT Surprised serum is winning, But Im kinda taken back how few votes Avenger has.
Did the Copy Protection Measures drama push that many people away? I felt like It was much more Popular...

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue May 12, 2020 4:01 am

Spencer Maddox wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 5:53 pm I'm NOT Surprised serum is winning, But Im kinda taken back how few votes Avenger has.
Did the Copy Protection Measures drama push that many people away? I felt like It was much more Popular...

The more popular synths seem to be the simpler ones...

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Tue May 12, 2020 4:09 am

Spencer Maddox wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 5:53 pm Im kinda taken back how few votes Avenger has.
Did the Copy Protection Measures drama push that many people away? I felt like It was much more Popular...

I look at Avenger as more of a Sample based synthesizer than a Wavetable synth.

Sample based being defined in this case as full size samples rather than a series of short duration waves strung together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavetable_synthesis

Yes Avenger has a Wavetable Generator for the Oscs but I've just never looked at it as a WT synth perhaps because I have Dune 3 and Hive 2 and others for WT duties. Perhaps I'm not alone in thinking that way about Avenger.....

Spencer Maddox · Post by **Spencer Maddox** » Tue May 12, 2020 5:44 am

pdxindy wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 4:01 am
Spencer Maddox wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 5:53 pm I'm NOT Surprised serum is winning, But Im kinda taken back how few votes Avenger has.
Did the Copy Protection Measures drama push that many people away? I felt like It was much more Popular...
The more popular synths seem to be the simpler ones...

Yes and no.
There is a point to that.
People like stuff that keeps them in the zone. Same reason I’ve always believed Live and Bitwig and FL got so many users. They keep you in the zone. They are musically fluid.
With VSTS, relating to this poll specifically.
Serum is the shining example of this. I wouldn’t call it simple given how many different things I can do but it’s UI is so user friendly it’s easy to learn and use. Contrast to something that’s a BEAST but complicated, like falcon.
This is the same Technique pigments took and Hive took Icarus and Rapid took and they all scored high in this poll.
Taking a complex synth into a simplistic easy to grasp and visual interface.

What surprised me tho is that Honstly avenger is pretty much like those synths...honestly in some ways even more user friendly because it’s truly a one page interface...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue May 12, 2020 6:46 am

The three synths I voted for are synths where I pretty much never use the wavetable functionality or, if I do, it's because I liked someone else's preset enough to keep the WT oscillator when I started tweaking it. I'm surprised I actually own 10 of them, 12 if you count Factory and PPG Wave, because I'd never specifically buy a WT synth.

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