No, its not great at all. It has a certain colour to the sound that I think would always be noticeable. Its one thing to have a distinctive sound in a particular area where the parts all come together beautifully but, as a few of us have noticed, this synth seems to be doing something to the signal, some kind of aural exciter effect. Its too heavy-handed and, whilst it might make it seem better than others, as putting effects on any sound usually will, if its there all the time it seriously cripples the worth of the thing. I'll use a paint analogy. Gloss paint looks really cool and anyone would say that a car painted with a nice, reflective gloss will look better than a car painted with the same colour, only in a matte finish. But not every application works with gloss paint. e.g. a blackboard or paving paint. So you like to have the option of gloss or matte. This is the same situation, where the aural excitation is the gloss. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. On some of those mp3 samples, it almost sounded like aliasing and, objectively, could be just as big an issue in some circumstances.Nokenoku wrote:Even with not liking the clean sound of a highend-VA, you should see, that this sound is quality-wise just great.
Really? I wish I'd known that when I used them, because they used to give all manner fo grief - busted/dead keys, scratchy pots, busted knobs.Sonic Boom Samples wrote:Synths were built better then.
Shame they can't compete on flexibility too, huh? With the exception of my ASR-10, which was buggy as hell, I'd say every digital synth I have owned has been far more robust and reliable than any analgue synth I owned in the 80s.Most stuff these days is cheap shite even modern analogs have to be built to a price to compete with virtual hardware synths and the latest analogs even sound too clean.
If you're writing 80s synth-pop, then you'd be needing a DX7. Maybe some of the very early, ultra-krappy stuff was done on analogue instruments but in the heyday of synth-pop it would have been almost all digital [Howard Jones, Thompson Twins era.]Hey if you can't hear it then....well....you can't hear it. It all depends on the sort of tracks you are writing. If you're writing 80's synth pop then vst synths aren't going to cut it
What you fail to realise is that no-one cares. No-one listens to music and tries to work out what instruments were used, unless they use the stuff themselves. If you are hoping to build a career based on such a small section of the overall audience, good luck. In any event, what you are saying could only be true of a vanishingly small percentage of sounds, as most sounds can be done adequately with almost any synth. Even then, some effects and EQ will make it almost impossible to know anyway.Modern music, yep they'll work great, I mean very few people are going to be able to tell a real Moog from Minimonsta in a pop mix, unless say it was a bass solo with vocal lol in which case it would stick out like a sore thumb.
Digital completely and utterly replaced analogue synths in the second half of the 80s. Through most of the 90s, you could only buy digital synths [assuming you wanted to buy a new one]. Everyone was happy with that because, having been through the nightmare that was analogue synths, it was pure joy. Its only since digital signal processing made mixers, EQ and effects so much more powerful that analogue synths have become slightly more viable. But you couldn't give me one because they are simply too limited compared to digital stuff, for no advantage whatsoever.It's funny how when digital synths started to overtake analog ones and the latest electronic artists started ditching the old synths for these new ones their music started sounding cold and more like lift music.
There is no benefit to an old ARP2600. I owned an Axxe for several years [83-87]. It sounded much better than an SH 101 but there is no way it could hold a candle to any of my freebie VSTi. After not using it for a couple of years at all, I tried to sell it but ended up having to give it away because no-one really wanted it. Same with my TB 303s, although I did manage to get $40 for one of them.Bones as I've said before vst synths suit your type of music down to the ground, you would get no benefit from an old Arp 2600.... and no its not an insult
Its all in your head. And, for the record, our scene is stuffed to the gills with idiots like you, so most people in the genre would strenuously disagree with your comment. Meanwhile, I just use what works because I want to make music, not stare at my navel.
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