Hardsync and FM?

[auricle]

Sylenth is great and I'm appreciating it more and more each day. However, the sound pallete would be vastly increased by adding oscillator sync (hardsync) and FM.

Lennard, do you have any plans for adding these features?

[Lennard]

Adding either of these will have quite an impact on the way the oscillators work internally and thus also the quite possibly their sonic character. I will be looking into both techniques but I can't make any definite statements yet about whether they'll ever be available in Sylenth1 or not.

[spaceman]

maybe something for a new synth?

[adamszabo]

Lennard perhaps a good way to be able to implement FM or AM synthesis without changing many parameters, is maybe in the mod section one would be able to select the source: oscA1 freq or oscA1 amp and for the destination another osc like oscA2 , and the mod amount could control the FM amount, or if the source is osc amp, then the AM amount.

[spaceman]

I think that probably amounts to the same.

[fgimian]

Howbout proper PWM, ringmod and some more waveforms? These along with hard sync and FM open so so many new doors to this awesome synth, I can't imagine programming a sound without these features which is why I never bought Sylenth1.

[adl]

Ah what the heck...bring on Sylenth 2!

[danphobic]

I have U-He's zebra for FM and PWM sounds but I really think that Sylenth would benefit from FM/Hardsync etc to move this amazing synth closer to rivalling all major VST/AU synths out there . I could never get into Zebra as my 'go to'synth whereas with Sylenth everything just fell into place and I was making amazing sounds with the demo before I even bought it.

[Vectorman]

Well, the thing about Zebra is that it's more sonically "neutral" and flexible, so in between the sweet spots that sound nice, there can be regions where things sound pretty horrid (unlike say, a Virus, which seems to be more forgiving as you tweak). It takes a little longer to get a handle on it. Looking at patches done by guys like Howard and Michael can be useful, seeing how they're made and why they do what they do...for example, the way they cascade multiple filters in series to get Moog-type sounds.

I've been getting back into Sylenth lately too, though, and unlike some other instruments, I have a fairly easy time getting it to play nice with Zebra in a mix and diversify the sonic colors. I'd love to see things like hard sync and true PWM in Sylenth too, but not if, as Lennard suggested, it would be difficult to do so without in some way compromising Sylenth's fundamental sound character. I have no clue what it is about the way Sylenth's oscillators are set up that makes the implementation of such things so dicey, but since I know absolutely nothing about DSP coding, I'll take Lennard's word for it.

[geoslake]

I have to say that I demo'ed it few weeks ago, and that's what put me off buying it (that lack of those "functions").