FM8 provides ample evidence that you don't need to slaughter a CPU to provide a pleasant sound. It's filters don't sound like Diva, however. Perhaps I should have said that "I find it very unlikely that I will like how it sounds enough to buy it." Killing my CPU is proxy for doing something new and interesting technically. If you aren't pushing the envelope then it's likely that whatever you're doing, I can already do with something that I have. If that's not true, that is, I don't have a synth that can create the sound out of the box, and you aren't killing the CPU, then I can probably replicate the effect in Reaktor. Since the effect isn't pushing the envelope, it will be possible in Reaktor, even though it may killl my CPU. In order for that not to be true, you have to be doing something not well understood, or doing something that is impossible in Reaktor owing to its inefficiency.chk071 wrote:I feel like this plugin (or Sylenth too) will prove that you don't need to slaugher the CPU to provide a pleasant sound.ghettosynth wrote: if a synth doesn't wake up my CPU cooler, then I find it very unlikely that I will like how it sounds.My point of view always has been that you don't have to mimic every single details in real world stuff virtually to get a good result. Synths or plugins which create hundreds of voices without using your CPU as a frying pan show that it is possible, and that it isn't always necessary to be 100% authentic. Especially for a musical result, it probably isn't necessary to catch every detail.
In any case, I'm not a fan of the supersaw sound, but, I do use them from time to time for stringlike pads. But for me, Reaktor gets the job done. I have a couple of different ensembles, one that is a modified J4c, and one that uses the Ampere supersaw module.
