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xybre · Post by **xybre** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:17 am

AudioDamage Basic was made for expressly the purpose of teaching synthesis and it sounds good too.

http://www.kvraudio.com/product/basic-by-audio-damage

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:20 am

http://www.u-he.com/cms/ace

OutCider · Post by **OutCider** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:43 am

If the idea is to buy a subtractive synth to learn subtractive synthesis, the op may as well just lock the thread and go buy U-he Diva.

Not only will he learn about a multitude of modelled oscillators, filters and envelopes and how they each vary from each other, at the end of the learning process, he'll arguably already have the definitive subtractive emulation on his system.

D N A · Post by **D N A** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:48 am

TAL-Elek7ro is very nice for learning. Big, clean user interface, basics (2x osc, envelopes, lfos etc.).

Well, my first soft synth I mastered was V-Station but I wouldn't say it's the best for learning (but definitely not bad too

). I just liked it and wanted to learn it

xx JPRacer xx · Post by **xx JPRacer xx** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:55 am

V0RT3X wrote:http://www.u-he.com/cms/ace

I think ACE is far from being a beginner synth...

Tyrell would be a much better choice (and free).

inkwarp · Post by **inkwarp** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:53 am

+ for tyrell. sounds great to..
i would also recommend synth1, or zebralette ( or podolski)... all free to...

xybre · Post by **xybre** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:21 am

xx JPRacer xx wrote:
V0RT3X wrote:http://www.u-he.com/cms/ace
I think ACE is far from being a beginner synth...

Tyrell would be a much better choice (and free).

Tyrell is a great synth both for sound and tweaking, not a huge amount of visual feedback though.

pottering · Post by **pottering** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:24 pm

musictrack.jp's MT-1 series are best learning VST synths I've seen personally (especially the MT-1BG), very nice oscilloscope, blew my noob mind when I played with the cutoff of the low pass filter (VCF) with square/saw waves.

http://musictrack.jp/download/

Just click the gray html download buttons
The VSTs themselves are in english, as far as I remember.

urlwolf · Post by **urlwolf** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:29 pm

Helm is very visual too.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:06 pm

Numanoid wrote:With the name Addiction, I thought it maybe was an additive synth, but is substractive only?

Actually it's a confusing name because there is an additive synth called Addiction synth already by Virsyn on iOS. Been out years.

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:16 pm

aMUSEd wrote:
Numanoid wrote:With the name Addiction, I thought it maybe was an additive synth, but is substractive only?
Actually it's a confusing name because there is an additive synth called Addiction synth already by Virsyn on iOS. Been out years.

It's called Addictive Synth, not Addiction.

http://www.virsyn.net/mobileapp/index.p ... ticle&id=5

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:41 pm

OK still similar

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:44 pm

aMUSEd wrote:OK still similar

I don't disagree; I thought of Virsyn's one too when I read the the topic title.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:45 am

lol yeah - without planning to I think we've illustrated the point about the names being confusing quite well

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 9:34 pm

Heads up: This is 50% off with a TrackSpark coupon code at the moment (although the code doesn't appear to be applying).

Addiction synth: best learning synth?