Help me choose a synth

[Slaapstadseun]

I need an all-round synth that can do everything. I can't afford Omnisphere right now.
I've narrowed it down to Spire and Hive. I tried Serum but don't like it.
What do you recommend?

[Cimbasso]

I need an all-round synth that can do everything. I can't afford Omnisphere right now.
I've narrowed it down to Spire and Hive. I tried Serum but don't like it.
What do you recommend?

Zebra or Synthmaster?

[Saukar30]

Hive.

Spire, in my opinion from demoing, is a little more CPU intensive. Hive can do the same sounds


Check this thread out for a comparison:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5984949

[wagtunes]

An all around synth that can do pretty much everything and cover all the bread and butter stuff, I would recommend one of the following:

Discovery Pro
Dune 2
Electra 2
Karma FX Modular
Massive
MPowersynth
MUX Modular
Sonigen Modular (free)
Synthmaster
Zebra 2

In order of top preferences, limiting to top 3, it would be:

Zebra 2
Synthmaster
MPowersynth

[chk071]

It depends very much on the music you'd like to do what can be considered an all in one synth. If you want to do solely trance e.g., Spire or Hive would do. But fit Ambient music it also depends on what type of sounds, and what synthesis method you prefer. Graintable or wavetable synthesis, maybe sampling. So it'll be difficult to make a recommendation if you don't name you preferred musical genre. But even then, something like an all in one synth doesn't exist IMO. They all have their up- and downsides.

[fluffy_little_something]

Hive is anything but a synth that can do it all, it is more or less a modern clone of Sylenth and as such a subtractive synth.
For that price something like Electra 2 clearly offers more.

[e@rs]

Hive or Massive.

[2ZrgE]

Hive cannot do FM.

Better choice: Zebra.

[Fred_Abstract]

spire is more complete synth , for a all round synth it would be a better choice, or dune 2 if you are after that type of sound

[fluffy_little_something]

If you are not good at sound design, you might also consider the availability of sound sets for your kind of music. For some synths there are a lot, for others not so.

[Lotuzia]

Depends on what you're after. Even Omnisphere can't do everything.

If you're mosttly after nicely sampled instruments, wich still remains the strong point of OS -imho- few of the abovementioned synths will be of any use for you. In this case, any rompler might serve you better ( But you wont have the same instruments than in Omni of course ).

If you're after synth sounds, Waldorf Largo, Dune, Synthmaster etc are rather versatile synthesizers.

See, the reason why there are so many synthesizers is that the good ones make some unique things, with a unique sound. The *do it all* synth is yet to see.

[dea-man]

A description of the kind of music you make would be really helpful to you getting a more precise answer.

[fluffy_little_something]

Why not get several dedicated, affordable plugins for the price of Hive/Spire? Korg's M1 plus Steinberg's Retrologue and Padshop.

[chk071]

Definitely get something which sounds good to you. There's nothing worse than spending months with something you can't get to sound good. I've been there, and i regret it. Rule of thumb also: If it's cheap, it's not very popular, if it's expensive it is popular, for a reason. Might not apply all the time, but generally it does in my experience.

[dea-man]

Definitely get something which sounds good to you. There's nothing worse than spending months with something you can't get to sound good. I've been there, and i regret it. Rule of thumb also: If it's cheap, it's not very popular, if it's expensive it is popular, for a reason. Might not apply all the time, but generally it does in my experience.

What?

There are many, many free synths that absolutely rock!