KVR Audio

imran5000 · Post by **imran5000** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:04 pm

I've got Ominsphere, Sylenth and Alchemy and they are all brilliant in their own way, however I really want dark, distorted leads, mean warped grindy s**t.

Is there a synth out there that does that, or is it matter of using what I have and putting it through distortion plugins, filters etc.

Thanks in advance

pheeleep · Post by **pheeleep** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:12 pm

Without a doubt, Rob Papen RAW

http://www.robpapen.com/raw.html

noiseresearch · Post by **noiseresearch** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:17 pm

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imran5000 · Post by **imran5000** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:18 pm

Oh sheeeat I like the sound of this!!! Downloading the demo now - thanks man

By the way is this more hardware synth territory? The reason I say this is that years ago I had the Novation Supernova and I've never been able to match the sounds out of that.

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:20 pm

Humanoid's Scanned Synth Pro or Enzyme. It's a tough job trying to get sounds out of either of them that aren't grindy. (http://www.humanoidsoundsystems.com)

There is also Mr Alias 2 or Mr Alias Pro (http://www.thepiz.org/plugins/?p=Mr.%20Alias%202) for aliasing sonic destruction. It does crazy, super-warped sounds and is even more unpredictable than Enzyme when it comes to sound design.

I don't think Mr PIz has been seen around for some time (I hope he's OK), but the software still seems to work.

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:25 pm

Effects to dirty it up would include any guitar amp sim but even better I would suggest

Izotope Trash2 and Vinyl

Along the synth line, the nastiest I've run across have been:
Scanned Synth Pro:
http://www.humanoidsoundsystems.com/sca ... th-plugin/

And HGFortune SwampXT/UltraSwamp (32 bit only and can be either hard to find or even imposible).
https://archive.org/details/HGFortuneNFG

noiseresearch · Post by **noiseresearch** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:30 pm

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reusenoise · Post by **reusenoise** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:36 pm

Olga it's the dirtiest.period

FrankLaVerne · Post by **FrankLaVerne** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:38 pm

I am unaware about how dirty the Supernova itself can be, but distortion / waveshaping together with some resonance paired with the synths you already have should do the trick, so I fully agree with resistent here and would suggest you get the distortion unit of your choice and go wild with that

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:48 pm

I'd definitely recommend u-he's Bazille for those kinds of sounds. Lots of sound mangling potential there.

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:48 pm

Distortion or waveshaping indeed... I turn to Massive or Diversion if I want that,but you can just as well do it externally.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:50 pm

cyClop

http://www.sugar-bytes.com/content/prod ... hp?lang=en

If can deal with 32 bit Win only plug, there is geMini 2

http://www.audioxygen.com/

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:53 pm

My Recommendations:

ACE
Bazille
Mr Alias Pro

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:01 pm

Cyclop and Olga fit the bill ...

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:04 pm

I'd be interested to hear a dozen audio examples from a dozen different people of a sound that fits the title description. I'm curious how much difference there would be.

What's the dirtiest, darkest, grindiest synth out there?