KVR Audio

Kire · Post by **Kire** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 7:03 am

electro wrote:Someone on this forum tried to convince me Vaz was doing a better Arp sound than Gforce Oddity. Maybe you can find that old post.

There's not many , but here are two youtube-examples of Vaz in action:

To my ears it sounds quite vintage

//Erik

electro · Post by **electro** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:45 pm

ABL3, another fine synth emulation was released early 2016
http://www.audiorealism.se/audiorealism ... ine-3.html

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:18 pm

ArcSyn for me. Popped out of nowhere and blew me away.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:29 pm

My favorite softsynth so far is Obscurium ... picked it up a few months back. It never does what I expect it to.

electro · Post by **electro** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:47 pm

2011 was the big turning point, but Vaz sounds great for a 15 year old synth.

Prior to 2011, OP-X, Oddity and Imposcar were some of the few standout synth emulations.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:51 pm

Sendy wrote:ArcSyn for me. Popped out of nowhere and blew me away.

This went completely under my radar. After reading your review though, I gotta check it out.

OneOfManyPauls · Post by **OneOfManyPauls** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:46 pm

I'm going to change my vote - much as I love softube modular, tone2's icarus hits all the spots for me. 3 wavetable oscillators, really nice dual parallel/serial filters and a great wavetable editor make this thing as suited to warm analog hardware emulation as it is to cutting edge EDM.

Synthetic Wav · Post by **Synthetic Wav** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:14 am

vaz sound good i can understand some still prefer it to others softsynths , it may lack some qualities for 2016, but a nice raw sound.

i remember listening some of the kire sound demo years ago it was sounding really good

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:55 am

OneOfManyPauls wrote:I'm going to change my vote - much as I love softube modular, tone2's icarus hits all the spots for me. 3 wavetable oscillators, really nice dual parallel/serial filters and a great wavetable editor make this thing as suited to warm analog hardware emulation as it is to cutting edge EDM.

Icarus has my vote right now too... It has lots of big wide sweet spots...

RePro will compete by year end (assuming it is released by then)

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:28 am

Can I mention the name of an existing synth that got significantly better in 2016? I promise that the motivation is based purely on fanboi enthusiasm, and not on potential patchbank sales

nordickvr · Post by **nordickvr** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:34 am

Two unexpected synths :
ArcSyn & Pulsar 900 Series Modular Synthesizer.
Those really amazed me in a totally different way!
Pulsar Modular really made me feel programming the real thing.
ArcSyn made me to prefer init and start from scratch when launching.
Total pleasur to program.
Quite a quality for a synth, at least for me.

Cinebient · Post by **Cinebient** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 6:45 am

I already voted for Icarus as well but trying to get really meaty bass sounds i have another favourite for this special area....
Dagger synth. Best filters on earth (for me) for this kind of sounds. Even better than the Re-Pro Alpha, Moog Model 15....and everything else i heard. The Steiner Parker filter is so tasty

But maybe it's just my flavour

jermai · Post by **jermai** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:36 pm

For me it's Tone2 Icarus for sure, purchased the synth a couple of days ago and amazed by the capabilities to create nifty sounds.

sin night · Post by **sin night** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:28 pm

I didn't follow soft synths that much this year (I'm more into hardware nowadays), the various modulars are the most interesting to me, but I have yet to try them.

Most of the new releases probably flew under my radar, but untill now there hasn't been something so exciting to make me consider it... probably I already have too much tools, so I find it difficult to find a hole in my setup (except for acustic/orchestral instruments, but those are not my thing). Most of the time, the new tools (I include fx, too) are improvements to what I already have, so it's difficult to find something exciting and worth to add in my setup.

While I'm interested in software modulars, I have yet to buy one of them because... they are closed platforms. They don't interact with each other (Reaktor 6 is the most open, since it can talk with hardware), so I can't really mix and match as I can do with hardware... maybe I could do something using midi control changes or osc (where supported), but the interaction would still be limited/cumbersome. Knowing myself, I would definitely face this issue.

So, so far no favourite for me this year.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:37 pm

For me, it's a tie

Synclavier V and Icarus

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