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Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:49 pm

wagtunes wrote:Sounds decent enough to me. Sylenth1?

Hive.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:56 pm

Teksonik wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Sounds decent enough to me. Sylenth1?
Hive.

Oh. Well, like I said, sounds decent enough to me. Don't even know if, in side by side tests, I'd know which was which or which one I liked better.

Might be an interesting experiment. I don't own either so can't do it myself.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:58 pm

wagtunes wrote:
Teksonik wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Sounds decent enough to me. Sylenth1?
Hive.
Oh. Well, like I said, sounds decent enough to me.

With the thread being about HIVE, why would you think Sylenth1

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:11 pm

Numanoid wrote:
wagtunes wrote:
Teksonik wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Sounds decent enough to me. Sylenth1?
Hive.
Oh. Well, like I said, sounds decent enough to me.
With the thread being about HIVE, why would you think Sylenth1

If I'm not mistaken, I think somewhere along the way we got sidetracked and started comparing Hive to Sylenth1 and how Sylenth1's filters are "crappy" so I thought maybe Tek was trying to show how Sylenth1's filters aren't crappy. If you notice in his post, he doesn't actually say what synth he was using. So it's not really a stretch to think that maybe he was choosing Sylenth1 as an example.

I mean it's not like these threads ever stay on topic, right.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:15 pm

wagtunes wrote:I think somewhere along the way we got sidetracked

I guess around post number 3 or 4 in the thread

What happened to the OP ?

fluffy_little_something · Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:20 pm

Why is there always that stepping sound in sweeps? I have heard it with hardware synths on YT videos as well. Is it supposed to sound that way or is it technically unavoidable?

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:42 pm

I'd like to try and reproduce the lead sound in this section of a song I made years ago. It uses Sylenth1 for everything but the drums. Maybe I can try and use Dune 2, as I don't have Sylenth1 any more.

Hive could probably do this type of sound.

https://soundcloud.com/examigan/metropolis-edit

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:11 pm

Examigan wrote:I'd like to try and reproduce the lead sound in this section of a song I made years ago. It uses Sylenth1 for everything but the drums. Maybe I can try and use Dune 2, as I don't have Sylenth1 any more.

Hive could probably do this type of sound.

https://soundcloud.com/examigan/metropolis-edit

Probably hive or Dune 2 could do that.

Anyway, I was thinking, Hive is a lot more like dune 2 without the wavetabling and wave morphing aspect. yeah, It's Dune 2's roland side if you took out the wave morphing and tabling, and you used the Sylenth architecture. TBH I think there is room for all three if you have the money and the gumption and that's the sound you want. I think Hive is much more playable then it's counterparts.

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:16 pm

Man Hive is hard to describe. It's very abstract isn't it? It's true that Sylenth, Dune, Hive, and Spire all do the same type of synthesis in that they are unison engines, but they all are diffent in their approach. In HOW they get there, and Hive is probably the most enigmatic of them. That really is the issue with HIVE, it's sort of undefinable. Ghostly.

Dasheesh · Post by **Dasheesh** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:21 pm

Yep, that's it. Where as you can put definable qualities and definitions and narrow down definitions for sylenth, dune, and spire. Hive has this... spirit quality. It's aloof. It does the roland thing very well though. that's one definable I can put on it. It is so broad without being nailed down.

hivkorn · Post by **hivkorn** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:36 pm

if you love Zebra ² , Bazille and ACE don't expect to be in love with HIVE , it is VERY different from all the other synth in term of sound.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:46 pm

statue · Post by **statue** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:54 pm

You would think I have enough soft-synths, but somehow I feel the need for a simple workhorse subtractive synth that has a good sound, good effects, arp/seq and is cpu efficient.
So Hive would fit for me perfectly.
Unfortunately I'd like it to be cheap too and but that is what U-he synths are not.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:56 pm

egbert101 wrote:If Lennard Digital were to update Sylenth1 with more waveforms, including FM, PWM, AM, RM and added Wavetables, upgraded the sound engine, upgraded the filters, then it would slaughter all the other general purpose synths. Amirite?

I'm not even sure of that. I think that like with the Virus, people actually like the sound of the outdated filter. I think that's a part of the charm and it's also, in part, why many people don't think that Hive is a replacement.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:05 pm

egbert101 wrote:If Lennard Digital were to update Sylenth1 with more waveforms, including FM, PWM, AM, RM and added Wavetables, upgraded the sound engine, upgraded the filters, then it would slaughter all the other general purpose synths. Amirite?

Yourrite! Maybe!
Anyway, there was a reason why EDM DJs have Sylenth1 and Massive as a good couple (I read it somewhere) and I actually agree with them not only for EDM, but for everything else maybe. This combination can cover most every genre with a very reasonable CPU usage

Hmmm i Don't need more synths or do i? Opinions on Hive?!:...:::