So, will you, or have you bought Sylenth1?

[fluffy_little_something]

Sylenth1's osc section is more similar to the Minimoog than the Virus, judging from the user interfaces on Google Image search.

[EnGee]

I am at least middle-aged and happy about it because decades ago I experienced much better music than today Nobody can take that away from me, except Alzheimer's

And mediocre? Can't be more mediocre than young people today...

Don't start generations war!
Our days weren't perfect either! We missed many things So, it is always you gain something and lose something. Personally I prefer the present with its advancements in technologies

[recursive one]

Sylenth1's osc section is more similar to the Minimoog than the Virus, judging from the user interfaces on Google Image search.

Yes, in Virus "classic oscillator" you don't have a waveform selector, instead of that you can morph between sine, square and pulse with PWM control. Also you don't have per osc unison, only a global one and a dedicated hypersaw oscillator. Anyway, Sylenth is still cabable of approximating basic VA sounds from Virus more or less close.

[fluffy_little_something]

Don't start generations war!
Our days weren't perfect either! We missed many things So, it is always you gain something and lose something. Personally I prefer the present with its advancements in technologies

- It wasn't me who brought that up
- Not perfect, but better in my view. I sure would prefer living in the 80's again...

[ATN69]

I would love to have had todays technology back in the 80's. Software is way cheaper than all the hardware I bought back in the day and it can do much more as well. Having said that, I can also feel the nostalgic about the old hardware synths I used to have, and in those days I really learned every tiny detail of each synth. These days with soft synth I can't really say I take my time to learn every tiny detail. I have too many soft synths

[do_androids_dream]

I will one day. I still think it's the best sounding softsynth ever made.

[DJ Warmonger]

I have one and use it a lot. Probably wouldn't buy it today as there are many alternatives and Sylenth1 doesn't do anything special or unique. Still, thousands of artists made their tracks with it, so why would we need anything more?

Certainly it's a great learning synth I'd recommed to anyone.

[aumordia]

If synth programming is your raison d'etre then Sylenth1 doesn't make a lot of sense. But from the perspective of finishing music, it's excellent, contingent on the type of music you're talking about. Other synths in this category include Nexus and Omnisphere, neither of which I like, but both are quite good at getting you to a high quality finished product of a certain sort. Horses for courses.

You can bitch and moan about the "lack of originality, maaan" or whatever, but if your composition chops are excellent, then merely adequate sound design is all you need to produce great music. Bach was incredibly prolific and produced some of the objectively greatest music ever (yes, this is objective, the inevitable Internet sophistry against such an intuitively obvious point is completely irrelevant and a little sad tbqh) -- he spent years writing an amazing cantata a week, the quality of his work did not suffer because he didn't build an entirely new organ for each piece.

Sylenth1 is homologous to that organ, so to speak. It's an excellent tool for any job which requires classic synth sounds. If you like to work with presets, they are as plentiful as raindrops in April. If you prefer to program from scratch, its clever ergonomics and wise limitations make producing great and usable sounds as easy as bumper bowling. It is highly CPU efficient, hence a good team player in a project, yet its sound quality ranges from good to excellent.

Real, beautiful music will always outlast weird, degenerate noise, despite the wailing and teeth gnashing of the usual neotenous neomaniacs; and Sylenth1 is a beautiful instrument. The puny wrath of a hundred mad nerds on KVR will never change that.

[risome]

Yes after along time i just recently purchased with the new update out and its a most capable and great sounding instrument

[neurochasm]

Just a heads up for anyone on the fence. LennarDigital is now offering a Serum style rent to own plan. No interest and it's yours when it's paid off, you can suspend/resume at will, etc. I went ahead and pulled the trigger. Not sure what their activation/check-in scheme is yet but I did get a license key email very quickly. We'll see how it goes, eh?

https://www.lennardigital.com/store/

[chk071]

Thanks for the info. I remember Lennard talked about potential plans for a rent to own plan, nice to see they implemented that now.

[Ah_Dziz]

I've checked it out a few times over the years. It didn't do much for me. If I needed lots of dance presets I'd buy it. I don't though. Honestly I never quite understood the big deal with it.

[chk071]

I've checked it out a few times over the years. It didn't do much for me. If I needed lots of dance presets I'd buy it. I don't though. Honestly I never quite understood the big deal with it.

Frankly, i didn't either. Until i gave it a good go, after i bought it used, and realized how punchy it sounds, and how pleasant the unison sound is. Especially, it doesn't phase a lot (or at all) with those, which most other synths do. It also gets VERY wide, and has a nice drive by default. I don't think it excels at something specifically (although it surely does the nicest supersaws of them all, if that's your thing), but is rather the often quoted sum of its parts. Don't like the fx so much though.

[Pyrotek45]

if I did the monthly plan and I had 5 payments left, could I just pay the rest on one go if I had the money?

[acYm]

neotenous neomaniacs

LOL