The most annoying instruments, fx, and in general things people put in their music?

[DJ Warmonger]

Trumpet. Especially synthesized fart trumpet.

[chk071]

Chip tune sounds.

And fart trumpets.

Oh, and all the sounds Avicii put in his music. *vomit*

[4damind]

I hate flutes Especially transverse flutes..

[Effectsworks]

wub wub bass, auto-tune and chiptune stuff. YMMV of course.

[highkoo]

Guitars.
Its like, ok, we get it!

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

Any instrument that's way too loud in the mix.

[ariston]

Synths. Somehow, they always sound like.... synths.

[GRUMP]

Stupid Lyrics, Lifestyle and Identity Crisis. Auto Tune Voices. And Wobble Bass. Chiptune. Grain Weirdness. 44 Beats. Fart FX.

[vurt]

32bit synths.

[GRUMP]

Synths. Somehow, they always sound like.... synths.

That is not true and you know that. From DX7 Flutes over Bazille Fart Sounds to contemporary Grain Choirs - there are many Examples to proove the Opposite

[ariston]

Synths. Somehow, they always sound like.... synths.

That is not true and you know that. From DX7 Flutes over Bazille Fart Sounds to contemporary Grain Choirs - there are many Examples to proove the Opposite

Actually, all of those examples sound like synths... you just proved my point. You can always tell when a sound was made by a synth. 's all I'm sayin'.

[jancivil]

In fact I'm using some things which sound like synths but aren't (purely acoustic sources using saturation, flanging etc), and I have certain things from a synth which cannot be parsed from say an excited piccolo flute sent to a delay or whatever.

Also you can get a fairly passable (not synthy anyway) xylophone out of the original DX7 and a lot of the e-piano from the 1980s is DX7 (Leuenberger's "Tines" patches). So, not so much a truism methinks.

[AnX]

32bit synths.

[ariston]

I never claimed it was a truism. It's called an opinion, feel absolutely free to NOT share it.

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

Synths. Somehow, they always sound like.... synths.

Isn't that the whole point of a synth?