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EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:57 pm

@OP:
While you demo all the suggestions, you can bid on ANA 2 here:
viewtopic.php?f=43&t=553357

Who knows? maybe you will get it for cheap

Spring Goose · Post by **Spring Goose** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:59 pm

chk071 wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:54 pm Might well be because I had my headphones on. Might sound different on my monitors.

To be fair i haven't given much time to Sylenth's strings yet to make the comparison, but MX strings i thought "wow!".

LazyBaba · Post by **LazyBaba** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:44 pm

Just trying out the demos of Rapid, Dune 3 & Sylenth 1.

I sure like the sounds of Dune 3 & Sylenth. Rapid instead offers more modern feeling workflow. Sylenth seems to have a good selection of free tutorials online (& free extra sounds to download).

Any info why all these 3 have such a clumsy preset browser system? Rapid’s browser is maybe best of these (but that doesn’t make it good)... IE no search function?

Anyhoo... I will try the other suggestions later. Thanks again!

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:50 pm

Dune 3 is capable of some very warm sounds indeed.

LazyBaba · Post by **LazyBaba** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:03 pm

About Avenger: the full version needs some sort e-licenser in my computer? It used to need dongle (which is quite a big no for me)?

Tendou · Post by **Tendou** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:11 pm

LazyBaba wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:03 pm About Avenger: the full version needs some sort e-licenser in my computer? It used to need dongle (which is quite a big no for me)?

no dongle, just the codemeter software

Kinh · Post by **Kinh** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:13 pm

why d'ya wanna go wit dem warm'r soundz?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:26 pm

Kinh wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:13 pm why d'ya wanna go wit dem warm'r soundz?

whi diya wanna wanga besa iskin kwistyons leek dis?

drdriller · Post by **drdriller** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:26 pm

a good complement to serum should be a fm synth.

i don't see any addition from sylenth1 except good presets... Dune is really nice but does not bring something really different except for voicing..

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:39 pm

Don't forget Tone2 synths like Icarus2 and Electra2. They are euro edm oriented, so imo very easy to find what you are looking for and be inspired by the presets.

Spring Goose · Post by **Spring Goose** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:31 pm

vurt wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:26 pm
Kinh wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:13 pm why d'ya wanna go wit dem warm'r soundz?
whi diya wanna wanga besa iskin kwistyons leek dis?

I like it. It's funny, cheers me up.

SamDi · Post by **SamDi** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:04 pm

drdriller wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:26 pm a good complement to serum should be a fm synth.

i don't see any addition from sylenth1 except good presets... Dune is really nice but does not bring something really different except for voicing..

I see it different. Serum is good on edgy digital sounds, which rely on Oscillator/Wavetable FX, but shitty on sounds which rely on good filters. From this perspective Sylenth and Dune are a good complement.

Complement for Serum would mean for me:
Other Oscillators than just Wavtable
Having 2 filters instead of 1
Arpeggiator
More sophisticatwd Fx chain ( 2 parallel sends at least, use one effect for several instances)

Good candidates:
Dune 3
Icarus 2
Zebra 2
Rapid
Avenger
Spire
Falcon

Demo them, which allow it. Most synth sound very good today, but in terms if usability you will quickly recognize, which is for you and which rather not

drdriller · Post by **drdriller** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:32 pm

Serum is good for everything, you don't have to use the reverb or flange filter with fm from b to get the metalic tone used in dubstep.. many other possibilities are available..

Serum filters are by far superior to Sylenth one.. sylenth1 filters are really basics..

do you tweak drive and fat settings on serum filters to suit your taste ?

(i like and own sylenth1, it's a good learning synth but a very basic one, the best thing about sylenth1 are presets, not filters)

you can sound analog in Serum, use the chaos osc (random osc) to modulate fine tuning, then you can draw your own distortion shape to set saturation to your taste.

SneakyBeats · Post by **SneakyBeats** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:35 pm

You should really check the native stuff in FLS.. Those that you can buy from IL store. Harmor/Harmless etc. Toxic is a classic and is as soft/hard as you want.

Tendou · Post by **Tendou** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:05 pm

drdriller wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:32 pm Serum is good for everything, you don't have to use the reverb or flange filter with fm from b to get the metalic tone used in dubstep.. many other possibilities are available..

Serum filters are by far superior to Sylenth one.. sylenth1 filters are really basics..

do you tweak drive and fat settings on serum filters to suit your taste ?

(i like and own sylenth1, it's a good learning synth but a very basic one, the best thing about sylenth1 are presets, not filters)

you can sound analog in Serum, use the chaos osc (random osc) to modulate fine tuning, then you can draw your own distortion shape to set saturation to your taste.

how can you draw the distortion serum? you mean like waveshaping curves right?

Serum & what else?