Hive 2 or Vital?, that is the question.

[killmaster]

Which is nobler? Money is not the issue, I only have time to learn one. Or maybe there is another wavetable you would recommend (besides Massive X).

[AnX]

why not learn on the one that's free

[dune_rave]

Why not choose Dexed and Surge, they are free much longer

[recursive one]

Hive has become my to go synth lately. It sounds great and you can get wide variety of sounds without much effort. I'd say it's a "result-oriented" synth, as opposed to "process-oriented" ones like Vital where you get a lot of features but making it sound any good requires a lot of tweaking and searching for sweet spots.

Vital does have some features Hive doesnt have though, which may or may not be useful for you - like FM, vowel filters and oscillator effects. So I'd get Hive and a free version of Vital and focus on learning Hive while keeping Vital for more "special" kinds of sounds.

[BBFG#]

Since it's a matter of only wanting to deal with one, then a comparison of the company behind them could be well warranted as well.
Therefore, I default to u-He and Hive.

[AnX]

Why not choose Dexed and Surge, they are free much longer

is dexed a WT synth?

[pdxindy]

Which is nobler? Money is not the issue, I only have time to learn one. Or maybe there is another wavetable you would recommend (besides Massive X).

Hive

With 2.1, u-he added the new filters (Comb, Dissonant, Reverb and Sideband) which add a whole new range of sound possibilities. Hive also has a whole lot of subtle but useful functionality that makes it very well rounded.

Hive is easy to have a sound idea and just get to it. It is very polished and solid at this point. The sound quality is high and support is great. Hive has a beautiful clear and clean tone. It also has the Uhm scripts which make a huge variety of different and usefully different wavetables. It uses less cpu than Vital.

I'm happy to have Vital as well. It takes more work to get a result I am satisfied with but it does have some tools Hive doesn't. I use it most for the text to wavetable function for making vocal sounds. Vital is definitely a keeper for me, but of the two, Hive is my first choice if I could only have one.

Regarding other wavetable synth choices:

The other wavetable synth I use is Icarus cause it has a re-synthesis option to make wavetables from audio clips. I use it to turn snippets of various environmental recordings into wavetables. I will frequently then import that wavetable into Hive cause the Hive interpolation is really good.

I'm glad to have Icarus, but I use Hive more often in real projects.

[vurt]

whether tis nobler...

what?

[MissOptimyst]

Both. Vital is free.

However my vote goes to Hive 2. U-He is amazing.

[vurt]

Why not choose Dexed and Surge, they are free much longer

is dexed a WT synth?

can a synth be noble?

[AnX]

Why not choose Dexed and Surge, they are free much longer

is dexed a WT synth?

can a synth be noble?

negative

[Halonmusic]

Fish.

[ElVincente]

To me it's more work to make vital sound good, but you should try a little both to see what clicks with you. Definitively should give surge a chance too, all these are amazing but will lead you to differents sounds...

[killmaster]

Great info!! Thanks everyone. I'll vote Hive 2 too and going to give Surge a go too.

[martinjuenke]

Money is not the issue

I love this attitude!

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