Dune 3 vs Sylenth 1 vs Seum for techno/trance

[Spring Goose]

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[Spring Goose]

Another benefit of Serum is updates for life, you get Serum 2, 3, 4,.. 100,.. 99999 etc for free.

I like Serum, but seriously the development isn't fast.




Serum 2 was and is in the works. There is nothing specific, how far in development is, but a personal guess maybe next year we'll see it.

Yes i know, but i don't expect to see more than about 3 new Serums in the next 20 years, it ain't like Pigments or Rapid.


Also, somebody said that Nerve 2 has been cancelled, do you know anything about that mate?

[nIGhT-SoN]

I don't even care if there will be 1 or 20 versions in 20 years, as long as is as good and innovating as v1 was. Let's be honest, Serum is still one of the best synths out there, you can't say it's just marketing, because there is no marketing. If Serum 2 will be as amazing as Serum 1 is and was on release, that will hold for another 10 years.

If you are after number changes, yeah, Serum is not for you. But from v1.0 till now, Serum changed a lot and Xfer added features that were maybe worthy of Serum 2 in the eyes of other developers.

Also, somebody said that Nerve 2 has been cancelled, do you know anything about that mate?

As for this, I'm not speaking on the behalf of Xfer Records, nor do I own Nerve, so I don't think I'm the guy to ask. Better send Steve an e-mail, he's really responsive and ready to help.

[Spring Goose]

I don't even care if there will be 1 or 20 versions in 20 years, as long as is as good and innovating as v1 was. Let's be honest, Serum is still one of the best synths out there, you can't say it's just marketing, because there is no marketing. If Serum 2 will be as amazing as Serum 1 is and was on release, that will hold for another 10 years.

If you are after number changes, yeah, Serum is not for you. But from v1.0 till now, Serum changed a lot and Xfer added features that were maybe worthy of Serum 2 in the eyes of other developers.

Also, somebody said that Nerve 2 has been cancelled, do you know anything about that mate?

As for this, I'm not speaking on the behalf of Xfer Records, nor do I own Nerve, so I don't think I'm the guy to ask. Better send Steve an e-mail, he's really responsive and ready to help.

I'm not worried about it, i was just asking. I like Serum and Nerve, i have both.

[Spring Goose]

Serum. It does have marketing, for example magazines like Music Tech and Computer Music saying things like "it's the number one synth for dance music".

[chk071]

You get lifetime updates with Serum or any other Xfer product, and before buying it, I asked Steve and said to me you'll get for free any future versions.
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There is also a discussion about lifetime updates here - https://xferrecords.com/forums/general/ ... me-updates


Serum 2 wasn't officially announced, but Steve said in different interviews he's working on it. Also, this is from his discord channel:
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He doesn't want to announce it until it's finished and I think it's because he doesn't wants the pressure to force a release earlier than what he wants it to be, but from his statement Serum 2 will come. When? Nobody knows for sure. The "next year" thing, it's just my assumption/hope, I don't have any insights or info in that regard.

Nice.

[nIGhT-SoN]

Serum. It does have marketing, for example magazines like Music Tech and Computer Music saying things like "it's the number one synth for dance music".

It's not paid advertisement. Xfer doesn't spend any money on marketing. They are focusing on "mouth to mouth" marketing, people telling to their friends about it. Magazines talk about it because people talk about it, because people want to read about it.

You should check some of Steve's interviews, especially from Ableton's event. You'll understand better what made Serum popular and why it's still talked about.

[Spring Goose]

Serum. It does have marketing, for example magazines like Music Tech and Computer Music saying things like "it's the number one synth for dance music".

It's not paid advertisement. Xfer doesn't spend any money on marketing. They are focusing on "mouth to mouth" marketing, people telling to their friends about it. Magazines talk about it because people talk about it, because people want to read about it.

You should check some of Steve's interviews, especially from Ableton's event. You'll understand better what made Serum popular and why it's still talked about.

As i've said i like Serum and i have Serum, and Steve seems a nice guy. I thought it's popular because of dubstep and other "bass music". I don't really want to watch Ableton videos cos i don't use Ableton.

[jasonekratz]

Just an FYI that Spire and the sound store stuff are on sale as of today.

[jasonekratz]

You should check some of Steve's interviews, especially from Ableton's event. You'll understand better what made Serum popular and why it's still talked about.

As i've said i like Serum and i have Serum, and Steve seems a nice guy. I thought it's popular because of dubstep and other "bass music". I don't really want to watch Ableton videos cos i don't use Ableton.

You don't want to watch an interview because it was done at an Ableton event and you don't use Ableton?

[MegaPixel]

Spire is: $149 on their website at the moment, for people in the UK its cheaper on pluginboutique
https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... pire-Synth

There's bundles there too, there is a bundle on their website too which offers more I think but watch those prices...

I don't think much of it's interface at all, imo it's a pretty shait GUI, and not very easy to get into, but it does have a nice sound, some great presets too (expensive presets though even on sale, and not many good multi preset bundles)

I think I will grab Dune 3 and 2 or 3 their presets when they have a decent sale on.

[chk071]

The problem with Spire's GUI is that there was a lot of stuff which was added later, and some stuff which doesn't seem finished. There's also dreadful feature implementations, like the filter drive.

It isn't perfect, like every soft synth. The sound is great though, and it has a very wide spectrum of sounds where it sounds good.

If they'd built in wavetable oscillators, and make it import wavetables, my other soft synths would probably have a hard time getting any use anymore.

Almost sounds like I wouldn't like the GUI now, but, I actually quite like it.

[MegaPixel]

RE: Spire's GUI
Ye it does suck, now if it was something like Ana2, Hive 2, Zebra, Dune 3 or even Serum, hell yeah. But we don't live in a perfect world.

RE: Serum
It's GUI is quite good, there are some niggly things where you need a magnifying glass to see what your doing (LFO assignment and dials etc) but at least the GUI scales, which helps (a bit)... Eg. PhasePlant's GUI for handling the same stuff is very similar just a 1000% easier to use.

Serum, is a great VST, but it does need some attention to usability:
- Auto search for missing noises, lfos, wavetables etc in their appropriate folders when not found by a preset (amazed this was not programmed in, in v1.0.1 lol)
- Mouse scroll on single column lists on popup menus
- Ability to delete a preset or selection of presets from the preset browser (but I've found the .dat file now, so all I have to do is go through every preset I got 1 or 0 star them, rip them out of the dat file and write some program to delete all those presets automatically for me node/php/py whatever).

Both sound great and you can do some nice things with them, but Spire's GUI, jeeez, I would almost pref to use a command line (MS DOS/Shell/CLI) to change its settings lol...

[Spring Goose]

You should check some of Steve's interviews, especially from Ableton's event. You'll understand better what made Serum popular and why it's still talked about.

As i've said i like Serum and i have Serum, and Steve seems a nice guy. I thought it's popular because of dubstep and other "bass music". I don't really want to watch Ableton videos cos i don't use Ableton.

You don't want to watch an interview because it was done at an Ableton event and you don't use Ableton?

Yes, why do i need to watch the video? I just watched 5 Steve Duda Nerve videos last week.

[Spring Goose]

I know about marketing for example Branson/Virgin on BBC News. "Serum is the number one synth for dance music" sounds like a meme.

So why must i watch a video?