What's your favorite Synth for creating Pluck sounds.

[Muziksculp]

Hi,

What is your favorite Synth for creating great sounding pluck sounds ?

Thanks,
Muziksculp

Any example of what you have in mind?

I don't have anything specific in mind. Just general good sounding pluck sounds, I know there are lots of flavors of Plucky sounds, I'm just curious to know which Synth is very popular, and good at making plucky sounds of all varieties.

I Like Spire for Plucks, but I also use other Synths for Plucky sounds. I also find some FM synths good for making sharp/metallic type plucks.

[pdxindy]

Hive does gorgeous sounding plucks... fast and diverse sonic range

[Muziksculp]

i.e. I love these plucky sounds in this TD tack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uADwA4qA62U

[e-crooner]

5:02 on, Miami Vice breathy synth voice Fairlight sound and Art of Noise / Moments in Love snare sound in one song

By plucks you mean the short percussive sounds at the beginning?

[l33t4e]

Falcon with it's pluck Oscillator.

[martinjuenke]

Everything with Karplus Strong

[Muziksculp]

5:02 on, Miami Vice breathy synth voice Fairlight sound and Art of Noise / Moments in Love snare sound in one song

By plucks you mean the short percussive sounds at the beginning?

There are various types of Pluck sounds in the TD dream track I posted.

The one I really like is the sound they use for the main melody part, at around 1:00 , kind of steel guitar like sound, but more edgy/sharp, bright, and has a nice decay to it.

[pdxindy]

5:02 on, Miami Vice breathy synth voice Fairlight sound and Art of Noise / Moments in Love snare sound in one song

By plucks you mean the short percussive sounds at the beginning?

There are various types of Pluck sounds in the TD dream track I posted.

The one I really like is the sound they use for the main melody part, at around 1:00 , kind of steel guitar like sound, but more edgy/sharp, bright, and has a nice decay to it.

Hive is excellent for those sorts of sounds. I don't happen to have a ready made audio demo of a bright steel guitar type sound like that, but it does that sort of stuff well since 2.1 and the new filters. It is really fast to create new pluck sounds cause you can use the new comb type filters and swap wavetables with a very short env to make a transient and get a wide variety of results very fast. The Env's are flexible. You can make organic and natural sounding plucks and more punchy electronic type plucks and so on. You can make bright crisp plucks that are not brittle and still sound natural.

Here are a couple examples I made when testing the new 2.1 update.

https://dandelionaudio.com/sound/Hive21-PL5.mp3
https://dandelionaudio.com/sound/hive21-5.mp3

[CrystalWizard]

Almost any of my synths will do fine. Maybe the PM stuff is my fav(?)

[Cinebient]

Plasmonic!!!

[EnGee]

I like Physical Modelling synths for Plucks. They are perfect IMO
Like, Logic Sculpture, NI Prism and Live's Collision.

The "Pluck" function in Harmor is great as well (additive synth).

Those what comes to mind now!

[bugs]

AAS String Synth; Image Line's Sakura and Harmless all do synthesized plucks quite well, ... and Pianoteq also!

[In.Sight]

ES2

[briefcasemanx]

I might have a broader than normal definition of "plucked", but Hive 2 is pretty good.

[twal]

Spire and ANA2