SONICALLY Best VST Synth

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

It's Repro! [/thread]

[vurt]

I used to own a Red Sound Darkstar, which was "the internet's most reviled synthesizer" until the TW came along...

I owned one too. Great through a bunch of cheap pedals. Sold it to some weirdo.

[whyterabbyt]

[foosnark]

I owned one too. Great through a bunch of cheap pedals. Sold it to some weirdo.

Honestly between these two I kinda prefer the Timbre Wolf. But neither of them are completely hopeless, it's just a matter of finding the right applications for them / the right way to abuse them.

[vurt]

I owned one too. Great through a bunch of cheap pedals. Sold it to some weirdo.

Honestly between these two I kinda prefer the Timbre Wolf. But neither of them are completely hopeless, it's just a matter of finding the right applications for them / the right way to abuse them.

i also have an alesis air synth.
i relish punishment

(im the weirdo that bought rabbyts dark star)

[Fraggle]

@Fraggle:
Have you tried here

Thanks

However my MacBook (being an intel) is not an HD screen , so there is only one size UI available that allows full view of all knobs and features .
It fills about two thirds of the screen.

I do sound design daily so I need my UI bigger than that.

If it was selling at $99 I might be tempted , but $199 full price and on sale at$149 is too pricey for what (for me) would be a fixed size UI that is just a bit too small, and a feature set very similar to what I already have.

I am a power serum user , so I am being greedy looking at Icarus

[EnGee]

@Fraggle:
Have you tried here

Thanks

However my MacBook (being an intel) is not an HD screen , so there is only one size UI available that allows full view of all knobs and features .
It fills about two thirds of the screen.

I do sound design daily so I need my UI bigger than that.

If it was selling at $99 I might be tempted , but $199 full price and on sale at$149 is too pricey for what (for me) would be a fixed size UI that is just a bit too small, and a feature set very similar to what I already have.

I am a power serum user , so I am being greedy looking at Icarus

I bought it for $99 a month or so ago. I don't remember exactly but I think I received an email with an offer because I have another synth from Tone2. Check with Markus here! There might be still such an offer!

Icarus 2 is from my favourite synths together with Massive X, Korg latest synths, Pigments, … etc.

[zerocrossing]

….Omnisphere can sound the way you want it to sound, the downside is the slow loading of the presets and the amount of clicks you have to do for all its sub-menus, you will spend more time trying to program a sound, than you would use composing a good song, not good.

I feel like when I read posts like this that the author has never watched the Omnisphere tutorial videos, read the amazing manual, or realized that you’re always a right-click away from assigning modulation to almost anything.

Your' re wrong.

I bought Omnisphere in 2009 when it came out and it was terribly slow and consumed the entire capacity of the computer, impossible not to crash.

Remember it had just been 4 years since youtube and facebook existed to put it in time perspective, if you don't remember.

Just Omnisphere plays version 2, the improvement of the synthesizer has been tremendously slow. I still maintain that it is 'complicated' and 'complex' to program a good sound with it.

However the result could be excellent or terribly disastrous. On the other hand programming sounds in Icarus 2 is simply out of this world! It's just my personal experience, you don't have to agree with anything I say here, peace.

I get what you’re saying, but it doesn’t make sense because you’re comparing two very different types of instruments. Icarus is great. I own it as well. Of course it’s a fast and easy to program synth, because it just doesn’t do all that much. Complaining that Omnisphere is “complex” to program compared to a simple synth is like saying a plane is more complex to pilot than a car. Of course it is. I’m just saying that if you’re looking for a complex synthesizer that’s easy to play, relative to it’s complexity, I think Omnisphere is one of the best, and I really never experienced the performance issues that you mention, but maybe because I had better spec’d PCs than you. Run that thing with lots of RAM on a fast processor with a good SSD, and it feels almost like a hardware synth.

[Halonmusic]

onepingonly obviously !

[j wazza]

I get what you’re saying, but it doesn’t make sense because you’re comparing two very different types of instruments. Icarus is great. I own it as well. Of course it’s a fast and easy to program synth, because it just doesn’t do all that much. Complaining that Omnisphere is “complex” to program compared to a simple synth is like saying a plane is more complex to pilot than a car. Of course it is. I’m just saying that if you’re looking for a complex synthesizer that’s easy to play, relative to it’s complexity, I think Omnisphere is one of the best

icarus doesn't do all that much? Icarus does loads, especially with the resynthesis and morphing options

[Halonmusic]

So you are looking for a synth that does 'everything' ?
is there even such a synth? There is a reason why i have several synths e.g 'analogue', 'wavetable' or 'all-in-one-synths'. But that is just me though

[audiojunkie]

So you are looking for a synth that does 'everything' ?
is there even such a synth? There is a reason why i have several synths e.g 'analogue', 'wavetable' or 'all-in-one-synths'. But that is just me though

Native Instruments Reaktor......It's got a bit of a learning curve.

[Halonmusic]

So you are looking for a synth that does 'everything' ?
is there even such a synth? There is a reason why i have several synths e.g 'analogue', 'wavetable' or 'all-in-one-synths'. But that is just me though

Native Instruments Reaktor......It's got a bit of a learning curve.

true that. i never really digged into Reaktor nor did i own it but it seems like the holy grail of synthesis i suppose

[j wazza]

So you are looking for a synth that does 'everything' ?
is there even such a synth? There is a reason why i have several synths e.g 'analogue', 'wavetable' or 'all-in-one-synths'. But that is just me though

modulars like vcv, voltage modular, reaktor as mentioned do nearly everything, or youd have to get a modular daw like bitwig or live

[Halonmusic]

So you are looking for a synth that does 'everything' ?
is there even such a synth? There is a reason why i have several synths e.g 'analogue', 'wavetable' or 'all-in-one-synths'. But that is just me though

modulars like vcv, voltage modular, reaktor as mentioned do nearly everything, or youd have to get a modular daw like bitwig or live

yu sure. i sure should atleast try VCV. sems interesting