There is a ton if things I left out. Simply because of time constraints. I had to prioritize what matters the most to me, as this is a quest to find my new go-to workhorse synth. It took me almost a full week, 14 hours a day just to do these first 7 synths. 4 of them had such short demo period time that it was impossible to do a deeper dive anyway. It takes time to build sound design templates that I use to further test out the synths with, and when its all wiped away in 20 minutes it is just not an option to do so. I need an absolute minimum of 3 hours, preferably 3 days to do a complete all futures covered A/B shootout.pdxindy wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:07 pm One important factor doesn't get mentioned at all.
Whether user can import, create and resynthesize audio into wavetables. This is an important function of a wavetable synth. Icarus shines here. Serum has a full editor. Vital is pretty good and Massive X cannot import or generate new wavetables at all.
There should also be a modulation category. Vital is exceptional here. Massive X has weak LFO's and does not have MSEG's. Pigments is strong.
***
Hive is absolutely a full wavetable synth. IME, it has the best wavetable interpolation, can import wavetables, has 2 axis wavetables, and can generate its own wavetables with Uhm scripts. No other wavetable synth has that.
Both Icarus and Hive should be in any software wavetable synth comparison.
Thanks for the update on Hive. I might give it another look if I have time. I did try it briefly a year ago but it just didn't appeal to me at the time. But so did Massive X and its one of my favorites now.
