Which softsynths have the nicest-sounding choruses?
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- 14130 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
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I don't like external effects. I like to save patches complete with FX. So, if the built-in chorus sounds fine, why use an external one?!AdvancedFollower wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:29 pmI don't really see why, since chorus tends to be added at the very end of the signal chain anyway. You're really limiting yourself if you choose a synthesizer based on the chorus effect.Nicolau wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 2:19 pm Well, external chorus plugins are kind of irrelevant to this topic, obviously.
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- KVRAF
- 5817 posts since 2 Oct, 2008
I'm not partial to any tbh. Flanger on the other hand, lush hands down.
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I never really know what the difference is. The frequency?Touch The Universe wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:09 pm I'm not partial to any tbh. Flanger on the other hand, lush hands down.
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- KVRer
- 11 posts since 9 Jul, 2024
Flangers also have feedback; choruses usually don't. I still don't understand what exactly an ensemble is. Apparently it is more than just a double chorus. I've never been able to fully recreate the Solina ensemble sound.Nicolau wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:12 pmI never really know what the difference is. The frequency?Touch The Universe wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:09 pm I'm not partial to any tbh. Flanger on the other hand, lush hands down.
- KVRAF
- 2394 posts since 10 Jul, 2006 from Tampa
I'm not trying to make trouble, but what difference does it make which softsynths have the best chorus? As you can see, the suggestions here are all over the synthesis map, and there is no general consensus as to which one has the "best" chorus (which would be subjective, anyway).Nicolau wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:51 pmI don't like external effects. I like to save patches complete with FX. So, if the built-in chorus sounds fine, why use an external one?!AdvancedFollower wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:29 pmI don't really see why, since chorus tends to be added at the very end of the signal chain anyway. You're really limiting yourself if you choose a synthesizer based on the chorus effect.Nicolau wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 2:19 pm Well, external chorus plugins are kind of irrelevant to this topic, obviously.
With everything from wavetable to VA to sample playback to other types of synthesis, you'll be extremely hard-pressed to get the same initial sound out of each plug-in, regardless of the chorus you add afterward. So the "best" chorus on TAL's emulation of a Juno synth won't sound the same as the chorus on Vital's wavetable synth, since the initial sounds won't even be close (unless all you're using these synths for are sawtooth wave pads, in which case, I withdraw my comment and wish you luck).
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- KVRAF
- 14130 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
Kepler sounds like crap until you turn on the chorus.
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- KVRAF
- 1873 posts since 4 Oct, 2016
I adore the chorus in Model 84, though you can't use both modes at the same time :/
The chorus in Imaginando's DRC synth is phenomenal and makes its already analog sound more lively and fluid!
The chorus in Imaginando's DRC synth is phenomenal and makes its already analog sound more lively and fluid!
- addled muppet weed
- 111275 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
my fave standalone is the fluffy little something chorus.
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- KVRian
- 1078 posts since 24 Apr, 2008 from USA
definitely KORG Triton, and all the KORGs since Triton, ( Trinity probably has the same one ) , its called "Stereo Chorus" , its the ultimate sounding Chorus Effect.
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- KVRAF
- 2291 posts since 2 Jul, 2007
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- KVRist
- 440 posts since 15 Aug, 2018
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- KVRAF
- 9521 posts since 6 Oct, 2004
The multi-effect version of z3ta+ includes a versatile chorus in a useful gui. Good for guitars and synths.
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 17 Nov, 2022
That's true, the z3ta+ has a nicely sounding chorus.
