I found not too many people talking about the Synclavier plugin. But after testing it a bit, it surprised me A LOT. Here's a play around with some interesting sounds I stumbled on:
Arturia Synclavier: Hidden Gem
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- KVRian
- 517 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Baltimore, MD
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- KVRist
- 44 posts since 18 Aug, 2020
I was going through other threads about favorite v collection threads and synclavier kept coming up. I suspect it's a bit slept because it was so expensive that nobody really used it (at least in terms of say pop artists and home producers) and so there isn't the nostalgia for it that there is for like a dx7. Will definitely check this out though!
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- KVRist
- 126 posts since 27 Nov, 2018
I agree it is quite a powerful synth! I had forgotten about it until I was looking for something else and then saw that in the Arturia collection and decided to open it up and play with it. I am going to have to dedicate some time and do a deep dive on this one.
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- KVRer
- 17 posts since 19 Sep, 2018
Quick bump for this amazing synth. Maybe it is a bit difficult to deal with on initial approach with its heavily layered design, but if you're a sound design nerd, I've gotten some wicked and incredibly warm vintage digital out of this.
The master controls for oversampling, bitrate and bit-depth alone make this much more interesting than a DX7 to me. The sound quality can be mind-blowingly hi-fi one moment at 24-bit, 96 khz matched to the DAW session (which is probably what they wished it did back on the original hardware) and you turn those adjustments to degrade down to 6 or 4 bit with just a little oversampling and it becomes the gnarliest, grungiest digital beast you've heard, yet in a perfect in-between zone for digital distortion that still has it retain a very musical character instead of just intense digital clipping.
The FM modulation is deep and rich and can get very intense while remaining musically useful and just something different to the gone-mad video game noise of a DX synth pushed hard.
The master controls for oversampling, bitrate and bit-depth alone make this much more interesting than a DX7 to me. The sound quality can be mind-blowingly hi-fi one moment at 24-bit, 96 khz matched to the DAW session (which is probably what they wished it did back on the original hardware) and you turn those adjustments to degrade down to 6 or 4 bit with just a little oversampling and it becomes the gnarliest, grungiest digital beast you've heard, yet in a perfect in-between zone for digital distortion that still has it retain a very musical character instead of just intense digital clipping.
The FM modulation is deep and rich and can get very intense while remaining musically useful and just something different to the gone-mad video game noise of a DX synth pushed hard.