The Legend HZ by Synapse Audio now available!

[Uncle E]

The most popular implementation of a supersaw has 7 oscillators. If anything, The Legend HZ needs one more!

[Seafire Mk2]

I guess there is a reason why most synths only have 1 or 2...
Sure, 2 sounds fatter than 1. But is there any difference between 3 and 6?

Of course there is a reason. I have several synths with 24 Oscs and one with a theoretically unlimited number.

Yes there is a difference between 3 and 6 but the fact that you asked the question leads me to believe that providing an answer will be pointless. Experience will give you the answer.

Like I said different waveforms, octaves, semitones, fine tuning, etc. Oscs routed through different Filters, Effects, etc, etc.

If you just need bone simple sounds then yeah stick with one or two but if you want something more complex then more Oscs = Wider range of possible sounds.

Judging from the GUI, Legend does not allow for routing oscillators through different filters, effects
It doesn't even seem to have multiple filters.

Maybe I will try the demo, but I don't want to like it, the price is too much for me

It does have the moog fixed filter on the back. Would be good to use that instead of the main filter sometimes

It also has BP on main page, but it's LP or BP.

[cobaia]

I guess there is a reason why most synths only have 1 or 2...
Sure, 2 sounds fatter than 1. But is there any difference between 3 and 6?

Of course there is a reason. I have several synths with 24 Oscs and one with a theoretically unlimited number.

Yes there is a difference between 3 and 6 but the fact that you asked the question leads me to believe that providing an answer will be pointless. Experience will give you the answer.

Like I said different waveforms, octaves, semitones, fine tuning, etc. Oscs routed through different Filters, Effects, etc, etc.

If you just need bone simple sounds then yeah stick with one or two but if you want something more complex then more Oscs = Wider range of possible sounds.

Judging from the GUI, Legend does not allow for routing oscillators through different filters, effects
It doesn't even seem to have multiple filters.

Maybe I will try the demo, but I don't want to like it, the price is too much for me

It does have the moog fixed filter on the back. Would be good to use that instead of the main filter sometimes

It also has BP on main page, but it's LP or BP.

Seems that the filter bank is basically nothing but a graphic equalizer.

[exmatproton]

I guess there is a reason why most synths only have 1 or 2...
Sure, 2 sounds fatter than 1. But is there any difference between 3 and 6?

Of course there is a reason. I have several synths with 24 Oscs and one with a theoretically unlimited number.

Yes there is a difference between 3 and 6 but the fact that you asked the question leads me to believe that providing an answer will be pointless. Experience will give you the answer.

Like I said different waveforms, octaves, semitones, fine tuning, etc. Oscs routed through different Filters, Effects, etc, etc.

If you just need bone simple sounds then yeah stick with one or two but if you want something more complex then more Oscs = Wider range of possible sounds.

Judging from the GUI, Legend does not allow for routing oscillators through different filters, effects
It doesn't even seem to have multiple filters.

Maybe I will try the demo, but I don't want to like it, the price is too much for me

It does have the moog fixed filter on the back. Would be good to use that instead of the main filter sometimes

It also has BP on main page, but it's LP or BP.

Seems that the filter bank is basically nothing but a graphic equalizer.

You know what this one is based on, right?
You don't want to love it, because it is too expensive. So i am not sure what you want...

It is basically a minimoog on steroids. With a built in 914 filter and some other nifty additions. Sounds great, works great, great UI.

[IvyBirds]

I guess there is a reason why most synths only have 1 or 2...
Sure, 2 sounds fatter than 1. But is there any difference between 3 and 6?

Of course there is a reason. I have several synths with 24 Oscs and one with a theoretically unlimited number.

Yes there is a difference between 3 and 6 but the fact that you asked the question leads me to believe that providing an answer will be pointless. Experience will give you the answer.

Like I said different waveforms, octaves, semitones, fine tuning, etc. Oscs routed through different Filters, Effects, etc, etc.

If you just need bone simple sounds then yeah stick with one or two but if you want something more complex then more Oscs = Wider range of possible sounds.

Judging from the GUI, Legend does not allow for routing oscillators through different filters, effects
It doesn't even seem to have multiple filters.

Maybe I will try the demo, but I don't want to like it, the price is too much for me

I does one thing and does that thing very well. Synapse took their awesome "Legend" Minimoog Plugin, and added multiple feature to that at the request of Hans Zimmer that would expand the capabilities of it for sound design work especially for use in his film scoring work

It's not intended to be DIVA, or Zebra, or Falcon, it's intended to be a Minimoog with a bunch of added ways to create new timbres that will always have Moog DNA

You either want or need that or you don't

Seems that the filter bank is basically nothing but a graphic equalizer.

Nope and it's not even close. With the Legend HZ Synapse Audio modeled Hanz Zimmers personal Moog 914. It has 12 totally passive bandpass filters.

A regular graphic EQ uses very precise very narrow bands to cut and boost signals in a transparent way, and you usually can't

The 914 uses 12 band pass filters roughly half an octave apart. These are modeled very precisely from Hans Zimmer's personal unit. They are anything but precise or narrow and are made to deliberately overlap. This causes all kinds of phasing and formant sounds, especially as you can use the Mod Matrix to modulate these knobs

If you take a graphic EQ plugin, including the ones included with many Synths and boosted all the bands up all the way, you should end up with the same sound only louder, turn them all down and you should end up with the same sound only quieter

Do that in the Legend HZ's filter bank and if you push them all up all the way you will have a totally different sound of phasing, formant, sounds, turn them all down all the way and you will have silence as you can completely turn off each band, and you can go into the Mod Matrix and modulate all of it

It acts way more like an acoustic resonator than an EQ, and is a fine addition to the plugin.

I liked it so much I got the plugin version of just the Moog 914 from Audio Damage so I can use it in everything

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