If you could only pick one, Spire or Hive?

[hollo]

The Oscillators of Spire are really felxible and complex. Allows you to makes a wider palette of sounds.
I also love the LFOs unique feature: these are capable of continously changing bipolar to unipolar - I would like to see this in other synths.

The easy, streamlined workflow of Hive makes up the missing feature set:

Hive has the best GUI I've used... It is so fast, fun and fluid to create sounds with. Almost no tabbing, module presets, copy/paste and drag-n-drop modulation make it so agile and fast to create sounds. It's power is in its speed more than diverse toolset (which is a bit limited). I find myself trying all sorts of things just cause it's so easy to do. That gives it a power beyond the feature set.

Perfectly said!
Although Spire can do almost anything, with all that tabbing, especially programming the
mod matrix is mostly painful comparing to Hive.

I couldn't help to choose only one of them.

[billcarroll]

Hive is currently in the lead. It's really hard to fault u-he and their synths.

This poll is just for fun, and hopefully to hear what some sound designers think as well.

@Hollo, thanks for chiming in! I'll have to read back through the thread to see who else responded.

[Fred_Abstract]

spire can do a lot more so the answer is easy between these 2.
with hive i had a really hard time to get great sound (but when it sound great it sound really good, this synth is actually hard to program to get amazing sound without cheating with fx ) at first i thought it was cause of me then i checked most of the presets, if you turn of the fx most presets it come with are just ok/bad and just a very very few are great..spire might have the same problem i don't know but at least it's more capable. there is also dune 2 that i would pick wihtout hesitation insteed of hive

[Naenyn]

spire can do a lot more so the answer is easy between these 2.

Agreed completely. I love u-he and Hive, but Spire is just fantastic. Really looking forward to the next version and the supposed CPU efficiency increase.

[cranium]

I own Hive but if Spire gets more votes before the end of the Black Friday sale I'll add it to my VSTi's....

[aMUSEd]

Hive is a heck of a lot more stable right now.

(or should I say heckman )

[cranium]

Hive is a heck of a lot more stable right now.

(or should I say heckman )

Noticed that as well, but they will fix it right?

[Hellfog]

Never even heard of Spire before, but after a google search i see why.

[EnGee]

I own Hive but if Spire gets more votes before the end of the Black Friday sale I'll add it to my VSTi's....

Why restricting yourself and put conditions? Have the two Sure they have different characters and the two IMO are very nice synths both in sound and interface

[cranium]

I own Hive but if Spire gets more votes before the end of the Black Friday sale I'll add it to my VSTi's....

Why restricting yourself and put conditions? Have the two Sure they have different characters and the two IMO are very nice synths both in sound and interface

The interface made me demo Spire.

I'll sleep on it.

[Korg Supporter]

Spire has many filter saturation options that Hive lacks. Spire also uses less CPU than Hive 2 for the most part. Hive has more of a cold and neutral sound that brings it to Novation Peak territory, while Spire sounds brighter, more plastic, and is often in your face. Spire wins for presets and sound design, but Hive is more of a bread and butter synth.

[meecek]

oh, hi Mark!

[ksandvik]

Never used Spire, but Hive surprises me from time to time with its sound palette.

[Choikdoi]

These VST choices are tearing me apart Lisa!

[Alchemedia]

Hive