Synths you regret buying

[tasty tatsyn]

wait... that's national geographic ... I think its an asteroid you are seeing

maybe someone doing sound design for national geographic tought that loop was perfect to the cheetah scenes...

actually i think it suits it better then science channel... just an opinion tough...

[dzilizzi]

All of them.

Yeah, this was what I was going to say.

Though if you are counting Kontakt as a synth, I do like that one. And well maybe there are some that would be considered synths that I don't regret. But they seem more like sample players than synths.

[Gribs]

BT Phobos from Spitfire.

Spitfire said in a youtube comment that they are looking into making the GUI larger and making a preset browser.

[Gribs]

For regrets I would say Alchemy and Kore 2 (if you call that a synth). Both are more in the range of disappointment rather than regrets, though.

[Vertion]

The Crappy 32s - 32bit blunders and gui mishaps should minimally release a non-gui version so we can focus on the sound rather than the infinitely small gui made with EyeCandy 1.0. Either a nongui (disable the window call) version, or wrapper with a better gui that I can easily see.

Remakes of existing legendary plugins of old would be great! They could be the next version, or an inspired creative reboot. Or even just a reskin/remap and 64 bit update of the old school.. bring Buzz back with an all new aggressive 64 bit tiger spin.. people still love modular.. actually it's on my list.. a combination of Asmjit/sdk combo and modular gui embedded that spits out code files to create on the fly delivery plugins for fun and profit, and for free to use and attain, I'll just own the top to steer the ship. Market change projected if it catches wind as the plugin development entry barrier is smashed to pieces ... code in tight asm (per system) combined with a graphical modular connectivity style (for the special 1337's out there and non-programmer alike) within the same window and run it on any system (where practical). The end. Let's hope a company that sounds like a color and a pet doesn't catch wind of this strategy since one of his products is 2 features away from being in the right market position for straddling market control... don't tell him... shhh..

I would love to see new products such as Vanguard Reborn as a new non-nexus related product from ReFX if they can afford the opportunity. Add one if you feel it too. I miss ReFx, the good ol' days.

[c_voltage]

Similar topic http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 4&t=469596

If about regret, well, for me no regret about all of software what i bought ever (even despite of support activity and even if rarely use it or not use at all), because fortunately usually there is demo version and you know what you are buying, and because there are no completely useless plug-ins (if it is of course can run at all), there is just an inappropriate situation for its use.

Btw, here was mention some of most interesting synths on market imo.

[Cinebient]

Avenger.

[layzer]

Dimension Pro. My first stint into bloatware sample library based synths. it was clunky and
i always found myself using KLC M1 and Wavestation instead of it.

good thing i got it when cakewalk blew it out for only $20

[W23]

I don't know about any ONE synth, so much as ANY Max4Live instrument winds up being a huge drain on resources. Live winds up acting squirrelly too. M4L midi and modulators are ok though. I just bought a couple of Sonic Faction Live Packs (Hypermorph and Archetype), and they are almost unusable, which is a shame because they sound very cool. I just can't use more.than one instance at a time.

[CinningBao]

For the simple reason that no other plugin did anything like them at the time (still nothing like UFO out there, but similar sample manipulations to Krishna probably exist..?)

Audeon UFO (defunct)
Devine Machine Krishna (defunct)

[urlwolf]

Avenger.

Why? I don't have it nor want to get it, just curious.

[Bluur04]

NI Kontour, never gets used...

[emef]

PPG Phonem

i like speech synthesis, but there was no demo at the time so i took a punt on it, turned out not to be for me and they don't allow licence transfers, never use it, oh well

[pdxindy]

PPG Phonem

i like speech synthesis, but there was no demo at the time so i took a punt on it, turned out not to be for me and they don't allow licence transfers, never use it, oh well

Funny... that is one of my most favorite synths and would never part with it... fantastic vocal sounds, choir sounds, can sound quite natural and very controllable, plus it can import wavetables and do all sorts of lovely evolving soundscapes.

As for regrets... Kontakt, since I never use it. I originally purchased it by itself years back and it just sat there taking up space. It did help me realize I am not interested in sample libraries and prefer synthesis, so that came out of it. I have the latest version through Komplete but it is not even installed.

[Cinebient]

Avenger.

Why? I don't have it nor want to get it, just curious.

Problems with the GUI (macbook gets really hot and the fans spinning like crazy) and cpu spikes, even on simple patches.
It's a great tool but i couldn't run it on my machine (macbook pro, i7 quadcore, 8 GB ram).
I sold it (or better said trade it for Diva).