Underrated/overlooked synths

[TonvaterJan]

- Moog System 15: It constantly surprises me how versatile this app is and how good it sounds. I find it very rewarding. The Presets are boring, but it excells in Sounddesign.

- Aparillo: Very interesting concept, very direct Sound, easy to use, edit and transform.

- Synth1: Still one of the best sounding ones out there, very close to the original Nordlead 1+2 regarding „in your face-quality“.

- Everything Reaktor: The engine still sounds better than most modern ones…

[martiu]

look this little thing, the cutest ever, it is very nice for pads and strings, good that i have a lot of banks, kind of pain to program

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[mjolnir]

https://blaukraut.info/#download

Charlatan3


Sound quality is pretty good, comes with presets too.

[rj0]

TubeOhm Pure-Grain.

[DrGonzo]

- Synth1: Still one of the best sounding ones out there, very close to the original Nordlead 1+2 regarding „in your face-quality“.

I was very surprised when I tried it. While the UI looks and feels like something from the old SynthEdit days, but the sound and balance of Synth1 is damn near perfect. Great great little synth.

[pekbro]

While it is mostly, only technically a synth, I like RANDOM from Beatsurfing quite a lot, also their RANDOM Metal drum synth. Great stuff!

https://beatsurfing.com/audio-plugins/random/

https://beatsurfing.com/audio-plugins/random-metal/

[swilow11]

Not even sure if overlooked or just "old", but rarely see anyone mention NI FM8 these days. I guess fm synths are a dime a dozen, what with free stuff like Dexed or Arturia DX7, but FM8 still kicks ass. If you can handle working in an environment as aesthetically pleasing as a morgue, FM8 can do some seriously amazing sound design.

[eLawnMust]

Tunefish still sounds great-




Terratec Komplexer is awesome-




Though simple Pethu's HaHaHa CS-33v2 sounds nice-




Even stripped down in CM form Dune quite rocks... Lotta sound for a 7.3 MB DLL-

[Nug Wrangler]

Tunefish still sounds great-




Terratec Komplexer is awesome-




Though simple Pethu's HaHaHa CS-33v2 sounds nice-




Even stripped down in CM form Dune quite rocks... Lotta sound for a 7.3 MB DLL-

Yes original Dune still sounds great

[eLawnMust]

Yes, Quite in Agreement...

Here's another from the past... Absynth 1.34 in standalone... After messing with this I am thinking they SCREWED it up with each new version... This sounds perfect mixing in even with modern VSTi without the digital nastiness in 3-4-5...

The Rhizomatic peeples had it down at the start... NI buggered it-

[osiris]

Thorn should be in here. And it's bargain.

[Examigan]

I like F’em even though I wish it had a different skin. Tons of options and really powerful.

[jancivil]

I"d say Reaktor Kontour or Skanner appears to be overlooked around here,
Both are very dangerous beasts, if you enjoy things happening you didn't, or really couldn't plan on. Maybe a super-genius could know some things like that from a deep AF understanding of deep AF design.

[yzcoruhT]

Thorn should be in here. And it's bargain.

Thorn - even CM version is one of the best sounding plugins ever released. I have both (DS) and CM version (f**k PA) but using CM version all the time, because it's not overhelming.

[BONES]

Is thorn under-rated, though? I've never seen anyone dissing it and everyone knows about it.