Whats the simplest layout VST synth with biggest palette of sounds for beginners?

[EfreetiSultan]

You must be joking

Me? No I think Serum and Vital has a very good layout thats very quick to learn, and has the options of going deep if you want to, while still being "wysiwyg/one page" at the first glance. I think those are great first choices for a beginner. Phase Plant too, btw. Although if you own Serum I dont think you need either vital nor phase plant. And if you own Phase Plant I dont think you need Serum nor Vital.
And Drag & Drop modulation goes a long way! Its just a great workflow, and easy to understand.

[SamDi]

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[xx JPRacer xx]

Nice ones already mentioned. I'd add Tone2 Saurus and if you just want to go by ear, Synplant by Sonic Charge.

[susquash]

Try Uhe ZebraCM.

[leveque_j]

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If you’re after the best “biggest palette / simplest layout” compromise, maybe check out Primer 2 by Audible Genius – the exact synth used inside Syntorial. It was built to be dead-easy to read while still covering all the meat-and-potatoes you’ll meet on more advanced instruments.



In practice it sits somewhere between a Juno and a SH-101 for immediacy, but the extra oscillator, FM and ring-mod mean you can push into territory you’d normally need Sylenth/Vital/Serum for – all without ever flipping pages or wrestling a mod matrix.

Check out the library of all the famous synth sounds that were remade with Primer here: https://www.syntorial.com/presets (https://www.syntorial.com/presets)

[cake builder]

Zebralette 3 ?

Zebralette 3 is great, but I would argue it is catered to advanced users. The oscillator is not a standard type, there is no dedicated filter (the OSC FX can function as one, but it would be awkward to learn on).

EDIT: Sorry, I wasn't looking at the date and didn't realize this was a necro.

[coroknight]

I would actually recommend Serum as well. Yes it can go deep but the basic layout is pretty simple since the most important stuff is all on the front page in rows, and it's a very visual synth which helps you understand what's going on.

Lots of the other synths listed here are indeed very simple but they are also not very visual. Like, they might have 4 knobs for ADSR but a beginner might not know what that does so having that visual representation of an envelope like in Serum is helpful.

[pdxindy]

Filterscape VA

[swilow11]

Tal Noisemaker could be a decent option. Has some advanced features like the mseg but is generally simple and straightforward subtractive synthesis. Sounds fantastic too.

[audiojunkie]

I’d say Repro. It has an unrivaled sound quality—sounds just like the original hardware. It comes with two synths in one plugin. Both Repro 1 and Repro 5 are very easy, yet have a lot of variety in sounds. Repro is a great plugin for any user’s toolbox—from the absolute beginner to the experienced professional.

[IvyBirds]

I’d say Repro. It has an unrivaled sound quality—sounds just like the original hardware. It comes with two synths in one plugin. Both Repro 1 and Repro 5 are very easy, yet have a lot of variety in sounds. Repro is a great plugin for any user’s toolbox—from the absolute beginner to the experienced professional.

So a a plugin that emulates a specific synth from the late 1970s that you rightfully say sound just like the original hardware has a "Huge Pallet" of sounds?

As much as I love Repro it will always sound like a Prophet 5, which is the sound of an analog poly

Something like the Triton Extreme Plugin would actually give you a huge pallet of various sounds and is easy to use

[muki]

zebra cm

fabfilter one
https://www.fabfilter.com/products/one- ... er-plug-in

[mixyguy2]

Zebralette 3 ?

Zebralette 3 is great, but I would argue it is catered to advanced users. The oscillator is not a standard type, there is no dedicated filter (the OSC FX can function as one, but it would be awkward to learn on).

EDIT: Sorry, I wasn't looking at the date and didn't realize this was a necro.

No need for an apology; the thread topic is still just as relevant (and it's not that old).

Some good candidates listed; nothing extra to offer off-hand that's a great mix of simple and full-featured.

[Echoes in the Attic]

I think a synth with 2 filters gives a lot of flexibility and can still be quite simple. Sylenth1 is a good one that is still much more flexible than the traditional vintage 2 osc polysynths. Another similar one but with lots more oscillator types is Tone2 Electra2. I always thought it had a very simple layout (using a single layer) but with wide tonal variety.

[audiojunkie]

I’d say Repro. It has an unrivaled sound quality—sounds just like the original hardware. It comes with two synths in one plugin. Both Repro 1 and Repro 5 are very easy, yet have a lot of variety in sounds. Repro is a great plugin for any user’s toolbox—from the absolute beginner to the experienced professional.

So a a plugin that emulates a specific synth from the late 1970s that you rightfully say sound just like the original hardware has a "Huge Pallet" of sounds?

As much as I love Repro it will always sound like a Prophet 5, which is the sound of an analog poly

Something like the Triton Extreme Plugin would actually give you a huge pallet of various sounds and is easy to use

I don't disagree that the Triton Extreme would give a huge palette of sounds, but it's a PCM "synth". It's more akin to a rompler with effects. Sure, it's got a filter and Amp EG, but there's no modulation, other than LFO. It's about as close to not being a synth as a person can get. You might as well recommend a soundfont player. Nevertheless, it is a nice rompler that I'd love to use on my Linux DAW. I just don't think it's any better than my recommendation, purely because it's almost not a synth. At least my recommendation contained two authentic synths in one package that sound absolutely stunning. Also, I could see that my recommendation fit well with all the previous recommendations that have been given on page one, such as:

GR-8 --> How in the world is Repro any less of a synth than this recommendation?
TAL-Noisemaker
VK-1 Viking
Invader 2
etc
etc

I didn't see any negative comment on these--you must have just started reading at my post and thought it would be cool to slam on Repro--authentic recreations of absolute classics. Maybe Repro isn't a "huge palette of sounds", compared to Triton Extreme, but there's actual "synthesis" to be had from Repro, rather than recorded wav files for oscillators. And these classic recreations can produce beautiful bells, aggressive dubstep, basses and brasses and chords and strums. Acoustic-like keys, Jupiter style pads, massive stacks of sound. There are dirty overdriven leads, drums sounds of all types, and much, much more......all synthesized.