U-HE Hive

[zvenx]

Never seen so many copies of Sylenth being dumped in the Market Place as there has been during the last couple of weeks. Connection?

Hmmm, that would be a bit premature if it was just anticipation of Hive...

Indeed.

People have confidence in you though

But no pressure
rsp

[GeorgeZ]

Never seen so many copies of Sylenth being dumped in the Market Place as there has been during the last couple of weeks. Connection?

Hmmm, that would be a bit premature if it was just anticipation of Hive...

Ha, no pressure

[Elektronisch]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

[D-Fusion]

There is no Sylenth killer out there unless it has the same code with added features
Even Nordlead 2x and 3 sounds different from each other.

So sylenth sounds like sylenth and Hive like Hive and who knows, maybe they will work great together in Harmony

[D-Fusion]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

I am not sure what it is but Dune 2 Reminds me of Novation Mini/Ultranova both in look and sound

[recursive one]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

Despite its brutal CPU load, Spire is becoming very poplular, it is apparently close to get the status of "default EDM synth", which Sylenth has owned for years.

I wonder why this does not happen to Dune2. The first Dune was big, there were many soundsets for it, but the second one doesn't have such attention. Maybe, due to its complexity it is harder to find sweet spots, I dunno. Or maybe because Dune2 tends to sound lush and soft, while modern dance music relies on angry distorted tones.

[xamido]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

Psstt.... Dune 2 is uncrackable until now + it doesn't have many soundbank. And soundbank is important for a synth success.

The famous synth for edm kiddies in the market are all easy to crack like sylenth, massive and spire.

Btw i agree, Dune 2 is amazing. I have to sell it back then since i needed money, but i'll probably be getting it again soon (after Hive of course).

[Elektronisch]

I actually do not understand why people want to "kill" one synth with another

[Kriminal]

Same reason they make the same sounds on ten diff synths....

[Touch The Universe]

Seems a majority of such edm producers consider sylenth the best considering a variety of factors. Natural to hope a similar release from a major dev to beat this.

[knowix]

I guess some of it is loyalty to the U-He brand. Though in my case I kind of have an impulse to see failure punished, and Lennardigital's failure to implement a 64bit version on the Mac bugs me. And I don't even currently use a Mac!

[hyperconnectedspace]

I guess some of it is loyalty to the U-He brand. Though in my case I kind of have an impulse to see failure punished, and Lennardigital's failure to implement a 64bit version on the Mac bugs me. And I don't even currently use a Mac!

it bugs me too, it is going on for quite some months now and nothing happends. sure LD has his company not as major job i think, so it could be really hard to get a major update quicker done.

Analyse it:
i think for synth to be a success it is important that its easy crackable, because then the synth is used more widely and this makes it easier to create soundsets for it and sell them of course, can you make soundset, then you also consider it easier to buy it.
Sylenth1 was also created in a time as there were only not to great synths (was around 2006?)
there were v-station, sytrus i remember and some of the NI synths? so the market was a lot easier to crack as today. so LD choose the right time for the right product!

i think U-he did something similar with Zebra, it was one of the first really good modular softsynths.

if hive is right done(i have no doubt on that ), it can really add something to the softsynth, which are already on the market.

hope it comes before christmas, i want to have something play over it.

[chk071]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

IMO, Dune 2, just like version 1, suffers a bit from the "close but no cigar" thing when it comes to typical EDM sounds. I did some typical supersaw and pluck sounds with the Dune 2 demo, but i wasn't impressed. Spire e.g. is not only better, but much better in that regard. Don't get me wrong, i'm sure Dune 2 is a good synth, and for pad sounds, it's probably one of the best, but for EDM specific stuff, it wouldn't be my first choice. But that was already the case with version 1, and it's fair enough for a version 2 to follow the line of the predecessor. All in all, it's more on the softer side of sound IMO, and sometimes you just need more raw- or brutalness.

[Aiynzahev]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

Despite its brutal CPU load, Spire is becoming very poplular, it is apparently close to get the status of "default EDM synth", which Sylenth has owned for years.

I wonder why this does not happen to Dune2. The first Dune has was big, there were many soundsets for it, but the second one doesn't have such attention. Maybe, due to its complexity it is harder to find sweet spots, I dunno. Or maybe because Dune2 tends to sound lush and soft, while modern dance music relies on angry distorted tones.

I don't personally think Spire is anywhere near as ubiquitous as Sylenth1 & Massive. Nor is it a default for EDM yet. But it is fairly popular. I just base this on how many people I know who neither have Spire or never use it. CPU issues or sound issues.

DUNE2 I think suffers from a lack of marketing and I don't think the GUI does it any favors. IMO DUNE 1 looked right and did a couple of things very well and was probably on it's way to gaining more popularity. I think Dune 1 should have been incrementally upgraded with free updates but there is only so far you can go with it.

[Cyforce]

People talking Hive should be Sylenth1 replacement. Wasnt Synapse Dune 2 supposed to be "SYLENTH1 Killer?" ? it has low CPU usage and gorgeus sound + 32 voices. I think there were some other synths "killers" who already killed Sylenth1 before Dune2 (Spire?)?

It should be also noted, that Lennar Digital seems to working currently really on a major update for Sylenth1, with new filters, features etc - so may be Sylenth1 won`t be "kill-able"

And Spire is a great replacement for Sylenth1, even with the higher cpu usage, Spire is just way more flexible and powerful. A little bit out of the "Sylenth like synth circle".

Dune 1 & 2 seems to didn`t get this attention of the market & users as Sylenth1, Spire or atm Serum getting...