What synth do you actually USE the most in your own music????

[folderol]

I've just had an idea. Why don't we start a thread about what synth we use (and presumably like) most of all?

[vurt]

I've just had an idea. Why don't we start a thread about what synth we use (and presumably like) most of all?

i use the pantomime iv with blue shoe crab mods.

[highkoo]

Those Periwinkle filters really sparkle.

[vurt]

Those Periwinkle filters really sparkle.

i like the unicorn mod section, the routing capabilities are beyond imagination.

the effects section could be better, but thats what outboard fx is for

[Meffy]

i like the unicorn mod

Thanks! That must have been back when I moderated discussions at a politics website. Different topic, different species: Equuleus monoceros sapiens.

Looking through a small part of my heap of half-finished projects and unimaginative works-for-hire, I'm seeing a lot of impOSCar 1 and 2, Predator, String Studio and Lounge Lizard, various Moog recreations, Aparillo, and LuSH-101 (which I haven't had all that long) managed to get in a surprising number of them too.

Had this been about sample-based instruments BFD3, Kontakt, and SampleTank would have been at or near the top of the list.

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SQ8L....by far

[Kongru]

i like the unicorn mod

That must have been back when I moderated discussions at a politics website.

That sounds horrific, I'm sorry. Can't stand political arguments.

To stay relatively on topic, I try to limit myself to Ableton synths and Falcon these days. Pigments is used for pretty much only granular.

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I'm an FL guy, so Sytrus mostly, but also Diva and Rapture. I recently got Syntronik and it's been getting a fair bit of use. I don't understand synthesizers, I'm a preset guy, so Syntronik's been really good for me.

Syntronik is amazing. I don't understand why it doesn't seem to get much attention on here.

Because, for nearly every sampled synth in Syntronik...there's a virtual modeled plugin available that sounds as good/better with a exponentially smaller footprint and more CPU efficient engine.

[sluggo]

I use fxpansion Guru in pretty much every song I work on. Sytrus is also very common. Discovery a bit less.

[mholloway]

SQ8L....by far

Ughhhh I wish this project hadn't been abandoned. I'd kill to use this on a Mac, 64 bit. The workarounds are just too laborious and annoying.

I wish someone with the skills could take it over and update it so we could all use it. People love Ensoniq, people love the ESQ-1 / SQ80....this fantastic VST needs to be Out There....

[vurt]

bit more modular/reaktor/guitar(not a synth you say? depends what youre doing with it, namely triggering a guitar synth pedal )[the super ego, followed by various modulation and delays into the modular...]

[Bump1]

SQ8L....by far

Ughhhh I wish this project hadn't been abandoned. I'd kill to use this on a Mac, 64 bit. The workarounds are just too laborious and annoying.

I wish someone with the skills could take it over and update it so we could all use it. People love Ensoniq, people love the ESQ-1 / SQ80....this fantastic VST needs to be Out There....

It'd have to be done from scratch as the original developer will never part with the source code. But I agree, it should be brought up to date by someone.

It's a highly regarded synth so I'm puzzled why it's never been taken on.

[darsho]

Predator, which I bought in 2007.
And lots of Kontakt stuff.

[Forgotten]

I honestly don’t know what I use most as I change my mind a lot about what I want to use.

[vurt]

I honestly don’t know what I use most as I change my mind a lot about what I want to use.

the universe is my synthesiser!
mostly the bits in my room, but ill draw in some cosmic background radiation for an oscillator ocassionally.