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fluffy_little_something · Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:18 pm

9 years is a long time, 9 years ago my hair was neither gray nor missing

Seriously, in a weird way the fact that Sylenth is old and all but abandoned helps the nostalgia

C-note · Post by **C-note** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 6:01 am

tristan- wrote:
deft_bonz wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:Calling it Sylenth 1 v 3 is silly - they should just call it Sylenth 3.
hahaha... good one

It's still Sylenth 1 though, in a new version, native 64bit. No new features, no new engine, etc. So this makes sense. Maybe it'd have been enough to go to version 2.3, since it is not a huge upgrade. But it's still Sylenth 1.

If I remember right they work on Sylenth 2 (in version 1.0.0 I guess, or less ). But that's another story
I don't know about it.

But a real Sylenth2 must be more than a mere facelift update.

Dune 2, Spire (soon Spire 2) and Serum (not really a VA) are practically killing it sound wise.

Wrong, Neither of those can match Sylenth 1

mutantdog · Post by **mutantdog** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 6:54 am

Personally, I gave up on Sylenth a while back. Hive and Spire offer me everything I want in that area of synthesis and more.

I do hope for Lennard that this update goes down well though, I hope it converts a decent amount of unauthorised users into paying customers. Perhaps if the money starts rolling in then it might be a better motivation for a proper feature upgrade.

tristan- · Post by **tristan-** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 8:51 am

C-note wrote:
tristan- wrote:
deft_bonz wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:Calling it Sylenth 1 v 3 is silly - they should just call it Sylenth 3.
hahaha... good one

It's still Sylenth 1 though, in a new version, native 64bit. No new features, no new engine, etc. So this makes sense. Maybe it'd have been enough to go to version 2.3, since it is not a huge upgrade. But it's still Sylenth 1.

If I remember right they work on Sylenth 2 (in version 1.0.0 I guess, or less ). But that's another story
I don't know about it.

But a real Sylenth2 must be more than a mere facelift update.

Dune 2, Spire (soon Spire 2) and Serum (not really a VA) are practically killing it sound wise.
Wrong, Neither of those can match Sylenth 1

"'wrong"

fluffy_little_something · Fri Aug 14, 2015 9:21 am

tristan- wrote:
C-note wrote:
tristan- wrote:
deft_bonz wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:Calling it Sylenth 1 v 3 is silly - they should just call it Sylenth 3.
hahaha... good one

It's still Sylenth 1 though, in a new version, native 64bit. No new features, no new engine, etc. So this makes sense. Maybe it'd have been enough to go to version 2.3, since it is not a huge upgrade. But it's still Sylenth 1.

If I remember right they work on Sylenth 2 (in version 1.0.0 I guess, or less ). But that's another story
I don't know about it.

But a real Sylenth2 must be more than a mere facelift update.

Dune 2, Spire (soon Spire 2) and Serum (not really a VA) are practically killing it sound wise.
Wrong, Neither of those can match Sylenth 1
"'wrong"

I can't say anything about Serum, never tried it, but I know the other two and Hive as well, none of them sounds like Sylenth. They are all more capable of course in terms of features, but I prefer Sylenth in terms of sound quality and character as such.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 9:27 am

fluffy_little_something wrote: I can't say anything about Serum, never tried it, but I know the other two and Hive as well, none of them sounds like Sylenth. They are all more capable of course in terms of features, but I prefer Sylenth in terms of sound quality and character as such.

This!

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:28 am

tristan- wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:Calling it Sylenth 1 v 3 is silly - they should just call it Sylenth 3.
It's not Sylenth3 as in Dune vs Dune 2.

It's Sylenth 1 v3, just as you can have Dune 2 v4.x etc etc

Same thing is FM7 vs FM8 from NI

Well I presume the next Dune would be Dune 3, not Dune 2 2 - that's what I mean by silly. The FM7 thing is different and the number make sense anyway as they are still consecutive, it started with 7 for historical reasons. Since there was never a Sylenth 2 synth having it as Sylenth 1 3 (or 2 for that matter) just seems bizarre to me. I can see the logic for say Studio One - there the one denotes how they wish to position it (ie as your number one studio) so the number is not meant to have any ordinal function. But again with Sylenth it's just a 1.

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:33 pm

Yeah people get confused when numbers are in the plugin name. Like Supa-Synth 4 version 1.0.1. Or Mega-Synth 3 version 5.3.1

That's the same here with Sylenth1. Don't mix name with versioning

fluffy_little_something · Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:49 pm

Its name is probably the only stupid thing about that plugin

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:56 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Its name is probably the only stupid thing about that plugin

This is only speculation but I'm guessing that Len got the name from combining the original Synth1 (pretty sure it came out first) with the first 2 letters of his first name (len) so you get Sy -le-nth1.

Naturally, I could be wrong, but if you take it apart, it fits.

Not that the two synths have much in common at all, if anything.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:32 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Well I presume the next Dune would be Dune 3, not Dune 2 2 -

Dune 2 is not compatible with version 1 at all....won't load V1 patches so hence the need for a new version number. (The current version is 2.21). I suppose there could be a Dune 3 but it would probably be a huge upgrade otherwise I think they'll just keep bumping the version number 2.22,2.23 etc.

As for Sylenth .vs Dune 2 neither can sound exactly like the other. Dune 2 can make a much wider range of sounds but Sylenth just has a special "attitude".

Instead of thinking one .vs the other think layering the two together. Combined they make an awesome sound. Their different characters really compliment each other very well.....

Anyway who cares what they call the next version of Sylenth as long as we stop calling it vapourware.

Oh and I always thought Sylenth was a clever play on the word Silence. I doubt it has anything to do with Ichiro's Synth 1 but I could be wrong........

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:36 pm

Teksonik wrote: Oh and I always thought Sylenth was a clever play on the word Silence. I doubt it has anything to do with Ichiro's Synth 1 but I could be wrong........

I think you're absolutely right on that.

fluffy_little_something · Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:41 pm

Of course Sylenth comes from silence, but I fail to see the reason for those changes, let alone for the 1, which is a bit cheap, like e-mail ID's such as john1@hotmail.com

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:46 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Of course Sylenth comes from silence, but I fail to see the reason for those changes, let alone for the 1, which is a bit cheap, like e-mail ID's such as john1@hotmail.com

Rename the .dll to Fluffy's Little Synth......

fluffy_little_something · Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:57 pm

Nah, I don't really care about its name, just like I don't care about skinning plugins

But I don't like the word Sylenth, it sounds weak and fragile, and dirty because of the th. Exactly the opposite of typical Bantu languages with all their m's, k's and b's, and their full vowels (a's, o's and u's)

Makumba sounds much more powerful

Sylenth1 v3