I'm a new user and hopefully very soon a new buyer of MUX
I'm extremely impressed with its quality of sound and easy of use. Let's say it is already my no1 on the list after playing with it for couple of days and comparing it with other very good sounding synths like sylenth1, zebra2 or massive. I have also some feature / changes requests which hopefully are new and useful.
I was actually very close to buy sylenth1 because I like its unique sound very much but right before I decided to do some more researching and I found about Mux on a KVR forum (Sylenth1 Awesome Alternatives?) so I decided to give it a try. I was immediately in love with the presets and started playing with it and do some comparisons for the basic stuff that I tested so far: oscilators, filters, envelopes
- The oscillators sounds very similar to Sylenth1, still Mux has a more analog-ish curve (not perfectly flat like in sylenth1) which gives a more sharp sound.
- The filters are much better sounding than Sylenth1 but still on MUX I would like to have also a slope control and resonance separately (I think that now the Q control affects both or only the resonance if I'm not wrong)
- Envelopes are far more versatile in MUX.
There is no alternative after all, Sylenth1 is no match for the MUX beast which of course is more than a synth
and I'm very happy with that considering that I can recreate Sylenth1 and even my own dream synth for less than half of the bucks. And I have to mention I was impressed with the quality of the effects (Reverb sounds so great!)
And then I found about Silencio mux preset which is very similar to Sylenth1 and tried to build some Sylenth1 presets with it and it was very easy to reproduce them and even enhance them except one particular thing which I would like to have it in MUX and is not even a new feature but just a small change
:- On the Oscillator I noticed that the Detune can be set at minimum 1 and this is not 0 detuning (it is a certain amount above 0). However on Sylenth1 you can go to 0 which can create some nice (more) vibrating sounds if you combine more unison oscilators. Trying to avoid this shortcoming I even created my own setup with 8 separate oscillators and my own detune knob (controlling the pitch and fine tune with the parameter map) and I successfully recreated Sylenth1 unison (with 0 detune also). However the setup already became too complex and Fatness / Detune in the OSCILLATOR sound similar with a certain amount of detuning) so I would like to have the option to go to 0 detuning directly in the oscilator.
-Also the "start phase" (accesibile now from Edit Properties) should have its own knob on the OSCILATOR interface (I think that other users would agree with me that is rather important).
Thanks for reading my post.
I'll recommend Mux to everybody. To keep the tone of this post: This should be the new number one, not Sylenth1
Cheers,
Valy
