Best all round soft synth?

[Sampleconstruct]

Hans Zimmer

[briefcasemanx]

Diva

[h66]

Good question, because right now Babylon VST (W.A. Production)

[Echoes in the Attic]

If it had better filters I'd say Equator. Wavetable, FM, granular. best mpe design. Great feature set.

If it had granular mode on the sample oscs I'd maybe say ANA2. The FM is less flexible but great sound overall. Probably my favorite bread and butter for everything from classic analog to modern virus style wavetable sounds.

[Liquid lino]

Uvi falcon does literally everything you could possibly want in a synth. Subtractive, analog, wavetable, additive, sampler, granular, physical modelling. Great FX, unlimited modulations and LFOs. Vintage vault and synthology are an amazing set of soundbanks, and you can leverage their samples to make your own sounds.

[Azbest]

3xOSC

[Winstontaneous]

Hiya, new to kvr? I’d suggest using the search function for similar threads, im sure you will find hundreds. After reading them all you may realize that their is no such thing. Hopefully you have any softsynth and that’s the best one for now. After a few decades i woudn’t be able to tell anyone, including myself what is the best. Just the ones that suit me best (that day).

Spoken like a true audio research-ologist!

I find Madrona Labs' Aalto endlessly fascinating...

[syntonica]

Basically you need to buy every synth. Sorry, I don’t make the rules, but if you want to have your bases covered, there’s no other recourse.

All your bases belong to us!

oh, and Neon. It may be old, but it's still the best money can buy.

[foosnark]

Uvi falcon does literally everything you could possibly want in a synth.

Somehow, I doubt this very much.

The main thing I see when I look at the webpage for Falcon is a vehicle for selling expansions and presets, and I find it pretty repulsive. Maybe there's a decent synth (or six) hiding behind all the capitalism, but.... meh.

I strongly prefer smaller, focused synths that have their own character, not something that just checks off a bunch of items on a feature list. Give me one great sounding filter that is well suited to the rest of the instrument's design, not a choice of 42 filter types where I can't make myself care about 39 of them.

[pdxindy]

Uvi falcon does literally everything you could possibly want in a synth.

Somehow, I doubt this very much.

The main thing I see when I look at the webpage for Falcon is a vehicle for selling expansions and presets, and I find it pretty repulsive. Maybe there's a decent synth (or six) hiding behind all the capitalism, but.... meh.

I strongly prefer smaller, focused synths that have their own character, not something that just checks off a bunch of items on a feature list. Give me one great sounding filter that is well suited to the rest of the instrument's design, not a choice of 42 filter types where I can't make myself care about 39 of them.

+1

What I want in a synth, is for it not to be like Falcon.

Seriously, I also prefer simpler focused synths that have both great sound, workflow and character. For example, Plasmonic is its own beautiful unique synth.

[psynical]

holy shit. What is it with new users starting these stupid f'in list threads?

[Robmobius]

holy shit. What is it with new users starting these stupid f'in list threads?

Thanks for sharing that peal of wisdom, from such an old timer.

[Robmobius]

holy shit. What is it with new users starting these stupid f'in list threads?

Thanks for sharing that pearl of wisdom, from such an old timer.

[foosnark]

holy shit. What is it with new users starting these stupid f'in list threads?

Thanks for sharing that peal of wisdom, from such an old timer.

Back in my day we didn't even have enough things to make a list. Our "what is the best synth" polls had "Fish" as the only selection.

[Robmobius]

Our "what is the best synth" polls had "Fish" as the only selection.

Indeed... It was just Sylenth or Massive.