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Massive is so sick for basses and some leads cos u can make so many different sounds out of it. FM8 is defo gd for background stuff, with some really nice pads/percussive pads and its also got a few gd leads. Albino is gd aswell, quite different to Massive but you can do a few things easier than Massive, really gd for sub bass. I really want Predator, looks like a nice overall synth, used the demo not long ago. If ur lookin for some really weird/dance/trance type sounds, sylenth is defo suited, got all the Deadmau5, Tiesto etc etc sounds

anyways, hope that helps

Elliott m

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Noone like helix then? I think it's a great synth!

Other than that I go for massive, 3xosc for sweeps/whooshes n to add noise to snares, use a free TAL every now n then used to use z3ta a lot a while back too.

Shit guys. You must all be loaded to afford all of these synths.

hayze99 wrote:Shit guys. You must all be loaded to afford all of these synths.

software licensing, serious business

Albino3, 3xOsc, Synth1.

I downloaded Absynth but it just looks like such a waste of fuckin time.

nruen wrote:I downloaded Absynth but it just looks like such a waste of fuckin time.

Absynth is an insanely powerful synth, it's probably even the most powerful of the NI synths (with the exception of reaktor) although each own has it's own specialty. Absynth isn't really the synth for making harsh basses and tearing leads (although it is capable) but for certain aspects of sound design it simply cannot be beaten.

FabFilter One
Zebra CM
Alpha CM
Automat
FXpansion Orca
TAL U-NO-62
XILS 3 LE
Magical 8bit plug

And ES2 when I'm using Logic

Mostly freeware/cheap stuff.

I'm pretty much all about Ableton Operator these days. It's a fuckin BEAST.

pretty much just blue. can't get enough of it

magma wrote:I'm pretty much all about Ableton Operator these days. It's a fuckin BEAST.

I agree it's defiantly underrated

Albino, Blue, korg legacy collection

Those are my 3 current favorites

just upgraded to live8 and now have operator, very excited to dive in but no idea what its like yet. Keep hearing good things on here though so I'm going to see what I can do with it.

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS

Alchemy all the way. It's got the best damn filters ever, and with the additive editor, sampling, granular... Jeez, I could go on and on, but It's just simply the shit.

CBK81 wrote:It's got the best damn filters ever

Really, you really like the sound of those filters?

Massive used to be my go-to for pretty much everything, but I don't use it that often now unless I want the feedback routing or really crazy enveloping. Most of my stuff now is on Operator or Analog. Hated Analog at first but it's really grown on me..... actually does a pretty good job at analogue grunge if you dial it in right. The filters are mental at high resonance.

Ultimately what sold me most was the layout -- when all of the bundled Live instruments fit in the bottom panel without a popup window, using 3rd party VSTs just feels like a pain in the arse. I can get around the Live Suite instruments twice as fast as I can on any of the Komplete VSTs.

static_cast wrote:Ultimately what sold me most was the layout -- when all of the bundled Live instruments fit in the bottom panel without a popup window, using 3rd party VSTs just feels like a pain in the arse. I can get around the Live Suite instruments twice as fast as I can on any of the Komplete VSTs.

I think that has more to do with how live handles 3rd party vsts! Was annoying for me to.

Predator
Albino
Blue
Sytrus

Absynth is good for soundscapes / FX etc but thats about it.

i use sylenth 1, i've tried massive but as a noob to production I couldnt get my head around it