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Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:36 am
by Eat Bass
VirtualMark wrote:i'm surprised nobodys mentioned camel audio alchemy. pretty good synth, does all sorts.
i actually looked into alchemy before, does look pretty nice.

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:45 am
by joshisrad
If you have the money for Reaktor you might as well save an extra hundred for Komplete. Reaktor is the best outta that lot

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:02 am
by Eat Bass
^ as i already stated, i just bought zebra2 so i won't be buying any synths for a while now.

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:03 am
by accordionfan
Eat Bass wrote:^ as i already stated, i just bought zebra2 so i won't be buying any synths for a while now.
you did the right thing

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:11 am
by Eat Bass
accordionfan wrote:
Eat Bass wrote:^ as i already stated, i just bought zebra2 so i won't be buying any synths for a while now.
you did the right thing
i think so too :corndance:

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:12 am
by joshisrad
Oh sweet. Haven't tried Zebra but I hear it's a beast.

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:46 am
by Eat Bass
joshisrad wrote:Oh sweet. Haven't tried Zebra but I hear it's a beast.
yeah dude its fucking ill


Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:54 am
by 3rdeye
Eat Bass wrote:
3rdeye wrote:check out FAW Circle as well man, I bought it over Massive as I much prefer its sound... the Prophet modeled filters are superb, and the functionality is similar to Massive with drag and drop modulation routing. I think it sounds heaps better though. You can get it for about 65 bucks or something, great value.. and it can do all sorts of sick wave morphing/wave scanning synthesis stuff as well.
Thanks, ill check it out for the future but I already bought zebra and I'm pretty stoked on it
yeah i reckon that's the best choice for what you're looking for ;)

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:34 am
by UnCL0NED
I know you already went for Zebra2, But Alchemy is still worth checking out ;-)
It's just soooo awesome!

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:55 pm
by escapes
Good choice zebras amazing once you get used to the interface the possibilities for sound design are pretty endless. I here after diva been released there going to ad sampler to zebra :)

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:29 am
by Electric_Head
Zebra is great for sure.
I`m also a big fan of Rhino which has FM , additive, subtractive, waveshaping, sample import, etc.

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:58 pm
by futures_untold
There's loads of great synths that fit the bill including those listed above already (Alchemy hint hint)

KV331 Synthmaster http://www.kvraudio.com/product/2548
Z3ta 2 http://www.cakewalk.com/products/z3ta/
Vember Audio Surge http://vemberaudio.se/surge.php
FAW Circle http://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/circle/

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:08 pm
by Eat Bass
futures_untold wrote:There's loads of great synths that fit the bill including those listed above already (Alchemy hint hint)

KV331 Synthmaster http://www.kvraudio.com/product/2548
Z3ta 2 http://www.cakewalk.com/products/z3ta/
Vember Audio Surge http://vemberaudio.se/surge.php
FAW Circle http://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/circle/
thanks man. ill def keep these in mind for the future. but i went ahead and bought zebra2, and i think thats plenty to keep me busy for a while :)

@escapes: a sampler in zebra would be amazing :)

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:27 pm
by bassinine
VirtualMark wrote:i'm surprised nobodys mentioned camel audio alchemy. pretty good synth, does all sorts.
+1

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:26 pm
by arktrix45hz
Eat Bass wrote:
jrisreal wrote:FM8? Don't know the pricing on that.
yeah its nice, but isn't fm8 just fm? I'm kinda looking for a hybrid synth.

does anyone know if massive can do fm? i think massive is a subtractive + wavetable synth but I'm not sure if it has fm capabilities, at least to modulate 1 osc with another?
Alchemy.

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:39 pm
by escapes
Alchemy good if you got a nice fast system. Most of the patches rape my cpu.

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:40 pm
by buttock
Zebra and Synthmaster :4:

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:13 pm
by sunny_b_uk
buttock wrote:Zebra and Synthmaster :4:
i just had a look at synthmaster and didnt really know a synth like that existed..
i made something in synthmaker for myself to use FM and PM with wavedrawing on my own samples as a experiment but it sometimes aliases when going an octave or two from the original note (which is what most fm synths made in synthmaker do anyway)
hopefully synthmaster sounds great with all those features so il demo it and see what its like!
also @escapes.. sample input in zebra?? sounds awesome!
although you can use zebrify to add zebra's FX onto incoming audio incase no one was aware of that?

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:10 pm
by drokkr
bassinine wrote:
VirtualMark wrote:i'm surprised nobodys mentioned camel audio alchemy. pretty good synth, does all sorts.
+1
+2 on Alchemy. Stunning sound from it but can be somewhat CPU intensive so be prepared to bounce stuff to audio.

Also, Rob Papen "Blue". My workhorse. My go to synth in nearly every track. I find it wonderfully easy to use and very intuitive. Look it up ;-)

Re: good all around hybrid soft synth?

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:18 pm
by lazermouse
3rdeye wrote:check out FAW Circle as well man, I bought it over Massive as I much prefer its sound... the Prophet modeled filters are superb, and the functionality is similar to Massive with drag and drop modulation routing. I think it sounds heaps better though. You can get it for about 65 bucks or something, great value.. and it can do all sorts of sick wave morphing/wave scanning synthesis stuff as well.
+1

Also check out FabFilter Twin 2