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Post by Ward on Oct 18, 2018 11:48:57 GMT -6
Anyone have any recommendations? Sure wish that Yamaha put out a Motif virtual synth for PT . . .
Anyone, recommendations please!! Need stuff for pop music production
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Post by ragan on Oct 18, 2018 12:47:10 GMT -6
I’m a huge U-He Diva fan. Rest of U-He stuff is awesome too.
I never had a soft synth put a grin on my face like the real thing until I played Diva, FWIW.
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Post by aremos on Oct 18, 2018 15:11:09 GMT -6
Ward, for the old school stuff Korg makes great soft synths all based on their own hardware (including but not limited to WaveStation, M1, etc.).
All the Arturia stuff is pretty good although when you A/B it to the original thing there is somewhat of a difference.
And, though not having any personal experience, I keep hearing about, as Ragan stated, the U-He suff - specially Diva.
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Post by seawell on Oct 19, 2018 16:57:04 GMT -6
I’m a huge U-He Diva fan. Rest of U-He stuff is awesome too. I never had a soft synth put a grin on my face like the real thing until I played Diva, FWIW. Yes! |
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Post by Guitar on Oct 20, 2018 5:44:37 GMT -6
Hm, I think the Arturia collection and maybe Omnisphere and Keyscape would cover a lot of ground.
Xfer Serum is very popular now, and for good reason, it's one of the most exciting soft synths I have played.
The NI package would be a good all rounder as well, Komplete or whatever they call it. You get Kontakt (sampler) and a bunch of synths and plugins.
If you want a straight ahead Juno / drum machine / 303 kind of thing the AudioRealism synths are the best I have used.
If you want a good deal on a swiss army knife synth that can kind of "do everything" a typical synth would do, check out the KV331 Synthmaster
The u-He stuff does have good sound quality I like Zebra.
The Roland Plug Out synths are particularly good sounding also.
It can take some time to learn and master the interfaces of these things. I still feel like I'm only about half way there.
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Post by Ward on Oct 21, 2018 6:56:32 GMT -6
Those are all great suggestions!
The main driving force behind this is the need for very modern sounds used in pop music. Sounds you hear on radio today and seem to be carrying forward. I'm not a huge pop fan but started working with a couple of young artists and having those sounds at my fingertips would be very very helpful.
Thanks in advance to all you super helpful Gearheads!!
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